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Show .comtss-s- ! stepping into the shadow of the wall to find one. Out of the darkness a voice spoke suddenly that I Jumped. I thought for a moment, still obsessed oy my European experience, that t was some watchman of the gallery, and I said, "It's e so all quickly; I heard somebody walking toward meThen my fingers found the switch, and the lights on. And before me the face sprang of a man in evening dress seemed to spring out at me with the lights, it was so white s startling. It was a beau-fu- l fK - ? - a face, narrow, , hke some of the portrait of gay young aristocrats In old English canvases. lint the expression was queerly desperate. It was the most hitter and tormented face 1 bad ever seen. high-bred- ,. I ' U. I 't been so angry, through ioivti. with the blood so I face that I flung open fto cool off in the sharp L I would never have Clow And I would never my anger. IU f..pi that anything these ht do could hurt me. uut ed like a piano tuner, like lidiculoiis, sent for to it'Ilial JOU auoui uie uuusc: ton, better horn and betm they not goou enougn . Given a tray bcr, like one ! let that get me. laughed it off ; but bad been childishly and all f'iut this week-ento promise, and I had jre than I eould afford for I "as so sure I then the sight of fpeople downstairs, stand-with the cocktails that eiiil of the tifiiid talking, had tne tin-- j anticipation as I followed .Jfcitb my bags up the stairs. jdy knew who some of ye. I knew from the pa-I- t Alan Deck, the critic, I loved his dry, Je there. fctenees. I had hoped for liter-f- a le me at dinner d art might be paired I'd bad little dreams of to f silly to have 1 d r aml, J tea-hou- r, to-fii- understanding and In my new i2 me likable. 1ml a ! tn' llarrblens were to be at amazing couple whose iiil accusations uud recoil- New York still rolled However my New & blood might register dis-- j of the goings-oof this set, my un- e soul had been thrilled at :M of meeting Nora Har- $e enchantress. ffsiiper-gihle- wondered, passing through It hall, whether that slight in guld pajamas, rather the others, were om she said, as the man put down on the little folding f'Vou will tell Mrs. Keller eV" Naively I had thought hadn't announced me when f fl. fcs, Madame, she will be ln-- f lie said perfunctorily. I what time Is dinner?" I fto know. Jan had looked vague. "Oh hour, I expect. At ut you can have your tray . .. . .. fintrfin unit JOU wish, a little t afraid I stared. As quickly said, "No at eight, voice was not sue-- I in eloakinir what I I my pieither, sake of savin? Rnnir- Meroiit sounding, I asked "Just wImto Is Hip nrf irnl. '!" and be told me that It iund the corner from my fr the Sa!lH' nprnca thn ;e ,ir the Imuim.. Shut lie door With nrn. Q'''t, mid I pretended to ab'uit Hip h f I room, unpacking try in- - t0 admire the cond,,;,,, ,he black In(S the (:hii se furniture, the f'ase. f e!yr..M. in the I!lit - deep-cu.sh- was Just getting A warm bath rst hi''hme, r (i,,nnn the f had hrotiglit for "five My I c;.o,d;s were !' m.vsHf dwelling naming. on the j, : law emi CHAPTER jjdrooni v, 1 to publicity. And when I bucket' myself against two experts from Paris In the matter of the Da Vinci basing my belief on the evidence of the analysis of the pigment of the five blue stars In the saint's robe, and won and the alleged finder confessed why, then I was an authority In my own narrow but field. g I had been sent for now, to go through the famous Keller collection and offer my judgment on the masterpieces that the of the present owner had believed he bought. I flung open the long window and offered myself to the night. It had been six when I arrived it was about seven-thirtnow. It was October, and already dusk; the landscaped ground below me was in shadow, the Sound, far below, a lighter stretch of gray. I hadn't really seen the place in driving in; I had had only an impression of high walls and Inclosed acres, and a great tall house among trees. Now I took a more careful note of the house. The entrance opened Into a long hall that ran across the front of the building, with a drawing-rooat one end, and what I. had presumed to be the dining-rooat the other. Doth the drawing-rooand the dining-roojutted forward. I was in the third story, two flights over the