THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORP. ORKOON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 19.10. 6 WEDS; GOES HOME; FINDS CHILDREN Brldo Greeted With Shouts of "Mama!" From Eight Lusty Throats Tarries But a Moment. WALLA WALLA, Wn., Jan. IS. To fall in love -with n "real nice' man. then to say "yes," and a short time afterward to be married and go to the new home to discover eight little children her now husband's all shouting "mamma" proved too much (or Mrs. Halver Vetterson, ac cording to the complaint in a divorce suit just filed by the husband him self In n local court. In fact, tt proved so much that Mrs. Vetterson hardly tarried long enough to say "good bye,'' further avers the com plaint, though not In this language. The divorce was granted by do- fault. Mrs. Vettterson having no ad dress so she could be served. Judge Brents gave the eight children to IlalveY vrtio had not even asked for them.' '' ' He stated that he had failed to notify his helpmeet that she was marrying a Roosevelt family at the time ho asked her to become his wife. IDAHO TOWN SUFFERS . $25,000 LOSS BY FIRE LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 18. A fire -which for n. time threatened the destruction of tho entire business district of Qrangoville, destroyed ihn Rtnrn nf H. Kornseld last mcut The loss is estimated nt $25,000. A hiKh wind fanned the flames and for a while it was feared that the bus iness district was doomed. Tho or igin of the fire is unknown. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. ' M. E. Owens to P. J. Neff, land in section 27, town- ship 30, 1 west $ 9,000 Frances A. Kleinhnmmer to 4U,T.JJL Ilamlin, part D. L. C. Ira Marshall to Ernest S. Palmer, 92 acres in D. L. C. 56, township 36, 2 west 40,000 E. S. Palmer to It. N. Pax son, 62 acres in D. L. C. 56, township 30, 2 west.. 27,500 I. Dnliack to P. M. Centers, . 10 acres D. L. C. 60, town ship 37, 2 west 10 Q. H. Qaniere to A. H. Hays, part lot 10, block 32, Cool- idce addition to Ashland.. 1,400 S. A. Pattison to B. A. Bis . sell, lot 3, block 4, Patti son addition to Central Point 129 A. Lawrentz to S. V. Davis, lo.ts 7 and 8, block 18, Medford 1 HOTEL ARRIVALS. The Nash J. C. Gribble, Port land; J. P. Watt, Jerome, Idaho; F, II. Austin, E. C. Johnson, W. E, Bliss, Portland ;.W. It, Follis, Med- ford; C. S. Brown, Daris; S. S. Ack ley, HcCloud; W. E. Bronson, Seat tle: J. B. Harvey, Galice: Geo. San ders, Cleveland; C. R. Arnndell, W. B. Envoy, Portland; Prof. J. St Ange, Ashland; Mr. and Mrs. W. E, Erickson; Mrs. C. A. Hawkes, Alon quin, N. M. The Moore T. Irvine, Portland; F. M. Nelson, Butte Falls; Marion Bhrnes, G. E. Stevenson, R. Foucb, Wilbur Telford, J. Siemens, V. T. Mptschenbacher, E. W. Jacobson, G. Dufault, A. F. Panck, Klamath Falls; H. S. Stryker, G. T. Ellis, J. A. Fisher, Portland; J. M. Mauring, Talent. FOR 100 Acres of Good Fruit Lund 4 miles west of Grants Pass. Forty seven lots in Jacksonville, flno location. , I have also got a pair of fine Cougar Kittens, five months old, which can bo bought at a reasonable price. ENQUIRE GJUewis Jacksonville THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IK BLACK Hy GASTON LKKOUX, Author of "Tho Mystery of tho Yellow lloom." Copyright, 100l, by llretnno'a CHAPTER XIII. When My Father Wears a Will It Will Fit." T was literally true that ho was I frightened. And 1 was more terrMed myself than words could express. 1 had never seen him in such a state of mental in quietude. "I want to ask you. my boy, whether your mother told you tho story of the accident with the revolver?" "No," he answered, "and 1 asked her nothing." "And you 6wore to see nothing and hear nothing without her saying any thing to you about the pistol shot and cryr Tho young man now gazed at mo In tently. "It was necessary for me to believe. For my part. I respectrd tho secrets of the Lady In Black. I had nothing to ask of her when she said to me, We must leave each other now, my child, but nothing can ever separate us again r" mx- "Ah, she said that to you?" "Yes, and there was blood upon her hands." We looked at each other In silence. I was now at the window and beside the reporter. Suddenly his hand touch ed mine. Then ho pointed to tho little taper which was burning at tho