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IfMURDER-'HlSIlMfflR^ \0\ ijAcATHA Christie J^ sYNnrsis. WlilU. .Mry Wllli'tt. Iit>r iliiuk'liltr Vi«- Itl. Major i)uiimli> uriU llircf luiKhboiM pl«>c<l lit luMi' llppliiK. a •siilill" uif"- »aK.' BlMttK thai Oijil. Jr.H. Trrv«'l>»" hiM litcii inuiiUri'il u( .Ib homi- In Kx- h«iM|)t<iii. liiiiiialiy tliulM ItlH friiiitl ili-si'l. the haxe of hlH Rkull f rB.liir.<l. Ti •â- - vilMin'K «lll (IhidtK lilM fKtiite liilo i<'<ii' «'<(Uiil i>«rl«, Ixlwi-iii IiIh HlHltT, Ml'' Jiiinlfir I'.arOiiiT, and Ihc tlir*-* ihll- Orcii «'f tilH diii-HSfil Klxttr. Xliiry I'l-ai- non A JainrH IVursi.ii hail liii'll In I'.'v- >iuini>t<in Ilw iifHrmxin «>' Hie iiiurd.r. liuvlnK f'T l.oniloii the folli.wInK iii"i n- InK. Major lliirnaliv r«-c«lvt» u ilieniir tor r.Oftit i>ouiiilh fM.iii a mwHinpcr <"iii- pultlon. Kiiilly Trifut^iM, I-eumoii » Hunrop, ».<lti-WH he Ix liiiiocnt ami Imr- tl«>B to Kxlianipl'iii, rimkrB KniliMliy « »c«»ualnlante and bbKii lilni to liclp ••l.tui I'eaxvon. Htie acoomi'a ni«i» Win lo bllla- ford. < CHATTKH XII. (Coiil'd.) "As for Mrs. Wi'.ktt anil Mis,- Wil- k?U, that's what no one can nuikf out. ritnty of money there. Amos Parker Rt Kxhampton they <leal with, and he lolls me their witkly b<Kik comes to •x-ll over ei({ht pounds or nine ixjuiuir. You wouldn't lielieve the o^'(rs that pns into that house! Brought their maid M-rvant.- from Kxeter with them, they did, but they don't like it and wjint l<) leave, and I'm sure I don't blame them. If you u.«k me it's n «|uetT business, huryinp yourself in the country like this, a .smart lady like that. Well, well, I supixise I had better be clearing away the.^^c tea IhinR.^." Mrs. Curtis drew a deep breath, and so did Charles and Kniily. The flow of information loosened with so little difficulty had alniofst overwhelm- c<l them. Charles venlure<i to put a (juestion. "Has Major Buriiaby ^ol back yof/" he asked. _ Mrs. Curtis paused at once, tray in hand. "Yes, indeed, sir, came tramp- inj; in just the same as ever about half an hour before you arrive<l. 'Why, sir," I cried to him. 'You've never walked all the way from Ex- hampton'." And he says in his stern way, 'Why not? If ;. man has pot two'U'KK he doesn't nee<i four wheels. 1 do it once a week -inyway as you know, Mrs. Curtis.' He looks bad though. It's a miracle he ever trot through on Friday nijrht. Brave 1 call it at his a^ce. You may say what you like, but nowadays the youiiR gentlemen aren't a patch on the old ones. That Mr. Ronald GarfieUl. he would never have done it, and it's my opinion, and it's the opinion of Mrs. Hi'olK'rt at the post office, a..d it's the o|iinion of Mr. Pound, the blacksmith, that .Mr. (Jarfield oupht never to have let him ^o off alone the way he did. He should ha.'i jrone with him. If Major nurnaby had been lost in a tmowdirift, everylnxly would have blamed Mr. Carfield. And that's a facU" She disappeared triumphantly into the scullery amid a clatter of tea thinjrs. Mr. Curtis lhou^:htfully removed an Bj;<-<l pipe from the right side of his mouth to the left side. "Women," he .<said, "talk a lot." He paused and then murmured, ".And half the lime they don't kncnv the truth of what they are talklnt; about." t'harlcs rose. "I think I'll no round ind see old Burnaby," he said; "tell him the camera parade v.ill be to- morrow morning." "I'll go with you," said Emily. "I n^ant to know what he really thinks Bbout Jim and what ideas he has about the crime in general." They went out to(.jethcr. Mrs. Cur- tis immediately returned. "They he gone round t6 the Ma- jor's'' .said Mr. Curtis. "Ah!" said Mrs. Curtis' "Now, what <lo you think'? Are they sweet- hearting, or are thoy tiot'.' A lot of harm comes of cousins marrying so they .ay. Deaf and duinbs and half- wits and a lot of other evils. He'.i BWiH't on her, that you can .see easily «>r<>ugh. As fo,- her. she's a deep one like my Great Aunt Sarah Belinda, â-ºhe is. Got a way with her and with the men. I wonder what she's after THJW? Do you know what I think, Curtis?" Mr. (.'urtis grunti^l. "This young gentleinan that the f.<*licc aie holding on account <if the murder, it's my belief that he's the on« she's set on. And she's come up here t4) nose about and see what she can find out. And mark my words,' naid Mrs. Curtis, rattling china, "if tJ.ere's anything to find out she will find it!" At the same Mioment that Charles and Emily st4>rt«'<l out to visit Major Burnaby, Ins|H'ctor Narra<'ott was M-ated in the drawing rootn of Sitta- ford llouw, trying to formulate an impre.