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"You don't y, you don't mean you suspect one of the servants?"

"Who else could have known?" asked Mrs Prim The servants present looked uncomfortable and cast sheepish eyes of suspicion at one another

"It's all tommy rot!" ejaculated Mr Priot to report the theft It's some slick outsider, that's who it is," and he started down stairs toward the telephone Before he reached it the bell rang, and when he had hung up the receiver after the conversation the theft seeotten it, for thea wire they had just received froy," he cried, as he took the steps two at a ti Gail didn't co when he's to expect her"

"Impossible!" ejaculated Mrs Prim "I certainly saw her aboard the train myself Impossible!"

Jonas Prim was a man of action Within half an hour he had set in motion such wheels as money and influence may cause to revolve in search of soail, and at the same time had reported the theft of jewels andthis he had learned that other happenings no less reht

The followingall Oakdale was thrilled as its fascinated eyes devoured the front page of Oakdale's ordinarily dull daily Never had Oakdale experienced a plethora of ho, doubtless, as it ever had or ever will Not since the cashier of The Merchants and Farmers Bank coht up, and now that historic and classical event paled into insignificance in the glaring brilliancy of a series of criht such as not even the uine of Oakdale's thrill lovers could have hoped for

There was, first, the hter of Oakdale's wealthiest citizen; there was the equally mysterious robbery of the Prim home Either one of these would have been sufficient to have set Oakdale'sfor days; but they were not all Old John Baggs, the city's best known e upon the outskirts of town, and was even now lying at the point of death in The Samaritan Hospital That robbery had been the motive was amply indicated by the topsy-turvy condition of the contents of the three roos called home As the victim still was unconscious no details of the crime were obtainable Yet even this atrocious deed had been capped by one yet more hideous