drawing-room- . Ilecause of the forward-juttinposition of the wing, my window looked directly across to the other wing, and gave a slant view of the facade of the house. Lights were gleaming in the cracks between drawn curtains in some of the windows; and behind them I could imagine people dressing for dinner. In the front of the house, down on the second story, one wide window was uncurtained, and a man's figure was silhouetted blackly against its light. Quite suddenly a woman's figure came Into the picture. She seemed to whirl in, to come up to the man with a sort of rush, to stand before him a moment. I could see no faces, no movement of the outline of her face; but I had an Impression, somehow, that she was talking rapidly. And then he struck her. I saw his arm go out, In an unmistakable blow. Not a thrust, but a savage smack. And then they were both out of sight. I was still staring out when the curtains were suddenly drawn. And then I grinned to myself. I told myself that I was quite as well off up here as dining with such guests; for evidcuily their cocktails had removed whatever veneer any training had put upon them. I was feeling much better by then. I thought about the pictures and ran over in my mind the list of alleged masterpieces that had been old Hiram Keller's vaunt. The man had said the gallery was on the same floor, across the front of the house, so I went out into the hall. I passed the head of the stairs the main staircase rising from the first floor branched right and left to gain the second floor, and a stair rose then to the third and turned to the door at the left. I pushed the door open. The place was dark as a tomb, the curtains drawn, I surmised, against any sun, so that not even the pale oblongs of evening were discernible. I fumbled for a switch.. y ehal-'engin- A little breathlessly I said: "Oh! thought it was the watchman. just wanted to see the pictures." His words pricked tne with em iiarrassment at having blundered on I 1 some rendezvous. "I was Just "uie waiting," he said a "You-- we t vaguely. hav met before have we?" 'No oh, no," I stammered. "I- -I Just came to see the pictures." And I turned to be gone, before that girl f,)r whom he was waiting should arrive. "You can't see the pictures if you go." he reminded me with a sort of negligent amusement. "They stay on the walls." "I mean I just came fc the house to see the pictures to exam me. ine them," I explained. "I'm not "Oh, Miss Seton so nice! There part of the house-party- . I'll see is your place." them better by daylight." It was the only vacancy between And as he said nothing to that, I went. Hack In my room, I told my- the black shoulders of the men. A self that I had been silly to rush butler drew back my chair; and as I seated myself, the hostess called mini. down ..tt "That is Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Deck." The man at my left pushed a 5 2'J place card toward me. "I'm Mitchell," he said with a quick smile, lie had bright little black eyes, i'ltt,. money-grun- . " . "(''iiins ri.ii.iio. intcnitv of lasted on that" l ' 'nil ic Prse.mv ,11... . 'I'l'oiuimenc was 0,0,.i, . , fr Ul' bio. to mv r,H,tn U H commit, m t rit '6 .1 Kuer me , to ff,i . hnrf 'n. and' the I i. . We. T,.i.n.i i fishing ev,T since l Wfl9 K ,1,.,- ar- - ' ,. r"l;,y tternoon. If , " 'Klr' or the house-i""ft'.,. ; "e papers t.ft, IHC f not 1 rm 'eintil.,4 t'J J"" an artist! "Ji lin mi. ,i.i. "J ii i ! nJJ ' 4!T ir.!(,n, inK I'.er,,.,,,.,.r UuJy i P"cba, Not a . . wu uiu rasctnated to myself c r?n,zed- lor, -. abrad I had - Khp z - fr Saw His Arm Go Out, in an mistakable Blow. Un- for if there away like a school-girl- , was any part of the house to which I did have a right of entry, It was the gallery. I wondered about ids rendezvous and its strange secrecy. Surely, in a house like this, with all lis opportunities for meeting, there must be something desperately Intimate between two people, to draw them to an unfrequented gallery for a few minutes together. . . . And his face had been so queer. It did not look as If it were rapture he was awaiting. I was beginning to think about my tray, for, I had a healthy appetite, for all my Indignation, when the houseman appeared suddenly at my door with a message. "Mrs. Keller would be pleased, Madame, if you come down at