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Show 1 not to tell anybody but me who these' people are. "Oh of course! Sylvia declared I wont tell anywith emphasis, body. I wouldn't like anybody to tell who I was. I dont believe anybody will guess who I am. I reassured her on this point. I continued to watch Molly Eames and Walter Treadway. How beautifully they danced together! And what a contrast they made Molly, in her and almost silvery lace and crystals; Walter as one carved out of jet in his black cape and his shining chain-mai- l. Walter danced continuously with Molly except for two dances she gave Ace Blaikie. I continued to watch them and with varying emotions. Molly Eames with all her golden gayety was not a person of whom you asked personal questions. There was one question that all Satuit would have liked to ask her. Why had she thrown Waller over? .They had seemed to be passionately in love. They had seemed to be perfectly matched. And yet, suddenly and apparently for no reason she had broken with him, and Walter had Immediately left total. A few' months later she announced her engagement to Ace Blaikie. Ace Blaikie who was my contemporary, who was, in age, more than twice her twenty-tw- o years! Ace Blaikie who had started, before she was born, flirting iminiml Murder Masquerade BY- - Inez Haynes Irwin Cmrribt Iuu Ilajroca Irwin WNV Service. SYNOPSIS widow win lives in tlie harMary Avery, bor Iowa of Saluit, Mass., with two orgro Dadie and lirssie Williams, maids, Sarah writes a manusrript describing the famous Second Head murder, which occurred on her estate. Nexttu Mary live Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mow who every year give n summer masquer-ad- s psrty. One uf the guests of this function fa murdered. Nearby live Ur. and Mrs. Geary and their married daughter Kdiib and her husband Alfred Bray; Doctor Myron Harden and Caro Prentiss, a beau-tifbis young girl whu was bora in France. Neat lire Paul ami Lora Lames and their daughter Mully. Molly was engaged to the murdered nun, Ace Blaikie. She had been engaged to Walter Treadway, who had been the murdered man's secretary, but the engagement was suddenly broken and he had left town. Other awighbors are the Fsirweather sisters. Flora, s hopeless invalid and Margaret. All but the brld ier taro attended the masquerade. Mary's niece Sylvia Sard is visiting her for the summer. The wooded part of Mary's estate is called the Spinney. In k Is a tiny log cabin. Near a atone wall is a tiny circular pond called the Merry Mere. This Is the day of the masquerade and excitement is high. Mary decides to tabs Sylvia, who b an unusually observant child. Caro Prentiss and Molly Lames drop in during the afternoon. . Molly sterna Soon Blaikie, Doctor Harden and Bract lira sou, a friend of Are's, arrive. Molly b impatient In leave sad they all excuse them-selve- s. At the party Sylvb identifies each of the mashed guests as they arrive. Are comes as Juliua Caesar. garbed soft, as soundless as a vast white cloud, enveloped me. I waked about noon. I lay for a moment struggling with that cloud of sleep, half trying to pull out of it. Presently I heard Sylvia's voice, Oh I do wish Aunt Mary'd get and I bounced wide awake. up! Sylvia, I called, come in here, BRISBANE To Store Food in Mine Presidents Good Idea No Criticism for Germany dear! Sylvia, very slim in her little d gingham dress, her blue Japans Many Babies blue-bowe- snapping upwards the President talks peace at the end, perched herself on my forWhile the Americas, England, all me in her and bed, contemplated most friendly manner. Of course she was carrying Dorinda Belle. Have you had your breakfast, I asked sleepily. Sylvia? locked small Yes, Aunt Mary. Did you sleep well? I did, but Dorinda Belle didnt. A terrible thing happened, Aunt Mary. I feel perfectly dreadful about it. You see I left Dorinda Sarah Darbe interrupted, enterWe ing with my breakfast tray. let her sleep as long as she could, Mr- - Avery," she took up. the conversation. "She must have waked up about eleven.. She had her breakfast a little over a half hour Ago. Sylvia watched me pour my How I wish I could have some, Aunt Mary! she exclaimed wistfully. Ill-bglad when you can, I temporized. "Because then you and I can have our coffee together. But youll have to be a big girl- before that happens. What are you I going to do this, afternoon? . the subject. . changed ' Nancy and I are going to play, down at the Merry Mere. We are making a little village. Theres my 'doll house and that birdhouse thats been in the garage so long, and a lot of boxes that sort of look like houses. Nancy and I made up our minds that there was going to be king and queen rin the village and so