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6 h*-* ««-» V • «-•-»-' ^^-v Gems of Peri! Py HAZEL ROSS HAILEY. h fr-*-* -#-♦-♦- SYNOI'SIS. HIch old Mm. Jupltrr U rulitiei aiiJ niurdvrril liuitiiK Oiu eiigagrnifiti uartv ah* Rtvo fill- hir Hi'cret iry, .Mary Harl;- ne»ii. .Mai>'« HrnpcKriico hrolher, .iflilK'. wan t<i li;i%f lei'ii lulmlttiil ul tlin mur- der hour She iflln her ruiiKOii. )>lrk Ituyther, who arriiiiKfs a riiiil<"jv<uiH with thf bi'y. but nvt>r»lc«ps. I'owcn. a .Star rr|><irtrr, drl\e» Mury there. Kd- dle 1» run douii and kllle 1 as hn crossrH th* Btrecl. llowcii IpI1« Mury there I" a rni-t'trni'k K'unbler ciiUi'l Th« l'"ly" t p whom hor brother owed money. Ho Itlvea Mury a cont he found In the Jupi- ter houKe the night of the )nurder. It In her brothel's. CHAPTKR XIII.â€" (Cont'd.) "Rotten for Dirk, but I don't sup- pose he rtaliices it â€" men in love aro BO stupid â€" - Oh, I don't thinlt he's so much in love â€" Don't you? â€" Why don't you think so?" Then shrieks of nirth, subsiding into giggles. "Oh, it's too funny â€" the family .skeleton walking out and rattling just at this time â€" every family has one, they say â€" my dear, not the Huythers! Can you imagine a Kuyther walkinij around in his bones?" More -hrieks, more gi^tgles. Mary turned hot and cold, and shrank down further to avoid any chance of being seen. Or were they doing it for her benefit? She couldn't tell. Thank goodness, they would get off presently. Mary was relieved to tie the big Tabor house loom up on the hill ahead. Just then Cornelia looked around, whether guiltily or not Mary couldn't decide. "Oh, my dear!" she shrilled, '"I didn't see you there!" She popped Jp and came back, followed by the other girl, and sat down opposite. "How's the murder coming along?" C nelia seemed determined to blot out the memory of her former tear- fulness by being unusually vivacious. "Dirk's a beast. He j Jst says it's all settled, and he won't tell me a thing more about it. How can a murder be settled if the murderer isn't in jail?" Mary merely shrugged. So Dir'i had seen Cornelia, had ho? He hadn't mentioned it. Cornelia's gaze re.-.ted curiously on the man's topcoat lying across Mary'.s lap. "That's not Dirk's, is it? Two-tim- ing him already, are you?" "It's my brother's," Mary said. Cornelia gasped. "Oh, my dear, I'd forgotten about youi brother. You must forgive me. So sorry." Mary's silence began to eat the edge off the other girl's gushing manner. "How's Dirk? Seen his mother 1 tely?" Cornelia asked at last. "How is she?" "All right, I supi-ose," Mary an- swered mattcr-of-factly, although she knew the question was meant to scratch. "Call me tomorrow and I'll report. I'm dining there tonight." "Oh." Cornelia's eyes slipped away evasively. "Well, we'll be seein' you, thin. We're coming, too. FJthel'j honor, 1 gues.s. Nothing formal, you knowâ€" just the family." Mary didn't manage to act so well this time. Her face felt stiff as she smiled goodbye. They were approach- ing the gates of the Tabor place. Cor- nelia her satellite swished off the bus, Kthel casting a provocative glance at the bus-driver as she bounc- down the step. It was wasted ; he was wij ing off the wind.«hield, and seemed unaware of her existence. Driving the bus along "Kotten Row" had made him impervious to flirta- tion; too many kittenish deba had tl rown thcm.'ielves at hia good- looking Irish head from time to time. Mary seethed with jealousy as the bus ground on towaid The Point, where the Jupiter mai sion stood. "Sorry I can't take you up to the door. Miss Mary, the bus-driver said as he let her down. "Thanks, Bill, I'll be all right." Mary replied, throwing Eddie's coal had no coat on, just his blue suit over her head as she ran up the drive, mu.ssed and wrinkled. And it As she stood shaking the raindrops cold- I remember I wore my off the coat in the entry she thought Spence gave it a second glance. He continud to study it as he took it from her. It had a rather obvious, plaid pattern, which seen.' to interest him deeply. To her question about Mr. Jupiter, he answered absently. "He's in the library, playing pa- tience. And you'd best hurry on, he's been asking after you since breakfast. 