Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 312, 7 December 1906 — Page 7

The Richmond Palladium, Friday, December 7, 1906.

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By ANNA Author of -Tie Mystery of Copyright, 1903. lie paused IB nis ruouins, nuitu elng done with a very tender Land, nd a If he really loved the name ho as endeavoring to bring into plainer lew. Scowling a little, be turned and et me point black with a look which id a good deal of Inquiry In it. "I Am not usually interrupted here," e emphasized: "except by the boys," e aaaea more muaiy. mey someimes approach too closely, but I arn sed to the- imps and scarcely notice hem. Ah, there are some of my old Hends now! Well, it is. time they new that a change has taken place in by fortunes. Ill, there! Hands up and fetch this and this and this!" he shoutBut keep quiet about It, or next par you will get pennies again." And, flinging quarters right and left, Je smiled in such a pompous, self sa Us ed way . at the hurrah and scramble hich ensued, that It was well worth ly Journey there Just to see this exhiltion of combined vanity and good kimor. Now go!" he vociferated; and the renins, black and white, flew away, Hnrfnv nn thair hffln In rlHcht and tooting: "Bully for you, Uncle David! Ye'll come again next year, not for Wenty-flves, but, fifties." - I will make it dollars If I only Ive so Jong," he muttered. And deignJig now to remember the question I d put to him, he grandly remarked: I am going straight Into town. Can do anything for you?" Nothing. I thought you might like f know what awaits you there. The ty is greatly stirred up. The coroJsrs Jury In the Jeffrey-Moore case has 1st brought In a verdict to the effect )at auiclde has not been proved. 1 aturally, this Is equivalent to one of lurder." "Ah!" he ejaculated, slightly taken pack for one so invariably Impassive. And to whom Is the guilt of this rime ascribed?" be presently ventured "There was mention of no name, but Ie opprobrium naturally falls on Miss .hi Mine. "Miss Tuttle? Ah!" "Since Mr. Jeffrey is proved to have sen too far away at the time to have ted that shot, while she" "I am following you" "Was in the very house at the door ' the library In fact and heard the stol discharged, if she did not dlsbarge It herself which some believe, tably-the district attorney. You kould have been there, Mr. Moore." He looked surprised at this suggespn. I never am anywhere but here on 23d of May," he declared. "Miss Tuttle needed some adviser." Ah.' probably." You would haB been a good one." "And a welcome one, eh?" jl hardly thought he would have been I welcome one, but I did not admit the let. Nevertheless he, seized on the Ivantage he evidently thought he had lined and added, mildly enough, or, Ither, without any display of feeling: "Miss Tuttle likes me even less than eronica did. I do not think she would tve accepted, certainly she would not ive desired, my presence in her unsels. But of one thing I wish her be assured, her aud the world ln neral. Any money she may need at Is at this unhappy crisis in her life, ie will find amply supplied. She has claims on me, but that makes little (Terence where the family honor Is ncerncd- Her mother's husband was r brother the girl shall have all she jeas. i, win write ner so. fie was moving toward his carriage. Fine turnout?" he Interrogatively reirked. assented with all the surprise with the wonder even which his subhe egotism seemed to InWte. 'It is the best that Downey could Ese in the time I allotted him. When eally finger the money, we shall see, shall see." Us foot was on the carriage step. looked tip at the west. The sun almost down, but not quite. "Have ni anv anAMat hmfnaofl vrtth ma?" Via xed, lingering with what I thought surprising display of consciousness the last ray of the sunlight had appeared. glanced up at the coachman sitting his box as rigid as any stone. You may speak," said he; "Caesar Ither hears nor sees anything but his ies when he drives me." ne black did not wink. He was as j pletely at home on the box and as let and composed in his service as be had driven this man for years. fHe understands his duty," finished master, but with no outward apranee of pride "What have you to to mo?" 4 hesitated no longer. PMlss Tuttle Is supposed to have retly entered the Moore house on p night you summoned us. She even ro sne tua. i Know tnat you have orn to bavins seen no one go-jnto Jit house, but notwithstanding this. jven't you some means at your distal for proving to the police and to world at large that she never fired it fatal shot? Fublic opinion is so teL She will be ruined, whether lnrent or guilty, unless It can be very ilnly shown that she did not enter e library prior to going there with police." And how can you suppose me to be a position to prove that? Say that pad sat in my front window all that pnlng and watched with uninterruptassiduity the door through which many are said to have passed beJeen suntet and midnight something ich I did not do, as I have plainly ted cn oath how could you have expted me to see what went on in the ck interior of a ' house whose exior is barely discernible at night ross the street V Then you cannot aid her?" I asked. .Vith a light bound he leaped into the mage. As be took his seat he politejremarkedr. 4 I should1 le glad to, since, though not loore. the is near anouga tho m-

