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MURDER'HA^IMISR Agatha Christie titrll ' litfH- fr if 11(1 sY.vorsis. Willi!' Mrs Wllltll. hir Ouujilii' « Vi.- Jri. Maji.t lluriuiliy ftinl tlurt rit-lk'liborH lihiM'il at laliU' tl|>|>l»K. B41KI- sUltK that fai'l ha* brfii iiiur<lrr«'<l. u( I hliiiil'tiiii. Huiiiul.y fiiiiiul 111 d»<i>l thr l-un- of >il!« "kull frii«lur..l. Triwlvalix will ill»l<li» hl» i-clMlP Inln four •-.jual IwrlH. l.vtwti-ii IiIk BinKr, MiK Jinnlfir (ianliHT. uiid llif thnt rhililr.ii ..f liln dtfi-»»«l fl'lrr. Muiy IVarBoii. A JuiutM I-eamon liuU boiii In Bxliuiiiiilon Ihr aflfrmicm of Ihe murder, UaMriK for l.oM(l..ii thr following iiiorn- iiiK Major liuriiuby reo'lvm a ihf>iue lor 6 uuu iM.uiulK In a niwHi.aiar lompt- lltlon Kniily TrvfuBlH. I'farKoiiii â- uix.e, 1,1-llrvm In- In Innoitnl iinil hur- rlcn to Kxhaiiii.lon, riialjes hiiil'il'V ' n-.iualnlan. <• and hhHk lilm to h«-l|) ••I' iir CrarHon. Slu- <c.ntUl»-H In Mrs'. Helling, (h* laildlu'ty a vtiy neat Knillfinaii, h<' if, tnU very parlicuUir. ile i.nd Captain Trevel yuii wt-rt U8 thick am thieves. Friends of u lifetime they were. Anil they buth have the same kind of outlandish heads stuek up on the walls." (Tu be continued.) ^ Sees Empire's Future In Emigration Right Hon. J. H. Thomas Says Natural Outlet for British People are the Dominions BriKhton, Kii(,'la"d- â€" Hight lion. J. JI. Ttioraas told an audience here that firni view of Sittaford. Turning off i the "natural and Inevitable outlet for the main road about two miles from Uritlsh people must be through our do- Kxhainpton, they went upw.-.rds over a nilnlonK." Mr. Thomas, .speaking at routrh moorland road until they reach- the opeiilnt; of the Soutu African dis- ed a villaKc that was situi ted rijfht play at the Kmpire Marketing Board's "Why-."' "Thev've K<'t such pure minds in the country," xaid En.ily. "1 th»u;;ht joK. Trev.lyanljt woild lie better." ,i« hon.,- In Kx; ..x,,|,.„ji,, u that case," faid Mr. Knderby, risinK to his opportunities, '"I had better call you Kmily." "All riKht, cousin â€" what's your "Charles." "All riKht, Charles." Family was rather fascinated by her CHAPTER XI.â€" (Coi.td.) "We must save Jim," wailed Emily. "Of course we will. Of course wc will," Mrs. Hellinjr consoled her. Emily dabbed her eyes vigorously, Itave one last sniff and K^lP. and, raising her heao, demanded fiercely: "Where can 1 stay at Sittaford?" "Up to Sittaford? You're set on guinp there, my dear?" "Yes," Emily nodded vigorously. "Well, now," Mrs. Belling cogitated the matter. "There's only one |)lace for ee to stay. There's not much to Sittaford. There's ihe big house, Sittaford House, which Captain Tre- velyan built, and that's let now to a South African lady. And there's the six cottages he built, and No. ."j of them cottages has got Curti.-. what used to be gardener at Sittaford House, in it, and Mrs. Curtis. She k-ts rooms in the summei.ime, ,tho Captain allowing her to do so. There's nowhere else you could stay and that's â-  fact. There's the blacksmith's and the post office, but Mary Hibbert, she's got six children and her sister- in-law living with her, and the blacksmith's wife she's expecting her eighth, so there won't be so much as a corner there. But, how are you Koing to get up to Sittaford, miss? Have you hired a car?" "I am going to share Mi. Knder- by's.'" "Ao, and where will he be stayi.ig 1 wonder?" "I suppose he will have to be put up *t Mrs. Curtis's too. Will she have room for both of us?" "I don't know that that will look quite right for a young lady like you," said Mrs. Belling. "He's my cousin," said Emily. On no account, she felt, must a sense of propriety intervene to work against her in Mrs. Belling's mind. The landlady's brow cleared. "Well, that may be all right then," she al- lowed pi-udgingly, "and likely as not if you're not comfortable with Mrs. Curtis they would put you up at the big house." "I'm sorry I've been such an idiot," said Emily, mopping once more at her eyes. "It's only natural, my dear. And you feel better for it." "I do," said Emily truthfully. "I feel much better." "A good cry and a good cup of tea â€"there's nothing to beat them, and K nice cup of lea you shall have at once, my dear, before you start off on that cold <lrive." "Oh, thank you, but I don't think I really want â€" " "Never mind what you want, it's what you're going to have," said Mrs. Belling, rising with determination and moving towards the door. "And you tell Amelia Curtis from me that she's to look after you and see you take your food proper and see you don't