Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1912 — Page 4

mmtmm ——;—; ' FUUU — ~ Fer Sale—Cheap, some cypress hotbed sash. King Floral Co. For Sale—Farm of 40 acres, good house, small fruit, some Umber, good well of water, 7 miles of Wolcott. Inquire of A. F. Griswold. R. D. No. 4, r ■ T ~~~ ~ " r '~ <■_ year old mate, good rubber tire buggy and set of single . driving harness. Russell Hap mon, - Parr, Ind, Phone 521-D. -• For Sale—Six young brood sows, will farrow soon. D. L. Halstead, R. D. 3, Rensselaer, Phone Mt. Ayr 54. For Sale—2% tons of baled timothy; $25 a ton delivered. Phone 62. For Sale—House for sale on monthly payments. Why pay rent when you can buy on installment plan, and soon own your own house? Arthur H. Hopkins. For Sale —3 conveniently located . five-room cottages, at right prices and on easy payments. Firman Thompson. For Sale—6-room cottage in north ’ part of town, lot 150x187, good well, large chickenpark. E. L. Hammerton, Phone 375. For Sale—Brindle and white Pit Bull Terrier, female. Will make good house and watch dog, also companion for women or children, Pedigreed. Address Lock Box 315.^ Rensselaer, Ind For Sale or Bent—Possession at once; the. Hemphill livery barn in Rensselaer; a good paying business. Inquire of Jack Hoyes, R. D. No. 1 or phone 505-D. For Sale—l have divided the Monnett land facing the gravel road into 10-acre lots, and will offer these fer sale.''This land is within one mile of town and will make ideal homes. For prices, and particulars call on George F. Meyers or J. J. Hunt Fer Sale Oliver or Jewett typewriter in good condition and price reasonable. Arthur H. Hopkins. For Salo—Small property south of Christian church known as Harrison property. See George A. Williams. Far Salo—A bouse and lot Inquire of E. JL. Aldrich. ;; _ ' fob bent. For Bent —13 acres, 6-room house, good well of water, all kinds of fruit, adjoining corporation of Rensselaer to the northwest. George Ott, Phone 513-H. For Bent —Good 6-room house, 4 blocks from court house. J. C. Passons. WANTED. Wanted—An energetic young man in Rensselaer an dvieinity to help list old book accounts. Good pay. Agency, . 707 Court St., Fort Wayne, Indiana cow; Jersey preferred. Will Barkley, Phone 305. Wanted—Man to work on farm by month. Must understand cultivation of onions. Good wages. Phone 504-M, or call on Dr. Turfler. Wanted to Bent—Modern house, 6 to 8 rooms, business man, small family, permanently located, not semiyearly movers, state price and location. Address all communications to Banter, care Rensselaer Republican. FOUND. ” Feub|—Man’s gold initial cuff button. Call here. HLECTRILAL REPAIRS. repairs and wiring, call Bpy Delmer, Phone 151. POULTRY AMD EGGS. Jigja—Buff Plymouth Rock eggs from prise-winning pen. Hazelett •train, $L5® and $3.00 per 15. R. P. e Johnston, 2440 Kossuth street, Lafay”ette, Ind. . W. H. Dexter will pay 30c for butter tat this week. —— I I !■ MISCELLANEOUS. Bley de and Motorcycle Repair Shop —Three doors south of Rensselaer Garage. James C. Clark, proprietor. - Fruit ffpraj lag—Trim your fruit trees now and get ready for spraying I have an automatic sprayer and will do your work right and at reasonable prices. Leave your order now. W. J. " 11 ' ■ ■■ The Union UenfrslLlfe Insurance money to be loaned <m good farms tn Jasper county and otters a liberal con

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The Pool of Flame

LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

IHastraliou by EUawarth TaaaS

CHAPTER XXXIL For several minutes O’Rourke remained beside the body, making two , notable discoveries. For he was quick to note the fact that one of the dead man's hands was tightly clenched, while the other lay half-open and limp. The former was closed upon a leather thong so stout as to resist any attempt to break it by main strength, so firmly held that the murderer had found it necessary to sever it with a knife. The knife itself was there, for proof of this; the shqen of light upon its mother-of-pearl handle caught the Irishman’s eye. ■= Picking it up, he subjected it to a close examination that, however, gleaned no Information. It was simply a Small pocket penknife, little worn, with blades of German steel. It carried no identifying marks and told him but one thing—that the assassin had been a European; a native would never have bothered with so ineffectual a thing when a sturdy weapon, serviceable alike for offense and defense, would have served its purpose equally well.