Dorinda Belle is going to be queen and Nancys going to be king. Theyre to be crowned today. Oh thats why Dorinda Belle is wearing that gorgeous dress! I said. Yes, Aunt Mary. I made it myself. Sylvia held Dorinda Belle up so that I could get the entire effect of lanky draperies wrapped around her. Beautiful! I fibbed tactfully. Sylvia .chattered on, adding other opulent details of the days plans, but. I was not listening. "Which of. the ladies did you think looked the prettiest last I asked. night? "Oh the Snow Queen! Sylvie answered promptly and with enthusiasm. I thought she was wonderful: Molly is the most beautiful lady I ever saw! Which of the men did you like V most? I asked. Doctor Ace! Sylvias small freckled nose wrinkled with her elfin mirth; alp distilled her tinkling' Oh, Doctor. Ace was laughter. so funny asking me if I was- - Mri; Broome and Ellie Dent and Wouldn't you have thought, Aunt Mary, that he'd have known I wasnt any of them? He did not. take his mask off. He went away before that. Oh Im so- sorry he went away. ' You love Doctor Ace, Sylvia?" Yes, .he gives me nice I dont like Doctor "Spelt man. Doctor Spellman gives me horrid medicine. Doctor. Ace tells me stories too. I love him.. It was one of the contradictions in Ace Blaikie's contradictory character that hq; preferred little girls to little boys. He had an enchantwith little girls and ing way this enchanting way had no relation whatever to the ' fascinating way he had with older, women.' Foj. Ace. Blaikie had always been'' attractive always.' Im- sorry Doctor Ace didn't come, back and take his mask off, .Sylyia repeated. Afterward. I'warf to recall that Sylyia had laid twice that Ace Blaikie had gone away, twice that she was sorry he had not comb back. At that moment of course it made no impression. It did make an impression howWalter didever, when she said, nt come back either. T I said, Sylvia you will not say. anything, to anybody about Wacoif-fe-e. e - . boy-dol- ls Continued They danced. When the music stopped, Ace brought her back to my side. He bowed low before he left. Thank you, senorita!" he said. Did you enjoy the dance, lamb? I asked Sylvia. Oh, Aunt I hushed her with a conscious touch of melodrama. Dont speak my name. Oh, I wont do it again, Sylvia whispered, looking hastily about her, her eyes dancing with imHe tried and he tried portance. and he tried to find out who I was, she went on importantly. But I .would not tell him. He asked me it I was Mrs. Broome. Sylvias Sh-sh-- Mary" . - Naney and I Are Going to Play Down at the Merry Mere. per-fick- with all the pretty- - women in the county and who had never, except for his absence during the World war, ceased to flirt with them. Wal- sparkles burst through the importance which had quieted her look. Nina ter had never entered Satuit since Broome was the tallest his a year "before, woman in Satuit a little over six had departure not known that he had refeet v turned. I told him I wasnt, Sylvia There was one more notable enwent on. "And at first he wouldnt trance before the unmasking; this believe me. Then he asked me time a pair man and woman. 'They Here Sylvia burst into a series of wore costumes of the Revolutionif I was Ellie ary. period; the woman.- in a silvery giggles, Dent. gown of the palegt yellow Ellie Dent was the fattest woman tyjmmed with . lace ; a wig in Satuit three hundred pounds the satin, of yellow hair, .from conservative us had which fell onto her nCcV'two long among guessed. curls. The man wore lilac satin. I told him I wasnt Ellie Dent! Being something of a connoisseur And at first he wouldnt believe both of old lace and old paste, I me. And then he asked me noticed the finpngss of the .Chantilly if ruffles which . trimmed er .. gown Again she burst into giggles, I was Tom Boylan. which fell an4 the ' old Tom Boylan was the town drunk from his neck and wrists; the anan old man of an exaggerated tique precidusness of their pasle tallness and thinness. her necklace and earrings; his Entrance music interrupted this ruffle-fuand Shoe buckles. conversation. I should have guessed' at once;1 There appeared in the frame of I should have recognized a certain the doorway the loveliest figure trained quality in the movement that had yet entered the room. A of the woman, a certain 'Courtliness tall, lithe creature, young! Yes in the bearing of the mem Yet it with that aliveness she must have was not 'until Sylvia said, Doctor been young; dressed as mental- Marden and Caro! that I knew. The party went on. ,1 noticed ly I dubbed her Snow Queen. She wore a gown of a frail silvery lace with a resigned amusement how trimmed with broad bands of gradually, as is inevitable at all white fur. parties I have watched