en trance to the subterranean door which led to Old Bob's study in the tower. "It is dawn." said Rouletabllle, "and Old Bob Is still nt work. Wo will go and have a peep at him." A few moments later we descended Into the octagon room of the Tower of Charles the Bold. The lamp was burn lng on the table, bnt thero was no sign of Old Bob. He picked np tho lamp and exam ined everything. We came to the little desk table. Thero we found the skull, and It was true that It had been spat tered with the red paint of the wash drawing which Darzac had set to dry upon that part of the desk which faced the window. I went from one window to the other and shook the bars to assure myself that they bad not been tampered with. "What are you about?" asked Rou letabllle. "Before thinking about bow he could have got out at the windows wouldn't it be better to find out whether he went by the door?" He set the lamp upon the parapet and looked for traces of footprints. Then Rouletabllle said: "Go and knock at the door of the square tower and ask Beruier whether Old Bob has come In. Ask Mattonl and Pere Jacques. Go quick!" Five minutes after I went out I was back with the information. No one. had seen Old Bob In any part of the fortress. Rouletabllle said: "He left this lamp burning in order to make people believe that ho was at work. There- Is no sign of a struggle of any sort, and in the sand I find the traces of the footprints of only Ranee and Darzac, who came to this room daring" the storm last night and have brought on their feet a llttlo earth from the Court of the Bold and also of the claylike soil of the outer court. There is no footprint which could be Old Bob's. Old Bob reached here be fore and perhaps went out while the tempest was raging, but In any case ho has not come in since." Like a flash an Idea pierced through my brain. I rushed through the court till I came to the oubliette. I dis covered that the Iron bars were still fast. If any ono had fled by that way or had fallen Into the shaft the bars would have been opened. I hurried back. "Rouletabllle! There is no wuy that Old Bob could have got out except in tho sack!" My friend was not listening, and I was surprised to see him deeply en grossed in a task of which I found It impossible to guess the meaning. lie was making drawings with a rule, a square, a measure and a compass, seat ed In the geologist's easy chair, with Darzac's drawing board before him. lie was qnletly making a plan. He had pricked the paper with one of the points of his compass while tho other point traced the circle which might represent tho Tower of the Bold as wo could see It in the design of M. Darzac. Then, dipping bis brush into a tiny dish half full of the red paint which M. Darzac had been using, bo carefully spread tho paint over the en tire space occupied by the circle. In doing this be was extremely particu lar, giving the greatest attention to seeing that the paint was of the same thickness at every point His face took on a look like that of a maniac. Then he turned toward me so quickly that bo upset the great easy chair In which ho had been seated. "Snlnclalr! Sainclalrl Look at tho red paint! Look at the red paint!" I leaned over the drawing, terrified by his savage tone. "Tho red paint, the red paint!" he kept groaning, bis eyes staring in his head as though ho wero witnessing some frightful spectacle. "But what-what is it?" I stam mered. " 'What Is it?' My God. man. can't you see? Don't you know that that Is blood?" No, I did not know It Indeed, I was qulto euro that it wasn't blood. It was merely red paint, B,ut JLJook care not to contradict' Roulctnblllo. t feigned to be Interested In this Idea of blood. "Whoso blood?" I Inquired. "Do you think that It can bo Lamm's?" "Oh. oh. oh! Lnrsan's blood 7 Who kuowa anything nbout Lamm's blood? Who has over seen tho color of It? To see that, It would bo necessary to open my own veins, Snluclalr. That's the only way. My father would not let his blood bo spilled like that." lie was speaking again with that strange, desperate pride of his father. "When my father wears i wig it will M. My father would not lot his blood be spilled like that." Ho spoke again: "My poor mother did not deserve this. I did not deserve It." A tear ran down his cheek and