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COPYRICTIT 1914- A0 r .]3 SYNOPSIS. A curious crowd of ielghbors invade ir~e mysterious home of Judge Ostrander. county judge, and eccentric recluse, fol lowing a veiled woIIIttn who proves to be the widow of a man trhi'l before the juigo and electrocutei for murder years before. Her daughter Is engaged to tie jiige'-i son, from whom lie Is estraiged, but the murder is betweent til lovers. She plaimi to clear her husbanti's misneory inal asks the judge's alh. D~eborah Seoville readhs tile newspaper 'ipl aiiig-i teilling the stor1y ,of the ruurtler of Algerion 0itherilge by John Scoville iI lDark Iollow, twelve years before. Tih juolge ail Mrrs. Sco ville mleet tit Speencer's Folly ant she Shows hirin how. on tle fliy of tho mur ier, she saw the sliadow of a man, ',it thing a sti-k anal wearing a long pe al -Cip The jufg a -ngws her an .er laughte Rr ltii ltio live with lilin It, ils Tiyste-rious h1orn11t. )ehorai ti al lier law .yer, Ilnaik, go it the ptalli stationi atil e the St ick usal to miriler 1theridge. She <llseovers a broken knife-blitalo poilt a-illtlieil IIn It. Ileborath tinal Reut her g, to lIve with tie Jiuige. Deborah sees it portraait of OIlver, tlie judge's son, with a black band patinteil ineros the eyes. That 1ight she tinls, In Oliver's room. a cap With a i eak liko the shadowedl one, atl a kilfae with a brokell blaele-polit. Anor .vmous letters and a ltalik with 1%iss Weeks iicreasta her suspiciois anl fears. She fiiais t ht ver was In thai r:IViiia' on the intrt1ar itight. Ilack warni hia-r and shows ler other anonymious let itis h intIg att Oliver's guillt. II th court roonm the judge is hianill atI aIInVonyman1s note. The noto is picked up anal real alitoud. CHAPTER XI-Continued. As for Deborah, she had shrunk out of Sight lit his approlleah, blut a.4 soon as lie had ridden off she looked eager. ly for a taxicab to carry her in his wake. She could not let hint ride that mile alone. She was still fearful for him, though the Mass of people about her was rapidly (lissolving away, and (he streets growing clear. She cani see his carriage now. Ilid( up for a moment by the crowd, it has broken through, and is rolling luickly towards Ostrander lane. l1t tle mol0)b is following, and she Is yet far be hind. Shouting to the the chauffeur to hasten, the inisistent honk11! hank! of the cab adds it raucous note to the turmoll! They have dashed through one group-they are dashing through another-naught can withstand an on rushing automobile. She catches glimpses of raised arms threatening retaliation; of eager, stolid, uncertain and furious faces-and her breath held back during that one instant of wild PsBBago rushes pantingly forth again. eOstrander lane is within sight. if only they can r'each it-if only they - can cross it! lut they cannot with - out sowing death in their track. No scattered groups here, the m1iob fills the corner. It Is packed close as a wall. Drought up against it. the mao tor necessarily colIes to a standstill. She will have to wait until the - crowd sways apart, allowing her to Ah, there, some heads are moving now! She catches one glimpse ahead of her', antd see-What. dotes she see? The noble but shrunk figure of -the judge drawn up) before his gate. Iils lips are moving, buit no sound issues from them; a change passes like at stroke of lightning over the surging mss. Somei one shouts out "Coward!" another, "Traitor!" a and the lifted head falls, the moving lips cease fronm their efforts and1( in place of the great per sonality which Plied their eyes a mo ment before, they see a man en trapped, wvaking to the hlorror of a sud den death in life for which nto visions of the day, no dreams of the night, had been atble to prepare him. It was a sight to waken ility, not dle rision. ilut these people0 had gathered here in a bitter mtood andl their rancor had butt scentedl the prey. Calls of "Oliver!" and such threats as "You save zI him at a poor man's expenise, l;ot we'll have himi yet, wve'll havi~e him yet !" began to rise about him; follow e'd by endless r'epetitionis of the name from near' and far: "Oh Iver! Oliver!" Oliver! II is own Ii ps seemed to re echo the wvordt. Theni like a lion1 baited beyond hiis liat iecea the juidge lifted his head anti faced them all with a fierly iensity which for the mtomnent miade him a terrlible figuire to contemn phite. "ILet no one0 utteor that nila to mel here!'' shot fronm his lips ini tones of msnpeakable menace and p)ower. "Spar-e me that name,.or the curse of my rulined life be upiont youi. I can bear no more todlay." The cr'y arose again: "Oliver: Olt v'er' The -sons of the rich go free, but ours have to hanig!" At wilicht he gave thenm one stare and fell back against the door. It yieldled and a woman's arms received hin. The gentle Rleuther in that hour of dire extremity, showved herself stronger than her mother who had fallen in e. taint amid tho