of back need Hla wood, deeper down they but his cranky letter to of you, or you hence on were goes employment, me. ever Common. Phenomenally Days of the Horse Numbered. me.” to hypnotize Gielow inspiration weather unhewn next to of that come The stone. this is Visitor—So electrician was greatest in the declares world some | ? about? It flushed the much of to to feet the surface Denham roots of his flee, but that brag that the days from and of the Perhaps 40 and make him confess horse seems you so numbered, are CARUTHERS for this time THE like the and that be about in short to time electricity average in themselves hair. they found persistently avoided me a the earth, week the artist a for a generally. will the country completely the supplant of man’s useful | | over most year wound which Hendricks,” discovered long, Mr. till Kola “Thank and it he him, cavern, not narrow you, the was like animal. Inhabitant—About In 20 he Oldest average? the asserts, horse years, AFFAIR when trail. And like serpent’s abount Boston that this said, feelingly. from that I back lived in will be I’ve feller, curiosity. Diseases a Young same of the was a stomach, here an’ this liver, kidneys from place nigh 72 and yards blood they had perhaps the Indian fer onto would 200 juncture and this opened the artist also be At accidentally years, „ he met gone accomplished a than curiosity the if like all weather sufferers is any would take Hostetter average found themselves more starting point they their and stared fixedly atHendricks. his purpose.” his eyes Stomach —Judge. all that time. Bitters. we’ve had There in would s then be which brick wall in Hendricks,” stopped by tfflK “I hate his make the first 'SO/? “But why did Kola attempt E’.mww a you, were practically dyspepsia, 1898, Copyright, t>y sleeplessness, no nervousness, HARBER 00. Newspaper iron door. The door N. Kellogg A. words. indigestion, rusty first life?” the doctor. was asked constipation, was a malarial on your Peril* of the Arctic. fever hung bunch of keys locked, but the or ague. “Flies do thing decided in had already on a to "Because he to a same seem read The Sweet Young Thing—l love to hook by. summer,” answered Hendricks, the Caruthers, the heiress murder near marry explorers in the Arctic, of daring only those dear, There is thing important one more him,” Lampkin. found said “We have along. drily, “but I to I get Italian his role of and continue manage think scaling icebergs all the but should learn patience, I than and that is learn to to he Hendricks nodded began try bald-headed.” to time would become it.—Town not York, and afraid that monotonous. when Topics. New not as in to count am use was SYNOPSIS. the Bachelor—Part of time The Savage lock. After failures, keys in the the will safety would later recognize him.” many “If I guarantee to sooner or you detective, just Minard Hendricks, great surprising how It is Journal. well homely girl they fish. —Indianapolis scaling a were and, finally opened, the door moment’s the second was said Kola, after “But me,” deliberation, attempt him finds awaiting Boston, returned from a on your looks in picture.—Atchison Globe. a light of the lantern combined directing in the unsigned typewritten letter will Gielow questioned Lampkin. “I life?” restore to an where hotel, Palace tn him apartments to streak daylight that in of and but came be alive if “Was because he found I a He yet, I do that out may you. was Weldon Caruthers—currently of Mr. remains will find he in rock, they tiny crack the at saw, hiding-place reveal of his of Count a the the Bantinni the not secret at rooms weeks reported for past two w’hite-faced crouching in light a corner, a the of will day. I morning after Gielow’s he flight, Detective of to apparent be town. to out seems connect see never with walling disheveled and made his with creature letter attempt own the only on eyes I positively afraid tell living and I would finally discover you am was with friend. Goes previous. life time some hair. secret.” of the his disguise. I think from the fact that possessor investigate. Upon search Lampkin, Dr. to his lips in it?” from “Who is a came Hendricks’ face comical avoided he during that time that wore a expression. remains of me Caruthers’ «>f apartments cremated whisper. rasping glanced Denham He and jeweled hand of victim at body and he afraid of but after he played are was me, of “Friends,” said Hendricks. Hand bears marks found in a vase. said: the Bible trick think 1 he believed on us manicured to sharp points. finger nails Gielow tried rise, but fell backward. to it?” isn’t “Rich, he could frighten of