fell Into tho little dish of paint. "Ah!" he cried. "It isn't necessary to till It any fuller." And ho picked up tho tiny cup with luilnlto care ami curried It to the cabinet. "Let us go! Let us go!" he said drearily at last. "The time Is come. Salnclalr. No matter what happen, we can never turn back uow. The Lady iu Black must tell us everything everything nbout the man who Is In that sack." Uo knocked nt the door of the square tower. I asked htm whether he did not wish me to leave him aloue with his mother. But, to my great sur prise, ho begged me not to abandon him "for nuythlng lu the world-so that the circle should not be closed." And he added mournfully. "Perhaps it may never be!" The door of the tower again was opened, and wo saw Bender's faco ap pear. "What do you want? What aro you doing here again?" ho demanded. "Speak low. Madame Is In Old Bob's sitting room, and the old man has not come in yet." Rouletnblllo pushed the door farther open. We were In tho vestlbulo of the tower. "What is mndame doing in Old Bob's sitting room?" asked tbo reporter In a low voice. "She Is waiting for Darzac. She dare not re-enter the room until be comes, nor 1 either." "Well, go back Into your lodge. Ber nier." . Ho opened the door of Old Bob's salon, and we saw the form of the Lady in Black. She never moved at our entrance, but her Hps opened, and a voice that I should never hnvo recog nized ns hers murmnrcd: "Why arc you como? I saw you crossing the court. You have been there all night. You know nil. What do you want now?" She added In deep misery: "You swore to me that you would seek to know nothing." Rouletabllle took her hand. "Come, mother, dearest." he said tenderly. Sbo did not resist in the least. But when ho led her to the door of the fa tal chamber she recoiled. "Not there!" she moaned. Rouletabllle tried the door. It was locked. He called Bernler. who opened the door and then hurried away. Once the door was opened wo looked Into the room. What a spectacle we beheld! The chamber was in the most frightful disorder, and the crimson dawn which entered through the vast embrasures rendered the disorder still more sinister. What an Illumination for a chamber of horrors! Blood was upon the walls and upon the floor and upon tho furniture tho blood of the rising sun and the blood of him whom Toby had carried off in the sack, no one knew whither, In the potato bag! The tables, the chairs, the sofas, wen all overturned. The curtains of the bed to which the man in his death agony had tried desperately to cling wero half torn down, nnd one could distinguish upon one of them the murk of a bloody hand. Mme. Darzac murmured: "We aro delivered!" Rouletabllle bad fallen upon bl knees ai her side. . Then she told us the story. She looked nt tho closed door. She looked at the overturned furniture and the blood spattered walls and floor nnd narrated tho details of tbo frightful scene. She told us that as soon as Darzac had entered his room be bad drawn the bolt and had walked to the little table In the center of the room. Tho apartment was lighted only by n wax cundle. The silence of tho room was sudden ly broken by a loud crash like that of a piece of furniture. Tho crash carao from tbo little panel, and then nil was silent. Darzac made a movement to ward tho panel which was situated ut tho back of the room on the right hand side. Ho was nailed to the spot where he stood by a second crash louder than the first, and this time It seemed to her that she could see tho panel raovo. But at that very moment the panel swung open before them. A shadowy form Issued from the panel. Uttering a cry of rage, Darzac rushed upon the figure "And that shadow that shadow hud a faco that youtould see?" Interrupt ed Rouletabllle. "Mamma, why did you not see the face? You bavo killed tho shadow, but how do wo know that it was Larson If you did not see his faco 7 Perhaps you bavo not even killed Larsan's shadow?" "Oh, yes." she replied almost listless ly. "Ho Is dead," Rouletablllo took tho Lady in lilacK Into his arms, carried her tenderly to her room and said to her: "Mnraiuu, you must Jeavo mo now. I have work to do for you, for Darzac and for my self." "Don't, leavo mo until, Robert comes back!" she cried. Some ono knocked at tbo door of tho