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Show BEAVER PRESS Star Origin of NameTT ney Fortune says- ' . 0 one kw' actlv hn, o name. There Li that it derives homZ sand dunes nf .u. And there aro "LTgkl GDiast - W Sing You Sinners (HP liP Mi li Langdons Return Aliens a Cop y Virginia Vale BY ELIZABETH JORDAN O D. SYNOPSIS Young Rex Hale calls on Casper Knee land, friend of his father, in New YorK, and finds him proudly successful but strangely preoccupied. He tells Hale of his wife's death while Insane, Invites him for the summer to Halcyon Camp, his home on Long Island, and promises him he will he "useful" as his secretary there. Hale is joined at lunch by Fred Ainsworth. an unpopular college mate, also at Halcyon, who leaves him with a premonition of unpleasant mystery. He Is met at the train by Mrs. Wilbur Nash, whom he questions about the menage, and experiences a disturbing premonition. CHAPTER I Continued 3 "Is Miss Kneehnd at home? My name is Hale," he said. The maid responded promptly to the smile. "Yes, sir. Miss Kneeland is expecting you. If you will leave your luggage here in the hall Joe will take it up to your room. Miss Knee-lan- ing whisper. She added before her slower friend could answer, "Anyway, he's a personable youth, and he seems to be alive. That will be a pleasant change at Halcyon Camp. Has anyone warned you, Mr. Hale, that you are visiting Long Island's most remote and least interesting mausoleum?" "I don't think you ought to say such things," Miss Hosanna protested affectionately. She gave Hale a that directed his attention to glar-the 'k.jrm of her friend. "We're all dead except Joan," Mrs. Spencer Forbes said calmly, "but most of us don't know it. Joan is beginning to look livid and I give her about three months more. Au revoir, Mr. Hale. This is my chaste bower." She nodded and vanished through an open door in the upper hall at , ? On the blue and orange silk cover of his bed, near the foot, a wad of paper lay. It was crushed and soiled and it looked sadly out of place. Strange that he had not seen it before, or that Miss Hosanna, evidently a typical New England housekeeper, had not observed it her presence in the room. He during went to the bed, picked up and unfolded the grimy sheet with some reluctance, and read its penciled Its This was printed. message. down characters straggled unevenly the page, as if they were the first effort of a child. It read: THIS PLASE IS DANJERUS. GET OUT QUIK. Hale frowned, then grinned. He tore the paper into small pieces and dropped them into the waste-pape- r basket beside the desk. His next d is in the living-room.- " Hale dropped the luggage with a sigh of relief, hung his hat on a rack, and followed his guide. In the past ten minutes he had been repenting some of those purchases of yesterday. Probably he wouldn't need any of them here, except knickerbockers and a bathing suit. But the atmosphere of the house was unexpectedly luxurious. The living-roointo which he was ushered was full of charm and beauty. There were admirable pieces of furniture in it, good pictures, and fine old rugs. There was a small log fire in a huge grate. Two women sat before the little blaze. Hale took them both in, while one of them rose and came to meet him. She was a plump person, probably In her fifties, with pompadoured white hair, pink cheeks, and pale blue eyes. She had a pleasant welcoming smile and an unexpectedly firm grasp as she shook hands with him. "You had to walk," she said regretfully. "I'm so sorry. I can't understand why Casper" "Only as far as the clearing," Hale explained as he smiled down at her. "One of your neighbors, Mrs. Wilbur Nash, gave me a lift." "Trust Helen Nash for that," Miss Hosanna said appreciatively. "Come and meet Mrs. Spencer Forbes. You must be surprised to find it so cool here." Mrs. Spencer Forbes had been sitting with her gaze on the fire. She looked up and nodded as they came toward her. "How do you do, Mr. Hale?" she asked languidly. Languor seemed to be her note. It contrasted as sharply with Miss Hosanna's brisk New Englandism as her tall very thin figure did with Miss Hosanna's plumpness. "It's too late for tea," she went on, as Hale bowed before her. "Cut we might give this young man a few cocktails and a sandwich. I'll have some 