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Show rm: joi un Kishion-- p u .! Ci .v mr ' M J Ht t s vv O st a S A :r t W t tv r . jocr.td her hands tight in iur lap to ( t f 0 ' V, i 3 . ' f IS ,1 - if e 1 i 1 i It A laugh I . , i V r it t ,1 i r A i. di- - ! ? 1 . r y, c s o $ t 1 i f'rt . t r - Jrct tiluB ! Jle checked himself just over the gjjeshold as though our plan were IS invisible wall and I felt that his Jar.k body grew tense. In the Vernik i.ght, his face looked paler and (jjiiiner but it was as controlled as Jj voice. I'm sorry to break In on a conference, but the hallman said you jjjv! cd to see me, Miss Paget. Jl.s eyes questioned each of us. ge must have read danger in our for he looked at me last and ,jd-- L J j l Enie t id tez-s- j It. on a' lLr, 'H A so r cLt; u.Vt. Agatha calls said, quite tran-pdly- : In a day may be an Imposition, Mr. Ferriter, but when jy.eard you were here, I thought it that you come In. pleasure, he said, with a lit- bow, but now he watched Shan-ln- . I was just getting some things needs. sister ajThe silence stretched each second. Shannon asked: 'JAnd your sister, Mr. Ferriter. flow is she? Two Ijt iA - ILL Quite the pause was hard to far. Shannon cleared his throat. JMr. Ferriter, Ive found out who L'S 0"v t r:r: mc:a fl( s- - j ao.'ts unr.t Lr;j I ft. .e Is El' Ip It, and i. hni h WO tilled your visitor. Lyon might have been bronze. At last, he said: ."In the first place Im not aware tfcat he was my visitor. In the second place, if this is to be a police tpiestioning, I must ask permission to call my lawyer. i Sure, Shannon said and shoved Tell desk phone toward him. kfcn to meet us at the Babylon and that Im on my way up to arrest lore Ferriter. That name caught Lyon half-wastross the floor and stopped him. y 3, CBj won toe: Irugsw & stared at Shannon, glanced at Be and then smiled. f'lone? he asked lightly. Arrest ter .CArrest her, Shannon repeated. Tor murder. I'm sorry to break it to you so sharply, Mr. Ferriter He made no further movement toward the telephone, but stood, looking hard at the policeman. What rot! The chair. Captain he said, sNo, up? REllW dern jdachT, o as dtiv table it full d 5 eling sn't hc uthw: &' the tes goat anulyc m cosaJ 1 Surely, Lyon began and then his bluff broke. You mustnt. Shes IS I tell you. You cant possibly think she had anything The pain in his voice rang true. Shannon cut him otf. I better give you the usual warning about whatever you say being tscd against you. Im not sure Whether youre accessory or not. I He paused. I was watching Ly-p'- s hands. They hung at his sides, $g-dlstill. Shannon went on and admired the confidence in his Wnce. She knifed this guy for reasons her own. Then she came out into fie hall yonder and hollered. j "I see, said Lyon. And swal-jbe- d the knife. j Listen, Shannon answered, if I Wasn't so certain Id not be telling Ju The next night after the mur-thi- s Mallory here bumped into iir ,n the basement hallway. In j to dalk. 1 $ Lean's eyes touched mine for a ht second. Then they returned to an.--' n. I saw his hands clench a irstantly hang lax again. His was amused. I see. He recognized her in the aTf." Sr.unnon shook his head, im-riito ireny. Mo He knew it was a woman, s all But a taxi driver saw her e out of the basement. She got tto h s cab. Heres his affidavit. 'e r- K- to read it? :!ered the paper Cochrane had d at his dictation. Lyon half fer it, drew back and shook s u ad. m nut interested, he said care- :' Its a mistake. My sister jS at the Babylon all that i b - 7 r. - 1 c "ft know now, iofel te bft9, OtiU 1 tf t landlady, identifies her, after that struggle in ent, she went to see him which, Lyon began and 3 I jerked. For an instant, heard in his vo.ee a cI ffiat foreign speech that Cl " e to me twice before. It r when he resumed t.iriiok the fact that my r een cleared. One of the 'vs Sri her come in just be- 1 0S 1 ES & Shannon went 'h narrowed eyes, whether rs- i.y thmk so or not. Ferri-Jr- e wasnt. She called at Mr. r' s boarding house. Mrs. ah W s a- - r- bt on ti 11 In t i i; nsk i n i u '' i Vi g J 'IM-- I .1 ef ' ) u ! i . i aii i ' iur i it i , t I ' I two t! a h aMona in, i i h.iir i old .S Mm i f,,- - (j, r' i I', ii H i I I ii tJ k ' I ,i i M i I it 1 i I'd i )' j- j- 'iv.1 - e Low ti p t vtr war it u V f i - n - ! 