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Agatha CHRbTiE SYNor.sis. • 'i.lHiilll Ti»\fl>uli liuil II liliil hiH lai»!'' l,..uw III llif liny KukUkIi Mllai;.- c>l S.ltiifoul to MrH. Wlllill mill mUin ;i riiiulltr oiiu In tUv m-iiiiHt town, lâ- .^ t.iii.i|.l<iii. six iiilli-H di»l:iiil. Willi.' hiH lii.iul M«Jor llunialiy «ml llire<- mlKli- )...,> W.I.; plajliiK al '»'''• lIPPiiiK «""' Mil' Wllli-lt ami li<r iluuKli<«i \ l"lfl. " â-  I pIlU" meM,«|{.- Wim K'lclve.l ihut "rii- V. l\aii hii.i liirii luunlireil. lluiimli> ftail<-<l fur Kxhiiin|il«'ii ami fi'Uiul lii» fili'iid il'-ail. IiIh xUull frailuitd l<> a blow I'l.hic »uMiiiii>ii turiH-U towiinl TiiMlyaim lilKl*-!-. Ml" J<riiilf«-i t.ai<l- II. 1. aiiU llu' Ihrt-.- ililUlr.li »f Mr«. IV.ir til. II aiii.lli.r i-iMti-r, iidw lU-ad, an tint- f.,ui "liarid .-.luully In Trt-vflyaiix <Klal.- <,r Uli uilO ih.uihIm. Jain.M r.-iirKoii I1.1.1 ..iiii.-'li. Kxhaiiiiili.n rioiii 1.1. ml. Ill I i' da» i.f the lliurdrr. <allid .11 IllK ulul.-. kial tak.ii Ih.- nrsi train l.a<k tim 11. xt iniMiilnK. Mr waH arrv"«'"- J"-nilly li'- fufl^, Jlin r.-art...ns llali.-x-, i.romi.l V iiwulr thf ai.iuiilnlami' nt KiidiTliy, l>ai > Wlr.- r.-i-nrtrd. and lislied hini to liill' I, .-I ileal ivai8i.li Whrii lii«i>.« tor Nar- rH...lt WHiit 1.) .lu.silon MrH. Wlll.-tt an. III. iillori»l IVarHonV liainf. \ lol.l fain" r.i imililfiii. On Ihr </iif hand we assume- that yuuMK Jim had u inos.siiitt noed of mciK'y, that he caint down to sit- his uiic-lc, that he aski-.l for inoiiey, that his uiiclir lefun-d, that in a iiKi- nu-nl of pa.-sion he picked up a sand- haK that was lyinjr at the door, an<l thai he hit his uncle over the head. J The crime was unpremeditated â€" was . ."^"V'!' in fact a f</<>lish iiMitional affair nio.sl Kain fnim Capt. 1 n-velyan s death.' i ,|j.pi,„.ai,iy cinducted. Now, uli that "Well, on the face of it, ""thmtr. I ^^^^y j,^. ^.^ On the .thcr hand he ii-.av Hut if my theory is correct there must | ,^^,,. ^^^.j^^, ^^,â- ^^^ y^-^ ^„^.,^. j,, „^^,^,, bi- a connection somewhtrc. Weve P't > „,, j^„„,^. „„,^,,. j^.^son mav have step- to find what IS the connection ^^ j^ j^,,„^„y .„t..,.„.a,-ds and corn- Then Mi-^. Curtis s voice called ''X- , ,„iit^.^, jh.. crime. That is what you citedly from beU-w, "Do you hear the | ^^^jj^^^^^. ,,„,, ^^ j,^^ j^ ^ m^jp ,,i,r^,,.. ently, that is what I hope. I do not r CHAPTER XIV. Emily and Charles Knderby retrac- ed their kUP* to Mrs. Curtis's. '•Come into my r<i<>ni, I want to Udk to you," said Kmily. She sat on the me chair and Charles sat on the lud. '•Now, listen," she said. "1 think I've pot a kind of stnrtinf? point. I may In- wrons and I may lie rijrht. At any rate it's an idea. I think a kit hinKe? on this table tumintr hiisi- ne>s. You've done this table lurninK or tippinK haven't you'/" "Oh, yes. now and then. Not serious, you know." No, of course not. It's the kind of thiiii; one does on a wet afU'inwm, and everyone accuses everyone els<> of iiho\ iiijr. ' Well, if you've played it you know what hapi>ens. The table starts p^iellinK out, say, a name; well, it's a name somebo<ly knows. Very often they recotrnize it at once and hope it. isn't poinc to be that, and all the time uncon.'Hiously they are what one call- Khovinp. 1 mean sort of reeopniziiijr Ihinps makes one ffivc an involuntary jerk when the next letter comes and Bt4,i!s the thinK. And the less you want to do that sometimes the more it happens." "Yes, that's true," ajjrecd Mr. F^n- perby. ^ "Sujiposintc that one of those p{'op;e who were playinu knew that Captain Trevelyan was beinp murdered â€" " "Oh, I say," protested Charle«. "that's a^v•fully far-fetched." '•We are ju.-^t takinp a hypothesis - that's all. We are assertinp th.it wjmebody knew Captain Trevelyan was dead and absolutely couldn't hide their knowledge. The table betraye<l Uiem." "But I don't for ,1 minute believe it's true," said Charles. "We'll assume that it is true," .vaiil Kmily firmly. "Oh, Tm quite a(,'rceable," said M>. Enderhy. "Anything you like." '•.So what we have to do," said Em- ily, "is to consider very carefully the people who were playinp. To bepin â- with there's Major Uiirnaby and Mr. Kycroft. It .xeems unlikely that either of them should have an accomplice who was the murderer. Then there is this Mr. Duke. We know nothiiiK about him K) we'll put an X against his name. And now we come to the Willetts. Charles, there is somethinK awfully mysterious about the Willetts." bell. Miss -do you hear it?" "What is it?" askwl K-nily. •'It's the U'll at I'rincetown, mi.