T 11U RS DAY AUGUST 30, U*2H
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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IV
In the d a rk a lo n e '
And If the sahlh
has despaired of Miss S outhley inert
lug him here, and wishes to go Io hie
room. I w ill go thence w ith him , too '
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Edison Marshall
Hop Pickers
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Class Has Plcnle
The young men's class of the ("hirst
Ian church enjoyed a picnic at Mid
way park Tuesday evening Friend*
of the class member* attended Game*
and contest* preceded a picnic supper
served at i:S 0 o'clock
An Informal
program was held following the sup
per.
Illusiratiatis by PAUL FföHft
past us by.
Starting Saturday morn
ing. S ept/1. at Steven'» hop-
yard.
Truck come» in on
Mill street at 6:30 a. m. and
goes out Fifth street to pick
up those who wish to pick
hops. Phons 38-F-5 to make
arrangements.
J. A. SEAVEY
But after one glance > lower, and once more he was on hls
It waa after nine when I saw the j “But I tell you that Isn t safe.
....
.
Bash of « laqtern across the water. | cried. "He U «et away. Alexander, you , through! the doorway I felt sure that knee.
And now 1 didn't look at Vilas My
Thin clouds were in the sky. and the promised to keep a watch out for j no such attempt would be mnde. The
darkness of the hillside where Hay pypil wprP froxen upon Ahmad Dae.
him.
He
ll
be
gone
when
we
get
to
Boon had not yet risen. The whole
ward had died would, |n this man's Hts position, as fsr a» externals were
wilderness world was blotted out by the house
H'prom ised I'd see that he didn't mind, seem more terrible than the concerned, was one that every house
Tuesday, September 4, we will open In our new quartern In
the shadow, and the soft light oyer the
away"
Alexander answered > room Itself.
keeper get» In many time a day. But
the Miner Building As this will be the first day of the
water brought a queer flood of
earllv "He'll be
there when we ' The library at Southley Downs w >s , hprp waa something different about
regular
Fall Term, It will he a good time to enroll for a
thoughts. I welcomed its approach.
He tremendously long
It had rows of this. There was a luxury, a paaalon.
Stenographic, Bookkeeping, or Secretarial cours«'. Ask
At the moment it seemed the only come. Don't fear. Inspector,
windows at one end. and the other |n the way he spread his long body on
about It.
reminder that life still existed about turned to the others. "Then every
opened Into the hall. The tapestries ,h P floor. 1 can't describe It except to
this great, bleak estate of the South thing is ready. Miss Southley—if you
and furnishings were rather dark.' say it was as If he felt a rapture In it.
leys. Without- it. it might have seem w(|| g0 with Inspector Freeman His
after the manner of Victorian llbrnr Nor was he calm any more There
ed a realm of death, where- human he- j arm is strong and his atm sure
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And beBides. the Southley. you and Ernest can take the les At one side was built the great was s strange nervousness upon him.
lags never came
Ana m»iaes. ui<- ^ “iniey. J»»
will be an fireplace, now cheerless and cold like an Intense eagerness, and his lips
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mm, his expedition. and I did not un,rejudlced witness. Bat you ve
know but that this gleam across the t0 know h o w to walk jjB.nHy
wastes was the breaking of the light
n
It, damp and strange from the marsh.
Then Vilas spoke again in the
the W est”
of truth in the darkness
against
our
faces.
i
silence—
the words sharp and clear.
•Good. Then you'll come with me
I heard step« behind me. It was
When
I
say
that
Vilas
Hayward
Mv
eyes
flashed to him He was lean
And now—out goes the light.'
Inspector Freeman.
He lifted the lantern and turned sat alone I do not mean that there |pg forward In his chair, every muscle
“I see he's coming Just at the time
To us they com e from near and far
he promised." he said with a note of down the wick. Then he blew out the were no other occupants In the room set. every tendon rigid
And each complains about bin ear;
flame
Of course I understood. In There was one other, and it la true, "Ahmad Das!" he commanded. "Go
wonder.
"She eats up oil and fouls her plugs;
The
up to
to tne
the snore.
shore. our
our preseni
present position
of that ........................-
at first 1 didn't see him at all and
gOmp candles ’
The boat
boat drew
drew up
pusiuu.. at the
— base
—- ...................-
She has no pep; »he's full of hugs."
and the colored men got out to make the hill, it would not he visible from He kept at the very edge of the
cunnot „„hlb." the Hindu an
"She m isses fire and drag» her fe e t;
It faat. The lantern light was dim. the wjndows of the house. It would candlelight, and he moved so so y. wwprpd from the floor "They are all
The way she lags has got me beat !’’
I
and I could not see plainly. It seemed , be visible as we approached the house so unobstructlvely that is was ver» Ronp bu, these two. Every one
But gently now we calm folks down;
to me that something was huddled in ( And Just as the shadows fell a easy to Ignore his presence. It was can not bring more."
"Your ear's all right, don’t »cowl & frown:"
the bottom of the boat—something hand touched mine. It was a warm Ahmad Das.
Just all you need to give her wing»
"Then I'm going out to look for
A white face Is always comparalve-
rather large—but I couldn't see what hand, and soft, and the fingers rested
1» new pistons, pins and rings!"
Southley."
It was because a rubber tarpaulin a single fluttering Instant In my palm ]y risible in the dim light. That is
"He will be hard to find, sahlh
had been thrown over It. But I did t It was a little hand. too. and I had in why soldiers going on to No Man's
There are shadows and water and
see Alexander's face. He held the a single Instant of never-tobe-forgob Ijln(, al night darkened their faces
I««torn up in look at us. and it showed ten knowledge of its power to soothe with lamp-black
But Ahmads face
seemed to grow Indescribably eager
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hjs feature« plainly. He seemed and hold, and a tenderness beyond all wag naturally dark, and It blurred in
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reckoning.