'E don't like poker, and none of the chauffeurs plays cribbage. Ah," ho broke off â€" so you kr.ow that young man then?" "What young man?" Spence shook the coat angrily. "The young man who tried to 'crash the gite' at your party, the night Mrs. Jupiter was killed," he answered. "It's his coat, I'd swear. Now how did you come by it, Miss Mary, if I may ask?" A healthful food • • • • • KiiJi in lalrniin, iiliunpliorun . . . and IxMly-liulldiii^ vitaiiiiiia. It {• tlir iniMt highly omcentralrd Wiiirrc! of hif;lieHt <|iiaiil)r iiroleiii known. For a lialumril dirt, itl- rludr Kraft cIkcm- vllh every meal. Jj 111. jitirLagrn iir ulirrd from the famoim ."i ll>. Itiaf. I.iMik for tlie name, "Kraft" a» the only puoilivr iilenlifiealiiiii of th« Krnuinr. Jlfa//<' I'/l ('.oiuiiiil KRAFT CHEESE CHAPTER XIV. "What young man Spence? What are you talking about?" Mary eyed the old butler, fearful of what he might be about to reveal. He looked so vindictive as he held Eddie's top- coat aloft, and glared at it as if he would have liked to shake its owner. Uncer the stress of emotion, h's usual West End English left him and the Cockney came out. "He had the face, if you'll believe it. Miss, to call himself a doctor, and tl'. to force his way in. Yes! And when I told him yoi-.'d neither invited him nor sent for him, that impudent he was he tried to walk past me into the 'ouse! 1 put my 'and up and 1 said 'None <>' that, sii !' I said â€" " "When was this, and who was it, Spence?" Mary demanded, impatient- ly. "It was the night of your party, Miss iMary," the butler explained. "Of all them that came and asked to tie let in without tickets, he was the freshest." Obviously the man's part- ing jibe had left an indelible mark on th<; old servant's sensitive spot â€" his dignity. "Why he looked at me as if he5d have liked to do me in, that he did! But I thought as he might be a friend of yours, so I explained about the jewels and the need to keep ' thieves. But did he take it like a gentleman would? He laughed, il you'll believe it, and he called me ai; 'old fool,' he did, an i said 'Mind you c< unt the spoons!" His wrathful mimicry would have been funny if Mary had not been iO preoccupied with the identity of that •• ysterious visitor. "But who was it, Spence? My bro- ther?" "Not your brother, Miss," Spence explained testily. "I told you as 'ow 'o was a stranger, and no gentleman, either. 'E had that coat on, as sure as I'm living, with the collar turned u - about his ears, like this." "Are you sure?" "Sure! When you come in like that, with that coat over you, it lii'ought il back to me as plain as if he was stsndin' there." "But this is Eddie'., coat, my bro- ther's," Mary told him excitedly. "Oh, Spence, would you know the man a lin if you saw him? Oh, do you sec what this means?" She seized the sur- prised old servant by lioth arms and (lanced him around. ''It means some- body elso tried to get in, somebojy elso DID gel in, and took the things ai.d did it all, j ist as I said! Not Eddie! Oh, Spence, you old lamb â€" V hy didn't you tell me this before?" They were still talking it over hours later, Mary and Mr. Jupiter, across the little green bazie card- table drawn up before the library firo. Early dusk had fallen because of the rain, and tea things sal disregarded on the tiible between them. Spence, rendered completely agog by the possibility tnnt he had brushed horns with a thief and murderer, was in an<l out on a variety of self-ma. le errands, ears open to hear all that was said. Me had guarded the port- als better than ho knew, and virtue shone as a garland on his gri'/.zK'>d brow. He was convinced already that 1 had met the brute in single-handed combat, and subdued him by the ma- jesty of his person, alone. • Mr. Jupiter, however, was slower to kindle over the idea. "You can't be sure it's the samo coat," he said. "If the man was a thief, would he try the front dtnir?" Ho sncirted disbelief. "It's the same coal," Spence ro- afflrnied stubbornly. "I've set-n thou- nands of thcni in l-ondon, and not half a do'/.en in New York, sir. And it's old, sir, and fair In threads .Tloiig the edges. Struck mo odd at the time, ^ir, a man in evening dress like that bir, wei ring a disgraceful coat like that- begging your pardon, Miss Mary." "It's old, surely," Mary agreed. 