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SATURDAY, APRIL 17. Todays Financial and Commercial News AUGUSTA COTTON MARKET Middling closed today at 1314 c. Ten? steady. Middling last year 12 9 16c. Holiday on New York Cotton Exchange. CLOSING QUOTATIONS Good ordinary 11 3-8 Strict good ordinary 11 7*# Low middling ••• ••13 6'* Strict iow middling 13 1-4 Middling .13 1-2 Strict middling 13 3-4 Good middling 14 Tinges, Ist 13 1-4 Tinges, 2nd 12 a-2 Previous Day’s Figures Good ordinary 13 3-3 Strict Rood ordinary 11 7-S Ixiw middling 12 Middling 13 1-2 Low Mldd ing 12 5-* Strict middling 13 3-» Good middling 14 Tinges, first 13 l-« Tinges, second 12 6-3 Receipts For Week Shim Up'*. Shin' Suturd y 5:.l 190 1529 Monday .... - Tuesday •••• •••• Wednesday . . —— Thursday. . . . - ———- Friday Totals 1632 977 6005 EXTRA CAR SERVICE FOR EASTER SUNDAY Three Cars Leave Monte Sano Pavilion For the City at Seven A. M. Split Schedules, Nine to One. On Easter Sunday, which will be to morrow. the Augusta-Aiken Railway A- Electric Corporation announces special cars on the city lines. There will be three caan to leave the site of the Monte Sano pavilion about 7 o’clock for the city, coming down the Summerville way, while from 9 a. m. until 1 p. m. there will he a split schedule operated from O'Dowd's corner to Eighth and Broad. There will also be extra cars on other city lines. The new gy-stem of. operation by which the l.akc View cars run to the Third street car barn instead of to East Boundary and the Turpin Hill cars run to East Boundary instead of Twelfth and Broad, is said to be meeting with much fav6r. C of Ga.Ry “The Right Way” Current \i.,i>, meiiu.«i, 1 nils.) UtcAKicKto For Dublin. Savannah, Macon and Florida points 7:30 am. For Dublin and Savannah .. .. 2:30 p.m Foi Gavannah, Macon. Colum bus and Birmingham 9:20 p.m. ARRIVALS From Savannah, Macon, Co lumbus and Birmingham ... 8:30 a.m. From Dublin Savannah and Florida points 12:30 p.m. From Dublin Savannah. Ma con and Florida points .. .. 7:50 pm. All Trains Are Dally. Train leaving Augusta 7:30 a. m and arriving at 7:50 p m.. carries a through Pullman Buffet Parlor Car between Au gusta and Savannah, connecting at Mil len with through train for Macon. Co lumbus 81-mingham and Montgomery Vestibuled electrlc-llghted, steam heated Sleeping Cars. are carried on night trains between Augusta and Sa vannah. Ga.; connecting at Mlllen with through Sleeping Cars to and from Ma con Columbus and Atlanta. For any Information as to fares, schedules, etc... write or communicate with. / W W. HACKETT. Trsre'ing Passenger Agent Phone No. 62 719 Broad Street Augusta. Ga. CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY CO. (Effective April 12, 1914.) The following arrivals anil departures cf trains. Union Station. Augusta. On., as well as connections with other com panies are simply given as Information and are not guaranteed. Departures. 7:10 A. M., No. 5 Dally for Anderson 71 :00 A. M.. No. I—Dally for Greenwood, Spartanburg, Greenville, Asheville. 4:26 P. M„ No. 3—Dally for Spartan « burg, Greenville, etc. 6:30 A. M„ No. 46—Dally for Beaufort, Port Koyal and Charleston. 2:00 P M.. No. 42—Daily for Beaufort, Port Royal, Charleston, Savannah. Arrivals. 1210 P. M., No. 2—Dally from Spartan burg. Greenville, etc. 7:05 P. M, No. 4—Dally from Spartan burg, Asheville. 12:25 P. M-. No. 41—Dally from Beau fort, Port Royal, Charleston and Savannah. 605 P. M., No. 45—Dally from Beau fort, Port Royal and Charleston. S no P M., No. 6—Dally from Anderson. Through Pullman Parlor Buffet Cars ■will be operated between Augusta and Asheville on trains Nos. 1 and 4, In con nection with Sou. Ry. “CAROLINA YfEECIAL" from Spartanburg. ERNEST WILLIAMS, General Passenger Agent. 