PAG» SIX
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
¿tA U M
THURSDAY AVGUST Hi. I!»2K
S IL V E R T O N W O M A N B A DLY
IN J U R E D
IN
A U TO
CRASH
Mis II A Hutton of Sllvgrton re
ceives! serious Injuries and her hus
band mid children suffered minor
hurts when the car In which they were
riding collided with a machine driven
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’illustrations by MJLFREWb
tulles east of her«' on the McKenzie
highway yesterday afternoon
Mrs Hutton sustained a fractured
skull, fractured nose uud other In
juries Mr Hutton hail n scalp wound
anil the children were silly bruised and
shaken The woman was tuken to the
Pacific Chrlajlan hospital. where she
was reported recovering this morning
Their trip
the McKenzie has been
In thidr plnns for several years. Mr
Hutton said.
hasn't any nails in it."
‘So you're sure of it, are you?"
,he house Itself But the moonlit hill
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relief What
Dr. Long, out fishing with Alexan
“A rubber heel, then?”
•It's a clear case
Bloodstained ’¡’le WUBtit much
of a n renei
"Evidently—but not the kind of rub shirt—ancient enmity—above all things w|n«| there was brought curious smells
der Pierce, » detective, tells of his
. . . . that v he's
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------- ^ (>m ,h„ mBrsh The moon looked
projected trip to i&tutherly Downs. ber heel you wear. Most of them have ““
the fact
the one man. except
Pierce advises him to keep his eye.i some sort of non-skid devices. This of course Hayward's own son. that wan and pul«' and strange.
wide open while there. On the way heel Is solid rubber."
hasn't an alibi. He' went outdoors
There was a light In the powerhouse
In a train Dr. bong Is attractea by a
him. —
Nothing
to It
at —
all. . Long
He took a long bladed hunting knife with
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ttttle building at the rear of tlv
girl, who later faints. Dr. bong treats from his pocket, and with Infinite care, I We climbed the steps of the great manorhott«e that contained the engine
feer, and looking into her bag, is as- cut the earth around the Imprint, and house and parted in the hall The 4e which had previously generated elec
LODQES HO LD SOCIAL
eunOed to find a loaded revolver. lifted It from the ground. I thought it tectlve took the clod that held the ,rlc
for the house Hoping tor
Dr. bong meets Ahmad Das, an would crumble at first. But the soil Imprint up to his room to deposit with ., friendly word from some mellow.
Forty
members of the I O. O F and
One of Setts Kioto downs utop a
Oriental, who conducts hint to South itself had a sticky quality, and some tf the shirt., He was to meet me iu the African voice, 1 walked around to tt.
Rebekah
lodges Inst night enjoyed a
I giant elephant. Both will be seen nt
ley Downs, where he meets Mr. South- the grass roots around tt helped 'o library Immediately after
The workmen were busy at the plant,
social time at the lodge hall. Follow
the performances In Eugene on Fri ing the regular business meeting of
ley and his son, Ernest Southlev. Mr. hold the little cube of earth together.
I waited a long time for him to trying to repair the break
Hayward and his son. Vilas, and then
!
day. August 24.
But
the
workmen
weren’t
colored
the Odd Fallows, a committee took
“It Isn't safe to leave tt here," ae come. And when at laat I heard hint
Josephine South ley, who Is the girl explained. "But I'll be lucky If I get on the stair, he walked as slowly as ,t people, after all They were bending
charge of the entertainment. Rnbek-
he had met on the train. Josephine it to the house. And this. Dr bong,
aha furnished cakes and Odd Fellows
pallbearer with a bier. Every step over the engine when I first ap MRS. BAINBRIDG E LEAVES
tells him the story of Southley Downs gives us something else to think
provided the lee cream for the refresh
was distinct and slow, Instead of the proached the door, and I couldn’t see
ON
V
IS
IT
TO
OLD
HOME
and Its ghast, which is not the ghost. about.”
tnents which followed
their faces. They didn’t hear me
usual tap-tap of his quick motions.
of a human being but of a tiger.
