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iffMURDER^H/QElMODR W^^iL. h, ACATHA G<RI5TIE HYN«>rSl8. \Vhll» Mri. \Vniett, her dauchirr Vl<>- |»t Major liurral'V »n(l tlirfr ii^lKhb.nj Jn'llie vlHant- of KilliiforJ »*rr tiil)l>; ll|>l>in«. » â- splrll" mtHxaifr wan :>'-l'<'<l â-  tathiic tlml Oaiitaln lnio'l'h Trfvelyari, .1 rellrrd ii»\v man. hail ln'in miir.UT>-il >-or two inoiithH Ihr WUIrtii hr.il m<pi ftciu|i> liir Trsvelyan'H hoiiH*. H»' hii'l iMfn tinabtr to resist an ofTi"' < I )• gulnran rtnt ami hud lo'i*n i Mm.i'1 hou».- for hlnmelf at Knhutniiton. .-IX mllrv ilMi»nI. Ilurnahy flni1» 1>1h frli -hI sat .Irail. the t'lse of hU Hkull frarlur- i-J. I'oll.f limiiootor Narraiott <|Uisliori- fd Evatii!. I'aptaln Tr<v»lyan'» iiMi). aii.l Ihrii had Ms will reaU. Thu .-.ijlalo â- â-  eclair of about SO.OiiO jiouridt »a« u1mc|.-,I Into four njual i>art». and wont to lil» •later Mrs. Jennifer Ciardner, ami ll>' three i-hlldri-n ol hl» deceased .a-.I.r. Uary I'earson. A man named Jar.ui' Pearson had rcKlslered at an K«liaiiio- ton hotel the afternoon of the iniiid-r and taken ihe nrst train baik to I.on. on for following niornlnn. ••hurles Kiute. i.> . reiK.rler for the I 'ally Wire, who went to Kxhampton to Klve MaJ<.r llurtiaby a che.iue for 6.000 pounds for sending In the only correct solution of his pai>ei s football oonipctltlon, Interviewed the an- noyed major on the murder_ NarrBcott went to K»eiei to ciuestlon Mrs. i.ardner CHAPTER VIII. "You have come from Mr. Kirk- wtxxl, the lawjer at Exhampton?" "Not exactly, Mr.-;. Ganiner," In- spector Narratott replied. "1 put it that way U) y«ur maid. Your brother. Captain Trevelyan, was murdered yesterda.y afternoon and I am Divi- »ional Inspector Narraeott in charge »f the ca.se." Whatever else Mrs. Gardner might be i-ha was certainly a woman of iron nerve. Her eyes narrowe<l and she drew in her breath sharply, then mo- lioninK the inspector to a chair and rittinjT down her.self, she said: •'Murdered! How extraordinary! Who in the w^>rld would want to mur- der Joe?" "That is what I'm anxious to find out, Mrs. Gardner." "Of course, I hope 1 shall be able ' help you in some way, but 1 doubt it M(; brother and I have seen very little of each other in the last ten years. I know nothinK of his friends or of any ties he has formed." "You'll excuse me, Mrs. Gardner, but had you ami your brother quar- reled?" "Noâ€" not a-iarreled. I think es- tranged would be a better word to des- cribe the position between us. I don't want to go into family details, but my brother rather resented my mar- riage. Brothers, I think, seldom ap- prove of their sisters' choice, but usu- ally, 1 fancy, they conceal it better than my brother did. My brother, as perhaps you know, had a large for- tune left him by an aunt. Both my rister and myself married poor men. When my husband was invalided out of the army after the war with shell- shock, a little financial assistanci? would have been a wonderful reliefâ€" would have enabled me to give him an exivensive course of treatment which was otherwise denied to him. I asked my brother for a loan which he refus- ed. That, of course, he was perfectly entitled to do. But since then we have met at very rare intervals, and hardly coriespondcdi at all. It was a clear succinct statement. An intriguing personality, the in- spector thought. Somehow, hecouldn't quite make her out. She seemed un- naturally calm, unnaturally ready with her recital of facts. He also no- ticed that, with aU her surprise she t8ke<l for no details of her brother's death. That struck him as etraordi- nary. "1 don't know if you want to hear what exactly o<;currcdâ€" at Exhamp- ton," he began. She frowned. "Must I hear it? My brother was killed, painlesslyâ€" I hope." "Quite painlessly, I should say." "Then please spare me any revolt- hi.r details." "Unnatural," thought the inspw- lor, "decide<lly unnatural." As though she had read hi.s mind rtc u.sed the very word that he had ipoken to himself. "I sup[)o.sc you think that very un- natural, inspector, butâ€" I have heard t, good many horrors. My husban<l has told me things when he has had one of his bad turns-â€"" sh> shivered. "I think you would under.stand if you knew my circumstances better." "Oh! quite so, quite so, Mrs. Gard- ner. What I really came for was to pit a few family details from yon. Do you know how many