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to navigate all right. Gosh, it
seems a month ago instead of this
very morning."
Il was thinking - he'd been
drinking, Tom, and he was quar-
relsome, even the little I could
see. OF course they all had trou-
BILE with Cousin Amos, but Mr..
Shaughnessey had been Snubbed
outrageously and he's proud as
Lucifer.
No matter how he hid it he'd
never forgive the way Cousin Amos
talked to him that night at din
ner. He probably could have got
ten into the house somehow
Toms frown of concentration
stopped her. You know, Linda, I
can't remember locking that door
last night"
THE front door when we came
in? didn't see-oh, of course, you
came up later after you took him
over"
Eyes. was hot and tired and
pretty well tangled as to nerves by
our delightful guests. Wanted to
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know. But I have q queer hay
feeling there was something not
quite right about his Jocks Just
the effect as he stood there
"Oh, Tom, try to Think" :
I am trying, but it doesn't come. !.
She waited hopefully. He shook
his head. Sorryl Can't get it."
It'll come when you least expect
it." said Linda comfortingly, little
guessing how long defer+ed-how
very nearly too long4-thaE sudden
memory would be. we can settle
that later. Now we must fix our
stories so that they agree on the &C
cident and what happened after.
we must know exactly what
we're going to say-ahout every
single point"
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the front lawn and meet you, cool
as a cucumber"
And surprised to see me there
Yes. You're right--in point of time
anyhow, he certainly could" Tom
whistled softly. But, Binks-why
not go back to the garage?'
Her face fell, then lightened.
"Bravado, as you said Of Marvin.
And the Irish do love to show of. +"
You certainly do dislike that
man, don't you. BinkS?"
i don't like any of them any too
well. And now about the other
two?"
"Yes-either of them"
you said they both came into
the room? Did you notice whefe
they came from?"
Whereof, I seel If the one
who die it escaped by way of the
nursery. he'd come from that end of
the hall. But Statlander is down at
this end already. That would be
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CContin.

ued)
mo. Each one took it differently
but all took it we'll I blamed poor
old Parsons pretty heavily and
emphasized the fact that it was only
q formality.
AT first Statlander was distinctly
disagreable, but that could be laid
to his dislike of having his plans
upset twice in rapid succession. He
was all ready to leave and his room
was neat as a pin. If there was any
evidence there against him, it's gone
now
Il reminded him we still had lot
of Valeska business to discuss and
that appeared to reconcile him.
Either he really does want to finish
what we're supposed to clean up this
weekend, or he decided he'd better
seem to want to.
Marvin-I'm afraid I was pretty
short with Marvin. Just told him
the facts and let it go at that"
How did he act?"
"Just the same. He'd be a good
one to conceal a guilty secret, be-
cause he always acts as if he had
one, and so gradually you get used
to it.
when ] knocked, he opened the
door and blocked it completely. I
couldn't see into the room, and
somehow 1 had the idea he didn't
want me to- 1t might have been
just my imagination.
"I-well, it wasn't any too easy
for me to be civil and can't hon
estly say I noticed much about him.
He was stiff and had that air OF
holding something back, as I re-
member. In other words, quite
himself
"Then I went next door to De
Vos. He was also quite himself,
which meant that he was very
pleasant and courteous, assured me
he quite understood and that any
thing that made it easier for us
was agreeable to him.
HE did ask about going off the
grounds and I found he had date
with Fleur Stoner early this after
noon"
You might know she'd have her
hooks in him!"
"And he'd thought he might SIM
ply check his bag at the station and
go up to town later. He'd noticed
the inn across the road there and
had meant to stop there for lunch
without bothering us"
Thoughtful! And Mr.. Shaugh-
nessey we know about-so that's
that! And now we must think of
each one separately, Tom-what
he's said and done, ever since he
arrived. Well start"
"Wel start with Pratt" said Tom
grimly. After all, he was there
and that seems fairly important"
1T is indeed" agreed Linda.
Don't think entirely bar him out.
But remember, too, his room is
nearest Cousin Amos and it's per-
fectly possible he heard me fall.
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Ito Be Continued
BY Williams

