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=r£3S ^SSCBSSSItZ 3BS .â- ^ " .-.'â- Ji^Ut'mt •^ :XE Ask for Salada Orange Pekoeâ€" it it the fln^t II TK A -~: " *Freth from the gardens* II BEGIN HERE TODAY The body of Douglas Raynor in found in the early evening on the ik>or cf the sun room at Flower Acres, hi3 Long Island home. Raynor has been shot through the heart. Standing ovor the dead man, p)«tol in hand, is Mal- colm F'niey, former sweetheart of Raynor's wife, Nancy. Eva Turner, Raynor's nurse, stands by the door 'with, her hand on the light switch. In a nnoment Nancy appears, white-faced «nd terrified. Orville Kent, Nancy's brother, comes in from the south side of the room. And then Ezra Goddard, friend of Finley; Miss Mattie, Ray- itor'i ulster, and others, enter upon the scene. Detective Dobbins heads the police investigation. An autopsy re- veals that Raynor al8<' was being sys- tematically poisoned with arsenic. Now comes Lionel Raynor, son of Douglas Raynor by an earlier mar- riage, with the j.nnouncement that his father's will bequeaths everything to him. Nancy, however, knows of an- other will that was witnessed by Grim- show Gannon, a nired nan. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Well, Mrs. Raynor," Lionel said, "it rests between you and men, then, as to who inherits my father's estate. I have here the will that names me the heir. If you produce a later one, giving you the right to it, I have no- thing more to say. But you must put up the gooiis." "Why have you never been here be- fore, Lionel?" Nan said. "Why have we never met?" "Oh, to be frank, I rather resented the governor's marrying again, and 1 think I didn't care about seeing the now incumbent. Now, if we're tQ share the property, I suppose we'd better tall a truce until the settlements ran be made." "Why a truce? Why not a perman- ent friendship â€" whatever the oufcome sf the settlement?" Licnel looked at her accu.singly. "I don't form friendships with people who â€" who tried to poison my father 1" Nun shrank as if from a blow, and Dobbins thought this a good time to thrust a question at her. "That leminds me, Mrs. Raynor," he said, "is this book yours?" He held out the littj* volume." "Whyâ€" where did you find it?" she «nked, "where did you g«t that?" "Hidden behind some other books on your bookshelf. Is it yours?*' A sudden and deci(le<l change came over Nancy RayuQr. "Yes," she saicj, raising her chin with a touch of obstinacy, "yes, it is mine." "Why did you buy it?" "Because â€" because I thought some- body was pofsoning my husband and I wanted to learn the truth about it" Dobbins almost laughed outright at ihiH absurd story. "You know, do you not, that he was being so poisonedâ€" and that you are suspected of being the poisoner?" "I know It," Nan gat boJt upright now, and her head, held high, was defiant in its pose. "Can you prove k?" "1 don't advise you to take that attitude, Mrs. Raynor," Dobbins said, not unkindly. "It won't get you any- â- where." "No, don't. Nan," said her brother. "You've got a hari row to hoe, but we're «11 baeh ef vou, and if you'll just tell the t*uth, H wHl all b« smoothed out very soon." "Smoothed out, indeed!" Miss Mat- tie bristled. "I insist on the fullest investigation of my brother's death. I can scarceiy believe Nan is respon- sible for it, but I must know. Also, I want to know about this will busi- ness. Can't we send for Grire Cin- non, and get at something?" "Why not?" said Kent, and leaving the room be dispatched a servlB to bring Gannon. At last the big man luntbered slow- ly in. It was plain to be seen he was ill at ease in the presence of more re- fined people. "Whatcha want o' me, Mis? Ray- nor?" he asked, as he awkwardly took a chair. "You can tell me what you know of my husband's will, Mr. Gannon. You witnessed it, I think." "No, Mis' Raynor, I didn't." The ping tablets into her husband's tea-, cup â€" what theory was there except the guilt of one or both? Just now, matters eeeroed to be tem- porarily held up because of the ab- sence of the will which Nan declared existed. If this could be found and Nan in- herited the estate, things would be quite different from tho event of Lio- nel Raynor owning the place. Goddard didn't like young Raynor â€" didn't like him at all. Yet his opinions made small differ- ence if the will Lionel possessed was the only one extant. For it was in every way, Goddard knew, a true and legal document â€" the only question be- ing whether there had been at later one â€" or whether â€" this just occurred to Goddard, whether Douglas Raynor in a fit of anger had destroyed the will he had made in Nan's favor. Goddard longed to send to New York for a famous detective he knew of, but, somehow