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KATHARINE GREEN, Agatha Webb," "Loet Mao's Lane." Etc. 4by the BobbcMerril! Company ny to arreet its nonor. Cat, not fcavini; even seen her enter the house, I cannot testify in any way in regard to Ler. Home, Caesar, and drive quickly. I do not thrive under these evening damps." And, leaning back with an inexpressible air of contentment with himself, his equipage and the prospect of an indefinite 'enjoyment of the same, the last representative of the great Moore family was quietly driven away. CHAPTER XVII. MUST admit that it was not entirely owing to disinterested motives that I now took the secret stand I did in Miss Tuttle's favor. n I clung to my convictions with an almost Insensate persistence, inwardly declaring her the victim of circumstances and hoping against hope that some clew would offer Itself by means of which I might yet prove her so. Had Mr. Jeffrey's alibi been less complete he could not have stood up against the suspicions which now ran riot. But there was no possibility of shifting the actual crime back to him after the testimony of so frank and trustworthy a man as Tallman. If the stopping of Mrs. Jeffrey's watch fixed the moment of her death as accurately as was supposed and I never heard the least doubt thrown out la this re gardhe could not by any means of transit then known ln Washington have reached Waverley avenue in time to fire that shot. The gates of the cemetery were closed at sundown. "Sundown took place that night at one minute past 7, and the distance into town is considerable. His alibi could not be gainsaid. So his name failed to be publicly broached In connection with the shooting, though his influence over Miss Tuttle could not be forgotten, suggesting to some that she had acted as his hand in the deed which robbed him of an undesirable wife. But this I would not believe. I preferred to accept the statement that she had stopped short of the library door in her suspicious visit there and that the ribbon tying, which went for so much, had been done at home. Finding myself, with every new consideration of the tantalizing subject, deeper and deeper in the quagmire of doubt and uncertainty, I sought enlightenment by making a memoran dum of the special points which must have Influenced the jury In their verdict, as witness: First. The relief shown by Mr. Jeffrey at finding an apparent communication from his wife hinting at suicide. Second. The possibility, disclosed by the similarity between the sisters' handwriting, of this same communication being a forgery substituted for the one really written by Mrs. Jeffrey. Third. The fact that, previous to Mr. Jeffrey's handling of the book in which this communication was said to Jiavft hipn hlddfn It Tisifl hppn Kppn In Uas Tuttle's hands. Caaaar Mid tarnont his Fourth. That immediately after this she had ' passed to the drawer where Mr. Jeffrey's pistol was kept. Fifth. That while this pistol had not been observed In her hand, there was as yet no evidence to prove that It had been previously taken from the drawer, save such as was afforded by her own acknowledgment that she had tied some unknown object, presumably the pistol, to her' sister's wrist before that sister left the house. . Sixth. That if this was so, the pistol and the ribbon connecting it with Mrs. Jeffrey's wrist had been handled again before the former was discharged, and by fingers which had first touched dust, of which there was plenty in the old library. Seventh. That Miss Tuttle had admitted, though not till after much prevarication and apparent subterfuge, that she bad extended her walk on that fatal night not only as far as the Moore house, but that she had entered It and penetrated as far as the li brary door at the very moment the snot was nrea witmn. Eighth. That ln acknowledging this she bad emphatically denied having associated the firing of this shot with any Idea of harm to her sister; yet was known to have gone from this house in a condition of mind so serious that she failed to recollect the places she visited or the streets she passed through till she found herself again in her sister's house face to face with an officer. Nine. That her first greeting of this officer was a shriek, betraying a knowledge of his errand before he had given utterance to a word. Ten. That the candles found In the Moore house were similar to those bought by Mr. Jeffrey and afterward delivered at his kitchen door. Eleven. That she was the only member of the household besides the cook who was in the kitchen at th time, nd that it was immediately after her departure from the room that the package containing the candles had been missed. Twelve. That opportunities of coming to an understanding with Mr. Jeffrey after his wife's death had not been lacking, and it was not until after such opportunities had occurred that any serious inquiry into this matter had been begun by the police. To which must be added, not in way of proof, but as an important factor ln the case, that her manner, never open, was such throughout her whole public examination as to make it evident to all that only half of what had occurred in the Jeffreys house since the wetWU ha baen jtvaa out bx hsr.or