Just before dawn the survivors saw the dis
tant transport sink into the sea. Ronald Canbys
heart also sank as he thought Of little lost Pat but
he prayed that somehow, by some happy chance,
death had not claimed his daushtaE
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MEkE1r MHRDERS|,s, s szEHl

And any one who really had tried
to strange me wouldn't have waited
while you swan in, ran across the
lawn and came upstairs"
He might stay from bravado
just because no one would think
he would. Anyhow, we have that
on him definitely and we have
nothing on any other"
"Oh, yes, we have. On one other
man."
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BEGIN HIRE To-Day

AMOS PEABODY. elderly couSfn ~
I1lJDA AVERILL, falls to hir deat5 fron,
The second noor balcony OF the Averillx'
Long Island home. Linda reaches mir,
aust before he oies. In time 10 hear him
gasp. he pushed me-.tv
Linda, realizing her cousin had tried
70 ten her ne was murdered. rushes up-
STAIRS 70 the balcony. Some one steps
t peihlind her; tries to strange her and she
Her husband TOM. seen her fall and
isshss 20 ner;. There are four guests in
the mouse and they all appear
Inc guests are. Mr. STATIANDER.
business associate Of Toms. CAPTAIN
DE NOS. handsome Belgian MARVIN
fnALI former sutton OF Linda's: and
LIAM SHAUGHNESSEY, Irish writer
Laen Of them have quarreled with
DR.. PARSONS takes charge. It is as
Sumed cousin Amos death was acciden-
tai ana thta Linda tainted from shock.
Wnen she Is finally able to tell Tom
wnat happened. she persuades him that
they must keep the four guests with
them until they discover who is the
They are Unexpectedly aided in this
plan when DIR. BOYLE. official medical
examiner. sends word that every one in
the house must remain until he has
ing trip and can not return for several
hours.
Tom and Linda discuss the situation.
Tom says Pratt IS the only one against
whom they have definite accusations.
LINDA says. "Oh, yes. we have. Against
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES

get my clothes of and get to bed
you don't usually forget"
Il may not have. Just can't re-
member doing it. One Of the ordi-
nary bits Of routine that simply
doesn't register either way
You said you didn't see him to
bed"
You mean he could have fol-
| lowed me?p
mo. not exactly. But I was
thinking that he might have
watched you from the window. He
could have noticed that-if you'd
just hurried in and left the door
open"
TON made a gesture of WEAKNESS
Il and distaste.
well, granting he got into the
house and threw the old man over
the balcony, how could he choke
you and then show up on the ter
race as I came up?"
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

OLlxAt 7 L1TO LI0t1 I LIN
tom showed his surprise, What
Il do you mean?" he asked.
Don't you remember what you
told me about Mr.. ShaughneSsey!
Linda was deadly in earnest now.
Tom, why should he be up then,
much less prowling around? An
hour before you'd helped him up
the stairs-drunk!
We'll, not exactly drunk,
Binks."
Near enoughl Did you see him
start to undress?"
NO, didn't need to stay. I
was tired myself and he was able
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give-away only if it we're De
Vos."
4 know. I Just thought you
might have noticed the direction
from which they came"
Never thought of it. Too busy
with you-and, besides, my back was
TO the door. They just appeared
after I reached the room, but before
We brought you here"
TOR the last moment or two he
4 had spoken vaguely, as if his
thoughts were elsewhere. Now he
broke the short silence hesitatingly,
linda can't exactly place it
but there's something"
Something you saw"
yes, from the float. There was
something about that msn-"
When you saw him standing be-
hind me?"
ut was only a second, you
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putrefaction in the intestineS causes
many human ills, including prema-
ture Senescence; and on this hypo-
thesis the famous bacteriologist based
his scheme of discouraging bacterial
putrefaction in the intestine as a
means of preserving health and pro-
longing life. What the great bacte-
biologist didn't know about health
and disease fills many books. His
Utoplan dream scarcely survived the
man himself. Today Bulgarian" sour
milk is scarcely ever heard of; only
commercial interests now exploit the
acidophilus sour milk preparations
which succeeded Metchnikoff's Bull
garian bacillus cultures.
Metchnikoff was not much of a
Psychologist. A psychologist knows
that in the human intestine putre-
faction is natural or normal con-
dltion. A physician who is not blinded
by subsidy or hope of reward knows
that the temporary prevention of in
testinal putrefaction makes no appre-
ciable difference in the state of the
individuals health.
1 believe am fairly expressing the
consensus of medical opinion at the
present time when I say that physi-
clans with scientific training neither
recognize administration" as a
cause of disease nor deem the "elimi-
nation of toxins" a factor in success
full treatment. Nostrum mongers
faddists and a few old fogies in regu-
lar medical ranks are the sole ex-
ploiters of the administration OBJ
session today.
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Eclipse

