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Sudbury sleeper is carried in this train. --.-â€"-â€"--;‘,_..E Eome Onl National Agent. $3.50 Article Antiques at *) | A week later, with eyes that saw |the case clearly for the first time I thanked an allâ€"wise Providence that , Philander Summerfield did escape ( me that morning, stupid though it made me out to be; for, to have taken him then would have been to bring disaster what had come to be the real purpose of y investigation [~lhe vindication uf the name of Murrison Milbrath b Mr. McClure 1 did not further trouâ€" ble. The memory of his tortured face rose before me with every thought of him and made the pain that 1 had inflicted seem unwarrantâ€" able in view of the little that 1 had gained for my case. I did not see him again for several days, for exâ€" haustion . followed his evening of excitement, and for two days Dolly refused to permit even Milbrath to ‘speak with him. jin the shape of fruit and flowers, in the spirit in which they were sent. und greeted me with his usual corâ€" ,diality and friendliness. But no word |of what had been said at our last ‘meeting was mentioned, or was reâ€" ‘terence made to the death of ,Jim Arms. Only the new lines of pain in lthe kind old face remained as eviâ€" ; dence of the mental struggle through Iwhich he had passed, or was passâ€" jing; but from that hour 1 felt that |Chauncey McClure believed me to ‘know all that 1 surmised, and later 1 found that he credited me with the }[-ossesslon of facts the existence of |which at that time I was far from Isnnpeclilu;. Yet he held his peace. ; The day following the Arms traâ€" ‘gedy, after a talk with Milbrath, who was unwilling to connect himâ€" self with Horsford‘s case, 1 laid before the coroner and the chief of police in Beverly the results of my investigations in the matter; and. twentyâ€"four bours later, Horsford was back at Overlook upon Milâ€" brath‘s bond, given through me, pending the public examination which the coroner had set for the following Wednesday. _ Nevertheless 1 determined to force Summerfield‘s hand by this very trump cardâ€"my unspoken belief, and the day that gave Horsford his conditional freedom found a letter on its way to Boston in which I inâ€" formed Mr. Summerfield that a man answering his description was wantâ€" When, however, we met again, he appeared â€" to have accepted the amends I had tried to make to him While I had been detailed and exâ€" plicit in relating to the officers my line of deductions that resulted in my conviction that Arms‘ death was due to an accident and not to murâ€" der, and had told th;‘h all that 1 had learned from the Arims women about La Cour as La Cour 1 refrained from any reference to the fact that 1 had come in contact with the man. and the name of Philander Summerfield was not mentioned. side wall where Gaspard found the charm, the dust which covered everything in the place showed te cent disturbance and footprints that were neither mine nor Gaspard‘s were visible in both directions on the floor. What is more, they were the prints of squareâ€"toed shoes! 1 enathematized myself for a blockhead, a blunderer, an idiot, as 1 realized how easily 1 had been beaten at my own game of cunning; and 1 blushed to think how amaâ€" teurish my handling of the case must appear to that subtle o‘d sinâ€" ner himself who so many times had boidly waved the red flag in my face, only to slip away from me when | reached out to grasp bim. Far under a bench, and next to a Regular _ Reduced Price Price $100 30 30 65 75 60 $30 and $40 THE WEB Chromicle Serial . $25 $80 25 db 15 20 50 db Moreover, Milbrath, whose beard bad for a time dieguised bim, had been recognized, and the cordlality or the coldness with which he was received by his old acquaintances had so telling an effect on his spirits that 1 suggested & return to Boston. "Gaepard can forward by special delivery any mail that comes, so there ‘will be little delay in getting the answer if we hear from the Virâ€" ginia advertisement or from Sumâ€" merfield," 1 uald. "Moreover, we shall be on the spot when the men on the case have something to re port." "Some one of them is bound to reâ€" port some time, I suppose," Milbrath answered, "but it seems a deuced long time since they went to work, and there‘ve been no results from them yet. If the men at the Park Square station are up to their duty the old fellow must have got into town by another routeâ€"if he is there." Everything about the tiny apartâ€" ment appeared to be as I had left it on the following morning. The gapâ€" ing aperture made by the splintered door resembled the entrance to a cavern, and the Mephistopheles beâ€" hind the tree in the picture above the desk peered down upon the devesâ€" tation with an expression that in the uncertain light of one Iamp appeared wholly diabolical. A thought too wild, it seemed, to be anything but fancy had been developing in my mind during the past few hours, since a visit in the afternoon to the little room, and 1 was in the same little room again to verify it by further evidence or reâ€" ject it. and held for the came forward and gave an account of his whovu:nouo on the fifth of Beptember. These thinge accomplished there