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';) TEE MYSTERY OF % AGATHA WEBB. By Anna Kathurin" Green, Autl i of ". I" Lt• i' : ; .i ( ■ 'f. ‘lift iihii/. Aii'« ter si»" w once ^topp* Into i lie hole t<ear' h. hi Pivw iiutlii:.^ in it: < sm!i thiit Mr Fenton at i mi l plr.iiL • I his hnnil Inn wlien. nHer a Iiuit1«*'I it out a:::tin. tiiere was his lain! was empty. cnrYinon uv ANN*. 1 to, HM INC G!li:lT<. y: »s Sweetwater stareil at that han.l amaz ed. “Don’t you find anything?” he asked. “Isn’t there a roll of rills in that hole?” “No." v sko ' .:y answer, after ttetnp: and a seeon 1 dlsap- “There is uoihin? to be a renew 1 puint meat, fm :i ! In - :', pome' tni.^atni “”.ut I i nn CT! ABTICU XVI. pa v 11 in tiie h Til L MON/t) KOl'N’D. hid it t here. i. Tito lar; an - tlio room rosmni'd st al fi!’. I will , f • p! >( amuo) 1 . till I 1 ■avc un A in i . \' !.o 1. mi 1 ni much fctruck by turvy.” 1 • • •( 1 •’ • j,,S ' 1 * J (J f) N li.* J ‘ F n ’ - f rr />xv*' t; row 1 .1 I* Tuih. t atul wifi rod in ijc thru st hi- ! l i jS (‘ill •: " V.1 ii _l:t 1 nvo <1,110 without cither - i !(* of ! „l. it b I! \v fr in i. >m" Mr F- nton nr: To v 1 :: : j iii 0 oun-m r r<'iilicd: sliTincd away “Ft r ..c, . a ! j.. i liaps n a Swo't- S V * ■ (* * ’A n (( ’• 1 ' "rat r lias in 1 y« l on ved ill case; ! d similar (»•-: t »ross ;: s u ; 1 : 1 i ..1 lie * xplams hiiiis'olf," Tlioti an 1 gre wing d r uniiti g to t! ic o'. ..-t;fi !<' ho si.'<r 1 d nancew as a stu iiini ai i ..ill -! : ii d ininlnturc w!:eh I Y ” are laboring under •.'hens: a. Sweetwater.” t I e. I saw the money, md of tlie person who et me look for it. enn- iot eive tip tin* seareb n-.'d the place toiisy n 'v. Mr. Fenton’s place, m l i' to the ho’ \ On 'ii p en 1 the fares i.>f I Knapp. (Abel had at r whisper from T1 ■ “ v w *y; • lit w i tIi f? I' ll of anxious Interest >ul>t. H s own eouute- dv of eootliet itv.' and liy n iie wi \Y U1CU : on .In:nos’ bn a^t first exaiidnaii a. is mid l aeki d \'. iih !i !)[;>:■ • ■ als. for its ih'VOted owner ■iaitned r\ a j \ f ••r.Mi ■ .•-j u - i ■ portrait.” < r .^ i..111 t. . .in is \v. s | uiated when •re lovers.” i ! a nt v." cor.i- bp V*'’. • u. a . .(ill or t:; t U . ;i I: ■ i .,f i k n . 4 -■ps-m-m' * ;F/ i s' 7 ^ ^ v-1 M.--: x ', <r y\ V-, > $4. V » m-. • . <y>»' f ^ * . nr. uni or ilol' aih. ia- tt was truer thaa A • ." naitten d 1’enton. " atP inoli." in .•posed Air’!. ■ii^ to a i "iplit ^pot that just then j.nde its a' pea rani i in tiie dm k out ine of tiie shade before alluded to. "do Ml s •:■ a-at hole? It was the sip'iit < f ; ] ::t prick in tin* siiade wliieli sent for foot- is to it" (as suddenly iniiaatioti. will hear s tliat he’s not the only person who’s <jeon peering into this room through nJiat hole.” He was so far right that the first wo; ds of Sweetwat ’r on his re-en trance were: “It’s all O K. sirs. 1 tinve found my missing clew. .Tan *';! k: • 1 wus not tiie only person who •uii.e up here from tin* Webb cottage Uist nigiit." And turning to Knapp, who was losing some of Ids supereHi o.is n.auner. h*- aslted. with sigtihleaiit sunpha-ds; "if. of the full amount stolen from Agatha Welih, you found •0> in the possession of one man and l-PXO in the possession of another, upon .liich of tl.i- two would you lix as the i-ahle murderer of this good wom- i:.’'” "1 pen him who held the lion's share, -if course.” ■ \'eiy good. Then it is not in this ottage you will mid tla* person most ■'anted. You must look— I’ut t!: i 'i'“. u >1 let me give yoti a glimpse cf tiie tijoney. Is there any one here ready o ae•oiiipany me ii search of it? i r riwi ■ctwater outsid 0 looking its. See! Now ids eye b The bright spot became t -di [tsi d). "W 0 a iv under ex Drs . and the next thing we You Talbot oil M.all have to take him a ijuurter of a niiie farther uji hill.” “You have seen the money’ \now where it is?” asked Dr ind Mr. Fenton in one biva’ii. “Hentlenien. 