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4Si ,5 1 A Jlju By ANNA Author of "Tbe Mystery of fy "I iji ifi Ml B M, - Copyright, 1903, "Result of secret Inquiry in Owosso: "V. M. very intimate with schoolmate v.ho baa since died. Often rode together; ence gone a long time. This wn Just before V". M. left school for $rxd. Date same as that on which a marriage occurred In n town twenty miles distant. Iiride, Antoinette Moore; groom, W. I'feiffer of Denver; witness, young girl with red hair. Schoolmatehad red hair. Had V. M. a middle Initial, and was that initial A.?" We nil looked at each other. This l:it question was one none of us could answer "Go for Mr. Jeffrey at once," ordered the major, "and let another one of you bring Miss Tuttle. No word to either f what has ownrrinl and no hint of Stheir possible meeting here." It fell to me to fetch Miss Tuttle. I rwas glad of this, as it gave me a few minutes by myself in which to com pose my mind and adjust my thoughts to the new conditions opened up by the amazing facts which had just come to light. Hut beyond the fact that Mrs. Jeffrey had been answerable for the death which had occurred In the library at the time of her marriage that, in tiie words of the district attorney, she had come to her husband with blood on her hands my thoughts would not go. Confusion followed the least attempt to settle the vital question of how far Miss Tuttle and Mr. Jeffrey had been involved In the earlier crime and what 1 he coming interview with these two would add to our present knowledge. In my anxiety to have this question anhwered I hastened my steps and was soon at the door of Miss Tuttle's present dwelling place. I doubt If she noticed ray agitation. She was too much swayed by her own. Advancing upon me In all the unconscious pride of her great beauty, she iremulously remarked: "You have a message for me. Is it jfrom headquarters, or has the district nttorney still more questions to ask?" 'I have a much more trying errand lhan that," I hastened to nay, with Fome Idea of preparing her for an exerience that could not fail to be one f exceptional trial. "For reasons Kvhich will , be explained to you by (hose In greater authority than myself -oil are wanted at the house where vhere" I could not help stammering mder the light of her melancholy eyes -"where I aw you once before," I amely concluded. "The house in Waverley avenue?" she objected wildly, with the first signs f positive terror I had ever beheld in ier. I nodded, dropping my eyes. What all had I to penetrate the conscience of Ids woman? "Are they there all there?" she pres ently asked again. "The police and ind Mr. Jeffrey?" Madam," I respectfully protested, my duty is limited to conducting you o the place named. A carriage Is wali ng. May I beg that you will prepare ourself to go at once to Waverley aveme?" For answer she subjected me to a ong and earnest look which I round It ruposslble to evade. Then she hastena from the room, but with very unteady steps. When she returned ready for her ride his change in her spirits was less obferTable, and by the time we had eached the house in Waverley avenue he had o far regained her old courage p.s to move and speak wrfh the ealmpess of despair if not of mental sereuty. .... . . The major was awaiting us at the !oor and bowed gravely before her leavily veiled hgure. "Miss Tuttle," he asked, without any reamble, the moment she was well inUde the house, "may I inquire of you icre, and before I show you what will xcuse ns for subjecting you to the dlsress of -entering these doors, whether our sister, Mrs. Jeffrey, "had any other mme or M as ever known by any other lame than that of Veronica?" She was christened Antoinette as Hrell as Veronica, but the person in vhose memory the former name was ;lven her was no honor to the family, md she very soon dropped it and was nly known as Veronica. Oh, what iave I done? she crted, awed and frightened by the silence which follow;d the utterance of these simple words. Before any of us were quite ready to fepeak, a tap at the door told us that )urbin had arrived with Mr. Jeffrey, "acing the small group clustered in the Usmal hall fraught with such unutter able associations, he earnestly prayed: Do not keep me in suspense. Why km I summoned here? ' "You are summoned to lenrn the nurderous secret of these old walls. md who it was that last tyade use of t. Do you feel Inclined to hear these details from my lips, or are you ready a state that you already know the neans by which so many persons, in imes past as well as In times present, iave met death here? We do not rehtiire ydu to answer us." I know the means," he allowed, rec ognizing without doubt that the crisis bf crises had come and that denial konld be worse than useless. "Then It only remains for us to ac quaint you with the identity of the Tht maior erson who last pressed the ratal pring. Rut perhaps you know that oo?T' I" He paused; words were im possible to him. and in that pause his ves flashed helplessly in the direction OiiM.Tuttle..