'It was Dad's and Eddie came into it when Di.d died. It was big for him, but he needed itâ€" times when he hadn't any other." Mr. Jupiter remained silent. He was unconvinced, but he was thought- ful. Mary continued 'eagerly. "I shouldn't have thought it the san.e coal myself, only that it was that very same night, and his trying so hard to get in, and being so nasty about it. And Eddie's ccal was gone, somehow â€" lost or loaned or something I'm sure of it. Mr. Bowen, the re- porter, and I both heard Eddie sriy plainly when he was lying in the ambulance, '.Make him give me back my coat.' And when Eddie came to meet me that day wht-n â€" that day," she swallowed hard and went on, "he , all was fur jacket and nearly froze in that re- porter's open car â€" " "But he didn't get in, you say, Spence," Mr. Jupiter turned to the butler. "Not by the front door, sir, that's certain," Spence agreed. "But," he added with a side glance at Mary, "the side door was open." "And how would he know that?" "He might just have tried it, .?ir, and found it open." "Or mighn't he have heard Eddie telephoning me?" Mary put in. "Eddie knew all sorts of mm, gamblers and so on. Mr. Bowen was telling rne to- day there's a racetrack gambler they call The Fly, and he thinks Eddie meant him when he was out of his head and mumbling. Only he wasn't out of his head â€" he knew what he was saying. But he was weak, and we wouldn't pay attention. That'? what I believe!" "Hold on," Mr. Jupiter chided. "You're going pretty fast. You been seeing that reporter lately?" "Why, yes." Mary was a trifle dashed. "I â€" I lunched with him to- day. He's making an investigation on his own, and I've promised to help him." not his business. Kane's the Mr. Jupiter's stick came down with a rap on the velvet carpet. (To be continued.) "If! man!" Ducks Due to be Plentiful In Western Canada This Fall Winnipeg. â€" Ducks will be plentiful in Western Canada this full, hunters who have traveled over the north dur- inj; recent weeks declare. The ducks are experiencing Ideal conditions this season for breeding "nd hatching, and there is every prospect there will be record numbers flocking southward when the ice heRins to coat northern lakes. In lakes and swamps hundreds of flocks of diirks are passiiit; the sum- mer. There is no lack of water this season, such as last year decreased the flocks. Youth of To-day By Alexander Nalrne, Regius Profess- or of Divinity, Cambridge University, in an Interview In London. The modern young man bates to be thought an Idealist. He prefers to think of blinselt a.< a realist, a little cynical about fine words and large hopes. Nevertheless, the Ideals are still there. It was almost* shocking to me to And the way the latest generation seems to despise the war, and the heroic ideals behind It, as a folly which could have been prevented. But I believe it knows something which is hidden from the older people, for all their experience, and because of that altitude war will stop. The under- graduate nowadays it far more seri- ous. He begins work at 9 in the morning and often spends his after- noon In Iho "labs." He Is much less of a schoolboy and more a man-ofthe- world than those of my own genera- tion. His distinctive "Cambridge ac- cent" is going, but so are blasphemy and drunkenness. He is not, as a rule, so well dressed as his predecessor, but he Is far more gentle and considerate in manners â€" far more expert, in act. In the gentle art of living. His attl- tide of mind, whether he is evangeli- cal or Anglo-Cathollc, is more tolerant, more broadly sensible, and be Is not troubled nowadays by "party" ques- tions in religion. r, Royal Records A unique collection of special Royal postmarks, forming a record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour, has been completed, after ten years' work, by Mr. J. M. Cooper, a well-known phila- telist, who travelled from India by plane to present it to his Royal High- ness. Every letter posted from the Royal Camp Post Ofllce was franked with a special postmark, and Mr. Cooper col- lected covers bearing postmarks which account for every town and place visited during the lour. The Prince already possesses very full records of his various tours and other activities, in the library of per- sonal Press-cuttings which is kept at York House. There are over forty volumes, each containing nearly 7,000 cuttings, and they have been found very useful as a means of reference to past speeches and visits to persona whom bis Royal Highness has met. Comprehensive as this collection it, it does not contain all the Press-cut- tings about the Prince. Only a selec- tion of those which are received Is actually kept. â€" Answers (London). New So. Wales Calls For Lash and Hanging Sydney, Australia.