fret." "You are kind," said Emily. "And what's more, I shall keep my eyes and ears open down here," .said JWrs. Belling entering with relish into ber part of the romance. "There's many a little thing that 1 hear that never goes to the police. And any- thing I do hear I'll pass on to you, miss." "Will you really?" "That I will. Don't ce worry, my dear, we'll have ynur young gentle- man out of his trouble in no time." "I must go and pack," saiii Emily, rising. "I'll send the tea up to you," said JUrs. Belling. Emily went upstairs, packed her few l>elongings into her suitcase. Sponged her eyes with cold water and Applied a liberal allowance of powder and a touch of rouge. She rang the bell. The chamber- maid (the sympathetic sister-in-law W Constable Craves) came promptly. iCmily presented her with a pounJ fcote and begged her earnestly to pa.sri '4n any information she might acquire in roundabout ways from police cir- tJes. The girl promised readily. "Mrs. Curtis's up to Sittaford? 1 will indeed. Miss. Do anything that I will. We all feel for you. Miss, more ihan I cafl say. All the time I keep fsying to myself, 'Just fancy if it >vas you and Fred, 1 keep saying. I Would be distracted -that I would. The least thing 1 hears I'll pass on to you, Miss, at Mrs. Curtis's." "You angel," said Emily. Thus, the centre of romantic atten- tion, Em iy left the Three Crowns, having duly gulped down the cup of tea prescribed by Mrs. BellinK- "By the way," she srid to Fnderhy, •s the aped Ford sp ang forward, "you are ' ly cousin, don't forget." on the edge of the moor. It consisted of a smithy, and a combined post of- fice and sweet shop. From there they followed a lane and came to a row of newly built small granite bunga- lows. At the second of these the car stopped and the driver volunteered the information that this was Mrs. Curtis's. Mrs. Curtis was a small, thin, gray haired woman, energetic and shrew- ish in disposition. She was all agog with the news of the murder. "Yes, of course I can take you in, Miss, and your cousin too, if he can just wait until I shift a few duds. You won't mind having your meals along of us, I don't suppo.se? Well, who would have believed it? ("ap- tain Trevelyan murdered and an in- <iuesl and all This morning when the news came you could have knocked me down with a feather." Both Emily and Charles decided the talkative Mrs. Curtis would prove useful. CHAF'TER XII. Drowned in a sea of talk, Emily and Charles Enderby were shown their new (|uarters by Mrs. Curtis. Emily had a small s(iuare room, scrup- ulously clean, looking out and up to the slope of Sittaford Beacon. Charles's room was a small slit fac- ing the front of the house and the lane, containing a bed and a micro- scopic chest of drawers and wash- stand. "The great thing is,'' he ob.serveJ after the driver of the car had been duly paid and thanked, "that we are here. If we don't know all' there is to be known about everyone living in Sittaford within the next (juartei- of an hour, I'll eat my hat."' Ten minutes later, they were sillinjr downstaiis in the comfortable kitchen being introduced to Curtis, a rather gruir looking, gray haired old man, and being vegaled with strong tea, bre.id and butter, Devonshire cream !.nd hard-boiled eggs. While they ate and drank they listened. Within half an hour they knew everything there was to be known about the inhabitants of the small community. First there was Miss I'ercehouse, who lived in No. 4 The Cottages, a sjiinster of uncertain years and tem- per w'ho had come down here to die, according to Mrs, Curtis, six years ago. "But believe it or not, Miss, tho air of Sittnford is that healthy that she picked up from the day she came. "Miss Percehouse has a nephew who occasionally comes down to see her," she went on, "and indeed he's stayi.iR with her at the present time. Seeing to it that the money doesn't go out of the family, that's what he's doing. Very dull for a young gentleman at this time of year. Hut there, there's more ways than one of amusing your- self, and his coming has been a provi- dence for the young lady at Sittaford House. Poor young thing, the idea of bringing her to that great barrack of a house in the wintertime. Selfish is what some mothers are. A very pretty young lady, too. Mr. Ronald Garfield is up there as often as he can be without neglecting Miss Perce- house." Charles Enderby and Emily ex- changed glances. Charles remembered that Ronald vJarfield had been men- tioned as one of the party present at the table turning. "The cottage this side of mine, No. Ci," continued Mrs. Curtis, "has