1 cun put my hand t In ten minutes.” At this mie octed and somewhat mart ling statement Knapp looked at ' >r. Talbot and Dr. Talbot looked at / i»e constable, but only the latter sjiuke. “That is saying a good deni. Tint no i matter. I am willing to erodit the ussertion. Dead on, Sweetwater. I'll (go with you.” i Sweetwater seemed to grow an Inch •jt least. “And Dr. Talbot?” he sug- ! yjestwd. But the coroner’s duty held him to < his house of death, and he decided not ?o accompany them. Knapp and Abel, however, yielded to the curiosity which nail been aroused by these extraor dinary promises, and soon these four ’•darted on their small expedition up flic hill. Sweetwater beaded the procession. He had admonished silence, and his -vish In this regard was so well carried ■out that they looked more like a group *->f specters moving up the moon lighted road than a party of eager and impa- 'ient men. Not till th y *urned Into the main thoroughfare did any one speak. Then Abel could no longer restrain aiiuself, and he cried out: ”\Yo are going to Mr. Sutherland’s.” . But Sweotwater quickly undeceived ft’sbu. “No.” said he. “only Into the woods opposite Ids house.” But at this Mr. Fenton drew him jack. “Are you sure of yourself?" hi' said 'Ifavo you really seen this money, and v it concealed In this forest?" “I have seen the money.” Sweetwa- »?r solemnly declared, "and it Is hidden . ii these woods.” Mr. Fenton dropped his arm. and bey moved on till their way was docked by the huge trunk of a fallen ’• ree. “It Is here we are to look.” cried Sweetwater pausing and motioning <napp to turn his lantern on the spot There the shadows lay thickest. “Now. vhat do you see?” lie asked. “The upturned routs of n great tree," -.aid Mr. Fenton. “And under them?" “A hole or. rather, the entrance to < :'Ue." “Very good. The money Is In that Aaole. Bull It out. Mr. Fenton." The assurance with which 8weetwa- I presently espied 1 the passageway. 1 cai’.yii.g a Fag elmi' up and hhi behia 1 tin she came hack. In... soug which didn't d mem. Hioiul!' tin r steal ng alung have MleUt lu lieu k v. iieh she r lei! c<>,, ii.'/i’ Th.'l, ..rnaig a gay little ■cciVe me tight 1. fin a mo an d that oat soon Join c iiiiiany. And they did. 'As we were play.ng tiie II;’.!ebell muxurka i again ca ght sight of her steal;by \v' ite figure In that dis tant doorway. Seizing the cloak, she wrapp'd it round hei. and with just one furtive look backward, seen. 1 war rnr.;. by r.o one but myself, ^ , .ll' van Dll. ,. in ill,' outside darlu 'Now to tio^e wla follows her!' thought 1. But no body followed her i his struck me .is sunuge. and Laving a natural low for den I've v rk, in spite of my devo.. a to tie arts. 1 consulted the clock at the foot of the stairs, and noting that it was half past 11. scribbled the*hour on the intente wouid men. it i • ir .i.. of iiiv musio. with the >n of seeing how hi: g ::iy lady linger outside alone. Ketitle was two hours bifure I Mivr her How she ; not know, door, f tr at or tieg ,'ot ; It to nek int tiie was not by i ' e seldom r Iiail past 1 1 1 vera* on the stair nb »ve me ait 1 saw i. r dest-i ud and melt into the <’i.'vd as if she had not been absent from it for : i re tl.an five mkrUcs. A saw her with 1 red- y '.ere i.:!U 'Ulg. but spirit as i -f >re. and v later I . The, e same i wat< !u‘d tiieui tiiey sep- ovr wh, re was Miss Fa go -o tvro long hour.:? I think time i tiuburJener Hi- s/o tr d two rolls i,i ,k te crisp hills, no mi nus i hcerful emotions. Sudden ly Ids a spot t eiiaugod. With a quick twist of bis lit te. if awkward, body, he threw him--' if lengthwise on the ground, and began tearing at the earth insitie the hole, like a burrowing ani mal. “1 cannot be mistaken. Nothing will make me believe it is nut here. It has simply been buried deeper than I thought. All! What did I tell you? See here! And see here!” Bringing