J
__________coming In the soft grass, and they
Then I saw him In the candlelight
l-enving here Sunday. Mrs M Bain
We thought about it as we walked
Dr. bong has a quarrel with Vilas
at the door of the library And never seemed very Intent. Then they start bridge is enroute for Iowa where she
back
toward
the
house.
And
I
thought
SUM M O NS
Hayward over Josephine, and finds
ed up as my foot grated on the thresh will visit for three months with relg IN THE CIRCVIT COI'RT OF THE
have
I
seen
such
b«‘wllderment
upon
of
many
things
else,
particularly
those
that the Haywards have a strange
STATE OF OREGON. FOR LANK
old.
the face of a hpmun being
lives nt her former home. Mrs. Bain
COUNTY
authority over the Southleys. He is never-to-be-forgotten words of the eld-
One
of
them
was
the
elder
Southley
'This is the damnedest house 1 ever
bridge Is the mother of Frank mid
bewvena Wright. Plaintiff,
ordered to leave Southley Downs. The 1 er Southley:
The other was the lean, bewhlskered John Bainbridge of Springfield. This
versus
saw!" he cried.
rain prevents him leaving at once, j "My daughter Is going to marry
( hick (’ Wright. Defendant
old
man who
had brought the boat— will be her first trip to her old home
He
stalked
into
the
room
with
eyes
”,u
.........
Vilas
Hayward,"
the
obi
man
had
said
Dr. bong and Ernest go out on th e ,
To Chick C. Wright, the above named
I noticed In many years
defendant:
Her face had given no sign whether wide and staring front sheer amaze- i Robln' he called himself
road in the rain looking for the tracks
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Just
one
Impressing
thing
about
him
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF
She will spend most of her lime near
of a tiger that Ernest says are there. or not he had spoken the truth. In the ment. He sat down In a great chair,
He wore rubber boots.
DesMotnes. This fall a large group OREGON. You are hereby required to
They find the tracks. Later Ernest seconds that followed, it might have and rocked himself back and forth, his
He was the only man on the planta of the members of her family will appear and answer the complaint filed
and Dr. bong ye a prowling creature been that she glanced at me. But eyes on the floor. And now and then
agulnst you In the above entitled
tion.
so far as 1 knew, who did. They gather there for a reunion which has court and cause, on or before tin- ex
in the hall at Southley Downs. This ■ she didn't hold the glance long enough he swore gently, dazedly. I have seen
were little, ankle-length, quaint af been planned for Severol years.
plratlon of the time prescribed In the
frightens the elder hay ward, who also for me to tell for sure. Her face as .t the same look. In my professional ex
Order for Ihibtlcatlon, to-wlt On or
fairs; and I was amazed at my own
sees it. Ernest begins to feel that | had been was still before my eyes; perience. in the faces of men Just
before the ezplratlon of four weeks
stupidity that I had not remembered
from the dale of the first publication
Ahmad Das is perpetrating some soft-lined, shadow-eyed. And I was picked up alive after startling automo
REV. C. H. BLOM W IL L BE
,
the
fact
before.
1
had
noticed
the
hereof, and If you fall io appear or
deviltry.
scornful at my senseless optimism that bile accidents.
UNION »ERVICE SPEAKER answer, for want thereof, plaintiff will
You look a trifle upset. Inspector , 1 boots the minute he had stepped from
The elder Hayward is later found I even presumed to doubt but that
take a decree against you for the re
i the motor boat. They had plain rub
dead, his neck broken as if by a her father had spoken the truth—that I said. "What's the matter now?"
Rev. C. H. Blom, pastor of the Bap- lief prayed for In the complaint, which
ber heels, such as had made the track
gaint's blow.
■ list church, will be the speaker at the la In substance as foltowa:
I was even fool enough to hope other
He turned slowly, still numbed and j W(> h#(,
on
h,1Iw|<le
Fur a decree of the court dissolving
The coroner and police arrive in or wise.
dazed. "I say the damnedest! No the white stone. Beyond all doubt or union church services Sunday evening the marriage contract now ezlsttng be
der to investigate.