seemed little need for our presence in Winton, and a great desire to get away seized me. The way that 1 had taken hold of the Arms mystery apâ€" peared professional to the people of the two villages, and the original suspicion that 1 was investigating the Somhers mystery became a conâ€" viction. "Well. the police throughout the country are on the lookout for him now, wherever he is, and he may find it difficult to evade them for long unless he changes his guise, which he may do, of course. I‘m of the opinion that in any case he will return to Boston soomner or later. Then it is a mere matter of time until we get him. By the way, 1 wonder whether we‘d better have the outgoing transatiantic steamers watched ?" Milbrath laughed. "We shall have the whole private detective force of Boston at our beck and call if we continue to draw on it," he said. "But anything to win. Have every dock in the country sentineled if you think best." ed in Wintonp for the death, or as a witness to the accidental death, of a farmer named Arms, and that he was in great danger of being taken "I‘ll consider that. But we will zo to Boston in the morning. Going to Red Gables now?" We had risen from the supper taâ€" ble and McClureward was Milbrath‘s usual outlook at that hour. Milbrath nodded and smiled. ‘"The old story of the spider and the fly. Will you come with me?" CHAPTER XXXIv What The Blotter Revealed 1 sat on the portico and smoked until the soft darkness closed in around me. Then I took a lighted lamp and went into the littleâ€"room which Milbrath and I had not enterâ€" ed together since that memorable Sunday evening. Seating myself before the desk I iolled back the top. Then 1 drew from my pocket the contract that l had made with Philander Summer Tield on August. 16th. Ah! 1 was quicker to detect differâ€" ences in handwriting than J had been when Murray Kilbourne asâ€" sured me Chat the signature of Mr. Summerfield was assumed. . How plainly I saw the difference now! What was more, 1 saw that the filledâ€" in portions of the contract form were a cross between the ‘bold hleroglyâ€" phics of Peter Somhers and the cramped. smail hand of Philander Summerfield. while the~ signature was almcst a facsimile of that which Philander Summerfield had made upon the two contracts that we had ‘rtmnd! "Not now, thanks. I think I‘ll have another look at some of the things in the little room. Perhaps I‘ll step »ver in time to walk back with you. In any case my best to the old genâ€" tleman and the little wife." 1 passed my hands across my eyes, and for an instant sat in sllence, dreading to take the next step. 1 turned, finally, to the blue, much blurred blotter upon the desk, with its border of tiny ink dots, as if their maker had sat with a wellâ€"wet pen in his band through many an abstracted moment. I had worked out a theory that the biotter could tell. Would it tell it? 1 turned the magnifying glass npon it with bated breath. The mase of blur was so heavy that at first T could distinguish nothing. but perservering I detected, «t length. a letter for which 1 look: edâ€"â€"a capital 8. After a little further «tudy 1 found, also, a capital P. But that which lay between the two letâ€" ters was too indistinct to read. It occurred to me to turn the blot ter. and I did «o. It was almost as . & It was still even more surprising ; than that a very large proportion of , these pupils passed their entrance al eleven or twelve years of age. ' 1 Mr. Mahood is fully convinced beâ€" sldes that the feeling between lho’ average teacher in the schools and 4 the children is far better in these days. "Pupile come to the teacher, more than they ever did with their difficulties and problems," he exâ€" plained. i _ Another factor in the success of the Elmira public school is the prinâ€" ciple of letting a pupil go as fast as ‘he can. There is very likely a pretty +hrewd idea in Mr. Mahood‘s mind in this respect. ‘There is a large section ot the school community around El~| mira that do not intend to allow | their children to go to school any ; lenger than the age of fourteen that | the law commands. l rmfifâ€"â€""*â€"_â€"wr'l'l'l!I fil it amazes Queen‘s Park," this was the title given an article written in the Toronto Daily Star by a special inmspector sent to Elmira by the Deâ€" Public School Inspector Roberts of Kitchoner of the Elmira Public Sohool. How princips! Jno. Mahood and his staff of six teachers successâ€" fully teach with such woaderful reâ€" wults 390 pupils or an average of 50 pupils to a teacher. gate, such excelient and "If you can find better discipline in amy other sehool in Ontario it will take some argument with the officials of the department of educaâ€" tion at Queen‘s Park to prove it." Mr. Mahood has a particular spot of affection in his heart for this class of children. On the whole, these children are exceedingly stuâ€" dious. The people of Elmira speak of Fred Abrens, 22, a teacher already of German at Columbia University and a candidate for his doctor‘s degree this year and Carl Klinck, 22, teachâ€" ei of English at Waterloo Seminary, both former pupiis of Mr. Mahood. With the help of the lens 1 picked out innumerable capitals always the <ame, P. and S., P. and S. But soon 1 found that they were in a different style of handwriting. Presently I found the key. One was the hand writing of Peter Somhers, the other of Philander Summerfield. 