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4 :- by the Bobbs-Merrill Company i:ut the mijor was qincic on ins reel and was already between him and thnt lady. This act forced from Mr. Jeffrey's lips the following broken sentence: "I should like you to t f II me." j Great gasps came "with each heavily i spoken woru. . s "Perhaps this morsel of lace will do j it In a gentler manner than I could, responded the district attorney, opening his hand, in which lay the scrap of lace that an hour or so before I had plucked away from the boarding of that fatal closet. Mr. Jeff rey eyed it and understood. Ills hands went up to his face, and he swayed to the point of falling. Miss Tuttle came quickly forward. "OhT' she moaned as her eyes fell on the little white shred. "The providence of God has found us out. We have suffered, labored and denied in vain." "Yes," came In dreary echo from the man none of us had understood till now; "so great a crime could not be hid. God will have vengeance.- What are we that we should hope to avert it by any act or at any cost?" The major, with his eyes fixed piercingly on this miserable man, replied with one pregnant sentence: "Then you forced your wife to suicide?" "No," he I'egan. But before another word could follow Miss Tuttle, resplendent In beauty and beaming with new life, broke in with the fervid cry: "You wrong him and you wrong her by such a suggestion. It was not her husband, but her conscience, that forced her to this retributive act. What Mr. Jeffrey might have done had she proved obdurate and blind to the enormity of her own guilt I do not know, but that he is innocent of so influencing her Is proved by the shock he suffered at finding she had taken her punishment Into her own hands." "Mr. Jeffrey will please answer the question," Insisted the major, whereupon the latter, with great effort, but with the first appearance of real candor yet seen in him, said earnestly: "I did nothing to influence her. I was in no condition to do so. I was benumbed dead. When first she told me It was In some words muttered in her sleep I thought she was laboring under some fearful nightmare, but when she persisted and I questioned her and found the horror true I was like a man turned instantly into stone save for one Intolerable throb within. I am still so. Everything passes by me like a dream. She was so young, seemingly so innocent and light hearted. I loved her! Gentlemen, you have thought me guilty of my wife's death, this young fairylike creature to whom I ascribed all the virtues, and I was willing, willing that you should think so. willing even to face the distrust and opprobrium of the whole world, and so was her sister, the noble woman whom yon see before you, rather than that the full horror of her crime should be known and a name so dear be given up to execration. We thought we could keep the secret-rwe felt that we must keep the secret. We took an oath in French in the carriage, with the detectives opposite us. She kept it God bless her! I kept It. Rut it was all useless a tiny bit of lace Is found hanging to a lifeless splinter, and all our efforts, all the hopes and agony of weeks, are gone for naught. The world will soon know of her awful deed and 1" He still loved her. That was apparent iu every look, in every word he uttered. We marveled in awkward sileuce and "were glad when the major said: "The deed, as I take it. was an unpremeditated one on her part. Is that why her honor was dearer to you than 3our own, and why you could risk the reputation If not the life of the woman who you say sacrificed herself to it?" "Y'es, it was unpremeditated. She hardly realized her act. If you must know her heart through all this dreadful business we have her words to show you words which she spent the last miserable day of her life in writing. The few lines which I showed the captain and which have been published to the world was an inclosure meant for the public eye. The real letter, telling the whole terrible truth. I kept for myself and for the sister who already knew her sin. Oh, we did everything we could!" And he again moaned. "But it was In vain; quite in vain." There were no signs of subterfuge in himnow.and we all. unless I except Durbin, began to yield him credence. Durban never -gives credence to anybody whose name he has once heard associated with crime. "And this Pfeiffer was contracted to : her? A man she had secretly married while a schoolgirl and who at this j very critical instant had fouud his way ' to the house""Ycu shall read her letter. It was meant for me. for me only but you shall see it. I cannot talk of him or of her crime. It Is enough that I have been unable to think of anything else since first those dreadful words fell from her lips in sleep, thirty-six hours before she died." Then with the Inconsistency of great anguish he suddenly broke forth into the details he shrank from and cried: "She muttered, lying there, that she was no bigamist. That she had killed one husband before she married the other. Killed him In the old house and by the method her ancestors had taught her. And I, risen on my elbow, listened, with the sweat oozing from my forehead, but not believiug her. oh, not believing her, any more than any oiio of you would believe such words uttered in a dream by the darling of your heart. But when, with a long drawn sigh, she murmured, 'Murderer!' and raised her fists tiny fists, hands which I had kissed a thousand times and shook them In the air, an awful terror seized we. and I. sought to graso