All astronomical roads now lead tc
New Finland where the worlds fore
most students of the stars will OBJ
serve on Aug. 81 total eclipse OF
the sun.
Eastern obServatorieS have already
transferred their telescopes, special
cameras and other equipment tc
Maine and New Hampshire and the
Lick Observatory and Mount Wilson
astronomers are preparing their
equipment for the 3OOO-mile Journey
from California to Maine and New
Hampshire, respectively.
Never has an eclipse of the sum- a
phenomenon of only few minutes
duration, received as much of mans
time and attention as the next will
attract. 1t will be studied from air.
planes and mountain tops and OBJ
served through telescopes and Spec
troscopes and perhaps several other
varieties of scopes as we'll as from the
plates Of giant cameras.
Some of the equipment to be used
in August was designed since the last
total eclipse to fill gaps discovered by
observers while watching the last
binding" of the sun.
Expenditure of SO much time,
money and brains upon three min
ute eclipse may seem like shameful
waste to the layman, but science
places great weight on it. 1t expects
to add to mans knowledge of the
universe and would not be surprised
if some startling discovery were made.
When the astronomer looks into his
heavens he never knows what new
phenomenon may come into his ken.
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Answer-By the same logic you
would have to equip the boy with
arch props, corsets, shoulder braces
and sooner or later pair of clutches
and a wheel chair. Tell the in-laws
to rent an auditorium.
Plants and Flowers in Sickroom
Mother thinks it is harmful to have
growing plants in the sickroom ..
I-(F. Al
Answer-So far as the effect on the
air is concerned it is insignificant
Either growing plants or cut flowers
in the sickroOm are beneficial if the
invalid enjoys them. Growing plants
in porous pots add considerable mois-
ture to the air of a heated room in
the winter season and that is always
desirable.
Get the Ice Mans Opinion
You claim glycerophosphates and
hypophosphites do not feed the nerv-
GUS system. Our druggist says they
do IF. r.
Answer-Well, let's call in the ice
man and leave it to him.
Sugar Test
Please explain the use of Benedict's
test tor glucose.-(Mrs. G. P. W.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS solution is an
alkaline solution of copper sulphate,
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rising market for fat cattle. and the
wheat growers are expecting bette,
things because Of their reduced acre.
age and the poor crop of winter
wheat. The ruinous SURPRISES of the
last two years are rapidly diminish.
ing and short crop this year is ex-
pected to leave the country without a
surplus for the first time in a mum.
Der of years. That means profit for
the growers.
Bright are the prospects down on
the farm. Only slight additional
gain and the farmers will again be
putting money in the bank and buy
ing new automobiles. And that
means prosperous times for every
body who does business with the
farmer. And who doesn't, either di-
rectly or indirectly?
Perhaps the good news is already
filtering through from the barns and
acres. Where there was only dark
est pessimism few weeks ago one
cannot fail to notice sparks of op-
timism at this hour. Here and there
one hears of business picking up. A
month from now it may be picking
up all along the line.
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AUTOINTOXICATIO WOULD BE
JUST TOO BAD IF 1T COULD
HAPPEN