From this he turned to the dagger which he had taken from the body; a stiletto with a plain ebony handle, unmarked, unscratched, apparently fresh from the dealer’s showcase. It meant nothing, save that it indicated still more strongly that the murderer was most probably not a native. A Greek or an Italian, a Genoese sailor or a, native of Southern France—say a seafaring man out of Marseilles — might have carried it “Oho!” said O'Rourke, speculative. “A Frenchman, mayhap!" He got up, satisfied that he would learn nothing more by continuing his search of the solicitor's body. The mental link between the fact of the crime and its perpetrator was inevitable; O’Rourke believed implicitly that Sypher had been murdered by Des Trebes masquerading as “De Hyeres." And he could have done himself an injury in the impotent fury aroused by Realization that he had permitted himself to be so childishly hoodwinked, despite the suspicions he had entertained of the soi-dlsant “De Hyeres.” He felt himself responsible, since he had neglected to warn Sypher. It had been on his tongue’s tip that afternoon, when Sypher himself had diverted the warning by his request that the O'Rourke could more comfortably spin his yarn after they had dined. “Poor divvle!” said the adventurer again. He stooped to spread his handkerchief over the staring, pitiful face. “And poor, poor young woman!" He was startled by the thought of her; for the first time It entered into his comprehension, until then bounded by the hard and fast fact of the murder. Now Instantly his concern about the crime was resolved .into solicitude for the girl. What could have happened to her? What had become of the servants, whose sudden desertion had left the house so slnlsterly quiet? Swept on by a fervor of anxiety on the girl's behalf, O'Rourke glanced quickly about thqjrtudy to assure himself that he had overlooked nothing of Importance, then passed out Into the main hall or reception-room. Here the most searching t inspection revealed nothing amiss. He moved on to the other room on the main floor and found himself In the dining-room; here again all was in perfect order. The kitchen offices in the rear of the house next received his attention; he found them completely untenanted, having apparently been abandoned In desperate haste. Everything was In disorder; the meal he had been Invited to partake of was cooking to cinders in pots and ovens; a heavy offense of burning food thickened the atmosphere. Half-stifled, he left the place as quickly as possible, returned to the main hall and ascended to the upper story. Here he found three bed-chambers and a bath. He first entered Sypher's, then the room evidently occupied by Miss Pynsent, finally what was unquestionably a guest-chamber, discovering nothing noteworthy until he reached the latter. And here he received a shock. Thrown carelessly across the foot of the bed was a woman's evening wrap, while on the bureau were gloves, long, white and fresh, but wrinkled from recent wear, and a silken veil. Plainly these were the property of the fourth guest, whose place had been set at the table below, but of whose Identity he had not been apprised. Presumably, he reflected, she (whoever she was) had been intended as the fulfillment of Sypher*s hinted surprise. A guess formed vaguely In his brain, and suddenly curdled into a suspicion. He took the gloves in his hand, examining them for marks of iriantifi*-*-tion, but found none. But in one corner of the veil he discovered an embroidered initial —the letter B. W sunned hwMfr- "4

