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THE DAILY PAP1TAL JOURN'ALS"- OREGON'. SATURDAY. MAY WW. PAfiK FOtR GREEN - ffi. GEORGE BARK. A x ife'.H. ris UJ1UHUN " VS-S $i ? .HOLLOWOF HER HAND," "THE II -'ml? PRINCE OF CRAUSTARK." ETC I J . .Mi.vi thackefuy put an end to the discussion iu a most effectual manner. "Oh, for the Lord's sake, cut It out! Wait till he's dead, can't you!" she whispered fiercely, "You've got all the tjiue in the world to talk, and he iiasa't more than ten minutes left to breathe unless that ruhe doctor gets iere pretty soon. I think he's going "I Think He's Going Now," She Whis pered. now. Keep still, all of yon. Is he breathing. Mr. Barnes? That awful ouh Just now seemed to " Her eves were fixed on the still face. 'Why why, how tightly lie holds my bund! I can't get It away he must b" alive, Mr. Barnes. Where Is that HI? doctor?" B;irnes unclasped the rigid fingers of the man called Andrew Paul, and, Blinking his head sally, drew her 1 away from the Improvised bier. He and the shivering Mr. Dllllngford con- ducted her to the dining room, where a single kerosene lamp gave out a f-'Hte, rather ghastly light. "Would you like a little brandy?" Inquired Barnes, as she sat down Hmp . ly i-i the chulr lie pulled out for her. "I have a flask upstairs In my " "I never touch It," she said. Tra all rli,ht. My legs wnbble a little butr- Sit down Mr. Barnes. I've got some thing to say to you and I'd better say U now, because it may come in pretty handy for you luter on. Don't let those women come In here, Dilly. "This afternoon I walked up In the W'xids back of the tavern to go over soot' linen in a new piece we are to do later on Ood knows when! I could ee the house from where I was sit ting. Boon's windows were plainly vlsllile. I saw Roon standing at a window looking toward the cross-roads "with a pulr of field-glasses. Hvery once In awhile he would turn to Paul, who stood beside him with a notebook, and say something to him. Paul wrote It down. Then he would look again, turning the glasses tills way and that. Suddenly my eyes almost popped out of my bead. Paul had gone away from the window. He came bock and lio had a couple of revolvers In his bands. They stood there for a few minutes carefully examining the weapons and reloading thera with fresh carl ridges. Just as I was about to start down to the house It was a little after six o'clock, and getting awfully dark and overcast Roon took up the glasses again. He seemed to l excited ami called his companion, Paul grabbed the glasses and looked down the road. They both became very much excited, pointing and ges ticulating, and taking turn about with itlm glasses." "About six o'clock, yon say?" gold Barnes, greatly Interested. "It was a quarter after six when I got hack to the house. I spoke to Mr. Bicon about what I'd seen and he said h't believed they were German spies, tip to some kind of mischief along the Oitmdian border. Then about half an hour later you came to the tavern. H.-I w Roon sneak out to the head of the utiilrs and listen to your conversation with Jones when you registered. That g;ive me nn Idea. It was you they w-re watching the road for, Barnes held up his band for silence. ''Listen," he said In a low voice. "I w ill tell you who they were looking for." As briefly ns possible he re counted his experience with the ulrange young woman at the cross roads. "From the beginning I have connected this tragedy with the place railed Oreen Fancy. I'll Hlake my last penny that they have been hanging aroiiM'lbett -Wjtltjng for.the -BnlyaLcf EANCY rr T TTTTrW T that 'young woujaoT " They kuew she m-ft mmlni nai thav limilttUSS fcnPW what she was bringing with her. What! do tou know about Green Fancyr He was vastly excited. His active! Imagination was creating all sorts of i possibilities and complications, depre-l datlons and Intrigues. Rrtoon was the one who answered, "People live up there ami since we've) Wn h..ro two nr tlire