In the Methodist church. Hla subject tween plaintiff and defendant, and for
Of course she had loved Vilas from case I was ever in had quite the devil
question, he had been the man we had
Because of the courier. Dr. bong the first. Nothing else mattered. She ish. upsetting, aggravating features
such other and further relief as to the
will be "The Ascension."
chased Just after nightfall.
must remain at Southley Downs. All was the kind of woman whose love that this one has. When I started to
At his church In the morning the court may seem Just and proper
My
eyes
leaped
over
him.
He
had
This summons Is published pursuant
the persons there are queationed by subjugated all other things Her kind put away that clod that held the foot
pastor will speak on "The Trio ot to an order of the Honorable C. P.
long
legs—the
kind
that
could
stride
Inspector Freeman.
ness to me. the gentleness with which print, I opened the drawer where I swiftly. He was agile, too.
Worlds." Sunday school will be at iu Barnard, County Jttdze of I-ane Coun
NOW READ ON—
she looked and smiled might have had put the stained shirt.”
o'clock. Young people's organisations ty. Oregon, made and entered August
"Howdy, sir." he greeted me. "Would
14. ISM and the date of the first pub
been simply the expression of a sweet j “Yes."
will hold a Joint meeting at the Meth ttcatlon
hereof la August K . ISM. and
you like a Job?”
odist church at 7 o'clock.
| the date of the last publication hereof
Freeman and I ran and cried out girlishness such as most men. some
“Skomebody had unlocked the drawer
Southley looked up with a smile.
The Mission Circle of the Baptist la September 13. 1S23
and hunted over the hill in vain. And time In their lives, are fortunate. with a screw-driver.”
"We're trying to get those lights
HOWARD M BROWNELL
church met' last Tuesday at the home
after a while we met again, on the enough to know And again It might
"And the shirt was gone?”
so they'll work,” he eplalned. "I’m
Attorney for Plaintiff
of
Mrs.
Wilfred
Cook.
path.
have been contrivance, design, the
"Gone nothing! Someone had Just getting tired of candle-light. I don't
Residence: 17" East Seventh Ave.
Eugene,
U-ÎS SO S #11
"If that doesn't beat the devil!” the purpose of which was hidden in the torn a solid square foot out of the suppose you know anything about
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detective greeted me. He was panting intricate web of the mystery. Perhaps front part of the shirt-tail. And It electric generators?"
and he swore softly between his gasps. unconsciously I was playing a part In dazed me so that I dropped the clod.”
"I knew quite a bit abont them
"Long, there's plentv of things yat. the drama of the old house, and her
The moon that night cast eery when I had the engineering bug—in
relations with me were In some mys squares of light on the floors. The
about this case that 1 don't know "
college." I confessed. "I might be
terious way Involved.
Tuesday. September 4, we w ill open In o u r new quartern In
"Do you think that was Ahmed?"
orchestra of the marshes started up able to help you."
the M iner B uilding. As thin w ill ba the firs t day o f the
Yet I couldn't bring myself to ques again—the call of birds, the noise of
"Couldn't have been The Hindu
...
. . branches
------ all "I Then I had a curious Impression. It
re g ula r Hull Term . It w ill be a good tim e to enroll fo r a
was In the house when we left. But tion her motives. It was simply im d insects,
the
rustling
of
e e n lv
™ ncn es. all 8eemP<j to m e that a
e x p r essio n
Stenographic, Bookkeeping, o r S ecretarial course. Ank
there isn't any doubt but that-he com possible for me to accuse her of actual aeepty remote and hushed
in th e <
.
. . .
davtime
th.
.
.
2
,n
of
apprehension
and
dismay
flnshed
about It.
craft.
mitted the crime*. I’m sure of that
uaytime the occupants of th e m anor I
h ou se hart a l l «...
...
, across my <’ host's
face.
