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householder; she has died of heart
disease: please sign n death certifi-
cate to that effect and viii give
You five thousand pounds.
We purposely neglected to say
that just before leaving home the
young doctor was apprised that all
his small fortune. which he had PUT
in Royal British Shoestrings Pre-
ferred or something of that nature.
has been blown into the kingdom
come of bad investments. He. is
hard up; five thousand pounds looms
large: and there is no evidence that
the beautiful girl did not die OF heart
disease. Besides. between the drink
and the cigar and some subtle influ-
ence that he cannot determine ex-
actly. his brain is in a whirl, his
moral fiber weakened. He signs the
certificate. Then, as the novelists
have said for a couple of centuries.
all is blank. Hs wakes up several
weeks later In a sanitarium in
France. The nurses and physicians
can only tell him that he was picked
up, evidently insane, in a nearby
town. Yes, yes. calm your impati-
ence; the five thousand pounds are
still in his pocket-this is work Of
fiction.
The doctor. tortured by a consci-
ence which tells him that he has
been the hired accessory to a great
crime, starts back over the trail to
solve the Stretton Street mystery,
to hunt down the fellow who hired
him and to avenge the supposed
murder of the beautiful girl.
But this Is as far along the jour
ney as the present guide goes. All
persons wishing to accompany the
remorseful doctor TO the end of the
trail will kindly shift to the expert
enced supervision of Mr.. lie Queux
The slight expense of the trip covers
sinister Italian scientists, rare pois-
ons hitherto unknown to the test
tubes and many startling denoue-
ments. All aboard
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the ship Of their own accord. No
wonder the Professor wanted to in
vcstigatc. He had to have the hero
along, because, like most wandering
professors in fiction he had daugh-
ter. Later on a duplicate hero and
heroine turn up and there is a sort
of change partners game and nice
mix up of cross purposes, misunder-
standings and no end of trouble be-
fore it is all Strengthened out.
Pretty early in the game Forester.
the hero, and Elise, the Professors
daughter tumble into the sea to-
gether, when a mysterious stranger
turns up to shoot their skipper. For
ester wasn't much of a swimmer,
and Elsie couldn't swim at all, but
they did very well none the less. and
he keeps her afloat until help comes
in the unexpected form Of the second
lady, who is something of a mer-
maid: She dives from her own ship
and gathers them in. OF course ulti-
mateiy he had to marry her, and
Elise drops into the discard. And
there's something refreshing about
that, too. Although they get pretty
wet, the whole thing is plausible
enough, much more believable than
many tales of adventure. The actors
themselves have much reality -
enough to make one like them, and
to lead one to hope that Mr.. Treyno-
will be moved to do it again. There
is a fresh. unspoiled quality about
his work that it is a pleasure to
welcome.
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ROGUES OF THE NORTH. BY AL
bert NJ. Treynor. Chelsea House.

m HERE is an attractive geo.
graphical novelty in the loca-
ton of this tale. which is
staged in the neighborhood of the
Behring Straits, more or less in the
beyond" partly afloat. in and out
of the very cold water and partly
upon mysterious island. Most of
the characters. including the hero
and deputy. or near-heroine, are
semi-aquauc and fortunately well at
home in the ocean. There is also
something attractive in the use of
"lost" colony of seals in place of the
ordinary form of treasure for which
the adventurers go hunting. OF
course ii is not virgin territory for
the romancer, and seals have func-
toned as appurtenances to fiction
before now, but il is a region by no
means overcrowded. Indeed it has
only been occasionally invaded by
the vagrant hero of romance. drag
ging along the needed ladies and
villains to make up the party. And
Mr.. Treynor treats it very accept
ably. The novel as a mystery story
is above the average
Besides that, Mr.. Treynor has a
fine feeling for the sea, for ships
and the mystery of the great fog
swept spaces of the edge of the
arctic. His description is good and
his seal island holds well made
puzzle in its "mystery"-a puzzle to
which we shall not give the answer.