taeru, ana iioia incui coivu. out was hindered ly some nameless fnner recoil i tinder which I could not speak or! asp or move. Of course, it was some j tlro-im horror she was laboring under, ; a nlshtrnare of unimaginable acts and thoughts, but it was one to 'hold me i back; and when she lay quiet again j and her face resumed its oid sweetness , in 'the moonlight, I found myself star- j ing at her almost U3 if it were true what she had said that word that

awful word use with re which no woman "could ard to herself, even i'a ' au ei-lio ' dreams, unless soineihing. from the discordant chord in our two weeks" married life, ruse like the confirmation of a doubt in my shocked and rebellious breast. j From that hour till dawn nothing in ' that slowly brightening room seemed ; real, not her face lying burled iu its ; youthful l.'.c'i.j ujHfri the pillow, not the j objects well known and wHI prize! by which we were surrounded not my- j self most of all, not myself, unless the j icy dew oozing from the roots of my j lifted hair was real, unless that shape. ! fearsome, vague, but persistent, which ; hovered in the shadows above us. drawing a line of eternal separation between rae and my wife, was a thing which could be caught and strangled and Oh. I rave! I chatter like a madman, but I did not rave that night. .'or did I rave when. In Jhe bright, broad sunlight, her eyes slowly unc'.osed and she started to see me bending so near her, but not with my usual kiss ! or glad good morning. I could not question her then; I dared not. The smile which slowly rose to her lips was too piteous it showed confidence. I waited till after breakfast. Then, while she was seated where she could not see my face, I whispered the question, 'Do you know that you have had a, horrible dream?' She shrieked and turned. I saw her face and knew that I what she had uttered in her sleep was true. "I have no remembrance of what I said to her. Site tried to tell me how she had been tempted and how she had not realized her own act till the moment I bent down to kiss her lips as her husband. But I did not stop to listen I could not. I flew immediately to Miss Tuttle with the violent demand as to whether she knew that her sister was already a wife when she married me, and when she cried out, 'No!' and showed great dismay I broke forth with the dreadful tale and cowered in unmanly anguish at her feet and went mad and lost myself for a little while. Then I went back to my wretched wife and asked her how the awful deed had been done. She told me, and again I did not believe her and began to look upon it all as some wild dream of the distempered fancies of a disordered brain. This thought calmed me, and I spoke gently to her and even tried to take her hand. But she herself was raving now and clung about my knees murmuring words of such anguish and contrition that my worst fears returned and, only stopping to take the key of the Moore house from my bureau. I left the house and wandered madly I know not where. "I did not go back that day. I could not face her again till I knew how much Oi her confession was fancy and how much was fact. I roamed the streets, carrying that key from one end of the city to the other, and at night 1 usd it to open the house which she had declared contained so dreadful a secret. "I had bought candles on my way there but, forgetting to take them from the store, I had no light with which to lonetrate the horrible place that even the moon refused to illumine. I realized this when once in, but would not go back. All I have told about using matches to light me to the southwest chamber is true, also my coming upon the old candelabrum there, with a candle in one of its sockets. This candle I lit, my sole reason for seeking this room being my desire to examine the antique sketch for the words which she had said could be found there. "I had failed to bring a magnifying glass with me. but my eyes are phenomenally sharp. Knowing where to look, I was able to pick out enough words here and there in the lines composing the hair to feel quite sure that my wife had neither deceived me nor been deceived as to certain directions being embodied there in writing. Shaken in my last lingering hope., but not yet quite convinced that these words pointed to outrageous crime, I flew next to the closet aud drew out the fatal drawer. "You have been there and know what the place is, but no one but myself can ever realize what it was for me, still loving, still clinging to a wild inconsequent belief in my wife, to grope in that mouth of hell for the spring she had chattered about iu her sleep, to find It, press it, and-then to hear, down in the dark of the fearsome recess, the sound of something deadly strike against what I took to be the cushions of the old settle standing at the edge of the library hearthstone. "I think I must have fainted, for when I found myself possessed of sufficient consciousness to withdraw from that hole of death the candle in the candelabrum was shorter by an inch than when I first thrust my head into the gap made by the removed drawers. In putting back the drawers I hit the candelabrum with my foot, upsetting it and throwing out the burning candle. As the flames began to lick the worm eaten boarding of the floor a momentary impulse seized me to rush away and leave the whole place to burn, but I did not. With a sudden frenzy I stamped out the flame and then, finding myself in darkness, groped my way downstairs and out. If I entered the library I do not remember it. Some lapses must be pardoned a man involved as I was." "But the fact which yon dismiss so lightly is an important one," insisted the major. "We must know positively whether you entered this room or not." "I have no recollection of doing so. "Then you cannot tell tis whether the little table was standing there, with the candelabrum upon it or" "I can tell you nothing about it." The major, after a long look at this suffering man, turned toward Miss Tuttle. "You must have loved your sist?r very much." he sententiously remarked. , She flushed, and for the first' time her eyes fell from their resting place on Mr, Jeffrey's face. "I loved her reputation." was her quiet answer, "and" The rest died la bee throat...