-sion of Mrs. Willett. He had Kanlly known what he hail expecleil to find, but certainly not what he had tound. It was Mrs. Willett who had taken charge of the situation, not he. She had come rushing into the room. thoroughly businesslike and efficient. He saw a tall woman, thin facetl and ke<>n eyed. She was wearing rather an elaborate knitt<-d silk jumper suit that was just over the liorder line of unsuitably for country wear. Her etorkings were of very expe.isive gos- samer silk, heir shfX's high-heeleil pat- ent leather. She wore several valu- able rings and rather a large iiuantily of very good and ixpinsive imitatiim fearlfi. "Infpeft«r Ni r-icott ?" said Mr". Willett. "Natu.ally, you want to f ou Must Suffer To Succeed come over the huusv. What a sh«KK- ing trjiKt'dy! I couU: hardly believe it wo only lienrd abuut It thiH morn- ii-.g, you know. We were terribly shocked. Sit down, won't you. Inspec- tor? Thi.s is my duUKbter, Violet." He had hardly noticc<l the girl who had followed he/ in, and yet, she was a very pretty girl, tall and fair with big blue eyes. Mrs. Willett hert^elf H>k a Keat. "Ig there any way in which 1 can help you. Inspector? I knew very lit- tle of poor Captain Trev.'lyan, but if there is anything you can think <>{ â€" " The inspector said slowly: "Thank you, madam. Of course, one never knows what may be u.'-eful or what may not." "1 quit^ understand. There may possibly be .somethinK- in the house that may throw light upon this sad business, but I rather doubt it. Cap- t: in Ti-evelyan removeii all his per- sonal bclonfrings. He even feared 1 shou: . tamper with hi.s fishing rods, poor, dear man." She laug-hed a little. "You were not acquainted with him?" "Bcftire I took the house, you mean? Oh! no. I've asked him here several times since, but he never came. Ter- ribly shy, poor dear. That was what was the matter with him. I've known do?x'ns of men like it. They are called women haters and all sorts of silly things, and really all the time it's only shyness. If I could have got at him,"' said Mrs. Willett with determination, "I'd scMin have got over all that non- sense. That sort of man only wants' bringing out." Inspector Narracott began to under- .stand CapUiin Trevelyan's strongly <lefensive attitude towards his ten- ants. "We both asked him," continued Mr.H. Willett. "Didn't we, Violet?" "(Jh! yes, mother." "A real simple sailor i.t heart," said Mrs. Willett. "Every woman loves a sailor. Inspector Narracott." It occurred to Inspector Narracott at this juncture that the interview so far had been run entirely by Mrs. Willett. He was convinced that she was an exceedingly clever woman. She might be as innocent ;..= she appeared. On the other hand she might not. "The point I am anxious to get information about is this," he said.; "Major Burnaby, as you doubtles.-* I know, discovered the body. He was; led to do Sio by an accident that oc- curred in thi.s house." "You mean?" "I mean the table turning. 1 beg your pardon. â€" " He turned sharply. A faint .sound had come from the girl. "Poor Violet," said licr mother. "She was terribly upset â€" indeed wo all were! Most unaccountable. I'm not superstitious, hut really it was the mo.st unaccountable thing." "It did occur then?". Mrs. Willett opened her eyes very wide. "Occur? Of course it occurred. At the time I thought it wa.s a joke â€" a most unfeeling- joke and one in very bad Uste." "It was curious," said the inspector .slowly. "You were very u-ji.ect, Mrs. Willett?" "We all were. Up to then it ha<I been, oh, just light hearted fooling. You know the .sort of thing. Good fun on a winter's cveiiing:. And then suddenly â€" this! Itâ€" -it's uncanny."' "And you, Miss Willett? What do you think?" "1?" The girl started. "I I don't know. I shall never forget it. I shall never dare to do table turning again." / ".Mr. Rycrroft would i-.ay it was gen- uine, I suppose," said her mother. "He believes in all dial sort of thing. Ktally I'm inclined to believe it my- self. What other explanation is there except that it was a genuine message from a spirit?" The inspector shook his head. The Uihle turning had been his red her- ring. His next remark was most ci'iual sounding:. "Don't you find it very Vdeak here in winter, Mrs. Willett?" asked In- spector Narracott. "Oh! we love it. Such a change. We're South Africans, you know." Her tone was brisk and ordinary. "Really? What part of South Africa?"" "Oh! the Capo. Violet has never been in Knglan<l before. She is en- chanted witli It - IIikIs the snow most romantic. This house is really most comfort.ihle." "What le<l you to come to this part of the world?" There was just gentle curiosity in his voice. '^We'vo read fo many Imok.s on Devonshire, an<I especially on DarU moor. We were reading ene on the boat. I've always had a hankering to ."ee Dartmoor." "What made you fix on Exhamp- t<n? It's not a very v.ell known little town." "Well we were reading these Wks as I told yeu, and theie was a boy on iinrd who talked about Exhampton he was .' 