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> The House ofl SvWtM.I*M JUHNalON Whispers 4.. • Of lhu* a«oo« a o* CHAPTER IX—-Continued. —12— As I pondered over It I decided that nay chance meeting with Barbara Brad ford In the park had upset the plans of a blackmailing band, and that they were avenging themselves on me for ray unwitting part. I was certain that Wick and Lefty Moore’s wife were in connivance with them, and that the gang possibly Included Claire Brad ford’s ex-husband. Wick had a pass key that enabled him to enter the Lu- tan apartment. Undoubtedly he could also enter mine as well. But Wick could have nothing to do with the planting of the revolver In my rooms. I was positive about that.-' He had not been out of my sight for a single moment from the time that we had dis- oovered the body. The only way that It seemed possible to Involve him in that was on the theory of a prear ranged plot to make me appear the murderer. Waa It possible that Claire Bradford had participated la this? I knew she had been In my rooms after the murder It mast fcave bare abe who pat tbs revolver there Oae of the detectives oho bad er- rsaSad am appeared at my cell daar. atoaad,* ha cauasaandsd graAjr As I raase apt I was scats ■AarAWd ami tad ta tbs pafeal wa#m that teas a a it u^c | bad aafpaaad tba* I was katssi taSea Sa easet la ba arvatdamA Apt sswA a ps pal rba ease I bamsd myasSf at asttra bepdapailapa aWea waa am cwmapsaaA aad my jflBp^ pamas aasa apAsp I rsfvaisa4 fmas 099^ ppy tpdsemptmp aAaaa mpaaPf. baasmi ge«mp art asms pad a#s Am mp eaesdAI SP Apep am spsps ps JaAm ft tweasp *ss* ip mp Aapm •pap ■ i levamPt Ikp team Aad Aisppp pad I pps wpad# tAs* dbse samm fpp as aimatfk am tf tAap ta> >a edssst ma A Asa maasvrt ma lad •pdap ma* # Asm They’ve got the goods on you. and It’ll I stood there astounded. It was be the chair for yours tf you’re not not Barbara. It was her sister Claire, careful. Tou’ve got no chance proving on alibi.” “Why not? I never saw Miss Lutan until I saw her body In her rooms. I never was In her rooms until I went In there with Mr. Wick after we had heard the shot. What’s more, I never owned a revolver lij, my life and never saw the one the detectives found until they pulled it out of my dresser drawer.” Incredulously he listened. I could see that he did not believe a word I was saying. “You don’t look like a dope .lend, either.” he observed scathingly. “Look here.” I retorted, “it Is bad enough to have the police take It for granted that I am a criminal and a murderer, but when the coi^sel the court assigns me starts out on the same course, we quit right now. I’ll get s lawyer of my own when I Peed one." -HI come around this gTferpoon and aee you scald." be as Id coolly. "A few hours to tbe T pm to will moke you ape lb tops differently " A fau mtoutap later I fouod myself suoroPred to a csil agsto stfB cooff towl of my speedy rstooeu, but aease • hot pupated os IP srbof o su'd bo mf ^ tool method of yeovwPere I epe pm ffsieef • uSmU'*-! • ta• fees 'f* * '.«•#* f se s •-»*•»•** Sot ’ m ottb ppy ppe Ip ffkp eAato stta emA I fftoS oiSee tsoo a sattoA asospat otous I SeuAd oeeeen. Mf MBepadtota t Se*« tosupd* bee tA>*toe and *1 AMERICA AND' GREAT BRITAIN, NOWEVER, ALONE HAVE DE. VELOPED IT PROPERLY. * BIG CONVENTION IN ATLANTA CHAPTER X. ^ For a full minute Claire Bradford and I stood, there observing each oth er. Even ’before a word was spoken I think we both sensed our mutual distrust As I studied her, I was try ing to conjecture what could have been the motive so impelling that &he had dared to come even within prison walls to see me. Had Barbara sent her? 1 doubted it. I was sure that more than likely her visit was to plead with me to keep silent about her part in the tragedy. I was cer tain she was going to ask roe to pledge my word to tell no one of her second visit to the Gaston apartment. Yet as 1 studied her weak, beautiful face, so like Barbara's and yet so dif ferent. with Its sensuous mouth and roving, brilliant eyea. I still was won daring bow It was possible for a girl of her re flu* ms at and social position to have become enmeshed with aprA common criminals as tbe two em- ptoyeeu uf the MrwpdderA Whrh and tbe IstopAooe girl "TP o het nm I todetosp Par the of ibis tt«H. naked at leapt A Png • «h psmp sprepumL "freun my mo tof to my fra fmaaetfee I feom ham i «ip« fat sfemaop f the % e hro*d Aren Mm.