But we an suca or is. I mean, who were possessed of the least sensibility or insight knew how that sentence mounded as finished in her heart, "And I loved him who asked this sacrifice of me. Yet was her conduct not quite clear. "And to save that reputation you tied the pSetol to her wrist''"' insinuated the major. "Xo" was her vehement reply. "I never knew what I was tying to her.

! My. testimony in that regard was absolmely true. SLe held the pistol concealed in the fold of her dress. I did not dream I couid not that she was contemplating any such end to the atrocious crime to which sbe had confessed. I Ier manner was too light, too airy and too frivolous a manner adapted, as I now see. to forestall all questions and hold back all expressions of feeling on my part. 'Tie these hanging erftis of riIIon to my wrist.' were her words. 'Tie them tight: a knot under and a bow on top. I am going out. There, don't say anything. What you want to talk alout will keep till tomorrow. For one night more I am goinjz to maLe merry to to enjoy myself. She was laughing. I thought her horribly callous and trembled with such an uuspeakable repulsion that I had difficulty in making the knot. To sjeak at all would have beendmposslblet Neither did I dare to look in her face. I was touching the hand that i and she kept on laughing such a hoi low laugh covering up such an awful resolve! When she turned to give me that last Injunction about the note this resolve glared still in her ejes." "And you never suspected?" "Not for an instant. I did not do Justice either to her misery or to her conscience. I fear that I have never done her justice in any way. I thought her light, pleasure loving. I did not know that it was assumed to hide a terrible secret." "Then you had no knowledge of the contract she had entered into while a schoolgirl?" "Not In the least. Another woman and not myself had been her confidant, a woman who has since died. No Intimation of her first unfortunate marriage had ever reached me till Mr. Jef frey rushed In upon me that Tuesday morning with her dreadful confession on his lips." The district attorney, who did not seem quite satisfied on a certain point passed over by the major, now took the opportunity of saying: "You assure us that you had no Idea that this once light hearted sister of yours meditated suicide when she left you?" "And I repeat it, sir. " "Then why did you immediately go to Mr. Jeffrey's drawer, where you could have no business, unless it was to see if she had taken his pistol with her?" Miss Tuttle's head fell, and a soft flush broke through the pallor of her check. "Because I was thinking of him; because I was terrified for him. He had left the house the morning before in a half maddened condition and had not come back to sleep or eat since. I did not know what a man so outraged in every sacred feeling of love and honor might be tempted to do. I thought of suicide. I remembered the old house and how he had said: 'I don't believe her. I don't believe she ever did so cold blooded an act or that any such dreadful machinery is in that house. I never shall believe, it till I have seen fand handled it myself. It is a night mare, Cora. We are insane.' I tfiought of this, sirs, and when I went into her room to change the place of the little note In the book iwenj to his bureau drawer not to look- for the pistol I did not think of that then but to see if the keys of the Moore house were still there. I knew that they were kept in this drawer, for I had been present in the room when they were brought in after the wedding. I bad also been shortsighted enough to conclude that if they were gone it was he who had j taken them. They were gone, and that was why I flew immediately from the house to the old place in Waverley avenue. I was concerned for Mr. Jeffrey. I- feared to find him. there, demented or dead." "But you had no key "No; Mr. Jeffrey had taken one of them and my sister the other, but the lack of a key or even of a light, for the missing candles were not taken by me Iwe afterward found that these candles were never delivered at the house at all; that they had been placed In the wrong basket and left in. a neighboring kitchen, could not keep me at home after I was once convinced that he had gone to this dreadful house. If I could not get in I could at least hammer at the door or rouse the neighbors. Something must be done. I did not think what; I merely flew." "Did you know that the house had two keys?" "Not then." : "But your sister did?" ' I "Frobably." "And finding the only key, as you supposed, gone, you flew to the Moore house?" "Immediately." "And now what else?" "I found the door unlocked." "That was done by Mrs. Jeffrey? "Yes, but I did not think of her then." "And you went in?" "Y'es; it was all dark, but I felt my way till I came to the gilded pillars." "Why did you go there?" "Because I felt I knew If he were anywhere in that house he would be there!" "And why did you stop?" Her voice rose above its usual quiet pitch in shrill protest: "Y'ou know! you know! I heard a pistol shot, from within, then .a fall. I don't remember anything else. They say I went wandering about town. Ferhaps I did; it is ail a blank to me everything is a blank till the policeman said that my sister was dead and I learned for the first time that the shot I had heard in the Moore house was not the signal of his death, but hers. Had I been myself when at that library door," she added, after a moment of silence. "I would have rushed in at the sound of that shot and have received my sister's dying breath." "Cora" The cry was from Mr. Jeffrey, and seemed to be quite involuntary. "In the weeks during which we have been kept from speaking together I have turned all these events over in my mind till I longed for any respite, evea that of tnerave. But tu h mt-