'icktails, too, HosanI think, if Mr. Hale na. Side-carlikes them. But do remind Banks not to put in too much lemon juice." Miss Hosanna summoned her butler and ordered the cocktails and sandwiches. Now she sat with her pale eyes on her friend's face. Her expression was expectant, almost rapt. Later, Hale learned that to Miss Hosanna Mrs. Spencer Forbes' conversation was as the music of the morning stars singing together. "It's ten years since I was in Spain," Mrs. Spencer Forbes said dreamily on learning that Rex had just returned from there. "I'm not optimistic enough to think it has changed." "Every train still starts about dawn," Hale admitted. "And stops at Bobadilla at high noon and lets its passengers stew for two hours on the broiling station platform. I know. I've done Joan raised her blue eyes and looked at the speaker. the left of the staircase. Miss Hosanna led the guest to a door on the opposite side of the hall. "Don't pay any attention to what Ruth says," she advised Hale as sh.3 opened it. "Everything that comes into her head pops out through her mouth. She has always, been like that, even when we were girls at school. She loves to shock people. It's harder now than it used to be," she added comfortably. "Almost everybody seems to be trying to shock everybody else. The competition stimulates Ruth and the things she and young Mr. Ainsworth say to each other . . ." She left the sentence unfinished, evidently a habit of hers. Hale hardly heard her. He was gazing with pleasure and a dawning sense of the big comproprietorshlp-aroun- d fortable room they had entered. It had three windows. Two looked over the sea. The third, at the rear, faced west. There was a long divan between them. There was a fireplace for cool days; and a brass wood-bofull of logs stood near it. There were there was a flattop writing table with many soft-foote- impulse was to hasten into the bathroom and wash his hands after handling that note. He followed it. The note, of course, was someone's idea of a practical joke. Or, on second thoughts, it may have been some servant's revolt against the additional work made by an extra guest. It may have been hurled through the open window, or through the transom above his door, or brought into his room and dropped on his bed. In any case it was plainly not worth another instant of thought. Nevertheless, his mind touched it as he dressed. "QUIK." "DANJERUS." Thosa words upheld the spelling standards of Joe the porter, whom Hale had not yet had an opportunity to tip. He must repair that oversight. He must placate Joe. With that resolution the little matter dropped from his mind. He whistled a Spanish tango as he went on with his toilet. CHAPTER II x easy-chair- "Casper says you're going to be with us all summer, so try to feel at home," she invited. "That door leads to a closet as large as a small room. The door near the side window leads to your bathroom. I will say for Cass that he put in enough bathrooms when he built his house. He wasn't as foresighted about closets. It takes a woman to think of them, but I wasn't consulted. I think Banks has unpacked for you." she went on. "He usually unpacks and puts the cases away." it." She crossed to a highboy and Banks brought In the cocktails He was. Hale learned, a man of fifty pulled open a drawer. "Yes, here are all your ties and who had been with the Kneelands socks and handkerchiefs," she went for 15 years. He was deferential, and sorely on. "How bright and cheerful they tried by Miss Hosanna, with whose are!" "That's the colorful Influence of high housekeeping standards he was not always in sympathy. Mrs. SpenSpain," Hale laughed. He felt He hoped Miss Hosanna cer Forbes straightened with the would not go through the other first real interest she had shown. "Not too much acid this time, drawers. She didn't, but she opened the closet door. It revealed suits on Banks?" she asked alertly. "I hope ot, Madam." Banks' nangers ana snoes on pegs. U also glance slid past her face and fast- revealed his new dressing-gown- , ened on Hale. Hole took a cocktail which caught the last of the sun's and a sandwich from the tray the rays as they entered the west winman ollered him. Miss Hosanna dow. "You do like beautiful colors," she had waved it from her with the simple but