men v s tors have come down from the place to sample our stock of wet goods. I talked with a couple of 'era day before yester day. They were out for a horseback ride and stopped here for a rang of ale." "Were they I foreigners?" inquired ; Barnes. "If you want to call an Irishman a foreigner. I'll have to say one of them wits. He had a beautiful brogue. The other was an American, I'm sure. Yes terday they rode past here with a cou- ple of swell-looking women. I saw them turn up the road to Greeu Fancy." The arrival of four or five men, who stamped Into the already crowded hall way from the porch outside, claimed the attention of the quartette. Among them was the doctor who, they were soon to discover, was also the coroner of the county. A very officious deputy sheriff was also in the group. Mr. Jones culled out from the door way: "Mr. Barnes, you're wanted In there." "All right," he responded. The doctor had been working over the prostrate form on the tables. As Barnes entered the room, he looked, up and declared that, the man was dead. "This Is Mr. Barnes." said Putnam Jones. Indicating the tall traveler with a short Jerk of his thumb. "I am from the sheriffs office." unld the man who stood beside the doctor. The rest of the crowd evidently had been ordered to Rtnnd back from the tables. "Did you ever see this man be- ! fore?" "Xot until he was carried In here nn hour ago." "What's your business up here, Mr. Barnes?" "I have no business up here. I Just happened to stroll In this evening." "Well," said the sheriff darkly, "I guess I'll have to nsk you to stick around here till we cleur this business up. We don't know you an' Well, we can't take any chances. You un d rstand, I reckon." "I certainly fall to understand, Mr. Sheriff. I know nothing whatever of this nfffelr and I intend to continue on my way tomorrow morning." "Well, I guess not. Yon got to stay here till we are satisfied that you don't know anything about this busl- That's all." "Am I to consider myself under ar rest, sir?" "I wouldn't go so far as to say that. You Just stick around here, that's all J got to say. If you're all right, we'lf soon find it out. What's more, If you are all right you'll be wlllln' to etav. Do you get me?" "I certainly do. And I can now as sure you, Mr. Sheriff, that I'd like nothing better than to stick around here, as you put It. I'd like to help clear this matter up. In the mean time, you mny readily find out who I ara and why I am here by telegraph ing to the mayor of New York city. This document, which experience has lt.au ght me to carry for Just such an emergency as this, may have some weight with you." He opened his bill folder and drew forth a neatly creased Pheet of paper. "Rend It, please, and note the date, the signature, the offi cial seal of the New York police de partment, and also the rather Interest ing sliver print pasted In the lower left hand corner. I think von wilt ngree that It Is a good likeness of me. Each yeur I tuke the precaution of having myself certified by the police department at home before venturing Into unknown and perhaps unfriendly communities." "Yes," said the sheriff dubiously; "but how do I know It ain't a forgery?" "You don't know, of course. But In case It shouldn't be a forgery and I am subjected to the Indignity of ar rest or even detention, you would have n nasty time defending yourself In a civil suit for damages. I shall remain here, as you suggest, but only for the purpose of aiding you In getting to the bottom of this affair." Standing on Jim Conley's front porch a little after sunrise, Barnes made the following declaration: "Everything goes to show that those men were up here for one of two rea sons. They were either trying to pre vent or to enact a crime. The latter Is my belief. They were afraid of me. Why? Because they believed I was trailing them and likely to spoil their gitme. Gentlemen, those fellows were here for the purpose of robbing the place you call