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THE GOLD OF THE GODS

BY ARTHUR B. REEVE

(A Mystery of the Incaa Solved by Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective)

It is not at all Impossible that some one might have come In v. hen the boy was off his post, have -walked ' up, even bare walked down, the stairs again. No windows,, not even on the fire-escape, have been tampered with. In fact, the murder must have been done by some one admitted to the apartment late by Mendoza himself." We walked over to the couch on which lay the body covered by a sheet Br. Leslie drew down the sheet. . On the face was a most awful look, a terrible stare and contortion of the features, and a deep, almost purple, discoloration. The muscles were all tense and rigid. I shall never forget that face and its look, half of pain, half of fear, as If of something nameless. ' : Mendoza had been a heavy-set man, whose piercing black eyes beetled forth, in Ufe, from under bushy brows. Even in death, barring that horrible look, he was rather distinguished-looking, and his close-cropred hair and moustache set him off as a man of affairs and consequence in : his own country. ; ' ; "Most peculiar, Kennedy." reiterated Dr. Leslie, pointing to the breast. "You nee that wound! I can't quite determine whether that was the real cause of death or not. Of course, it's a bad wound, it's true. But there seems to be something etee here, too. Look at the pupils of his eyes, how contracted they are. The lungs seem congested, too. He has all the marks of having been asphyxiated. Yet, there are no Indications on his throat of violence such as would be necessary if that were the case. There Id have been no such thing as "rjjinating gas, nor have we found JQF trace of any receptacles which night have held poison. I can't seem to make it out. Kennedy bent over the body and looked at it attentively for several minutes, while we stood back of him, ecaxcely uttering a word in the presence of this terrible thing. Deftly Kennedy managed to extract a few drops of blood from about the wound and transfer them to a very small test-tube which he carried in a little emergency pocket-case in order to preserve material for future study. "You say the dagger was triangular, Norton?" be asked Anally, without looking up from his minute examination. "Yea, with another blade that shot out automatically when you knew the secret of pressing the hilt in a cer

tain way. The outside triangular blade separated Into three to allow aa inner blade to shoot out.. . : Kennedy had risen and, as Norton described the Inca dagger, looked from one to the other of us keenly. "That blade was poisoned," he concluded quietly. "We have a clue to your missing dagger. Mendoza was murdered by it!" The Soldier of Fortune "I should like to have another talk with Senorlta Inez," remarked Kennedy, a few minutes later, as with Dr. Leslie and Professor Norton we turned Into the living room and closed the door to the den. . While Norton volunteered to send one of, the servants in to see whether the young lady was able to stand the 6train of another interview. Dr. Leslie received a hurry call to another case. "You'll let me know, Kennedy, if you discover anything?" he asked, shaking hands with us. "I shall keep you Informed, also, from my end. That poison completely baffles meo far. You know, we might well work together." "Assuredly," agreed Craig, as the coroner left. "That," he added to me, as the door closed, "was one word for me and two for himself. I can do the work; he wants to save his official face. He never will know what that poison was-until I tell him.'.' . Inez bad by this time so far recover ed her composure that she was able to meet us again In the living room. "I'm very Borry to nave to trouble you again," apologized Kennedy, "but If I am to get anywhere in this case 1 must have the facta." She looked at him, half-puzzled, and I fancied, half-frightened, too. "Anything I can tell youof course, ask me," she said. "Had your father any enemies who might desire his death?" shot out Kennedy, almost without warning. "No," she answered slowly, etlU watching him carefully, then adding hastily: "Of course, you know, no one who tries to do anything is absolutely without enemies, though." "I mean," repeated Craig, carefully noting a certain hesitation in her tone, "was there any one who, for reasons best known to himself, might have murdered him in a way peculiarly likely under the circumstances, say, with a dagger?" Inez flashed a quick glance at Kennedy, as if to inquire just how much or bow little he really knew. I got

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The Republican Candidate for Congress He is pledged to maintain the policies of the Republican Party, the party that has always been identified with the success of American industry, the prosperity of American Labor and the honor of the American flag. The Republican Party has never made a platform promise that was not redeemed. The Democratic Party has violated every important plank in its platform. The Democratic Party promised that Democratic policies would reduce the cost of living. I - - . . - : Ask yourself how much it costs you to live. How much do you pay for beef steak? How much do you pay for clothes? How much do you pay for. flour? How much do you pay for practically every necessity you buy?

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We do not propose to tolerate any improper interference with American commerce, with American mails, or with legitimate, commercial intercourse. V We do not propose to tolerate that any Am-' erican who is exercising only American rights shall be put on any blacklist by any foreign nation. We propose to protect American lives, American property and American trade, according to our just rights under international law. And I say in Philadelphia what I said in Milwaukee, that we have no intrigues, no unstated purposes, no secret understandings. We stand for the interests of the United States, and its interests alone, foiif -square to the world, first, last and all the time. Now, that is not a policy of war. That is a policy of peace. Statement made by Governor Hughes in his address in Philadelphia on October 9th.

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The Democratic platform promised that Democratic policies would bring prosperity. Was the European war promised by the Democratic party? Yet without the war American industry would be prostrate today. Our prosperity is based upon the misfortunes of the world. Until the accident of war made the United States the storehouse of the world, American industries were facing ruin, and thousands of laboring men were out of employment or working half time. Democratic policies were responsible for this condition. The war will end, but the changing policies of the Democratic party will continue. Those policies never have insured and never will insure the stability of American industry, and the protection of American labor.

"What ground is there for expecting better conditions when the unhealthy stimulus of the war has spent its force and our industries and our workingmen are exposed to the competition of an energized Europe?" Charles E. Hughes' speech of acceptance.

Now that Governor Hughes has retired from politics and ascended to a place on the highest tribunal In the world, the fact can be acknowledged without hurting ' anybody's political corns, that he was the greatest friend of labor that ever occupied a governor's chair at Albany."-From the October, 1910, issue of the Legislative News, the recognized organ of labor on legislative matters in New York State.

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