It possible? .. .. He promised me a surprise. . . . Twould have been like her to plan it with him—and ’tie quite possible she reached Rangoon before I. . . . My wife! . ." Hastily he returned to the evening wrap, a fascinating contrivance of lace and satin unquestionably the last cry of the Parisian mode, such a wrap as his wife might well have worn. But beyond Paquin’s label stitched inside its dainty pocket it boasted no distinguishing mark. He stumbled hurriedly from the room and down the stairs, returning to the study where Sypher’s • body lay; tortured by mounting tears, he stood and looked blankly about him, at a loss where next to turn. If almost preternaturally alive to every sound or sight that might afford him a clue. ... He fought against a suspicion that crawled like a viper in his brain. Had he, after all, been deceived In Sypher’s nleee, Miss Pynsent? Had that Innocent charm of hers been a thing assumed, a cloak for criminal duplicity? Had she in reality been Des* Trebes’ accomplice? Had those clear and limpid eyes of youth, all through that voyage been looking forward to such a scene, to such a tragic ending as this? Could she have afforded the Frenchman the aid he needed to consummate his chosen crime? For he was now ready to believe Des Trebes the prime mover In this terrible affair; he no longer entertained a shred of doubt that his enemy had traveled with him from Calcutta under the disguise of “De Hyeres.” And he believed the man had planned this thing far ahead; else would he have surely taken some overt step to prevent O’Rourke from ’ delivering the ruby to Sypher. He divined acutely that, despairing of any further attempt to win the jewel from him, Des Trebes had turned his wits to the task of stealing it from Sypher; somebody naturally much less to be feared than the adventurer. But on the other hand, if the girl had not been Des Trebes* assistant—what had become of her? And what of her guest—the lady one of Arbose initials was B? It was not Inconsistent with Des Trebes* whole-hearted villainy that he should employ a gang of thugs' sufficiently large to overpower and make away with bodily and in a body Miss Pynsent, her guest and the servants, i .' ." "Great God!" cried O’Rourke. “If it be in truth my wife —!" Without presage a thin but Imperative tintinnabulation broke upon the silence of the house of death. O’Rourke jumped as if shot. Somewhere in one of the other rooms a telephone bell was ringing. It ceased, leaving a strident stillness; but before he could move to find the Instrument and answer the call, there rose a second time' that moaning sob which first he had attributed to an impossible source, then, In the turmoil of his thoughts, had forgotten. He waited, listening Intently.' The telephone called again and again subsided. Then a third time he heard the groan, more faint than before, but sufficiently loud to suggest Its source. He moved warily toward the windows and out upon the veranda —hounded •by the telephone. But that would have to wait; here was a more urgent matter to his hand. .Between the long, insistent rings the moaning was again audible; and this time he located it acurately. It came from the lawn, near the edge of the veranda. He stepped off carefully, but almost stumbled over the body of a man who lay there, huddled and moaning. “And another!" whispered the adventurer, awed. “Faith, this Pool of Flame . . .!” ' . He .was at once completely horrified and utterly dumbfounded. Nothing he had come upon within the bungalow seemed to Indicate that there had been anything In the nature of a struggle prior to the assassination of Sypher. He had up to this moment considered it nothing but a cold-blooded and cowardly murder; the man had apparently been struck down from behind in total Ignorance of his danger. O'Rourke had deduced that Sypher had risen from the desk to put the jewel In his safe; and that while he was so engaged the assassin, till then skulking

Dragged Him Into the Library.

outside the long windows and waiting for a moment when his victim's back should be turned, had entered and struck. . . But how could he reconcile that hypothesis with this man Who lay weltering and at the point of death at the veranda edge? Indeed, he could not do so. Bat this victim, at least, was not yet dead; If he had strength to moan, be might yet be revived, at least temporarily. Without delay, then, the Irishman grasped the man beneath the armpits, and, lifting him bodily to the veranda, tagged him Into the library. Ngst,

