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language OF CaruS, Cne DeJCer game
you will have.
The Bidding
. South started the bidding with
one no trump. West and North
passed. East put in a lead-directing
bid of two diamonds, which South
promptly doubled.
At auction, after a bid of one no
trump, a right-hand double is con-
sidered business, while left-hand
double is informatory. This is
known as the right and left double.
The Play
South's opening lead was the
king of spades. What would you
play from the North hand? You
know that your partner would like
to have you in the lead to lead
trump through the declarer, so your
play would be the queen of spades
on partners king and now partner
safely can lead small spade.
When dummy plays small, North
can win with the eight spot.
North now leads the ace of dia-
monds, followed by the eight of
diamonds. When East played the
jack, South won with the king and
cashed his good ace Of spades.
He then led his king of clubs,
which East won with the ace and
returned a club, South winning with
the queen. South's next play was a
small heart. When the 10 was
played from dummy, North played
the jack and East won with the
king. and now you can sec that
North and South are bound to make
two hearts and diamond, and all
that East, the declarer, made was
four tricks, going down 400 and 30
honorS or a minus 430 on the board.
(Copvright 1892 NEA Service Incl
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CONT RACI.
BRIDGE
d5 fhe
EXp[RTS PLAY IT
BY w. NJ. M'KENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League


NTHILE We all must admit that
W there is a great thrill in the
bidding and making Of slam
or even in correctly bidding for
game-the real thrill of a bridge
player still lies in proper play of
cards
This point was the topic of gen
eral discussion at the recent Amer
lean Whist League tournament and
many of the experts were of the
opinion that the beginner at con-
tract is devoting a little too much
Of his time to learning the bidding
conventions and not enough to
mastering the play Of the hand.
The good card player never plays
a card carelessly-he tries to make
the play of his cards talk for him.
The better you know and apply the
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der Of her partner. Who WIS the
man?
It was no one Buck ever had seen
before. Wait-they we're turning.
The mans face was thrown into
relief against the wall. Red, yell
low, orange lights filtered over
them. Buck chuckled suddenly and
slapped the wall with a pudgy hand.
I'm son of q gum" he an
nounced and went back = AiS desk.
As he finished the sandwich, Buck
thought rapidly. still chuckling.
Why, that was Steve Saccarelh!"
Let's see, what had he been hear
ing about Steve? What did they
have on that baby. anyhow?
Almost Immediately Buck re-
membered.
tn. BE C0ntfnuedO
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PRIZES WRESTLING BIRD
Southerner's BuIIfnch Can Marble
How Dry 1 AM
ByTrffed Prcss

By United Press
GRAHAM, N. c., July H.-Par-
rots have talked and canaries have
warbled. but here Colonel and Mrs.
Don E. Scott have whistling bird.
A beautifully marked bullfnch,
the bird is a native Of the famed
Black Forest of Germany. 1t can
whistle How Dry 1 Am" and
Home Sweet Home" on request. It's
tones are so natural as to be de-
ceptive.
Colonel Scott received the bird
from a friend in Germany. where
whistling training is started very
early in a birds life.
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4 RIK
a DAY
BY BRUCE CATION

VXTHILE the cop and the limo
w cent bystander went to peek
in the front window of Henry
Cases house, after they discovered
a light in building that was sup
posed to have been empty for three
days, they saw Henry Case sitting
at his dining room table with a
wine glass in front of him.
And that would have been all
right, if it hadn't been that he had
a bullet in his brain.
All this is from Murder at Mid
night" by r. A. j. Walling (Mor-
row: $2), one of the better detec-
tive stories of the summer season.
Henry Case had been dead three
days; but his record was broken
when the police found a secret room
over junk shop in which another
dead man sat at a table. This chap,
poisoned by cyanide, had been dead
week
From this you can see that it was
all very mysterious. There are lot
of innocent people who look very
guilty, and there's an international
dope ring to complicate matters, and
it's a pretty fair puzzler.
Another one that isn't half bad
is Five Fatal Words" by Edwin
Balmer and Philip Wylie Oong &
Smith: So.
There are six members of a rich
family in this one, and a fortune of
$200,000,000 is to go to the one who
survives the other FIVE.
Naturally, this leads to a flock of
murders, each preceded by a strange
code message end each disguised to
look like an accident.
You'll find old Miss Hannah pref
ty sinister, at times, and there's a
Hindu who'll bear watching.
And if you can figure out how
Uncle What's is-Name got cleo
trocuted in his bath you deserve a
inlN rr-if1o C0Nf1oyaJ
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CHAPTER SEVEN

