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Adas i â€" U2i .l o Akm y â€"Pr O LA P es t > ~|_ Pr eng te x : 7 P e y go o se " .c 4‘ . ts t By‘Horkce Hazeltine / ~*~ â€" |â€" / 1 "What does that look like to you?" i I took the letter from him, and . {ecrutinizing the rude figure with conâ€" .centrated attention for a moment, venâ€" »Atured the suggestion that it somewhat wesembled a boat. ~â€"â€", . "A â€" onemasted _ vessel, _ square rigged," he added, in elucidation. ' "Rxactly." * .1 "Now turn it upside down." I did so. ‘ "Now what do you see?" ‘ g “'l'hhe-dotamuvunngahd‘ . _ met." ‘The resemblance was very ‘Nothing," I answered, promptly. "It is curious penmanship, as you say â€"heavy and regular and upright, with some strangely formed letters; es pecially the f‘s and the p‘s; but it tells me nothing." "But I thoughtâ€"" he began. ‘That I boasted? So I did. Wher oune writes as one habitually writes i! %s very easy. These letters, however are not in the writer‘s ordinary hand ;'l'ho writing is as artificial as thoug} you, for example, had printed a note jin. Roman characters. Were they ad ressed in the same hand?" "Precisely." _ r. Morse‘s Indian Root Pills owe their singular effectivencss in ‘"‘Can it be a Chinese junk?" I asked. ! ‘"It might be & sailing proa or ban ©ca," he returned, "such as they use in the South Pacific. But whatever it is curing Rheumatism, Lumbago and Sciatica to their power of stimulating and sirengthening the kidneys. They enahle these orgam to thoroughly filter from the biood the uric acid (the product of waste matter) which _gots isto the joints and muscles and | "A straw helmet, apparently," he amplifed, "such as is worn in the Orient. And yet the profile is not that of an Oriental. Now, look at your ves sel again." And once more 1 reversed the sheet of paper. _ *But you haven‘t told me about the handwriting. What can you read of the character of the writer?" I can‘t understand what it has to dc with me or 1 with it." 1 was still studying the black daub. when he said: steel, in .a glove of velvet." It‘s al ways between the lines, reaching out ‘and nothing you can do ‘will stey it 3 thought at first ! imagined it, bu: the oftener I have read, the more | ‘have felt its clutch, . The letters o‘ themselves are nothing. . What do you ‘suppose I care for velled threats o ‘that sort? I‘m big enough to tak:« care of myself, Clyde. I‘ve met peri in about every possible guise, in ever; part of the world, and 1‘ve never rea} Jy known fear. But thisâ€"this is dif ferent. And the worat of it is, I don‘ know why. 1 can‘t for the life of m« :make out what it is I‘m afraid of." _ He hed goune very pale, and bt: ‘strong, capable hands, which toye« ‘with the two letters, quivered anc twitched in excess of nervous tension + ‘Then, with a finger pointing to the inkâ€"stain at the bottom of one of the im-.'a conclusively that Dr. Morse‘s ndian Root Pills strengthen weak kidneys and «1 *You have experienced #, too! Anc you can‘t explain it, any more than 1\ Jt is something that grips you whe: And now he was,.â€" as Serious 8s . hare ried, leaning fo "Ab!" be c forward again and reaching for» the letters helps them to recover quickly from the colds they kave caught, and so effectively heals and strengthens threat znd hings that they can better resist future trouble. Naâ€"Druâ€"Co Tasteless Preparation of Cod Liver Oil is a splendid tonic and "builderâ€"up" for weak and sickly In 50c. and $1.00 bottles at your druggists. 34 NATIONAL DRUC AND CHEMICAL CO. 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Then he rose, abruptly, and saying: "Suppose we go into my study, Clyde," led the way from the dining room, across the great, imposing, grained and fretted hall to that comparatively small mahogany and green symphony wherein he: was wont to spend most of his indoor hours. It was always a rather gloomy room at night, with Its high dark celling, its heavy and volâ€" uminous olive tepestry hangings, wholly out of keeping, it seemed to me, with the seasonâ€"and its shaded lights confined to the vicinity of the massive polished, and giltâ€"ornamented writing table of the period of the First Empire. And it impressed me nmv.