1 enthusiast!, about it." ^ (To be t!>;itinued. ) Ttie tllKftaMe berl-herl, caused by tie- lliieluliH hi diet. Is the iiiiise of r.flOfl (loalbs in Japuu each year. })y St. John Krviiie There is a wldilyheld but false be- lter that mankind instantly recoKiilzes and act'lalins the good, the true and the beautiful. Mankind does nothinj; of the sort; indeed It is more likely to hate "the hlghe.sl" than to lovo It. A'<n to Ihlu lie. Ih the belief that one may become famouu overnight, like Hyroii. .Nobody, however, rc- inark.s on the number of occasions when Uyron woke to find lilmselt Ignored or unkno\vii. There have been peoi)le who have acquired a brief notoriety In a single night, especially In the theatre, but that fame was al- ways short-lived. Only the infantile can believe that fates and careers can be altered or determined by a wave of a magic wand. The most spectacularly successful person in the iOngllsh-speaking world today is Mr. Noel Coward, who at thirty-three Is a very rich man, widely- known and admired in two continents. His astonishing success began when ho was tweiilyelght, but before that, Mr. Coward had seen some very hard times. Less than ten years ago he was nearly dowu and out In New York. Kvcn when the tide turned for him, .he had heavy reverses which he met with the same courage and fortitude as be- fore. Had Mr. Coward not heen a man of gay courage, the experience of the first night of .Sirocco, his play that was subjected lo blasts of real hatred and venom, might have knocked hijn out for good. It is, I suppose, natural that those who wish to change our ways should be received with suspicion. It Is na- tural that we should be slow in aecept- inf: change, to resent alleralion in be- loved habits. But to show hatred for the reformers and the Innovators Is another thing. The rage Into which multitudes fall when a man comes along with a new Idea Is a puzzle. The history of the saints shows that good men, afterwards canonized and adored, were lirst badly receiv'cd. if not actually stoned or put to death. In more recent times. William Booili, the founder of the Salvation Army, is a proof of this attitude. Booth and his followers were ill-treated In exactly the same manner as Jolin Wesley and his followers were a century earlier. Men so dissimilar as St. Kances or As- sisi, St. Ignatius Logola and George Fox, were all alike in that their good- ness offended their neighbors, because, perhaps, it was a reproach to them. Henry Irving went on the stage al- most at the peril of his life. After his first a1>pearance a critic told him that he should give up all hope of becoming an actor. He was booed and hooted, still he made his name in The Bells. When they rehearse<l Milestones, by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock, nobody but Irving liad faith in its chances of success, because he had be- lief in himself and knew that he was a great actor. Henrik Ibsen, like John Keats, was advised by a critic to return to his pills and potions, for he had been an apothecary's assistant. Kminent critics jeered at him and denied his capacity to write plays. The lirst edition of CatiliiiG was sold for wrapping paper. Yet Ibsen lived to revolutionize the European theatre. Something similar happened to Ber- nard Shaw, and if the envious Greene had had bis way, Shakespeare^woiild have been hounded out of tho theatre. There was not one X.'nivorsity wit who did not esteem himself Shakespeare's superiin- In every respect. Sarah Bernhardt was hissed In Paris In the beginning of her career. It was not roses all the way for her, any more than It was for Elecnora Duse, who was hooted and insulted by her own countrymen, who found her ugly, pre- sumably because she was not fat enough for them. There was a time when .loscpli Con- rad almost despaired of ever obtaining a public for his books. Mr. Somerset Maugham desi>aired of any success (Ui the stage four months before fortune opened four tluaires for him. In politics the tale is the same. The young Disraeli was almost laughed out of tho House of Commoiiu. Mr. Uam- say MucDonald had terrible times be fore he fou»id his place and even Mr. Stanley Baldwin knew deep distress before he could make people believe In his statfismanshlp. Nelson was put on half pay and might easily have been put out of the Navy altogether by