his hands into the full blaze of the light, he showed two rolls of new crisp hills. “They were lying under half a foot of earth," said he. “hut if they had been buried as deep as Grannie Fuller’s well. I'd have unearthed them." Meantime Mr. Fenton was rapidly counting one roll and Knapp the other. The result was an aggregate sum of $bsi». just tee amount Sweetwater bad promised to show them. "A good stroke of business,” cried Mr. Fenton. “And now. Sweetwater, whose is the hand that buried this treasure? Nothing is to be gained by preserved silence on this point any longer.” Instantly the young man became very grave. With a quick glance around which seemed to embrace the secret recesses of the forest rather than the eager faces bending toward him. he lywercd his voice and quietly said: "The hand that buried this money und'T tiie roots of this oil tree Is the same which you saw pointing down ward at the spot of blood In Agatha Webb’s front yard.” "You do not mean Amabel Page." cried Mr. Fenton, with natural stir prise. "Yes. I do. I am glad it Is you who have named her.” u :i iiig 11 1 know, and it is my -clf to “But fi: si ::!1 ilh- r 1 .. ocv.a: ha l come ft oU) wm: her own room Her dross was. m all respects, tl sail!'.' as before, with one except’ her v.'i.'t slipp is has been exchangi d for blue one to sh v that they had been unserviceable, or at least uusi; the walk sle had taken. This police, t l must inform y a • very I made while still in progress. Miss I down stairs, as ! have t l now know t have remarkable, r.o 'ondered litly. by in itself .'.Id her pe- CIIA1TEB XVII. jiiss i'acjk srsfEC rnD. A half hour later these men were ah closeted with Dr. Talbot in the Zabel kitchen. Abel had rejoined them, and Sweetwater was telling his story wi'h great earnestness and no little show of pride. "Gentlemen, when 1 charge a young woman of respectable appearance and connections with such a revolting crime as murder. 1 do so with good reason, as I hope presently to make plain to you. “Gentlemen, on the night and at the hour Agatha Webb was killed, 1 was playing with four other musicians in Mr. Sutherland’s hallway. From the place where I sat 1 could see what went on in the parlor and also have a clear view of tiie passageway leading down to the garden door. As the dancing was going on in the parlor 1 naturally looked that way most, and tins is how 1 came to note the eager ness with which during the first part of the evening Frederick Sutherland and Amabel Page came together in the quadrilles and country dances. Some times slit spoke as she passed him and sometimes lie answered, hut not al ways. although he never failed to show be was pleased with her or would have been If something perhaps it was his lark of confidence in her. sirs—bad not stood In the way of a perfect under standing. She seemed to notice he did not always respond and after awhile showed less inclination to speak herself, though she did not fail to watch him and that intently. But she didn't watch him any more closely than I did her. though I little thought at the time what would come of my espion age. 8hc wore a white dress ami white shoes ami was us coquettish and sedue- ' live as the evil one makes them. Sud- ! denly 1 missed her. She was in tin* I middle of tiie dance one minute ami entirely out of it the next. "Naturally I expected that she had slipped aside with Frederick Slither land, hut uo. In was still in sight, lint looking so pal< and so abstracted 1 was sure the young miss was up to some sort of mischief. But what mischief? Watching and waiting, hut uo long"!' confining my utti uttuu to the parlo.. Swt tv.ater. "but when the fletectlve iustiuct is aroused it is hard for a man to be Just to hi* rivals. Bolides. I was otherwise occupied. I had >li-s Page to watch. Happily for me. it had been decided that she should'not be allowed to leave town till after the