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THURSDAY JULY 1». 1»2H
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TUB SPRINGFIELD NEWS
PALE THREE
"And yon are at III watchful tor m e
even since last night?"
Of course she referred to the scene
In the den. No words can tell how
, appealing, from the shadows of the
, stairway, wps her voice.
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■ Or.E.T. Heimi
Chiropractie and
Electre-T h erap/
BE C O N T IN U E D )
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Hpeciallz ng in
Safety Meeting Held
Painissa and
Instruction
In first aid
work
Bloodleeg
featured a meeting Monday evening of
Removal of
the Mountain States Power company
Tonal IB
'employes. It was th e monthly safety
meeting.
Ferris White, safety en
15th year In Oregon practicing.
gineer for the company, who bead-
WHAT HAS HAKPKNEO BEFORE—
quarters
are
at
Albany,
was
the
j
Offlce
1237 Kerry 8t.
Phone 30M
and the darkneaa »wallowed them a glant'a blow.
aecond, becaua# of the flood. Detec-
Ur. Lung. out flailing with Alexan
Eugene.
both
Wo didn't atop to examine the body tlvea will be went out here to InVeatl- speaker.
der Pierce, a detective, talla nt hla
A window had been left Just beeide on that rain swept hillside
I had gate.”
projected (rip to Houtherly Downs
the fireplace, and through It wc known the neck was broken simply
'And what was the blow dealt
Pierce advises him to keep hla eya»
could ordinarily aee the garage. by the 'way the great bead dropped with?"
Vllaa
asked nervously,
wide npan while there. On thn way
Krneat and I gazed (brought that back when we lifted the shoulders "Couldn't you—find the weapon?"
YOU WILL STOP ANYWÄY
In a train Ur. Ixmg la attracted by a Í
window
Ahmad was evidently hnv from the ground. The four of ua
Houthley looked at him sharply
girl, who later faints Ur. Ixmg create
Ing difficulty In beating hla way carried him Into the house, not an
"That will be hunted for tomorrow,"«
her. and looking Into her bag. la aa-
. through the storm
It was a long easy load at all. Vllaa Hayward mot he replied. "All we could tell was that
oumlad to And a loaded revolver.
time before we saw an Indication thnt ua at the door,
he was struck with aome blunt sort
Ur. Ixing meeta Ahmad Una, an
i he had reached the garage. Then we j The effect on the younger Hay- of a weapon, and with terrific power—
Oriental, who conducta him to Houth
mu w hla auto lights flush on
war«! was hardly what I expected, enough to snap hla neck like a r e e d . ¡ |
ley Unwna, where he meeta Mr. Houth
We were barely able to make th« m It waa true that I didn't look for The blunt weapon muat have had two
le» and hla non, Krneat Houthley, Mi-
out, although It waa plain that the prostration He waa the kind of man nails or
aplkea—because there are
Hay ward and hie aon. Vilas, and then
garage door waa open and they were that grown away from bis parents In two deep
parallel scratches in the
Josephine Houthley, who In the girl
shining directly toward ua. Of course late boyhood,
bruised flesh."
be hud met on the train Joaephlne
the distance waa fur; and the piercing
"My father?
he shrieked. Th-s
My eyes were upon Vllaa' afee. He
tell! him the atory of Houthley Unwna
rays cohld hardly penetrate the wall wound went high and wild in the didn't look at us.
and Ita ghost, which la not the ghost
of rain. The lightning had entirely atom
"Don't dare to tell me he's
“I only know one thing—one kind
of a human being but of a tiger.
ceased. We couldn’t hear the roar of dead.”
of a weapon that would leave a mark |
Ur. Ixmg haa a quarrel with Vllaa '
the engine at all
Then we saw.
"We don't dare to tell you any- like that," he aaid In a strange, harsh
llayward over Joaephlne, and Anda
qulte plainly, the track of the light» thing elae. because he la." Krneat an- tone. "And that tan’t a weapon at
that the Hnywnrda have a strange '
an the car aped about the shoulder awered,
all It’s an animal's paw.”
.
authority over the Houthleya. He In
Vllaa
toward
Houthley; and ,
____ leaped ........
..
And ’hat la the one thing that —
ordered to leave Hnutllley D ow tin. The I of the hill.
Perhaps, In ufi, the walk to t h e 1 for an Inatant I thought he would at- i n”*at b" forgotten by all of us. If
rain prevenía him leaving at once
gnrago and the
starting of the cat 1 tack him Hla face waa drawn hide- 1 we are to learn the truth," Houthley
Ur. Long and Krneat go nut on the had taken four
minutes. The walk ' ously In the liplt light. He had evl- *o,d him. "It only brings horror, not I
road In the rain looking for the tracka |
to the baac of the hill, where th«- dently left his bed only when the j cl®ar ’bought. Forget the legend at !
of a tiger that Krneat naya are there I
postern p
path unt the drive way, took 1 levee gave way; he was only partly once« an<*
and begin with clear eyes,
They And the lra< ka latter Krneat
ordinarily two minutes
It was dressed.