Oreen Fancy." "Whj-t'a .ItoU" j"-"" iL xkL.inejJas .II.. JrDAIICTABl'TtJl' II voice fivm the outskirts of the croud. A man pushed his way through and confronted Barnes. He was all. good -looking follow of thirty Ave. ami It was apiwtront that he had dressed In haste. "My name Is O'Dowd. and I am most of Mr. Curtis at Own Fancy. Why do yoa think they meant to rob I his place?" "Well " began Barnes dryly. "It would aeera that his place Is the on y one In the neighborhood that would, one in the neigimornooo. ,., ., bear robbing. My name Is Karnes. Of j course, Mr. tfPo4 it to mere peou- latlon on my part- I "Put wha shot the manf demanded the Irishman. "He certainly j winged by anyone from our place. Why. Lord love you. sir. there Isn't a soul at Green Fanry who could shoot j a thief If he saw one. This Is Mr. De ; Soto, also a guest at Green Kaucy. He will. I think, bear me out in upsetting your theory." A second man approached, shaking his head vigorously. He was a thin. a," nml wl,h Ri""u,r,y 'holstWr f"- Qu' n "nprepoessmg. un- sanguinary person, thought Barnes. "Mr. Curtis' chauffeur. I think it killi"K orurn-d Just above this house," said he, visibly ex- cited. "Green Fancy is at least a mile from here. Isn't it? You don't shoot I ouruiars a mue nmi uiv ir uk. are planning to rob, do you?" ! "I'll admit it's a bit out of reason," j said Barnes. "The second mau could i inly have been shot by some one who was lying (n wait for him." j "r.eilail. saiil lUimva. "It Heats tlie Jvil. There's something big in this rr Ie 1 "Bedad," Said O'Dowd, "It Beats the Devil." thing, Mr. Barnes something a long shot bigger than any of us suspects." "You'll find that It resolves Itself Into a problem for Washington to solve," said De Soto darkly. "Nothing local about It, take my word for It. These men were up to some Interna tlonal devilment. There'll be a stir In Washington over this, sure as any thing." "What time was It that you heard the shots up at Green Fancy?" ven tured Barnes. "Lord love yon," cried O'Dowd, "we didn't hear a sound. Mr. Curtis, who has Insomnia the worst way, poor devil, heard them and sent some one out to see what all the racket was about. The man, It seems, made such a devl of a racket when he came home with the news that the whole house was up In pajamas and peig noirs." "I think I have a Blight acquaintance with the chauffeur," said Barnes. "He gave me the most thrilling motor ride I've ever experienced. Olid, I'll never forget It." The two men looked at him, plainly perplexed. "When was all this?" Inquired De Soto. "Early last evening. He picked up your latest guest at the corners, and she Insisted In his driving me to the tavern before the storm broke. I've been terribly anxious about her. She must have been caught out In all that frightful" "What's this you are saying, Mr. Barnes?" cut In De Soto, frowning. "No guest arrived at Green Fancy last evening, nor was one expected." Barnes etared. "Do you mean to say that she didn't get there, after all?" "She? A woman, was It?" demand ed O'Dowd. "Bedad, If she said she was condng to Green Fancy she was spooling you. Are you sure It was old Peter who gave you that Jolly ride?" "No, I am not sure," said Barnes uneasily. "She was afoot, having walked from the station below. I met her at the corners and she asked me If I knew how far It was to Green Fancy, or something like that. Said she was going there. Then along came the automobile, rattling down this very road an ancient Panhard driven by a:i old codger, bhe seemed to think It was all right to hop in and trust herself to him, although she'd never seen him before." . "The antique Panhard fits In all right," said O'Dowd, "but I'm hanged If the woman fits at all. No such per son arrived at Green Fancy Inst night." "Did you get a square look at the driver's face?" demanded De Soto. "It was almost too durk to see, but he was old, hatchet-faced, and spoke with an accent." "Then It couldn't have been