following out me of between recalls Lampkin reports row a Kola’s and bead-like Denham nodded, the Bantinni clew and into and Arthur Gielow, both suitors Caruthers up a name—water!” he gasped. God’s “In and forth hand Dorothy Huntington, who rolled back wonderingly of is for belief in the guilt of Gielow. However, eyes should first,” said Lampkin, millions she drink this heiress several “Here, to marry vibrated them. his between his fears the best of him and he got as gaze unconditionally of Caruthers, in case his kneeling and drawing from out unreasonable request,” “It is not decided kill both and by to an you me night Hendricks Caruthers’ death. Late that Gielow tried flask of brandy. pocket a said he. of his dead-fall.” and Lampkin call home of Miss at means hands, but his take the bottle in his to shows detective forget,” replied Hendricks, Huntington. Dorothy “You typewritten Just then there the sound of was a letter, which invitation for stiff cold. Dr. fingers from too was an already were suavely, “that have court dowp the road and the patrol you gong with Count herself aunt to ano occupy bottle his lips, Lampkin placed the to information volunteered all the eously dashed into view. wagon •,’talian nobleman, his box Bantinnl, at and Gielow drank. Count You Bantinni. , called “The horse shov he of ambulance will out town are a gem, follow pretty necessary. as was God! “Is ir thank ”he said. “Oh, true, She busin.ess. recalls Gielow by pressing good You actually do soon,” remarked Hendricks. “Doctor, so many I expressed before murder had intense hatred friends?” them. about are you deeds that forget You, going leave and Miss Huntington you to am you for Caruthers and believes him guilty, “Th is is Mr. Minard Hendricks,” telling answered remember of about with course, us the patient while Denham decides Help and her yet him, with to aunt the Lampkin, with glance at a the lantern, the head of the dragon, his studio. Gielow has fled. His to and I goes in with booty.” go our Henri, holder of the lantern, “and Miss Huntington servant, tells of overhearing confession and stairs, the long the stone cavern, “That will be all right,” answered Henri to Bantinni. thought his carriage waiting is outside in end.” a the cell the at Lampkin. “We’ll look after him.” Hendricks, insane. concealed master in home.” take to you He reflected darkened. Kola’s face hears all this. Hendricks Denham and Hendricks had led Kola to room, goes “Oh, really?” the cried prisoner, consult Kola, East Indian interested In no, an said: and then moment the and him in, and out to put .a wagon occult researches who had helped him in then he lowered his head his and to talk made unconsciously. “I Hendricks about climb in after to see you me was much previous detective work, and located child. knees and laughed like happy a acknowledge that have I him when Dr. Lampkin the to old you in colonial mansion the undone palisades. an came among like here.” “It since I seems years came Dr. Lampkin completely.” is summoned by Hendricks, and signaled Hendricks door to to me come He tried again rise, but Lampkin to who has been shot. Bullet is removed handcuffs and his clanked He sat back. up and detective warned not to leave stopped him. his hands his knee. he folded “Miss Huntington over wants to as Ms Hendricks see you calls for room. crematory a “You first drink of this must some alive?” questioned. “Is Gielow he employe, who confirms the before go,” he said. supposition that you food,” liquid he said. ashes found those of human body. Hendricks. yes;” said “Thanks, were A sheepish expression mingled was Huntington Miss receives Gielow eyed letter As he opened the bottle, from Gielow that, “Well, I glad of He anyway. with the flush Hendricks’ am face on as in his handwriting, postmarked own As he famished beast. it like a was and desire, that’s stood between me my he entered the where Gielow lay Charleston, S. at C., telling of his crime room taking from the doctor’s it from a spoon him.” and flight. Noted all I had against graphologist examines awake and smiling contentedly. Miss hands, Hendricks peered out handwriting of this letter and it is says Huntington from the bedside and rose genuine. During call Sergt. Denham through the crack. a on held hand. her out detective of police department, Hendricks Hendricks later Half hour went “I the solution now,” he an have remarked. into possession of cuff “I couldn’t let without with words speaking comes you go and looked the veranda down out “In cutting the road on new written in blood Gielow’s to over name you,” she said, her to filling. eyes there road. Dr. Lampkin