corridor, Rouleta blllo nuked who was thero, and the volco of Darzac answered. Tho man who entered looked liko a corpse. Never wns human faco so pal lid, so bloodies, so duvold of all hoiu bianco of life. lie fell Into tho chair from which Rouletabllle had Just raised tho Lady lu lUnck. He looked up nt her. "Your wish Is realized," ho said. "It Is where you wished It to bo." "Did you see his face?" questioned Rouletnblllo excitedly. "No," answered Darzac wearily, "r have not seen It. Did you think that I was going to open the sack?" I thought that Rouletnbllle would havo shown discomfiture at this an swer; but, on the contrary, ho turned to Darzac and said: "Ah, you did not seo his face. That'a very good, Indeed. Tho Important thing uow Is Hint wo should close tho circle. Walt a moment." And almost Joyously ho throw him self down on all fours nnd crawled around among tho furniture nnd under the bed. Suddenly he rose to his feet, holding hi ids hand a revolver which ho had found under the puucl. "You have found his revolver!" cried Dnrznc. "He did not havo time to use It." As he spoke Darzac took from his I pocket his own revolver, which had saved his life, and held It out to tho young man. "This Is u good weapon." ho said. Rouletabllle examined It closely. Thou he compared the pistol with that which had fallen from the hand of tho assassin. The latter bore tbo mark of a London gunsmith. It was new, every barrel was tilled, nnd Rouleta blllo declared that It had never been tired. "Lnrsnn only avails himself of flro nrms In the Inst extremity," said tho young man. "Ho hates noise of any kind. Ho Intended merely to frighten you with it or he would hnvo fired Im mediately." And Rouletabllle returned M. Dar zac's revolver and put Larson's In his pocket. Rouletabllle made a few steps through the room and said: "Where Is the body?" Darzac replied: "Ask my wife. I want tn forgot nil itout it I know nothing more about this horriblo thing. No ouo save Mme. Darzac knows where the body is. She may tell you If she likes." "1 have forgotten, too," said Ma thlldc. "I was obliged to do so." "Nevertheless," insisted Rouletabllle, shaking 'his head, "you must tell me. You said that he was In his agony. Are you sure that he Is dead now?" "I nm perfectly sure." replied Dar zac simply. "Oh. it Is finished! Is it not entirely ended?" pleaded Mnthllde. Sbo nroso and walked to tho window. Sec, there Is the sun! This horriblo night Is dead-dead forever! Everything Is over!" Poor Lady lu Black! The yearnings of her soul revealed themselves In her words, "It Is finished!" And tho fact, as she believed it, mndo her forget all tho horror of tho sccno which had passed In this room. Lnrsan no more! Lnrsan burled burled In tho potato sack! And wo all started up In affright when the Lady In Black began to lnugh-the frantic laugh of a mad wo man! Sho ceased as suddenly as aho had begun, and a horrible stillness fol lowed. We dared look neither at her nor at each other. Sho was tho llrst to speak. "It Is all over!" sho said. "Forglvo me. I won't laugh again." And then Rouletnblllo said, speaking In a very low tone: "It will bo over when wo know how ho got In." Rouletabllle opened tho door and called Bernler and bis wife, aud a gen eral consultation took placo. Rouletablllo, who wns sitting at Dar zac's desk taking notes, aroso and said: "So far it 13 very simple. We have only ono hope. It Ms In the few mo ments that Bernler was off guard about 0 o'clock. At least at that time no one was In front of the door. But thero was tome oqc behind It. It wnH you, M. Darzac. Can you reiterate, after having thoroughly searched your memory, that when you went Into your room you Instantly closed the door and drew the bolt?" "I can," replied Durzac solmenly. And he added: "And 1 opened that door only when you and Salnclalr knocked upon It. I swear It." And In raying this, ns later qvents proved, the man spoko tho .truth. Rouletabllle said: "It Is well, Darzac, you havo closed tho circle. Tho upartmont In tho square tower is now cloned as firmly as was the yellow room, which was like a strong box, or as tho 'Inexplica ble gallery.' " "One would guess Immediately that Larsan was mixed up in the affair," I exclulmed. "It is tho samo modo of procedure." "Yes," observed