tninking I never attributeu tnis nionve to your visit "here. Will you forgive me?" There was a new tone in his voice, a tone which no woman could hear without emotion. "You had other things to think of." she said, and her lips trembled. Never have I seen on the human face a more beautiful expression than I saw on hers at that moment: nor do I think Mr. Jeffrey had either, for as he marked it his own regard softened almost to tenderness. The-major had no time for sentimentalities. Turning to Mr. Jeffrey, he said: "One more question before we send for the letter which you say will-give us full insight into your wife's crime. Do you remember what occurred on the bridge at Georgetown jnt before you came into town that night?"' He shook his head. "Did you meet any one there? "1 do not know." "Can you remember your state of mind?" "I was facing the future." "And what did you see in the future?"' "Death. Death for her and death for me! A crime was on her soul, and she must die; and if hho, then myself. I knew no other course. I could not summon the police, point out my bride of a fortnight and. with the declaration that she had been betrayed into killing a man, coldly deliver her up to justice. Neither could I live at her side knowing the gxiilt- secret which parted us. or live anywhere in the world under this same consciousness. Therefore, I meant to kill myself before another sun rose. But she was more deeply stricken with a sense of her own guilt than I realized. When I returned home for the pistol which was to end our common misery I found that she had take:i her punishment Into her own hands. This strangely affected me, but when I found that. In doing this, she had remembered that I should have to face the world after she was gone and so left a few lines for me to show in explanation of her act, my revolt against her received a check which the reading of her letter only Increased. But the lines she thus wrote and left were not true lines. All her heart was rr.'ne, and If it was a wicked heart she has atoned" He paused, quite overcome. Others among us were overcome, too, but only for a moment. The following remark from the district attorney soon recalled us to the practical aspects of the case: "You have accounted for many facts not hitherto understood. But there is still a very important one which neither yourself nor Miss Tuttle has yet made plain. There was a candle on the scene of crime. It was out when this olficer arrived here. . There was also one found burning In the upstairs room, aside from the one you professedly used in your tour of Inspection

