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SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER |

w yHEN Alan Irvine arrived at Falcon
wv Castle in the Highlands of Scotland.
he found that strange things had
been happening. Through the death of his
grandfather Felix Swinburn, Alan had fallen
heir to the place, and ne tried to unravel the
mystery of why the old man had been living
like a hermit in this lonely house on a
mountainside Also, old Swinbnn was sup
posed to have squandered his fortune, and
vet for some time he had been drawing a
good income from some strange source.
On wintry night, with the snow falling
heavily, Lucille Paradene arrived at Falcon
Castle with an elderly man called MIR. Paul.
They appeared surprised at the news of Felix
Swinburn's death. but they refused to tell
Alan the object OF their visit.
Late that night Alan asked Dunstan - the
late Felix Swinburns manservant - if he
knew anything about Lucille Paradene and
Mr. Paul Dunstan warned Alan to be care
full adding that he and Mrs. Dunstan - the
only servants in the place were looking for
ward to the day when they would leave Falcon
Castle for ever. 1t was an eerie place. and had
been getting on their nerves
What puzzled Alan vas that Lucille Para
dene and MIR Paul seemed to be in terror lest
they had been followed to Falcon Castle. He
felt that their presence there had something
to do with the mystery which had surrounded
his late grandfather life; and in the early
hours of the morning. hearing noise in the
house he went to investigate.
In his grandfather gloomy bedroom, he
found the dead body of MIR. Paul fastened
against the panelling of the wall, with knife
through his throat
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by AUGUSTUS MUIR
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my own room and began to pull on some
clothes. | had been in my pajamas and dress
ing-gown, and was shivering with cold.
few minutes later met Lucille Paradene
as She was coming along the passage with
kimono thrown over her night attire
This is horrible business =" began.
''Dunstans wife has told me, she said in a
low voice. Her face was deathly white. her
eyes dilated; but her self-control was amazing.
He is in Mr.. Swinbwns room? Please show
me. Mr. Irvine
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i don't think you'd better go there. It
isn't very pleasant sight"
Lucille Paradene looked me straight in
the eye.
Please take me at once. Mr.. Irvine"
Her tone left no doubt about her intention,
and reluctantly led the way.
She walked slowly into my gandfather's
room Her head was erect. and couldn't help
noticing the difference between her and the
bent and nervous figure OF D,mstan. Without
hesitation she drew aside the dust sheet we
had spread over the body Looking down
upon the dead face. she shuddered. and then
put back the sheet and turned to me.
Thank you, Mr.. Irvine" she said slowly.
There's nothing we can do now1"
Nothing. I'm afraid. Hadn't we better 90
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my breath. | must have stood
there for fully two minutes trying
to regain control of myself.
My eye fastened upon the bell-rope at the
side of the four poster bed. Dunstan had told
me this was connected with bell in his own
room. | was about to give the rope jerk
when drew back. realizing that it would
probably scare Dunstan out of his wits.
Better to go for him myself. made my way
back along the passage and, mounting the
spiral staircase in the rear of the house,
knocked on Dunstan' S door
1t did not take him long to put on some
clothes. and he came out on the landing with
small oil-lamp in his hand His startled eyes
were staring at me in CONSERVATION. There's
- there's nothing wrong, sir?'
In few words | explained what had
found in my grandfather's room
Mr.. Paul not - not dead. sir?"
I'm afraid so. Dlmstan.'
As led the way towards my grandfather
bedroom. could hear the nanservant
breath coming IN terrified gasps between his
teeth. and wouldn't have been surprised if
he had turned tail and scuttled back to his
own quarters spoke to him sharply. and he
followed me into the bedroom rather like a
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child who has been severely reprimanded
Between us we got the body of Mr. Paul
over to the couch at the foot of the bed After
We had finished. Dunstan drew his hand across
his forehead, and his face was haggard as he
cast quick glances around the room. In
Gods name. MIR. Irvine = how has this
happened .
replied that knew no more than he did:
but one thing was quite certain Somebody
has been in this house. D,lnstan." | said
slowly, 'and the sooner we find out about it.
the better
There was a door beside the fireplace, and
| remembered that it opened upon narrow
stair leading down to the little private chapel
below. But the intruder had not gone that
way, for the door was locked and the key was
on the inside.
Somebody in this house?" Dunstan re-
peated my words in whisper, and his eyes
strayed to the long knife which had flung
down on chair That belonged to the
master, sir Look. it's from that rack on the
wall. He pointed to some ancient Highland
weapons above the chimneypiece
had already noticed them myself, but it
was the hand which had used the knife that /
wanted to know more about Where had the
unknown intruder come from - and how had
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he got into Falcon Castle?
But the precious minutes were
passing, and I ordered Dunstan
to follow me downstairs.
As we went quickly over the
ground floor of the house. our
dismay increased. In the end.
Dunstan and | drew to a halt
and stared at each other blankly;
for we had found every door and
window intact.
The manservant's unsteady
hand strayed to his mouth.
What do you make of it. sir1"
A note of terror l,1d come back
into his voice.
Are you sure there's no other
entrance to the house. Dun
stane" I enquired.
Not that l know of. sir.
There's something queer going
on. Mr.. Irvine - something -"
His voice trailed away helplessly.'
Wed better go upstairs
again." l said. Get your wife to
waken Miss Paradene, and tell
her what's happened"
While he went off to obey my
instructions, | slipped back into
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CHAPTER II

