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~DA1 SYNOPS S A *:r' '. :Iiiv'el" 1'Il. r ol-1: - hh h bI'l.n, :11.1 CH APTEP !I-Continued. - ..- r desription, your .h withdrawn into '. .,:% Id.: I f 'r a moment. ,:..t decr he h.r features, for a. heavily veiboi: neither can 1 -h"r tie.::o except to say that r!he is tal and sltnder. Hut her dress ! re:neCaber. She woro purple; not an c: w .n:an's u ur ile, hit a soft shade wL:ch did not tate :rom her youth. The c!hld did not seemi to belong to her, though she held her tightly by the hand in age it appeared to be about six--or that was the impression I reoivtedt! before--" TL- sergeant. who had been watch ing the speaker very closely. leaned forw\ard with a hasty. .niuiring .lan. e express-ivt of sn o th in. like conster natinm. Was the judge. fa :ng again int o uIln sciousnl.'.S? No; for the .-(-s which had gone blank had turned he" way again, and only a dicune:ct. d e xpression w\ hich feil frern the judg~e's lips showed that his ind h:l be-n wand-ng. "It-s not th. same b":t another one: that's all " incons. qu-nat u . hut the sergeant meant to rmrr-'bi)r th.min for with their :tt--ra:.ee a cha::e pasis.-d over th- ;udh , and his inan. -r, w hiiiebi hal en +:.strain-d :d hurried durin hIs a:ttenildi!d dW - r:;ion, bcaine at once ,:,re natural :t. I .h r.-ore more I. uit -nus. 1 - e thirI: you < an tind her ':ith -. iu!;e nt data A woman dre a i: 90 ; I I ading a little "'JidIe, I nut :. feel sure that I cain tnl h r, h-i ! Chint: ;he is found alIrlady. 110 you re -:"nnhr the old ta\ rin ern th. "imhvil- road? I be lIev c hv <all it an :nn now, or 'I he juldg" ..' <* c. !,t the ser geat., w\ho dared n' i e too closely, noticed a sadib- t , :..: riction in the lingors of th har., w\ it h wiich his host ting ered a la;'er ntier lyiag on the table 1.t '\e.n th:-mil. "Thllon whir. -" eis , ti e- n w ait le rl- \t: . L r tin juige's "_ a d3 w h y r andh aroil his tarr?"2' slice t imt tinw1 ii : ul rn as a IliaC. of resort foi innomobnialjists in srard' tor's namisi V5 ardley. We have niolh lng agaInst him;i thei 11lace Is hIghly res pectale. IBut IIt harbors a hoa rder, a perunanu-nt one, I belIeve, who I as occasioned no l11itt lle oment. No ('O haus ever seenu lit'r face; un less It is the Ianud lord's w Ifo. Shie hias all her meal s'eriI1ved in he r rooml andn whlen 51he goes (out she w iearus thle puirple dIress and (1purple veol y3ou'vye been tatlk in g abhout. I 'erha nps she's your vlsI tor of today. Iiadn 't I hetter fiInd out?" "I has she a chIld? is she a inotheor?" "I hiavenu't lieard of aniiy clhiId, but M1rs. Yaridley has severni" T1he judge's hanid withdrew firom the table and~ for an linltaot the roomu wasl so quiet that you could heari some far. off (lock thckiiug out thle riInutesc. TIhen Judge Ostrander rose and1( hi a peremp tory tone sid: "T1omiorr'ow. After yout hear from me agaiin. MIalt o miovte tongt Let moi feel that all your energies arc devoted to s'cuiring miy riFvacy." The sergeaint, who had SPrung tc his feet at the samjo Instant ais thi judge, cast a last look about him, en rioslty burnIng lin li heart andl sort of desperate desIre to got all ii could out of his present oportunit~ For he felt absolutely sure that h would never be allowed to enter thi room again, But the arrangement of light w such as to hold ini shadow all but ti central portion of the rooin- With sIgh the sergeant droDped his eye from the walls he could barely dieth guish and, following Jhudge Ostrandor lead, passed with him under the toi folds of the curtain and throujgh tl narrowv vestIbule whose door was ma< of Iron, Into the room -whore, in stronger blaze of light than they hi left, lay the body ot the dleadI neg awaiting the last rites. Would the judge pass this body. turn away from it toward a door let 'ing front? The sergeant had coi in at the rear, but lie greatly desir to go out front, as this would gIve h: go much additional knowledge of t By ANNA KATH (Copyright, 1914, by Do house. l'nexpectledly to himself the judge's intentliots were in the direc- t tion of his Own wishes. 