Whenever one eats or drinks toe
much and neglects daily exercise,
work or play to burn the surplus fuel
the first alibi one thinks of is lazy
liver, or if ones health education has
been obtained in the modern school
(rear pages of magazines) perhaps
one prefers to call it administration
or intestinal Stasis. But no matter
how thin one slices it, it is still bo-
loney.
Psychologists and pathologists agree
that harm is done when the natural
waste products of metabolism are re-
tanned in the blood or tissues, and
such faulty elimination of vital COM
buStion products is secondary fea-
ture in many disease conditions. But
for the sake of peace of mind and
good health every one should under
stand clearly that this type of body
poisoning (call it administration il
you like is rarely if ever due to a
costive or constipated habit or state
1t has nothing to do with the food
residueS in the intestine.
The old-time quacks explained ii
all by blaming the liver, and their
dupes forgot it all almost as readily
when they took liver regulators" as
they did when they took nothing
Modern charlatans have a freer flow
of language and much more expensive
ways of keeping victims from forget
ting it, but they still ascribe the evil
to poisoning of the body by some
thing absorbed from the colon, so
that in some cases the wretches who
suffer from the obsession find life one
constant succession of internal
baths Yet the more they wash away
the imaginary poisons the more poi:
son they imagine they have.
Perhaps the highest authority for
the autointoxication theory is Metch-
nikoff, who conceived the hypothesis
that the constant production of tox-
ms by bacterial fermentation and
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1 do not believe that this marks
the start of the fall of the American
republic, nor do I believe the Ameri-
can republic is going to fall.-Sena-
tor William E. Borah of Idaho.
X X y
II Hollywood is going to talk about
a divorce. it will have to talk /
can't be bothered.-Ruth Chatterton.
film actress.
In my view there is today in Eur
ope greater approach to unanimity
both as to the causes of the trouble
(depression) and as to the steps nee
essary to solve the problems, than
there has been at any time since thc
termination of the war. - Neville
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, England.
X X X
The turning point toward eventual
prosperity in this country seems to
have been reached. - Charles G..
Dawes, in notice of resignation as
president, Reconstruction Finan c
corporation.
X X y
It would appear on the basis of
present information that not less
than $50 100000 will be needed for the
coming year for relief work Gin New
York city, Welfare council report,
New York,
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In
NEW
YORK
!!!!!l van
PLAYBOYS VANISH

New York, June MANY of
Broadway's gay playboys may now
be discovered playing tag with sher-
ifs and landlords.
Even the wealthiest of them seem
assets. Heading the list of the rich
est, most romantic and generous, of
course, was Billy Leeds. Phil Plant
ran a close second. 1t is no secret
that even such fortunes as they COM
manded have undergone terrific
shrinkage.
So many week has gone by since
any of the playboy tribe has been
seen frolicking about the night spots.
just to show you how the old high
spirits have been affected one of
the minor playboyG actually slug
ged a columnist, the other night in
the suburbs. Anyone might have
told him that the only way to get
a columniSt is to land an uppercut
on the ego and then take three jabs
at his vanity.
FORGOTTEN MASTERPIECE
A paragraph in Danny Thomas
Hollywood chatter department drew
conversation the other night to the
colorful, eccentric but greatly gifted
Won Stroheim. Won is back acting
now, and the report was that he had
been in tight financial shape. -Four
Of us agreed that some day Greed
would be taken from the archives
and given its due place as film
masterpiece. recall when we all sat
for some II hours watching the un-
reeling of that pictures pre-view
And spellbound for the entire period
x x X
Von's personal courage had long
been a subject of off-stage CONVEX
sation among the newspaper folk
who gathered on his lot.
There was, for instance. the occa-
sion of the knife throwing.
| X X X
NO DANGER!
A scene demanded that per-
former stand with his back to the
camera, facing wall. An expert
knife toSSer, some yards away, drove
a steel blade through the air and
of course, missed the actor by a mar
row margin.
Trick photography could have been
| employed SO that the actual hurting
of the knife would have been un-
necessary. The actor assumed that
the director would see to this. But
| Won demanded realism. His knife
thrower was circus man accustom-
ed to typical, heavy bladed sideshow
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Farm Prospects Brighter