people who had one-tenth of his ability. Thomas Hardy was violently attack- ed for writing Jude the Obscure, and the great Russian writer and dramatist Anton Chekhov was howled at by the press and the public and nearly driven to suicide, when his first play was per- formed In St, P<'tersburg. Oliver Gold- smith was called a common fellow by his contemporaries, because he put characters on the .stage in the simili- tude of life. There was violent abuse for Sean O'Casey when his plays were put on at the Abbey Theatre in Dub- lin. We are quick to find fault with the people who behaved thus to genius, but the more cynical among us may won- der whether we should not be equally quick to incur blame If an unknown genius were to come our way. The test of our virtue Is not what we think now of Ibsen or Duse. or William Booth, but what wo should have done had we been alive when they were not renowned. The most obvious fallacy of our time is the belief that renown can be ob- tained by anybody Who is willing to go to a school or take a correspond- ence course. Our bookshops are full of Outlines of this or that, and every- one assumes that fame can be acquired on the instalment system. There arc people who believe that this pathetic fallacy is due to the new- psychological methods in education. In the past children were made to stick at tasks and to exercise their memories. Today this is termed uneducational. The slogan has become "make every- thing easy for the child," especially In America. The result is that thousands of people are in a state approaching nervous prostration, because they can- not understand why they are not ap- preciated or do not occupy prominent positions, after taking twelve lessons in a "Course" or attending a school for the manufacture of geniuses, for a couple of terms. In defining genius as an infinite ca- pacity for taking pains Carlyle did not, perhaps, state the full truth, because ho implied that genius was the result of mere industry. But he said enough of the truth to make people understand that the magic wand does not exist, that dullards cannot be turned into geniuses, and that success Is won, not awarded. The last word shall he with Henry Irving who, speaking of Edmund Kean, another great actor who had known violent abuse, said: "The road to success lies through many a thorny course, over many an obstacle, from which the fainting heart is often tempted to turn back. But hope and a sense of power within In- spire the struggling artist still to con- tinue the conHict, till at last coura.go and pers-'verance meet with their just reward, and success comes." Society Gets Manor Records Northampton. Eng. â€" An extensive collection of manorial records, forming part of the .Montagu Manuscripts at Boughton House, Northants, has just been presented to the Northampton- shire Record Society by the Duke of Buccleuch. These maiuiscrips relate to the manors of Armston, Kings- thorpo, Hemington, Warktou, I.uddln.g- ton, and Geddington, and the Hundreds of Hu.xjoe. Polebrooke. and Navisford, and to the Honour of Gloucester Fee. Some date as far back as the reign of Richard II. Old Letters Proves Oxford Like Shakespeare Oxford, Eng.â€" Shakespeare's "Oth- ello" was played In Oxford with pomp and ceremony before an audi- ence of university dignitaries as early as September^ 1610, a<-cordlng to ex- tracts from ' the I^atin letters of Henry Jackaon, a puritan member of Corpus Christi College, which have just been published for the first time. In 1584 the university issued an ordinance forbidding the presentation of stage play.? In Oxford, and it ha.<i generally been supposed that. If plays were acted in Oxford at all about this time_ they must have been pres- ented in such places as inn yards. Jackion's letter, however, suggests that plays were an important part of the social life of the university, so that it now appears that the uni- versity did not act upon its declared aversion to dramatjc entertainments. Jackson says that the performance moved the audience to tears, and that the face of the actor who play- ed Desdemona even after Othello had killed her, implored pity. He states that the piece was played with great intenfity, but that this intensity was tempered decorously. The actors not only spoke the lines suitably, but used very appropriate gestures. Making Sugar from Wood Sweden has imich woodland. One job of research in the country that awards llic N'.'ble Pri<e in science is to discover ways of using that wood. The latest find is a method where- by sugar can be made from wood. Production of 1,1^00,000 tons of sugar e.nnually from trees is projected in a research report to the Swedish Gov- ernment Forestry Commission, says the American Chemical Society. Using a method found by Profe.