only just been took. Centlemun by the name of Duke. That is if you would call him a gentleman. Of course, he may be aUd he may not. There's no saying, folks aren't so particular now- adays. A bashful .sort of gentleman he is- might be a military gentleman from the look of him, but somehow he hasn't got the manner. Not like Ma jor Burnaby, that yo.i would know as a military gentleman the first lime you clapped eyes on him. "No. a, that's Mr. Rycroft's -little elderly gentleman. They do say that he u.xed to go after birds to outlandish parts for the Hriti.sh Museum. What they call a naturalist, he is. Always out and roaming over the moor. .And he has a very fine library vif books. His cottage is nearly all tiookcases. "No. 2 is an invalid gentleman's, a Captain Wyntt with an Indian serv ant. And pmir fellow he does feel the cold, he doe«. The servant 1 mean, not the captain. Coining from warm outlandish parts, it's no wonder. The heat they keep up inside the house vould frighten you. It's like walk- ing into an oven. "No. 1 is Major Burnaby "s cott«K<^- Lives by himself, he d«>es, and I go in t« do for him early morninKs. Ue is shop, apiiealed to his hearers to buy goods from the Dominions. "If I wanted to stress one point," Mr. Thomas said, "it would be this: That, whatever may be the future of this country, one thing certain is that the natural and Inevitable outlet for British people must be through our Dominions. "When you remember," he con- tinued, "that for the past 30 years the average number of men and women leaving Great Britain for overseas has been between 150,000 and 200,000 every year, and that for the first time in his- tory, instead of any going, 60,000 re- turned last year, you get some Idea of the important part emigration mu.st play in the solution of our problems here. "Therefore, to secure that, we must make our Dominions prosperous, and when we can combine duty with plea- sure and get satisfaction from both we shall be on what I would call, in a sporting phrase, an absolute certain- ty." In another part of his address Mr. Thomas said, "We are living at a time when nationalism seems to be running mad, but do not let us forget that, with all the troubled periods we have pass- ed through and .'ith the trouble exist- ing in the world to-day, the one bright spot that stands out, unshaken and unshakable In the whole world, is the old British Empire. There is no nation in the world but is envious of our position." Now, Mr, Ripley London, Kn;;.â€" Believe it or not, Mr. Ripley, writes a correspondent, but the smallest flexible steel tube in the world is being manufactured by a Lon- don firm of instnimont makers. The bore is only one-hundredth part of an inch and requires a pressure of 2.000 lbs. to force mercury through it. A tube one mile long would require only one and three-quarter cubic inches of mercury to fill it. The tube is to be used in heat-gaug- ing instruments. In London's (Eng.) new factories, employing lii.OOO people, all sorts of articles are .made, including pyjamas, radio parts, cosmetics, and sausage- skins. "Not numy heads of great lianks have a contemplative mental habit; if they did tiiey would not be heads of great banks."â€" Frank A. Vaiulerlip. Pithy Anecdotes Of Famous People How delightfully children sometimes day things! A little girl who had gone to < hurch for the first time was asked on her return what the minister h^d i said, and what his text had beci, â€" | reminisces Colonel A. A. Anderson (in | 'â- Ex|)( rteiices and Impressions.") She thought for a while, and then 8aid: "Keep your soul on top." None of the others could recall liiat text, but they found later the minister had preached from the text of St. I'auls "Keep your body under." "It was put in a better way by the little girl," adds the Colonel. 'If you keep your soul on top you need not trouble about mortifying your body." Fresh Fragrance of Blossoms "SALADA GREEHTEA "Fresh from the Gardens Then there was a small boy â€" a ; nephew of Colonel Anderson's â€" who ' â€" â€" â€" seeing the broad expanse of a starlit j London. â€" Two cures of influenzal night In the country, for the first time, pneumonia by serum similar to that and after asking many questions about j(,r immunizing ferrets against "flu ' the stars ended his prayers that night L^e claimed by Dr. Ronald Hare, a Lon- by saying: ] jq,, physician. "I thand Thee. O God, for making | j^ telling how he treated two wo- such a lovely world, aud putting such | n,e„ ^^^ (,, ^.