“ in conjunction with Camerop‘s promâ€". ised revelation, as more than ever grim and awesome. I "I wish you would tell me, first, whether anything really did occur on the seventh day," "I was coming to that," be replied; but it seemed to me that prompt though his response was, there was a shade of reluctance in his manner; for he relapsed into silence for what must have been the better part of a minâ€" ute, and with eyes lowered sat seemâ€" ingly lost in thought. % , Thus far he had made no furthe: Imention of the "pussiing happening* ‘which followed the receipt of the first letter, and in the interest provoked by (the letters themselves 1 had foreborne ‘to question him; but now as the words "seventh day hence" fell again unde: my eye, standing out, as it were, frow the rest of the script which lay up turned on the table before me, 1 was conscious of a stimulated concern, and so made inquiry. ‘"‘More than carefully," he answered {"Mmmn see thein, if you like I found no trace of any identifvina _ ‘"You examined the envelopes care fully, I presume?" was my query as ) returned the sheets to the table, _ "It is very odd," 1 commented, with feeble banality. & __I took the letters from his bands ouce more, and held them in turn be tween my vision and the candleâ€"light hoping, perchance, to discover a wa terâ€"mark in the paper. But I was not them Jay beside my plate at break fastâ€"the first on the fourteenth of August;. the second, this morning, the fourteenth of September," "And they were not delivered by messenger *‘ "So far as I can learn, no." ~ "What was the postâ€"mars i" | «They bore ho postmark. That i another strange, circumstance. Ye! they were‘with my mail, How the; came there ! hate been unsble to as certain. The people at the post offict naturally deny . that they delivered anything unstamped, as these were; and Barrie, the lnd who fetches the letters, has no recellection of these Nor has Checkabeedy, who sorts th«/ mail here at the house. But each of o CHAPTER 11. t which pung _ ?"_â€"______l _ Rifle Shots Echo‘in the %€ We sat very tate. I wished, if pos aible, to learn if at any time in my friend‘a e he kad done aught to enâ€" gender an enmity to which â€" .ugse Cameron showed me the mutilated portrait. He bad taken It down at most immediately, and had bidden i: jaway in a closet of the hall behind an :atray of raincoats. The cutting had ‘been done, evidently, with an exceed: ingly keen blade, end very dexterous 1y done. < But that ft should have beer accomplished in tweive minutes, while Cameron sat in the room, not fifteen feet distant, was beyond our ecmpre ‘hension. Absorption in his book was the nearest we came to a solution, and «that was scarcely tenable. For there ‘was the crowded top of the hook] (Sshelves. To cut the canvas, the vanâ€" _dal must elther have stood upon that : lhiked have reared a ladder. There wat not room for the foot of a chiid on the | shelfâ€"top; and as for the ladder, it was unthinkable. How could a iadder hr.'e! been carried in and out without Camâ€" ‘eron being conscious of it? From’ ‘every possibie angle we viewcd the inâ€" icident, making every canceivable con-l ‘cession, and no halfâ€"way plausible an | ‘ewer to the riddle presented itse}‘ , And though our commonâ€"serfe told u: | that the time of miracles was lm‘ past, that no GUyges mug nor Aine | rich‘s cloak survived to this day to | make fnvisible their wearers, there | persisted, nevertheless, a chill, uncanâ€" | ny sense of the supernotural, quite ; evident to me in Camoron‘s hushed | volce and furtive manner, snd in my | own unwonted nervous disquietude. _ ! _ror I experienced nm‘m‘f‘ closure I am nigh hopeless. ‘The mor } _ we discussed the occurrence the les | susceptible it secmed of explanation H And what is so terrifying as the in | explicable, or so dreedful as the in«: tangible? Here, apparently,â€" was an j enemy of calm and cunning n'mlign_lly.t who chose to menifest his power in r| manner almost ludicrously puerileâ€"~| save as it pointed with significant fin | ger to some dire and inevitzble seque!: :â€"yet with such crafty secrecy as comâ€" l pletely to mysti‘y and dismay. * "Cut from the canvas," he went on in lowered volce, "clean and ehat; from crown to collar. And the band: of the clock pointed to twelve min utes past three." I sat up suddenly, openhmihed speechiess, Only my wide eyes made me, and that while in contemplation J fixed my eyes upon that portralt. I re member that, because it struck me, then, that the flesh tints of the face had grown muddy and that the thing would be better for a cleaning. I re call, too, that at that moment, the lit tle clock, yonder, struck three. I re sumed my reading; but presently, an other statement Gemanding cogitation . 