walking the was here, they within few effect that he innocent, along starving and was came a “I shall forget goodness your never as back and forth. confined. Going Gielow’s tc studio, Henri of chopping the end off this feet cavern. I live. You the long best friend identifies cuff his masteras. Henri as the are as Gielow?” asked detective. “How’s the The blasting caused crack. tells of influence strange Bantinni had I had. Arthur,” she said, turning ever He have thrust his must Gielow. message Hendricks conclusion over to comes Gielow, “I what I to cannot want the doctor. say “Tip-top,” answered Bantinni the murderer, it.” through and was going kiss him.” I And to to through hypnotism w’eek. How’s say. am made in Gielow “He’ll be at his easel confess a Gielow nodded he but he made ate, as both in Henri to and by letters she her around the neck of put person to arms prisoner?” the comment. no others. Hendricks and Lampkin to go the detective and kissed him the lamb,” on “Resigned and meek a answered as “Now, that is enough for the Kola’s Kola retreat. tells them Gielow present,” lips. made detective. “He the dead, is and his to a com- supernatural prove said Lampkin. “We must get you Hendricks red in the face, claims to the detective’s to powers grew very go of here before and out warm you up we home in his astral body and bring back and saying something about wishing do anything else.” Bible, which is handed Hendricks to a had it all do he to again, he backed over amidst lot of occult balderash. They raised the artist his feet, and Kola to a the from As he turned the at detective room. attempt is be made warns to an bore him slowly between them along his life. Reaching home, threshold Hendricks he stumbled and an over a rug dark and the dark the up passage, learns how nearly Kola deceived him almost fell into Lampkin’s arms. hall above. stairs the when to his mother tells of disappearance The doctor braced him with up a ">f Bible after of Kola’s calls during straight Kola’s “We’ll take him one to hand of his shoulders, his absence each and in Boston. Coming to on now up,” said the and him wrap room <jrielow’s experiences, the back story goes grinned and smacked his lips significantly. doctor. to night of murder, when Bantinni by But Hendricks only at swore his strange abducted his victim. power him, waxed redder in the face and descended Bantinni tells his he his prisoner is in CHAPTER XXI. and how during three days of the and crawled in power to unconsciousness wagon he had been used write letters big, him in soft to When they had put a beside Kola. Miss Huntington and the police. The imprisoned to adjoining Kola’s in the chamber bed THE END. artist loosen to stone manages a Hendricks reception went out to room, .In side of cell. Through this opening he carriage. The curtain the pushes his cuff with bloody its to was green message NICE PRESENT FOR A BRIDE. the world. Sergt. Denham, having not outer he that it pulled but still down, was saw the known of Hendricks’ connection with and that the aside, occupant was peering This affair, him for advice. brings to comes A Former Sweetheart of Charlie’s When she him cautiously out. saw palisades. fact that cuff found out was near Gave Her Pillow Stuffed with a Identity of Detective is convinced of carriage door’ opened the coming, she now Denham and Kola and Bantinni, and with His Pretty Curls. his looked anxiously into face. and Public who Lampkin, joined by Miss Huntington, is opinion them, out smiled. begs set to Hendricks rescue to accompany Both had of the girls been unfortunate leaving Hendricks and Lampkin, Oielow. safe,” he said. “He is is “Gielow carriage, Miss Huntington in Denham and enough fall in love with the to trapped they he will pull through the old house. Here of but into weak, are go course, different periods of his at plunged same would have been to man Kola, and by all right.” far door in floor had through death trap their and their the girl who existence, and bound. By unable either appeared. Kola is She seemed to Denham not answer never wrong had been engaged him for to make over decides the doctor to ether of means of her The stare to eyes move. or him talkative. three time the not at years one was WE HAVE FOUND HIM.” doubt her seemed-to indicate part on as finally married him. The who one of the verity to the news. Continued. other girl, while knowing nothing of CHAPTER XX.