** I persisted s • nse heard t»vm hliu.** alia heal tpted ’^mih'Spe**'* *| otom ohn f T* I Insist til. as she e9««iqod abruptly. "I rant tell you.” site said firmly. "I don’t know. They must Itsve come from him. from someone that knew— the letter*.*' • “What letters? TeH me about them.” ”1 can’t tell what 1 don’t know. I haven’t the least Iden where Gaston Maurice la. 1 had hoped he was dead In the war. Yet he can’t be. I'have had anonymous Letters threatening me. They must have come from him or from someone whom he told of our marriage? How else could they know?” Her distress was so real and her manner so convincing that I decided that she must be telling the truth. “Well,” said l, “If you cannot tell me where to find Gaston ' Mauris there is one thing that you can tell me.” “What is thut?” “Why did you visit my apartment late last night? Why did you put that revolver in my dresser?” “Revolver.” she queried In a puzxled tone, “what revolver?" “The revolver with which Miss Lu tan was killed.” She eyed me In shocked surprise. "Why do you my this to me? I paver saw the revolver.” I wounded and dying American soldiers "You pdonot deny that you were to on tbe kpttleAolds of Prance; nurses 1 my apartment last night."" 1 who rendered valiant service to tbe "But tbe revolver.” she prrieoted recent Influents epidemics; nureea * "Whet do you neon by that? I know who served In the campa—all were i nothing of any revolver.” present Canada. Belgium Hal land. "iaec night, a tow minutes after Denmark, and even far-off Ptotond Mies La tan was murdered." I mid aad China ooce f presented to thin sternly "seme man er woman entered great gathering, up* sf the largest ever held by these wwpmp pAsos Beep devoted to tbe cwuee sf hwmePHy ”| bare reape ta this cepve mid the Baamom ManaeeAetpg Beat uf tbe ppeutog upwciaOap ut Mel SUagtoew nptoPd. aad meter af Uh t uf Mks peo*i*d huuauap It A mf •' Nurses Whs Have Randarud Valiant Service All Over the World Wert in Attendance—Miaa Noyes Talks of the Future. By JAMES P. HORNADAY. Washington.—According to the American Bed Cross, many countries throughout the world have established • system of modem nursing, but in no counvrtos except the United States and Great Britain and its provinces, has the development been marked. The extent to which the "gospel of •ervlce.” the underlying principle of the nursing profession. Is carried, waa shown at the recent convention of nurees which was held at Atlanta. Nurses, leaders In their profession— nureea who went oversea! to serve tbe "HELP,’’ IS Cl (DEPLETED BLOOD AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THAT TIRED, DROWSY, NO ACCOUNT FEEUNO BEWARE NATURE IS WARNING YOU THAT IT NEEDS AS SISTANCE—YOUR BLOOD IS STARVING FOR IRON—YOU .LACK NERVE FORCE-YOU NEED— In Canton#, 1 * Dr. John Mc Donald, the well.known Southern physician, scientifically oomblnod strength-making iron, norvo-bwlld- tng phosphorous and stomech- roguladng Nux Vomica wKh other upbuilding, health-corn pulling oto- menta. “Mantone” la ondorusd by loading physicians as a highly uffL ciont blood-maker, strangth-pro- duoer. 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Neleon. arrested for the I tBurder of Iplsy Lutan." mid the de tective. "Have you counsel?" asked the mag istrate. "No," I replied. “I will assign Mr. Myers as.the pris oner's counsel.” he announced. A young chap, evidently just out of law* school, stepped forward, and drew me u little to one side. “Plead ‘Not guilty,’ ” he directed, “and be careful to say nothing more.” “Of course,” I replied. “I’m not .guilty. I had nothing to do with it.” I could see by his face, that he did not believe me and as I turned again to the court I made up my mind that even if the court had assigned him as my counsel I would tell him noth ing. “How do you {Aid2“ asked the court. * "Not guilty,” I replied. *- "Remanded without ball for further egaminatlon until Thursday morning,” ana./ped the court, and I was led back Into an am. room, Mr. Myers and the detective accimipaoylng me. 