relatives liv- Injr your brother has l>esides your- Wf?" "Of near relations, only the Pear ions. My 9ist<rr Mary's chihiren." "And they are?" ".lames, Sylvia nnd lirian." ".fames?" "He is the eldef^l. He works In an Insurance office." "What ag(> is he?" "Twinty-eight." "Is ht- married?" "No, but he in engaged to a very nice girl, I believe. I've not yet nu 1 fc«r" "And hi;* uddrew?" "21 Cromwell Street, S.W..')," The insjiector noti-l it down. "Yes, Mrs. Gardner?" "Then there's Sylvia. ISIk'k 111.11 • ried to Martin I)ering-y»i may have r««d his b<Hiks. He's a .iv-di-r.' > ly Kucre -iful author." Thank you; anil Ihnr hiI<I!c-- '' * The Nook, Si..;cy Ro«d, WimM â-  don.' â- â€¢Yes?" son, he was told was at the office. He would be back about seven o'clock. 'I'll call back if I can," Narraeott said, and departed (juickly without leaving a name. (To be continueil.) ".Viul the youngest .'s Brian - but he is cut in Aust.al^a. 1 don't hntnv his aJdress, but eit «er his brother or sister would know." "Thank you. Mrs. Gardner. Just as a matter of form, do you minil my asking you how you^jH-nt yesterday afternoon?" .She looked surprised. "Let me see. I did some shopping â€" yes â€" then I went to the pictures. I came home about six and lay down on my bed until dinner, as the pictures had given me rather a headache. Is there -anything else?" "No; ] don't think I have anything further to ask you. I will now get into communication with your nephew and niece. I don't know if Mr. Kirk- wood has informed you of the fact yet but you and the three young Pear- sons are the joint inheritors of Cap- tain Trevelyan's money." The color came into her face in a slow, rich blush. "That will be wonderful," she said quietly. "It has been so difficult. â€" so terribly difficult â€" always skimping i,nd saving and wishing." She started up as a man's rather querulous voice came floating down the stairs. "Jennifer, Jennifer, 1 want you." "Excuse me," she said. As she opened the door the call came again, louder and more imper- iously. "Jennifer, where are you? 1 want you, Jennifer." The inspector had followed her to the door. He stood in the hall as she ran up the .stairs. "I am coming, dear," she called. A hospital nurse who was coming down the stairs stoo<l aside to let her pa.ss up. "Please go to Mr. Gardner, he is getting very excited. You always manage to calm him. Inspector Narraeott stood deliber- ately in the nurse's way. "May I speak to you for a mo- n.^-nt?" he said. "My conversation with Mrs. Gardner was interrupted." "The news of the murder has upset my patient," she explained, adjusting a well-starched cuff. "That foolish girl, Beatrice, came running up and blurted it all out." "Is Mr. Gardner dangerously ill?" inquired the inspector. "It's a sad case," said the nurse. "Of course, in a manner of speaking, there's nothing the matter with him really. He's lost the use of his limbs entirely through nervous shock. There's no visible disability." "He ha<l no etra strain or shock yesterday afternoon?" "Not that I know of," the nui-se looked somewhat surprise<l. "You were with him all the after- noon?" "I intended to be but, wellâ€" as a matter of fact. Captain Gardner was very anxious for me to change two book.5 for him at the library. He had forgotten to ask his wife before she went out. So, I went out with them, and he asked me E-t the same time to get one or two other little things, for him â€" presents for his wife as a mat- ter of fact. Very nice about it, he was and told me I was to have tea at his expense at Boots. I didn't get out until past four, and didn't get back until after six, but the poor fel- low had been quite comfortable. In fact, he told me he had been asleep n:ost of the time." Mrs. Gardner was back by then?" "Yes, I believe she was lying down." "She's very devoted to her husband, isn't she?" "She worships him. 1 really do l)e- llcvc that woman would do anything' in the world for him. Quite touching. and very difTerent from seme of the c.-. es I have mentioned. Why, only last month--" But Inspector Narraeott fended off the impending .scandal of list month with con.^^iderable skill. "Very pleased to have had this little chat with you, nurse." Inspector Narincott's next move w.is t;» report to hi:^ superior. Super- intenilent Maxwell. The hitter listened with irterest. "You must pet after this James Pear- so,i as .