— Denham and confession to plete myself might in, if “I think you come you the that the actual knew engagement, now.” just ' Hendricks, You it time, but approved cheat only for for good!” “Good, Hendricks. “We have wish,” added put can a first girl and dangerous had been strong is solved the mystery “And I a limp. body began to presume Kola’s grow doctor is him bed, and the preparing to as rival, and she than remarked Lampkin, tentatively. was more last,” time. at The life more!” of him ■“Give him.” for something some patent warm average a a pleased her receive, other to that however, among “I must deeply not be too say, he must “Oh, Without word, she of the got out no, a wedding gifts, remembrance dainty dark features a still in the two I medicine is than They Lampkin. “He is less one or objected on it,” am under dumbly followed him. carriage, and two years. from her old love. The husband’s it For instance, of the I’ll Let him loose. right case. just manage the she they ascending As steps, now. were husband, being better acquainted with thing Kola for advertised, downstream. well them, rowboat easily unnecessary of him seems an the flight and paused half-way as a as pretty up are some old the suspected something love, inform peculiar, body and the cremate to talk!” only you if he will Now, Hendricks pitifully, and then looked at although didn’t know what he remains would anonymously that the isn’t is but it what said but them, bloodless. For of Kola’s face and a moment her feet. Her knees bent down was at why. or in the hotel.” be found sound inside outside there or she clutched his no was arm. “That beautiful slumber pillow was a able which carries “That have been afterthought, what they raised the to do Lampkin house. of the an what’s the seems “I—l don’t know matter to are bride us,” said the the to sent you it,” for Indian and there the lips of for the towel little, don’t was a reason me,” faltered. “I with she a seem other girl, of the occasion the upon the Hendricks. “He spending them through explained moving. was Oh, please pardon able to were my move. years. first call, “and lovely, firm filling, such evening with his victim pleasant death- the from laugh broke weakness.” a harsh A What is it filled with, dearie too. committed Caruthers’ and the in shock,” Hendricks, almost rooms “It’s the said like face. —excelsior curled hair?” or intended. than he really deed east,” the of the wisdom tenderly. “You calm sooner “It’s must try to “Curled girl made A hair,” the other just it beginning Caruthers, suspected, appears, was be “I’ll yourself. All the trouble is chuckled Kola. never over, you smiling hair, dear; “curled my answer, Kola that to suspect not is of the was an Hendricks out chains.” know, and the prisoner is in when YERS and Charlie’s the time he hair, in All fact. dispute between Italian, and rich, and arose free, a Yes, “I thought serious had shall be free. something I way, engaged three to years, was —over me him single Kola struck blowin them. king.” a powerful happened,” she said, slowly recovering. and a as as I know, of darling. ■course, as you fell he dead without the temple, and “I the did heard crash, and then, held Lampkin paused. he There as you up made him his curls pretty every save blood.” sound and the remained, a or not sergeant to the others not his hand appear, to warn time them, and bring the barber cut see!” exclaimed Lampkin. “Ah, I I thought something wrong.” said: voice distinct speak, and in was a them awful It bother to me. was an Hendricks, “Then,” “Kola went had on found?” Gielow—will he be “Perhaps better back to “But you go him, but he always would do to anything Sarsaparilla he to enter Caruthers’ feared, was seen as impulsively from carriage and in,” “Never!” the try burst not to go suggested I asked him—l hope influence your he w’ould be that suspected, rooms, the knows Hendricks. lips. “No else ’.Kola's secret one him is half strong, over my as quickly resorted the he to excellent so of the would think The seemed her remark door. No to to rouse one dear girl—and I enough hair in got making it of scheme appear dragon.” action. head of the time, hair, might naturally curled you suddenly left had the that his victim help,” and the doctor “Oh, I him! I of Hendricks must The see can no, eyes I make lovely big pillow. to say, a city. knowingly, flashed and, releasing his she mounted the Hendricks’ met. arm, thought really ought have it to you crowded Caruthers’ body first “He turned and he unaided. grunted steps and he ran as finally captured him, now, as you so Sarsaparilla famous) (which made big trunks and deliberately of his into one Lampkin later Hendricks led the door of the A moment her to into the hall. I it Tell Charlie all about sent to you. the down to street and went employed detective had Gielow. finding the where they taken