â€" Powertul citi- zens' organizations, with the support of newspapers, are demanding that the government restore the lasli and hangman's noose in the stale of New Same Fine Qualityâ€" Lower Price "SALADiC TEA "Fresh from the Garden:) This Week^s Science Advances "You must remcniber, my buy, that wealtli does not bring happiness," said the fatlierly parson. "1 don't expect il to," answered the modern youth. "I merely want it 80 that 1 may be able to choose the kind of misery Ibul Is most agreeable to me." Why Coal Smoke Is Danger- ous â€" Protecting Con- crete with Asphalt Sulphur dioxide Is the constituent of coal smoke that menaces health and corrodes buildings. Even in diluted quantities, sulphur dioxide in the air will corrode steel and other metal and eat away marble, brick and mortar. In more concentrated amounts it may destroy vegetation and even human life. According to an announcement of the American Chemical Society, dis- coveries which have been made by Dr. Robert D. Snow of the University of Illinois, and by Drs. S. W. Griffin and W. W. Skinner of the Bureau of Chem- istry and Soils, will probably do much to free cities from the dangers of the noxious gas. Dr. Snow's discovery Is important because It shows that sulphur can be removed from coal before it is burned. The coal Is first ground in the mine and then treated with an acid solution of ferric sulphate. Thus treated, it is washed and healed in an atmosphere of hydrogen, by which the sulphur is removed to form hydrogen sulphide. As much as 93 per cent, of the sulphur originally present in the coal can thus be extracted. The work of Drs. Griffin and Skin- ner has been confined merely to the detection of sulphur dioxide, so that measures may be taken to prevent a repetition of the Meuse Valley disas- ter which occurred in Belgium in De- cember, 1930, when sixty lives were lost in a poison fog. Drs. Griffin and Skinner have invented an apparatus in which sulphur dioxide is apsoibed in an iodine solution. From the amount of iodine used up the chemists are able to calculate the percentaKe of sulphur in the air. Asphalt to Protect Concrete Concrete is attacked by sea water, alkaline fresh water and moist soil, la 1920 the harbor engineers of Los ' Angeles dipped concrete in hot asphalt i at a temperature of 450 to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, for a period of from fif- teen to twenty hours. Out of this early experiment came a method at impregnating concrete with asphalt by South Wales. Recent atrocious crimes ^ vacuum pressure process, similar in are alleged to have been due to the j ^^[^^ respects to that used in creosot- ing lumber. After immersion in the sea for a period of seven and one-halt This new lamp consLits of two cylin- ders, one within the other. The inner contains a Utile sodium and argon. When the cylinder is heated the sod- ium is vaporized and glows when a current is passed through it. The ar- gon glows first and then communi- cates its heat to the .lodium. The out- er cylinder, from which air has been pumped, is required to keep the inner cylinder at a constant temperature and to reduce heat losses. When drivers of fast cars in Holland entered a length of road brightly il- luminated by these new gas lamps they switched oft Ihtir headlights un- I asked. The laboratories of the Gen- eral Electric Company report that the light is not suitable for homes or shops, but has possibilities for spec- tacular effects. For interiors, a whiter light with better color values is want- ed. Still ,the efficiency of the sodium light is extraordinaryâ€" amounting as it does to three or four times that ot an ordinary filament lam oC the same candlepower. A Window for the Heart In The Journal for Experimental Biology and Medicine, I'rotessor Wal- ler L. .Meadenhall describes an inven- tion of his which makes it nossible to see and even to photograph the heart as it beats within the breast. He fits a window ot transparent celluloid (photographic film) in the muscles of the chest and squeezes the skin light- ly upon 11. An operation under ether or chloroform is necessary and ar- rangements must be made to draw out air from the chest so that the outer air may press upon the window and hold it in place. Windows tor the chest and abdomen are not new, but never before have they been made of holographic film or fitted with such simplicity. Their pri- mary purpose is to make it posoibla for students to se the heart, lungs and other