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GLENDUN, Ireland. (UP)-An
Irish film wit han all-Irish cast,
titled "Carraig Dubh," is in pro-
duction here with Geraldine Nit
chell as leading lady. She is
descended from John Mitchell,
famed in Irish history.
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NOT COURT DEFENDANT

Clyde Charles, arrested Thurs
day on a charge Of larceny of a
shotgun, is not Clyde Charles II,
son of J. Allen Charles, of the
HcndcrSonvillC Supply q Coal Co.
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Y 'MlEgath2E
FRIDAY

Maximum, GO degrees; mini
mum, Al degrees; mean, So de-
grees; days range, Is degrees;
rainfall, .06 in.
Normal mean temperature for
October, 1914 degrees. Normal
rainfall for October, 4.36 in.
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u. S. FLEET IN SOVIET FILM

MOSCOW. (UP)-A short reel
film entitled "a Visit of Friend
ship" and dealing with the visit
to Vladivostok of the U. S. Asiat-
ic squadron will appear on the
screens of Soviet cinema houses.
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WEATHER

Mostly cloudy tonight and Sun
day with occasional showers.
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GOOD AFTERNOON

A new precision device fine
enough to split hairs will do the
work of a dozen opposition sena.
tors.
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WARN KIDDIES OF
STRAY DOGS, CATS
Daily Dispatch bureau.

the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct 11.-"Kiddies, beware
of the puppy or kitten that "looks
lost" 1t may have rabies, and then
you would be all out of luck. Be kind
to dumb animals, of course, but don't
let your sympathy take the place of
your better Judgment" warns DR.. Roy
Norton, assistant director of the di-
vision of preventive medicine, State
Board of Health.
with the reopening of school, he
declared, cit is timely for health Of
ficers, nurses teachers and parents to
pass the warning along that, among
the early symptoms Of rabies in dog
or cat is the tendency to leave home
and wander around looking bedragged
homeless and in need of sympathy and
cares az ~ = sil:&
"Such dogs or cats often go to school
grounds DR.. Norton warned, land
may cause several children to have
to take the painful anti-rabic injec-
tions People seem to forget that most
dogs and cats will stand lot of iun-
der-feeding, neglect and even mis-
treatment before leaving home. 1t is
possible, therefore, that any puppy or
kitten or grown cat or dog found won
deringi around is not normal and is
likely to be diseased. g % ~
Instead OF exhibiting foolish SEN
tirnentalisn, offering to handle them
or making them playmatess of our
children, our common sense should
make US suspicious and cautious.
rabies may be present in a puppy
or kitten only six weeks or two
months old. A little forethought in
this regard may save a great deal of
torturing worry, pain and possibly
horrible suffering and DEATH DR..
Norton concluded.
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ing, and he was attending to the
dressings himself. IF he had been
a doctor instead of a dentist, with
the whole British pharmacopoeia
at his disposal, and a scientific
knowledge of what to do with it.,
it would probably not be difficult
to introduce some toxic substance
or organism which would do the
work simply and eXpeditiously.
But he was not a doctor, and he
had no faith in his ability to work
successfully by the book alone,
even if he had any means of get
ting hold Of his hypothetical toxin
in a safe and regular way.
Here, if he had known it, he vas
getting a great deal warmer. But
at the time, which was that of his
first intense but fruitless cerebra-
lions following the stillborn medi-
nal attempt, it did not occur to
him to look farther afield than
Esther's bad arm. And he pres
emily abandoned that particular
line Of country as a blind alley.
It was weeks before he returned
to it., and then only by the help
of a direct suggestion from out
Side.. ea
This came on the last week of
their voyage. They were return
ing from Piraeus on a Dutch liner.
The holiday had been too much of
rush to give Esther the maxi
mum benefit. Tim, who had never
Travelled any farther than France
or Belgium, had in a parenthetical
way been anxious to make the
most Of the trip, so that the orig
inal plan Of an uninterrupted
cruise had developed into series
Of short jumps from port to port,
varied by exhausting inland ex-
cursions.
Esther had, of course, been left
in a hotel while Tim went on the
more strenuous expeditions, but
the strain and worry of coping
with foreign tongues and habits,
on top Of the irregular and fire.
quently uncomfortable JOURNEYS.
had kept her back; and if it had
ever occurred to her seriously to
criticize her husband she might
well have wondered whether the
primary object of the holiday was
her own recuperation or Tins en-
joymel1t.
On this last stage Of the voy-
age, however, she did begin to pick
up "a little. They were lucky
enough to strike the Mediter-
ranean on its best behavior, and
the meals, as is always the case
with Dutch boats, were enticing
and on a heroic scale. Her ap-
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{yog the sshdo into Of TGa
pc ,,a,,rderers. With a lucrative
Gent practice and an enviable social SSda
POSITION in small town Ea, near han Lona sma
l lin, Then Esther is run down by a
frGcE returning home week later a a
physical wreck. with all ,o her d fHrm ier
terest in his wife and is greatly, at
tracted by Alma Shepherd. a widow.
He becomes infatuated and finally ms1iyg d fo
,nori his wife into state Of despond-
e MW. over her condition, so he can fake
Suicide, Tim feels the time nee for snoi fes
when DR.. Harold Arkwright, Esther
uncle, in discussing Esther's condition;
tells Tim he is positive she never. would
take her own life. During sea cruise
rim ponders over other means OF rid
ding himself of his wife.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
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cts all right. Esther, quite all right"