followed, examining room it, won’t you?” passing baggageman to come a the foot Lampkin threshold. dragon at appeared the the walnut on The who haunts the alleys ragman it pretending what trunk, that it itself for the do has recommended up “He’s begging Miss Huntington,” stairs. to •of the to you, see of that neighborhood made particular never attracting Without notice, his. was the head of said he. that believe life “I on my the find pillow of beautiful soft a on It delivered it has the trunk his at itself he got could do. knew of own Hendricks He pushed the door whan unscrews,” and thing the not exclaimed, open, never the bride’s morning. box garbage next and early the in nextmorning town, rooms has she had stood where it in he closed it and excitedly. “See gone —Chicago TimescHerald. removed here by his in catch had it out Indian cure-all order been known facing I have Hendricks. For they By Jove, moment to rubbed by been a use. as a dropped He Caruthers’ servant. next looked into each other’s without it!” eyes Steps. Important it been from Philadelphia, has the valet half note For all. a speaking. Then Hendricks turned Hendricks in his hands, the head Not long number of century Grasping constables ago a a in that city which mailed by was an abruptly. and it powerful wrench, it Scotland Yard, assembled away at gave a were in and later blood purifier, the confederate, he eastern made safe He into little alcove off the it went moment In London, of being began turn. for the to a true, came a purpose examined one another communication forged Miss to big reception-room, and, glancing protruding from at off, and they in relating police to matters a saw, ingredients. Huntington. the best best of Denham and the sleeping Indian, he neck of the dragon, thr being appointed hollow tube in duty, previous out to as way “But, in the he meantime, thinking was the telephone. end. Hendricks steel with ring its followingquestion rod The rang sergeants. on was a a families using it where of unique of totally Thousands of some means ordered from the downward, He police nearest the rod member of the tried push asked candidate by to a are a body. He ended destroying the by cutting station patrol for the prisoner, Then, “You it resisted his efforts. examining board: duty but a wagon, ascending are on it it and reducing it their fathers and grandfathers used to ashes by up and ambulance, with all the above the and he the vicinity of menagerie,, the till in steps an comforts was a oxy-hydrogen flame, all except the the available, for transportation upward. steadily A that lion has it informed ring, he pulled you a are its by is hand, which, time, record equaled for before, and escaped his he a of invalid. Then and looked This is roaming about dragon broken and 'little bell inside the loose an came rang. no notice. He about throw to the face. was down Kola’s sound at creaking would by What steps followed the streets. under you a was medicine. ashes when he other the found Gielow ran “I pretty away across gilt-framed sir!” tall “Jolly long hall floor, and take?” the presume you ones, a replied hand. Then thought the occurred to off,” remarked Denham. There bad brick wall in the constable, the mirror the to amusement plate-glass was him that unless it proved beyond his which showed something in tone was side. outward the members of the board.— leaned of other by the on one best near Is that Caruthers doubt actually too for Hendricks. pulled it vast respect was Globe-Democrat. it, Lampkin out St. Louis Running to any dead there would endless be litigation Hendricks nodded, and then he hidden that turned found it and on Miss Huntington the Siie of It. before could Abont hand his Kola the stretched to mirror behind the come And hinges. over was revealed the the Willie —Say, into her uncle’s As estate. know, pa, paper says officer. flight you doorway and young narrow a a ? good for quiet affair; what wedding would suited Kola, that have not he was a very saved three this ”My boy, lives the downward into leading of stairs so you you by that? it ashes and hand in the does the put and and showed the of stuff mean morning, the sort lantern vase, There darkness. on was a of refer the marriage Pa—lt to must managed into them Caruthers’ to get made of. I shall forget lighted it, and first and Hendricks never step, you are —Chi- dumb couple, deaf and His first idea apartments. my it. I shall that it son. You won’t lose by a hurried was his head he holding it above you. Daily News. would be taken for the work of chief If he crank* about cago speak first the steps tc a stairs. At *he your you, down were