the procQuick as a flash came Sylvias ess' a hundred times in my own whisper, Molly place Mattie's house lost its look identifying Earnest And there she was, at of freshness and orderliness: once revealed to me, my precious Sylvia complained that she was Molly. thirsty and I sent her out into the kitchen for. a. drink. She did not She looks like a Snow Queen! come buck until the unmasking. I I said. Almost immediately on Mollys did not bother her. I knew siie was entrance appeared another notice- having a good time with the maids. Tile unmasking came some time able figure a man in armor. Obviously young, obviously athletic, after eleven. Three of the people he was in his medieval way, almost for whom I looked particularly had as striking as Ace in his Roman apparently left the house Molly way. I am no authority on armor, Eames, Walter Treadway, Ace although I suppose I have seen Blaikie. We knew the next day hundreds of specimens in the gal- that Ace Blaikie left it to walk to his death. leries of Europe. When the clock struck twelve, I I hadnt the remotest idea who he was., lie was superb, though! sent Sylvia home with Bessie. At Yet the combination of black mail midnight, the StoWs put on one of and black mask made him a little the delightful divertisements which sinister. Even Sylvia did not at are always a feature of' their first identify him. He fascinated annual party. This time it was a her, however, as he fascinated me modernistic quadrille danced by We both watched him. And then four couples dressed in cubistic suddenly, with a little ecstatic black and whitp. Presently came the delicious, supstart of recognition, Sylvia whishad begun again. pered, Oh I know now who it is! per andanddancing I left a little after two. Sarah Walter Its Treadway! and Walter had not returned My first sensation was of thrill, Molly romantic thrill, delighted thrill. But to the party; neither of course had when I saw him making at once in Ace Blaikie. the direction of the Snow Queen, SATURDAY swing oil Into dance with her, I became conscious I don't even now I have often recalled how hard, know why exactly of a sense of unease. Molly and Walter had not, long and drcamlcssly I slept that I believed, spoken, had not seen night. Not much more than a each othti, since they broke their stone's throw from my house, a engagement. Did they recognize horrible tragedy had enacted itself. But my psychology, untouched each other now? I whispered close to Sylvia's ear, by the horror in the atmosphere, Remember, darling, that you are stayed static. A rest, as thick, as full-skirt- ed high-pile- d . pose-poi- nt n . . t-- . . . ffil pig-tai- ls - FRIDAY tions for making them: material requirements. To obtain this pattern send n cents in stamps or coins preferred) to The Sewing Household Arts Dept., 259 vVm? Fourteenth St., New York N y Write plainly pattern number' your name and address. THIS WEEK ly . Tom-Boyla- - medi--cine- . -- r iter's being there. I won't, Aunt Mary," she promised me. You see it's a secret. Now skip along darling! I'm going to dress."-SaraDarbe came in as Sylvia went out fresh linen for my bed over her arm. I've drawn your bath water, Mrs. Avery, she said, handing me my kimono. When I came out of the bath, my room had been put to rights. Is there anything further I can do, Mrs. Avery? Sarah asked. Notliing, thank you Sarah, I answered. An invariable ritual of entertainment for the maids of Second Head marks the Sunday after the Stow masquerade. They all come to a picnic in the Little House on my place. A little perfunctorily, I said, "I suppose the girls are getting ready for the picnic tomorrow. "Oh yes, Mrs. Awry! Sarah answered. "Theyre all pretty excited. They always are. We wouldn't miss our picnic for anything. Are all the usual crowd going? I asked. "Yes, Mrs. Avery," Sarah answered, about a dozen of us." CIO BE COy TIMED I Chillicothe Named for Tribe CSullicothe, Ohio, takes its name from the Shawnee Indian sub tribe. WOMENS island, separated by narrow water from European hatred, realizes that it would be hard to keep out of a big war. She might, some day, move her Pattern imperial roieman;.,'.frnfl No. 56M Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Mo nn headquarters which to make usmuiTMm-iowjufrom London to it's hard to decide not but why make just one, why Montreal or Delightful cuddle toys, these, rtf rjroifabattar lronla realOT zad 3 as the all! and A Sad buMal UaJuia Iron just the soft, warm playthings French governnothment once moved for a babys arms. Theres Arlfc.. SriabaM ing to the making of them, for fr)m p a r i g tO each is composed fit but two the and governMfltsazwb1. FreaomWmi. tea Spanish Bordeaux, with the exception of the Valpieces, to Madrid from ment recently bear, whose jacket is extra, and encia. 