It wasn't
In
much, anyway. And now here's noth
.
a r y ’ "” n ", b l ’‘ , h e
" •« » «
A nd »
™
"O
But in the test her true feelings had A r v i n .
ing to do but go down and find that stood forth. She had shown wfyere Aryan«. not afraid to look fn a dark
»
.n
in thaa « i - k »
\
»^nseip«« a thing I concluded I had
•
stone that the colored man told us she really stood. The fact that I was corner
rtlfferenl
A . you could see been m|gtakpn Rob|n |ookwJ up, too,
IT 'S A GOOD SC H O O L
about.”
to leave the house In disgrace meant a different expression on their faces. I somewhat quizzically
A. E. Roberts, President
,
M iner Bldg. Sept. 4
nothing
to
her
Her
love
had
spread
We found the place where the body
legend of t h T o T " ' ™
“tran*“ ' "» «’•» «« the thing." he sOd hur-
Telephone
666
Eugene. Oregon
had been found, and struck off fifty its wings above all such things as this of Ahmart n
’ th° U*ht rl»‘dly. "and. besides, I need the Job "
I
had
not
mattered
a
grain
of
dust
on
yards directly to the left. The detec
X Ca,"e aroun,‘ Southley agreed
tive flashed his light about. He called the windowsill. Of course I hadn't t" ?x"
out when he sarw the stone. It was forgotten her hesitancy. Perhaps there to the memory of those two curious
But 1 couldn't resist the Impulse to
the only white rock in the vicinity, had been regrets—Indecision—but the -«cratches on the face of the dead man
make a cursory examination of the
Again
and
again
I
had
that
same
cycle
truth
had
come
out
In
the
end.
and it could not be mistaken. He
generator. Perhaps It was love of the
Not a cloudburst or electrical, but S torm izln g your
And It had come out again In the of thought.
knelt quickly beside it.
engine.
Perhaps It was that Irresist
cylinder.
I
had
the
drawing-room
to
myself,
l'ttle
scene
beside
the
marsh,
when
I
Then he got up with a little snort
ible human impulse to tinker—and
except
for
the
younger
Southlev.
The
had
been
ready
to
leave
the
estate
of disgust “That colored man was
more than that, to exhibit knowledge.
crazy.
Nothing here—but by the with the coroner. It was not to be detective was at* work In his room At first I found It difficult to believe
Southley himself had gone Into the
forgotten
that
her
lips
had
told
the
Lord!" He scarcely breathed as he
Recondition yo ur cylinder»- new piston»— ring»_
that the plant was really severely
rubbed his band over the surface 01 detective of my dispute 'With the Hay den; whether he had come out again damaged. It looked In the most per-
valv 'd ground. M otor returned to you same as new in
I did not know The negroes had re-
'
wards.
bringing
down
upon
me
a
cer
the rock. He bent until his eyes were
one day» time.
tired to their cabins as usuai in the ' ' ** COn<,'dOn But Southley called
within a few inches of its rough face. tain measure of suspicion.
me
away
in
a
moment,
and
Invited
me
8Way
“ n)t"nen*' and '»»Hod m.
I remembered how she and Vilas latter part of the evenings Vilas was
"What now?" I asked
In the library, trying to read
i *° Wal,t ,>ac,<*w,,b hlm t0 ,he manor
Hayward
had
always
been
together.
“Somebody's beat us to it. that's
I don't think he was hav.ng any too h° “' e
all. This rock has Just been washed And It only cost a laugh to remember '
Inspector Freeman would have'been
kmxl
success. The last two day. had
that
I
had
attributed
this
fact
to
the
off. with water. Either there's another
made stupendous changes In Vilas dismayed If he had known my thoughts
mysterious
forces
that
were
at
play
n
amateur detective around this place
He had picked up two or three little as Southley and I went back to the
—cleaned off the clots to make blood the old mansion, rather than to her
For before another
,
nervous
habits, too. that were pa.tlcu- drawing-room.
own
wish.
Her
love
for
him
was
evi
tests—or else the walls of that old
I
larlv
distressing
to
watch
_
.......The
mys
!
hour
hart
P“*"**1
*,
there
was
to be fur-
dently the most passionate. Intense
bouse have ears!”
terlous
death
of
his
father
was
of
th"r
ama,eur
Interference
In the work
kind,
hardly
to
be
expected
In
the
“What do you think?”
,
course
the
greatest
Influence
and
the
'
ln*
°
U*
Bouthley
mystery.