The machinery of it involves the
finding by an exploring professor.
old Webster, of the log Of long lost
ship giving details as to this colony
of seals. and also recounting the
mysterious disappearance OF boats
that went exploring there, starting
! with a crew and returning empty to
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New Fiction
Continued from preceding page

true romance, and he is, indeed, re-
telling the old story in ultra modern
terminology. He has worked over
his material to extraordinarily good
results. His Odysseus, Shoe-Bar"
or Buck" Stratton, is returned
soldier who has suffered much and
seen much - polutropon, os nsQlG
polld, &c.-not only in the war but
afterward. In place of the naughty
adventures of his greater prototype
he has suffered years eclipse from
amnesia: modern science is ready to
help the novelist with such finely
suggestive terms as that. When lie
recovers his identity he finds that
his ranch In the COW country Is
unaccountably in the possession of
a beautiful and apparently innocent
young lady who has inherited it from
her father, a lawyer, who was rather
bad lot. But Stratton also finds that
there is mystery at large on the
ranch as well as the interloping
lady. 1t won't do TO give 1t away,
but it was good enough mystery to
encourage him In his determination
TO find out all about it. So he hires
himself out as a cowboy on his own
ranch to indulge In watchful waiting
and find out what's going on.
From that point on the tale runs
quite true to form. Merton of the
Movies could reconstruct the whole
plot without prompting from this
introduction. The villain, the fore
man, is a very heavy villain with
numerous accessories, including a
motor car. OF course. Stratton and
Mary lave to fall in love, but, by
the way. 1t is an unusually pleasant
and wholesome love story, much
more real than most such. and ex-
cellently worked in as a true part
of the plot. And of course. it all
ends as it should. But Mr.. Ames lifts
it out of the commonplace with en-
tire success.
Contrary to the belief of the aver
age magazine editor. it seems prob
able that the theme of the returned
soldier is far from being unpopular
or at all overworked. 1t is capable
of manifold variety, tragic, comic,
melodramatic. romantic, even socio-
logically inquisitive, as. for example.
in two other noteworthy books Of
recent issue. Miss Jordan's "Blue
Circle and Mr.. Camps Hidden
Road" 1t is a perfectly good theme
If the writer knows enough to handle
1t as well as any of these three do.
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I WALKED IN ARDEN. By Jack
Crawford. Alfred A. Knopf.

"HE first few chapters of this
book promise well. We think
we are to have a picture of
Main Street in small Middle West
manufacturing town seen through
the eyes of a New York American
who has spent most of his life in
England and is at the mature age of
% when the young male animal is
inclined TO think he knows it all. Tho
combination of circumstances is an
excellent one for modern fiction.
But, alas. the contrasts are all on
the surface, with few exceptions.
and what we do get is few years
from the life of a very ordinary sort
of man and the story of his short
but happy marriage. However. this
of itself would prove a task worthy
of a writer's best effort. For after
all. the ordinary mortals like Ted
Jevons are the great majority.
It has not been altogether badly
done. But the book bears all the
earmarks of the novice at writing.
There is promise in it. For in spite
of his desire to tell all he knows, to
show how many different parts of
the earth he has been to and how
many emotions he has suffered, the
main fault of the beginner, there IS
an engaging frankness about the
revelation of adolescent youth. Only
a very young man, or a man who
had not read much modern fiction
and has never written before, could
have been as naive in what he tells
and how he tells it as Mr.. Craw-
ford is in this book. He learns that
photography of petty detail may be
truth but is not always art. If he
learns what daily incidents are worth
recording and what are merely bor-
ing, his later books may be worth
watching.
The first third of this book Is by
far the most interesting. There are
certain petty incidents and certain
fundamental aspects of life in this
Main Street which would not bother
q girl from st. Paul but which will
bring a smile and reminiscent
shudder to any Eastern American,
particularly any with a background
OF European experience.
The story? Oh, yes-but there Is
so little TO that. Ted Jevons is sent
back to America by his father in
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Jordan. Century Company.
RISS Jordan is fond of the
M masquerade as frame work
for her mystery stories In
THE Girl in the Mirror" it was
light handed, almost farce comedy
business. This time 1t is a tragic
mask that she gives her hero, and
the tragedy OF it all is knowingly
real. 1t may possibly jar some read
ers who seek no more than mild en-
tertainment in such stories to find
themselves face to face with at least
the memory of only too solid AMI
palpable horrors, but ii is soundly
conceived and makes a much better
story of the whole than any Of her
previous offerings. 1t is also whole
some thing to be reminded, even a
little roughly, that there has been
war, and that the tragedies OF that
war were not flgments of the imag-
ination. Some of the incidents of the
submarine campaigning were so
hideous that we are in danger OF
thinking them just bad dreams. II
is well to be reminded, even IL 1t
takes fiction to jog our elbow into
attention, that these things really
happened. They have q place in ffc-
tion-"lest we forget"
But that background is not at al.
over worked In this tale. 1t is no
more than part of the explosion that
sets the plot aboiling. The hero,
Renshaw Qbut of course, as it's n
masquerade that is but part of his
Continued on iolloicin0 page.