petite for food, which had shown
depressing want of enthusiasm
since the accident suddenly re-
turned; she seemed, in fact, to be
anxious to make up for lost time.
One night she retired early,
after one of those formidable gas
Economical orgies for which the
word dinner seems entirely too
modest a term. Tim stayed up till
about IL for a little bridge in the
smoking room, and when he final
ly climbed into the upper berth
Of the cabin he noticed that
Esther, though apparently fast
asleep, was breathing rather heav-
lily and moving restlessly from one
side of her bunk to another. :;
He went off at once into deep
sleep, but an hour or two later he
was jerked suddenly to full con-
seriousness by an agonized, heart
piercing scream: LET me out!-]
for Gods sake let me out! ri
He stepped down quickly.
TITS all right, Esther" he said.
"Quite all right. :" Her hand
had made contact with the inside
of the wooden frame Of the buni-,
she had CROPPED upward to the boz
tom Of the one above, and realized
she was shut in. =. She was
nailed in her coffin, Is feet below
ground; the gravediggers had
gone; there was no escape. u.
He soothed her and, overcome with
exhaustion, she fell asleep again
almost at once, this time peace
fully. ssss.
Others had heard the scream.
and there was some little talk
about it next day. But nobody
seemed to have located it exactly.
and the secret was kept. =
Tim, indeed, in the smoking
room just before lunch, was given
a circumstantial and slightly sala-
cious account of what had hap
pened. He was told that there
had been an attempted attack
and the identity not only of tl,e
victim, but also of the assa;.an:
was known to his informant 8
It did not occur to either ::r.
or Esther to regard the incidus:t
in any other light than that OF ass
isolated phenomenon, or to ,ncx
for any nearer cause or occasaon
than the latter's recognized tsxu
ency to nightmare. So she vwast
to bed the next evening at thu
same time as beforehand the cya
Gle was repeated, this time more
seriously, and in a way that did
not admit of any discreet hushing
up.
(TO Be ContinuedD
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CHAPTER Fl


DURING Esther's second night
mare on shipboard she did not
scream-or if she did, not suttl-
GENTLY loudly to awaken Tim or
attract any other attention. what
did wake him was a sudden
draught of cold air blown into the
cabin from an electric fan outside.
He Jumped to the floor and saw
that Esther's berth was empty.
An instant later heavy crash
from a little distance away sent
him racing down the corridor.
Others who had heard the noise
were close behind hint was not
yet 1 o'clock, and many of the peo-
pie on board had not retired for
the night. Among them was the
ships doctor, and it was he VINO
discovered Esther crumpled on
the floor at the foot of the stairs
leading to the dining saloon.
The stairway was fortunately
short, and against all probability
she had escaped serious hurt
Bruised knuckles, which she had
knocked against the banister, and
a slightly twisted ankle, were the
extent of her injuries. She was
awake when she was found
though it took her minute OF
two to understand where she was
Her mind had Travelled back to ar
hotel in Rome. where the Ken.
nedys had slept, in high room
reached by a swift and vertiginous
elevator; and somehow she hat
got into the well of the elevator
which began to descend upon her
It was the, ships doctor wht
carried her hack to the cabin. L
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1EAD. :, R !|:!? !!l!!( N
By BRUCE HAMILTON.


