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T H E SPRINQFTOLD NEWS
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TIIIR SD A Y A l'iil'S T M I9JS
He was possibly
i the sole result of the ten Inches of couldn't see plain
rsln; now It was done, and the river fifty feet distant; and If we ha I not
possessed such all accurate know ledge
« mi * quickly falling
The Florida darkness Is nlwiiv* of the geography of Hie hill lie iiilgjii
worth watching It comes sn gently, have easily been mistaken for a shrub
or stump He was doing Ibul which
so like a dark mist that the w it
blows up. The color of the water ull hunter« learn tu do, standing per
changed and deepened. The shallow fectly still to avoid detection lie was
that were the Jungle grew black truatliig to the shadows to obscura
Again s # heard the sounds of wild luei.
We both stopped on the trail.
Ilf» that the storm of the previous
nlgltt had stilled.
“Who's Ihgrs?" the detective de
We smoked cigars and talked. And ms tided The shadow did not waver.
after while one of the colored men
“Who's thVre?
Answer, or I'll
came tu tell us of a discovery.
seen this contingency. The detective ches of dark brown stain.
shoot," Freeman Insisted, lie start
W H A T HAS H A P P E N E D B E F O R E — well.”
A fiat rock Jutted from th e h ills id e ed across the turf toward him And
Freeman leaped toward me and
“Because we went to different searched swiftly for twenty minutes;
Dr. Long, out lishing with Alexan
der Pierce, a detective, tells of h .. schools. Both of us are comparative then paused to wipe the little beads took the garment In hla hands. Just about fifty yards from the scene of aa a deer springs, the other aped dowg
of perspiration from his lean face
for an Instant he examined It. “Good the murder, he said Just at twilight the hill In flight
projected trip to Southerly Downs. strangers to Southley Downs.”
"It's no use,” he said “No clews Lord!” he exclaimed "You've found he had walked near It. and had no
The detective turned to Josephine
Pierce advises him to keep his eye«
There was somethin« startling In
It after all. Do you know what those ticed a queer discoloration on the the speed with which he mu
"And what light have you to throw worth llndlng.'
wide opea while there. On the way
We
stone It was evidently clotted blood flung nut In pursuit. Freemen firing
He started toward the door “There's ! spots are?”
tai a train Dr. I King is attracted by a on this matter, Miss Southley?" he
he thought, amt what looked like frag his pistol In the air. Hut even If ha
one place you haven't searched at
“No."
girl, who later faints. Dr. Long treats asked
ments
of fiesh.
It's
convincing
'
“None
at
all,"
the
girl
replied
all,"
I
told
hit»,
“They're
blood
her. and looking into her bag, is as-
has wished. It would have been liu
"You don't mean human flesh?" IHiaalhle, except by the hllndeal luck,
"Where?” He turned in
amaxe- proof. And It's Ahmad's shirt, too."
“And where were you, after the
ounded to find a loaded revolver.
ment.
for the detective to have hit the fug|
Dr. Long meets Ahmad Dws. an scene in the den?”
Swiftly he compared the laundry | Freeman asked
“That drawer full of linen."
1 iiMirk on it with the mark of the other 1 His eyes narrowed, ever so slightly. tlve
“1 went straight to bed. My maid
Oriental, who conducts him to South
A pistol Is never accurate at
pointed to a drawer in the dresser.
lev Downs, where he meets Mr South- helped me undress."
garments In the druwer, I didn’t It was evident that the colored man long range, and few marksmen ran
“And the Haywards must not have
lev sod his son, Ernest South ley, Mr.
“I glanced Into it. He wouldn't dream that this austere man was cup 1 waa terrified almost beyond the power shoot at all in ihe darkness In an
been
so
unpopular
with
you
as
with
put It in such an obvolus place as able of such exultation. His eyes sc of speech
Hayward and his son, Vilas, and then
Instaui our quarry faded, slipped
“Yes. sub
I couldn't te ll ft»' »b •' away and melted in the shadows.
that. Even Ahmad Das wouldn't be tually seemed to glisten; and a high
Josephine Southley, who is the girl your brother and Ahmad?"
“I was with both of them a great that much of a fool.
he had met on the train. Josephine
color Buffered his lean, dark face I , But It was aome kind of flesh, sub *
(T O BE C O N T IN U E D )
j '¿Perhaps. Inspector Freeman, you thought of a hound hot upon the trail 1 We didn't waste any more I me
tells him the story of Southley Downs i dea*-'
Son la Born—Mr ami Mrs ('hassle
And I think you took Vilas' part haven never heard of M Dupln?”
and its ghost, which is not the ghost
“It's the final proof!" he cried We'll ‘ We hastened down the footpath Al
against Dr. Long.
of a human being but of a tiger.