529 Broadway, Augusta. Ga. GEORGIA RAILROAD '(Effective Jan uary 25, 1914.) No. Arrive From— • 2 Atlanta, Macon. Athens and Washington 2:Sopm •4 Atlanta 7:osam U 2 Macon and Camak B:4sam •28 Atlanta. Macon, Athens and Washington 10:20pm •92 Athens, Macon and Wash ington 11:45am Pullman Sleeper and Parlor Car Service. Nos. 3 sndj4. Augusta and Atlanta. Nos. 3 ana 4, Charleston and Atlanta. Nos. 1, 2 77 and 28, Broiler Buffet Parlor Car, Augusta and Atlanta. J. B BILL!)PS. G. P. A., C. C. M'MII.I.IN. A. G. P. A. 801 BROAD STREET. _ PHONES 267, 661 and 2266. * Comparative Receipts 1913. 1914. Saturday ... ... 54? 417 Mondny ... —— —— Tuesday ... ... Wednesday Total. 3139 2449 Stocks and Receipts Stock In Augusta. 1913 60,688 Stock In Augusta, 1914 46.93 ft Kcc. since Sept. 1. 1913 823,629 Kcc. .luce Sept. 1, 1914 356,055 Augusta Daily Receipts 1913. 1914. Georgia Railroad 47 229 Southern Hallway Co 73 S 3 Augusta Southern 7 4 Augusta-Aiken Ry Cen of Ou. It. R 105 Georgia and Florid# 30 6 C. and IV. C. Ry 98 A. C. L. R. R. ». 37 IVagon 6 4 Canal —— —— Net receipts 283 433 Through 403 389 Total 486 822 Weekly Crop Movement, End ing Friday, April 10, 1914. 1914. 1913. 1913. Shipments .. 59,372 57.977 74.025 Stock . ... 110,667 78.327 191,13 ft Receipts ... 557,392 547.991 375,274 Came In St. 121.497 147,785 192,795 crop In St. 12,742.368 12,064,731 14.042,827 Vis. Sup .. 5,649,820 4,988,039 5,391,232 CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET Chicago.—Wheat rose oti seeding de lays ft-om northwest, reports of possible damage to the winter crop southwest and expected falling off in world ship ments. Opened firm 1-8 off to a shade advance, followed by a decided upturn all around. A rush of selling caused a sudden break in corn. Reports that Argentine corn was being sold in Oklahoma formed an element of weukness. Started 1-4 lower to shade up and later hardened a IfTtlo then made a sharp descent. Oats sagged. Provisions easy on slow ness of demand. First sales ranged from Thursday night's level to a de cline of 2 1-2 with no sign of any Im portant rally. Need of rain in Nebraska and renewal of talk about green bugs in one Okla homa helped wheat. Closed steady 1-2 to 5-8 net higher. Gam's depression increased on heavy sale!* hy some of the larger speculators. Closed Tiervous at 1-2 to 5-8 net decline. WHEAT— Open. High. Low. Close. M;IV .... 90% 91% 9ft *4 91% July .... S6'4 87 86*4 86% CORN— May .... 68*4 69 68*4 68*4 July .... 65% 68% 67% 67% OATS-- Alay. . . . 38*4 68*4 38*4 35% JiiflCX . . . 38*4 39*4 38% 38% PORK— May . . . .2095 2097% 2090 2092 ■ Jut*- ... .2095 2100 2092 2095 i.Ard— May . . . .1502 1052 1050 1050 July . . . .1072 1072 3070 1070 RIBS— May . . . .1115 1115 1112 1112 July . . . .1132 1135 3130 1132 Atlantic Coast Line NOTE —These arrivals and departures are given as Information. Arrivals and connections are not guaranteed. 32 | | 35 2:30p Lv. Augusta Ar. 8:55s 5:10p Orangeburg 6:57a 6:45p Sumter 4:25s 8:00p Florence 3:03a 5:05a Richmond 6:35p 8:40a Washington, D. C. 3:05p 30:02a Baltimore, Md. 1:45p 12:23p W. Philadelphia 11:36a 2:31p Ar. New York Lv. 9:15a Through Electric Lighted steel Pull man Sleepers on each train to New York daily. Observation Broiler cars between Flor ence and Augusta, and our own A. C. L New Diners north of Florence. T. B. WALKER, Dlst. Pass. Agt. 829 Broad St. Phone 625. Southern Railway Premier Carrier of the South Schedule Effective March 1, 1914. N. B. —Schedule figures puolished onlt as information rod are not guaranteed Union Station, All Trains Dally Trains Depart to No. IS Charleston, S. C 7:20a.m. 26 Savannah. Jacksonville 8:20a.m. g Columbia, S. C 7:10a.m. IS? Washington, New York .. ~2:65p.m. 82 Washington. New York .. ..8:06p.m. 22 Charleston 20 Columbia (:00p.m. 24 Charleston. Jacksonville ...11:46p m. Trains Amv# Prom No. 26 Charleston, Jacksonville ...B:2oam. 19 Columbia 10:00a.m. 131 Washington. New York . ..12:01p.m. SI Washington, New York . ..12:15p m. 85 Charleston 2:16p.m. 29 Savannah, Jacksonville .... 