1 lowered my book, and once more my eyes rested on the portrait. But not on the muddy flesh tints, becauseâ€"‘ he paused and leaned forward, towards | me, speaking with impressive empha | sis. "Because," he repented, -“tbmi were no flesh tints there. Because there was no head nor face there!" i It was indeed crowded.â€" Bron® busts ud statueites; yachting ani golf trephies in s!lver; framed photo graphs;\a score of odds and ends, sou venirs ggthered the world over. Ther, was ly an inch of space unoe cup! 1 had frequently ‘observed this plethora of ornament and resented it It gave to that part of the room the semblance of a curlosity shop. Wher I had nodded my sssent, he went on: ‘"On the afternoon of Friday, August twentyâ€"first, seven days after the re ceipt of that first letter, 1 was sitting where you are sitting now. I was reading, and deeply interested. I had put the letter, as I told you, entirely out of my mind. I had forgotten it, absolutely. That seventhâ€"day business I had regardedâ€"if 1 regarded it at ali â€"as idle vaporing. That this was the afternoon of the seventh day did not nccur to me until afterwards. I recalil that I paused in reading to ponder a Paragraph that was not quite clear to| _ Carter‘s || *=ntembne id ho | woee "Certainiy," 1 answered. "It auw» there," pointing. "Quite rigkt. Now I want you to ob serve the shelfâ€"top. You see ho; croweed it is." OVRE SIOK HEADACHE Muet Hear Signature e See Pac@taaiia Wregper Delow.‘ cho‘in the Woods. the of the OF absointely free of cost. Sinfly write National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, Toronto, and they will send you a free ."l?* of GCin Pills. Try them. They will do you so much good that you will gladly get the regular od that will gladly get the lar slt: !mge‘s’:;ypur'l‘ou{ ’:lcr':.';p_t‘. a hbot, 6 for §1.50 finishing the tweifth box, the pain completely left me. . My wile.is now using GIN PILLS and finds that she has been grestly retieved 0; the pain over her kidneys. 1 can safety recommend anyoue sufferâ€" t‘:‘:linm R»inel‘l‘mhlc to give a fair to GIN PILLS." . consult either the police or the private detectives. > f "You may not know,":he explained, "‘that I am largely interested in a cerâ€" tain line of indugtrial enterprises, the shares of which are lsted on the New York Stock Exchange. Should the pubâ€" lic become aware that my life is threatened, very serious consequencer might ensue in the market. No, Clyde, whatever is done, must be done by ourselves, and by friends whom we can irust absolutely. 1 can take no risk of this horrid thing getting fnto the newspapers. Besides," he added, with a kindly, considerative @mile. ‘"Evelyn must be kept in ignorance. Not for worlds would I have her trou bied by our perplexing enigma." _ Lechute Mills, Que, March 1:th, 1912. ‘"I was troubled for many years with Kidncy Disease, and a friend toid me to take GIN PLLLS. After taking a few finishing / HUSBAND AND WIFE : BOTH TROUBLED tion of mindâ€"he sternly refused to But my conteifith lacked the intrinsic strength which carries© conviction and, as Cameron put it, we could only "watch and walit;" for the communt cations offered no alternative. ‘The; made no demand which being comâ€" plied with wocld avert penalty. â€"Onlty implacable and inevitable retribntion calm, patient, and determined, effusec from every I‘ne. But, in sp‘te of Cameron‘s eviden: #nxtetyâ€"andâ€"inâ€"using that term 1 am continua Â¥the original tbmt l But my ctn't‘e:& lacked the intrinsic ne acine of %‘-:l'pg crucity. Auy day, t ary hour romé other mystifying. oulâ€"tortur! : incMent wits liable to Jecur. T a _ ris‘,. X I tried tt â€" i@ghat