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THE PERFUME OF
THE LADY IN BLACK
lly GASTON IiKHOUX,
Author of "Tho Mystery of
tho Yellow Kooni."
Copyright, 10, by Itretnno'a
CHAPTER X.
His Atfony From ttie Pcrftitnc
of the Lady In Black.
torment for eight days!"
We followed lilin with our eyes to
tho door of the square tower. We
, could pee from his looks that he could
endure no more. Well, M. lhirwu 11
little nftcr this pvo mo cause to e.pe
rlence the most frightful thrill of ter
ror which could frecso human bones.
Dnraic went straight to the square
tower, whore, of course, ho found ller
nlor, who opened tho door for him.
( As Hornier had been keeping constant
guard before tho door of the room, as
ho had kept the key In his pocket and
ns wo had proved by our investigation
. that the place was empty when wo
I had left it we bad established tho fact
i that when Darsnc entered his room
there could be no one else there And
' this Is the truth.
I At tho moment that wo saw Darzac go
to his room wo heard n clock strike 5.
i uj. iui urau uuiui nit iiuiu i iiuuicuioiuc nuu i rciuaiueu cuauiug
ft I on waking nest morning. Mine, upon tho platform of tho tower B for
I I Kdlth ws wulktfig in the court. another hour. Suddenly my friend
I At, l I.. . .1( 1.. .-i.t, T . . I ..-I. . .. - tt,1. - . I. . l I
OILUW UiU U MtMU Hip Uil IUV B1JUUI
der and exclaimed, "For my part I
think" And then, without complet
ing tho sentence, he started for the
saw on his way to make his Inspection square tower. I followed him.
of the square tower. I found him lie thought of Mere Bernlers bag of
qutto calm and entirely master of him potatoes which he emptied out on the
self and also entirely the master of white floor of tho room to the great I
bis eyes. It was worth while to boo , amarcmont of the good woman; then, I
tho manner In which ho looked at ev-' satisfied with this act, which evidently
erythlng around him! Nothing cs-! corresponded to the Btate of his mind, ,
caped him. And the square tower, he returned with me, while behind us ,
the nbodo of the Lady in Black, was w could hear Tore Bernlcr laughing !
the object of his constant surveillance. as u picked up the potatoes.
When M. and Mmo. Darzac were not t As we reached tho court wo saw tho
in their apartment, tho only key which ; 'aco ' Mme. Darzac appearing for a
opened the door was in tho keeping of ', moment at the window of the room oc
the Bonders, and It was a special kind cupicd by her father on tho first story
of key made purjosely for tho room j ' 'a Louve.
within tho last twenty-four hours in a i The heat had become Insupportable.
. place which no one but Rouletabillo ! We were threatened with a violent
knew. He had let no one into tho ) storm, and we believed that it would
-secret. 1 begin to lighten immediately and re
PUT my head out of the window
on waking nest morning. Mine.
Kdlth was wulklfig In the court,
chatting carelessly with Houle-
tabllle and twisting the stem of a
beautiful rose between her pretty fin
gers. I followed Rouletabillo, whom I
Ho throw himself Into a chair ns
If exhausted. "I cun't breathe!" ho
moaned. Ho tore hU collar away from
his throat. "Water!" he entreated. "1
want the water from the heaveua! I
must have It!" And he waved his hands
toward the dark skies.
lr ten minutes ho remained stretch
ed out In tho chair, thinking. What
surprised me was that ho naked no
question or uttered no conjecture as
to what the Lndy In Black had boon i
seeking In my room. I would not have !
known how to answer If he had done i
on t Imit-ttt lt. rti unit tviittt tt I
take the guard at the postern.
lie would not even come In to din
ner and sent word to have some simp
brought out to him. The dinner va
sorved In la Louve at Sirto. imr-a
who cntue to the table from Old l
workroom, said that the latter re'n.'
to dlno also. Mine. Kdlth. fearlnr t
her uncle might be III. went lmi' !
ntely to the round tower.