by the ifm tot wcose release rrom a disappointing matrimonial entanglementshe was supposed to have worked, and this though the suspicion hanging over them both called for the utmost candor. Verily a serious list, and opposed to this I had as yet little to offer but my

own belief in her Innocence and the fact, but little dwelt on and yet not without Its value, that the money which had come to Mr. Jeffrey and the home which had been given her had both been forfeited by Mrs. Jeffrey's death. As I uiused and mused over this impromptu synopsis in my vain attempt to reach some fresh clew to a proper understanding of the inconsistencies in

jiis J-uuie conauci uy means or my j o, being a brisk fellow, with no time theory of her strong but mistaken de- for KOnseiise, ho called out: 'Your bouvotion to Mr. Jeffrey, a light suddenly quet nilss aod a mPssage which I am broke upon me from an entirely on- to give. you before you go downstairs! expected quarter. It was a faint one, Tne sentlnian is quite particular about but any glimmer was welcome. Re- itr xese words were literally shoutmembering a remark made by Mr. Jef- j ed at tLe door,' but in the hubbub of frey in his examination that Mrs. Jef- j voice(i about us I don't believe any one frey had not been the same since cross- j iieari them but ourselves and the

lng the ratal doorstep or the Moore nouse, i aseu myseir tr we naa paia enough attention to the mental condilion ana eonauci or tne Driae prior to the alarm which threw a pall or horror over her marriage, and, caught by the Idea, I sought for a fuller account of the events of that day than had hitherto been supplied by newspaper or witness. Hunting up my friend the reporter, I begged him to tell me where he had The rcprlr obtained the facts from which he made that leading article in the Star which had so startled all Washington on the evening of the Jeffrey wedding. That they had come from some eyewitness I had no doubt, but who was the eyewitness? Himself? No. Who then? At first he declined to tell me, but after a fuller understanding of my motives he mentioned the name of a young lady who, while a frequent guest at the most fashionable functions, was not above supplying the papers with such little Items of current gossip as came under her own observation. How I managed to approach this lady and by what means I succeeded iu gaining her confidence are details quite unnecessary to this narrative. Enough that I did obtain access to her and that she talked quite frankly to me and in so doing supplied me with a clew which ultimately opened up to me an entirely new field of Inquiry. We had been discussing Mr. Jeffrey and Miss Tuttle when suddenly and with no apparent motive beyond the natural love of gossip, which was her weakness, she launched out Into remarks about the bride. The ceremony had been late. Did I know it? A half hour or three-quarters past the time set for St. And why? Because Miss Moore was .not ready. She had chosen to array herself in the house and had come early enough for the purpose, but she would not accept any assistance, not even that of her maid, and of coarse she kept every one waiting. "Ob, there wks no more uneasy soul in the whole party that morning than the bride!" Let other people remark upon the high look in Cora Tuttle's face or gossip about the anxious manner of the bridegroom, she (the speaker) could tell things about the bride which would go to show that she was not all right even before that ominous death's head reared itself into view at her marriage festival. Why, the fact that she came downstairs and was married 'without her bridal bouquet was enough. Had there not been so much else to talk about, people would have talked about that. But the big event had so effectually swallowed up the little that only herself and possibly two other ladies she might name seemed to retain any memory of the matter. "What ladies?" I usked. "Oh, it doesn't matter what ladies. Two of the very best sort. I know they noticed it, because I heard them talking about It. We were all standing in the upper hall and were all crowded into a passage leading to the room where the bride was dressing. It was before the alarm . had gone around of what had been discovered in the library, and we were all Impatient enough for the appearance of the bride, who, we had been told, intended to wear the old point In which her great-grandmother was married. I have a weakness for old point and I was determined to stand where I could see her come out, even if I lost sight of the ceremony itself. But it would have been tedious enough waiting in that close hall if the ladies behind me had not kept up a conversation, which I, of course, pretended not to hear. I remember it, every word, for it was my sole amusement for half an hour. What was it? Oh, It was about that same bouquet, which, by the way, I had the privilege of staring at all the time they chatted. For the boy who brought it had not been admitted into Miss Moore's room, and, not knowing what else to do with it. was lingering before her door, with the great streamers falling from his hands, and the lilies making the whole place heavy with a sickening perfume. From what I heard the ladles say, he bad been standing there an hour, and the timid knock he gave from time to time pro duced in me an odd feeling which those ladies behind me seemed to share. 'It's a shame! I heard one of them cry. 'Veronica Moore has no excuse for such thoughtlessness. It Is an hour now that she has been shut up in her room alone. She .won't have even her maid in. She prefers to dress alone, she says. Peculiar in a bride, isn't it? But one thing is certainshe cannot put on her veil without help. She will have to call some one in for that At which the other volunteered that the Moo res were all queer, and that she didn't envy Francis Jeffrey. 'What! not with fifty thousand a year to lighten her oddities?' returned her companion with a shrug which communicated itself to me, so closely were we packed together. 'I have a son who could bear with them under much circumstances. Indeed she has, and all Washington knows it, but the remark passed without comment, for they had not yet exbaosted the main event, and the person they now attacked.wtjijgtje, J.WhT-aoon't fea