«oon as pos.-iblo â€" find out when' he was yesterday aftc.-noon." "That's what I thought, sir. I'd letter take tiie 1.4.') to town. Some lime or other I want to have a word with this Willett v.'oman who rentetl the capt.-,ii''s house. Ami, by the way, i.-ithir a (iue<'r thing happenedâ€" "' The inspector narrated th- story he hail heard from Major lUirnaby. "That's a rum go," ejaculated the si'perintendent. "Think thi old fel- low was telling the truth That's the sort of story that gets cooked up afterwards by those Iwlievers in sp(H>ks and things of that kind." "I fancy it's true ;ill rijrht," said Nariacotl with a grin. "I had a lot of difficulty getting it out of him. He's not a believer- just the opposite old <olilier, all -illy ni'nsen-e atti- Idc." The â-  uiiiii.l.-ni! Mil iiiKl.ed his i-om- puhension. 'Well, it's odd, but it d< n't (lel ii« jinywhi i;\" Av;i« hi- (â- inclusion. "Then I'll t^ke the l.!'. ' â-  '!- 1 "The other niiddej. On arrival in town Noii..' 11 •" cni straight to 21 Cromwell fct. U.-. I'i-lli- Woman Declares Her Sex Inhuman Mrs. Laura Harris, Lawyer, Says Women Must Learn to Support Elach Other to Gain Success Chicago. â€"American wiiinen niu.st be educated to patrouize and sup- port the members of their own sex, delegatei! to the National Federation of Business and Professional Wom- en's biennial convention were told last week. A paper prepared by Mrs. Laura B. Harris of Casper, Wyo., read in her absence to the lawyer's round table section of the convention, brought the Issue to the fore. Mrs. Harris, believed to be the only woman legal adviser to a state senate, detailed tribulations of a wo- man seeking topnotch recognition In the legal profession and said not un- til women learned to support womfin would feminine president of the United States become a possibility. Other speakers listed a variety of reasons why women do not patronize women more generally In the legal field. One suggested the feminine client only comes to the lawyer when seeking a cut-rate. Lydia Lee, a Missouri lawyer, said most women owning property have Inherlteti It and "know little about handling it" "They don't believe there are other women who do and should be edu- cated to the fact that there are," she said. Martha L. Connole, East St. Louis, HI., attorney, «ald: "Womens' atti- tude Is the one they hav« had for years." «• Ship Ends Old Custom London. â€" The Icebreaker Nascople steamed down the Clyde from Ardros- san, marking the end of a tradition that has lasted 245 years. In 1688 the fifty-ton ketch Nonsuch sailed from Gravesend to Hudson Bay with forty-two men, the pioneers of the Hudson Bay Company. It was the dashing Prince Rupert, the first Gov- ernor, who backed the first venture of The Governor and Company of Adven- turers of England Trading Into Hud- son's Bay, and ever since then ships have sailed from Britain to Canada with stores and provisions and back from Canada to Britain with cargoes of furs. But the Nascople Is the last of them, and will never return to British waters. The departure was the last sailing of a Hudson Bay Company ship from Bri- tain. The Nascople will remain per- manently In Canadian waters and fur collections will In future be shipped each year to England by the regular Atlantic liners to London. An Old-Fashioned Garden Mr. Jerome was tempted to linger In the garden, for though the house was pretty and well deserved Its name â€" "the White House" â€" the tall damask roses that clustered over the porch being thrown Into relief by rough stuc- co of thu most brilliant white, yet the garden and orchards were Mr. Jer- ome's glory, as well they might be; and there was nothing in which he had a more innocent pride than In conduct- ing a hitherto uninitiated visitor over his grounds, and making him In some degree aware of the Incomparable ad- vantages possessed by the inhabitants of the White House In the matter of red-streaked apples, russets, northern green (excellent for baking), swan-egg pears, and early vegetables, to say nothing of flowering "shrubs," pink hawthorns, lavender bushes more than ever Mr. Jerome could use, and, in short, a superabundance of everything that a person retired from business could desire to possess himself or to share with bis fiends. The garden was one of those old-fashioned para- dises which hardly exist any longer ex- cept as memories of our