1Ie was led c front ; and, entering an old-fashioned I hall dimly lighted, passed a slaircase I an(I t wo closed doors, both of which v gave hitin the impression of having a heeni shut uipion a past it had pleasured I N> one to revive in many years. t Ilyond them was the great front door of colonial style and workman- s ship, a line specimen once, but greatly s distigure'd now by the bolts and bars 1 w hich llId been added to it in satis- I faction of the judge's ideas of security. I lany years had passed since Judge r Ostrander had played the host; but he d had not lost a sense of its obligations. (1 It was for hin to shoot the bolts and a lift the bars; but he went about It so to cluisilyv and with such evident aver- i slon to the task that the sergeant in- f( stin ctively sprang to help him. tl "I shall miss liela at every turn," h remarked the judge. turning with a sad I smile as he finally pulled the door t< open. This is an unaccustomed effort for me. Excuse my awkwardness." Soniething in his attitude, something in the way he lifted his hand to push hack a fallen lock from his forehead, mnpresse d itself upon the sergeant's mind so vividly that he always re m binn Bred the Judge as he appeared th him at that minute. Certainly th"re Were but few men like hinm in the country. and none in his own town. Of a commanding per'onallity by reason of his height, his features wer of a cast to "xpress his mental attr:hutes and enforce attention, and th," in ,ngruity betw"een his dlominat :n : ilcur and th p apprehensions which h, lisp'ayed in these multiplied and extr erdinary arrang e'mcnts for per S.nliii sMrii ity was forcihle enough to arouse any n:an's interest. s":geant was =o oecupied by the nuystry of the man and] the mystery (i th:e house that they had passed the r-t gato (which the judge had un leok ,d without munch difficulty) before he r'alizcd that there still remained sam'-thling of interest for him to see and to Talk about later. The two (lark iupni:gs on sither side, raised ques, tions which the most unimaginative mind would feel glad to hear explained. Ere the second gate swung open Ind he found himself again in the street he had built up more than one theory in explanation of this freak of parallel fenics with the strip of gloom between. C Ie would have felt the suggestion of the spot still more deeply had it been given him to see the anxious and hes itating fitre which, immediately upon r his (elpartire entered this dark maze, r and with feeling hands and cautious rSp '. ound itk way fronm corner to (Oornei -- now s toppIn g abruptly to Lst'n. tlAw shirin king frm some ir ag intary Ipresntco--a shadow at, ong shiadorws-till it stoodl again boi veen the gauto-s fr-otm wh ic-i it had starte0d r CHAPTER liI. Across the Bridge.t It. v-as to-i o'clock. niot later when tih- judge re-etntred his front do;.r, Hie wvas aloom-- ablsolte ly alone, as 1~e had ito-ver been sintce that night u,!I rong ago, when with the liner fenat corm pluto-d anld the gates all locl--d, he turnedi to the great nlegro at h-is side F and utiot ly .said: aW ire don~e with the worla Beola. 1 Are you satisie:l to hiare thIs Aalltude withI n m?'' Atd uela had ri-plied: "Night andu day, your- honor. And , whent you are not htere--when J ou are at (-ourt, to hear it alone." And now this faithful frior~d was (lead. andi It was lie who miust bear it aione-alone! H-ow could lie face it! lie sought for n~o answer, nor dlid he allow himself to dwell for one mnitute e on the thought. There was something a eIne lhe must do [irst-do this very a night, if possible. Tlaking dIown his hat from the rack. c he turn-ied anid went ouit agin, this time carefully locking the door belind hin, aliso the first gate. But he stoppied to listen before lifting his hiand to the second one. A sound~ of steady breathing. accom Ipanied~ by a fewv ipatienit miovemnrts, came from the other side. A man was | posted there wvithuin a foot of the gate. Noiselessly the judge recoiled aiid tmade hi way atround to the other set of gates. Here all was quiet enough, and, sliding quickly out, he cast a -hasty glance up arid downt the lane, and1(, Beeing nothing more alarminig Sthan the back of a second offilcer loung. Ing at