dinner." My first Impulse, beyond the sudden surprise, was to refuse. Mrs. Keller hadn't wanted me once my pride was as high as hers. It was I was not a little after eight. dressed for dinner why should I trouble myself because some guest had failed and upset her table, and she had taken the whim to send for me? Tin not dressed" I began doubtfully. "She said to come down as soon as you could." flashed me In- - THIS WEEK There are men who are grateful when some other man takes a liking to them; and there are men who think that is their due. men" of dying added those of the late King George of Eng- "I am land be will jjj , & " U? k C - sorry xo a - good- king. f" ' ',jvS i2j :. t'MS Keep you waiting like modest always PHOTOGRAPHY ty. At the request of hi: iiit.ii.Jiv-- " S i r lu'ding John Simon, who waited upon him at the moment, Arthur HrUlmiie last the king struggled pathetically to sign his name to a state paper, succeeded, then, turning to his advisers, spoke those last words, followed by a smile and nod with which he was accustomed to end an audience. This was published in the Star of Johannesburg, South Africa, in Mr. Gunia a Reuter dispatch. sends the clipping from Gibsonia, Pa. Much obliged. The Italian soldier Badoglio, in the striking uniform of an Italian marshal, returned to Rome and embraced Mussolini, who wore the uniform of a corporal of fascist militia. Napoleon also liked to be called the '"little corporal.'-- ' Marshal Badoglio is an Italian soldier who obeys orders. When Mussolini's forces were marching on Rome, Badoglio, according to the story, said to the king: "What shall I do wipe their, out?" The king ordered: "No; no violence."' Now, Mussolini rules, and on his orders Badoglio wipes out Haile Selassie and the government of Ethiopia. liTrlntril Koll tnutlful Viiiiconiln or nmnller, 11 from your roll anlnrKententa l'liutonhop. Went Malum, QJNCNFEEED BY MARY HASTINGS BRAELEy in Room "-"- , 700" the Gorilla lral - nM'"Z ?" Road of Desperation and a murder, the first as roy "Mixing a is baffling. Mrs. Bradley ha. second mantic as the novel," the Boston Tranentertaining an produced novel serial new of this script says houseparty was proceedThe week-en- d smoothly, uning gaily. Guests mingled absence of the the restrainedly. It was Yorker, Nora alluringly beautiful New and the specdinner the Harriden, from first antacle of her empty room that She was was wrong. nounced something below found lying dead in the shrubbery Start This Thrilling Story Now-Fo- !low t 25a. VU. AGENTS Want Svenil ltc irfentnUvi-ii- , point others. Ladles' knit ftooda prices. Oortreous 11 ANIM1 KMHINU and apUna. Lou-t- at stylos. Paya well. 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The other man was the young man of the gallery. So that was Alan Deck! And ( was beside him, after all. "Monty Mitchell to my intimate, " said the one at the left. "And I Anything could happen in Eucan see that we are going to be In- rope, and one of the things con. ." timate sidered quite possible, extremely Mr. Mitchell took on the duties disturbing to respectable old England and others, is an agreement of host. "And this Is Miss Van Miss Seton," he said of the between Mussolini and Hitler to young woman at his left, who gave make "a deal on Austria" profitame an instant's view of a vague ble for both; not for Austria. smile and then turned back to the There is always, however, the man at her left. of 1914, when Austria, Itamemory 'And who is beside her?" I wantly and the Kaiser had the triple ed to know. alliance that did not "stand up." "That's Harridon don't you Such alliances usually go along know him?" said the young man; if they are to last. racial and while I murmured that I didn't France lines, and Italy are natural alknow a soul there, I was staring lies, both Latin; England and the at the big, face of the United States would probably be I wondered found not far famous Harrlden. apart if a really big where Mrs. Ilarrideii was; then 1 World war should ever come, with saw the place-carbefore me with one or two other IFS. her name on It. So I was filling in for Nora Harrlden I Science proudly demonstrates for There was a queer amusement in the Westinghouse company a new I had even the wonder if she it. that "rivals the beams of the lamp was the woman whose face