crowd. TEfCHNiCALiTIES 01 The average man will never reali thie indictment is, and how the rules I inon sense. It is one of thiess ,rules crime is saId to have beent committed must be proven at the trial. In, Camp Anderson was put on'trial for riurfler. took l)lace at Anderson''s store, boul St ationi, The jndistmient did not say Btoithd that 4hehiekStation wae 0 ieybxy tiht .inches St o ah lOlk)W r)IIfQC A 1) RhodcAs PO , MEMD <!y COMPvpAm/ To one who swoons bpt seldom, the moment or returning consciousness is often fraught with great pain and sometimes with unimaginable horror. It was such to Deborah; the pain and horror holding her till her eyes, ac customed to realities again, saw in the angel face which floated before her vision amid a swarm of demon masks, the sweet and solicitous countenance of Reuther. Reuther, taking her mother's hand in hers, said softly: "I knew you were not seriously ill, only frightened by the crowd and their senseless shoutings. Don't think of it any more, dear mother. The people are dispersing now, and you will soon be quite restored and ready to smile with us at an attack so groundless it is little short of absurd." Astonished at such tranquillity where she had expected anguish if not stark unreason, doubting her eyes, her ears -for this was no longer her deli cate, suffering Reuther to be shielded froim all unhappy knowledge, but a woman as strong if not as wise to the situation ai herself-she scrutinized the child closely, then turned her gaze slowly about the room, and started in painful surprise, as she perceived standing in the space behind her the tall gure of Judge Ostrander. "Pardon," she entreated, forgetting Reuther's presence in her conscious ness of the misery she had brought upon her benefactor. "I never meant --I never dreamed-" 'Oh. no apologies!" Was this the Judge speaking? The tone was an ad mni'.iory, not a suffering one. It was not even that of it man humiliated or dist ressed. "You have had a unfor tunate experience, but that is over now and so must your distress be." Then, as in her astonishment she dropped iher hands and looked up, he added very quietly, "Your daughter has been much disturbed about you, but not at all about Oliver or his good name. She knows my son too well, and so do you fnd I, to be long af fected by the virulent outcries of a mob seeking for an object upon which to expend their spleen." Deborah was glad to sit silent un de: this open rebuke and listen tc Reuther's Ingenuous declarations, though she knew that they brought nc conviction and distilled no real com fort either to his mind or hers. "Y es, mother, darling." the youn~g girl was saying. "These people have not seen Oliver in years, but we have, and nothing they can say, nothing that any one can say but himself, could ever shake my belief in him as a man incapable of a really wicked act. He might be cap~able of striking a sudden blow-most men are under great Provocation-but to conceal such a fact-to lHve for years enjoying the resp~ect of all who knew him, with the knowledge festerIng in his heart of an other having suffered for his crime that, that w'ould be impossible to 011 ver Ostrander." Some words ring in the heart long after their echo has left the ear. Im possible! Deborah stole a look at the judge. But he was gazing at Reuther, where he wvell might gaze, if his sink ing heart craved support or his abashed mind sought to lose itself in the enthuslasm of tlis pure soul, wvithm its loving, uncalculating instincts. "Tell 'the judge wvho Is as confident of Oliver as I am myself that you are confident, too. That you could nc more believe hilm capable of this abom. inable act than you could believe it of my father." "I will-tell-the judge," stammered the unhappy mother. ."Judge," she briefly declared, as she rose with the help of her daughter's arm. "my mind agrees wvith yours in this matter. What you think, I think." And that was all she could say. As she fell again into her seat, the judge turnedl to Reuther: "Leavo your mother for a little while," he urged, with that rare gentle ness he always showed her. "Let her rest here a few minutes longer, alone with mue." "Yes, Reuther," murmured Deborah, seeing no way of avoiding tIs inevi table interview. "I am feeling* bet ter every minute. I will come soon." The young girl's eye faltered from one to the other, then settled, with a strange and imploring look upon her mother. Had her clear~ intelligence pier'ccd at last to the core of that mother's misery? Had she seen what Deborah would have spared her at the cost of her own life? It would seen, so, for when the mother, with gi'eat THE .INDICTMENT. zo what an extremely technical papei n it must be0 observed against all corn that the venue-the- place where th< --must be0 stated in the indictnient and bell county, Virginia, a prisoner name( The evidence showed that the myrdes one-quarter of a mile frohi Lynches the murder was committed at Lynchei ; in Campbell county~, If