'M.S IM i II I I w II t in ' W i i w I 111 t 0 i ,in- id, ded p itea r tut SIT Sill 'id lliltfc ' : s' Nrw v i i .i V mil a I V i U 1 1 .1, v i" a sh ko, so qu ot! t' at WMuiiud who nor I y, n folt the I had gi i o t!u i f to t im' edge of her w , l us .Ur. nw.iv l!o dang ny I a s h i d C.tpt.nn Shannon to toll and 1 giiw i no, tn.it w liter, beard you what ho knows. Mr Forritor. aftir his death We died nl Ke You wtio so consult rate this mornc!i an .haven, at id so, bi a i Oi d 1 ing that bi luod you would rather We came lu.ik to tiaie the states n be propaiod, before the arrest I et t iter and siMi r There will be, he rejlied w,th Mv biolitr, u sta.il nt bat a an ugly defiance, no arnst No wiakla.g, had i ti.a.gi d Ins mi" e darag tne war He was no loi r Hind Horstn,. m, but Ivuett Hunter. Now, I no lorgir An ireas Hoistman but Ivon I had enough for comfort We wue happy, I believed my daughter would make a good marriaee wi.m vour ihjI.iw came of age " He bowed puetsily Uw..id Miss Agathu as though he had cm.i her, and ursutd: 'Last Monday, ny cousin, whom I thought died, haded me on the He had my arm lufote 1 street saw him. Hide was nothing else to do. I brought him to my fiat. There was no one in the hall and we walked upstans. We talked a long while. He paused and seemed to look back with critical eyes upon that interview. Shannon bent over his 1 saw the writing. quick rise and fall of Allegras breath and the hawk look on her aunts face. Andreas Lyon was greedy. Horstman said at last. "I oifi red him all the money He wanted it and lone. She was still his wife I ordered him out at last. He refused to go. Then 1 lost my temper. I called the police and he drew his No. He knew it was a knife and again I killed him. Thir woman, thats all. time, permanently I think. doubt lone, if it were she, could exHis face moved with a ghost of plain her presence in the base- his whimsical smile. He shrugged ment. and said-"ThShe wont need to, Shannon said rest you have found cut quietly, "because it has been how I hid the knife in the basement proved. She went down there to get and how lone found her husband; the knife that killed your visitor. how she went back to the cellar, to Whose name, Cochrane said save her father and got the knife was just possibly dreamily, only to drop it when Mr. Mallory Horstman, eh? came upon her; how she lost her Lyon could control his spare ex- head and went to his room; how terior. He could not manage his Everett and I both bungled our last heart. Color came into his face. effort to find it and Everett killed You see, Shannon pressed on. himself because he feared death too "lone Ferriter dri pped something much to live longer. Outside of tryin the basement that night. ing to help the father she loves, He lifted the handkerchief from my daughter had nothing to do with the knife upon the desk. The dis- this I tell you, not a thing. tant sound of traffic came into the Shannon started to speak but still room. Lyon did not move, but Cochranes query forestalled him. All right," he crooned, you killed ebbing color left his face a greenish gray. him. How did you get out afterShannon said: Her fingerprints ward? are on the handle. Theres blood For an instant, Lyon did not on the blade, and after another seem to understand. Then an odd long moment in which Lyon never expression crossed his face. stirred, added: Oh ho, he exclaimed softly. Weve got her, Ferriter. She is still a mystery, eh? Something killed him. As for her alibi You know so much, I thought you He picked up the telephone and had read it all. It was simple. Let said: Hoyt? Come up here. me show you. Down in the Morello, I heard the He took a step backward and shaft door clang. The moan of the about the room. glanced elevator blew through the room like the divan behind which Suppose rising wind. T ' s body lay was there." said Lyon thickly: eyes followed the pointing fln- lone had nothing to do w er. then added: He paused and The door, said Horstman, turnI killed him. The thrill it should have brought ing toward it with a smile, would was oddly missing. I looked at Lyon then be here. He leaped. It slammed behind It with vague disappointment. should have been more dramatic him. Like its echo, we heard the front door close. than that. Miss Agatha said: I was quick but Shannon was This is, of course, a rather belated but chivalrous attempt to save quicker. He was at my elbow as I pulled the workroom portal open. He your sister . . . The doorbell rang. Shannon called was past me and through the hall door before I reached it. to Annie: Tell him to wait." he was barking at Where? Lyon said to the old lady as though there had been no interruption: Hoyt, who stood in the open doorShe