--, near to twelve mile away. It rnean^ that a convict's escajied Georse, Ceorge â€" where is that man? D'you hear the hell? There's a convict loose." Her voice did:- away as she went through the kitchen. C^harles ."citt ilown apain. "If only this convict ha<l escaped on Friday, why, there would be our niurdore. nicely accounted for. All so simple." He shtiok his head sadly. Kxpectinff ^^^â- hKR â-  ' .* Send /or hoc klet mWiiSrrB^aT '*r-"' "IJab/M \ frel/are" ^ FKEE! 1-REE^^^ jj H^g^ S to new ^H^fll| Ifc tnothersâ€" • ^^^| Inp^ r expectant ^Hl 'fl niolhcrs â€" 84 ^B i^^k |>.if;c9 on â€" > ^H 1^ "'â- ''â-  Care bctore V ; "^ baby comes. • â-  jjjjg'-^^ LaVcllc. Uaby'j 1 Wbs!^-^^ w. bath, ileep, g ^ ^'ifllHB 1.;^ bowels, weight* • Lalcat ruidingn on feeding. Vrlu Til* ll.ir.lea Ca , LlmlLj. YuJI.T llnus^ T«roBI«. f 1 â-  ...I-,,. I1> AJ.I.... ^^^^^ fSSUE No. 36â€" '33 Kmily woke early next niorninjr. So, feelinjr re.'»tlets, she set out for a brisk walk alonp the lane in the opposite direction from which they had come last nipht. The lane came out on the open moor where it degenerated into a prass track and soon petered out altogether. Kmily ascended to the very top of Sit- lafiird Tor, a pile of pray rwk of a fanUistic shape. P'rom this heipht she looked down over an expanse of moor land, unbro'Ken as far as she could see, without any habitation or any road. Below her, on the opposite .side of the Tor, were pray masses of gran- ile boulders and rocks. Emily 'wished with all her heart that she had met the dead man even if only once. It was so hard to geV an idea of people you had never seen. You had to rely on other people's judpment, and Kmily had never yet acknowledped that any other person's judpment wa.s superior to her own. .She siphed impatiently and shifted her position. .She had been .so lost in her own thouphts that it was with a shock of suriirise she realized that a small elderly pentleman was slandinp a few- feet away from her, brejithinp rather fast. "Excuse me," he said. "Miss Tre- fusis, I believe?" "Yes," said Emily. "My name is Kycroft. You must forpive me speakinp to you, but in this little community of ours the smallest detail is known, and your iu-rival here yesterday has naturally pone the round. I can assure you that everyone feels a deep sympathy with your position, Miss Trefusis. We are all anxious to assist you in any way we can." "Thai's very kind of you," said Em- ily. •'Not at all," .said Mr. Hycroft. "But seriously, my'dear younp lady, do count on me if there is any way in which I can possibly assist you. Beau- tiful view from w\> here, is il not?" "Wondfi-ful," apreed Emily. "You know that a pri.'^)ncr escaped li.st nipht from Princetown?" "Yes. Has he been recaptured?" "Not yet, I believe. Ah, well, poor fellow, he will no doubt be recaptured soon enoupli. No one has e<;cnped suc- cessfully from Princetown for the last twenty years." "Which directivm is Princetown?" Mr. Kycroft slretche<l out his arm an<l p<iinled southwards over the moor. "Il lies over there about twelve miles as the crow flies over unbroken moorland. Sixteen miles by road." Kmily gave a faint .shiver. The iilca of the desiierate hunted man im- pressed her powerfully. Mr. Kycroft was watching her and pave a little nod. "Yes," he said. "1 feel the same my- self. It's curious how one's instincts I. bcl at the thought of a man Ix-inp hunted down, and yet, the.-e men at Princtown are all daiiperous and vio- lent criminals, the kind of men you and I probably would d<i our utmost to put there in the first place. You must forpive me, .Miss Trefusis, 1 am .i«'eply interested in the study of crime. Ornithology and criminology are my two subjects." He paused and then went on : "Thai's the rea.son why, if .vou will allow me to do so, I should like to as- sociate myself with you in this matter. Will you place your conlidence in me, Miss Trefusis, and allow me to place my exiH-rience at your tlisposal?" Kmily was silent for a minute. She was congratulating herself on the way events were playing into her hand. Here wa.s first-hand knowledge King offered her of life as it had been lived at Sittaford. This little, shriveled, dried-up gentleman had r«'ad and stu- died deeply, was well ver.M-d in human nature, had that devouring intere.