"HE sight OF that CHASTITY figure took
my breath. must have stood
there for fully two minutes trying
to regain control of myself
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w IHEN Alan Irvine arrived at Falcon
wv Castle in the Highlands of Scotland
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EMILY POST
AnhOr Of "Etiquette The Blue Book Of Social Usage,
''The Personality Of House," Etc.

crete world of truth and the magic land of
fairy tales But if sometimes. while they are
very little they do mix Heaven and the House
of Santa Claus. does it matter very much?
l add this because of little girl who asked
me. before she went to bed night or two ago,
to come with her behind the heavy curtains
to look at Santa Claus's house. With her nose
pressed against the pane, she explained that
way up there was where the beautiful white
angels live, and right up there too. was the
big, big toy shop that belongs to Santa Claus
and his reindeer stable.
And you know" she added, the stars
that twinkle are the windows of Santa S toy
shopW When asked what Santa Claus was
doing, she said that he was very busy reading
letters from children and packing his sleigh
full of toys.
Remembering this conversation, wonder,
can it be possible that anyone could call this
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visions of Tenderness, as well as joy. Moreover,
from the top of the pile of letters in front of
me, Anne Kent - my secretary h this
moment handed me one which she says will
Just fit in with what she calls my intermittent
mood of sentiment. (As though she herself
were incapable of being other than machine
impelled young robotD At all events, this is
the letter:
Dear Mrs. Post 1t has been many years
since our only child was little and we knew
the joys of a child in the house at Christmas,
with his hopeful letters to Santa Claus and
the fun of hanging his stocking. My husband.
who died some years ago, used to enter into
the spirit of the day by reading the story of
the Night before Christmas in book with
pictures of the jolly saint who appears in the
dreams of all the little ones year after year.
Il have been reliving in memory all those
happy Christmas days every year since they
stopped. When my son married, my first
thoughts after their baby came two years ago
was that once more Santa Claus would be
coming to the house.
Can you imagine little of my heartache
about this - his first knowing Christmas -
when showed his mother few little stocking
toys had bought and she explained that she
would be delighted to give them to the baby
from grandma but not from Santa Claus
because she believes that this beautiful illusion
is nothing but stupid deception and out of
key with the modern method of child training.
LAS mother-in-law am powerless to in
terfere, but I'm wondering if you couldn't
perhaps write something that might help to
make her and others like her understand the
emptiness of Christmas without Santa Claus"
In answer to this, l agree with the writer
to such degree that even now l wouldn't
for anything give up the thrill that Santa
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Claus still brings 10 me. in merely thinking -
on Christmas eve of the tens of thousands
of children whose eyes are starry as they
dream of the fleet reindeer and the dashing
sleigh and the coming of Santa Claus.
Christmas without Santa Claus? No i
couldn't bear to imagine it. The world with
out fairy tales would be like world without
flowers. without birds. without sun. Are these
little modern children who are to have the joy
taken out of their day in the year, to hear no
fairy tales? Are they to know nothing of Gin
derella. Puss in Boots. Peter Pan? Are these
and all the rest of childhood's immortals to be
banished and replaced by - WHAT?
Can it be true that they who would Danish
Santa Claus do not know the wide difference
between the magic beauty of fairy tale and
the base ugliness of lie2 The most truth
loving children are the very ones who best
understand the boundaries between the con-
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Mrs. Posts Christmas Menu
In the Drawing Room