come and see mat tnat oouquet is taken In? I declare it's not decent. Mr. Jeffrey would not feel complimented if he knew the fate of tL.me magnificent lilies and roses. I presume he furnished the bouquet.' ? " 'Miss Tuttle has looked out of her

room once," I heard the other replv. j .ghe Is ln sp!cil,iid beauty today, but pale. But slie never could control Veronica. 'Hush You speak louder than you think.' This amused me, and I do j believe that in another moment 1 1 should have laughed outright if an-i other boy had uot appeared in the hall before us. who. shoving aside tho first,! rapped on the door with n spirit which : called for answer. Hut he-was no more puccessful than the other boy had been. j jde. i know that she heard them j for opened the door a very little j waysuch a Tery little way that the j nj to DUt his Uds to the crack when he spoke and then turn and place his ear where his Hps had been in or der to catch her reply. This, for some reason, seemed a long time in coming. and the fellow grew so impatient that he amused himself by snatching the bouquet from the other boy and thrusting it in through the crack, to the very great detriment of its roses and lilies. When 6he took it he bawled for his answer, and when he got it he stared and muttered doubtfully to himself as he worked, his way out again through the crowd, which by this time was be ginning to choke up all the halls and stairways. "But why have I told you all this nonsense?" she asked quite suddenly. "It? Isn't of the least consequence that Veronica Moore kept a boy waiting at her door while she dressed herself for her wedding, but it shows that she was queer even then, and I for one believe in the theory of suicide, and in that alone, and in the excuse she gave for it, too; for if she had really loved Francis Jeffrey she would not have been so slow to take in the magnificent bouquet he had provided for her." But comment even from those who had known these people well was not what I wanted at this moment, but facts; so. without much attention to these words, I said: "You will excuse me If I suggest that you are going on too fast. The door of the bride's room has just been shut upon the boy who brought her a message. When was it opened again?" "Not for a good half hour; not till ; every one had grown nervous and Miss Tuttle and one or two of her most Inti- ; mate friends had gone more than once to her door; not, in fact, till the hour for the ceremony had come and gone and Mr. Jeffrey had crossed the ball twice under the impression that 6he was ready for him. Theo, when weariness was general and people wero asking what kept the bride and how much longer they were to be kept waiting, her door suddenly opened and I caught a glimpse of her face and heard her ask at last for her maid. Oh, I repeat that Veronica Moore was not all right that day, and, though I have heard no one comment on the fact, it has been a mystery to me ever since why she gave that sudden recoil when Francis Jeffrey took her hand after the benediction. It was not timidity nor was it fear, for she did not know till a minute afterward what had hap pened in the house. Did some sudden realization of what she had done in marrying a manwhom she herself declared she did not love come when it was too late? What do you think?" Miss Freeman had forgotten herself; but the Impetuosity which had led her into asking my opinion made her forget in another moment that she bad done so. And when In my turn I propounded a question and inquired whether she ever again saw the boy who besieged the bride's door with a message, she graciously replied: "Ihe boy; let me see. les, I saw him twice once in a back hall talking Miss Freeman earnestly to Mr. Jeffrey, and seconafly at -the carriage door just before the bridal party rode away. It was Mrs. Jeffrey who was talking to him then, and I wondered to see him look so pleased when everybody in and about the house was pale as ashes." "Do you know the name of that boy?" I carelessly inquired. "His name? Oh, no. He is one of ltaucher's waiters the curly haired one. Y'ou see him everywhere, but I dont know his name. Do you flatter yourself that he can tell you anything that other people don't know? Why. if he knew the least thing that wasn't in everybody's mo'th you would have heard from him long ago. Those men are the greatest gossips in town" I wonder what she thought of herself "and so proud to be of any impor tance." This was true enough, though I did not admit it at the time, and when the interview was closed and I went away I have no doubt she con sidered me quite the most heavy per son she had ever met. But this did not disturb me. The little facts she had stated were new to me, and, re peating my former method. I was al ready busy arranging them In my mind. Witness the result: First. The ceremony of marriage between Francis Jeffrey and Veronica Moore was fully three-quarters of an hour late. Second. This was owing to the caprice of the bride,' who would not have any one in the room with her, not even her maid. Third. The bridal bouquet did not figure in the ceremony. In the flurry of the moment it was forgotten or purposely left behind by the bride. As this bouquet was undoubtedly the gift of Mr. Jeffrey, the fact may be siamiflffB2t - -" i