Peter," said De Soto positively. "He's old, right enough, but he Is as big as the Hj'ls of .a ftftoafi, ffilh lace, Uke. j lull P ' ir i S t"'-!! fe-JU ill IblMMf iff n,.KnrmI he Is Yankee t hi Bv gad, Karnes, the plot thukc a . A woman has been d.W t tfc my-cery Now. who the devil Is se hag become of her?" CHAPTER VI. Fwn Hmt lnd 8trl, , th, w.idwwd Fall- Bu9ncroft WBs furious when ha 0B , hlC slept w ,,,,,.,, M,g , through all of ' . He boomed all oer the pla iDiin' thin. He boomed all over " P',T- .......i ..ifftinn fuliin rttkt aad M 0Q he , nj tu., laaoceat whout distinction, ,.j d(ft.t h(W yoB uaSl ta g, tnrough t - Barnes broke (a. jUyou Bmst htyp tn unusutiiy dear rnlis..,, M, Rushoraft." "I haven't any conscience at all. air," roared the star. "I had an uausually full stomach, that's what was the aiat ier with me. I take oath aew, atr. never to eat again as long as I live. A man who cannot govern his beastly appetite ought to defy It. If aotaiug else." "I gather from that remark that yoa omitted breakfast this morniag." "Breakfast, sir? Iu God's name, I Implore you not to refer to anything ,,isgU8(Ulc as st0wed prunes and bacou at a time like this. My niiud is' "How about luncheon? Will yon; Join me at twelve-thirty?" "That's quite another matter," saldl Mr. Rushcroft readily. "Luncheon Is an esthetic tribute to the physical In telligence of man. If you know what I mean. I slut II be delighted to join you. "Twelve-thirty, did you say?" "It would give me great pleasure If your daughter would also grace the festal board. I think It Is too bad that i t.he has to go about In the gown she wears, Mr. Rushcroft," said Barnes. "She's much too splendid for that. I have a proposition I'd like to make to jou later on. I cannot make If. how ever, without consulting Miss Thack eray's feelings." "My dear fellow!" beamed Rush- croft, RelJiing the other's hand. "One: frequently reads In hooks about Jtj coming like this, at first sight, but.j damme, I never dreamed that It ever. j really happened. Count on me! She, i ought to leave the stage, the dear child. No more fitted to It than an Easter lily. Her place Is In the home, the" "Good Lord, I am not thinking of" And Bnrnes, aghast, stopped before blurting out the words that leaped to his lips, "I mean to say this Is a prop osition that may also affect your ex cellent companions, Bacon nnd Dllllng ford, as well as yourself." At twelve-thirty sharp Barnes come down from his room freshly shnved and brushed, to find not only Mr. Rush croft and Mlsa Thackeray awaiting hlra in the office, but the Messrs. Dll llngford and Bucon as well. "I took the liberty, old fellow," said Rushcroft, addressing Barnes, "of ask ing my excellent co-workers to Join us In our repast." "Delighted to have yon with us, gen- .1 nn (t 1 .1 Tn..nA .lfnKl. imUt'U, BlllU 1U1 1113 U11UUI-. i The sole topic of conversation for the first half hour was the mysterious slaying of their fellow lodgers. Mr. Rushcroft complained bitterly of the outrageous, high-handed action of the coroner and sheriff In Imposing upon him and nls company the satm? re strictions that had been applied to Barnes. They were not to leave the county until the authorities gave the word. One would have thought, to hear the star's Indignant lamentations, that he and his party were In a posi tion to depart when they pleased. It would have been difficult to Imagine that he was not actually rolling in money Instead of being absolutely penniless. Bnrnes had been Immersed In his own thoughts for some time. A slight frown, as of reflection, darkened his eyes. Suddenly perhaps Impolitely he Interrupted Mr. Rushcroft'a flow of eloquence. "Have you any objection, Mr. Rush croft, to a more or less personal ques tion concerning your own private er misfortunes?" he asked, leaning for ward. For a moment one could have heard a pin drop. Mr. Rushcroft evidently held his breath. There could be no mistake about that. "It's rather delicate, but would you