In the Drawing Room
Tomato juice cocktails mo matter what
other variety may be served as welD.
AT the Dining Table
Soup: Green or mock turtle favored with
sherry.
Fish; Fried oysters - fresh fat ones -
with tartar sauce.
Roast: Turkey with chestnut stuffing,
sausages roast in the pan, giblet
gravy and cranberry sauce.
Wild rice and string beans.
Salad: Thin sliced cold ham and lettuce
with French dressing.
Dessert: Plum pudding decorated with
holly and surrounded with flaming
brandy. Hard Sauce.
Black coffee at table, nuts in their shells
and raiSins
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Good Taste Today
for your children the beautiful illusion Of Santa Claus, says

enchanting fabric of a Childs imagination
stupid - or, worse yet - willful untruth? And
would anyone really Danish the thousands
upon thousands of children's letters, f1utter
ing like white birds into the letter boxes and
up the chimeys, or poised out on the window
ledges where Santa Claus will see them in his
dash across the sky Or perhaps they are hid
den where Santa Claus alone knows where to
look; just as he alone knows how to read the
scratches and scribbles that Others. not so wise
as he, say isn't writing at all.
There are eager letters. exacting letters,
confident letters and here and there those
wistful letters of small expectation, but un-
quenchabe hope that this year he will stop
and give just little of his bounty to small
boy or girl whose address he has so far for
gotten.
And what about the rarest but loveliest of
children's letters, which here and there are
dropped into the post box, addressed to Santa
Claus and carrying share of the child's own
savings with which Santa is to buy toys for
other children who would have no Christmas
if Santa should find he hadn't toys enough.
Is it deceitful to let such a child believe that
his letter is going straight to Santas house?
Must his whole picture be spoiled by telling
him that his money will become an impersonal
fraction of general sum dispensed among no
one knows whom?
don't know whether my answer to this
letter will mean anything to those who can
not understand that it is in the kingdom of
make believe" that every child finds refuge
from the hard cold world of uncompromising
fact.
And now to answer the other last minute
Christmas questions beginning with the prob
lem of how to keep the children from getting
up at three O'Clock in the morning and how
to keep them from eating too much candy
without ever saying DON'T - which, as
hope everybody knows, is against the rules on
Christmas! The only general plan know of
is to anticipate the instances which are most
likely to occur. and to trust to luck for in
spiration to meet the rest.
AS plan to keep them in bed it might be
well, instead of telling them on Christmas
eve: "Now don't get up until call you" land
spoil everythingD to tell them in the half
Continued on reSt page
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TNALL of the great houses - in New
York, Newport, Tuxedo Park, and
undoubtedly in every other ultra
A fashionable community from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Coast this menu
is the ultimate in formal dinner giving
correctness:
Oysters on the half shell, perhaps, din
ner-party clear consomme, or else green or
mock turtle soup.
Then fish mousse.
Then filet of beef or saddle of mutton -
in either case with peas and dinner party
potatoes (nashed potato shaped into cones
and browned).
Then salad with an aspic of fol gras.
Then ice cream.
But, if am to give the menu of BEST
dinner for the holiday season, chosen for
its abundance and delectability, l would
begin -
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is lucky for me
that my ysubject
for today is
Christmas be-
cause Icouldn think
of anything else if l
tried. The spruce
woods deliciousness
of the Christmas
green in my study
this morning fills my
mind with Christmas
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sible 10 years ago. II we lose now,
we'll win later. It's something so alb
solutely right that 1t must win, and
one of the big helps Is that we have
President Roosevelt"
After fighting for long time, Nor
ris in recent years has seen his plan
for public development Of Muscle
Shoals started under the Tennessee
Valley Authority, his constitutional
amendment to abolish lame duck
Congresses adopted, passage Of his
bill to ban the use of intunctions in
labor disputes and adoption by his
home State of a small, one-House
Legislature.
Still Speaks Of War. Vote.
One Of the few past events he still
speaks of with deep feeling Is the vote
he cast against American entry into
the World War.
MY vote didn't accomplish any
thing" he said, "but If war had been
defeated by my vote it would have
been q wonderful accomplishment.
The evil of that war is still with us.
One hundred years from now We'll
still be paying the penalty"
Despite his years Norris still can
read without glasses. He walks to
the Capitol instead of riding. When
the Senate recently stayed in session
all night because Of Senator Longs
filibuster, Norris stayed through I'M
til the gavel fell at 6 am, and was
on the job in his office at 8 am.
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fore the country are holding company
legislation and taxing great wealth.
1--WE never can have a real democ-
racy and a real civilization as long
rs the holding companies dominate,
not only in the electric field but in
every other. Likewise, we can't have
permanent prosperity unless we tax
huge inheritances."
So Right 1t Must Win.
Norris, who conducted many a fight
for an apparently hopeless cause be-
fore victories began to come his way
In the last few years, added:
This holding company fight we
are in now wouldn't have been pos
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democracy" he is
confident the flu
ture will bring.
The Republican
Independent from
Nebraska-fourth
Oldest man in
the Senate in
dulged in a few
+ e m / niscences,
but mostly his
words were of the
present and the
years ahead.
Right n W."
he said, "the two
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11O-DEGREE fever
Texas Heat Victim Records That,
Is Expected to Live.