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Fourth. She received a message of a somewhat peremptory character before going below. Froai whom? Uer bridegroom? It would so appear from the character of the essage. Fifth. The messenger showed great astonishment at the reply he was given to carry back. Yet he has not been known to mention the matter. Why? When every one talked he was silent. Through whose influence? This was something to find out. Sixth. Thongh at the time the benediction vns pronounced every was in a state of alarm except the bride, it

noticed that she gave an involuatary recoil wnen tier bridegroom stoo:fd for tlt riitrm:ir-p ties XVVv Were the lines of her last farewell true thn, and did she experWnce at that moment a sudden realization of her lack of love? Seventh. Se did not go again upstairs, but very soon fled from the house with the rest of the bridal party. Fetty facts all, but possibly more significant than appeared. I made up my mind to find the boy who brought the bouquet and also the one who carried back her message. But here a surprise, If not a check, awaited me. The florist's boy had left his place, and no one could tell where he hau gone. Neither could I find the 'curly haired waiter at Raucher's. He had left also, but it was to join the volunteers ati3an Antonio. Was there meaning in this coincidence? I resolved to know. Visiting the former haunts of both boys, I failed to come upon any evidence of an understanding between them or of their having shown any special Interest in the Jeffrey tragedy. Both seemed to have been strang-ely reticent in regard to it. the florist's boy showing stupidity and the waiter such satisfaction in his prospective soldiering that no other topic was deemed worthy his attention. The latter had a sister, and he could not say enough of the delight her brother had shown at the prospect of riding a horse again and of fighting in such good company. Ho had had some experience as a cowboy before coming to Washington, and from the moment war was declared had expressed his Intention of joining the recruits for Cuba as soon as he could see her so provided for tnat his death would not rob her of proper sup port. How this had come about she did not know. Three weeks before he had been in despair over the faint pros pect of doing what be wished. Then, suddenly aud without any explanation of how the change bad come about, he had rushed ln upon her with the news that he was going to enlist in a company made up of broncho busters and rough rjders from the west, that she need not worry about herself or about him, for he had just put $500 to her account in bank, and that as for himself he possessed a charmed life and was Immune, as she well knew, and need fear bullets no more than the fever. By this he meant that he had had yellow fever years before in Louisiana and that a bail which had once been fired at him had gone clean through his body without taking his life. "What was the date of the evening on which he told you he had placed money in bank for you?" "April 29." Two days after the Jeffrey-Moore wedding! Convinced now ,that his departure from town was something more than a coincidence, I. pursued my inquiries and found that he had been received, just as she had said, into the First volunteer corps under Colonel Wood. This required influence. Whose was the influence? It took me some time to find out, but after many and various attempts, most of which ended in failure, I succeeded in learning that the man who had worked and obtained for him a place in this favored corps was Francis Jeffrey. CHAPTER XVIII. DID some tall thinking that night. I remembered that this man had held some conversation with the ' Jeffreys at their carriage door previous to their departure from the Moore bouse, and found myself compelled to believe that only a matter of Importance to themselves as well as ; to him would have detained them at such a minute. Oh, that Tampa were not so far off or that I had happened on this clew earlier! But Tampa was at that moment a far prospect for me, and I could only reason from such facts as I had been able to collect in Washington. Fixing my mind now on Mrs. Jeffrey, I asked the cause of the many caprices which had marked her conduct on her wedding morning. Why had she persisted in dressing alone, and what occasioned the absorption which led to her Ignoring all appeals at her door at a time when a woman is supposed to be more tban usually gracious? But one answer suggested Itself. Her heart was not in her marriage and that last hour of her maidenhood had been an hour of anguish and struggle. Perhaps she not only failed to love Francis Jeffrey, but loved some other man. -This seemed improbable, but things as strange as this have happened in our complex society, and no reckoning can be made with a woman's fancy. If this was so and what other theory would better or even so well account for her peculiar behavior both then and afterward? The hour usually given by brides to dress and gladsome expectation was with her one of farewell to past hopes and an unfortunate if not passionate attachment. No wonder that she wished to be alone. No wonder that interruption angered her. Perhaps it had found her on her knees. Perhaps Here I felt myself seized by a strong and sudden excitement. I remembered the filings I had gathered up from the small stand by the window, filings which had glittered and which must have bfm of gold. What was the conclusion? In this last hoar of her maiden life she had sought to rid herself of some article of Jewelry which she found it undesirable to carry into her new Ufa. What article Jewelry? In consideration of the circumstances and the hour I could think of but one a ring, the symbol of some old attach ment. The slight abrasion at the base of her third flager, which sad been looked upon as the ravult of too rona-h and speedy a withdrawing f the wedding ring on the evening of her death, was much more likely to hare been occasioned by tiie reopening of some little wound (Md tw wvek'Mlr.bxlhe :