Inspector Freeman stopped to con get him now "I'll wring a confession though the night had fallen, the dark Nevt of Weudllng are Ihe parents of
Her voice lowered.
sider.
Dr. Long has a quarrel with Vilas
out of him."
*
ness was nothing of the In tently of a son born at the home of the former s
“Yes."
-
HaVw-ard over Josephine, and finds
“His name has slipped my mind. '
Then both of us drew up sharply.
the night before I was able to dis father at Second and (' »tree,. hets*
“And why did you do that?”
he confessed.
that the Haywards have a strange
"Ahmad Is coming Into his room." j cern the outline nr his figure as he Monday, August ft
"Because I couldn't do anything
authority over the Southleys. He is
Drive to Corvallis— Mrs
Medi
"M. Dupln was a very famous detec I whispered For 1 was sure that the walked ten paces In front of roe. I
ordered to leave Southley Downs. The P’8P under the circumstances.''
tive—a frenchm an. A very great fiflnt sound 1 had heard had been in I could detect t(ie shadows that were Catching and Mrs Al Montgomery
rain prevents him leaving at once.
' ou evidently didn't like Dr. Anver lean wrote about him long ago." the corridor.
the stables and garages, and the near drove to Corvallis Wednesday tu *ls:t
Dr. Long and Ernest go out on the Long’
Both
of
um Instinctively braced our er of the cottage« of the colored rartn with friends and relatives
*
“Oh. you mean a story-book detec
road in the rain looking for the tracks
1 dld ,ike Hr. Long. But his re-
Resort People H a re — Mr and Mrs
tive," Freeman scorned
"I'm glad selves. We"didn't know whqt frens? hands And then, at the aano Ipstant.
of a tiger that Ernest says are there 1st ion with me was greatly different
A. J Kuhn of Cascade resort »ere In
to say I've never wasted my time of desperation we would have to face both of us saw another shadow
They find the tracks. Later Ernest from that of V ilas.
reading such tri^-k. None of 'em if Ahmud saw us with thap condemn- ; Some one was standing perfectly Springfield yesterday transacting busi
and Dr. Long see a prowling creature
She looked squarely into his eyes
Of course we ness
were ever practical. Practical men ing evidence In our hands. A long still on the hillside
in the hall at Southley Downs. This as she talked. The room faded ex- Brt> the gn noWBqBys The tiIn,. , h(.y .moment dragged away
■
■ -*■■■■....... ■
frightens the elder havward. who also cept for her. The faces of the watch- wasted In theories and talk—”
• Then Freeman stole to the door.
sees i t Ernest begirs to feel that Ing circle became as m ist I don't
He looked up and down the corridor.
"Yet sometimes their theories came
Ahmad Das is perpetrating some know why each answer she made
"Must have been a rat.." he exclaim
We have rea rra n g e d our stock of M en's Wool S u its in
Mp. Dupln would have
deviltry.
seemed to go so deep into me— each out right.
J uki tw o groujiH for easy selection and quick disposal.
been
the
first
to
tell
you
that
for
The elder Hayward is later found word—each inflection of voice an in
"Rather a noisy ral."
GROUP 1 —
dead, his neck broken as if by a delible imprint in my memory.
I the very reason that you would think
Maybe the wind. Hut we'd better
A splendid asso rtm en t of grey and navy blue wool
gaint's blow.
couldn't turn my eyes from Aar white that drawer too obvioull a place for a
He'll come back any
Suits, sold form erly up to $37.50. Your choice of this group
The coroner and police arrive in or face. I hardly heard the detective's men to hide a garment. It would be <*•* oul ° f here
der to investigate.
questions when he turned to Southley. the very place an astute criminal moment."
I started to pin the dinner shirt
Because of the murder. Dr. Long They came from somewhere far off would hide it. He would know In ad
must remain at Southley Downs. All
"Please tell me. Southley, Just what ‘ vance . that you wouldn’t look there. Into even folds. Just as I had found it.
“ Low Prices Plua Standard Value«’’
"M Dupln did the same with the
the persons there are questioned by were the relations between you and a?d therefore 11 would bp • *ood
GROUP 2 —
the Hawwards.”
I p,acp
He proved it with the story envelope of the letter." I explained
Inspector Freeman.