10 the chick, whose flapping wings what her wonders peoEngland Your gayest cotton are separate.be should war if eat would THE COLEMAN LAMP AND STOVE S? ple making of forced upon her, with enemy sub- scraps can go into the In pattern these gifts. winning marines and airplanes sinking her 5609 you. will find a transfer patfood ships. She is not instrue- and her newly organized .food tern for the four animals; plans department will fry to store away enough find to last at least a year. As a cache for the food, Temptation ; coal England is using worked-ou- t ... i, '. mines, of which many, going down temptation once TO RESIST thousands of feet, should be safe not a sufficient proof of from bombardment. honesty. If a servant, indeed, SALESMEN were to resist the continued The President's trip to South Amtemptation of silver lying in a REINDEER VENISON JERKET la Mill erica proves to have been a most window when he is sure his bags. Saleamen wanted for beer and rent BERT PHILLIPS CO.. a.w useful idea. Great crowds welcomed master does not know how trade. lSTH AVE., PORTLAND, OKE.i;u him in his brief stop de much there is of it, he would, Janeiro,' as he drove through the give strong proof of honesty. streets with the Brazilian President But this is a proof to which Getulio Vargas, bands playing The you have no right to put a man. Banner. . There is a degree of temptation Our community includes the arm 'The President will talk peace and which will overcome any virsurrounding the town. The town storm tue. Now, in so far as you apbusiness, at least as much busilie there for the accommodation and to ness as peace, and he will make to a man, proach temptation serve the people of our farm homes. The friends for us all in South America. do if an him you injury; and, merchants who advertise am he is overcome, you share his. merchants who are sure they"specials" can meet all You may' count that day rare on Johnson. Dr. guilt. competition in both quality and prices. which Chancellor Hitlers government does nothing new and queer. Dramatic criticism and literary criting, are likewise risky. How can you icisms are hovf forbidden in GerMEAT PERFECT tell whether or not the meat U thorConstructive of criticism is many. oughly smoked? But if you want to YEARS to value actors and writers ; AFTER greatest the intelligent among them- are IN OPEN ROOM grateful for it. 'Someone should tell Mr. The Ruler of the universe was his own critic, and God saw everyRipley this story that cornea from John S. Hill, storething that He had made, and, beQue-be- c, - g, CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT tr- -- - at.-Ri- Your Town Your Stores Star-Spangl- 8 - Believe-It-or-N- hold, it was very good. All need criticism, the.powerful need it more than others, and Hitler will have Tokyo- reports - for Japan the World's highest birth-rat; 2,180,-- .. 702 riqw. Japanese babies arrived more than in. 1934 by .148,931. Japanese. marriages are increasing, divbrceq decreasing; the latter, down to' less jhan one ii( 1,000 marriages; Japanese Husbands' and .wives get' alohg better than Ameri-,.can- s , do. e 5, . great contract bridge "competition ends and" the Harold Var derbilt cup goes to four 'players called the Kaplan team; PhilAbram-sohFred Kaplan, Harry Rishbein and Irving Epstein. Mr. Vanderbilt, on hanc-tpresent his .cup,- might telephone Chancellor Hitler that you do n?t have, to .be an Aryan to understand bridge. Tlie n, - .... Business is picking'up and that includes marriage! most important. Chicago university says 750,000 few. er weddings have taken' place tne-si- ng- keeper in South Carolina. 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The prosperity, of the nation depends on how much the workers have to spend. . DALLAS,TEX. Manufactunrt of Smoko Products THE Smoke Sauce-Saus- cue age Seasoning l too-sho- NEWHOUSE HOTEL China says she will risk war with Japan rather than let Japan take more of her territory. If that war comes it will illustrate the difference between a country prepared, Japan, and one unprepared and di organized, China. Japans unspoken answer to Chinas war threat is her birth rate. Those millions of new babies must go somewhere. Sir Basil Zaharoff, called mys- tery man" and richest on earth dead of heart disease at eighty-eix- , had for his motto, Every man has his price." He dealt in munitions, and he may have bought, as well as helping to kill, many. Beginning poor, in Constantinople, Zaharoff climbed to the top in money and intrigue. It matters little where you start, what matter is inside the head. jrK? n NU Service. !. 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