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me. it uuroin ana tne rest naa taaen Into account these filings, they must have come to very much the same conclusion, but either they had overlooked them fn their search about the place or,, having noted them, regarded them as a clew leading nowhere. But for me they led the way to a very definite inquiry. Asking to see thelngs Mrs. Jeffrey bad left behind her on the night she went for the last time to the Moore hause, I looked them carefully over and found that none of them showed the least mark of the file. This strengthened my theory, and I proceeded to take my next step with Increased confidence. It seemed an easy one, but proved unexpectedly difficult. My desire was to ascertain whether she had worn previous to her marriage any rings which had not been seen oh her finger since, and it took me one whole week to establish the fact that she had. But that fnct once learned, the way cleared before me. Allowing my fatfcy full rein, I pictured to myself her anxious figure standing alone in that ancient and ghostly room filing off this old ring from her dainty finger. Then I asked myself what she would be likely to do with this ring after disengaging It from her had? Would she keep It? Perhaps. But, if so, why could it not be found? None such bad been discovered among her effects. Or had she thrown '-it' away,' and if so, where? The vision of her which I had Just seen Jn my mind's eye came out with a clearness at this, which struck me as providential. I could discern as plainly as if I bad been a part of the scene the white clad form of the brlds bending toward the light which came in sparsely through the half open shutter she had loosened for this task. This was the shutter which had never again been fastened and whose restless blowing to and fro had first led attention to this house and the crime it might otherwise have concealed indefinitely. Had some glimpse of th rank grass growing underneath this window lured her eye and led her to cast away the ring which she had no longer any right to keep? It would be like a woman to yield to such an impulse, and on the strength of the possibility I decided to search this small plot for what It mljht very reasonably conceal. y. Calling together a-posse of street urchins, I organized them into a band, with the promise of a good snpper all around if one of them brought me the pieces of a broken ring which I had lost in the grass plot of a house where I had been called upon to stay all night. That they might win the supper in the shortest possible time and before the owner of this house, who lived opposite, could interfere, I advised them to start at the fence in a long line and. proceeding on their knees, to search, each one. tbe ground before him to the width of. his own body. The fortunate one was to have the privilege of saying what the supper should consist of. To give a plausible excuse for this search a ball was to be tossed up a ad down the street till it ligbted in the Moore house lnclosur. (To Be Oontlnuad.) NEW PARIS. New Paris, O., Dec. 6, (Spl.) Mrs. Caroline McOrew is very sick with pneumonia. Lawrence Melody of Columbus is ; now at home sick. He will go back to work in a few days. The Tuesday Club met at the home, of Miss Grace Samuels on Tuesday evening. The following was the program: . Roll CalL Current events. Music Solo by Miss Nellie McNeil. Readings from favorite Authors Miss Marie Smelser and Mrs. Ethel Colby. Music, Piano SoIo--Miss Grace Samuels. " , Luncheon was served and consisted of cheese sandwiches, olives, grapes, and coffee. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. M. H. Pence. The guests of tbe evening were Mrs. Grove McKee of Evansville, Ind., Mrs. Lnrt Reid and Mrs. Moris Sullivan. Pauline,- the little daughter ot Mr.

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