(jom was dying. Dr. Hare New Serum Used As Cure Of Influenzal Pneumonia said "both cases reacted in a very dra- matic fashion" and recovered. The serum was prepared from hu- man beings convalescing from influen- za. Recent announcements that fer- rets, small, weasel-like aimals, could be infected with the "flu" virus were considered highly important because of the possibility that the germ could "The wise niuii is be who now takes a bullish position and hangs to it ten- aciously irrespective of temporary re- actions."â€" Roger W. Babson. a beautiful top on it!" . . . I And that leads up to another story i told by Colonel Anderson. Among his many friends was Joaquin Miller, j "poet of the Sierras." Once when i Miller was riding through a small vil-i lage in Mexico, he saw an old colored j woman coming out of a small cottage. I She was gray and bent with age and j ^e YsolatVd and an antidote be found shabbily dressed, and was carrying in j f^j. jjHman beings her hand a small, broken flowerpot i Dr. Hare reported in the Lancet, Bri tied together with a piece of string, in tj^^ medical journal, that hi â-  first case which she had planted a rose. She ^ woman of 27, was in a grave condi placed the pot on the step by the door (jq,, and wa.s tending it with such loving ' q;^^^ y^^ Injections care that Miller stopped to watch her. • * • Not caring to appear too curious, he said: "It's a very pretty evening, Aunty." The old woman straightened herself so far as her bent form would allow and "placing one hand above her eyes, gazed lovingly down the valley where the setting sun was projecting bright golden rays, and trees cast their long, purple shadows," and said: "It's a very pretty world, Massa. It's a very pretty world." "The story has remained with me," adds Colonel Anderson, "and when- ever I see some especially beautiful phase of nature, I hear myself saying with that old colored woman: "It's a very pretty world, Massa. It's a very pretty world." After two injections of serum tour hours apart, he said, she began to im- prove and slept very well at night. A third injection was made the follow- ing day anV despite a tendency to have temperatures of 100 degrees, the whale's mouth, says Dr. Sutherland. Once used for corsets, jiow it is mostly converted into artificial ostrich feath- ers! • • • Dr. Sutherland spent his boyhood in the Scottish Highlands and he has some enchanting memories of those days. "Old Mr. Cameron, the farmer, told me of witches riding ou their brooms across the dark waters of Loch Awe. He hud also known a witch and had killed her. She had lived three miles In the whale's mouth, three people i ^V ^^^ S'^" '" "^ s™»" croft, now in could sit around a small table lor af- I ruins, and at night had gone about in â-  the form of a hare. One moonlight I night he had seen this hare running ' away from the door of the byre, and in the morning one of the cows stopped ! giving milk. "The next night he loaded his gu" I and over the charge rammed down a j sixpence, because a silver bullet is I the only bullet that will kill a witch. i Then he waited behind a wall over- I looking the byre, and in the moonlight saw the hare coming back. He fired. If he stood up against the plates of: Sho gave a scream and fled on three whalebone he would be knee-deep in i ''-'es- trailing a broken hind leg behii'd water when the whale was ou the sur- face, and. when the whale dived, he ternoon tea, says Dr. Halliday Suther- land, distinguished Harley Street (Lon- don) physician (in "Arches of the Years") ; but the gullet of the whale is narrow, and no known species of whab' could have swallowed Jonah, al- though tho ancient chronicle does not mention the whale, but "a large fish." Yei it is not a physical impossibility for a man to have lived in a whale's mouth for three days . would bo in a closed cavern of air. As soon as tho air became vitiated the whale would rise to tho surface to breathe: but a more uncomfortable voyage cannot be conceived â€" adds the. her. On the following day no smoke was rising from the house of the witch, and when neighbors entered they found her groaning on her bed. When the doctor came he said her right thigh was broken below the hip-joint. The witch explained that she had (Im.joj. 1 fallen in her room. Mr. Cameron know By the way. whalebone, so called, is ^^T'.'.^''' .'*"'' "'.'^ {"'•'' •'"^â- .* *?'