DUD MORAN slid through the
ID door Of Buck Harkins private
Office at the Halcyon Club. He
closed the door softly and leaned
against IT, his eyes travelling quickly
over the room.
Buck, wearing full evening dress
bent over a cigaret-scarred desk
his round face perspiring beneath
the hanging electric light. The green
shade bathed him IN a sickly hue
He looked up inquiringly, then APP
Piled himself to his task again in
silence.
We'll, Kid" he said at length
"How's tricks?"
Bucks expert eye surveyed Bud
Tor brief instant noting the boys
perturbation What's wrong, Kid?
Somebody take your stick OF
candy?"
Bud threw out his hands with a
gesture Of irritation. i seen my
sister out front. Buck"
"Sister?" Buck Harkins' voice
dropped to purr. We'll, lots OF
folks sisters are out front tonight
kid. We're doing a fine business
Fine. What's wrong with that. Kid?'
Again Bud made the gesture OF
futility.
The older man motioned him to a
chair and with sudden slump the
boy sat down. He drew a package
OF cigarets from his pocket and
lighted one.
Buck watched with amusement.
So young and so much to learn! But
excellent material for the gangs
purposes.
she didn't trail you, did she?"
Buck asked seriously, as if this we're
the one calamity that could befall
his gang. Your sister got here first.
didn't She? Well, what are you
kicking about? Maybe she didn't
even spot you"
She saw me all right! But l had
the door half open, see? l couldn't
turn back"
No" responded Buck significant
ly. you couldn't turn back. Not
now, kid! But cheer up-she can't
hu~+ you"
Bud lifted his feet to the sill OF
the window, set there apparently
for uniformity in architecture
rather than the amount of sun and
air that might enter, and began to
blow smoke rings.
There was a nOnchalance in his
manner which he did not feel.
The older man rose from his seat.
went to the opening through which
he could observe the crowded SUD-
per club and for a moment was lost
IN, the glamour of the throng out
side. Then he waddled back to his
desk, smiling, rubbing his hands
together.
Lots Of sisters out there, kid" he
purred again. Such pretty girls!
DUCK HARKINS was not the
ID mans real narle, Bud knew
OAAAt 40AA- NSO DUN 1ldQ bdktIl
rap for gangster higher up and
the title had descended to his Shout
ders.
The habit also had descended
A youth known as Slim Dugan was
at this instant in Sing Sing serving
a sentence for Buck.
Bud rose and went to the open
ing for a moment.
Look. Buck" he said as the mu-
sic suddenly stopped. There's my
sister, the girl in green. Red
headed. You can't mi-~ her. She's
gone to that table just beyond that
post. There"
The pride in Buds voice brought
the other to his side. Buck Har-
kins was interested in pretty girls
He applied his eye diligently and
drew in his breath with a low
whistle.
"Whewl CLASSY dame. Just the
kind of get-up we like to see in
this place. They dress up the act
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BY Ahern

AS the ape-man did so, he saw she was very
beautiful. "You are THE GIAN'r?" she asked.
Il am Talaskar man has told me Of YOU
He, too Is from Trfhanadslmakus and is about
your height" As
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As Tarzan moved among the quarry slaves
he saw they were of all ages from infancy to
middle-age, but that there were no old folks.
The women were doomed to remain below earth
all their dives unless some warrior chose one
for bis mate.
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Linda laughed outright. Aren't
you little mixed in your figures Of
speech?" she asked.
Possibly" he replied unabashed.
Nov if you were to cite me a pro-
verb from the Gaelic"
Tom had slipped quietly away,
unobserved, he hoped, III the dim
light, and Linda, facing the big CEN
ter table. had thus Unanswered
Shaughnessey with his back toward
the door.
She felt, beneath this lazy tone,
the firmest determination to return
at once to his sequestered little
apartment. Better that Tom should
be thwarted altogether than be
caught red-handedI
Tell me this. Mr.. Shaughnessey, y
she spoke quickly, with an appeal
ing upward look partly due to his
stature, though also deliberately
charged with guileful adminiration.
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NegEe75 MHRDER%l,s, t szEiA