In this lot you will find an unusuul selection of ull woo,
. of a stolen letter, hidden among a "Then the criminal didn't know It h.i#
NOW READ ON—
“The
elder
Havward
and
I
wer»
t
h
.
!
”
2
'
nuvy
blue, grey, a n d brown m ixtures, sold form erly a t
______
nW»,,
..
he Packet of other letters. In plain sight. ’ been found
(oldest friends, the old man answered J - j f ,
ri„h,
bu, , d
$49.75. Your choice of th is group
“I do believe you've got the mak
Of course his reason for wanting to He spoke falterlngly. In the hesitant work out
comm„nf.
ings of n detective!" Freeman told
know was perfectly obvious. He want- \ wa>’ ot aKe
.
' «a
me with a little amuxoment.
'
ed to see whether I could have pos j “They had been here almost a
“ Low Prices Plus Standard Values”
Of course I knew that as a whole
Then we crept down the stairs. He
sibly had time to hire one of the Month?”
A
choice
of any dress straw h af In th e store
he
spoke
the
truth
But
It
had
begun
'Yes.'
took the shirt Into the room that
negToes to murder the elder Hayward. ■
"How long did you ask them for?" *° dawn on mp ,bat Treeman was not had been given to him for his use
He knew that I had not done the deed
His voice changed ever so slightly. ,flf" bigbP8t
of official detective, and rejoined me in the library.
with my own hands, from the fact that
"As long as they would remain "
If he had bppn' 1 w°uM never have
"I've got a hunch." he said
1 had already established an alibi.
"You were In the den. in the scene a’"‘p(1«he question about Dupln; and
f>(.e WHH p|oU(JM
,
"We’ve got a motive for you. Long."
tween Dr.
Dr Long
l^r,„ and
„„,i the
.u - younger
_______ 1
"of ha*e had th eco ld courage
___________
between
courage
wrjnk|eg
were
flickering
between
his
he told me at the end. "but not much
to lecture to him now.
eyes I waited for him to explain.
else. There are others that we have Hayward ?”
"Then there was a later detective
“Yes."
fome of th«- other things, but no mo
"I've got nfi Idea that some one's
tive.”
“You sided in with Vilas Hayward?” —a little, fat Catholic prleat," 1 went been following me this Inst three
on- “He asked his friend where a
"Yes."
He called on Ahmad Das The lat
minutes. I m not an Imaginative man,
"Did you think he was in the wlsp man fWould hide a pebble."
ter told him how he had gone out to
Long, but I've had that bunch before
“And his friend. If he had
the garage after the car; how h,-Jhad right?"*
I never believed It; but once I woke
Department Store
sense, would have said to bury It six
I I didn't know for sure.1
looked in vain for Hayward s r the
------
i
__ .
..
,
.
up In a hospital with a bump as hlg
"Then
driveway, and how, later, he had fouTiQ
h h WhV d'd r°U takP the 8tand !he top"
"
8 ,'rn'>O'h °"
an
°V’-r OBP pye Whprp 8
you did?
the hodv.
had hit me and knew that it had
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His answer called me from my pre-
The detective flushed slightly and
"His friend told him to hide It on been been
It's a queer thing; yet
leaned forward.
occupation. It rang In the quiet room ,hp b«a <'b Then the detective asked i felt that way when I was going to
You didn't like the eider Hayward. Hp
lea! my room Just now. The noise we
. sP°ke it softly, hesitantly; ya( where a wise man would hide a -----
Ahmad?” Freeman asked abruptly” ail other sounds became as nothing
• And tbp ahswer was— in the forest. 1 heard In the corridor seemed to bear
"No, sahib.”
X
Because, Inspector Freeman,” he don ‘
’hat Ahmad Das would have it out. But It Isn't Ahmad. 1 stole
"Why didn't you? What had he ever said simply. “I couldn't do any other rh08Pn this drawer if he had time out and took a look at him
Ills
done to you?”
thing with wisdom.
Because Vilas to choose a better place. But It is hands are burled in flour. There is
“He was not pleasant to serve, Havward Is going to marry my daugh certainly the most likely place In this no one In the servant's quarters hut a
ter, Josephine.”
sahib. Many times he swore— ”
■ colored man or two, and that long-
After dinner I met Inspector Free! 1 WPnt to ’he drawer and hunted legged
___________
_ that .........