eloquent word "Poison!" said, regarding it approvingly. "So Mrs. Spencer Forbes, who had al- do I. I hope you won't find it dull ready drunk one cocktail, appar- here," she added In a different tone. ently in one gulp, took another from "Try to like your room." "It's the ideal guest room," Hale the tray Banks had thoughtfully left on a low table beside her. Her said warmly. outlook on life brightened. "I'm glad you think so. Now I'll Cocktails over, both ladies started leave you to get dressed. You'll toward the door. Hale went with hear the gong at half past seven." them. He followed her to the door, ob"I'm going upstairs, so I'll show serving again her erect shoulders, you to your room," Miss Hosanna her proudly held white head, and said with her comfortable matter-o- f her surprisingly light, quick step. He factnoss. "You have half an hour opened the door for her and slowly to dress for dinner." closed it after her. Then for a long They went along the central hall moment he stood very still, hands in and up a wide staircase at the left his trousers' pockets and eyes on the of the front entrance. room's thick blue and orange rug, "Who is he?" Mrs. Spencer trying to analyze his impressions. Forbes asked Hosanna in a pierc Suddenly he stopped and stared. soft-voice- l They were all in the living-room- , except Casper Kneeland, when Hale went downstairs in response to the summons of the gong. He entered a trifle abashed by the gaze of so many strangers. Instinctively he made for Miss Hosanna and Mrs. Spencer Forbes. They now seemed to him almost like old friends. He skirted Joan on the way and took her in with a quick side glance. Miss Hosanna had risen and was doing the honors. "My niece," he heard her say. "Doctor Craig, my nephew, Herbert. Mr. Ainsworth says you and he are old friends." made an outstandingly picture. Apparently Paramount should have found out long ago that it's a good idea to hitch a man's job to his hobby; that's what happened in "Sing You Sinners," for Bing plays a young man who makes his fortune, accidentally, in horse racing. good "Old acquaintances is what 1 realAinsworth ly said, Miss Hosanna," to forward he as lounged purred Ithaca at were "We shake hands. me." together, but Hale never liked "Another bond between Mr. Hale and myself," Mrs. Spencer Forbes said sweetly. "I've felt strangely drawn to him from the first. You needn't tell us any of Mr. bad habits at college, Mr. Hale. We can easily imagine them." "Sorry to disappoint you, but he hadn't any," Hale testified cheerfully. "He was an exemplary young man in every way, and always knew his lessons." Hale was increasingly uncomfortable. What an extraordinary lot these people were, with their deliberate rudeness. "If you're hinting that I was a grind I'll admit it," Ainsworth said sharply. "I was there to work, and I worked. I was no popular idol, like Hale here." He smiled unpleasantly. In his evening clothes he looked more than ever like a sleek black cat. "You must have missed all that adulation, when you left Ithaca and got into real life," he added unpleasantly. Hale wanted to kick him. The fellow was intolerable. He turned away from him and smiled at Joan Kneeland, with a sudden lift of the heart. She was a charming thing, a pleasure to the eye. Her small bobbed head was beautifully shaped. She had the blackest hair he had ever seen. It fitted her head like a black satin cap. Her eyes were deeply and vividly blue. It was not until he saw her smile, however, that he gave himself wholly to her Her smile was enchanting. spell. It was also fleeting. It disappeared almost as quickly as it had come. Hale felt as if he had watched the door of a house swing open, had caught a glimpse of light and warmth inside, and had seen the door close again. At dinner Hale found himself at Miss Hosanna's right, with Mrs. Spencer Forbes on his other side. Joan Kneeland sat at the opposite end of the table, in her uncle's place. This was her habit, it developed, when Kneeland was not at home. Craig sat at her left. Ainsworth was at Miss Hosanna's left with Herbert next to him. The seat at Joan's right was vacant. Someone mentioned later that it fell to Ainsworth when Kneeland was home, and that Joan then sat between Ainsworth and her cousin. Joan had said a few words to