Tho Lndy In Black came In on
nrm of her father. Sho ent on
look of sorrowful reproach vhtis'i i 1
turbed me Krcntly, Her oyo Mv:r.u
never to wander from iijo
(To be oouhnucnl.)
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TONIGHT
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Tho lioguo Itivor Cunning & luvniwratiiig company will tlovoto
Mondays itnd 'L'liursduya of oaoh weak to eiintoin work in tho innn
ufneturo of older, npplo liutror and Jellies,
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THE ROGUE RIVER LANB COMPANY
NO. 11 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE
Offers au especially good foothill orchard for a low
prico and on good tonus. In these days of advancing
prices, it will pay to look into this.
It pays to deal with tho 44 Man Who Knows." Whon
tho Koguo River Land Company sold tho Tronson &
Guthrie orchard at Eagle Point to tho prteo winning
owners, four years ago, tho salesman, W. M. Holmes,
assured tho purchasers those Spitnonborgtroos would
produce tho world's best apples, and Bubsotjuont ovonts
prove tho soundness of his judgment. By tho ways
Did it ever occur to you that most of tho men who havo
won out in tho Rogue River Valloy, bought their win
ning orchards through the Rogue River Land Company1?
f f lift .1 LWIIUVOy I tl I VI IE) (UMtTQ 4b UlU QUI 1 llU H
for a good buy. 1
I
SHOT BY ROBBER
RouletablUo wished that tho -watch ! Heve us.
Berkeley Officer Probably Fatally
Wounded While Stopping Saloon
Holdup in tho Early Morn.
might bo kept also upon tho rooma i A few drops of water had begun to
of Old Bob. but the latter swore that fall.
lie "would not be treated like a pria-! Wc turned to tho door of M. Darzac's ;
oner, and he said that on no account . room. Bernler was smoking his pipe
would he glvo up the privilege of go-, in tho corridor, sitting astride a chair,
ing and coming to his own rooms when I "Is M. Darzac still there?" asked
he saw flt without asking tho keys , Rouletabillo.
from tho lodge keepers. "He hasn't stirred slnco ho went In,"
Mme. Edith had said, with her lips Bernlcr replied,
pressed together In a narrow little ! Wo knocked. Wa heard tho heavy
line, "But M. Rouletabllle, my uncle bolt drawn from the Inside. (These
to carry him away!" 1 within the room.) to tho ItoosovoU hospital, whoro
Rouletabllle. after asking after the Darzac was writing letters when we , t anounceu an opcrauon woum
BERKELEY, Cal., Jan. 13. Dop
uty Sheriff Audrow W. Llndqulst was
shot and perhaps fatally wounded by
n masked man who attempted to hold
up tho saloon of Albort Mooro near
tho Contra Costa .vjunty lino, north '
of this city oarly yesterday.
Llndqulst was wounded In tho
shoulder and another bullot penetrat
ed tho walls of his stomach. He was ,
health of Mere Bernlcr, who was gath- entered. He had been seated beside
crlng up potatoes and putting them In j a little reading table facing the door,
a bag, requested Pere Bernler to open Now mark well all our movements,
the door of the Darzaca' room. j Rouletabllle complained that the let-
This was the first time that I had ter which he held In bis band con-
entered the apartment The atmos
phere was almost freezing. The large
firmed the telegram which he had re
ceived in the morning and pressed him
room, furnished wfth simplicity, con- i to return to I'aris. His paper Insisted
bo necessary to save ls llfo.