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THE ODDS, AND OTHER STORIES.
BY Ethel NJ. Dell. G. y. Putnam's
Sons.
N H ISS ETHEL NJ. DELL is in
lV a fair way to add a new
term to the English Ian
guage. just as some years ago Marie
Corelli unsuspectingly created the
now familiar adjective Coreliian.
and as, more recently. most readers
in America became familiar with
the impressive compound = harold
bellwriting. The phrase 'fDellish"
has already gained place in gossip
concerning current reading matter.
1t needs no explanation, any more
than Miss Dell needs any introduc-
ton to the several hundred thousand
public who devour her stories in this
country. She is fully entitled TO
the publishers characterization of
the novelist who never had a fail
ure!" This is number fifteen in the
series of American issues of her
tales.
This volume is made up OF seven
stories. each complete in itself. but
the first two combined amounting TO
full fledged novelette, Of some
length. The first is an Australian
yarn. dealing with the love adven-
ture of a new chum" and containing
outlaws, ranchers. man hunters.
nice little green snake and all the
other necessary ingredients.
1t may be that the secret of her
phenomenal success is that she can
always be counted on to make her
ladies and gentlemen and villains and
accessory people do just exactly
what the experienced novel reader
wants them to do. Not that there
is anything clumsy about it; indeed,
it's always very nicely engineered.
with diversity enough to enable one
to tell one story from the others.
but you may always be sure that IL
will end something as the last story
in this collection does:
"She leaned nearer. Her hands
slipped upwards, asping his
neck.
aHe did not speak in answer II
seemed as if he could not. That
which lay between them was indeed
beyond words. Only in the silence
he took her again into his arms and
kissed her on the lips"
1t isn't necessary to add any COM
ment, unless we may remark: Selah,
This volume is fully up to the speci-
fications. and in spite of the alleged
prejudice against collections of short
stories it is likely to keep the retail
book dealers busy.
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TARRANT OF TIN SPOUT BY
Henry Oyen., George H. Doran
Company.
r 7 is proverbial that oil and water
do not mix well. but Mr.. Oyen
demonstrates that oil and love
story make a pretty good emulsion.
There is nothing watery about the
romance of this tale: rather it is
"red blooded" flction-nct too red, but
fairly brilliant in it's coloring matter.
It is, moreover, relieved by a certain
broad, vigorous humor, little bois-
ferrous. but sound and pleasant
enough. Looked at from another
point Of view it is an excellent pic
ture of the life of Texas oil boom
town. One expects exuberance and
Is not disappointed, but there is
nothing absurd or too ''het up
about it.
Spence Tarrant makes his first ap-
pearance at the railway station wear
ing q cattle mans sombrero, so we
know at once that he is not merely
an oil man. He proves it by doing
the necessary Introductory stunt of
riding a bucking pinto pony, while
the freshly arrived, beautiful young
woman from the effete city looks on
in mixed awe and admiration. Spence
is a quick worker and the trouble
begins at once. Marjorie plays up
very nicely as leading lady. the vii
lain's entry is announced and the
game is on.
The astute reader may have
guessed that a wicked multi-million-
aire syndicate is going to make
trouble for Tarrant and tangle things
up generally. 1t all comes Off. ac-
cording to schedule, including some
good fighting. much intrigue and q
generally exciting time for all hands.
1t is not surprising to find that Mar
jorie comes round to Spence's side
of the game and is among those pres
ent at the triumphant finish. with
the preliminary caption "And then
they clinched," but with the oil boom
itself as the real curtain" It is a
well mixed combination, considerably
more alive than most such attempts
to entwine business and old fashioned
romance.
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London To take charge Of the Deep
Harbor chemical works. He mar
ries a girl from Deep Harbor's best
set, who has nothing provincial
about her. They go back to England.
live there happily, and have little
daughter. Then the young wife
sickens. is taken to California, but
too late. Death sewers the happy
bond.
The plan and scope of this book
has so much to recommend it that it
seems hardly fair to harp on the lack
of craftsmanship, the result Of which
brings boredom at times. But craft
can be learned. If Mr.. Crawford will
study the chief factors of style. en-
phasis and selection. the good things
one can say about this his first book
may be repeated about the later
ones without the leavening OF un-
favorable criticism.
