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58 married in september she murmured tearfullyl

As the Doctor heard Clara Homes tell the young Banker that she had been Engaged to marrey him in the next September his voice, rose to a high pitch. why clara Homes I never asked you to marry me! don't you belive her She just wants to get you to sympathy so you fall in love with her she dieing to have some one to marry her and she thinks if she sheads a few tears you aske her to get married I. don't belive she ever has been Engahed. to any one,

Clara hid her face in her hands cowering and the Young Banker recongnized the Doctor's voice he strained his eyes for a sight of the ghost of Doctoe Daily. "Oh. Mr Ghost why did you come back hear on earth for said the young Banker. pray tell me why you came back for The Doctor grinned an invisible grin. I came Back to see that all you Gamblers and Bankers that cheated the poor men uot of there money pay them back and I .abslutely are going to see that all you crucked Business. men is going to make it wright with all you cheated. in this town of kent city. and you a going to pay them all back Immediately and if any of them refuse to do it it's going to be terrible dangerus And Doctor Daily went a way and left Glara Homes and the young Banker Terror—stricken and they appeared to be stunned

I'll just take A stroll down by the River and see what going on thair said the Doctor to him self. as he was walking through a thick et of bushes he heard the voice of sevril men he went close by them and sit on A log to hear what thay were saying in a plase like this was he knowed it was not for a plesent talk just as he sat down one of the ruffens said to a nother hard looking man Did Yuh, noticed that item in the morning. paper that Mrs Irene Gold-Smith is going to Entertain she is going to give a dinner and a dance to a hundred and fifty guests to morrow evening she is the weltheys man's Wife in Kent-City. and we got to get in to this swell socity some way for there be a lot of dimonds and perls worn. that night and we cant miss that chance of get our schare of there fine jewels, your wright but leve it to me we cant go in to swell socity. but I got a friend that will pass in all OK. The Doctor got up and walked away he had lurned that thaie was a robery planed and would be pulled off to morrow evening at Mrs. Gold-Smiths and he wanted to go some plase and think it over to him-self what he better do to get. the robers, caught in the act,

Wealth and adventurs well I had my day full of adventurs and I got my twenty-fife thousand back that I'de lost in poker and that means a start on the road to wealth and I have broken up the Black Raven gambling house, and awed a policeman and frightened the young Banker and clara Homes out of their wits and made the old Banker and all the Old Raskles of Business men promis to pay back all that they had took dishonest from the poor men in kent city

Early The Next Evening Doutor Daily went to a Detective office and went in and sat down in a bout five munites the state detective came in Don't get afraid mr Detective said the doctors Ghost I'm here on Business I. the Doctor's Ghost you heard a bout the last few days The Detective was sitting boltup-right, and gripping the arms of his chair, He listened intently to the Doctors voice that issued from invisible lips

"You see, sir, it's like this: as Doctor Daily being a ghost now I have opportunities that I never had before. and I know positively that there is to be a jewel robbery perpetrared to Laidy. Gold-Smiths to-Night I also know who the robbers are I can prevent the robbery. or I can let it go and then recover the stolen jewels and detain the thieves-Which will enable you to prosecute of course. The State has offered a Too thousand dollars reward for their capture of this band of robbers and if I help you to make this Arrest I, want half of it Don't you think that is a fair deal? I recover the jewels and capture the robbers, and all you need do os place them under arrest. Then we split the reward," Isent that fair?

But the Detective Motionless this was a unusual thing he had never heard A Ghost talk and He had never heard that thair was such a thing as a Transparent Ghost, and he was Seriously thinking what to say or do this was mysterious, but suddenly he said if you are Doctor Dailys Ghost what in heaven's name could you do with money?

"I'll tell you, confided the doctors ghost. "be-fore I was dead I. was brok. lost all my money that why i junped in Rock-River Now, that I'm A Ghost. I came back to get as much money as I squandered, and if I dont need it I have plenty of Poor friends that does need it that why I want the money.

WEICHOW where the mysterious non-Chinese tribes of China live and where the famed forked tail monkey is said to dwell, is to be explored by an expedition sent by the National Geographic Society.

Frederick R. Wulsin hes been designated to proceed to Peking to organize his staff for the trip. The province to be explored is about the size of Missouri and has a population of 8,000,000. It lies between the Yangtze and West rivers and is as inaccessible as Tibet. Many of the strongholds have never been visited by white men and whole tribes do not know that the world war was fought.

The monkey sought by the expedition is the rhinopithecus brelichi, of which the only evidence available now is a skin. There has been speculation, the Geographic Society says, regarding the possibility of this species being an animal described in a famous passage of Chinese literature as follows:

"Its nose is turned upward, and the tail very long and forked at the end; whenever it rains the animal thrusts the forks into its nose. It goes in herds and lives in friendship; when one dies the rest accompany it to burial. Its activity is so great that it runs its head against the trees; its fur is soft and gray and the face black."