the corner, pulled the gate quietly to and locked it. e Hie was well down the road toward a the ravine before the officer turned. s 'Tho time has now come for giving :- yoiw a clearer idea of this especial s neighborhood. Judge Ostrander's n house, situated at the juncture of an 10 unimportant road with the main high le way, had in its rear three small a houses, two of them lot and one still td unrented. F'arther on, but on the op. ro posite silde of the way, stood a very oild dwe1lng, in which there lived and or Presumably worked a solitary- womrun ud- thb solo and final survivor of a large tne famf'v- Ileyond was the ravine, cut ed tinig fteross the readl and terminating liint Th'e ravine merits somie de~crip ARINE GREEN dd. Mond & Comlputavi It wats a picturesqtue addition to tihi own through which it ut at the poln f greatest activity. With the va riet ridges connecting the residiite po ion with the lower business sr eet: e have nothing to do. liut there wat nearer one, of which the dematis ' lIis story necessitate a clel r pre:senta Ion. This bridge was called .oag, alit panned the ravine and its shallov ream of water not a quarter of r ile below the short road or lane W i ave just seen Judge Ostrander enter etween it and this lane, a narrow pattl In amid the trees and bushes bor ering the ravine. This path was set omn used, but when It was it acted a: short cut to a certain part of the wn mostly given over to factories ideed the road of which this bridge )rmied a part was called Factory on its account. Starting from the main ighway a half-mile or so below Os ander lane, it ran diagonally baci the bridge, where it received a turn ast a Hasty Glan':e Up and Down thi Lane. -hich senrt it south and east agair )ward the lower town. A high bluil se at this point, which made the far ler side of the r-ivine muc' more im osing than the one on the' near side here the slelpe was gradu;'l. Tihis path, anid even the bzr': itself -rr- almnost whlly unlhighlfr. The) .-re SeldIomf ured at niigh'- eldo~r sed at any timr; . But it wa' hy this a.ute tOO judge e]'r'ted to j-c inte juwn; not for the- Ipleasure0 of '.b vwaik a w-as v-ery appiarent f r'm the ex i-yjmi depression (jf is rreanr- r, bul omr saanc inwvaro nece-sspy- w'hieh ibly aga~iL hit - J 50(ret u:.ftgi vin:g li t had meot no onie in 'r s o tIO wal own the lane, but for all that hi ausedl before enteringr the path just lentionied, to glance bark and' see il o we-re being w at(:hd oir followed then satisfied that he w-as riot be oked up from the solitary wastH here he stood, to the ch eerless heav LiB anid sighed; then forward into th( ass of imrpenetrable shadow that h( just yet traverse and shuddered at zany aniother had shuddered ere be inning this walk. F'or it was near th. ndh of this path, in full sight of thf ridge lie must crosis, that his friend igernon Etheridge, had been1 sot upor nid muirdere-d so) many years before; nd the shadow of this ancient crim. till lingered over the epot. D~etermnined not to stop) or to c-isi ne faltering look to right or left, he urried on with his eyes fIxed upior he- ground and every ner-ve braced tc esist the influence of the place an< te tundying memories. Hut with th< triking of his foot against the boardi f the bridge nature was too much 4him, and his resolve vanished. In iteadl of hastening on he stopped, andl iaving fitoppied, paused long enough t1 ake in all the features of the scenl md any changes which time migh iave wrought. Hie even forced hi ;hrinking eyes to turn and gaze upoi the exact spot where his beloved Al gernon had been found, with his sighi less eyes turned to the sky. This latter place, singular in that i lay open to the opposite bank withoti the mask of bush or tree to hide I was in immediate lproximity to the en of the bridge he had attempted cross. it bore the niame of Dark Ho low, and hollow and dark it looked I the universal gloom. Blut the power.