Craig when they sat down. She was now listening to what seemed an overlong story of some medical experience of his in Paris. "You psychiatrists have your work on your mind all the time," Ainsworth remarked. "Is it true that most doctors and workers associated with the insane, eventually go off their heads themselves? I've heard that theory a dozen times." "Your application of it is too general," Craig said coldly. " 'Most' doctors and other workers don't do anything of the kind. A few do. They're usually the neurotically inclined, and those very susceptible to suggestion. I remember . . ." "Oh, come now, Craig, don't get started on your cases again!" Young Kneeland spoke so irritably that Craig's eyebrows rose. "Sorry," Kneeland jerked out, "but that stuff is depressing to most of us." "I love it." Ainsworth's tone was purring again. He was plainly enjoying his dinner, which was excellent. He appeared to be at peace with the Ains-worth- 's world. Joan raised her blue eyes and looked at the speaker. It was a long look and a strange one. Ains- worth met it and smiled again (TO DE COMLWEDJ The picture is uproariously funny, and has two good songs. 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And that 13 no easy trick, for Priscilla Lane Is very good Indeed, and young Mr. Garfield has plenty of competition from May Robson, Frank McIIugh and Claude Rains. John Carradine, an excellent actor, turns in such a swell performance in a bit part in "Alexander'-RagtimBand" that he deserves bigger and better roles and many of them. He had hung up a record for himself on the stage before he took to. the movies, and if he doesn't grab stellar honors in movies soon It's going to be because the producers can't recognize real talent Current news of George Raft's squabble with Paramount Lloyd Nolan will be seen opposite Dorothy Lamour In Raft's role in "St. Louis Blues." Other changes: Harry Lang-don- 's chance for a come-bac- k as a partner for Hardy of the team of Laurel and Hardy, as a result of Stan Laurel's suspension by the studio, and Dorothy Lamour's departure from her role in radio as one of Charlie McCarthy's h Varnish an Ancient Product Linseed oil was used in vanJ making by monks as far back the Twelfth century. Varnisk; ing, along the lines of the later a product, dates from the to Theophilus, although protective ishes were manufactured as h ago as the days of the Pharachi Wnra Pnialn Rlnccnm, l 5. Although the potato, a member the nightshade family, nas Deen grown ior its nowers, it u corded that Marie Antoinette, help popularize the potato France, wore potato blossomi her hair. ne Meaning of Name Alpheu The name Alpheus is of HebH origin and has two meanings: learned" and "one who is eKfesj or substituted" which might be terpreted "a mythology name InG: changeling." Alpheus of a river was also god. 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Sold T, Hcsse-IIombur- Amelia. in But the most most nlamihu ... early DutchTetu than those left Discovery of Radium Revealed That Atom Was Shattered With Explosive Violence The discovery of radium and the phenomenon of turned the course of history for Twentieth y century physics, writes John A. in the Scientific American. With its discovery came the knowledge that the atoms of certain heavy elements were not permanently stable but broke up with explosive violence. The inner structure of the atom, which had defied the mind of man since the days of the atomists in ancient Greece, the discovery of isotopic elements elements identical in their physical and chemical makeup but ditferin in their atomic weights these, and many other secrets of matter were solved bv the discovery of radium. Men were excited about the possibilities of this new substance. The energy that it gave off was staggering to the imagination. It was natural that the question should arise as to how this energy could be harnessed and put to work. Flnn-nerand the others thrilled wi'h the possibilities. Were not such eminent physicists as Sir Ernest Rutherford writing essays on harnessing the energy of radium and its future as a source of power? Ua'k, it "iuians AT LAST Bing Crosby has WNU Service. AppUton Cnlury Co., Ino. that the name of a salloT;! son s Ha,f.M00n that the at all Pul,l'c, Itf ' mtnr. drug, MPS WNU W |