-ted curi.isity in life displayed by the man of refleition as opposed to the man of action, "Please help ine," she sai.l simply. ••I am st> very worrietl and unhappy." "You must 1h\ my dear, you must Ih-. Now, as I uiiderstanil the posi- tion, Trevclyan's eldest nephew has be<'n arreste<l or detained the evi- dence again.st him being of a some- what simple and obvious nature. I, of course, have an open mind." "Of course." said Emily. "Why should you U-lieve in his in»Kence when you kno* nothing ab-ut him?" "Mi'st lensonable," said Mr. Ky- croft. "Now to approach our little want your fiance to have (omniitted the crime, for from my point of vltw it is so uninteresting that he should have done so, I am therefore backiiig the other horse. The crime was com- mitted by .someone else. We will as- sume that and po at once to a most important jioint. Was that .s<imeoiie else aware of the (luarrel that had just taken place? Did that quarrel, in fact, actually precipitate the mur- der? You st-e my jioint? Someone is meditatinp doing away with Captain Trevelyan am! seizes thi.s opportunity, realizing that suspicion is bound to f.".ll <m young Jim." HImily considered the .natter from this angle, "In that case," she said sUuvly â€" Mr, Ryeroft took the words < ul of her mouth. "In that case," he said briskly, "the murderer would have to be a person in close a-ssmiatiim with CapUiin Jre- velyan. He would have to be donii- ciletl in Kxhampton. In all probabil- ity he would h£.ve to be in the house, either during or after the quarrel. And since we are not in a court of law and can bandy about names freely, the name of the stervant, Evan;;, leaps to our minds as a person who could sat- isfy our conditions. A man wh<i (|uite possibly might have been in the house. Have overheard and seized the oppor- tunity. Our next point is to discover whether Evans benefits in any way from his miu<ter's <; ath." "I believe he pe.s a small legacy," said I^mily. "That may or may not constitute a sufficient molive. We shall have to discover whether or not Evans had 1 pre.ssinp need of money. We must also cons'ider Mrs. Evans â€" there is a Mrs. Evans of rtvent date I undci-stand. If you have studied criminology, -Miss Trefusis, you would realize the curiou.s effect caused by inbreeding, especially in country districts. There are ai least four young women in Br<;admoor, plea.sant in manner, bul with that curious kinU in their dispositions thai human life is of little or no account ti. them. No â€" we must not have -Mrs. Evans out of account." (To be continuetl.) Told in Brief Use of Sulphur Sulphur would seem to have bul lit- tle connection with horticulture, and yet there are many uses tor it in the Harden, declares J. E. Clark, liorticul- tiiral lecturer. I' is parlijuiarly valuable In preventing mildew and back spot on roses. It Is most ellici- cnt when combined with arsenate of lead, nine p.irts of sulphur to one of the poison, making what I3 common- ly called the Massey dust This pre- paration, or sulphur alone_ Is abso helpful in prot.'cting phlox and delph- iniums from attacks of mildew. If Bweet peas show signs of mildew, they, too, should ho dusted with sul- phur. Mixed with arsenate of load, it Is useful for dusting on cucum- bers and melons to keep away strip- ed beetles and flea beetles. It Is Important, however, that the dust should be the very finely ground kind obtained at tho seed store and not the coarse sulphur In drug stores. What Happened Angry Shareholder â€" â- â€¢And may I ask what happened to the sinking funil?" Chairman (sadly) â€" ••|t sank." On the world's longest airline run to Java, a distance ol <J,U0O miles, the fare is JU1S8 10s. London's biggest sources of employ- ment aru the distributive trades, en- gineering and metal trades, transport, and building. Up-to-date London, EiiK., shops for tho sale of women's clothing must stock at least thirty sizes in ready- made garments and 15U styles in shoes. Overhead tt-legraph wires are grad- ually disappearing in the United King- dom: 8, 700,000 milea of wire are now underground, out of the total mileage of 10,000,000. Fired by the popularity of British tailored and other goods, tradesmen in Prague