7:00p.m. 7 Columbia 8:85p.m. 17 Charleston 10:60p.m. Pullman Drawing Room and Compart ment Sleeping Cars. Coaches, Dining Car Service. Phono 661 or 947 for Information and Pullman Reservatlona. MAGRTJDER DENT. Dlot. Pass. Agent, Telephone 947 719 Broad St. No. Depart To— • 1 Atlanta, Macon, Athens and Washington B:3oam • 3 Atlanta 12:16nt 111 Camak and Macon 6:lspm *27 Atlanta. Macon and Wash ington B:lspm •91 Athens and Washington 4:Sopm • Dally. IDally except Sunday. TIME SHOWN ABOVE IS EASTERN (CITY) TIME. NEW YORK SJTOCK MARKET New York.—l'rlces on the slock ex change closed weak today. Slackneaa of demand caused a eluding of prices The influence nf 11)1 poor showing of triuln conditions In the steel corporu t.on'e tonnage figures was felt through out tli«> list with man effect on the Moc.ks of ateel companies and rotated concerns. New Haven weakened on the February statement. Oil shares were hammered down again. The small amount of business trans acted was almost entirely of the profes sional scat. Room sentiment continued to favor the short side although the gen eral decline was not severe. A few of the specialties broke severely but eom paratlvty few of Die rtpresc ntatlves shares sagged ns much as n point. Bonds steady. NEW YORK STOCK LIST Last Sale Amalgamated Copper 7514 American Agricultural ... 56*, American Can 28 American Car mid Foundry 50 American Cities pfd 62 American Smelting 6814 American Tel. and Tel ~..12ft American Tobacco .237 Atchison 96*4 Baltimore and Ohio 891, Canadian Pacific 19814 Chesapeake and Ohio 52 T 4 Chicago. Mil. and St. Paul 99*4 Erie 29*4 Great Northern pfd ... 123** Interhorough Metropolitan pfd ..... 61 Louisville A- Nashville 136 Mexican Petroleum 63 Missouri, Kansas and Texas 1514 New York Central 89 *s N. Y.. N. 11. and Hartford 66*4 Northern Pacific 111*4 Pennsylvania ... 11014 Reading 165 Rep. Iron and Steel 2294 Rock Island Co. pfd 514 Seaboard Air Line 1914 Southern Pacific 93* Tennessee Copper 34** Texas Co 14114 Union Pacific 15s United States Steel 6094 Ho pfd 13 0 Western Union 6214 LIVE STOCK MARKET CHICAGO CATTLE RECEIPTS Chicago, Ills. —Hogs: Receipts 9,000; strong; hulk of sales XBOaS9O: light 870- aS92 1-2; mixed 865a592 1-2; heavy 845- aBB7 1-3; rough 845a555; pigs 750a860. Cattle; Receipts 100; steady; beeves 710a796; Texas steers 730a535; Stockers and feoderh 660a8t0; rows and heifers 375a86f1; calves 700a10.25. Sheep: Receipts 2,500; steady; native 6Ma700; yearlings 580a750; lumhs, native 630a815. HOURLY TEMPERATURES Degrees 6 A. M 46 7 A. M, ..■.•••••••••*■•,.*•..45 8 A. M 50 9 A. M 55 10 A. M 60 11 A. M 64 12 noon 66 1 P. M 68 2 P. M 73 Strengthens Weak and Tired Women "I was under a great strain nursing a relative through three months' sick ness.” writes Mrs. J. C. Van De Sande. of Kirkland, 111., and "Electric Bitters kept me from breaking down. I will never be without It.” Do you feel tlrerl and worn out? No appetite and food won't digest? It Isn’t the spring weather. You need Electric Bitters. Start a month’s treatment today; noth ing better for stomach, liver and kid neys. The great spring tonic. Relief or money back. 50c and SI.OO, at yo**£ Druggist. MONF.Y MARKET New York.—Call money nominal; no loans. Time lonns steady; 60 days 2 l-2a’ 3-4; 90 days 2 3-4; six months 3. Mercantile paper 3 1-2 to 4. Sterling exchange firm; 60 days 485; demand 486.85. Commercial hills 484 3-8. Government bonds heavy, Railroad bonds steady. Whenever You Need a General Tonlo Take Grova’a The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic Is equally valuable as a General Tonic because It contains the well known tonic properties of QUIN INE and IRON. Drives out Malaria, enriches Blood. Builds up the WhoK System. 