The nope OF the East Is SHARP
Improvement in the stock market.
That Of the Midwest in major ad-
vance In pork prices. The East is still
rafting, k1t the hopes OF the hog
growers are being realized.
Recent weeks have seen steady
rise In pork prices, trend most
heartening to a great section Of the
country which raises corn to fatten
hogs to send to market. Every jump
in prices means more dollars in
farmer pockets and more prosperity
for everybody.
Cattle ratsers throughout the coln-
Try are benefiting financially from q
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knives. A real Mexican dagger was
substituted. The thrower went over
in a corner and warmed up with 1t
for a time; then reported that ne
was ready.
But the actor, discovering what was
to happen, refused to go on. Won
stamped and jumped and cursed, but
to no avail. The player wouldn't
take a chance. Without further
ceremony, Van dropped his mega
phone and walked to the wall-doub-
ling for the performer.
There was tense moment. Inc
knife left the thrower's hand IN
neat arc, but just bit too high. A
studio lamp was dangling ON the set.
The blade scraped it and went off
course. A second later it was quiv-
ering in the wood, not a hairs
breadth from Won Stroheim's ear.
"See, you yellow -! shouted
Won. "What did I tell you-not the
slightest danger!"
X Y X
ON FIGHTERS
The Schmeling-Sharkey decision
still echoes in table debates, with
voices rising and tempers high. A
group OF sport writer's, gathered in
a mid Broadway spot, recalled one OF
the famous tales told Of Wilson
Miner, one of the more fabulous
figures of old.
Mizner-way back when-was sit
ting over his beer and skittles when
two friends came up, engaging IN
the most heated argument.
Here" shouted one, "weu leave
it to Mizner-he's a smart guy! Now
who was the greater general: Lee or
Grant?"
What difference does 1t make?"
drawled Miner, Grant got the de-
cision!"
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The PrOhibitiOnist Party
Minneapolis Tribune)

Since both the Republican and
Democratic parties have deserted the
cause of absolute prohibition it is
only natural that the old prohibition
list party should take a new lease on
life and begin to give serious consid-
Grafton to the nomination of can
didate for the presidency who would
express its views. That it will be able
to draft Senator William E. Borah
as it's candidate for the presidency,
as the convention of the Prohibition
party now meeting at Indianapolis is
said to be planning, does not seem
likely.
Although Senator Borah has de-
clared himself to be unable to sup
port the Republican ticket in the
coming campaign it is extremely i'm
! probable that he would care to I'M
dertake the hopeless task of run
ming for president as the nominee of
a dry party. Regardless of his sin
cere faith in the eighteenth amend
ment he is politically too wise to be-
lieve that he could do himself, or the
cause he champions, any great good
by making a fruitless campaign. Sen
ator Borah has resisted more allur-
ing offers to become the candidate of
a third party than a place at the
head of prohibitionist ticket would
be. And not only that, but Senator
Borah, in SO many other respects,
represents liberal wing in his party
that would have difficulty asserting
itself in the Prohibition party.
AS factor in politics, the Prohibi-
ton party has never been particu-
larly significant. In more than so
years of entering a presidential cam
paign with a candidate of it's own,
the Prohibition party has never been
able to poll over 265,000 votes in any
national election. When the old
Temperance party made its appear
ance in the campaign of 1872, with
James Black of Pennsylvania as its
candidate, he received only $500
votes. In 1876 the Prohibition party
appeared and has had a candidate in
every election since that time. 1t
polled the largest vote in 1892 with
John Bidwell of California as its
candidate when he received 264,l33
votes. Even when prohibition as a
cause was at its height, It's vote as a
party was falling Oft and since the
eighteenth amendment was enacted
its strength has been negligible.
It is conceivable that the Prohibi-
ton party would find added strength
in the present campaign by attract
ing the votes Of sincere drys who can
not stomach the wet planks in the
platforms in both major parties, but
that they would become a contendine
factor in the election is not likely
even though they had as their candi-
date a man with personal follow
ing comparable to that of Senator
Borah. The cause of prohibition wor
its fight by working through both Of
the old political parties and the anti.
prohibition forces will accomplish
whatever reform there is to BIZ
through the same channels.
The real test Of the' strength Of the
pr0hibitionist cause will come in thu
; fight on resubmission and not through
an independent political party. A
party in which the advocacy of pro
hibition dominates every other ISSUE
Is too restricted to build up stron,
political following in . presidential
campaign.