was Only MS second u1p AFTER
qualifying, and he treated the case
with great solennity, making
Esther lie up the whole Of the
next day, and personally admins
tering enormous yellow capsules OF.
uncertain composition at regular
intervals.
He was very earnest young
man, with close-cropped fair hair,
a broad, pink face, and china-blue
eyes blinking naively through
gold-rimmed spectacles. He had a
talk with Tim, and as he spoke
some French but very little Eng
lish, unjustifably assuming that
the latter tongue was practically
identical in vocabulary with the
former, his meaning tended to be
elusive.
1.-THE Couch-mare." he said,
.'verray daungerers. When in
FAINT, bagatelle; when adulterer,
verray daungerers. I have known
gents to cass the brass, the jamb.
I have known a mister ject him
self from high fenester; he
blessed to death. The Couch-mare
verray daungerers." $50
| 1t is sad to think that this ex-
cellent young man, should have
sealed Esther's fate. It was his
last instance that gave Tim the
cue he had been waiting for the
case of the mister who jected HIM
self from a high fenester and was
blessed to death. For Tim knew
of Just such high fenester. :.
From that moment it was only a
question Of working out the detail
The rest of the voyage passed
without any further outbreak
from Esther. The other passen-
gers did not quite ostracize the
Kennedys,, but they tended te
avoid them. It was felt that such
a malady was distressing and moi
quite seemly; besides, many PEG.
pie had their pet version of the
first disturbance, and were indig.
nant and resentful at having it ex.
| ploded.
But the night before the shiI
called at Dover, Tim tried an ex
pertinent.
The first step was to ensure thai
Esther should get three or foul
hours sound sleep. He did mo-
give her medinal, because h
wanted the conditions Of this re
, hearsal to approximate as closet!
as possible those which would OBJ
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tam when the performance was
enacted in earnest. And he was
not going to use medinal then; in
the event of a post-mortem traces
Of a recent dose, inconsistent with
nightmare-haunted sleep, would
certainly be found.
Instead, making the excuse that
it was their last night on board.
he called for a magnum of cham
payne, and filed and reflled
Esthers glass until she had drunk
over pint. Esther habituallv
drank little or nothing, but she
liked to let herself go on rare oc.
casions. Excess of alcohol in
variably induced in her a childlike
gaiety on which extreme fatigue
supervened, and she would fall
into a heavy sleep, becoming rest
less and disturbed after two or
three hours, finally waking in
deathly sickness about or 5
o'clock.
So it was now. But at o'clock,
two hours after they had gone to
bed, and while her first heavy
sleep was still on her, Tim stole
from his berth, dropped silently
onto the floor, and after opening
the cabin door, lifted her with all
the gentleness he could command
from where she lay. He carried
her into the passage, along which
he crept stealthily for a dozen
yards, then returned, laying her
once more in the berth and cover
ing her with the bedclothes. She
never stirred. An hour or so later
she awoke. She called out softly.
"Tim, dear, are you awaken"
Eyes, darling?"
Twill you get me a glass Of
water?"
He climbed down, switched on
the light, and did as she asked.
/ ''How are you feeling, Esther"
he asked.
| lawful. I shouldn't have
had that champagne"
you'll be all right in the morn
ing. -. Any bad dreams?
mot a dream. That's better.
I think I could go to sleep again
now"
"Righto! Good night, DEAR"
. "Good night"
He switched off the light, and
climbed back into his bunk, we'll
content. Within a few minutes he
was asleep.
ITO Be COntinuedD
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CHAPTER 20