60c. —(Advertisement.) MORNING WITH THE RECORDER There was a very small court this morning, very sparsely attended. Only the Judge, a few policemen and two or three prisoners were present. All the rest, —the, lawyers, witnesses, anil what Is usually the audience,—-were around the corner standing In the cue buying tickets for the 1920 Min strels. (Advert.) As for these poor, wretched little ar ticles, they are about to he abandoned. Nothing funny ever happens around there any more. The only things wor thy of note are invariably denied pub lication. People confront the terrified and cringing Press with the most, hide ous threats If he so much as hint at their appearance In court. It has got so that only the utterly destitute, the half-witted, and the people who gel 00 days In the Stockade are safe to men tion. The agitation caused by the articles of the past has not died down yes. Vengeance is still abroad. Despite the triple plate, bullet and acid proof armor which the reporters In town have been forced to adopt, their minds are still far from easy. At night they see shadows 1 urkln* behind every lamp-post. They never pass an alley hut visions of bloody headlines rise up before their watery eyes.—VEILED VAMPIRE THROWS VIAL OP VIT RIOL. Or, —GRAZED CRIMINAL cracks cranium. Ho nothing doing for the present. But he patient. Something may hap pen again one of these days. Now, today, with prayers for your forebearance, let the following he an other sad and depressing plea for char ity. The success which attended the last petition for help, and found a home for the girl, makes It easier to put this ease before you. Susannah Campbell, a colored wom an of about thirty, came up for idling and loafing. She was about three quarters blind. Her eyes were infect ed and loathsome to behold. She had THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA. NEGRESS STOLE DIAMOND RINGS Silver Purge Containing Three Jeweled Rings Recovered Yesterday From Thief. A colored woman named Ora Wil liams whs arrested yesterday morn ing by Detectives Glover and Redd lor having stolen about S9OO worth of t'lothunds. Slie went to the house of r lady ou Mclntosh Street on the pretext ot buying old clothes, an I while thd Indy was not looking, stole a silver pocket hook out of the top drawer containing three diamond rings valued respectively at about $l5O, S3OO and s4.'id The pifM wl| missed a few hoars after the woman's depart ure, and from Information given to the police at once, Ora Williams was eaught. The rings were recovered, through Ora’s confession, trom a friend of her’s named Ella Butler, to whom she had given them to keep. Ora Is charged with larceny from the house, and Klla with accessory before the fact and with receiving stolen goods. They are in the county jail. W. WALLACE CLARK FOR LEGISLATURE Thirty Men Gathered at Court House and Nominated Him For the Office. Want Rep resentative Outside of City. From various wectlonH of the county, outside of the city of Augusta, thirty men gathered at the Court House this morning and nominated Mr. W. Wal lace Clark for the legislature. It is the desire of tlie people outside of the city to have one of the representatives In the legislature and they united on Mr. Clark, who lives about eight miles from tlie city on the Milledgcvllle Road. Mr. \V. T. Hroome was chairman of the meeting and Mr. I*. 11. Hoe was sec retary. Mr. ('lark made a short ad dress after his nomination. Mr. Clark is a member of the Farmers Union. DEATHS DAVIS, MR. LEROY L.—Died tills morning at 6:30 o’clock, at 1434 Walton Way, In the 26th year of Ills ago. The funeral services will lie held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at Barton's Chapel, eight miles on the Doan’s Bridge road. The interment will be in tho Kins cemetery. UNDERWOOD LEAVES Orlando. Fla.—Congressman Oscar W. Underwood left Friday night for Washington. His wife, who has been here for some weeks at the bedside of her father, J. H. Woodward, of Bir mingham. remn In ad-here. Mr. Wood ward Is gradually growing weaker. ACTING SPEAKER. Waihington.