mind telling me Just how much jou were stuck up for by the er was It a writ of attachment?" "It was," said the star. "A writ of Inquisition, yon might as well sub stitute. The act of a polluted. Impe cunious, parsimonious what shall I suy? W ell, I will be as simple as pos siblehotel keeper. Ninety-seven dol lars and forty cents. For that pitiful amount he subjected me to" "Well, that Isn't so bad," said Barnes, vastly relieved. He was cnv. I ertly watching Miss Thackeray's half- mi nea iace as he ventured upon the proposition he had decided to put be fore them. "I am nrcDared nnd wit. Ung to advance this amount, Mr. Rush rrnf .-J i- ... ' ..m - iBKo your personal note as security." Ruslnroft loaned bnck In his chair and stuck his thumbs in the armholea Of his Vest. Iln clliinlnvo,! n .,,1., nintinn t .... uiiuuc. li,. . ., end he airL'ctc(1 Profound calculations His daughter shot a gim.-5? 'k at U,e v',m i)" bamarltan. Tliere wag a hegbtcnwJ coior in her cheeks. "Moreover, I shall be happy to In crease the amount of the loan suffi ciently to cover' your return at once to New York, If you so deslre-by train. Barues smiled as he added the last two words. "Extremely kind of you, my dexr Barnes," said the actor, running his QngjTsjJiuh j,g hnr.. "x;r f.iith tn me ft most gr.innrlng. I---T" realTj don't know what to say to you. sir."! "May I inquire Just how jou ex pect to profit "by this transaction, Mr. Barnes?" Miss Thackeray asked steadily. ne started, catching her meaning. "My dear Miss Thackeray." he ex claimed, "this transaction Is solely be tween your father and me. I shall have no other claim to press." "I wish H-eould believe that." aha Mid. "You may believe It," he assured ker. "It Isn't the usual course," she said quietly, and her face brlghtoneil. "Yon are aot like most men, Mr. Bnrnes." "My dear child." said Rushcroft, 'yu must leave this matter tn our irifna ami me. i rancy i Know sa h snest man when I see hlui. My dear fellow, fortune Is but temporarily frewulng upon aie. In a few weeks I shall be on my feet asatn. xlpplng along on the crest of the wave. I dare ay I can return the money to you In a month or Bis weeks. If" "Oh. father!" cried Miss Thackeray. "We'll make It six months, and I'll pay any rate of Interest you desire. Six ix-r cent, eight per cent, ten per" "Six per cent. sir. and we will make It a year from date." "Agreed. Get up and dance for us Dllty! We shall be in New York to morrow !" "You forget the dictatorial sheriff, Mr. Rushcroft," said Bnrnes. "The varlet!" burked Mr. Rushcroft. It was arranged that Dllllngford nnd Bacon vvre to go to lIoiiiYille In a hired tnoior that afternoon, secure the Judgment, pay the costs, and attend to the removal of the personal belong- ! Ings of the stranded quartette from ; the hotel to Hart's Tiiveru. The younger actors stoutly refused to ac cept Bailies' offer to pny their hoard while at the Tavern. That, they de clared, would be charity, and they pre ferred his friendship and bis respect to anything of that sort. Miss Thack eray, however, was to be Immediately relieved of her position as chnmbcr maid She was to become a pitying guest. Rushcroft took the whole nffalr with the most noteworthy complacency. He seemed to rcgurd It as his due, or Rushcroft Took the Whole Affair With the Most Noteworthy Complacency. more properly speaking ns If he were doing Barnes a grent fuvor In allowing him to leud money to a person of his Importance. "A thought has Just come to me, my dear fellow," he remarked as they arose from table. "With the proper kind of backing I could put over one of the most stupendous things the the ater bus known In fifty years. I don't mind saying to you although it's rather sub rosa that I have written a play a four-act drumn thut will pnek the -"biggest house on Broadway to the roof for as many inonlbs as we'd care to stay. Perhaps you will allow ,ine to talk It over with you a little luter on. You will be Interested, I'm