Inquest, and so my task became easy. This whole day I have Spent ill Sight of Mr Sutherland's house, and at nightfall i was rewarded by detecting her end a prolong 'd walk in the gar den by a hurried dash into the woods i pposite 1 followed her and noted can fully all that she did. As she had jt seen Frederick Sutherland an i Mbs Holliday disappear up the road together, she probably felt free to do a> site liked, for she walked very di- netly to the old tree we have just come from and. kneeling down beside it. pulled from the hole underu'-tih something which rattled in her baud wi:! that peculiar sound we associate with ftish bank notes I liad appri ach ed her as m ar as 1 dared and was peer big around a tree trunk when she stooped down again and plunged both bauds into tiie hole. She remained in this position so long that l d.d not know what: to make of it. But she rose at la d and turned toward home, laugiiit g to hers If in a wicked but pleased way that did not tend to make me ioink any more e,f her. Tiie moon was shining very brbghtly by this tune, and I could readily perceive every de tail of her person. See held her hands out I efo.-e he- and shook them more Bam em-' as dr- trod !>v me. so 1 was !S \ J i’. -his a ■ nothing was so in them and Cl n'.ideut WO was :.t euliar escapade have made mure than a temporary impression upon my curiosity if she had not afterward shown an unaecouetabh' ami extraor dinary interest in the murder which had taken , place in tiie town below during tiie very hours of her absence from Mr. Sutherland's hall This, in consideration of her sex and her licing a stranger to the person attacked, was remarkable, and. though perhaps I had no business to do what I did. I no sooner saw tin* house emptied of master and servants than I stole softly back, and climbed the stairs to her room. Had no good followed this Intrusion, which. 1 am quite ready to acknowledge, was a tritie presump tuous. I should have held my peace in regard to it; but as I did make a dis covery there which has. its 1 believe, an important hearing on this affair, i have forced myself to mention it. The lights in the hou-s- having been left burning. I had m* dilliciilty in finding her apartment. 1 knew it by the i'ol- dcrols scattered about. But 1 did not stop to look at them. I was on a search for her slippers, and presently I came upon them, thrust behind an old picture in the dimmest corner of the :oom. Taking them down, i ex amined them closely. They wi re not only soiled, gentlemen, but dreadfully cut and rubbed. In short, they were ruined; and, thinking that the young lady herself would lie glad t«i be rid of them. 1 quietly put them into my pocket, and carried them to my own home. Abel has just been for them, so you can see them for yourselves, and, if your Judgment coincides with mine, you will discover something more on them than mud.” Dr. Talbot, though he stared a little at the young man’s confessi-d theft, took the slippers Abel was holding out and carefully turned litem over. They were, as Sweetwater had said, grb v- otisly torn and soiled and showed, be sides several deep earth stains, a mark or two of a height red color quite un mistakable in character. “Blood.” declared the coroner. “There is no doubt about it. Miss Page was where blood was spilled last night.” “1 have another proof against her,” Sweetwater went on. in full enjoy ment of ids prominence among these men who. up till now. had barely rec ognized his existence. "When full of the suspicion that Miss Page had had a hand In the theft, if not the murder of Mrs. Webb. I hastened down to tin* scene of the tragedy. I met this young woman issuing from tiie front gate. She had just been making herself con splcuons by pointing our a trail of blood on the grass plot. Dr. Talbot, who was there, will remember how she look il mi that occasion, but I doubt if lie noticed how Abel here