—Represen tut Ive James Hay, of the seventh Virginia district, was named acting speaker of he house today after Speaker Clark left for At lantic City to spend Blaster. Tabernacle Baptist Church Regular Sunday services hy the pastor, Rev. C. T. Walker, D.D. The ordinance of Baptist t*J he adminis tered following the morning service. Mass meeting in Interest of Walker Enptlst Institute following the Sunday school service. Friends and visitors arc cordially invited to attend the services for the day. Prayer meeting at 6 a. m. Preaching sctvlcc at 11 p. m. Raptlst at 1 p. m. Sunday school p. m. Ity Y. P. U. meeting at 7 p. m. Preaching service at 8 p. m. _ SPECIAL NOTICES Attention, Camp 435, U. C. V.! ATTEND REGULAR MEETING AT Court House Monday, April Il3th, 8:30 p. 111. Arrangements to be made for Reunion at Jacksonville. By order of GEO. F. LAMBACK, W. A. CLARK. Capt. Commander. been searching for work, and, of course, could find none, because no body could stand to look at her. The Judge asked her about the cause of her eye-trouble, whether It was this disease or that, hut It whs neither, she said, —It came from cold, and ca tarrh in the head. “I comes from Dillon, S. C„” she said. “But I come hero sum Waynes boro. I been here about two months." "How did you get from Dillon to Waynesboro?” asked the Judge. “Went wld Mr. Todd’s show, —cir- cus.” “What were you?” asked the Judge. "Hoochy-kooc hy dancer?” "No, sir, Cook," she replied placidly. “How did you get here?” he asked. "Walked.” "You’ve got no place to stay?” "No, sir.” "Are you hungry?” "Yesslr, I shore Is." "Well," said the Judge, "I’ll send you up to the stockade for ten days, so you can get something to cat and get the doctor to look after your eyes. You’ll get some rountry liarn and cow peas. Like that?” "Anything, Lord!” she said. Ho she Is at the stockade now hut In ten days will he on the loose again. Hh' has two children In Dil lon. aged three and six, and wants to go home. The ticket from here to Dillon Is 84.70. Can that he raised? If you leave ten cents for Susannah Campbell at The Herald Office, it will he put In her box. It doesn’t matter if there should he a few extra dimes, she would be able to buy a pie on the train. And please don’t think that It will he subscribed easily, without you. and that you needn't bother. At that rate she will not gel far. She has receiv ed only two dimes so far. From two young fellows In court, who suggested the Idea of putting her case before the public. (Dillon papers please copy.) The Case of Jenny Brice By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART iIIOLOGVE. Was Jennie Brico murdered? If she were murdered, who war guilty of the foul deed? If she were not done away with hy an assassin, what becam of her? Whence did she disappear? These and a few other inter esting questions arc raised a. once in this very clever tale o' mystery written by a womar who is not only an adept a writing Jiction of this charac ter, but the possessor of a styU that chains the infere.sf by Hi clearness and directness an 11 wins by its rich humor. Continued From Yesterdav CHAPTER VI. mITE newspapers were full of the laid ley case, with Its eu rl "" s H » l 'ill , "> and many sur [vVj,22# l | prises. It was considered unique 111 tunny ways. Mr. Pitman had always read all the murder trials and used to talk about the corpus de Hot! and writs of habeas corpus, corpus being the legal way. I believe, of spell ing corpse. Hut ! came out of the I.iul ley trial for It came to trial ultimately —with only one point of law that I was Niire of. That was that It Is mighty hard to prove a man a tnur deror Unless you ran show what hi killed. And that was the weakness in tin I aid ley ease. There was a body, but II could not be idenlltlod. The police held Mr. I aid lev for a day or two, and then, nothing appearing they let. him go. Mr. Holcombe, who was still occupying