I "Linda-could see you alone a
moment? Sorry. Excuse me, Mr..
StatIander."
The other waved him away with
shade Of affronted dignity. Quite
ali right. quite all right" he replied.
Pray don't consider me at all. I
shall sit here a while, enjoying
the"
What he would enjoy was lost on
the Averills, disappearing re- oidly in
the opposite direction, Lin i half
running to keep up with her Isband
"Tom-what on earth? S some
one hurt?" she grasped.
ooh! Sorry, Binksl Didn't real
ize I was running you so-or that I
scared you, either. No, no great
calamity, but things are upset again.
Tim called-they've finally heard
from DR.. Boyle"
"On his wayl Oh, and I
wanted"
mo. Out of it entirely"
What do you mean?"
Wrecked on the way back. Wild
driving, I suppose. Anyhow, they
had complete and terrible smash
up. Happened a couple of hours ago
by all accounts, but the people only
have just heard"
Il thought he wouldn't take all
that time!"
1T happened down that long
stretch of road through the Pine
Barrens - no house anywhere
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around and the road practically de-
serted at the time.
Finally some one did pass and
then it took a while to get help and
move them all. Tim says Boyle has
a fractured leg and was unconscious
for some time. 1 think one of the
men was hurt seriously-all pretty
badly smashed up.
They got them Strengthened out
as to names and so forth after
awhile and phoned Mrs. Boyle. She
relayed it to Tim and Tim called
us"
What does it mean, Tom?"
He looked at his watch. Nine
o'clock-it means the rest of the eve
ming with no Boyle to butt in and
the gang here all night"
Just playing into our hands"
yes, if we can't find out now"
do they all know?"
ooh. yes. Couldn't help it if I'd
wanted to, which I didn't especially.
/ talked some time to Tim. Marvin
was dummy and he drifted out to
hear about it and the rest followed.
"Shaughnessy appeared from
somewhere-and Linda, that's really
what wanted to tell you"
"Yes-what?"
He's watching the bridge and
may cut in, but hasn't SO far. I've
got to take a chance and beat it
over there. But, Binks, something
is upl AS I went to the phone /
saw the service door into the hall
was open and automatically stopped
to close it.
Just then Rosie rushed down
that little hallway and up the back
stairs, crying as though her heart
would break"
Good heavens! What do you
suppose"
Don't know and can't stop to
find out. You've got two jobs on
your hands-to keep him from fol-
lowing me and to get at Rosie and
pump her.
Come on, inside. I'll go right
through the house and out the other
door. I don't think he will notice
-ShaughneSsy, / mean-and you
can stop and make conversation
with them all"
n Il
THEY stood moment at the
a threshold of the easement door.
The unlighted room looked dark by
contrast with the outdoors where
daylight still fingered.
III hold him until you get back
and then go upstairs. You won't
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

be long? 1t was both question
and a statement, and as they
stepped across the sill, Tom started
TO answer then halted as he almost
collided with a figure standing just
inside the door.
I'll hurry like the dickens-wfy,
Mr.. Shaughnessey l-eoming out on
the terrace? That's right. There's
actually a bit of breeze there"
Towering, broad-shouldered and
bulky, in the gloom Of the in
door twilight, the Irishman looked
at his host in silence.
Linda sensed some tingling under
current of suspense in his momen-
tary paused and his curt reply:
Mono, thanks" he replied
shortly. Then, more easily, Its
my misfortune that I must use me
brains to come by an honest liv-
ing, Mrs. Averill. Having played
the butterfly since you took me in,
it's tn Industrious grasshopper I
must be tonight"
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Contract Bridge