looked, or so inueh ns remarked the faded flower the silly boy had stuck in his button hole." "I di<l not.” ejaculated the coroner. “Yet that flower lias a very Important bearing on this case. He had found it, as he will tell you. on the floor near Batsy's skirts, and as soon as I saw it in ids coat, I hade him take it out and keep it. for. gentlemen, it was a very uncommon flower, the like of which can only be found iu this town in Mr. Sutherland’s conservatory. I remember seeing such a one In Miss Page’s hair, early in the evening. Have you that flower about you. Abel?” Abel had. and being tilled with !m porta nee. too. showed it to the doctor and to Mr. Fenton. It was withered and faded iu hue. but it was unmis tukubly an orchid of the rarest de scription. “It was lying near Batsy.” explHlni*d Abel "1 drew Mr. Fenton’s attention to it at the time, but he scarcely no tlced It." "I will make up for my Indifference now," said that gi'iith-ninn. “1 should have been shown that flow er,” put iu Knapp. “So you should," acknowledged should Hud tiie money still in the hole. "When l saw her enter the house. 1 set out t'> !i::d you. hut the courthouse r in was empty, sr ! it was a long tiuu* bef re I hartied where to look for you. But at last a fellow at Brighton's i inter said he saw four men go !»♦ on their way to ZnUTs cottage, and on tin- chance of finding you among them I turned down here. The shock you gave me in announcing that you had discovered the murderer of Agatha Webb knocked me over for the mo i lent, hut now i hope you realize. ii< I do, that he could never have had an ac tive hand in her death notwithstand ing the fact Mint one of the stolen bills lias lie!!! found to have been in that wretched man’s possession, for — mid here is my great point--the proof is not wanting that Miss Page visited tips house as well as Mrs. Webb’s de-lug her famous escapade, or at least stood under the window beneath which i have just been searching. A footprint can be seen there, sirs, a very plain footprint, and if Dr Talbot will take the trouble to compare it with the slip per he holds in his hand lie will find it Sweetwater, with a quiet smile cal ciliated to hnic his di. appointment, went on as if perfectly satisfied. "Meanwhile .iolm awakes, sees tin* dagger and thinks to end his misery witlt it. hut finds hitnscif tig) feeble. The cut in uis . , .-t. ike deux in the floor, prove this, hut if you call for fur ther proof, a little fact, which some if not all of you si cm to have overlooked, will amply satisfy you tiiat this one at least of my conclusions is correct. < pen the Bible, Abel; open it n it to shake ii | for what will never fal! out from be tween its leaves, but to find iu tin* i i ble Itself the lines I have declared to you he wrote as a dying legacy with that tightly clutched pencil. Have you found them?” "No," was Abel’s perplexed retort. "I cannot see any sign of writing on fly leaf or margin.” "Are those the only blank places in tin* sacred book? Search the leaves devoted to the family record. Now. what do you find there?” Knapp, who was losing some of his indifference, drew nearer and read for himself tin* scrawl which now appear ed to every eye on the discolored page which Abel here turned uppermost. "Almost illegible." he said. “One can just make out these words: 'Forgive me. James—tried to use dagger—found lying hut hand wouldn’t dying will) out-don’t grieve-true men haven't disgraced ourselves—God bless’— That is all.” "The effort must have overcome him.” resumed Sweetwater in a voice from which he carefully excluded all signs of secret triumph, "and when James returned, as he did a few minutes lat er, he was evidently unable to answer questions even if James was in a con dition to ask them. Put the fallen dag ger told its own story, for James pick ed it up and put it buck on the table, and it was at this minute he saw. what John