"And I believe he struck you once.
whiskered ____
bird
brought i
Ahmad."
man in the hall. He called me to one 8’non” thp »«roienis. And I'm afraid ouTthe rowboat? Robin. I believe you
Ahmad's voice lowered. “Yes."
side. Perhaps he was a little more thp co , or came ’« mv face. Evidently call him "
"And why did he?”
intent, a little more nervous and quick ® y f^ t8 or,e" WPrP to «" “""upported
There waB no BnRW„r worth mBltlnK
“I was slow in a service that be i
Motion than in the afternoon
So we sat and watched the darkness
asked.”
“I'm in need of your help," he told !
gue8S Ahmad Das didn't hide his
steal over the marshes. It seemed
"He didn't like you either, Ahmad.'' mp-
i pebble on the beach," the detective
to me that the waters had already
“It is true."
“And I'm ready to give It.”
j exulted.
begun to recede. The flood had been
Look in the kitchen and see where , Then I looked twice at a newly j
"Considering his influence with your
master, did it ever occur to you that Ahmad H“« 1». and what he is doing." laundered shirt that I had picked up
FOR SA L E
he might get you thrown out of em-
' obeved-
a plausible excuse. and lald down before. It struck me
B IC Y C L E
P ?.t-mel?t r ..
, Ahmad Das was polishing the silver. , 88 b«inp an unusually heavy garment.
Good Bicycle for sale cheap. Strong
Employ—“
( I came back to report.
j Some Inspiration made me unpin it. Double Bar frame. Good tires. In
"Get you kicked out of your Job?'
The coast is clear, then," the !n j And folded within it was found an- quire E E. Pyne, Springfield News
‘ No. sahib; I never thought of that." spector exulted. "Long, I want you to , ° ’her shirt, covered with great splot- office.
tf.
'Yet you knew of this influence. come with me and search Ahmads
The fact that Southley let his guest roon>s. I can trust you, I think when
strike you before hia face."
( I say that I haven't any further ques-
"It seemed to me that they were tfon but that the Hindu is the murder-
the closest of friends.”
er.”
P R O D U C T OP O B N B R A L M O T O R S
"And where were you Just before
“Then you must have discovered
In answer to the widespread demand for a low-
the bell rang, when Southley told you S(”nething naw.”
to get out the car?"
"No; but he was the one man who
priced
six of ultra-smartness, all Pontiac Six
Paint can make your house an asset. Neglect fiaint, and your
"In the kitchen."
went out of the house with Hayward
body
types
have been made available with
home becomes an eyesore, as well as a lowered investment.
'•How long?”
—the one man In striking range. I
The paint you use should be chosen wisely, else you’ll loa«
special sport equipment.
"At least an hour before.”
don't believe the 8outhleys were Im-
both time and money
Six wire wheels In attractive colors—two spare«
And he told him what he was doing PUcated; and knowing you as I do by
Not only should the colors be beautiful, but the paint
to prove It.
j reputation, it la absurd to think that
w ith chrome*plated clamps cradled In fender
quality must be durable.
Ernest corroborated my story per W“ were. That leaves Ahmad. We
wells-*a folding trunk rack . . . all are Included
, ’y
, know that he hated him. so we have
at a slight Increase in price.
'And what did yon think of the a Motive. But the H indus a funny
elder Hayward?" he was asked
duck, isn't he?
On no other six of comparable cost Is this ultra,
didn't like him."
“Did you ever see a man croa. the
smart and ultra-new equipment obtainable . . .
* nd/ ? yi “Ot?"
! r° ° m wlth Buch a fun"/, catlike
just as no other low-priced six provides the ,*
I didn t like his attitude with my ''trlde? He walks as !f he had cush-
inherent style advantages of Bodies by Fisher
father. He was too arrogant, and ! 'on* on his feet.”
For more than 40 years Acme Quality Products have been
and the performance superiorities of a 186 cu.
demanded more than a guest should.
w * mounted to the third flight;
the choice of those who insist on the best. We can guarantee
in. engine with the G-M-R cylinder head. The
His manners were often boorish. Nor ! ’hen turned Into Ahmad's room My
their lasting satisfaction. Let us figure on the job for you,
did 1 like the way he threw his son ™mlratlon for Freeman Increased
price is only $94 extra. Investigate this excep
on my sister."
. mightily when I was him In action it
tional “buy” today.
I believe that was your sister’s ! wa” Impossible to Imagine a more
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"H there’s murder, there's bound to
"And she made no objection?”
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blood on It. He’s been kept pretty
The detective and I looked at him > b»«y since the murder, and I don’t be
ta amazement.
Ifeve he'd have time to dispose of all
"And what do you mean by that b<» things. That's the chance I’m
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unusual speech?” the former asked. ! playing for.”
“That you don't know your sister very I But evidently Ahmad Das had for-
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