the second floor front, almost wept with rage and de spall when he rend the news In the papers. He was still working on the case In his curious* way, wandering aloug the w harfs at night and writing letters all over the country to leorr about Philip Ladley's previous life and bis wife’s. But he did not seem to gel anywhere. The newspapers hud been full of the Jennie Brice disappearance, for dlaup penrance It proved to be. Ho far a* coaid be lenrned she had not left the city that night, or since, and us hlic was a striking looking woman, vary blond, as I have said, with a full voice and a languid manner, she could hard ly have taken refuge anywhere with out being discovered. The morning after her disappearance a young wo man, tall, like Jennie Brice, and fair, had been seen In the Union station But as she was accompanied hy a young man, who bought her magazine* and papers and hade her an excited farewell, Heading Ills Jove to vurloui members of a family and promising ti feed the canary, this was uot seriously considered. A sort of general alarm went over the country. When she was younger she had been pretty well known at the Broadway tlieuters in New York. One way or another, the Liberty theater got a lot of free ad vertlslag from the case, and, 1 believe. Miss Hope’s salary was raised. The police communicated with Jen ule Brice’s people—she lih<l a sister In Olean, N. Y., but she hud not heard from her. The sister wrote—l heard later-that Jennie had been unhappy with Philip J/iidley, and afraid h< would kill her. And Miss Hope told the same story. But—there was no corpus, us the luwyers say, and Anally the police had to free Mr. laid ley. Beyond making an attempt to gel bail, and falling, bo had done nothing Asked about Ills wife, he merely shrug ged his shoulders and said she had left him and would turn up all right. He was unconcerned, smoked cigarettes all day, ale and slept well and looked better .since he had had nothing to drink. And two or three days after the arrest he sent for the manuscript of his play. Mr. Howell came for It ou the Thurs dny of that week. I was on my knees scrubbing the parlor floor when he rang the bell. I let him in, and it seemed to mo Unit he looked tired and pale. “Well, Mrs. Pitman,” he suld, smll lng, “what did you find in The cellar when the water went down?” “I’m glad to say that I didn’t find what I feared, Mr. Howell." “Not even the onyx clock?" “Not even the clock," I replied. “And I feel ns If I’d lost n friend. A clock is a lot of company.” “Do you know whut I think?" he said, looking at me closely. "I think you put that clock away yourself in the excitement und have forgotten ell about It.” “Nonsense." “Think hard.” He was very much In earnest. “You knew the water was rising and the Ladleys would have to be moved up to the second floor front, where the clock stood. You went In there and looked around to see If the room was ready, and you saw the clock. And knowing that the Lad Ipvs quarreled now and then and were apt to throw things”— “Nothing but a soap dish, and that only once." “you the clock to the attic and put It say. In an old trunk." “I did nothing of the sort. I wen! In, as you say, and I put up an old splasher, because of the way ho throw Ink about. Thru I wound the clock put the key under It and went out." "And the key Is gone, loo!" he said thoughtfully. "I wish l could Hud that clock, Mrs. Pitman." "Ho do I." “Ladley went out Sunday afternoon about 3, didn’t lie- slid got hack at s?’ I turned and looked at him. “Yes Mr. Howell," I said, "Perhaps yoi know something about that." “I?" He changed color. • Twenty years of dunning boarders has mud ine pretty sharp at reading faces, an he lookisl as uncomfortable as If li owed me money. "I!" I know thei that 1 had been right about the void it had been him. "You!" I retorted. "You were her Sunday morning and spent some tlm with the Lad leys. I am the old sli devil. I notice you didn’t toll you friend, Mr. Holcoml*e, about bavin been here on Sunday." Ho was quick to recover. "I’ll tel you nil about It, Mrs. Pi I man," he sab smilingly. "You see, all my life, 1 him wished for an onyx clock. It has licci my ambition, my great desire. Leu* Ing the house tbnt Suudny mornln and bearing the ticking of the cloo. upstairs I recognized It was an ony? clock, clambered from my boat througl an upper window and so reached ll Tho cloek showed light, but aftci stunning It with a chair"— “Exactly!” I said. "Then the tbtni Mrs. Ladley said she would not do wn probably to wind the clock?" lie dropped Ills bantering manner a I once. "Mrs. Pitman." he said, “I don’t know what you heard or did not hear. But I want you to give me a little time before you fell anybody that I was here that Sunday morning. Am In return I’ll And your clock.” I hesitated, but. however put out hi waa he didn’t look like a criminal Besides, he was a friend of my niece’s and blood Is thicker than flood water. "There was nothing wrong about my being here,” he went on, "but I don’t want It known. Don’t spoil a good atory, Mrs. Pitman." I did not quite understand that, al though those who followed the trtul carefully may do so. Poor Mr. Howell! I am sure he believed that It was only a good story, lie got the description of uiy onyx clock and wrote It down and I gave him the manuscript for Mr. Ladley. That was the lust I saw of him for some time. That Thursday proved to be an ex citing day, for lato In the afternoon Terry, digging the mud out of tho cel lar, came across my missing gruy false front near the coal vault and brought It up, grinning, and Just before 8 Mr Graves, the detective, rang the bell and then let himself In. I found him In the lower hull looking around. “Well, Mrs. Pitman,” he said, "has our friend come hack yet?" "She was no friend of mine.” “Not. she- Ladley. He’ll be out tills evening, and he’ll probably be around for Ills clothes." I felt my knees waver, as they al ways did when he *vas spoken of. “He may want to stuy here," said Mr. Graves. "In fact, I think that’s Just what he will want" "Not here,” 1 protested. "The very thought of him makes me quake.” “If he comes here belter take him In I want, to know where he Is." I tried to say thut 1 wouldn’t have him, but the old habit of the ward as sorted Itself. From taking a bottle of beer or a sliee of pie to telling one where one might or might not live the poliee wore autocrats In that neighbor * > “Look anything like this?" ho asksd. hood, and, respectable woman that 1 am, my neighbors’ fears of the front office have Infected me. “All right. Mr. Graves,” I said. He pushed the parlor door open and looked In, whistling. “This Is the place, isn’t it?" “Yes. But it was upstairs that lie”— “I see. Tull woman, Mrs. Ladley?” “Tall and blond. Very airy in her manner.” He nodded mid stood looking In and whistling. "Never heard her speak of a towu named Horner, did you?” “Horner? No.” "I see.” He turned and wnndered out again Into the hall, still whistling. At. the door, however, he stnp|*ed and turned. "Look anything like this?"*he asked and held out one of his- hands wllli a small kodak picture on the palm. It was a snapshot of a children’* frolic In a village street, with some onlookers In the background. Around one of the heads had been drawn a cir cle In pencil. I took it to the gas Jet ami looked tit It closely. It wits a tall woman with a lint on, not unlike Jen nie llrlce. She was looking over the crowd, and 1 could see only her face, and that in shadow. I shook my head. "I thought not,” he said. "We have a lot of atage pictures of her, but, what with false hair and their being re touched beyond recognition, they don’t amount to much.” He started out and on the doorstep to light a cigar. “Take him In if he comes," he said. "And keep your eyes open. Feed him well and he won’t kill you I" 1 hud plenty to think of when I was rooking Mr. Reynolds' supper—tho, chance thut I might, have Mr. Ladley-) again and the woman at Horner. Fbr it hud come t/> me like a flash as Mr. Graves left that the "Horn—” on the paper slip might have been "nomer." *••• • • • • After all, there was nothing sensa tional about Mr. lotdley’s return. He came at S o'clock thut night, fresh shnvod and with hla hair rat, 11 Ad, al though he had a latchkey, he rang the doorbell. 