< its associations was upon him, and b fore ho knew it lhe was retracing h steps as though drawn by a magne lam he could not resist, till he stoc within this hollow and possibly on ti very foot of ground from the mel memory of which he had recoloe4 f< years. A moment of contemplation-a sig such as only escape. the birstinig hen in moments of extreme grief or desol tion-and' ten tore him evan from t1 . - r+ .. - inw i M"* MS ru to raise theit slowly but with 'deep meaning. to somiit'thing which lost' fr(t the -brow of the hill in stark 11nd ('uriouIs outline acet explaiinablo In it'oIf, but clear enough to onel who had seen its shape by 'aylight. Judgo Ostrander had thus se'^n It many times in the past, and knew juat niio-re to look fo'r the onet~ remtainting chlimntey and solitary gn blo of it house struck miny years before by lightning and left a grinning shell to tiock the-' eye of all who walked this path or crossed this bridge. lflack amid black'!ess, with just tie contrast of its straign: line$ to the curve of natural objects about ft, it commanded the bluff, summoning up memories of an evil race cut short il a :monent by an outraged i'rovidencu, and Judge Ostrander, mat kitg It, found himself muttering aloud it hit dragged himself slowly away: "Why should Time, so destructive elsewhere, leave one stone upon another of this accursed ruin?" When he had reached the middle of the bridge he stopped short to look back at Dark hollow and utter in a smothered groan, which would not he repressed, a naam which by all the rights of the spot should have been Algernon's. but was not. The utteranc e of this name s"'ened to startle him. for. wilh a shuddering look around, he hastily traversed the rest of the bridge end took the turn about the hill to where Factory road branched off toward the town. Here lie stopped again and for the first time reve'aled the true nature ne his desti nation. For when he moved on again it was to take the road along the bluff. and not the one iea(ing directly into town. This mean a speedy passing by the lightning-struck house. He knew, of course, and evide'ntly shrank from the ordeal, for once tip the hill and on the level stretch above, the resolutely for. bore to cast a ';'itnce at its dilapidate:! fence and decayed gate posts. Iad he not do"" this---had his eyes fol owcd the lo:g line of the path lead ing from thcse toppling posts to the face of the ruin, he would have been witness to a strange sight. For gleam ing through the demolished heart of it---hetween the chimney on the one side aend the broken line of the gable on the other-cot''d be seen tie half circle of the moon suddenly released frtm the clouds whil h had hitherto enshrouded it. A weird sight, to be seen only when all conditions favored. It was to b-' seen here tonight; but the judge's eye was bent another way, and lie passed ,-n, unnoting. * The ground vas high along this bluff; almost fift:' feet ebhove the level of thei~ city upon~ which lhe had just turned his back. Of stony formation and much expos"r. to the elemetnts, it had beeni consrid'ed an undlesirable alMte by btuilder's, an~ I not a house was to be seent het we*en LC.e broken siteli of the~ onne Ih had just .eft, and the long, low, brill iintly illun.inated structure ahirad. for wvhich h6~ was evidently maiki.. iiTh' pantt of a dozeni motors, the shtou:ting of varziotus far.ew~ells and then the suddren rushting foret of a long line of auttomobilos proclaihaed that the fete of the (lay waIs ail)ut over and that peace and order wo( 11(1 soon pre vail again in Claymnore in.t. Without waiting for the final one to piass, the judge slid arount' to the rear arid peeredl in at tihe kltcen, door. Three women were at work inI this busiest of ecenos, and the 'hiree wom en's hieadIs camte simiultar eously to gether. Thor.' was reason for their whispers. ills figure, is~ head, his face were all untusual, anid at that mto. ment highly expressive, andh cominag as lie did (out of the darkness, his. presence htad an uncanniy effect upion their simple minds. Th~v had boon laughing before; they ceased to laugh now. WVhy? (T'O flj (iNtUND.) Not Taught to Spell In Austria. Th'le searcht for Information on the pronunciation oif some of tho stratngo ly spelledl townts involved in the inuro -pean sItuation has5 brought some facts that throw light on the pu~blic policios ) pursuedi by the Austrians towards thotse subject to them. In this city, lately, a well appearing, well-to-do sub., ject of Austria-Hungary was ap. proached by a man who wanted some -of these jawbreaking words pro -nouinced for him. The Austrian did not sent to be an ignorant man, Hie tspoke good hi~nglish, but he confessed t that he could give no help. "I might ! recognize the name of the town if g iheard it spoken," he said, "butt I can onot identify it by the spelling. You I. see1, we are niot taught to spell at n homie, and I know nothing that will , htelp."