he feared the things such a detective might discover. On the theory of many people, Nancy Raynor and Malcolm Finley were glad to renew their old-time friendship and it had quickly ripened into love. Both were of intense and passion- ate temperament. He could not deny the possibility that, goaded beyond en- durance by her husband's cruelty and longing for tho love and peace of Fin- ley's protection, Nancy had let herself be driven to the point of poisoning the one that stood between her and happi- ness. Also, it cov>ld be, that Finley, utter- ly exasperated at Raynor's petty cruelties to the woman he loved, had shot him down. While he was pacing the east ver- andah and thinking these things over Malcolm Finley had at last found Nan alone. Yet when he chanced to see her alone, on the west terrace, half hid- den in the shadows of a great wistaria vine, he went to her at once and sat be.side her. "It's no use, dear," he said, gently; "I can't keep away. Now, Nancy, what do you warit me to do?" "What do I want you to do?" she cold light blue eyes of Grimshawe j Gannon looked into her own, without j whispered, half unconsciously repeat- any exorestion of concern or even in-jing the words, and then a re.nlization tcrest in the matter. jof her grciit trouble, her great loneli- "Why, Mr. Gannon, my husband : ness surged over her, and she raised toU' mc that you di!â€" you and Pc'trs'hor eloquent, sad eyes to his, saying â€" the butler we hail Isst year." "Yes'm, 1 remember Peters â€" a good man but stupid. Well, him an' mc, we "Help me â€" Malcolm â€" help me â€" somehow." "Yes, dearest, yes, of course I will. IT'S NO USE, DEAR. 1 CAN'T KEEP AWAY. NOW, NANCY, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?" never signed no will for Mr. Raynor I It's hard. Nanâ€" darling! you've no â€" leastwise, not me, anyway." idea how hard it i "that man is telling a falsehood," "Yes, 1 have, Malcolm"â€" she looked said Nan quietly. "You did witness [at him piteouslyâ€" "but â€" oh, Malcolm, Y)urfood doesnt doyou any gpod if you're tired Mr. Raynor's signature to his will, Mr. (Jannon, and you know where that will is." Gannon gave a helpless 190k around the room, as If to say, "What can I say to that?" But he only shrugged his great shoulders, and repeating his entire ignorance as to the existence or where- abouts of any will, he rose and lum- berejl off. ~" "Well," Dobbins said, "it begins to look serious. Can we get hold of the other witness, Mrs. Raynor?" "I don't know," Nan said, looking thoughtful rather than confounded. "I can't understand it at all!" '^^^•d^ ^ the ei^d <pf » di }ua tlnsiOA jrri8ic7« ^Ul fUjrti lfpâ€"iO thai you're fpuf food. i Then, after meaU, VVrij dlBetlion, cleanse* llic tecM|f ri ma iracci of eating or finol ISSUE No. 25â€" '29 - I CHAPTER VHI. THE SEOBLT FAKCEL. Malcolm Finley wai" not at eall pleased with the role in which he found liimself cast. He w.is a man of action, and he was obliged to keep quiet. Most of all, ho wav dcsporately in in love with Nancy Raynor, -and was not allowed to tell her so. "Your tijne will come," Goddard told him. "If your love for her is the real thing, and if sho reciprocates, no harm caii come of waiting until a right and proper time tc toll her of it. It would Ik- unwise as well as uijitimely to tell her now â€" and, too, Pinley, there's a big mystery to be solved by somebody. Betwe-rn you hnd nie, 1 jjfia't think much of that de- le^i.v>-" , "But for that reason he's a good tfpe to Ijipt" en the case. He gets no- wlie^e, he bj^Togs all yis.is.sataâ€" " "And it that a good thing?" "It n)ost certainly isâ€" for all con- cerned." Finley went off and Goddard mused ' over what he had said. Ezra Goddard carried a heavy heart. | lie felt that there was no (solution to Ujy mj^rj; ^ m aJ^ft^g, .bJlt to aiicribe it either to Nan or Malcolm, and he couldn't bear to think it was either of those. Moreovei', Nan had confessed to the ownership of the book «ii iKiinons, she had been secretly slip- you don't know what I went through with that man! You don't know! It was like a living death â€" oh, I musn't talk like that! Forgive nae, Malcolm â€" forgive me, dear â€" " "Forgive you? Sweetheart! When I love you ao I'm just holding myself together lest 1 break all bounds and tell you how I love you ! I can't help* it. Nanâ€" I must take you in my arms â€" just once â€" pleaseâ€" :my little girl â€" " (To be continued.) Use MInard'a for the rub down. « It This "Empire Track?" Vancouver Sun (Lib.): A lew days aKO tho United Kingdom Stores, Ltd., of London, called an apple shipper of Knkima, Washington, by long distance telephone and closed an apple deal amounting to |60,000 . . . 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