had sun." The demonstrator explained been smacked, and so was stayin that the temperature at the sun's away from dinner to hide the mark. surface is about 11,732 degrees Fahrenheit, while the new lamp Mr. Deck made not the slightest reaches 25,232 degrees Fahrenheit. effort to talk to me, but sat silent, That, however, as scientists know, as far as I could gather, while Mr. is a long way from the sun's best Mitchell claimed my attention. He temperature. wanted to know who I was, and According to Sir James Jeans, what sort of artistic work I did ; there prevails in the depths of the and I was trying to put it into so- sun of "forty million temperature cial words that would not reveal degrees which is concentigrade," my too real enthusiasm when Mr. siderably higher than any man-mad- e Harriden created an abrupt divertemperature. sion by pushing back his chair and If you came within 1,000 miles of leaving the table. a 5 cent piece with a temperaMr. Mitchell relayed the explanture of 40,000,000 degrees centiation. "He's gone up to see how grade, you would be burned to a his wife's headache is she didn't cinder; hard to believe, but true. come down." It Is important that I remember protested against raising the dinner In the right Intervals; at theEngland elevation of guns on American Is to least. It my story. important because that would make I believe It was only a very few warships our guns shoot too far. In case of moments when Mr. Harrlden came war we might hit a British ship back, lie said, quite loudly: "I lined up against us. think she's sleeping the room was dark so I didn't disturb her." And Are animals capable of any I recall that Alan Deck looked thought? obhim as If down toward Intently, A dog on Prince Edward island, serving him a moment. whining and howling with its muz(TO BE COXTISIED) zle against a pile of clothing on the edge of a pool, attracted men who took from the water the bodies of two brothers, fifteen and seventeen years old. Could , the dog have "thought out" a connection between the clothing and the disappearance of its young owners? pince-ne- f - But I did want to go. I wanted terribly to see what was happening downstairs, what lay behind that invitation. And I told myself that it was more dignified, more Impervious to any feeling of slightedness, to go down, as If it were a matter of indifference. "You can tell her I'll be down," I said casually. When he was out of the room. I fairly flew. The blue satin now. The new chiffon stockings. The slippers. The crystal chain and bracelet. A stroke at my hair with a comb. Late as I was, 1 passed for a last feminine peep at the girl In the glass. She was surely doing her best for uie; she might have been twenty Instead of twenty six, with her fresh clear color, only a hint reinforced! her bright, light yellow hair, and the eyes that looked like deeper shadows of that frock. I was quite poetic about myself as I hurried down the stairs. The sound of voices came from the open doors of the dining room beyond. They hadn't waited they had sat down. I walked to the open doors and looked in with uncertainty beating hard under my effort at composure. It was a large white room with a black floor; there were about n dozen people about a long black table with the glitter of green glass on It. At one end a women In green, with hair that was either white or platinum, looked up and called to A murderer, impelled by her window. some obscure motive, molded a chain of malignant false clues that drew Leila Seton. youthful but clever art critic, into an insidious web of guilt. How Leila broke that chain and made her heart's choice between two men provides a modern mystery-romanat once baffling and charming. ce It Serially in This Paper At Ur, ancient city of the Chaldeans, they show a gigantic brick temple, recently uncovered, where it has lain in the ground covered through the ages. It was constructed originally, like the tower of Babel, to enable the builders to get up into heaven and reaoh the gods. First they invented those pagan gods, and then they actually believed in them. The United States navy has ordered 191 "bomber" airplanes; cheerful small news. It is to be hoped that the government is trying to build bomber planes able to fly any ocean. 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