a hand that you can not play at no
trump, and one in which you simply
wish, in case you show two suits,
to support the suit in which he has
the most strength.
An original forcing bid in the
one over one system is used to in
dictate hand that will go game re-
CARELESS of the fact that your part
ner'S hand may be trickless.
1t is not necessary to open with
forcing bid unless you have this
powerful hand.
VOU can open with any of the
Il one bids, which show a very
good hand, and partner will keep
the bidding open if ne has any
Semblance of trick. Use your orig
inal forcing bids to indicate to
partner an absolute game, and
probable slam if he has anything
An original forcing bid must not
contain more than two losing cards
if made in a minor suit, and three
losing cards when made in a major
suit. For example, if you held the
following hand:
Spades-A-K
Hearts-A-K-Q-x-x
DiamOndS-1O
CIubs-K-Q-J-x-x
You can expect to lose the ace of
clubs, the ace of diamonds, and
either heart or club. You have
right to expect one of those two
suits to break.
If you have a major suit in the
hand, this hand meets the require
ments of forcing two bid.
Not only are you sure of game,
but there is a probable slam if your
partner holds either the ace of
clubs or the ace of diamonds.
Your first bid should be two
hearts. If partner responds with
two no trump, you then would show
three clubs, and if partners hand
does not have normal support in
either of those suits, his trump,
showing that he has no particular
preference for either of your bids.
Your next bid. should be four
hearts to show decided preference
for hearts, since it takes only four
tricks to go game at hearts and five
at clubs.
Copyright 1882. NEA Service, 1nc)
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'TH!EY0TELL Ne s.
Ea~Sz~o Iff=7S=5TIWIS0HN

Lafayette publisher may be the man
of the moment.
Although personally unambitious
for political honors he perhaps
thinks that Governor Harry c..
Leslie would make a nice looking
United States senator in 1884.
With Marshall in charge of the
organization, it might be possible to
defeat Arthur r. Robinson for re-
nomination and pick Leslie instead
Those are the Marshall motives.
they tell me.
But whatever they may be, still
insist it took courage to do what
Marshall did Sunday.
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The development Of club life in
America-and it seemed to me per-
hapS that there lay one of the real
ly fundamental differences between
the English and the American social
scheme of things-the American
dependence on all sorts of clubs and
the English people just taking each
other for granted A locality or a
social stratum in a locality forming
its own club, so to speak"
She had fioundered ahead des-
perately. but it struck her as on
the whole not bad for an extern
pore performance.
He looked at her with more the
effect of really seeing her and, TAX
ing a cigaret from his case (that
simple act made her relax httle) ),
answered quite directly and with
less of the professional Irishman in
his voice and manner.
That's an idea" he said "a
little rough now-and of course
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LINDA AyERILL believes her elderly
cousin, AMOS. PEABODY. wns murdered
when he fell from the second story hal
conv Of the Ayerills Long Island hnme
because Of a few words he gasped be-
fore his death.
Linda rushcs upstairs Some one tr,es
70 STRANGE her and she faints
There are four guests in the house
eil, Suspects 81 the crime. They are.
TOM AVERILL; CAPTAIN DE VOS.
handsome Belgian. MARVIN PRATT
FORMER Lutor OF Linda's. and LIAM
bhAUGHNESSEY. Irish writer.
since there is no evidence on which
70 nase an arrest. Linda and Tom. her
husband. agree they must keen the four
men in the house until they have dis
covered who IS guilty They pretend 70
believe the death was an accident
Ineg are aided IN their plan when DIR
LO1LE medical examiner sends word
tnat every one must remain until nc has
questioned them. Bowie is on a fishing
Tip and can not return for several hours
Linda finds the towel with which the
l4empt was made to strangle her--identi-
Ico by smear Of sunburn ointment.
She overhears ROSIE the maid. talk
t~R to Shaughnessey about a shirt Rosie
has promised 70 launder
FLEUR STONER and DOLLY ALGER
come to Dlay bridge for the evening
Linda talks to. statlander about the
happenings OF the morning
She leads him into admitting he was
On the balcony but saws he saw no one
sslse and merely stepped out for breath
now co ON WITH THE STORY
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BY w. E. M'KENNEY
American Bridge Leagne