$50 ESTHER got her holiday.
They set out on the following Fri
day, and stayed away six weeks,
returning at the beginning of
September. Tim went away with
his mind a complete blank on the
subject of greatest moment to
him. His confidence had been i'm
paired by the failure of his first
project, and his planning remained
for a time hesitant, indefinite, and
Utopian.
IT was a long time before he
was able, with the taste of sour
grapes becoming a little less acid
in his mouth, to persuade himself
that his original plan fell short OF
fulfilling the ideal conditions he
had postulated. But he did at last
succeed in doing so, to his own
satisfaction, and in retrospect the
idea of a sham suicide, accom-
panied by forgery, began to ap-
pear naive, intolerably clumsy and
entirely unworthy of him. He
finally even reached point when
he believed he had abandoned it
on his own initiative, without the
pressure of external events.
Suicide, beyond question, had to
be ruled out, and the conclusion
he reached was that it had been
damned from the beginning be-
cause of it's lack of the cardinal
necessity simplicity. The perfect
method was to engineer death
from natural causes. He saw that
this was by no means universally
impossible, and he could imagine
or recall from his wide reading of
detective fiction ways in which it
could be brought about which
would be beautifully ingenious
and perfectly suspicion-proof.
Suppose, for example, Esther
had a peculiar intolerance for
some particular drug afro
pine or even the barbituric group,
and he found that she could be
dispatched by the medicinal dose
or little more. Or suppose she
caught a winter chill that turned
to double pneumonia, and by
opening windows and doors, pre-
Stunning there was no nurse to
queer the business, he. let in cold
draughts that would virtually as
sure a fatal termination. There
were half a dozen other possibili-
ties. that occurred to him, but they
all required certain primary condi-
tons, none Of which were present
here.
Next best to the artificial con-
trivance of a natural death was
the arrangement Of an accident.
IF he could manage to push Esther
down a deep flight of stone steps,
or over the topaof cliff, or get
her into boat and overturn it, it
would be easy enough for him to
invent, and impossible for anyone
else tos disprove, any plausible
fairy tale. But there were no
suitable steps at The Wilderness,
the lake was nowhere deeper than
three feet. and he did not see how,
in the near future anyway, it was
going to be- impractical proposition
getting Esther to the top of a suit
able cliff, or into boat on a suit
able river. under just the right cir
cufnSta1ceS. aA% ..-t.>.,
He tried to look at the matter
in a more realistic Wav. TO, .ex-
anime Esther's' own background,
life, and health, with a view to
bringing to light some idiosyncrasH
or weakness which might be ex-
plotted. There was her arm. of
course. It was still discharg-
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READ TITS FIRSTa