JUmo. Darzac. "Yes, M, Salnclalr, it Is tho samo modo of procedure." And sho unfastened hor husband's collar to show tho wounds hidden beneath It. "Seo!" she said. "They aro tho samo nnll prints. I know them well." "No; It I'i not tho samo thing," said Rouletabllle. "It is Just tho opposite. In tho yellow room thero was a body missing. In the room in tho round tower there h n body too many." (To ba ooatinuod.) Sunday School Rally. Rev. J. D, Springston, stato secre tary for tho American Baptist Publi cation society, will hold a Sunday school rally at tho Baptist church Wednesday oveninp, January 10, nt 7:30 o'clock. Every ono intorostod in Sunday school work nnd especi ally all officers and teachers in tho Sunday schools of tho city aro ear nestly requested to bo present, A Snap Twenty nuron, level, deep soil, eloso in, at $625 AN ACRE. Planted i3 follows: Sixtoon noros in Nowtown apples, 7 yours old, Imlnnco in Bnrtlett penrs, 3 years old. At Hood River you would ho asked $1500 nn aero for n simllnr tract. Look into this offer as closely yoji like this young orchard is a bargain nt tho' prion. W. T. YORK & CO. EMPLOYMENT AND BUSINESS CHANCES l-room housjo for rent. 7-room house, furnished. FOR SALE 4-room bunjjnlow. 0-rooin houso, lot 70x250. Lota on C nnd liivorsido nvcuuo. Lots on Gmpe, 50x100. 7-room buiiKalow. Hnvo n number of bnnniiiB. Hnvo men. FOR RENT Land from 1 aero to 400 in ono body; hnvo spud land. FOR SALK 10 ncroa Improved G-yoar-old vlnoyurd located In Cali fornia. 1 span homed, harness nnd wngon. WANTED Man nnd rtomnn on farm, WANTED Womnn to cook and do houBowork rnncL. HOMESTEAD rollnq iiil mont enn bo secured at '.his office. ANY ONE hnvlnK any kind of build- tncs to move, rail nt room 208, WANTED A chambermaid. Women for housework. E. F. A. BITTNER. Prop. R0MM 208, PHIPPS BLDG. PHONE MAIN 4141. For the Best In harness, saddles, whips, ehes, tents, blankets, wag on sheets, axle grease and Ball cure, as well as all kinds of custom work, see J. C. Smith 314 E. Main. Bargains For Sale or Exchange 40 acres heavy timber laid soron miloa from Mpdford; tho wood will moro than pay for tho land. 20-acro alfalfa ranch In valloy of Feather rivor: Ideal location at cross roads and Htatlon on electric car lino; bent of boII; houso aud outbuildings; all under Irrigation. Prlco, $4000, torms. Fon saijB 1C acres, quarter mllo from town; 7 acrea set to Nqwtown apples, 1 fccro chcrrlcfi, 3 to alfalfa; C-room bouii; electric light; barn; on main road; special prlco for a fow days, on afvorablo torms, 41 Vi aorpo two miloa from Tal- ont; 12 Improved; nbout 16 acreu food wood timber; best fruit sou lies on esntlo slope; a bargain if sold soon. See Townsen 104 MAIN ST. AT CU8ICK & MtfERS. Extra Good Buys Ono C-room cottngo, pantry, bath room and woodshed, lot 05x104; flno Investment at $1370; $800 will hnn- dlo it. Ono 0-room houso, two lota, two blocks from Main utreot, closo in, A snap for $2100. Call and look oror our list of lots boforo you buy. WE CAN PLEASE YOU. Wright & Alllii 128 East Main Stroot, THE ROGUE RIVER LAND COMPANY NO. 11 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE Offers mi especially good foothill orchard for n low prio mad ou good tonus. In thusu days of advancing prices, it will pay to look into thin. It pays to dual with tho "Alan Who Knowk " When tho Roguo River Land Company Rold tho TroiiBori & Guthrie orchard at IDaglo Point to tho prizo winning owmoi'b, four years ago, tho salesman, W. 'M. Holmes, assured tho purchasors thoso Spit'.onhorgtroes would produce tho world's beat apples, and subsequent ovonts provo tho soundness of his judgment. By tho way: Did it over occur to you that most of tho men who havo vrou out in tho Roguo River Valloy, bought thoir win ning orchards through the Roguo Rivor Land Com pany? W. M. Holmes, Manager, is always at your service for a good buy. 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. IRex Maiket Huth & Pech Props. Phone 3271 Best Groceries At Prices Strictly in Keeping with the Quality of Our Stock which is Unexcelled A Trial will Convince You Allen The Square REAL ESTATE Farm Land Timber Land Orchard Land Residences City Lots Orchards and Mining Claims Medford Room 10, Jackson Reagan Deal Grocers Realty Co County Bank Building