was' so well ation- was in Campbell county that i 'Introduce evi dence fra proof of thai ft o he ruiles' and tho' supremne ediar' effort.,eg: v the young &0 7m d Wk sad patienca, and, turnind toWir Judge Ostrander, said as she soft withdrew: "You have been very kind to allov me to mention a name and discuss i subject you have expressly forbidden I want to show my gratitude, Judg( Ostrander, by never referring to i again without your permission. Thai you know my mind"-here her head rose with a sort of lofty pride whicl lent a dazzling quality to her usuallj quiet beauty-"and that I know yours, is quite enough for me." "A noble girli a mate for the bestl' fell from the judge's lips after a si. lence disturbed only by the faint, far. off murmur of a slowly dispersing throng. Deborah made no answer. She could not yet trust her courage or her voice. The judge, who was standing near, concentrated his look upon her fea tures. "Madam!"-he was searching her eyes, searching her very soul, as men seldom search the mind of an other. "You believe in the truth of these calumnies that have just been shouted in our ears. You believe what they say of Oliver. You, with every prejudice in his favor; with ev ery desire to recognize his worth! You, who have shown yourself ready to drop your husband's cause though you consider it an honest one, when you saw what havoc it would entail to my boy's repute. You belfeve-and on what evidence?" he broke in. "Be cause of the picture and the coinci. dence of his presence in the ravine?" "Yes." "But these are puerile reasons." He was speaking peremptorily now and with all the weight of a master mind. "And you are not the woman to be satisfied with anything puerile. There is something back of all this; some thing you have not imparted. What io that something? Tell-tell-" "Oliver was a mere boy in those days and a very passionate one. He Deborah Made No Answer. She Couc Not Yet Trust Her Voice. hated Etheridge-the obtrusive men tor who came between him and your self." "Hated?" "Yes, there is proof." He did not ask where. Possibly he knew. And because he did not asl she did not tell him, holding on to he secret in a vague hope that so muel at least might never see light. "I knew the boy shrank sonietime from Algernon's company," the judg admitted, after another glance at he face; "but that means nothing in boy full of his own affairs. What els have you against him? Speak up! can bear it all." "He handled the stick that-that "Never! Now you have gone mac madam." "I would be willing to enud my day in an asylum if that would disprov this fact." "But, madam, what proof-what rei son can you have for an assertion s monstrous ?" "You r'enomber the shadow I sa, which was not that of John Scoville Trhe person who made that shados was whittling a stick; that was a tric: of Oliver's. I have heard that he evoa whittled furniture." "Good God!" The judge's panopi: was pierced at last. "Thley tried to prove, as you wil temembor, that it wvas John who thu disfigured the bludtgeon he always cai ried with pride. But the argunmen was a sorry one and in itself woul shave broken down the prosecution ha he been a man of better repute. Nov those few chips taken from the haq~dl of thin weapon will carry a differen Isignifleance. For ixN my folly I aske to see thin stick, which still exists si Lynches Station was in Campbell et trial.--Molville Davisson Post in the MANLIKE TEETI Proc. A. G. Thacher, an eminent Progress, mentions the recent disc< teeth more closely resembling huriini 'and orang-utan, man's nearest relati' In these animal0, and ip all of t are much larger attd -longer tiyan ii lvad, accorditig to geologists, hant: rids were sisall, like those of man. the 4levelogtnent of tt e cuspjd teeth their use htering b tb t nutu Strif st~ee wbickneavr froq the *A (oken blades of th6 tker trotn Jqhn'$a podket. Fallen was the proud head nov an4 falleop the great nika's aspect. .If b4 spoke it was to utter a low "Oliveri Oliver!" The pathos of'it-the heart-rending wonder in the tone brought the tears to Deborah's eyes and made her last worde very difficult. "But the one great thing which gives to these facts their really dan. gerous point is the mystery you have made of your life and of this so-called hermitage. If you can clear up that, you can afford to ignore the rest." "The misfortunes of my house!" was his sole response. "The misfortunes of my house!" CHAPTER XIII. One Secret Less. Suddenly he faced Deborah again. The crisis of feeling had passed, and he looked almost cold. "You have had advisers," said he. "Who are they?" "I have talked with Mr. Black." The judge's brows met. "Well, you were wise," said he. Then, shortly, "What is his attitude?" Feeling that her position was fast becoming intolerable, she falteringly replied, "Friendly to you and Oliver, but,' even without all the reasons which move me, sharing my convic tions." "He has told you so?" "Not directly; but there was no mis