tTI Ee placed him In the middle of .the .floor, beneath, the blare of the" lamplight, did O’Rourke have an opportunity to observe his features. But now, as he dropped to his knees beside the body, his wondering cry testified to Immediate recognition. The latest name to be inscribed on the long and blood-stained death-roll of the Pool of Flame was that of Paul Maurice. Vicomte des Trebes; or, if there were life enough left in the man to enable hjm to Insist upon his nom de guerre (the wanderer reflected grimly) Raoul de Hyeres. « “What next?” wondered O’Rourke. “What can the meaning of it all bo now?” ' With each development the mystery was assuming mere fantastic proportions, becoming still more impenetrable and unsolvable. But be had no leisure In which to ponder It now, if Des Trebes were to be restored. And O’Rourke worked over the man as tenderly as though they had been lifelong friends, with skillful Angers estimating th<> nature ana extent of his wounds, with sound knowledge of rough and ready surgery doing all that could be done to bring him back to consciousness. At last Des Trebes sighed feebly; a spot of color, febrile, fickle, evanescent, dyed his cheeks; his breath rattled harshly in his gullet; his eyelids twitched and opened wide. He glared blankly at the face above. “Des Trebes!" cried O’Rourke. “Des Trebes!” His voice quickened the Intelligence of that moribund brain. A flash of recognition lighted the staring eyes. The lips moved without sound. “Des Trebes!" “Ah, yes . • . the Irishman ...” The whisper was barely articulate. O’Rourke put, to his lips a cup of brandy, diluted with a little water. “Drink," he pleaded, “and try to tell me what’s happened to ye. Who gave ye these wounds? Try to speak.” "But ... no ... I shall not tell.” “But—good God, man! ye've been murdered!” The white lips moved again; the adventurer bent his ear low to them. “We . . have both . . . lost . . . but you . . . your wife •

«My wife!" In a frenzy O’Rourke resumed his efforts to strengthen the dying man with spirits and water, but Dea Trebes, with a final effort, obstinately shut his teeth, moving his head Imperceptibly from side to side In token of his stubborn refusal. So he died. Implacable. In death the chiselled features remained set 'in a smile sardonic and triumphant Dying, he gave no comfort to ’his foe. . . . For a little time longer O'Rourke knelt at Des Trebes' side, watching and Wondering. Eventually he sighed heavily, shook his head, shrugged his shoulders and rose. And, rising, he perceived for the first time that he was no longer atone with the dead in that place. Kneeling in silence by the vicomte's side he had till then been hidden from the inner doorway to the room by the drapery of the center table. And evidently It was this circumstance-which had emboldened a man to slip in from the main hall and approach Sypher’s desk at the back of the room. ' As O'Rourke appeared he was conscious first of something moving in the room—a movement caught vaguely from the corner of his eyes. Then he heard a stifled cry of fright. He had already his revolver In his hand, so instant had been the obedience of his brain and body tp the admonition of instinct He swung about with the weapon poised, crying; “Stop!” The other' man was apparently trying to .escape by the door to the hall, but Was much too far from it to escape the threatened bullet. A jet of Are spurted from his hand. O'Rourke heard a crash and clatter of broken wlndow-glhss behind him. Without delay or conscious aim he fired and saw, still Indistinctly through pungent wreaths of smokSb the figure reel and collapse upon itself. The .man had hardly fallen efc O’Rourke stood over him, with a foot flmf upon one arm, while he iieiqtiakfl wrenched a revolver from relaxing tin, gers. Then, stepping back, he took stock of the murderous-minded intruder, and saw at his feet, writhing; coughing and spitting, a Chinese coolie—a type of the lowest class, Ma face a set yellow mask, stolid, unemotional, brutalised. Even thaA u betrayed little feeling; only the slant. set black eyes burned with unquenchable hatred as they glared up as W conqueror. . . . O'Rourke's bullet had penetrated the man's chest; and as he squirmed and groaned through his sharpened teeth of a lit, a crim, son stain spread on the bosom of his coarse white blouse. Wholly confounded, O’Rourke shook an amazed head. A third element had been added to the mystery with no affect othbr than to render it more opaque and dense than before. The telephone, its raucous voice now long since spiled, came Into his mind, and he was minded to leave the room and find It, to summon aid. Before he could move, however, a footfall on the veranda startled him. and his ears were ringing with a command couched in terse, curt English: ' “Hands up!" (To be continued