1 knew his ring, and I thought it no harm to carry an old razor of Mr. Pitman’s with the blade open nnd folded bark on the handle, tho way the colored_ people use them, in my left hund. But I saw at once that he meant no mischief. “Good evening,” he said, and put out hla bund. I Jumped hack until I aaw there was nothing in It and that he only meant to shako hands. I didn't do It. I might have to tuko him In and make his bed and cook his meals, but 1 did not have to sbuke hands with him. ‘‘You, too!’’ he sold, looking at me with what l suppose he meant, to bo u reproachful look. But he could no more put an expression of that sort in bis eyes than a Ash could. "I sup pose, then, there is no use asking if I may have my old room—the front room. I won’t need two.” I didn't wunt him, and be must have seen It. Hut I took him. "You may have it, as fur as I’m concerned,” I said. "But you’ll have to let the pa per hanger in tomorrow.” "Asauredly.” Ho camo Into the hall and stood looking around him, and I fancied he drew a breath of relief. “It Isn’t much yet,” he said, “but It’s bet ter to look at than six feet of mu ly water." "Or than stone walls,” I said. Ho looked at tne and smiled “Or than stone wulla,” ho repeater bow lug, and went into Ills room. Ho I had him again, und If I gave him only the dull knives mi locked up the breadknife the moment I had flnlshod with it, who can blame me? I took ull the precaution I could think of hail Terry put an extra bolt on every door anil hid the rat poieon and the carbolic acid in the cellar. Peter would not go near him. Ho hobbled around on hla three legs, with the splint tea ting a sort of tattoo on the floor, hot he stayed bank In the kitchen with me or In the yard. It was Hunday night or early Mon day morning tluit Jennie Brice disap peared. On Thursday evening her hus band came buck. On Friday the body of a woman was washed ashore at Beaver, but turned out to lie that of a stewardess who had fallen overboard from one of Ihe Olneinnatl packets. Mr. Ladley himself showed me the ar ticle In the morning paper when I took In hla breakfast. “Public hysteria has killed a man be fore this," he said when I had read it "Suppose that woman had been man gled or the screw of the steamer had cut her houd off! llow many people do you suppose would have been will ing to swear that it wus my—was Mrs. Dudley V’ “Even without a head I should know Mrs. Ludley,” I retorted. Ho shrugged bis shoulders. "Let’s trust she’s still alive, for my sake," he said. "But I’m glad, anyhow, that this woman had a head. You’ll allow me to be glad, won’t you?” "You can be anything you want as far as I’rn concerned," I snapped and went out. Mr. Holcombe still retained the sec ond story front room. I think, ultbough he said nothing more about it, that he was still “playing horse.” lie wrote u good hit at the wushstand, and, from the loose sheets of manuscript he left. I believe actually tried to begin a play. But mostly he wandered along the wa ter front or stood on one or another of the bridges, looking at the water and thinking. It Is certain that he tried to keep in the part by smoking cigarettes, but he huted them, and usually ended by throwing the ciga rette away and lighting an old pipe he carried. To Be Continued Tomorrow KEEP IT SAFE. Maud—l’ve been losing quite a lot ors my hair lately. Marie- You should lock it UP, dear.— Boston Transcript. FIVE