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Pegged to be allowed to use uer powers of logical dt-duetion. Zudora shoui . play the detective to her tieart's < <u tent, and if she met wiija some t^rri V ble accideut who would be rite wiser / Twenty millions m ?o:dl His hands x?j?ene 1 and shut spasiwhjically. indistincti;. tie heard a rustle of petticoats. lie opened liis eyes to find his niece at his feet. "Uncle, don't }.ou know what day this is?" she asked. "Why, it is Wednesday." "Have you fuigotten that this is my eighteenth birth lay?" "Eighteenth Urtiiday! CiooJ hem sns. so it is. so i. is!" f lie laid his hand upon her dark head ' but he did not look Jowl intu the f voutnni; :inu iie.iuurui iace raiseu to ' ward his own. ?Iis lingers unconscious 1y crept into the girl's hair, a trifle too . '?jttroug:y tor an affectionate gesture. "What is it':" she asked, drawing hei head away quickly "A-touch of rheumatism in my ana.' he said intuitively. "You know it give.me ! twinge once in so often. So you are eighteen years old?" "And you said that on this day 1 was, to come into a fortune." "That is true, iiow much do you think it is?" "Oh, perhaps $50,000." j *Ts it?lostT she asked. "No, my child. It is the terrible re id olw\nf f-A pool SpUUMUlUlJ' n uilu 10 awut i,y lloi upon your young shoulders that makes me sad. Tomorrow morning your law vers will inform you that you are one Iof the richest heiresses in America." ; / "Uncle, don't make fun of me!" "I am telling you the truth. To date Zudora has turned out something like $20,000,u0u. it was the express will or your father to have this kept quiet, so that you would not be bothered with ; fortune hunters. Girl, you will marry ^a duke or a prince. You will become a famous beauty. But my advice is . this: That until my guardianship peases?you will be twenty-one then? you will say nothing to any one about this fortune. It would make life uu- I bearable lor us both." "I'll gladly agree to that," she said i eagerly. "Whenever you require a large sum j of money you will write the attorneys, | and they will send it. Think of the no- ! toriety, the busy reporters, the broken j .down nobles, iiitlijrent society folk!" She laughed at the picture. He was J right, if she desired peace and com fort she must ket-p this fortune away j from the public eye. "Zudora, there is one pleasant fancy j you must henceforth put entirely out i of your mind." "And what is that?" "This fancy for John Storm. For all | that you have inherited this vast sum j of money, yoi? ai? still under my guardianship tor three years." What Zudora woulc have replied to j ^ this half veiled demand will never be I known. The bell rang, and shortly ! after that John Storm himself was j ushered into the room. Hassam All i nodded coldly, but the girl sprang to i | greet her lover. F "How's the case going?" she asked. ! L "Pretty well. I think I shall win j i. 5>: 'i tout against Dieui-eiiu. "He hates you.' "No doubt of it He'd like nothing j better than to stick a knife in my j Hassam Ali's eyes narrowed. An! idea bad come to him. "Mr. Keene." said Storm suddenly, J "I know I have my way to make, but I can assure you that 1 can give Zudora all the material comforts she has known. 1 want Zudora for my wife.'' j "It Is impossible," replied Hassam I * Ali. k "Impossible!" echoed the two young J nt people. B "Absolutely," with growing coldness. ,4Tr\ rha firct n!nr?? I nm Zndorn'a rguardian until she is twenty-one. i Therefore I do not propose that shej shall throw herself away on an ordi-1 nary lawyer." "Sir," said Storm, "I do not quite 'like the tone you use." "Indeed! Young man, I am not only kher guardian, but I am also her fles/i j and blood uncle, and i do not propose j that she shall bungle her future by a j marriage lo you." JNot a word aoout tne muuuas. au^dora thought bard for a moment and ! ^ concluded it might be wise to say I A nothing to her lover until she had this ' PL fortune under her band. ? "What if 1 promise never to marry any one else?" she said. Hassam Ali shrugged. "Come, come: j be sensible. Until you both get over j this foolish idea I must request that I Mr. Storm cease calling here." "Very well, sir," said Storm angrily. ! L"But 1 warn you that I shall see Zu- j dora outside as often as she is kind ! enough to permit me. Good evening.'' j Rt-oi-rn sprit Zudora a reassuring smile ' K as he left the room. . j "What in the world have you against John?" cried Zudora bewilderedly. "I do not propose to see you support1 a fortune hunter," rather lamely. "That's nonsense," she declared with spirit. "John tells the truth when he says he is able to take care of me." "Still I forbid it, and legally it is my right" & "But I love him. I would not trade ft^him for the greatest prince in Christenon/i if t mnnftf marrv him I'll FUIX&, UUU X* JL v larry no one." "Well, well," said Elassain Ali. apparently relenting: "if you take such a stand I'll compromise." She gazed at him eagerly. "Solve my next twenty cases and you can marry him; fail in any single case and you must renounce him." Zudora agreed instantly, even joyously. For a long time she bad been seized with the desire to play the detective, and her uncle had often ad mitted that her powers of lojrir-n) de> du^tion were remarkable in a woman who. r>hllosophers claimed, was \rith out tile f;u*tilt\ ?