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For the purpose of nominating four delegates and four alternate delegates at large to the Republican National Convention; and for the additional purpose of nominating two electors at large and two contingent electors; fold 'electors to be voted for at the November Election, 1912. To the Republicans of Indiana and all those who desire to co-operate with them: . Pursuant to the order of the Republican State Committee, you are invited to participate in the primaries of the various counties of the State, for the .selection of delegates to the above Convention, upon Friday, the 22nd, or Saturday, the 23rd day of March, 1912. The hour and places in the respective counties for the holdings of these meetings will be fixed by the Republican County Central Committee, and notice of the same will be given by official call, to be signed ,by the Chairman and Secretory of such Committee, and published in the Republican county newspapers. .. The delegates so selected will meet In State Convention at Tomlinson Hall in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, on Tuesday, the 26th day of March, 1912, 10:00 o'clock a. m., for the purpost selecting four delegates and four alternate delegates at large to the Republican National Convention to be held in the City of Chicago on June 18, 1912; and for the additional purpose of nominating two electors at large to be voted for at the November election, 1912, and to select two contingent electors at large, who shall be qualified and take the place of either or both of said electors at large in case of their disability to so act before said election. Representation in this Convention of the various counties of the state shall be on the basis of one delegate tnd one alternate delegate for each two hundred votes cast for the Honorable Otis E. Gulley for Secretary of State at the November election of 1910, and one delegate and one alternate delegate for an additional fraction of one hundred votes or more cast as aforesaid, Jasper County being entitled to 8 delegates. FRED A. SIMS. JOHN G. BRYSON, Chairman. Acting Secretary.

CAM. FOB BEFUBLXOAM OOVCMUMSXOXAXi UMTSIOT COWVEMTIOM. For the purpose of nominating a candidate for representative from the Tenth -Congressional District of Indiana; .and for the additional purpose of nominating two delegates and two alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention; and for the additional purpose of nominating one elector and one contingent elector, said elector to be voted for at the November election, To the Republicans of the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana, and all those who desire to co-operate with .themt Pursuant to the order of the Republican Congressional District Committee, of the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana, you are invited to participate tn the primaries of the various counties of said district for the, selection of delegates to the above convention, uponr Friday, the 22hd, or Saturday, the 23rd day of March, 1212. The hour and places in the respective counties for the holding of these meetings will be fixed by the Republican County Central Committee, and notice of same will.be given by ofiicial Call, to be signed' by the chairman and secretary of such committee, and published in the Republican county newspapers. The delegates so selected will meet at the Hammond Opera House in the city of Hammond, Indiana, on Thursday, the 28th day of March, 1912, at one o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Representative in Congress, from the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana; and for the additional purpose of nominating two delegates and two alternate deleeites to the Republican Nation Convenon to be held in the city of Chicago on June 18th, 1912; and for the additional putpose of nominating ene elector to be voted for at the November election, 1912, and to select one contingent elector, who shall be qualified and take the place of said elector in case of his disability to so act before said election. Representation in this convention of the various counties of said district will be upon the basis of one delegate and one alternate delegate for each two hundred votes cast for the Honorable Otis E. Gulley for Secretary of State at the November election of 1910, and ene delegate and one alternate delegate for an additional fraction of one hundred votes or more cast as aforesaid, and apportioned to the several counties as follows: Benton County, 8; Jasper County, 8; Lake County, 89: Newton County, 7; Porter County 12; Tippecanoe County 27; Warren County, 8; White County, 12. - t WILLIAM tt THOMAS, r—District Chairman. —• Pursuant to above calls. Republican voters of Jasper County, and all other who desire to act with them, will meet in mass convention at the usual voting places (unless notice is given otherwise) on Saturday, March 23rd, 1912, for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate delegates to each of the abovenamed conventions. • » Each precinct will be entitled to the following representation, to-wit: Del Precinct Voters Vote Barkey, West <3 .89 Barkley, West 81 .89 g3SS;:Jffi.::::::::: g S Carpenter, South 99 M &Tni”Gri« 1 IS I :« 3 Newton ' M Union, North’l <4 Union. South 87 .39 W 81KC1 • ••••• • • ••,*• •S' • Wf VW «••••e ••• a • • • Hr® .. V- ?< -’-f J •