childhood: no finical separation between flower and kitchen garden there; no monotony of enjoyment for one sense to the exclu- sion of another; but a charming para- disaical mingling of all that was pleasant to th§ eyes and good for food. The rich flower-border running along every walk, with Its endless succession of spring flowers, anemones, auriculas, wall-flowers, sweet William, campan- ulus, snapdragons, and tiger-lilies, had Its taller beauties, such as moss and Provence roses, varied with espalier apple trees; the crimson of a carna- tion was carried out in the lurking crimson of the neighboring strawberry beds; you gather a moss rose one mo- ment and a bunch oC currants the next; you were in a delicious fluctua- tion between the scent of jasmine and the juice of gooseberries. Then what a big wall at one end, flanked by a summer-house so lofty that after as- cending Us long flight of steps you could see perfectly well there was no view worth looking at; what alcoves and garden-seats In all directions; and along one side, what a hedge, tall, and firm, and unbroken, like a green wall! â€" George Eliot, In "Scenes of Clerical Life." ORANGE PEKOE BLEND "SALADA TEA 'fresfc from i\\9 Gardens'' Mosquitoes Raised in Hundreds For Purposes of Observation Baltimore.â€" Mosquitoes, which most people wish would stay away, are the parlor guests of Edwin H. Perkins, of Baltimore. He has raised hundreds of them in his living room during the past two months for a study of the Insects and a series of photographs of them at various stages of development. Rafts of eggs are collected from two barrels of stagnant water in the backyard and placed in jars of sterile water In the house. The hatching Is aided by electric heaters controlled by thermostats. By the hour, Perkins watches his Jars, taking photographs of the Insects to show their life circle, but there Is one picture which he has been unabli to obtain. The single missing photograph li the mosquito's life Is when he hat pushed his head through bis shell and l3 pulling hlm.sel{ out of It. At one time he said he watched foi eight hours without success. Th« change Is so quick, he added, he hai not been able to catch it with his cam- era. As a control against the insects, hi said 'a bowl of goldfish In your hous< will eventually get rid of the mosqui- toes." The insects, he asserted, keei the goldfish healthy, contended and grateful. And here's good news for the mia- ogynlst. Perkins says only the "lady"' mosquitoes do the biting. Housekeeping at Dr. Barnardo's Homes In the United Kingdom Is done on an enormous scale. More than 25,000 meals a day have to be provided for 8,456 children. One big Item Is milk, 1,000 gallons per day being required. Loans Help Students Paris. â€" Honor loans to permit needy students to complete their course in the University of Paris were of great service In the last university year, and an increased number of students are applying for this aid during the com- ing year. The system was adopted in 1924 by the Academy of Paris which establish- ed a fund out of which deserving stu- dents could obtain financial aid. The maximum loan Is for 3,000 francs, which the student receives by weekly signing an honor declaration that be will repay It within twelve years after he obtained his university degree. This year 514 of these loans were Issued to Fi-ench students, and 440 the year previous. <. _ France Is losing her tourist traflic, the number of visitors falling from 1,911,107 In 1929 to 994,358 last year. The drop Is least heavy In the case of British visitors, who numbered 522.000 In 1932. Poetry Love Taught Wthout Study Rule Children show a much greater in- terest in poetry Jf they are not re- quired to do any memorizing, Dr. Honora M. Frawley, research graduate at Teachers College, Columbia Univer- sity, declares in a survey just made public. When children are allowed to read poetry in a natural manner, devoid of rules or academic rote, their enjoy- ment in poems increases accordingly, Dr. Frawley found. She experimented with 300 pupils of Grade 6B in Public Schools 33, 66, 17, 108, 148 and 124 in the borough of Queens. "The problem undertaken was to compare results in comprehension, amount of memorizing and attitude ob- tained by teaching poems to children with five different procedures In re- gard to memorization," Dr. Frawley explains. These