Is Expected to Live.
DALLAS, Tex, July II (R.-Carl
Wilson, 10, of near Van Alystine,
Tex, was taken unconscious from a
wheat field yesterday, overcome by
heat, but remained alive after a
physicians thermometer, placed In
his mouth, shot to ITO degrees.
The youth was packed in ice and
DR.. S. D. Moore said. after his tenn
perature dropped to 10l degrees, that
he probably would recover.
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SENATOR NORRIS
MARKS BIRTHDAY
Nebraskan Is "a Today.
Sees Taxes and Holding
Companies Big Issues.

by the Associated Press.
Senator George w. Norris cele-
brated his 74th birthday anniversary
today by talking about the better
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Bronze Base Lamps in 3 candle
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The Washington times., 1935-07-30
Seeks AnsWers
To Pertinent Questions
To the Editor of The Times:

To the Editor Of The Times:
Do the people realize the awful
condition our country is in under
the present Administration?
Think Of some Of the activities
Of our Administration; does any
one know of what benefit, If any,
the A. A. A. and c. c. c. have
been to our country? If our Ad.
ministration has placed $3.50 tax
on a barrel Of flour sold by the
miller to decrease the amount of
wheat to be raised;. if millions
of working people must buy
bread and thereby help to pay
the tax, would you consider that
a fair treatment to the poor work
ing people?
Think a moment about the
c. C. c., so far has it paid our
Government as much as one cent
a month for each man employed?
Do we need men to go into some
desolate district Of our country
and turn up some old scraggy
trees? If the Administration
wishes to help the farmers, could
MT the men be put to work for
The Washington times., 1935-07-30
RHODE ISLAND
VOTE TO TEST
NEW DEAL