= 'y^^^ '^"''9 of cartilage really formed of cartilage hanging from the ridges at the back of the Sprightly Youngsters of 65 It the doctor had cut into her he would have found a sixpence iu her thigli!" patient continued to improve. There after her recovery was steady. In the second case also. Dr. Har« said, there was an uninterrupted re covery and a difficulty in breathing and a paiu in the chest disappeared withlt four hours after an Injection. The reaction in both instances was similar, the investigator continued The temperature began to fall and be came normal within 12 hours. Puis* rates tell coincidentally. Most remarkable, he said, was at improvement in the general conditio- of the patients, enabling both to sleef the entire night after the initial injec- tion. Dr. Hare added that further cases were unavailable, so additional experi- ments and investigation are desirable. The Lancet li.sted as discoverers ol the reaction on ferrets, three doctors, Wilson Smith, C. H. Andrcss, and P. P. Laidlaw. Previously the inability to find an animal susceptible to "flu" in. fection liindcred experiments. The tests were said to have con- firmed that influeuja is partly due to a germ that can pass through filters. words of the novel ('Accideut') 1,800 words in all, the complete chapter des- cribing the railway accideut. I wrote it at great speed, aud was rather pleased with it." Si'Vt nteen (irrinnn business uieii, not b ss than 6."> years youiig keep fit by doing exercises at their gymnasllc club in Stettin, Ger- many Crhelnirat Hollwlch, 6.'i years of age demonstrate* his favorite exerctstv The oldest club member Is S4. Do you believe in fairies? "Then there was Donald Grant's boy, aged eight. He found a cheese i.n the woods and brought It home. " 'Take it back where ye got it," said the father. 'It's a fairy cheese.' The boy took the cheese away, but hid it in an outhouse, where he ate it in secret. In the hayfleld a week later he fell on the scythe, cut the main ar- tery in his thigh and bled to death in a few minutes. " • * « .•Although Arnold Bennett BChooled ! himself to observe regular working , hours â€" and he was a glutton for work j â€" there were times when his pen liter- ally flew over the paper, for he wrote , everything by hand. These entries iu I "The Journal of Arnold Bennett 1921- j 192.S." shovr that: I "1 wote 1,000 words of Lord Raingo' in 90 minutes." ^ i "I wrote 1.100 words â€" a complete , chapter (of 'Vanguard') in 75 minutes, i and then felt better." I "Exactly at 12 I sat down to work j and at 12. .3,5 had actually written 700 words (of 'Accident'). It seems as If [ uothing can stop me from working just I now." Writing at white heat: "I wrote 500 words of '.â- \c«ldeut' be- fore lunch. 1 walked to the Reform Club to meet (Frank) Swiuueiton by appointment, and we lunched. Then 1 resumed the novel. I wasn't quite so \ fired up as I felt in the morning. In Ihe morning I made .\hiu character In | i 'Accident') lose his te.nper, and I did • it with such heat that I felt as if 1 had j lost my own temper when 1 went down to see Miss Nerney (his secretary) aud I felt called upon to explain to her the cause of my demeanor." • • • ' In .search of ideas: i "I went out to South Kuislnglor .MuK<>um at 11.15 to find icicas, and got them, smoin English pictures of a second-rate kind, ra.siiy. I came liotiie And at 1 p m had written 400 words. Ik^fote < I bad written another l.iOii They're Telling Us! The longer I live the more C3rtala I am that absolute refusal to take uj arms is the only way to salvation.â€" Rt. Hon. George Lansbury, M.P. Young women to-day get engaged and then inform their parents over thi telephone. My daughter tclonhoued me just as I was starting out to plaj iu the golf match with the Prince ol Wales and told me of her engagement â€"Lady Asior, M.P. The vast increas*; in man's know- ledge and in his control over Naturt has not been accompanied by a corres ponding improvement Iu his moral character. â€" Sir Edwin John. The average woman enjoys a row for the pleasure of making it up after wards. There is nothing like a than derstorm tor clearing the air. â€" Rev, T. H. Curti;;. Vicar of St. Paul's, West- cliff. The most precious collection o; stamps In the world Is' housed io the vaults of Somerset House, Lon- don. Eng. It contains twcutyfou! specimens of every stamp ever madfi In the British Empire. "As a practical philosophy, life in- surance and annuities are doing a great deal to make tho lives »oE the American people safe and secure." â€" Alfred E. Smith. -♦- There would not be so niuci: harm iu tho giddy following the fashions, If somehow the wise could always set tiiem. â€" Bovee. OTTAWA LADIES' COLLEGE Xesideutia: School for Olrls. tiia United Clinrcb. Vnder Complete Cour.scs from rrl.niary to Hon >r Mutrlculatloii. 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