are now displaying such no- tices as •'Enfe'llscli Taylor" and ••Bri- tish haters," Less than one per cent, of the school children of London are poorly clad; !)h per cent, are mentally normal, bul only iwo-lhirds have sound teeth and about one-haU have good eyesight. Musk rats were introduced into Eur- oiie in 1905 and in twenty years' time had spread over an area of some -lOO miles. It is now illegal to import these animals Into England except un- der license. Cows to the number of over 3,560 are kept In dairy sheds within the city of Liverpool, Although they live such artificial lives, 80 per cent, of the milk they supply is stated to be eqyal, if not superior, to Grade A standard. All unemployed youth in Cheshire makes a living by painting door-knock- ers with gold paint at Id, or I'd. a time. Among the 456 guests at a London Welsh dinner, there were 57 with the name of Jones, 42 called Evans, 31 Davies, 30 Williams, 2G Thomas, 18 Lewis. These six well-known Welsh names made up nearly half the party. London's largest clock Is on the New Shell Mex building on the Thames Kmbankment. It is 25 ft. in diameter, the minute hand is 11 ft. C in. long, and 2 ft. 2 ins. wide at the widest part. The clock is worked by electricity. Tho tents of the nomadic Lapps who take their reindeer herds to graze in Sweden will in future be fitted with telephones. The Lapps may then 'phone each other regarding grazing conditions and the state of the herds generally. The new emergency or "iron" ration to be issued to the troops is just a hard cake weighing only 6 ozs. It consists of cocoa, sugar, pea powder, beef pow- der, oil of lemon, and cocoa butter. It is supposed to sustain a man for 2-1 hours. On Good Friday morning a "inkers' Kxpress'' will leave Paddiiigton station bound for a destination unknown even to the guard and driver until a mo- ment before the train starts. This is the first of a series to be run by the G.W.R. A special feature will be the low fares, and the provision of a snack box tor those requiring It, for a small extra charge. Brides Can Take a Bcw Looks as if the days were over when newly weds had to po home to mother if they wanted to get an "eat- able'' meal when the only kitchen utensil a bride knew how to use was a can opener, and when a bridegroom s.ifl'ered con.'tanlly from indigestion through his loyal efforts to eat his wife's dishes, comments the Toronto Telegram. At the Edmonton exhibition a bride of less than u year canied off three frst prizes in '.'ooking. And there were more prize-winners among young n.atrons and girls than ever before. An older woman who for years has won a substantial number of prizes, admitted thai she had be<>n b;'.dly beat<n this year. Officials o' the fair fvU that cooking schools were partly responsible for the very fine baking that made up the show. ORANGE PEKOE BLEND "SALAM TEA Fr^sk frr.,'i» ♦n* Reading For Delight A man who does not learn to live while ,he Is petting a living Is a poor- er man after his wealth Is won than he was before.â€" J. G. Holland. Too fast we live, too much are tried. Too harass'd, to attain Wordsworth's sweet calm, or Goethe's wide And luminous view to gain And that brings ub within sight of our theme. For one of the consequences of this modern malady of ours is that the gra- cious things which lend to life and human intercourse the beauty of seren- ity and comliness are gone, or on the wane. "The wisdom of a learned man," wrote the author of Ecclesiasti- cus long centuries ago, "comelh by op- portunity of leisure," and not wisdom only, but grace, and gentle breeding, and, amenity, and poise come so, and only so. And leisure (which is not ' ' be conftsed with empty time, but which is time through.which free, life enhancing currents flow)â€" leisure In these days is something to be sought and cherished as a rare and priceless boon; leisure to think, and talk, and write, and read â€" lost arts else, all of them "John Wesley's conversation Is good," said Dr. Johnson to Boswell once, "but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to told his legs and have out his talk, as I do." The salut- ed John Wesley in the role of a modern "hustler" is a little humorous, and Samuel Johnson did a certain amount of work himself. But an age that loved, on occasion, to told its legs, and have its talk out, and its book