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W. T. SAUNDERS
Gsn'l Agent Passsnger Department
ATLANT A. GA.
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Each one is shaped to facilitate
the work of the user. They are
made of high-grade steel and well finished.
We can quote prices on these excellent goods that will surprise
Don’t forget 1 have more rubber hose than all the town put
together—bought them when they were low and will give yon
benefit. V
Good Scovil Hoes
That were bought last Year, . plows too, you know what that
means as to price. Paint\ don't mention it, 1 have no competitors.
And stoves just come, lookwund price.
It will be money in vodk pocket to walk down on th** South
east end of the square. it is low price you want
J. B. BANKSTON.
BE RIGHT THERE.
A garment worn with care need
n’t make one look careworn.
When you want a physic that is mild
and gentle, easy to take and certain to
act, always use Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets. For sale by .1. ii
hlackburn.
V Beads are populur[this summer,
even beads of perspiration.
Mrs. (Mollie Allen, of South Fork,
Ky says she has prevented attacks of
cholera morbus by taking Chamber
lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets when
she felt an attack coming on. Such
attacks are usually caused by indiges
tion and these Tablets are just what is
needed to cleanse tin* stomach and
ward off the approaching attack. At
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ted in the same way. For sale by J.
11. Blackburn.
Women want men to say nice
things even if they are not in
earnest.
Circles are needless, as a rule,
but a circle of acquaintances
needn’t be.
No man likes to be suspected of
possessing the slightest selfish
ness.
THE BARNESVILLE NEW 8-GAZETTF, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6,1903.
Equa Partners.
(Continued from Sixth Page)
Ills men got there, amt one of them may
have lifted it. This is not for publica
tion. I>r. Kepdall. It's between our
: selves.”
“It's a nightmare.” said Kendall. “I
don’t believe si word of it.”
"If you don’t like the way I've put it,
let me give you another view.” replied
the detective. “Miss Machine goes to
the house heaven knows why. per
haps from furiosity. She goes up the
steps and sees through the glass panel
of the outer door Alden in the hall.
With the door of Miss Miller’s room
open this would he possible. I’ve tried
it. Seeing Alden. Miss Madam* hur
ries away. She doesn’t know what Al
| den has just done, but she doesn't want
to meet him. I)r. Blair sees her. hut
does net see Alden. who comes out aft
erward. This would he natural, for of
! course Blair's hack was turned after
j v fn
I ' AN,
I
The doors below were, suddenly flung
open, and a man appeared.
he passed the house. Let me tell you
that Miss Maelane, when she was ques
tioned. spoke of the chance that the
mysterious woman had merely gone up
the steps and then come right down
again.”
"I’d rather take that view of it.” said
Kendall. “But. even so. you must have
a motive.”
“Motive!” echoed Elmendorf. “What
did Miss Maciane tell von? Didn’t she
say that Alden told her that Miss Mil
ler gave him no encouragement? Sup-
I pose he went up there after writing his
letter, which cheerfully assumed that
| everything was all right, and suppose
! she told him, once and for all, that she
, wouldn’t have anything to do with
him. For her sake he had tempted
financial ruin by breaking it off with
Brenda Maciane, and now he finds that
lie's got nothing to pay for it. I’ll toll
: you Alden isn’t the man to take that
j calmly.”
“If that’s the fact of the case,” said
Kendall, “how do you explain her si
lence?”
“My dear sir,” replied Elmendorf,
“you’ve got me. 1 can’t. But who can
explain a woman anyhow? You believe
i that Miss Miller is telling the truth,
don't you?”
“Did you hear me say so?”
“To Miss Maciane? No. The first
thing I heard you say to her was that
it was a fine thing that she had done.”
"1 did say that I believed Miss Mil
ler. That is my present attitude.”
“In some respects,” said Elmendorf.
"it is the worst you could take—for
Miss Maciane. By the way, you will
permit her to remain with the patient?"
"Why not?” demanded Kendall stern
ly.
Elmendorf replied with haste that
lie saw no objection whatever. There
was a brief silence, and then Kendall
left the room, saying that he would
return presently. As he passed the
head of the steps leading tip from the
main entrance of the building the
doors below were suddenly Hung open,
anti a man appeared, lie seemed to
Kendall to come up the steps without
touching them. In an instant his hand
was on Kendall's arm, and the doctor
carried three bruises for a week as
the result of it.
Though the two men had a club ac
quaintance, Alden did not show the
slightest trace of recognition.
"Miss Miller?” he said, his voice per
fectly steady, ghastly steady, as Ken
dall afterward described it. "Is she
alive?”
"She is,” replied the doctor, “and
there Is no Immediate danger."
"1 thank you.” said Alden. "I was
pretty nearly gout*. 1 bog your par
don, how do you do, lr. Kendall?"
And he extended his hand.
"1 understand perfectly," said the
| doctor. “Miss Miller is conscious, eu
l tirely rational ami suffering far less
! palu than you would suppose.”
"Who did this?" demanded Alden.
j “She has told you?"
"She does not know.”
"She does not know!" echoed Alden,
his head sinking upon his breast.
"1 am sorry to say that it will not
he wise for you to see her tonight,”
said Kendall. "We must not subject
her to excitement. Please wait here.”
| And he led the way to the receptiou
room. "1 will go to Miss Miller’s room
and bring you word.”
Alden found himself In the presence
whom he took to lie one
of the doctors connected with the
establishment, which may indicate
that there was more in the detective's
disguise than he had been willing to
admit to Kendall.