is not my sister. She is my way of the waiting car. Eddie gabbled. daughter. said M,ss AgaI've wondered, Downstairs. On foot. He fell, I tha at last, breaking the sdence think. Shook the hull elevator. He The man went on and as emotion All Shannon roared down the relaxed h.s pose, tne guttural tone shaft. I had heard first over the telephone Here, his aid repl.ed from begrew beneath his accustomed speech low. and at last dominated it. Stop him." shouted the Captain You can This is my confession. and plunged down the stairs. I write it down, Captain. The man for the car. that I killed had done my daughter jumped Basement, I muttered to Edmuch wrong. I thought him dead." who jerked his lever. I was die, He paused. too hard to hear his questhinking Cochrane asked: knife had been hidden The tions. In a blizzard, in Alaska? Somehow, the murbasement. the in knockThat blind shot got Lyon, it left there, unperceived, derer had ing his reserve away, breaking, for before. He might be taking that He gaped his an instant, route thither again. at his mild questioner and struggled mysterious Shannon beat us to the foyer. As attack his drove for speech. Jerry we slid past Us closed door, I home, still gently: hear him yapping like a could chest?" his With a bullet through terrier. Are you the devil?" Lyon blurted thwarted down. And I followed He came tortured and the thick sound of his He him. If you've let him get by, Ill voice seemed to shock him. I heard, once again, the voice from caught held cf himself, turned real voice cf him we had the in to Shannon, said Cicnrare and It fi.lcd known as Lyon ferriter. his old easy rn.anr.tr: a fearful sound, sud with shaft we if the Do you m.nd very much o keep denly ended. The car lurched. aen't go into that? Id (TO HE CUMlMll)) cut cf trouble. That Mis'- - .1 , lit ' t i I v ' i. u 1 I " i s i it ' Iim t ii i f i t t, O f t I : t , , i i M u it i It esoiirct'lf ss I. II t t 11 . 'v f, t i u rm: A w indovv box rHl uur laws or II, p ai f i voi ite than in a ; a; i r is, i tin Iupli ti e p.igt s f fit magazine, niote see pic t it es of stage, i ,iln you and motion picture star, (ollige g rls, club wonun and di butanti all busy at a new hobbj emehet-lng- ' e Canaiiian t'alifi '! m, i, from boliiir to tin (lalf of Mi xieo. The vogue has taki n such le ii 'that win n a dili riailes into her handbag, it's piolialih for a eioeliet hook i atht r than a bp' tu k to t1 now-ad.iv- s Mind you. its not juct the home gnl.s mtiiistiii in hotel wiftly aiis wlio aie crnihetaig Tins tune its the collt ge gals v.tiee campus, bound tiuiks, ri turning from mid wilder hniiucnimi.ps, fully bulpid unfinished and with .sweattrs blouses ami aee s.sory lti m.s into winch, no doubt, they will tie put tmg the final .stdilus in tin lecture room, pacing busy bands to busy In the city thoroughfai i s minds its the dt butanti s who arc trot hiding in taxicabs s etdmg to and fro in their round of soiial engage-nunts- . Stage and ladio stars aie at It too, while tiny wait their cues, all of which mi ans that crocheting has definitely reached the glamour stage. Tlwt croitut has come "in" as a style of high mioit.mce is big news from the f.i'hion angle. The famous designer Schiaparelli may be back of it all. for when she arrived some months ago on the Atlantic clipper she wore a crocheted collar, crocheted gloves and listen to this crocheted stockings! The latter were very smart looking and created a sensation because of their unusualness. w w ji c with s w i Ii i I a ,u i Ii t t .i dh the ( I, i j, , t a v t..k n 1 i,t ona 'la ut us. I . . economical . . . . . . nourishing order , today, from your grocer. s !u e in s w.dtr v li.ua i the m tin i ( t n i . , r i ti, i match to 1 that hath easy fo prvpato . id e.e lining i nulling. in a p I i iil Most delicious bag of tho season . . quick and i t , IIOUSK mti Ivy grows best la u e .a . 