-Philadelphia 'Record. SIs "Noblesse Oblige," t- Nonie of us have a right to look With d contempt upon those who have ro 0 ceived less than nurseloves The -o oli motto 'of chivalry, "noblesse r oblige." shoutld be the motto of ail who by money or social position os h, some special talent have an adIvan rt tago over their follows, Tlhose whlo a- ackno~vledge the obligation thereby to prove their nloiitI CALOMEL MAKES YE IT'S MERI Straighten Up! Don't Lose a U Liver and Bowels With Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. Take a dose of the vile, dangerous drug to night and tomorrow you may lose a day's work. Calonel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when it comes into contact with sour bile crashes into it, break ing it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you feel sluggish and "all knocked out," if your liver is torpid and bowels consti pated or you have headache, dizziness, coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone. Here's my guarantee-Go to any drug store or dealer and get a 50-cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone. 'rake a spoonful tonight and it it doesn't OFFICER REALLY TO BLAME Law Official Looked So Much Like Husband That Woman -Simply Could not Stop Scolding. A woman trom the pineland belt, who had seen a railroad only once, and who had ridden in to Atlanta's Decatur street on her hu.sband's wag on, was arrested for talking back to an officer of the law. "She jabbered steadily for a half hour, when I told her she must not stand so long, squarely in the middle of the street," explained the officer whc had made the arrest. "I couldn't even get a word in edgewise. It was the most awful gab I ever heard." '. urning to the prisoner the judge said: "What have you to say for yourself, madam?" "Couldn't he'p it, judge." responded the offender, "tried fo' ter shot up, but th' oflicer looked so much like my husban' I jes' couldn't find th' heart t stop!"--Case and Comment. BABY LOVES HIS BATH With Cuticura Soap Because So Sooth. ing When His Skin Is Hot. These fragrant supercreamy emol lients are a comfort to children. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Oint ment to soothe and heal rashes, itch ings, chafings, etc. Nothing more ef fective May be used from the hour of birth, with absolute confidence. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.--Adv. His Punctuation. The editor of a newspaper published in central Pennsylvania tells of arti cles that ie frequently receives from a certain citizen. They are always pertir.ent and worthy of publication, but they are punctuated in a most pe culiar way. Meeting his corresp~ondent one even ing at a friend's house, tire editor said: "That was an excellent letter' 1 got from you this morning andI I arn going to print it Saturday. But tell me, what rule (do you follow for pune tuation ?" "Why," said the gentleman, "the same rule I learned whlen T was a b~oy. I put a semicolon every 12 words and two commas between each palir of semoicolons."-Youth's Comn panlion. Exposed to Temptation. "I hope you wvill be happy, .\ary,' said the mistress to her maid, wiro was leaving to get married. "Thrank you, ma.'am. My young man is very steady, considering his environ mnen t." "What de's he do, Mary?" "ie's valet to a young millionaire, ma'am." Rub It On and Rub It In, For lame back and soreness, sprains and~ strains, sore throat and stiff neck, you must rub on and rub in thorough ly Hlanford's Balsam of Myrrh. Re member that one good application at first is bettor than several light ones. Adv. 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