Tho officer was stan 'Ing at tho bar
In tho saloon talking with Moor"
when tho highwayman x. itorcd. Lev
elling a revolver at each nan, he or
dered them to hold up thOr hands. ,
Llnqucst swung tho heavy iimbrol-
tained a bed and a toilet table placed j upon his proceeding at once to Russia, la ho carried striking Uio thug on tho
at one of tho two openings in tho wall
around which there bad formerly been
loopholes. The two windows wero fit
ted with bars of Iron between which
one could scarcely pass one's arm. Op
posite in the angle of the tower was
a panel. It would have been Impossible
for any one to bldo In this chamber un
less behind this panel And the Bonders
liud received orders to look every tlmo
Darzac read indifferently the two or ! head. Tho man then fired twice at
three letters which we had brought
him and put them In his pocket 1
now held out to Rouletabllle a letter
which I had received. It was from
my friend in Paris, who, after having
given me some Important details re
garding tho departure of BrlgnoUcs.
Informed me that tho latter had left
his address for mall to be forwarded
the officer, and escaped through n j
rear door. Efforts of tho police toj
find him mot with no success. I
they visited the room both behind the ! to Sospe), tho Hotel des Alps. This
panel and la the closet where Darzac.
fetifcg Lis cfothes".
rTv'hen we passed into the sleeping
yjropHJ of Mme. Darzac we wero abso-
waa extremely Interesting, aud Darzac
and Rouletabillo were greatly excited
over it We decided to go to Sospel
as soon as It could be arranged, and
tejy pertain that we had left noth- j we went out of the room. The door
Vahlnd tin nf which we did not
ing k
Un'5V' --v:'s .room was smaller
,Mm?; DV nf husband. But
than than that of u. , ht , fr
it was bright and weU -hJJ
the way that Uie windows
d. As soon as wo set foot over - -
threshold I saw Roulotabille turn pale.
and he turned to me and said:
Salnclalr, do you perceive the per
fume of the Lady In Black?"
I did not I perceived nothing at all
Roulotabille. after having looked -under
the bed. gave the signal for de
parture and motioned us from the
room. Ho lingered for a moment, but
no longer. Bernlcr locked tho dooi
with the tiny key, which ho put In
his Inside pocket and tightly buttoned
his coat over it Wo made the tour
of the corridors and also that of Old
Bob's apartment which consisted of
a bedroom and sitting room, as easy to
examine and as incapable of hiding
any one as those of the Darzacs.
Iu short and In fact nothing es
caped Roulotabille, and when wo had
made the rounds of the square tower
we bad loft no one behind us save M.
and Mme. Bernler. One would havo
eald, too, that there could havo 'been
no human being In the apartment of
tho Darzaca before Bernler, a few min
utes later, opened the door to Dar
zac himself, as 1 am now about to re
late. It was almost 5 o'clock when, leav
ing Bernler In bis corridor in front of
the door of tho Darzacs' room, Roule
tabllle and myself found ourselves
nguln in the court.
At that moment wo climbed to tho
platform of the ancient tower at B.
We seated ourselves upon the parapet
At that moment wo noticed upon tho
gc of the Barma Grande the dis
turbed and wrathful countenance of
Old Bob. Ills shadow was tho only
dark thing about By what prodigious
anachroulsm It was that this modern
scholar with bis cout und hat In the
height of fashion should be moving
about, grotesque and ghoulish, in front
of this cavern 300,000 years old formed
by the ardent lava to serve as tho first
roof for the first family in the first
days of the world! We could soo him
brandishing his skull as ho had dono
at tho table, and wo could hear him
laugh, laugh, laugh. It toro our ears
aud our hearts.
Our attention was drawn to Darzac,
who was coming through tho postern
of tho gardener. He did not see us,
Ho was not laughing! Rouletabillo felt
tho deepest pity for him, for be saw
that ho was at tho end of bis endur
ance In the afternoon ho had said to
my friend, who now repeated the
words to me: "Eight days Is too much!
I do not. bclleye that I can bear this
of Mme, Darzac's sleeping room was
not closed.
I have mentioned that Mme. Darzac
was not In her own room.