And
I
knew
whose
hand
our
8iK
ht
Sometimes
I
saw
the
whites
curiously Intent.
j of his eyes when the candlelight shone
"A g u ld e -w h et do you mean?“
We walked up the path, and three ,t was.
“Maybe you can understand after on them Vilas Hayward was not try
'If the sahib goes. I will take him
shadows made black streaks across
the light that the lantern threw. They this." she whispered. “Perhaps yon lnx to read; and the fact that the light there. The sahib must not start out
was too dim for easy reading had ,
were of the three Soathleys. who had won't condemn me so."
come out «t the house to meet us
Then like a squad reploying In nothing to do. with it. He was watch
They also eemeed grave, determined, battle, we started climbing up the
Ahmad Das out of the corner of
hts eyes.
Something gleamed in the old man's giooe of the hill.
hand As Alexander held the lantern
We soon left the others In the dark-
The lighting effect was one in
high. 1 saw what it was. It was a ness. Alexander and I crept to the which a great artist would have re
p istol.,
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j postern door.
joiced. It was yellow and dim. of
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"What’R this?" Alexander asked.
“One sound will spoil the play." he course; and perhaps It had a quality
“Vila«' pistol." Southley replieJ. whispered to me In the instant that of unreality.
unreality. The
The atmosphere
atmosphere of
"you told me to get jt."
we waited at its threshold. ''Keep candiea at any time Is distinctly me-
“Hnr»' did you do it without arous- your ears and eyes open."
, d,PTa] Then there was the gradation
Inr eusoleion?"
' Then we crept through Into the of ghadows—dusky close to the fire-
ALBANY
HALSEY
HARRISBURG
"Took it from
the drawer in the little hall. The door Into the library p|acp j,ut ghadlng off to a deep. In-
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Hhrsrv table. He keeps it there in the was open, hut scarcely any light came tenae black. The light from the two
daytime. Usually carries its at night through. 8o deep w as the shadow can(j]eg raet at the very extremetles.
Ernest and I left him with the excuse that Alexander was at once invisible jeaT|ng a dusky path between Vilas'
-SALEM
COBURG
that we had to talk to some of the
We lay down on the oppoalte sides hpftd and ghouHers cast a distinct
colored laborers at their cottages of the hall, so that we could look '„badow on the wall, blurred, however.
-LOWELL
Josephine ust slipped away."
, through into the library But we left by thp pffpct of a candle across the
CORVALLIS-
Alexander turned to Ernest. “How the passage open, as Alexander had i rf)om Thp shadow thrown by Ahm^d
about the candles?"
instructed
The reason was simply waR gomPth|n(t gliding and dusky and
-DEXTER
“Two burning in the library. All that he thought the man we had come d(m aKaingt tj,e curtains of the win
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the others have been misplaced, os to watch might want to make an dows
you d'rected "
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egcane through the doorway, and ft
There was an effect of silence, too,
-SPRING FIELD
FLORENCE-
“And the servants?"
i would have spoiled the plan for him possibly Induced by the accentuation
“No one in the bouse hut Ahmad." to see us on the way out. "Lying clos° of the faint sounds that were present.
The inspector suddenly gasped, to the walls, It was likely he would It seemed to me that 1 could hear
-LEABURG
CUSHMAN-
' distinctly the rustle and whisper of
portieres dragged on the floor by the
-W ALTERVILLE
wind. A window shade wavered with
ALVADORE
the faintest stir of sound Ttrnn there
were the hushed, manifold sounds of
-VIDA
the night that came hushed and
VENETA
strangp through the noises—noises .to
obscure that the ears had to strain
-OAKRIDGE
NOTI
to perceive them.
Vilas' face was lighted by the near
-WESTFIR
est candle. 1 could really see It more
ELMIRA-
plainly than anv other detail In »he
room. The fact fascinated me at first,
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! All other things were dim and blurred
MARCOLA-
and unreal; hut It was sharo and
; clear. And even this early In the
-S U TH E R LIN
WENDLING-
’ drama It had a oualltv that was dis-
! turblng to the spirit. He had endured
. much these last three davs.
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"Good God! Where Is every one?“
COTTAGE GROVE
DRAIN
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C IR C U LA TO R
YONCALLA
i he exploded at last. “Ahmad! Ahmad
' D as!”
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The servant arose and came near
him, half obscured In the shadows
He stood straight and tall.
“Yes. sahib—”
“Where Is everybody? Southley and
hls son ought to he hack bv now,
What direction have they gone?”
"I do not know, sahlh. They told
me thpy were going toward the cot
tages of »he laborers. But they did
not turn that way after they had gone
out the door.”
"And Miss Southley? She was to
' loin me here.”
"She has gone. too. T don't know
where. The detectives are spending
j the day across the marsh—on the
' hetehts "
"But It's time' they were hack by
now Good Lord, what did they go
! there for, when the trouble Is here*
! Here, T tell you. and von know It,
too. Ahmad. You know It too devil
ish well.
"T do not know what the sahlh
means."
"Damn vour black fane!”
Then VI,as tried to regain hls self-
control. We saw htm strucgllng The
fight was Inserlhed on hls face. And
It was a hard fight, too—a losing
fight. For a long moment he was
quiet, and Ahmad Das resumed hls
furniture dusting Tie bent lower and
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