1 could not doubt it. Out of 390 pupile practically 9% per cent. had passed the examinaâ€" tions and the entrance. ‘ When the question of strap was mentioned Mr. Mahood laughed, "! got so much of it when 1 was a boy much used on the one side as on the other. No; 1 could make out a little more! I sprang to my feet and held the blotter to the mirror. There the names appeared over and over again, indistinct and in places almost ille gible, but there, nevertheless. But it was Philander Summerfleld alâ€" ways, never Peter Somhers, as at first 1 supposed. My mistake was due to the fact that the signature changed gradually from the bold up rightness of Peter Somhers‘ chiro graphy to the smaller hand of Phil ander Summerfield. "You back so ecoon‘" I cried; "was no one at home?" "The evening must have been inâ€" tereating to you." he answered dryly. "It is considerably past ten o‘clock." And so it.was. The two hours that 1 had spent in the little room fhad passed like so many minutes. He glanced hastily about as if exâ€" pecting to find the reason for my changed color in some tangible form, and his eyes paused in question on the blotter that I still held. "Come here and pinch me," I sald.l "Pinch hard. 1 want to be sure that I‘m not dreaming. Ouch! _ Yes; that‘s real enough. Now see whether this is." ed "What‘s the matter with you, old man*?" asked Milbrath, coming nearâ€" r to me. "Is it the way the light (alls nearer to me. "Is It the way the light falls on you or are youâ€" Lord! Bliss. You are paleâ€"ghostly! What‘s up?" 1 outlined with a pencll that letâ€" ters as I had found them, and then again held the blotter before the mirror. "Why, it‘s uncle‘s," answered Milâ€" brath promptly. "All of it?" "Well, this, surely, is his and this, and this. Here it changes and is alâ€" most some â€" one‘s â€" elseâ€"Summer {ield‘s, no doubt, and here it is enâ€" tirely disgniged." "Do these facts signify nothing to you, Milbrath?" Milbrath looked &t me sharply. "I suppose they show that uncle was to take on old SummerMeld‘s handwriting when Summerfield became him. so to speak. And I dare say it may signify what 1 hadn‘t thought of before, that he purposed to be Summerfield during the timeâ€" a sort of change of mantlesâ€"if that is what you mean." "It is not at all what I mean. It seeme to me altogether unlikely that Mr. Somhers would play the part of Summerfield while Summerâ€" {ield was doing Somhers. 1 wish to God it were probable, though." ‘‘Then, for heaven‘s sake, what do you mean*" s In anewer I reached under the desk and brought forth a book that I had found there behind the typeâ€" ‘Whose handwriting is It?". 1 askâ€" 95 to investk ~Has Splendid Record ' fresh min t leaves is a real treat most modest principal in Ontario to epesk, there are more than 50 pupils in each of the seven rooms and there is no question of discipiine. The teachers in this school simply don‘t have to bother about discipline. They settie that question in the tirst year the pupil comes in and they settle it without the use of the strap. Here is the strange sight in a public school of every scholar knowing that he wants to learn just us fast as possible and set towards that object. There is no need to use the strap to keep discipline. agriculture to all the seven claases in the echool, you have Bo if Mr. Mahood can put these boys and girls through the entrance at eleven, there is no other alternaâ€" tive for their parents than to send them to high school until they are fourteen. By that time, one suspecte Mr. Mahood calculates they have a very good education. Former Principal Mr. Bean Mr. Mahood, according to Mr. Arthur Ullyot, prominent member of both the high school and public school boards and Mr. Wm. Rabn, the secretaryâ€"treasurer, carries on the traditions of another former teacher at Elmira, the late David Beun, who was besides a journalist, the owner of the Waterioo Chronicie. And David Bean, Elmira people will remember, taught the Dr. Vogt, inâ€" ternationally known Ontario musiâ€" cian, who founded the Mendelssohn Choir. Two of the doctor‘s sisters still live not far away from the school house. Mr. Clayton Logel of Fernbank spent the weekâ€"end at his home here. To have such a wonderful report trom a special investigator of the Department of Education and the Eimira public echool principal Maâ€" hood and his staff deserve great creâ€" dit and the citizens of Elmira hould look with pride at the fine record of their school. It was a ecrapbook with a cover of red and white mottled pasteboard, and on the back of black linen was pested a square of white paper on which was labeled in the bold, up right hand that was unquestionably Mr. Somhers‘, one work: "PERSONAL." It was fHlled with newspaper clipâ€" pings, and as Milbrath took the book in his hands and opened it I knew that «be was wondering, as 1 had wondered. what on earth Peter Somâ€" hers, a reticent, retiring man, could have found about himself in print, or have put in print, that would fill a volume like that. 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