11 A eroi'lu ling fad t.s sw taping the Ciintut hooks are being Country wit ldeii bv busy fuigcis from Maine handy tm . . , n , i lo ,1 I i i u t I . I1, I ! i mo o T 1,1 .i , f , t t i ( I w 'J AROUND Is EOP CORN t l.td . ,i VjCHOCfSri i tit's i 'CJAMtRICA sl V?PiS,,,i 7 t 1' I ! I j V; ooll I i I I t i V- i U i ' to w S i t, i A J i ' O W i if i I K i ) ' i t i i ; ' 1'. i . i i 1 ' i t i t ' i i ' ! I I , it ' a 1 try daughter s .0. I J I I self-contro- l. eki'i'i Oi.wi t a ' vs jorgest. s ft. 3 Ruth Wyeth Spears M A a I I li.i I! l,t; v 1 ! It!,, entered. M K1I t i (. HU Za'A 1 i ' I Ira I e t A ail i U .Kt IW all (jjttk their trembling. Cochrane giee, IltaS, Cat jjjred at nothing with a half sm.le el's ' u; : .in Id M t.l J i U ti .1 t1 .. M t in jad l.ghted a cigarette. Sn.U'.I.U! S Vu.lf w.,3 Miss said Agatha and miio s .please, it it t .d started and offered her one. Sue than I ha M Ni p i rriti r, It .1 Hhted it steadily as Lynn Ferriter 1 ith I 1 ' I 1 1 s it.. He 1 t si I l I Takr . ! i it oiiuMi . v t . S' e !' SV'' & d if! '1 !, i W Crnch(liiii .1', r It e I t! f n 1 a t a I h e i i :t i Ye ur Z h' t. i.. i. I'e III t u i In d idea of in ill eioclut wings Hum in tin li.ui has spiead like wddlne Young gii Is are I'pieiallv line tin so w mgs it taki .s only a jillv to make tin m and they ale ddleieiit and min Ii innie inteuslmg than 11m- tra ditioii.il Mblmn bows tiny have be in wealing A iniiiiahii e ei hi In t shaw to eoiiiple te a su i ,i ti i ,nid plaid e skut out fit is another favoiite c - iie-C- ssi ii At exiitiiig stv le pi i in s for spl n.g the' i ii basis no rim bet f.e is Uln, ie t.ikable Idi as ale sue h that i liver vunm ii at home will hi' u u K to add ci in helrd items to flu ir own waidri'bis For insits of eioelnt in trian- If ruhher gloves spi milled dh imn stall ll or a q t' povvdir tiny will slip mi on tl e lie ide vv easily. the mc.isming cup n a is es asm lie, up and it will not link to the sides of the i up. (re.i'P e ln'-fe- li it .' v u I When two glasses become wedged together place old water m the1 upper one and set lower ill Sorrows and Joy vvuim water. Tin v will then Sorrows remembered sweeten with little cffoit. present Joy. Iollok. e sep-uin- vi e te ? gles, squares or nicies, also yoke tops, add style lone lies to the new loekeds and pastil wool frocks belts eif erne bet and jackets with rroe lifted sleeves be spi ltk the' high-stylsignificance of this new vogue for handwork. Milliners are on the ale it, too They are- making snug roe hot turbans with dramatic twists and drain's of eroi hed to give front height. The white crochet hat at the top of the left m the illustration has gone patriedir in that an American eagle spreads its wings in a gay crochet motif To the right (above) a casual wide brimmed bat has its crown cmbellishc-with an apphejue of floral crochet done in green cotton thread The smart crocheted pillbox hat shown below has a close fitting snood for anchorage e and style1 (He Ir.iK ri by Wrsti rn Ni iisp.,n r tnlon.l Gmlili ins Important Lapol Gadgets Trimming Foatnro The new costumes and sweaters tmbbzoned with emblems Some are embroidered, others formed of jewels, beads and seThe casual sports blouse quins flourishes a nautical emblem on its sleeve or perhaps on the pocket Sailor blouses with imigma on the sleeve are "last word fashion news are for spring Jewel gadget') cont.nue to flourish midseason jacket lapels. With tne discarding of burdensome winter far coats comes evidence of the importance attached to suits for m.dseason ar.d early spring wear With suits in tne Lrnel ght, then it is that the gadgets so popularly worn on jacket lcj'ls will come into their own with renewed emphasis. While women an- w.Jing and eager to d.scard the .r far t pcoats during the interval tt at s; in winter and II spring, they it. cl g to the touches of flattering far that so dramatized In the pictheir smart turner 3 ture an tneirmois pin Your Lest dress should have on Imposing emblem e rnbroieie red in jewels and metal beads. Your hat lo'iks patriotic with a jeweled or embroidered eagle spreading its wings on crown or brim. Your scarf should cany a cunningly contrived emblem, arid yeaur hankies too The story goe s on and on throughout the spring style jrogr.irn in enoless and fascinating ways. on - r is worn on the l.q green woe, I long-coa- 1 of a mu There will be considerable Ujaz and amber jewelry m ev iderre our,' g the midsa-somonths and early spring in line with the trend toward yellows and be ges and surlun tones that are sponsored for spring t. n Matili Hats Willi Tailored Tweeds Designers think so highly of matching the tailored suit with a tailored hat of identical material that they are stressing the idea in advance spring fashions. When you buy your suit ask for a that includes the matching hat. If you ere having your suit turned out by your favorite tailor, buy an extra piece of the tweed e,r novelty suiting to furn.sh your milliner who will fashion smartest kind of from soft brimmed hats to jaunty sailors and pillbox types Perhaps a turban might interest you most. 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