Then the three of us went out of tbo
square tower, leaving Pere Bernler In
his corridor like tho good. .lYfltChdoff
;Uat he never ceased to be until tho
last ii?. ot Ms Me
lt Tvna About half past 0 o'clock
when, In emerging from tbo square
tower, vre went to pay a visit to Old
Bob In the round tower, Rouletabllle,
Darzac and I. As soon as wc entered
the low basement Darzaci uttered an
exclamation of surprise at seeing the
destruction jvhlch had been wrought
upon a wash drawing upon which be
had been working and which repre
sented the plan for a great scaling
ladder for the Fort of Hercules qt the
kind which had existed in the fifteenth
century. This drawing had been gash
ed with a knife and paint bad been
smeared over It Ho endeavored in
vain to obtain some explanation from
Old Bob.
As Old Bob seemed to be in a churl
ish humor, we left him that Is, Roule
tabillo and myself did. M, Darzac re
mained gazing at his spoiled drawing,
but thinking, doubtless, of altogether
different things.
As we went out we raised our eyes
to tbo sky, which was rapidly becom
ing covered with great black clonds.
Tbo tempest was near at hand.
"I am going to He down In ray room,"
I said. "I can't stand any moro of
this. Perhaps It may bo cooler there
with all the windows open."
Rouletabillo followed mo Into the
new castle. Suddenly, as we reached
the first landing of our -winding stair-
ase. ho stopped me:
"Ah," belaid in a low'volce, "she is
there the 'Lady id Black! Can't ypu
smell the perfume?"
And he hid himself behind a door,
motioning mo to coutlnuo without wait
ing for bim.
What was my amazement in opening
the door of my room to find myself
face to face with Mathlldo!
She uttered a low cry and disap
peared in tbo shadow, gliding away
like a surprised bird. Sho swept down
the steps like a ghost Sho soon gained
tho ground lloor, and I saw below me
the face of Rouletabllle, who, leaning
over tho rail of the first landing, looked
at her too.
Ho mounted the steps to my sldo.
"Ob, my God!" bo cried, "What did
I tell you!"
He scorned to bo in the greatest agl
tatlon,
"This thing must bo ended Jn twenty
four hours or I shall no longer have
strength to act."
It Is Running
Out
Baker's
vs.
Home Made Bread
"We have home-made bread. Which would
you rather eat, home-made or bakers' A
foolish question to ask, for most people
would be willing to pay twice the price for
home-mado bread they pay for baker's, but
you can buy tho good old-fashioned homo
made bread at the Rex Grocery for the same
price as baker's. Large, well browned
loaves, both nourishing and palatable, and
baked from the best flour iu tho city.
"Yakima Best"
Take a loaf home with you and be con
vinced. Rex Grocery Co.
There's a Reason
Why the custom of the
Rex Market is growing.
The reason is worth in
vestigating and a trial
order will explain the
reason.
sRex Market
Huth & Pech Props. Phone 3271
Is your subscription to this pa
per running out? If so, don't you
want to renew It and start the
year right?
A Cotliy Client.
Miss lluyley told mo that Mr.
Phlpps tbo .oculist told a gentleman,
who told her, tbo following anecdote
of tho lute DucheM of Devonshire:
Mr. rhlpps was scut for to Chats
worth to operate upon the duchess'
eye. He stayed thero some tlmo and
at parting received from tho duke a
fee of 1,00). Jum before ho stepped
Into his carrlago n inessao from the
duchess brought him to her chamber.
81lo hoped tilts 4luko had done what
was handsome by lf. Phlpps. Tho
gontlcmnn protested: ' u
"Yes, nud more than InlhilsOtno."
"It Is nu awful Ihlng," continued her
grace, "l ask, but 'really I am at this
moment In Immediate want of such a
sum, and If you could, Mr. Philips."
What ci uld the mullst do? llo pro
duced his 11,000. took his lenvo and
never htnni of Ills money from that
'day to thli.-l'"rom "Recollections of u
Long Life." by Lord Iiroughtou (John
Cam Holiliousc).