judging his opinion of the necessity you were under to explain the myste ries of your life. And it .was yester day we talked; not today." Like words 'thrown into a void, these slow, lingering, half-uttered phrasee seemed to awaken an echo which rung not only in his inmost be ing, but in hers. Not till in both na tures silence had settled again (the silence of despair. not peace), did he speak. When he did it was simply to breathe her name. "Deborah?" Startled, for it had always before been "madam." she looked up to find him standing very near her and with his hand held out. "I am going through deep waters." said he. "Am I to have your sup port?" "Oh, Judge Ostrander, how can you doubt it?" she cried, dropping her hand into lils. and her eyes swimming with tears. "But what can I (1o? if I remain here I will be questioned. It I fly-but, possibly, that is what you want-for me to go-to disappear-to take Reuther and sink out of all men's sight forever. If this is your wish. I am ready to do it. Gladly will we be gone-now-at once-this very night. His disclaimer was peremptory. "No; not that. I ask no such sat, riflee. Neither would it avail. There is but one thing which can reinstate Oliver and myself in the confidencE and regard of these people. Cannoi you guess it, madam? I mean youi own restored conviction that the sen tence passed upon John Scoville was a just one. Once satisfied of this your temperament is such that yo11 would be our advocate whether yot1 wished it or no. Your very silence would be eloquent." "Convince me; I am willing to hav( you, Judge Ostrander. But how car you do so? A shadow stands betweer my wishes and the belief you mention The shadow cast by Oliver as he made his way towards the bridge, with m3 husband's bludgeon in his hand." "Did you see him strike the blow Were there any opportune shadowi to betray what happened between thE r instant of-r-let us say Oliver's ap preach and the fall of my friend Much can happen In a minute. and this matter is one of minutes. Sco ville had a heart open to crime, Olive r not. This I knew when I sat upo the bench at his trial; and now yoi shall know it, too. Come! I havy isomething to show you." He turned towards the door ani mechanically she followed. He .thoughts were all in a whirl. She die not know what to make of him or o herself. The rooted dread of weeki was stirring in its soil. This sugges tion of the transference of the stici from hand to hand was not impossible Only Scoville had sworn to her, ani that, too, upon their child's head. tha v he had not struck this blowv. And sh had believed him after finding the cap and she believed him now. Yes against her will, she believed him now Whyi? and again, why? (TO BE~p CONTINUED.) Destroying thle Mosquito. The waf to destroy the mosquito ii Iits larval stage is to pour a little ke: B osene on the surface of the .pool o: -stream inhabited by the industrioul t wiggler. The oil shuts out the sup I ply of oxygen from the water be i neath. The wiggler rises tail first ti , the surface and tries to. force his a breathing tube through the thin laye t of oil. Hie fails and promptly dies I from suffocation-a suitable death foi t I so fratricidal an insect. unty, and sent the case back for a new Saturday Evening Post. OF ANCIENT APE. Blritishn geologist, in an article in SciencE very of the jaw of an ape which hai teeth than do those of the chimpanze( ~es in the 'animal world... ie living species of the ape, the cuspid. man. But in this amncient. ape, which~ edts of thousands of years- ago, the cus. This is regarded as an indication that of apes resulted from the necessity for and for like purposes. ~MiMAES IT'S M Stra n 'Upt Don't Lose a I and Bowels With Ught CaIoloakpakes you sick. Take a dose. 9f Ahe vile dangerdus drug to night and tomortevi you Inay lose a day's work. Calomel is mereury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. 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If baby is troubled with rashes, ec zomas, itchings, chafings or not, irri tated skin follow Cuticura Soap bath with light application of Cuticura Oint ment to the affected part. Nothing so soothing, cooling and refreshing when he is fretful and sleepless. Free samnple each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv. Pathetic. "Don't you think it is extravugant to think of giving that record egg laying hen a diamond engagement ring as they did in Philadelphia?" "I think it an outrage when so many other 'chickens' have to do without diamond ones." Don't Neg|ect Kidneys Swamp-RootDr. Kilmer's Prescrip tion, Overcomes Kidney Trouble It is now conceded by physicians that the kidneys should have more attention as they control the other organs to a re markable degree and do a tremendous amount of work in removing the pois6ns and waste matter from the system by filtering the blood. The kidneys should receive some as sistance when needed. 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