<- .sor Erik Haegglund and Franz Bergius sixty kilograms of sugar and a six kilograms of acetic acid have been made from 100 kilos of dry wood. The raw sugar, says their report can be used without refining as cattle fod- der and for making alcohol and yeast by fermentation. In addition it is possible to make a motor fuel out of it. The process in detail is still secret but it is known that it employs the principles of the sacchari- fication of wood by concentrated hydrochloric acid. So They Say "Ones own heart is the best plac( in which to store the few things of Iif< that really matter." â€" Rudyard Kipling, "I firmly believe that somewhere \i tho world of international financ< there is some diseased spot, but thi ways to It are very tangled and conx' plicated."â€" J. P. Morgan. "If some philanthropist would help this generation let him send the com- munist leaders of America, at his ex- pense, to live for a month or two in Russia." â€" Will Durant. -'Success in life depends entirely on whether you know how to handle you^ own publicity."â€" Ely Culbertson. ".Mutual enrichment Is a condition of individual enrichment."â€" J. Ramsa/ MacDonald. "We are at one of those dramatia turning points in history when the path of progress lies clearly before ua it only we have faith and confhlence td take it." â€" Raymond B. Fosdick. "It there is any practice of capi: ;.'• ism which is indefensible it is th* transmission of vast wealth from ona generation to the next." â€" Harry Elmer Barnes. ; "Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happl'^ nesa in the long run." â€" Bertrand Rus-' sell. "I've reached the summertime ot lite. I want to be where there is sum-' mertime all the time." â€" John D. Rocke-' teller. "The experience of 1929 is too recent to give any confidence that lasting prosperity can be founded on a Wall Street boom." â€" Sir Walter Layton. "The most dangerous animal in the United States is the man with an emo- tion and a desire to pass a new law." â€" Herbert Hoover. The greatest of all human benefits, that at least without w-hich no other benefit can be truly enjoyed, is inde- pindence. â€" Parke tindwin. More Humor Needed In Welfar^Work Hartford. Conn. -â€" The sRf for humor in welfare work has been over- looked, William W. T. Squire, secre- tary of the State Department of Pub- lic Welfare, believes. "There is medicine in a good laugh," Squire said, "and workers should seek to stir up the humorous side when working with the poor, the needy, and the old. "It is safe to say that old people don't get much enjoyment out of laughter.'-' he added. "For that part, only children are really merry. But humor has its part. It did much to keep up the morale during the World War. There has been little humor dis- played, however, In the fight on the depression. " The world's loftiest capital Is La Paz. Bolivia, which stands on a moun tain-tuii 11', 470 feet above the sea. The Channel Wins ^ 'i^ ,..*«?« Beginning of Music To imitate with the mouth the liquid voices of birds was practiced long before men could play melodi- ous tunes, and delight the ear with music. The whistling of the zephyr through the empty reeds first taught the rustics to blow through hollow stalks. Then i)y degrees they learned the sweet plaintive notes, whjeh the pipe pressed by tiie fingers of the players, pours forthâ€" the pipe, which is now- found through all the path- less groves and woods and glades, divine resting places of the shep- herds. (Thus time by degrees sug-^ gests every discovery. and skill evolves It into the regions of light and frwne.l These melodies softened tho hearts of those swains, and de< lighted them when they were satisj fied with food; for then every thin^ afford.^ pleasure. â€" I.incretius. Frort "De Rerum Natura." Translated bi J. S. Watson. If Yon Can't Nurse Baby Yourself . . . Try Kagle Brand! '\Kj) CounlleM ihouMntliofbealthj, * ^') *»app» babies have been reared on K^kIo Brand during the laat â- eTenly-&Te yeart. You will £nd our Utile booktet/*Babr'a Welfare.** full of vnluabl* fatnta on baby car«. Vrlte for It. Ut« coupon below* T!i« Borden fo^ limited, Yardley llouje, Toronto. (>eoileracni Plea*e tend me , free eopjr of booklet eatitled '*U>by*a Welfare," Samm I iia Eagle Brand CONDENSED Mtl*" •<ii0mm^ .Miss Oleitze, who Is a noted Kii.=;ll.sh swimmer. w;:s going strong, half jvay acro: » the Kngll.sli c!kiii. ml, when this was taken, but a few minutes later she had to give up. 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