out, anj Its delightful familiar letters out, ma: not have been one hundred per cent efficient (in our devastating moderi phrase), but It did have shelter t< grow ripe, and it did have leisure tc grow wise, and more than our owi driving, restless period. It did posses! its soul "He hasteth well," wrct« Chaucer, whom business could not make dull, "who wisely can abide," ant! we first learn to live when we . . . claim not every laughing Hour For handmaid to (our) striding powei To usher for a destined .space (Her own sweet errands all forgone) The too imperious traveler on. '•We are great fools." says Mon- taigne; "He spends ffis life in idle ness," we say, "I've done nothing to day!" What! Have you not livedl That Is not only the fundamental, buf the most illustrious o£ your occupa- tions. Our salvation, then, lies in the re- fusal to be forever hurried with th« crowd, and in our resolution to step out of it at intervals, and drink from deep- er wells. "II se faut reserver une ar riere-boutique. toute nostre, toute tranche" â€" "we ought to reserve foi ourselves an arrere-boutque, a back- shop, all our own, all free, in which we may set up our own true liberty and principal retreat and solitude." That is Montaigne's ripe, leisured wisdom, and in that arriere-boutique the wish: I hope, y'wis, to rede . . , som day," may find accomplishment. â€" From "01 Reading Books," by John Livingston Lowes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin). In a bridge game at Caledonia Miss I. O'Rourke made a gravd slam in spades. She held 13 of them, her partner 13 hearts and her oppoiic.its 13 diamonds and 13 clubs respectively. Anglo-Saxons Head List Decayed Teeth Good Teeth are Result of Proper Diet in Natural State Toronto.â€" "A survey had shown that 97 per cent of tho Anglo-Saxons have decayed teeth," stated Dr. Harry Thompscn field secretary for Canada of the Dental Hygiene Coun- cil, -at the meeting of the Toronto Health League. "Sixty-tour per cent, of the Central Europeans, the Jlaoric of New Zealand only I per cent, and the Esquimo only 3 per cent.â€" and decaying teeth in children of these two lattor races is unknown. Scien- tists have been forced to the con- clusion that good teeth are the pro- duct of foods eaten in their natural state, with all essential minerals," the speaker said. Preventive dentistry^ Dr. Thomp- son said, is a health measure and be- gan only S3 years ago when the first extraction dentist hung out his shingle in Baltimore. Prior to that time the apothecary and the black- smith attended to those teetli which ached their owners into drastic re- moval measures. E.xtracliou era was followed by the "conservation age" â€" when the policy was to save every- thing in the mouth. Bridges and crowns flourished as dentistry su- preme. Then came the X-ray which led to the discovery that 90 per cent of disease Is caused by infection and that 70 per cent, of the infection be- gins in the mouth, and goes via the blood to the weak parts of the body Dr. Thompson mentioned among the diseases m .st frequently attri- buted to infected teeh anaemia, rheumatism, tuberculosis and some lieart disiases. Prevention of decay was most linDortant the speaker .said, and stressed thfi wisdom of in- culcating health habits in the first seven years of a child's life. 8>e: What has Jim been doing slriTe he graduated from college? He: Been trying to find out what h^ learned. Why Carry a Light? There is a story of a man who was walking down a dark street and met anotlier man with a staff and a lan- tern. The striking thing, as the stranger noticed it, was that the man was feeling his way with his staff and apparently making no use ot the light, When asked f he were not blind, the man replied that he was, but he knew the street well, and had no difficulty in making his way with his staff, "But," asked the stranger, ••why do you carry a lantern?" To keep other people without lautenis from stumb- ling over me," was the blind man's answer. To be able only to tell others where not to go is a small gift, but It is something. Not everyone can be a brilliant beacon i>> the world, but the humblest person can keep himsell from being a stumbling block.â€" Mary E. Watson. ^ * AN EASY WAY OUT OF CLARA-WHAfSGOODTO TAKE UGLY YELLOW STAINS OFF TOILET BOWLS? 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