PROVIDENCE, r. l., July 80.
The New Deal will be given its
first test before the voters when
residents of the first congress
sional district of this State 60 to
the polls next week.
The election has been called
for August 6 to elect a successor
to Representative Francis B. Con-
don CD who resigned when ad-
vanced to the State Supreme
Court.
Both Republicans and Demo
Gratis have nominated strong can
didates, and the result Of the
election is being anxiouSly
awaited in Washington by Ad-
ministration leaders, for the
battle is being fought along the
lines Of the New Deal.
2 State Districts
Under the present apportion-
ment, the State has only two
Representatives. The first dis
trict covers the eastern half, in
GLIDING part of Providence, the
cities of Central Falls, Newport
and Pawtucket, with East Provi.
dence, WoonSocket and other
towns. Within the district are
many industrial communities
which usually are strongly Demo
cratic.
Moreover, the date must be con-
Sidered to favor the party in
power. Numerous residents are
vacationing outside the State. but
Republican organizations have
been striving to induce them to
vote by mail.
In 1882, when Mr.. Roosevelt car.
ried the state by more than $4,000
over Mr.. Hoover, Mr.. Condor won
in this district, 70,429 to $500.
Vote on Financing
For two reasons public interest
tends to run RICH. There has been
a lively ruction among the First
District Democrats, and the whole
State on the same day will vote
on a series Of financing PROPOSE
lions.
The Washington times., 1935-07-30

farmers in each State in helping
the farmers to put their farms in
better condition?
In reference to the Welfare,
should hard working men and
women too, be compelled to work
to support strong able-bodied men?
Shouldn't they be compelled to
work before they. could get any
relief from the. Walfare? Let
them earn their bread if no more.
Will you give the readers of
The Times an opportunity to an.
swer this through your paper?
JOSEPH SHEPHERD.
The Washington times., 1935-07-30

an old-age pension entirely insult
ficient for barest needs. Why
can the one class be given ade-
quate pensions (regardless Of
whether they need it or not)
when the impoverished old folks,
who helped foot the Nations
bills (they also worked for the
Government, earning the same
right to a decent old-age care)
cannot.
It's inconceivable that a Gov
eminent for all the people"
would make such unjust discrimi-
nation. Why expect the needy
aged, who have not been on the
public pay roll, to subsist on a
pittance, a public worker would
consider an insult, and that will
not even support a criminal in
prison?
AS has frequently been pointed
out, the majority Of INDECENT aged
today were forced into paupeEism,
were robbed and cheated Of their
savings by various financial in.
terests. Now those interests SNUG
The Washington times., 1935-07-30
People In Glass Houses
Shouldn't ThroLU Stones

To the Editor of The Times:
notice the headlines relative
to danger from infantile paraly-
sis on the part Of those visiting
Virginia and North Carolina.
If my memory serves right, dur
ing the first six months Of this
year this District had 174 cases,
in a population of around a half
million; while, in the same six
months, North Carolina, with a
population around seven times as
great, had had only double that
number, 348.
You may figure out for your
self just who ought to invoke the
quarantine laws.
GUY G. MOORE.
The Washington times., 1935-07-30

,ly oppose decent treatment for
the unfortunates they helped i'm
poverish.
It's not to be wondered there's
widespread indignation and right
eous protest regarding the con-
templated unjust provision advo-
Gated for our penniless and many
infirm old people. A. S. K.
The Washington times., 1935-07-30
u. 5. Men Get No Clue
In Idaho KIDNAPPING

COEUR D'ALENE, Ida, July 80
UN.SO.-The mysterious diSap-
pearance of 2.year-old Bobby Rush,
believed kidnapped a week ago in a
revenge plot. against his poverty
stricken parents, still baffled police
today as Department of Justice
agents Investigated the case.
A postcard was mailed to the
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Rush,
of Athol, Ida, from q Spokane
Pendleton train last Saturday.
The message said the child was
"okay."
The Washington times., 1935-07-30
u. S. Workers Pay For
Retirement In Advance

To the Editor Of The Times:
Taxpayers want to know why
liberal retirement pensions can
be granted Government employees,
including policemen, firemen,
teachers and many others on pub
lie payrollS, while for other aged
citizens there Is being advocated
The Washington times., 1935-07-30
RING STOLEN

A diamond and ruby ring val
ued at $125 was stolen from her
while in a rest room Of the Bond
Building, Fourteenth and New
York Ave. N. W., Ethel Zepp,
1926 F. st. N. W., reported to po-
lice yesterday.
The Washington times., 1935-07-30

Letters Editor should exceed zoo Dod They must
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confidential initials publication the riter
deSondteS Readers nued to discuss subject interest