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THE SIhEIION SlhEEJ Al -AiSs-
BY William lie Queux. The Mac
aulay Company.
A YOUNG London doctor. short
n ly returned from the war
starts out one night from
his lodgings to cali on a relative.
On his way. passing through Street
ton Street, he is hailed by a servant
who is apparently much perturbed.
VIII the young man come at once.
as his master has great need of him.
The doctor goes. The master is not
so much excited as the servant. lie
gives the doctor drink and cigar.
Presently the master of the luxuri-
Gus house leaves the room. There
is commotion and q cry. The doctor
is led TO q nearby room. There, ap-
parently dead, is beautiful young
woman. Ny niece, explains the
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THE BLUE CIRCLE. BY Elizabeu
Jordan. Century Company.
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THE STRETToN STREET AFT AlR.
BY William lie Queux. The Mac
aulay Company.
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$4,000 GARMENT
WORKERS STRIKE
Unions Seek to Force Regis
tration of Outside
Contractors,

Fifty thousand workers in the mems
clothing industry left their Jobs
throughout the metropolitan area to-
day to force manufacturers to let
their work out to registered union
contractors. 1t was announced by
Hyman Blumberg, Chairman of the
New York Join Board of the ANAL
gamated Clothing Workers of America.
Union officials more than a week
ago began a drive to compel a group
of unwilling manufacturers to register
with the union the names and ad
dresses of all contractors.
A number of manufacturers have
sided with the union which, through
the strike. seeks to unionize all fac
tors entering into the manufacture OF
a completed garment.
Irving Crane, in charge Of the
liquidation OF the former Clothine
Manufacturers Association Of New
York, which dissolved on June 1 with
the expiration of the labor agreement
said: There is nothing to the stop.
page of work."
1T is merely the usual method EN-.
ployed by the union to compel some
manufacturers to live up to unior
rules" he said. There are only 6
few thousand out and while other!
may be called out from day to day, al
will return after few hours, as soor
as the contracting work can b,
checked up. There IS no coiiectiv,
agreement with the union"
Clothing workers in Newark alsC
left their work to-day. Officials O
the union said 5000 were out.
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TREATY MAJORITY
HAS REACHED 80 IN
IRISH ELECTIONS
Pro-Treatyites Capture 81
Seats, Ants 33, Labor IA,
Farmers S, Independents 10
BIG CHIEFS ARE BEATEN
All but One Woman in Old
Dali Defeated-Free StaterS
Lose Only 4 or 2 Places.

DUBLIN, June 21 (Associated
Press) The approximate represen-
tatlon Of the various parties in the
Parliament chosen at last Fridays
election, as shown by returns up to
this afternoon, is as follows:
Coalition Treaty, "a.
Coalition Republican, 33.
Labor. II.
Farmers, s.
Independents, 10.
OF the forty-two Republican candi
dates where there were contests
In Fridays Parliamentary elections,
fifteen have already been declared de-
feated. Final returns will. judging by
figures now available. show further
defeats OF treaty opponents.
One distinguished survivor prob
ably will be Cathal Brugha (Charles
Burgess), chief of Eamon De Valera s
lieutenants, who, although not yet
elected in Waterford. can only be de-
feated by an unprecedented overturn
in the count.
1t developed to-day that Com.
mandant Dan Breen, joint panel can.
didate, previously announced as elect.
ed for Waterford -Tipperary. East
had been defeated as a result Of the
final count.
Results announced this morning
show the removal OF many Of the best
known personalities in the Dali Eli
reann. OF the six women members
all anti treaty. only Mary MacSwiney
survived In the contests and Mrs
Kate O'Callaghan was returned un'
opposed.
Mrs. Pearse, whose two sons were
executed for their part in the Easter
week rebellion, was defeated in Coun.
| ty Dublin. Sean Buckingham, a fire.
quent speaker in the treaty debates II
the Dali was defeated in Wexford
and Seamus Robinson, one of th'
leaders CT the army dissent. 2nts, los
out In Waterford.
Most conspicuous among the defeat
was that Of Erskine Childers in Xii
dare. He received only 572 votes
fewer than any other candidate in tn
whole elections. His pro.treaty col
league was given more than 5000 frs
preferences. The possible effect Of tn
disappearance of so many leading Re
publicans from the Dali is beinl
widely discussed.