Tim Kennedy graduated into would
be homicide from the school of arm
dental practice and an enviable social
position in a small town near London,
secure. Then Esther. is run down by a
truck, returning home a week later a
physical wreck, with all her former
beauty shattered: Tim loses FL in in
tracfed by Alma Shepherd, a widow.
He becomes infatuated and finally de-
cides that Esther must die. Trying to
work his wife into q state Of despond-
ency over her condition, SO n, ne can an ta AZ
5 poisoning is ripe. His plans are spoiled
when Dr. Harold Arkwright, Esther's
uncle, in discussing Esther's condition.
tells Tim he is positive she never would
take her own life. 5'sh
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Capital Gossip
EF3t
BY HENRY AVERILL
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Oct 1.-THE advertising
division of the Department Of Con-
servation and Development has is
sued bulletin OF Coming Events in
North Carolina. It lists:
1922: Travel tour of State under
auspices of Governors Hospitality
Committee and Department of Con-
servation and Development.
1915 State Fair in Raleigh.
14-15 State Y. N. c. A. Conference,
Durham.
1916: N c.. Education Association,
Ashcville.
1917: Annual Moth Boat Regatta,
Elizabeth City.
2O-21: Fat Stock Show, Asheville.
20-22: Annual Garden Show, Win
ston-Salem.
%: Northwest District, N. c. Edu-
cational Association, Winston-Salem
1928: Annual convention N. c.
Nurses Association, Durham.
1880: South Piedmont District, Edu-
cationa1 Association, Charlotte.
This weeks Supreme Court hear
ings will be on cases from the fifth
and sixteenth judicial districts. A
total Of 20 cases are on the regular
calendar with two others specially
set for the week None is capital
case, though they will be an appeal
heard in a second degree murder con-
viction in the fifth district. Decisions
will be handed down Wednesday aft
ernoon late.
There will be more, entries for the
Mayflower Cup this year than ever
before, according to DR.. G. c. Crit
tenden, executive secretary of the N.
G. Historical Association. The cup
goes to the author of the best book
published by a North Carolinian dur
ing the year. The award will be an
nounced December 3, DR.. Crittenden
said.
There will be a All Poultry Show
at the State Fair this week for the
first time in a number of years.
1.-THE show may not be as large this
fall as it has. Teen On occasion, but
what we lack in quantity we will more
than make up in quality" said G. F..
Parrish, of State College.
At a meeting of U. S. Highway No.
i Association members here last week
there was a lot of glib talk about
raising $4,000 annual budget, which
sounded like a lot of money in any
currency, including the Uruguayian.
But when it was explained that the
route is 1920. miles long, it wasn't SO
much per mile, and when it was ex-
planned further that tourists are esti-
mated to spend approximately $4,000
per mile per year along the route, it
seemed the highway folks were TAX
ing the good end of a 1900 to bet.
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Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attor-
ney General of the United States, will
speak at the University Day exercises
in Chapel Hill on October II which
are being joined this year with the
L ,:--ersitys celebration of the sesqui-
centennial of the signing of the Unit
ed States constitution. The speech
and exercises will be broadcast.
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french Envoy
Here ToUrge
I,OanTONaZis?
Arrival Revives
Reports Of Under
Cover Drive
By GRATTAN MeGROARTY
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Feb. IS. (UP)
Arrival here today of the new
French ambassador, Georges Bon
net. finance and commerce expert
of the Blum government, revived
reports of an intensive under
cover" campaign by France and
Britain to prevent war in Europe
by obtaining a huge American
loan TO Germany.
Speculation that the United
States would be called upon to
finance the peace of Europe"
hinged upon recent tacit admls-
sions by French and British Off
Gals that Nazi Germany must
have money with which to pur-
chase raw materials or resort to
the more expensive way of get
ting them--war.
Observers closely linked the Sc
lection of Bonnet to succeed An
DIRE de Laboulaye at the Washing
ton embassy with the recent visits
of Walter Runciman, president of
the British Board of Trade. and
Sir Otto Niemeyer, director OF the
Bank of England.
Runciman conversed lengthliy
with President Roosevelt but the
nature of their discussions was
kept secret.
Many officials believed that he
stressed the urgency, in the inter
ests of peace. of an immediate
cash loan to Germany, in addition
to informing the chief executive
that Britain could not commit her.
self to a reciprocal trade agree
ment until given absolute assur-
ance of the availability of Ameri-
can war materials in event of war.
Treasury department sources
disclaimed knowledge of move
ment to seek United States finan-
cial aid for Germany. At the same
time there appeared to be strong
sentiment among congressional
leaders TO stand by the provisions
of the Johnson act which prohib-
its loans to nations in default of
war debts. Germany comes under
this category, along with France
and England.
Observers attached considerable
to these more or less
vague developments in the light
of a current campaign by foreign
Continued on page four)
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. Feb. 49,
(UP).-Tired Red Cross health
officials were busy today prepar-
ing washed-out homes for the safe
return Of owners, while refugees
continued packing up" for the
trek back to the lowlands of the
upper Mississippi valley.
Even as some re-occupied un-
covered lands far north of here,
residents along the big river in
Concord aparish, La, expressed
confidence that the hundreds of
men reinforcing the 12-mile levee
front there would win their fight
with the swollen stream.
From Cairo south to Vicksburg,
Miss, the river continued its fall.
Helena, Ark.,-which registered a
top-puage Saturday of 60.2S feet
-breathed easily for the first
time in over a fortnight. At noon
Sunday U. S. Army engineers
guaged the river at 60.22.
Meanwhile the Red Cross sick
list mounted. In the rs emergen-
CIV base hospitals already estab-
lished in the Memphis area, near
ly 1000 patients received medical
attention.
In this district recent figures