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"toby sbould ir | replied cqrelews j |y, repreaslng my drotre to leap pt i once to Barbara’s d.*fcn*c and explain ' how pure and h«>norahle her «*on<luct [ had been pnd how lofty the motive that bad governed her actions Tempted though I wav to defend her. I realized that this might he an op portunity to learn something of Claire Bradford's associates, and I deter mined to majee the most of it. How else could she know of all my meet ings with Barbara unless she was In league with the persons who had been having me shadowed? How the knowledge that Barbara had been In my apartment could have come to her was a mystery beyond me. I would have sworn that that was a secret sa cred to our two selves. "Listen to me.” she commanded. COLO MEDAL APd Itore BtoLMtoBtf < of too Afftof Affto ppgaaPaC Are a areApprereaare dMBsatoi pp as i toff Asl pf«are M«o* BbMparea Mto ) at I Ctotoa pas ore* ffareore k tore Bapp to Are aatoMvf Aa re ASPIRIN I- UUBto greAwotreg mm free •MflPtog arAapto aa pvpMbBM Ire.' spy* Mmo Clara D Are! af Um AmreWrwp Mpreow* paasarto' tfop pad pptkrewl dMwripe af tba dA part men t of pprelpg of tAe AmevVPA Qh I Blood Thors Astounded. It Was Not Barbara; ft Waa Hor Sistsr Claire. "1 rest toss owt * I I ip “»•. •% > r mm Aa ppap *• fPiMire pmppaA a* toff tototopm 're* jamvA e*o> mpAM Am a qpPMBff toasMStpA to mafftofftoapm * ' ’A* * | sMOMtoom 'll' otoMpma towa •owmre fio o*i omb Cndoubtodly abe bad reoorted to this rare ta make aure of acring am while • t (b# mm* ' tiM •tore ttf Ovasyoyad ai l mm tore I kmd fapd Ire I BatoMtowA we I mm m toff —mireg I! I mm toaptostoffipg to toff pfftof tore Brea • I to tHpre # damp to tom dtoa m» ware * pm** sa mam rem too* «m remsre »Po speaking In low tones. “Barbara Is my baby sister, innocent of the ways of die world. I must save her from herself,' and her heedlessness. Never, never, If I can help It, shall she suffer the agony and shame and disgrace that I have known. Years ago I, Just' as she is now, became Infatuated with a man far below roe In the social scale. He. too. was a criming!." I sniffed Indignantly at the "be too." but abe paid do attention "I raa awpy from arhasl pad mar Had Aim and lepraed law la la that ba bad a wife aad HtfM already Aa ay | Mto rear toare Mto ma Bra Mto a re Brea tf I "flop pArerd f Of eremwo aoa." "MTitf, tbepk dkg ywp gw feasa mff ftoBttftM* *** BAe Ne-kfd at am witb a fkigbtepiptf face and toe toanaoe beeppm toore ruwftoa d. "I really believe yop are trying la Maffllcate pm |p your crlum." abe ejae» Many Leaving the ffraf* ulated It’s alwurd for yop to try "What ba* tier ocim of them? Krato to question me this way." bu« li Information a* can be secured. "Lntly.** Interrupted the keeper, many seem to be leaving the profew- "you’U have to l>e going now. Time’s sb*a entirely. Many enter the bust- up.”. netis held, which at preneut Is offer- “Cromisc me." she begged hastily Ing lucrative positions and alluring /in an undertone, as she departed, possibilities. Many are eMtabllohing “whatever you think about me, you’ll homes for themaelvea In the country keep my sister out of It.” or taking land granta. Other positions “I’ll promise nothing, unless you con- beguile many from the ranks of active fess everything," I repeated, derefi workers. This exodus Is a genuine mined, if I could, to drag her seerrt cause for alanp; how to meet It is from her, even though I, as well ns our problem. she, was eager to shield Barbara’s “The nursing profession has become name. an Important factor in the world’s Claire Bradford’s lattltude. I must health, and It is inevitable that, for confess, puzzled me greatly. Her do- sometime to come, the demand will ex- nlal tliat she had seen the revolver, ***** *** supply. The world looks to or that she had been working In con- America for help in forming Ideals and junction with Wick seemed to ring aetting standards jp this fundamental true, and I was also Inclined to bo- activity; and the people of the United lieve her statement that she knew States can do much to aid Id keeping nothing of her former husband’s preo- the Priceless position gained by the ent whereabouts. While I was pon- j nurses In the world’s work. 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