1t was announced this morning tina
in Galway the pro.treaty candidate
on the Sim Fein panel, p. ]. Hogan
o. O'Maille. Prof. Whelehan an
George Nichols. were elected. Hoga
| Continued on Fifteenth Page)
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DAUGHTER BETRAYS
PARIS POETESS AS
HUSBANDS SLAYER
Nine. MarieO BeSSarabo Gets
20 Years When Girl Tells
of Trunk Murder.
BREAKS LONG 'SlLENCE.
Pauline Describes Murder as
Case Goes to the Jury
Mother Breaks Down.
BREAKS LONG 'SlLENCE.

PARIS, June 21 ASSOCIATED Press).
Madame Marie Bessarabo, poetess
and playwright, was found guilty to-
day Of the premeditated murder Of
her husband, Georges, whose body
was found concealed in a trunk at
Nancy, two years ago. The court
found there were extenuating circum-
stances and sentenced Nine. Bessar-
abo to twenty years at hard labor.
Her daughter by her first husband
who also was on trial, was found not
guilty.
Just before the case was given to the
jury to-day the daughter broke her
long silence, accusing her mother OF
committing the deed two years ago in
their Paris apartment. She said the
body was packed in a trunk and
checked to Nancy.
NJ. Moro Giafferi, attorney for the
defense, who had urged the daughter
to tell the truth. then turned to the
mother, saying:
Confess or I leave the court
room"
The daughter. Pauline. told the
court she wanted to call the police,
but the mother persuaded her to drag
out Bessa arabo's own trunk, into which
the two women-the mother with her
| right arm useless from disease
jammed the body. They then carried
1t downstairs, took 1t from one station
to another and finally shipped it tc
Nancy.
Both mother and daughter aftel
their arrest in 1920 made a series Of
confessions. but repudiated them
Early in the trial Pauline said there
was a secret. but her mother woulc
not let her tell it, To-day's las
hours story confirmed the first stor,
the women told.
Nine. Bessarabo, who as a novels
is known as Hera Mirtel, maintaine'
the coolest self-possession Throughout
the trial, but when she was accused
in open court by her daughter sh'
rose and, livid with anger, began Z
confused statement attempting Il
show that the body in the ,runk WA
not that OF her husband. Finally
her story became so wandering tina
NJ. Moro -Giafferi had the court ad
journed to continue efforts to secur
confession.
The principal motive Of the murder
It developed at the trial, was th'
effort of Nine. Bessarabo to obtaii
a commission of 100000 francs du
to the husband for oil concessions II
Mexico, where they lived prior T.
1914.
The first husband of Nine. Bessa
rabo, Paul Jacques, to whom sh
was married in Mexico, committe'
suicide in Paris under strange cir
cumstances In 1914.
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Launching a drive for reform Of d.
vorce and marriage laws. the conven-
ton leaders advocate:
/. Repeal Of all state marriage and
divorce statutes.
2. Passage Of a Federal law general
in its application.
This movement was started after
futile efforts to induce various States
to pass uniform laws were made.
Mrs. Genevieve Parkhurst, writer
on women's subjects. is here repre-
senting supporters Of the movement.
which has the backing Of some of tho
Nations most representative leaders.
She conferred with Mrs. Thomas
Winter, Minneapolis, President Of the
federation. before the convention for
mally opened.
The proposed law. which will be
presented to Congress for action, con.
tains the following provisions:
No girl under eighteen or boy under
twenty -one can marry without the
consent Of their parents or guardian.
Bans announcing the intended mar
riage must be published two weeks
before the ceremony.
Physicians certificates as to the
mental and physical fitness OF both
parties to the marriage must be
shown when the license is issued.
Divorces are to be allowed fol
physical or mental cruelty, desertlon
for period of one year or more,
proved infidellty and habitual drunk
enness.
Only lnterlocutory DEGREES, made
final after the lapse of one year. are
to be granted.
Marriage before the lapse OF a year
would be illegal.
Divorce cases would be heard be-
hind closed doors and the testimony
never made public.
The mother would always be given
the custody OF the children unless
proved unfit to take care of them.
| mo two States have the same
marriage and divorce laws" said
| Mrs. Parkhurst. Some States do not
even forbid the marriage OF de-
fcients. People who are married in
one State are not legally united In
another. The proportion Of divorces
Is greater in America than any nation
| in the world"
Various departments OF the tcder-
alton. such as Americanization. CON-
munity service, child welfare and
education, met this morning.
The convention will be formally
opened tonight with an address by
Mrs. Thomas Winter. Minneapolis.
Fifteen hundred delegates, repre-
senting $4,000 clubs in the country
are in attendance.