>f sustained r*-ns??tilni? There w.is little love lost hetweei Storm and Bienreith. They find i i.-isit ed a d<>/.?'n times durini: the past year and once or t^ioe they had a linos come to blows. On the last day the> came together Li the courtroom jnsi before the noon recess. Bienreitl; threw discretion to the witds and !:mr> e(l a low epitnei ar nis rivjii.wijo >?in i ly retaliated by striking the dennai j across the face with the tie ii"!<" ! in I'is hand. A tremer'Ious ? ' ???ti I'n^msi m:j" j troll! lit':- seat in the gali"r\ '/.w<\ ! --? -s ?* ? ;H. ..i-it-M. flu* I N It'Ml'U I 1IV -M IIH' villi ......... .... | man Bienreith ?':>s ;?!) aTli!t*ri<* huiiy He tin(1 !'Ot'Ti in America but m fe^v years, and he still lield to tlie German view regarding a blow in the face l lie hastily scribbled a note, which tie j I ^ ^ ^ | Zudora Ran Over to the Dead Man. i shoved toward Storm. The hitter read it, shrugged :wid nodded affirmatively. \ All might have gone well but for tlu| fart that an enterprising reporter found the discarded note and made a great scoop his paper. Bienreitb bad challenged Komi to a duel, and the latter h.-^d hotly agreed, despite the fact tuat he knew nothing of swords and was a very indifferent pis tol shot. And Hassam All found a way to dis-; pose of John Storm. And Zudora thought she had found a wnv to save him. She found him in i the cellar, bravely trying to hit a bullseye target. It would have been laugh- ' able under any other circumstance. He I was not to oe swerved, however. And 1 when she threatened him with the po- i lice he laughed. He knew the police of old. They would refuse to take the affair seriously. Storm laid down his ! revolver and took a drink of water. ! UK Ar> HA rvir?L-o.H 11 n the* rornlrpr finri \ 1 UCU uc J'iV. *vv,v^ uj/ VMV V V. . V. began pegging away. Unobserved, she' drugged tbe drinking -.rater. There! would be no due! tbat night. The next morning Bienreith was found dead in bis library, strangled, j and John Storm, in a dazpd condition. ! disheveled, was arrested on the street, charged with murder Hassam Ali, in his capacity of crirn inal investigator, accompanied by Zu i dora. entered with the police the scene j of the crime. "Well, mv child," said he. "here Is i your first case. Let us see if you can j handle it*' Zudora, having a double \ incentive, ran over to the dead man j On the floor she found a scarfpin. some small change, and she noticed j that his collar hung by the rear button j She hurriedly wrapped these three ar i tides in her handkerchief. The pecui iar green spots on this collar had aroused her curiosity. She was very unhappy. The drug 1 m'ron hor InrAr hnri not nut ! uau ? ^-4-4 L ( him to sleep. It had merely sent him wandering about the stree^. through- ! out the right in a blank state of mind j He would not be able to account for his time, and she might plead in vain that she had given him a sleeping po tion to keep him in his house until all chance to tight Bienreith was gone. Several days passed. Storm moped in his cell. Truth to tell, he wasn't sure that he hadn't killed his enemy From the moment Zudora left him until he found himself in jail he could remember nothing. When she told him what she had done he smiled and forgave her. "But you got me into a pretty pickle. ; little girl, and you'll have to get me out of it." "I will." The marks on the collar were pencil j marks, and they bothered her. Often she flung' the collar vehemently from ! her, but she always went back to it j 'inv shp found something on the VU^ V4HJ ^ floor in the library. At that moment she attached no significance to the find. i Zigzag pencil lines on the collarhow had they come there? Before the | crime? That was not quite possible. ! The German had been scrupulously : neat in his attire. She invariably ' sought what was known as the mysi tic room when confronted by any se! rious problem. No sound ever reached : there. A green parrot swung on a perch. He was very old and was doubtless the