procedures were immediate: Required memorizing without any teaching of the poem, required inde- pendent memorizing after the poem had been taught, required supervised memorizing after the poem had been taught, memorizing encouraged but not required after the poem had been taught, and no memorizing required or suggested, but time spent on f- .e choice activities out of the study of the poem. Dr. Frawley found that the pupils responded more eagerly to the poetry hour where no memorizing w^as re- quired but where free activity in the study of the poems was allowed. Not forcing the pupils to study the poems in minute detail brought forth a desire to read more poetry, she adds. Cunard Celebrates Its* Ninety-third Birthday \^y/^^y/^^yA^A\Vy^^VA\ yAvyA\'y;^^ -' VA^yA^^A-NyA^yAWAV/ . iSSO^ WIkii the Cun.ird (I.ik ship "Aiiuitaiiia" sails iiitu , ll.illfoN. N.S.. this wiH-k on a cruise from New Voik, lii-r arrival will iii.iric the ninety third anniversary . of the lirst Miyane of the pioneer I'uiiartlcr "Britannia" frum l.ixcrpodl tii Aii'irica. The "llritannia" left l.ivfrpiwil on julv -lib, 1840, for' Ilnlifnx and Hoslon. rnvfri j: lie ri-mc in 14 days and j 8 hour--: in tiie siinic >;iir ibo ".\raili.i," lur sisler ship, made llir same voyaiie in II il.ns aiul -t hours. This | inannuiiilcil the first rcKiilar Moaniship serxirc .icn.ss elie Allanljr. m \ S.-iiiuul (aflciwards Sir) Ciin.ir.l was .1 pasM-iiRcr im j (he iiiaidrn voyage anil on his arrival ai Boston he was, pri-scntcd with a silver cup by the nun l..i:iis ol lioslon, coninicinoratinj; the acliicvcmenl, a trt.pliy which is still in existence ami valued at over $.50,00(). .Sir Samuel t'unard was born in Halifax in 1787 and even l>cfore founding Ihc Cunard Line in England, had by the year 1!>.<0 amassed a huge fortune and was head of a fleet of sa'liiiR-ships piling between Nova Scotia and I he West Indies. He was knii;hte(l in IS.'iQ for outstantling service in I lie Criiiiean War and ilied in London in 1804 in his 78th ye.ir • In iiintrasi to ihe 1,100 gross tons of the 1840 "Bri- tannia," ia the 4.S,000-ton liner ".Viuitania" of to-day. Fast and Present Positions Compared Greater Freedom Stressed by Business Woman in Hamilton Address The emancipation of modern woman and the Important place she had com< to occupy In the busy modern world were emphasized in an address -whicll Miss A. Josephine Dauphinee, of Van' couver, gave to members of the Cana- dian Federation of Business and Pro-, fessional Women's Clubs, meeting 10 Hamilton, Ont. Contrasting conditions affecting wo- men in 1870 and the present day. Miss Dauphinee recalled that the Vlctoriaii Miss would not go to a skating rink un- accompanied. The woman of sixty years ago depended on her men folk for her knowledge of public affairs. She did her needlework while her hus- band read the difficult passages in the newspaper to her. To-day women were in every sphere of life, competi- tive, social and public; they were run- ning their own factories, they wer€ merchants, dentists, doctors. They took part in aviation, filled no second place in sport, and took part In the Bisley rifle competition. Woman to- day. Miss Dauphinee said, might choose any career which suited her. Man Who Melted From the Heat In London, on June 6, the thermom- eter rose to 90 in the shade, and the next day some of the papers related the story of a man in the South end who had actually melted from the heat and had attracted such great crowds by so doing that the police had to disperse them. One of the papers printed a photograph of the phenomen- on. It shows a young man of about 20, with clean-shaven face and hair neatly plastered down, and arrayed in the latest fashion, but with drooping head and a smile that is rapidly dis- solving into an expression dt horror as the eyes appear to join it. The police came and moved the terror- stricken or jt>king â€" according to tem- peramentâ€"people •on, but called no ambulance. Just as the poor man col- lapsed he -.vas taken into the shop be-' fore whict. the tragedy had taken place â€" for he was u dummy nuule of wax. Time to Duck "I see you advertised your saxo- phone for sale," said my friend. "Yes," he sighed, "| saw my neigh- bor in the hardware store yesterday buying a sun." The thread of an argument often im- plies that the whole thing Is merely a yarn. I : I ^H4 • . I ISSUE No. 29â€" '33