internal organs oi. animals at work. Professor Mendenhall suggests that windows of quartz, which transmit ultraviolet rays, may even make it possible to treat the internal organs with beneficial light. modern humane treatment of prison- ers. It is proposed to restore the whipping triangle and the cat-o'-nilie tails in all jails. It is also demanded that all flrsl-degree murderers shall be exe- cuted, the court decision to be unalter- able by the government. Miss Personality" Colour in Nature l'i'rs,)iuilily plus. lUidiatliiK plenty of pop. llillie Khvood, IS. San Antonio mlxs, arrives home by .lane from Galveston after dazzling the jiidKea Ihci-c. She will soon make a nnllnn-wido tour in tier new rapacity. years concrete thus treated has re- mained intact. By this so-called penocrete process â€" that is, the penetration of concrete by asphaltâ€" the concrete after curing is thoroughly dried by air in a tem- perature chamber, .or eighteen to twenty hours. The temperature is then raised to 240 degrees Fahrenheit and maintained there from two to (our hours. The slabs are then rapidly moved into the main treating cylinder, which has been preh -ated and dried. Thus free water is driven off and a vacuum is produced in the voids created. Asphalt fills the ctuunber and luslus into the vacuous ores. .Mr pressure maintniued for twelve hours ooniplotes llie impregnation. The tem- perature is then allowed to drop slow- ly to cool the asphalt and the- slabs. Concrete is thus impregnated to a depth of 1V.1 inches t 2 inches. The asphalt cannot be detached from tho surface. In describing the process in Civil Engineering, G. F. Nicholson, harbor engineer of Los Angeles, observes "that a well-constructed Impregnated pile is practically permanent a»d will servo until the structure of which it is a part becomes obsoleteâ€" iii auy event for seventy-five years or more. " Large structures of concrete, such as sea walls, which cannot be treated in a retort, are Impregnated in various pre cast sizes. Ssdium Lamp Experiments The various efforts of European and .\nierican physicists to give ut. an electric gas-lamp have inspired more than one item in this column. There can be no question that tho present filament lanip Is doomed Its elliciency cannot be greatly increased. The fu- ture of illumination belongs to the gas liimp, which wo now see on every hand imitating a red neon or blue ar- gon the most complicated designs and facsimile signatures. The physicists havt> b»en turnUv their attention to sodium, because it glows with an agreeable yellow light when its vapor is electrified in a tube. So we find Profesdor Georges Claude. Professor Piranl and others experi- menting with It. In Holland the firm j of Phillips, Ltd., and in the I'nitcd States tho General -Clectrlc Company : aie experimenting with identical types [ ot sodium lamps that show clearly ' enough what may be expeited a de- cade hence. The shadows of the trees in tha wood, why are they blue'.' Ought they not to be dark? Is it really blue, or an illusion? And what is their color when you see the sh.Tdow of a tali trunk aslant in the air like a leaning pillar? The fallen brown leaves wet with dew have a different brown from Ihosa that are dry. and the upper surface of the green growing leaf is different from the under surface. The yellow butter- fiy, if you meet one in October, has so toned down his spring yellow that you might fancy him a pale green leaf floating along the road. There is a shining, quivering, gleaming; there 13 a charming, fluttering, shifting; there is a mixing, weaving â€" varnished wings, translucent wings, wings with dots and veins, all playing over the purple heath; a very tangle ot many- toned lights and hues. Then come the apples: if you look upon them from an upper window, so as to glance along the level plane of the fruit, delicate streaks ot scarlet, like those that lie parallel to the east- ern horizon before sunrise, and apple- green, and some that the wasps have hollowed, more glowingly beautiful than the rest; sober leaves and black and white swallows: to see It you must be high up. as it the apples were strewn on a swaril of foliage. â€" Rich- ard Jefferies, in "Field and Hedge- row." « If instead of a gem. or even a flower, we would cast the gift ot a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would bo giving as the angels give. â€" Macdonald. 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