repository or many a strange secret Once he muttered, "Let's get liim!" Zudora thought this rather odd and began quizzing the old bird. But he refused to speak further. Near the dais stood a mechanical af| fair constructed something after the : manner of a pin wheel. It consisted ' of two tubes of glass, which revolved ! in opposite directions, filled with a brilliant, diffusing violet light. Thin | little invention was Ilassam Ali's own. J Today Zudora tried it on the green parrot, but the whirling lights simpiy tumbled the bird off his perch. She iticked him up and revived him aud soon forgot all about him in the renevred interest in the spotted collar. Idly she imitated the marks with the stub of pencil. * * * And then, as if the whole world had su/Uenly light ed up. Zudora at last understood bow Bienreith bad come to tiis death. When the trial began it looked very !>ad tor John Storm. The altercation with the decedent in court was reviewed. the dueling challenge, their previous enmity, the twelve unaccountable hours. In the balcony JJassam Ali jithI th<? man Burns wutcAd the pro ceedings with something more than Qorrnal interest. Wheu the jury finally received the judge's instructions every one conceded that John Storm was a lost man; nothing could save dim from the chair. Suddenly up the aisle toward the judge's desk came a veiled woman. "Stop!" she cried. "It was 1?1!" Then she fainted. The judge, the attorneys, the reporters, the spectators, all rose in their amazement A woman! After the tableau came confusion and chaos. The judge signed to che jury to return to their chairs. Qt-nr-m rlncnitd tho rl?nntv sheriffs. pushed bis way to the woman's side and swiftly raised the veil. "Zudora?" fie turned resolutely to the judge. "Your honor. there is some mistake. This young wonnui has had nothing to do wit. the deatn of Bien reith. It is utterly impossible." "That remains t<> be seen. Mr. Storm Return to the docket if yon please!" * "But she is innocent!" "Deputies!" called the judge sternly. He was sorry for Storm, but duty was duty none the less The court was eventually cleared. Storm was taken back to his cell. lias sum ah anu r?ums wem uwu.v ussemer. Immediately Zudora sought the office of the district attorney, whom she found haranguing with the counsel' for the defense. "If i can convince you two gentlemen, will that be sufficient?" she asked. ' It will." affirmed the district attorney. "But why can't you give us the man's name now?" he asked. "To tell his name now would spoil everything,' declared Zudora. "1 have no evidence at mis mumem iua.i ?uuiu hold in law, but I'll guarantee to place it in your hands before midnight, You two will come secretly to my house, and I will secrete you behind some curtains, and there you will bear the evidence f"om the man's own lips." "Very well," said the district attorney. "But I warn you that any kind of oriental mummery will not pass as evidence.'" "Do you see this pencil?" she asked, exhibiting a stub. "Yes." "It is the ona It Is green, indelible, not a common, everyday pencil. The criminal held this stub in his hand while strangling Bienreith. Why none of us shall know unless he can be made to tell." At 9 o'clock a man entered the mys-, tie room. He looked puzzle.l "You wished to see me?" he said to Zudora. "Yes. Please sit down. Mr. Burns." Above, unbeknown to either, the deep lined face of Hassam AM appear ed. In his hand he held a revolver with a Maxim silencer. As has been said, the mystic room possessed a doz en secret exits. From *his uprer one it was Hassnm Ali's habit to take stock of his victims before meeting them personally. He waited. Zudora began to ask aimless ques tions. Burns eyed her restlessly. Sud denly she sprang the trap. Sn*. held up the pencil. "This is yours. 1 saw you writing with it It fell to the floor, where 1 found it It is the same pencil that marked the collar of Bienreith in nis death struggles." Burns jumped to his feet Zudora did likewise, throwing on the power "Yes, I killed him, but another"? I which set the god Hypnos in motion. Burns tried to iook away, but could not. Suddenly he screamed and began i to grovel. ? "Yes, I killed him! But another"? He stopped, choked, made a spring for the violet light and received the full charge of electricity. There was a terriffic flash, and Burns stumbled and fell at Zuuora's feet. The attorneys rushed in from behind the cur i i?ins But Burns was dea<?? i Ilassam Ali withdrew his head like a cobra that had concluded not to ! strike. He had lost a tool who. perhaps. had known too much. But the significant fact remained that John Storm was still in his way And Zudora had won her 'irst case. LTo he continued, j t ????? I ^ i I REMEDYFORMEN.1 ft AT YOUR DRUGGIST. g The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head ! Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA; TIVK BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary ; Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. Remember the full name and i look for the signature of H. W. GROVE. 25c. AUDITOR'S MTH'E. i I or an authorized agent will be at i j the following places for the purpose | c-f taking returns ot: personal prop- j j crty for the fiscal year, 1915. Xewberry January 1, to January 7. | TrMtmifn 1*.Vi ii r>t! rJo v Tannarv 7 i Glenn La wry Manufacturing Co.,' | Friday, January S. Kinards, Saturdav morning, .January 9XewL-erry, Saturday afternoon, Jan- j ! uary 9, and Monday, January 11. Jolly Street, Tuesday, January 12.! Pomaria, Wednesday, January 13. Littie Mountain, Thursday, January 14. Prosperity, Friday, January 15. Newberry, Saturday, January 16. I.ongshores, Monday, until 12 o'clock J i a. m. January 18. j Silverstreet, Monday afternoon, Jan- j | uary 18. | Chappells, Tuesday, Janua.ry 19. I P. X. Boozer's Store, Wednesday, I January 20. | St. Lukes, Thursday, January 21, O'Xealls, Friday, January 22. i Xewberry, Saturday, January 23. Maybinton, Monday, January 25. i And at Xewberry until February 20th I : inclusive, after which date a penalty of! I 50 per cent, will be addea against all j persons, firms and corporations failing] i to make returns. | i I refer you to Sec. 299 of the Code I o" Laws of South Carolina. "Every j -person required by law to list prop- j | erty shall annually, between the first i i day of January and the 20th day f | ! February, make out and deliver to the j j auditor of the county in which, the j property is, by law, to be returned for | taxation, a statement, verified by oath,! i all of the real estate wjiicfr has been J j sold or transferred since the last ! | listment of property for which he was j responsible, and to whom, and of all I the personal property possessed by I him, or under his controll, on the 1st i day of January of each year, either as i I I owner, agent, parent, husband, guar, dian, executor, administrator, trustee, ' - ^ - W? + 1-1 r\ r? fonfnr fir j receiver, uuicei , pai iuci, inviui, , | holder, with the value thereof, 011 said : I 1st day of January, at t)':e place of re-1 turn, estimated according to the rules! prescribed by lav: Provided, That the returns o"' the following agricultural products, to wit: Corn, cotton, wheat, 4 | cats, rice, peas and long forage made I on the day specified by law shall be I the amounts actually on hand on August 1st, immediately preceding the date of said return: And provided further, That this stall apply only to such products as are actually in j the han-is of the producer t'.:ereor. Which statement shall set forth: The number of horses and their value. The number of neat cattle and their tvalue. The number of mules and asses and . their value. ! The number of sheep and goats and j their value. T< e number of hogs and their value. (The value of gold and silver plate, and number of gold and silver watches and their value. The number of pianofortes, melodeons, and cabinet organs and their j value. j The number of carriages, buggies, j wagons, carts, drays, bicycles, and au- j i tomcbiles and their value. i Number and value of dogs. I The value of goods, merchandise, ( moneys, and credits, pertaining to his j business as a merchant. | The value of materials received, us-1 ed or provided to be used in his busi- ; ness as a manufacturer. The value of machinery, engines, tools, fixtures and implements used or provided to be used in his business as a manufacturer, and all manuf icturartir.ips on hand one year or more. T:.e value of moneys, ircluding bank J bills and circulating notes. The value of all credits. T':e ^ilue of investments in stocks of any company or corporation out of this State, except National banks. j The value of all investments in bonds, except bonds of the United States and this State expressly exempted from taxation. The value of all other property, including household furniture." All male persons between tfce ages of 21 to CO years, except Confederate i soldiers, or those persons incapable jj of earning a support from being.maimed or from any other cause, are liable ! to pay poll tax of one dollar. The lav,* requires a tax on all gross incomes in excess of $2."00. Do not ask that your property be j # 'ken from the tax duplicate the same J i as last return. Name of towns'' ip and school district must bo given. J Eugene S. Werts. County Auditor. 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