That’s our only chance."
and Ur. Ixmg see a prowling creature
straight downhill, and If iluyward had ; "Then you're the devil that killed j With this, our little group broke
in the hall at Houthley Unwna. Thia i
walked swiftly at nil, he would cer him!
You I u*>- Ernest tried to snatch a few
You, I say. Houthley!
trlghtena the elder hay ward, who also!
lk-Mirs of sleep on the sofa. I had
taluly
have
(two
minutes
to
wait.
The
killed
him
to
get
rid
of
him,
and
you'll
sees It. Krneat licglca to feel that
car came slowly. and still we could be trying to kill me next!"
plans of my own that necessitated a
Ahmad Uaa la perpetrating some
see the faint luster in the rain that
consultation with the negro that was
"Don't
be
silly,"
1
cautioned
sw
ift
deviltry.
was Its lights
ly. "I waa with Mr. Houthley up to to carry word to the coroner when
Now read on—
They curved on to the base of the the moment that we found him ",
the sun rose. And Just as I came
hill. Then Ernest uttered a syllable
"Then It was you. Long, in South back from my talk with him I met
The old man sat down In a cush
I of exclamatnin. "He's driven past the ley's pay
I won't believe a lythiug j Josephine on the stairs.
ioned chair. He gave no heed to
pclnt." he said
"Where are you going?” I de- i
else.'1
the water pouring from bis clothes.
"Possibly Hayward has walked on a
Ernest
tried
to
quiet
him,
and
manded.
He looked tired and listless.
few feel," I suggested.
She seemed surprised at my tone. J
after he had got him away, I took
"The levee la breaking," he an
The car alowed up and stopped for I the covering from the dead man s» ''And what right have you to ask?"
swered simply.
a single instant, then started slowly , tace. I made a* close examination of ah’’ «“»wered me.
Only hla son seemed to understand, on. It -was hard to believe that It ! the body My aged host knelt beside
8he m'ght have been tjje spirit of '
I looked up from the work of tying halted long enough to permit the port-' me. Nothing but a superhuman bio# *he d , * n I’“*11 in her soft gray drape. 1
my shoes, procured In my room on ly form of Hayward to enter. It ' could have ao broken the neck. It and Lhe 'Hthts of stars in her eyes. :
the way to the library. We made a looked to us as If Ahmad were trying 1 could not have been from a fall; i 1 knaw from her look that she had
silent circle In the d’m light .
to throw the car-lights onto the side because only a severe fall could have heard of the tragedy.
"It is Just that I'm afraid for you,”
"What does It mean?" Hayward of the road Then, to our vast amaze done It. and out on the Isthmus where
cried. "Does It mean we'll be mnnt, we aaiw him turn around.
we had found the corpse there were I told her humbly. "No one knows
drowned ?"
t
The car headed hack. Just as slow- no heights to fall from . Besides, there | what ml<h’ happen—in this house.
He spoke hoarsely; hut (he an- lr' "nd
aho‘” •" ‘h* «»rage
was plenty of other evidence that
nouncement steadied me.
Floods Tt”' a*’rran’ "topped the car In the aome sort of a blow had killed him.
were material, and could be faced. r , *n i and we waited a long three The worst of them all were two, deep
They couldn't run and hide behind the
f°r him to drive on again, parallel grooves on his face, from
We only knew he wus standing still which the flesh had been simply
curtains.
Since.electrical refrigeratioh was essentially an
Nothing a . bad a . that," Houthley L™“ 'h”
b’Ur ° f
*n
r*l,W' The '1e”h
electrical problem, it was natural to expect front
......... - It _____
"It's plain as the nose on your face
face
answered. "Of course
means . a downpour. I don't remember that we
three
men
talked
at
all
Possibly
that
the
man
was
murdered,"
Soutb-
flood; but by no roncelyable circum
the General Electric engineers and scientists an
“Any coroner’s Jury In
stance can the water reach the there were one or two wondering re- ley said.
marks—as
to
what
was
the
cause
of
Florida
'would
say
so.
And
the
sooner
outstanding development. The General Electric
top of the hill where thia house
we get word Into town the better.”
stands. But we'll be cut off from their delay.
Refrigerator is revolutionary in Its simplicity,
And Just then the dark form of
"At least." I answered, "he mur-
civilization—for days.
The water
the
Hindu
came
Into
the
hall.
The
derer
can't
get
away.
Unless
he
got
will sweep all around the hill, flood \
in its quietness and in its economy of operation.
low places—eight foot deep
We look of question on his face aeemod out before the levee broke, he's on
very real Indeed. I remembered It the island with us."
won't be able to reach the heights
Come in and see the various mode's.
afterward, as did all the real of us. i "And It doesn't seeni likely that he
across the volley.”
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Where," he asked, "Is Hayward could get out without superhuman
Hayward seemed to lenp toward ’ Hahlb?”
strength and agility. Of corree it
o untain tates ower o m pa n y
him
He almply appeared to break
'You mean Vilas?” Houthley asked might have been possible for a spe jdy
>"
<><ir eyes
His vole« rose
"The eldpr Hayward, whom I was runner
runnor to
to reach
reach the
the highlands
highlands across
across
shrilly and he shook his arm In
rtrlYR t0 the „tntlon
the valley before the flood wafers
Houthley*! face.