ocOicbdH4 american orlOge League
THE most valuable instrument of
Il the contract bridge bidder is
the forcing bid.
AS have explained to you in
previous articles, the one over one
bidding system has a great many
ways of applying forcing bids.
When the forcing principle first
was adopted by contract bridge play
ers, it received a great deal of abuse.
Any player who picked up a fair
hand Immediately felt that he had
to force to convey his message to
partner.
The bid that received the great
est amount of abuse was, without
doubt, the original forcing two bid,
or the game demand bid.
1 want to state that I do not be-
lieve that more than one original
forcing two bid comes up in $50
hands.
While the average of big hands
is possibly one in 100, unfortunately
some players before you sometimes
will put in a psychic, or some fool
ish bid, so that you do not always
get a chance to use the forcing two
bid.
But even though 1t is one of con-
tracts rarest bids, it has a most
valuable place in the game.
n n
THERE are two types of original
l. game demand bids in the one
over one systematic original suit
bid of two and the original suit bid
of three.
These two bids differ mainly in
this respect-an original two bid
asks partners assistance in selecting
the proper declaration.
1t shows hand that has choice
of two bids, or one that could be-
come the dummy if played at no
trump contracts
The three bid, while forcing in
every respect, the same as the two
bid, shows partner hand in which
you wish to become the dummy
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PACE

England has few clubsl" she
caught his slightly malicious twinkle.
"Oh. yes-golf-and what's their
nameS?-thoSe stuffy ones in Lon
don"
Their members would be fat
tered"
Il derive this impression from
reading English novels" she re-
torted loftily.
Then you haven't been abroad
lately. Mrs. Averill?"
Not since I was a little girl"
Linda confessed. Before the war.
And then more on the continent
than in the British Isles. But I've
always wanted to go there most
and Ireland must be wonderful"
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Il have so wanted to ask you-does
American country life-this sort of
thing" she gestured vaguely, diff
fer very much from the same thing
in Engiand-as much as 1t seems
from books at least?"
~ =
LIE looked utterly astonished at
4 4 her urgent question, and well
he might. for before she began
speaking she herself had not had
the least idea what she would say.
y ought to lead him to Cousin
Amos she thought. Hes the only
one 1 haven't talked to about it.
but I simply can't plump right
down into it without any apparent
cause. He'd think me insane"
From his expression, however, she
wondered whether she had not al
ready conveyed that impression
II mean she plunged desper-
ately IT have a paper to give-on
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A Study in Motives

TINE performance of Henry Mar
Il shall, Lafayette publisher, at
the Republican Editorial Associa-
ton meeting Sunday afternoon is
too fascinating a political event to
permit to pass without discussion.
1t takes courage Of high order
to stand before the arch-prophets Of
Republicanism, and indict the party.
The layman can not understand
the temerity of an action such as
that of Marshall.
Members of the Republican Edi-
torial association are, in the ma
jority, staunch supporters of the
party, wrong or right, because a
great part of their livelihood de-
ponds upon public advertising which
comes to them only through staunch
support of party.
To them the party always is right,
no matter what may be its sins OF
omission or commission.
These G.. o. P. editors feel that
although it is proper for a member
of the opposition to indict and criti-
else, it is rank heresy for one from
their own ranks to do so, even If
what is said is gospel truth.
II
Marshall easily towers head and
shoulders, both in ability and polit-
ical shrewdness, over his colleagues
in the association.
His performance during the Re-
publican state convention, when he
forced through the repeal plank
against bitter opposition, proved
this. His generalship at the national
convention, when he joined the
small group which defied President,
cabinet, postmasters and patronage
holders in an unsuccessful attempt
to make the prohibition plank mean
something, required courage and in
telligence of a high order.
OF course, his indictment Of the
campaign management Sunday was
directed at Senator James E. Wat
son, who picked the ticket and
named the party managers.
Marshall has been one partisan
editor who always has been able
to see the senator's clay feet peep
ing from under the toga.
Then also, there are many per-
sonal reasons for his enmity toward
Sunny Jim.
Watson refused to make him ma
tional committeeman in 1923. Wat
son refused to name Marshall's close
friend, Judge Homer w. Hennager
of Lafayette to the federal bench for
northern Indiana. Watson opposed
Marshall's selection as a member Of
the national convention resolutions
committee.
These and a host of lesser reasons
may be listed.
They also tell me that Marshall is
an opportunist. The Republican or
ganization is leaderless today. The
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CHAPTER THIRTY

"HELLOl" called Tom unceremo-
i Il niously. Linda, secretly amused
at Statlander's confusion, sobered as
She saw that her husband evidently
was laboring under some excite
ment. His first words confirmed it.
Something's happened" he said
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A bear which recently broke into
supplies in Glacier National park
ripped open all the canned food and
ate everything but the spinach.
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ITO Be COntinuedl