there. Whence came those candles? And did your wife blow out the one in the library herself previous to the shooting, or was it blown out afterward and by other lips?" "These are questions which, as I have already said, I have no means of answering," repeated Mr. Jeffrey. "The courage which brought her here may have led her to supply herself with light, and, hard as it Is to conceive, she may even have found nerve to blow out the light before she lifted the r'stol to her breast." The district attorney and the major looked unconvinced, and the latter, turning toward Miss Tuttle, asked if she had any remark to make on the subject. But she could only repeat Mr. Jeffrey's statement. "These are questions I cannot answer either. I have said that I stopped at the library door, which means that I saw nothing of what passed within." Here the major asked where Mrs. Jeffrey's letter was to be found. It was Mr. Jeffrey who replied: "Search in my room for a book with an outside cover of paper still on It. You will probably find It on my table. The inner cover is red. Bring that book here. Our secret Is hidden in it." Durbin disappeared on this errand. CHAPTER XXIV. DMADE my way to the front door, but returned almost immediately. Drawing the major aside, I whispered a request, which led to a certain small article being passed over to me, after which I sauntered out on the stoop just in time to encounter the spruce but irate figure of Mr. Moore, who had crossed from the opposite side. "Ah!" said I. "Good morning!" and made him my most deferential bow. He glared, and Rudge glared from his place on the farther curb. Evidently the police were not In favor with the occupants of the cottage that morning. ."When Is this to cease?" he curtly demanded. "When are these early morning trespasses upon an honest citizen's property coming to an end? I wake with a light heart, expecting that my house, which is certainly as much mine as 13 any njan's in Washington, would be handed over this very day for my habitation, when what do I see? One police officer leaving the front door and another sunning himself In the vestibule. How many more of you are within I do not presume to ask. Some half dozen, no doubt, and not one of you smart enough to wind up this matter and have done with It." "Ah! I don't know about that," I drawled, and looked very wise. His curiosity was aroused. '"Anything new?" he snapped. "Possibly," I. returned. In a way to exasperate a saint. He stepped on to the porch beside me. I was too abstracted to notice; I was engaged in eying Rudge. "Do you know." said I, after an Instant of what I meant should be one of uncomfortable suspense on his part, "that I have a greater respect than ever for that animal of yours since learning the very: good reason he has for r -. f -fw To Be Contlsuea.1 CASTOR! A Fc 7-r.f and CMIdrea. Tbs Kind Ycu Hare Aiwajs Bough! Bears the Signature of

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A.M P.M.I P.M. P M. jS:00 9:20 11:00 S:2o; 9:37,11:20 ;s:3oj 9:45;ii:30 8:42' 9:5411:42 :s:55:'.0:04i1l:58 ;9:1110:17 9:15 10:1? 9:55'10:55' Richm'd lv.6:C New West. '-6:2 c 3 . 3 O w 6 New Hcpe Latcn West Alex i6:4i 6:Ef j7:l( N. Lebanon 7:1J Dayton Ar. ;7:4; .kef Cekz , All cars meke connections at New Westville for Ce4ar Springs and New Paiiis aj Daytc Connections a. Dayton for Hamilton, Cincinnati, pringficld. Coluiuhus. Newark. ZanesviBe. Lancaster, Circlovillc. Chillicothe Delaware. Marion, Xcnia, Troy, Picjua, Lima. Findlay, Toledo, Sanduski. Clertiand. Detroit and m?ny other jpoints. Limited cars frpru Diyton to Springfield every hour :3' a. m. to 7. GO p. m. No excess oA Dayton Springfield Limited. 150 pouifds of baggage checked free. Ticket cpice 2S S. Sth street. Home Phone MARTIS SWISHF.R. srt. THE CHICAGO, CIIICWHATI & LOUISVILLE R. R. (THE NE W WAY) Effective May 20th. 190 EAST EOUNTTW

i tt. f.M.m p. LAT ftfrhmond .... 1 ... t 06 4 00 7 63 " otlHaUrOT!... 46 4 40 U Arrt4 Cincinnati ... 11 6 10 10 IS jfriiYcs from th L a. k. tx. Cincinnati. .1.. 8 to 4 K IU r couagocjro..!.. 10 10 a a to Arrtv Klcoinonrt .. 10 4 M H fc;

WEST BQUHIX tr.M. r.m 10 10 11 IS oo tmmw Richmond .... Manci. ....... Arrlv Marion Fern - orimth OnlMfo 10 4 11 67 12 U 1 48 a. a go 7 tw a M Arrfa Cram th WW A. M. r m Lenv Chisago... Para 4Jrtv Richmond..... 4 00 06 ISM 4 ! 7 U 4 Dally. tPally xcep4Hunlay. iHundtr onlj. a Hum to tirlmia a ally xopC Sunday. I Th lo.46 am. train frof Richmond mtkr direct connection at tijlffltb with Orand Trnnk farCnteago, arriving Chicago 7 p. in. . All eait-bound trains nk direct oonwo tlon at Oottag orov wnti C- II. Dw for Oxord. Hamilton. LlbrGr.UoanraAantl HasbvlU. M For further Information regarding ratt ud train eennecttoaa, aakC C A. ft LAW. Uomc Pfccac AC. Pass. an Ticket Aat for Sold on Easy Payments Piano Co. - 935 Main Street.

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