Even
“What is there else to think hut that slender, appearing girl. She showed
ever-present
menace,
the
shadow
and
whlle
1
rbatte«l
with
my
host,
I was
this
fact
in
her
willingness
to
sacrifice
someone came dawn here and de-
, the darkness, had stretched his nerves P,ann,nk the best means to get back
for him.
stroyed the evidence?”
SlniORt t o thf* h o A n b lw - _
I I In
h o rwi
w n r h /m u i,
I | aamu
to t the
powerhouse.
was swnlaasw
going to
But. why had she been ready to kill almost to the breaking point.
Freeman made a dose examination
I
had
noticed
a
curious
thing
,
,
keep
a
close
watch
on
that
garrulous
him
that
night
in
the
den?
The
look
of the soil about the rock The man
evening drew nn n
tho „»x
’ "eemed to me ' long-legged longshoreman, Ro{>ln.
who had preceded us had left one dew in her eye as she leaned across the that
hat the other occupants of the house i
(Continued Next Week)
table
could
not
be
mistaken.
Yet
at least There was a bare bit of soil
were
avoiding
Vilas
Perhaps
,
.
!
Just beside the stime where no grass many times before. In the long years uat a coincidence; yet S £Ung □
had grown, and in it we found the of the world, women have killed the happened three or four times From
Conditions have
clegr. sharp imprint of a man’s heel. men they loved
X 1 ‘° , ten he ha-'
of Ms
“But it might be the track of the arisen in which love itself was the
rov
ng
from
one
room
to
another
colored man that told us about it,” 1 power that pressed back the finger S o e v e r wa«
the room ano'har'
against the pistol trigger. It was not
suggested.
"And it might not be, too. If I don’t for any man to say. The question
went deep into the mystery of a
do anything else I ought to, at least,
woman’s heart. She hart tried to kill
observe whom I'm talking to and all
him and yet she loved him. He
about him
That darky was bare
brought sorrow to her eyes; and yet It couldn’t even get a gllm,,0" ^ , bUt 1
foot.”
had made no difference. It was seem- r i
.
* 1
«HmpSP of thorn.
"Then It's the track of the man we
that Vila« would not ha7e
I ingly a love not to be measured. And 1
chased a moment ago?”
II wished that I could go beyond the cared to be alone In the library at (hot
“Of course. He'd come up here,
i dull, strange reaches of the swamps, moment, If there had be, „ any other
Just before we did. He either col
I and never return to Southley Downs choice. From time to time he sum- G UTTERS, LEADERS
lected the evidence for some amateur ! again.
AND DRAINS
' moned the servants, seemingly for the
experiments of his own, or, what's
“After all," I heard Inspector Free- i most trivial services.
When time comes for your sheet
more likely, destroyed it to protect
man saying, "I don’t know 'why I ' About eleven I walked out onto the
meital work do not overlook the fact
the murderer. But there’s something
High back, bar tacked pocket.» and crotch.
should worry about these things. Such ' i grounds, mostly because the atmos
that we do efficient work at reason
funny about this print.” He bent over
A bsolutely guaranteed— w ill not rip or tear.
things as the tracks that the niggers j phere of the house had begun to stran
able1. prices. We are equipped with
W hy pay more than
it with his light. "You see It’s per
ell about In the road—and that chap gle me. I wanted fresh air, the wind men,'material and workshop facilities
fectly clear—a perfect imprint. Never
a pair
who ran away from us on the hill—and j blowing off the 'water, the sight at a
to del the highest quality of tinning
sww a better. Ground happens to be
all the rest of this funny business.
particularly Rticky. and there are no T ve got my man. and that's the only | friendly moon in the sky. Of course and Aheet metal Jobs. We cheerfully
I the tragedy of the night before had Inspect, investigate and furnish esti
grass roots to Interfere. Probably the thing that matters."
| occurred outside the house, on the mates for anything you want done.
water drained off the stone and soft
I don’t know how much he had said
Pure whle, polkadot and prince. None bet
ened It, in yesterday’s rain. And the that I had not heard. My thought« I very hill on which I stood, but there
ter fo r the money. Each
1 remained the feeling that the crime
odd thing abont It Is that the heel had been too busy.
bad its root and source and causes to
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