Name to Fit tho Trade.
Old newspapers glvo us many In
stances of men's names fitting their
callings. Thus we havo Last, a shoe
maker of Cxctcr, and Tread way, wbo
plied tbo same trade In Hammer
smith. There wns a Hrlsto! school
mnstcr named Rod. Dodgo aud
Wynne, attorneys at law of Liverpool,
must have been tho butts of their
fellow townsmen, wbllo fow could
have a more appropriate namo than
the Primitive Methodist preacher Riv
er Jordan. Loudon Chronicle.
No Escape Via Temperament.
"Mabel is getting past tbo marriage
able ago, isn't sbeV"
"Yes, and It's too bod sbo hasn't
any talents."
"Why?"
"She won't bo ablo to tell her friends
that temperament prompts her to glvo
up matrimony and devote herself to
nrt."-8t Louis Htar.
A Foolish Queitlon.
A reader of tho New York World
writes to that paper to ask whether It
is proper for. a young man to send
candy to n girl whom ho has mot but
once. What n question! Why, most
young men begin handing n girl taffy
bh soon as they uro Introduced to hen
Washington Post
Frills.
Mrs. Crabshuw The now girl I havo
said sho hud takeu a course in domes
tic science, Mrs. Crawford Is sho dif
ferent from the other girls you've bad?
Mrs. Crabshaw Only in one way; she
wanted $5 a mouth more. Lipplncott's.
Shakotpeare'e House.
Tho house iu which the master bard
was born is located In Henley street,
Stratford-on-Avon, England. Wash
ington Irving said of this famous
nbodo of genius: "It Is a small, mean
looking cdlflco of wood and plnstor, a
tmo nestling place of genius, which
seems to delight in hatching its off
spring In by-corners. Tbo walls of its
squalid chambers are covered with
names and Inscriptions in every lan
guage by pilgrims of all nations, ranks
and conditions, from tho priuco to tho
peasant, und present a simple but
striking Instance of the spontaneous
and universal homage of mankind t.
tho great poet of nature."
Soveral years ago tbo bouse was
purchased by subscription with a
view to the careful preaorvatlon of It
and of its contents for1 the Inspection
of future generations.
Tuning a Belt.
No matter how great may bo tbo
caro taken in making the mold, a bell
has to be tuned before it will ring a
clear, true note. Ah a matter of fncr,
every bell sounds five notes, all of
which must blend together harmo
niously, if one is tbo least bit out tho
tone 'will bo spoiled. Tho first of
these notes is nroddcod by tho vibra
tions at tho mouth of tho bell, tho sec
ond by the vibrations a littlo higher
up, tho third still higher up, and so
on to the fifth, which is produced
quite neitr the top. As tho character
of the sound which rlngH dcpcids
upon tho thlckneos of tho metal, it In
possible, by tuklng thin shavings from
various places iu Uho lnsldo of tho
bell, to alter the lira noleu until they
are all In harmony.
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Tho problem in selling ronl en
tnto is to find tho ONE ntnl
tlioro'fl only ono porson to whom
tho property would bo WORTH
MAST.
Somotimo, in tho course of a
fow days, or of n fortnight, tho
prospective buyer to whom YOUR
property would ho worth most, will
rend (ho ronl ontnto ndn in thin
nowspnpor. IIo may read thom
ovory day lie mny rend thom
onco n weok. BUT HE READS
TllPir you can bo euro of thnt,
And YOURS MUST RE TIIERE
WHEN ITE DOES. If it la, your
problem is Bolvod. If it isn't,
you'vo still got your problom
and your property,
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Aluminium dust or powder burns If
oubjoctod to an cxeoedlngly high tem
pera turo.
"Yes, my husband and I quarrel In.
The Barrier,
ceosantlyt'
"Why don't you tft a divorcer'
"Wo can't bear to. What would be
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