“1 called to Inquire about Miss Mil
ler,” said Alden after maintaining
silence to what seemed the limit of
his power.
“You are Mr. Alden, I take it,” was
the reply. "Well, you want to cheer
up. Miss Miller Is doing fine.”
“Has she asked for ine?"
“Yes.” but it was net Elmondorf’s
vo ce that replied. “She has asked fo
j"t U many times.”
Alden turned to see Brenda at the
door. He stared at her as if she had
been a figure raised up by some sud
den conjuration.
"Brenda!" he said at last. "1 find
you everywhere.”
"Did not my father toll you 1 was
here?” she asked, and lit* shook his
head.
"1 shall remain with Miss Miller un
til her mother eotnes.” said Brenda.
"Dr. Kendall has arranged it."
Alden seemed momentarily to he at
a loss for words, hut he did not strug
gle for them or labor visibly with emo
tion. IDs manner still remained as it
had been throughout—restrained, ine
chanical.
“You are true blue, Brenda,” he said
steadily. “You always were.”
"i am very glad to be here.” she in
terrupted. speaking softly and leading
him aside. "She is an altogether lova
hie girl, and 1 am going to he a sister
to her." she added, smiling, "instead
of to you. as is custmnarv under the
circumstances, l will see tiiat she is
not harassed by questions and that she
lacks nothing that can possibly he
had.”
"I cannot see her tonight,” said Al
den. "Can I send a message?”
"I will take it to her.” replied Bren
da. “And, by the way. I saw some
violets in her room. Site likes them
especially, docs she not? 1 think Dr.
Kendall would let me take in a few
from you.”
“In five minutes 1 will have them,”
said Alden. “You will wait here? it
is very kind of you.”
He left the room hastily, and Brenda
explained his errand. Kendall’s man
ner led her to think that she might
have made an error in suggesting the
violets, but it was a very different mat
ter that was upon the doctor’s mind.
He was making an effort to express
himself when Elmendorf interrupted
him.
“Dr. Kendall is worried,” he said,
“because he has permitted me to play
a trick upon you. To tell the truth. 1
don’t like it any better than he does,
and here is where it ends. I atn not a
doctor. I am a detective sergeant
from headquarters. You saw me at
the Thirty-eighth street house this aft
ernoon. My name is Elmendorf.”
Brenda exhibited surprise, but no re
sentment. merely saying that the de
tective's presence was doubtless neces
sary for reasons unknown to her.
“1 am as anxious as any one can
be.” she said, “to have justice done
in this deplorable affair. Do you think
you can find out who committed this
crime. Mr. Elmendorf? Do you sus
pect any one?”
“1 haven’t got any authority to find
out anything or suspect anybody.” re
plied Elmendorf, in a tone which indi
cated that this familiar situation was
not agreeable in the present instance.
“1 go where I am sent and then i make
a report. What becomes of the infor
mation afterward is a matter with
which tlie sultan of Sulu has more to
do than I have. Rut I’ll toll you what
I th.*nk,” he added earnestly. “If this
poor girl gets well, that will he the
last you’ll hear about the case. If she
dies, it will all have to come out.’
“But you don’t think she will die?”
cried Brenda, paling.
“I hope not,” replied Elmendorf.
“and of course my opinion in that
matter is worth even less than it is
in the other. But we mustn’t take her
recovery for granted at this stage of
the game. Am I right, Dr. Kendall?”
“There can he no certainty yet,” re
plied tlic doctor gravely.
“Her condition might change for the
worse quite suddenly. Isn’t that so?”
continued Elmendorf. "And if it did
she might become unconscious and re
main so to the end. That’s the fact, and
we must face it. This may be murder,
and the safe way is to get at the truth
now while we can.”
"I won't have her questioned any
more tonight,” said Kendall, with de
cision. "Fve blocked off a corouer
already who was here for an ante
mortem statement, and l am prepared
for the next comer. Miss Miller shall
not be harried into her grave, and if
any attempt of the kind is made 1
will show a few points of law that
will surprise some of our hit and miss
officials In this town. A physician’s
authority beside his patient can be
put into practical form if the individ
ual understands the subject. And 1
do.”
“Your advice goes, with me,” Elnien
dorf hastened to say: “hut I don't
think tlu* particular question I had in
mind could do any harm.”
“You may state it,” said Kendall.
“It. was about a picture that I saw
in her room,” replied the detective,
“a photograph of a painting. I should
say. I'd like to know where it came
from; how she happened to get it.
Ugly looking thing it is. and 1 couldn't
help wondering about it.”
"Y’ou mean the picture of Tantalus,”
said Brenda. "1 saw it. Why do you
attach any importance to it?”
“If I should tell you. you’d laugh at
me.” replied Elmendorf, “so I won’t do
it just now. But if you should get a
good chance to ask the question”—
“1 have already doue so. singularly
enough,” said Brenda. “She was awake
when 1 returned to the room, and we
spoke of some things that she wished
to have brought here. She asked for
that picture. 1 must have shown my
surprise, for she Immediately began to
praise tlie picture, saying how much
she admired the facial expression of
the tortured king, and she mentioned
having bought it at an art store on
Twenty-third street a few weeks ago.
Asa student of facial expression, hav
ing her dreams of tragic triumphs some
day. the thing might naturally have
appealed to her.”
“I didn't think about her being an
actress,” said Elmendorf. “That ex
plains it no doubt. They like those ex- j
troroe typical faces. 1 was foolish to i
imagine that the picture could have
had anything to do with this case."
To Be Coktisitkd Next Week
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Barnesville, Ga.
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