had not. the S’Jt) bill lying there with its promise of life and comfort. Hope revives. He catches up this bill, flics down to Luton's, procures a loaf of bread and cuiii' s frantically back, gnawing it as lie runs, for his own hun ger is more than lie can endure. Ke- entering his brother’s presence, he rushes forward with the bread. But the relief has come too late. John lias died in ins absence, am) James, dizzy with the shock, reels back and suc cumbs to his own misery. Gentlemen, have you anything to say in contradic tion of these various suppositions?” For a moment Dr. Talbot. Mr. Fen ton and even Knapp stood silent: then the latter said, with pardonable dry ness: “All this is ingenious; but unfortu nately, it Is upset by a little fact which you yourself have overlooked. Have you examined attentively the dagger of which you have so often spoken. Mr. Sweetwater?” "Not as I would like to. but 1 noticed it had blood oil its edge and was of the shape and size necei.sary to lulllet the wound from which Mrs Webb died.’ “Very good, but there is something else of interest to be observed on It. Fetch it. Abel." Abel, hurrying from the room, soon brought back the weapon In question. Sweetwater, with a vague sense of dis appointment tli •turlting him. took it , eagcrlj and studied tl very closely But he on;y shook his head. “UiUtg U nearer to the light," sug Rested Knapp, “and examine the little scroll near the lop of the hamUe.” Sweet water did so and at once chang ed color in the inidti of the sen 11 were two very small but yet perfectly disF’iet letters They were “J Z.” "How did Amabel Page come by a dagger marked with the Zabel ini tials?' questioned Knapp. "Do you think her foresight went so fur as to provide herself with a dagger ostensi bly belonging to one of these brothers? Ami thou have you forgoiu-tt that \\ non Mr. Crane met the old man at Mrs Webb’s gateway he saw in ms hand something that glistened? Now. what was tliat if not this dagger?” Sweetwater was more disturbed than he cured to acknowledge. "That just shows my lack of experi ence." I..- g.umtili'd. "1 thought 1 mid turned tlii« subject so t boro up hi 3' over it) m3 mind that no one could bring au objection against it.” Knapp shook h;s head and smik-d. “Young enthusutsts l.ke ymni-elf are great at tunning theories which well seasoned men like myself must regard as fantastical, llowcvi r," he w.-nt < n. “there is no doubt that Miss l a . ,v:is a witness to. even if she has not profit ed by, the murder we have been consid er .g. But .with this palpable piw of the Z a be Is direct cuum-ciion with the affair i wouid nut recommend her ar rest as yet ’’ "She should lie under surveiliar.ee, though.” int.mated the eoroner. "Most certainly," aequie-ccd K: p. As fur Sweetwater, he remained .si lent t:ii the opportunity < ante fur ii.uj to whisper apart to Dr. lulbut, when he said: “For ail the palpable proof of which Mr. Knapp speaks the 'J. Z.’ on the dagger and the possibility of this be eg the object he was seen carrying out of Philemon Webb's gate 1 nui.ntain t r.'.t this old man m his moribund condition never struck the blow that killed Agatha Webb. lie hadn’t strength enough even if his lifelong love for her had not been sufficient to prevent hum” The coroner looked thoughtful. “You are right,” said he. "He hadn’t strength enough. But don't expend too much energy in tuik. C ait and see what a few direct questions will elicit from Miss Page.” •*e5r. < T Lie! 6 ** •I ir* • • *'»• oer'vic. D* requires physical and mental a' <y cf a hitrh decree to vvi qstand its hard labors. The big'h tcr.sbn to which the nervous systetn is cor "::r,*V subjected, has a depressir ; ef- fee r, an ! soon headache, A. C:.v- ac! ’> ” eurai' ;ia, rhenmat Am, s; . ■ aica, etc., develop in s: vere for m. Such was the cs i of Al; til C; irrier S. F. 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