eure. Kgad, sir, I'll rend the play to you. I'll What ho,lnndlord. Have your best automobile sent around to the door as quickly as possible. A couple of my meu are goiug to Ilornvllle to fetch hither my" "Just a minute," Interrupted Tut nam Jones, wholly unimpressed. "A manust called you up on the phone, Mr. Barnes. I told him you was en tertaining royalty at lunch and couldn't be disturbed. So he asked me to have you call him up as soon as you revived. His words, not mine. Call up Mr. O'Dowd at Green Fancy. Here's the number." The mellow voice of the Irishman soon responded to Barnes' call. I called you nn to relieve I --"- ' mind regarding the young woman who came last night," he said. . "You ob serve that I say 'came.' She's ottlte j u-l right, safe and sound, and no cause ' tnr nu..l T .. . - " ..wiDioi-n-j. i uioiigiii you meant that she was coming here as a guest, and so I made the very natural mis- ,nk of y"tf she hadn't come at all. t a) The young woman In onestlon is airs, van Dyke's mnld. But, bless me soul, how was I to know she was even In existence, much less expected by train or motor or Shanks' mare? Well, she's here, so there's the end of our mystery." Barnes was slow- In replying. He was doubting his own ears. It was not conceivable that nn ordlnary--or even aKi!Slrnnnllflai:v-laikmal(L.coii!d wi f if -SOYS AND girls BICYCLE RACB Given by Sal,ra Eic)ds SATURDAY, MAY lfri iW u Starting ,t Churcli rf StateStrw, $150.00 la merchandise watches, tires, saddles, lamps, cy Ask your dealer for particulars, try blank below: BICYCLE RACE ENTRY BLANK Name Address 1st Race-BOYS" free-for-all-2 2nd Race-CIRL'S Free for all 1-4 mile :ird Race-BOYS' under 12 years 1-2 mile 4th race BOYS' under 16 years 1 mile Why Not Give your boy a Bicycle? Fill his idle hours with useful and health-promoting Bicycling. Give him a new aspect of life with a Harlcy-Davidson Bicycle A bicycle that he will be proud of See the 1919 j models on display . HARVEY W. SCOTT j 147 S. Commercial St. National Bicycle Week, May 3 to 10 BICYCLE RACES May 10, 1919 $1.50 in Merchandise given inpriz r.T ..,.Uo,ttH ilin niilnlti voice ami ItOIO jmon, dpvu 1 manner of his chance acquaintance or the dny before, or the temerity to order that sour-faced chauffeur about as If The chauffeur I "But I thought you said that Mr. Curtis' chauffeur was ? moon faced and" "lie Is, bedad," broke in Mr. O'Dowd, chuckling. "That's what de ceived mo entirely, nnd no wonder, it wasn't Peter at all, but the rapscallion washer who went after her. lie was Instructed to tell Feter to meet the four o'clock train, and the blockhead forgot to give the order. Bedad, what does he do but sneak out after her himself, scared out of his boots for fenr of what he was to get from Peter. I had the whole story from Mrs. an tyke." , "Well, I'm tremendously relieved, said Barnea slowly. "And so am V ald O'Dowd with conviction. "I have seen the heroine of our busted romance. Sbc s a looking girl. I'm not surprised that she kept her veil down. If 7 to leave It to me, though, Id say that lf a sin to carry disc retlon so far as all that. Ton see what I moan, don't your His rich laugh came over the wire. . . "Perfectly. Thaulc you for letting me know. My mind Is at rest. GooO; by." As he hung up the receiver he said to himself. 'Ton are a mo t af fable, convincing chap, Mr. ODowa, but I don't believe a word yon WJ . . i,!v' maid, ana MI1BI W'OIIIHU in . . - you've known all the. time that she was. there. i 1P4 yclometi and fill eut tht a. 1 Agt. Race No.... a: four o'clock It ' ... o. momiu" tramp p VmI m which the W "' .i, .in His mi"11 w,W-i .ndPaulwcr. rrfcji Hfrr. . .... i were thieve "- . r.n, were u - . .j t ciosnre. of . Mis 1"" TPrT convincing prorf mm- rot shot y nj w- - . ft. " . imid re""" rf It was not "Za- It was not 7" the bJV try,,,, r - rttiiw;-.,. line-. -n . he sltua'l' companion Shiest lntpr"' rtr o the ,DS a .t fellow .F.af' ' vide worker t u , .borate W .... to& r