the seventh day was Itoplicc irasmrch as the second note was re:<‘rg@f ipn the same day of the month as the first, and was a mare utd ntvelii uin dn i. d ue Tssc ast t intn es i 878 d ters and ‘dicsected them, colcly and}pejjan villa, its creamâ€"white w critically, sentenct by sentence, and pusictuated ‘with shutters of a . gop while the wo‘rd influence which they | what vivid peaâ€"green and crowned had exerted upon me at the first. readâ€" ; T ing increascdi, stimulated possibly by is ; 4 the inciden: of the portrait, still we | B°BUY ulopiug roofs of. the same reached a ccrtain practical, commonâ€" | bright color, gazes out across S.amw sense view :s to their origin; for we ford Harbor and the blue waters 0: came to sce in them what we be.| the Sound, to where on clear days the Heved to be the hand of a religiqus| PeRCilled qutiine of, Eaton‘s Nech {anatio . Certain expressions, we conâ€" | ShOWws gurric in the distance. Ther Huded, were quotations. If they were | *"® P0 lowsâ€"ing, umbrageots trees to sot Piblical they were certainly of| Dtetrupt t ouilook; only Jow, care ecred gen: ‘s. And the discovery| Ullvâ€"trimm â€"â€"â€"_ ghrubs. adornine : vas not reâ€" .url8g, It lent, Indeod,| series of maurble sculptureâ€"Cotted terâ€" az added p: to the perturbation we| races, well below the lime of vision: iroady exp . »nced. . Eut the Cameron place, reflecting the Nor did t.c &bsence of a specified | Townsbury +enchant.for &rborjculture, ‘at: for the second promised demonâ€"|‘s quiteé the reve‘se. The prospect straion of ~â€"wer tend to rellieve ow>| ‘rotm the t ~~;>* cud vernndaks of neasinérs. 14 ihle silencée we found| he fine ol6 â€">râ€"ion :a all groen v!ai>: ne acine of ~~ving erucity. Auy day,| :d lea‘r cltyos, with omly > t ary hour romé other mystifying, | . lint ofâ€"s~0 0. 0s waves, thane oulâ€"tortur!~ .: incKent wits liable to thi > 3 Belce dr wp Jecur. mal f a) &Cal > hidden, shicided, some one episode. perbaps, which might let the light it upon our darkness. For my questior was eveded rather than answered.‘. â€" PARSRIEET, NCT IHMIRDCE, iN NU HOT bloud of bis youth in some far land ‘be had provoked the vengeance of one whore humor it is never to forget. . As we talked 1 came to know Cameron better than 1 had ever known him be fore. He bared to me much of hbis carly career; he gave me a clearer view of his temperamental qualities; and yet I could not.but feel that be left the vital point untouched, that beâ€" neath his sccining frankness there lay We MÂ¥v. sugsestlon thet be shoculd x Presently: se went back to the iciâ€" tains available : in conâ€" eomegy ds cbcr en os. ud =3- no“n"cl:t‘h resist tubsrcaleais. . 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Indeed 1 waus fully conâ€" vinced that wa bed been fooliskly conâ€" structing an Alpine chain out of a ui erable little row of: mole hills, and determined to lose no time in bringir Cameron, whom 1 .now regarded most neediersly alarmed, to my 0: wholesome way of thinking. _ ‘Directly afterâ€"breakfast, therefore set forth on foot for my neighbo> > chooging the shore road as the m direct of the.two routes. f â€" Personally. my taste in landecar _ > for distant view in preference to r. 1 athand follage. My own bouse, w | _ â€" is fashidned in semblance of a T‘ > pelian villa, its creamâ€"white w l pudctuated ‘with shutters of a . gos what vivid peaâ€"green and crowned . â€" Cullyvâ€"trimm <â€"_ shrubs. acornine i: series oOf marble sculptureâ€"Cotted . terâ€" races, well hbelow the limne of vision: Eut the Cameron place, reflecting the Townsbury â€" ‘enchant.for &rboriculiture, ‘s quite the reverse. The prospect gently slopiug .roofs of the. same bright color, gazes out across S.am ford Harbor and the blue waters o the â€" Sound, to where on clear days the pencilled qutiine of, Eaton‘s Nech shows gurprie in the distance. Ther are no low=â€"ing, umbrageozs trees t ‘mterrupt tre ouilook; only Jow, care plishiment was, perhaps, sfter ail, merely a herlequin trick, quite simple With the: newâ€" day, too, sand. thes wum&&;m‘m which caused.â€"me to duci} vm::umhlmuw as the most profitable gronnd for spec ulation.. 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