, "For
sake. Ahmad! Did you awept over the Isthmus, but It’s cer-
A STANDARD OIL PRODUCT
"Then gel me out tonight!" he miss him? He
started out In the tain he couldn’t get hack to clvlllza-
screamed "Get me away from this I rain, and was going to meet you at tlon. The first thing to do Is to post
house while there's yot time."
the foot of the path. Didn't
you guards to watch over the lowlands
"I'm afraid If Is too late now," understand?"
and see that he doesn't get out."
Houthley answered.
j "I looked—but he wasn't there. | Southley's eyes met mine. I had
"Call a car for mo nt one«— hear | Then I thought I had m isunderstood., never seen better self-control,
me? There’s still time to make the and drove hack to the garage
He
"The first thing to do is to quiet
road. I won't stay here another hour wasn't there either.”
j the negroes," I told him. "They art
Get on your feet, you fool—and call j "Good Lord, he'll be drenched G o terrorized. The next Is Io send for
a car for me. You'll regret It If down the path and find him."
, aid."
you don’t.”
: "Yea. sahib—”
The old man turned quickly. "Do
"There's no one to drive— but Ah
My eyes were upon Ernesl's face, you mean the coroner?"
mad," Houthley answered wearily, and suddenly his gaze met mine. 1
"Yea. The State will send detec- |
"And what about your aon?"
| thinly that we had the seme thought. tlvea, I will be glad. It Is certain j
"Domn my son! Demi, this wicked
"Walt a minute, Ahmad," he said that one of us three will have to face
bouse! Did you say Ahmad?" For quietly. "Keep the door shut.” Then a murder charge, and the sooner It is
ar Instant we saw the hHltle of two he turned to his father; and stood cleared up the better
fears In his great face. "Got Ahmad, for a long Instant as If In thought,
'But were .three w ere together—'
then. I'll be ready ns soon ss I And a "Father, I think that we'd all better
"That won't matter. They will say
I,
we hired one of the negroes to commit
and he'll communicate with me."
j We saw no sign of Hayward at the crime. We can Improvise a raft,
Houthley sighed; then got to hlH first We got down to the driveway, and send a man out tomorrow to bring
fe e t He touched a hell on the table and flashed our lanterns all along It. the coroner."
Only a moment we waited. Then We looked up and down the path
"We can do better than that. I've
through the door came Ahmad Das— , We tried to call In the beat of the got a little sneak-boat—Just a canoe
calm, imperturbable, his Oriental face | rain.
—that I use for ducks. We'll have to
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quiet as a seer’s. Never iwaw there . "Good Lord!" Houthley cried "He have a bigger one to bring supplies;
such depth of shadow as we saw In couldn't have got down Into the river but It will carry a message to the
his eyes.
! and drowned!"
mainland."
He came swiftly across the floor
We scattered about, and began to
There was little else to do In the
with that marvelous fellno grace.
climb over the hillside. The rain, rain. We went Into the den. and
"Yes. sahib—”
the bobbing lantern, the echo of the just as morning broke we told Ernest
"Get the touring car nut at once." catastrophe, the dark house behind and Vilas our plans
The rain was
Houthley ordered. "You have to take us and the gathering lake In fron t,1 less violent now. The storm was at
Hahlb Hayward to the station Don't gave the scene a singular dream like 1 the ebb.
lose nn Instant. The levee la break quality. Then AhmAd. who walked ' "I'm aorry I aaid what I did.” Vllaa
ing. It will be broken before you close beside me, tripped ynd fell over apologized. "It was the excitement of
return, so you’ll have to leave the a mottling on the ground.
the moment. But I would like to
car in the station and come In a boat
He uttered an oath In hla own know, what you think, Houthley. What
Arrange for supplies while you’re tongue; then whirled to look. He killed my father—accident or murder,
there—we may be cut off for weeks." bent and felt about with his hand, or what?"
"I’ll cut down the walk to the base The place he stood was a little neck ! The eyee of the two men met.
of the hill,” Hayward Instructed. of land that dipped down nto the j "Your father was struck down—
"Pick me up there, and rwe’ll bays at floodtwatera. an Isthmus the aepa- there Is no question about It,” ftouth-
least a minute."
rated the height on which the house ley replied. "He was killed by a blow
The Oriental bowed .then slipped stood from the plateaus cpposlte.
j from some unknown source. There is
•way. He went Just like a shadow.
"Bring the lantern. • the Hludn every reason to think that hla slayer
It« found a raincoat In the hall, and called "I have foujtd Hzhlh Hayward." ,ls still about thia house and planta-
In an Instant he was out In the flood
Tke lantern showed everything very tlon, and every possible effort will he
ef ratn.
p’a i.ly
We understood why Hay- made to chase htm flown. No one will
Hayward put on hla own overcoat ward had not met the se vant at the be able to leave— first because of a
and started out after htm. The ratu | r<*d. Hie neck wae broken, as If by rule that necessity prescribes; and
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