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Show BEAVER PRESS knis Doll's Wardrobe Is Easy, Quick to Knit 11 IL II IF IE ipAIm MIXED Mixed Nuls6 lbs. nuts and fine r.n. J5a,n' dell. postage. Calvin L.g,,M Jgg BY ELIZABETH JORDBM O D. Appleton SYNOPSIS Young Rex Hale calls on Casper 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 be "useful" as his secretary there. Hale Is Joined at lunch by Fred Ainaworth, an unpopular college mate, also at Halcyon, who leaves him with a He Is feeling of unpleasant mystery. met at the train by Mrs. Wilbur Nash, whom he questions about the menage, and experiences a disturbing premonition. The premonition is barely eased by the comfortable hospitality of Knee-lan- Pattern 1203. doll's wardrobe for a regula14 and 18 inch doll is easily made when the little dress is just two identical pieces . . . coat and tam mainly in stockinette stitch. wool! PatUse up your tern 1203 contains directions for making coat, tam and dress shown; illustrations of them and of all stitches used; material requirements. Send 15 cents in coins for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly. A tion left-ov- er Patriotism Not Made Patriotism can't be made by law. It is like falling in love. It is like religion. It acts heroically on faith and adoration. I want to see Americans living in their country with some reverence for it as it was given into their hands by the Author. D. C. Peattie. IB SHOULD STUDY THESE PICTURES Drop a Baytr Tablet In water it starts to disintegrate) in 2 tecondi hence If ready to "go to work" rapidly u This "Quick Dissolving" Property is Why BAYER Aspirin Acts So Fast to "Take Hold" of Muscular Aches and Pains If you suffer with headaches or the pains of rheumatism or neuritis, keep the above picture about genuine Bayer Aspirin in your mind. Especially if quick relief is what you want. For the way a Bayer Tablet works in the glass is the way it works when you take it. It starts to dissolve almost at once hence is ready to "take hold" of the rheumatic pain or headache with astonishing speed. Relief often comes in a few minutes. Always ask for "BAYER Aspirin" never ask for "aspirin" alone. 15! I 12 TABLETS 2 FULL DOZEN 2Se Do That Good Never be discouraged because good things get on slowly here, and never fail daily to do that good which lies next your hand. Geo Macdonald. CONSTIPATED? Don't Let Gas, Nerve Pres- sure Keep You Miserable When you art constipated two things happen. 1 1 ILS'l': Accumulated wastes swU up tli bowels and pries 4a nerves in the digse tive tract. This nerve pressure causse head dull, lair feeling, bilious uptUn, lot chm, of dimness. SKt'ONT): fertly pitit.loodende'.uts to decay forming GAS, bringing on sour stomach, acid indigestion and heartburn, bloating you up until yoi sometimes (up (or breath, Then yon t rat. Ynu fio l sleep. Your stomach is lour. You feel tired out, grouchy, end mieerahle. Adlenke five you the DOUBLE ACTION you need. Thi efficient earmiuttva eatharttg relieves thai awful GAS almoat el eaoe. II usually rlare the bowels la lae thaa It hours. JNe waiung foe evernight relief. Sold at U drug iteres ditd tu Kneeland's elderly sister, and her friend, Ruth Forbes, middle-agesophisticate. In his room, Hale finds a soiled paper, printed, "This plase danjerus." Hale meets the rest of the strange group Dr. Craig, psychiatrist friend of Bert Kneeland, nervous young son of Casper, and beautiful but moody Joan Kneeland, niece of the house. drops in at his room, questions him about his reactions, and tells him of Bert's hopeless love for his heiress cousin, and that Mrs. Forbes is down and out. The whole group seem to get on each other's nerves. Later, Hale sees Hosanna furtively meeting a shabby man in the woods. The maid tells of the recent poisoning of a cat and dog. Mrs. Nash suggests that Alnsworth has some hold on them. Hale finds in his room a clever sketch of skuU and crossbones. Kneeland arrives for the , also curious about Hale's reactions and asks him to be his substitute of the party," and meana "life host, while try to solve the mystery of the behavior of them all. Bert confides in Hale his growing annoyance at Craig's nightly visits and endless talks of cadavers, parts of which he preserves in his locked laboratory, and Hale advises the boy to discourage the visits. He finds another sketch of a cobra colled to strike, with the caption, "Why wate for this?" He writes to two famous psychiatrists, collects fingerprints from the notes and sketches, and drives Into New York to get the prints analyzed, call on two doctors, and establish some contacts for Information on Alnsworth and Craig. George Stuyvesant, college friend, confirms Ainsworth's reputation as a parasite. Ains-wort- Can Bt CONSISTENTLY AJvtrtiitJ BUY ADVERTISED GOODS ly. "It's situation," he mitted. "Dramatic, and all that. It's the sort of thing that's more apt to happen in life than in the drama. Playwrights are afraid of turning the screw too far. Life is never afraid of doing that. It's a good ad- headed chap has been asking questions about him, will you?" The operator grinned, fingering the additional half dollar he had received, and said he wouldn't. Rex went bark to the bureau he had visited that morning. He left for fingerprinting a slip of paper Ainsworth had given him in the library when he had asked Ainsworth for the address of a classmate. "I've numbered all those prints he said. "Be very carefully." mighty careful about the numbers Mark any later in your reports. I send you by consecuspecimens tive following figures. Express yourself in your written reports so a layman can understand you. I've got a lot to learn about this sort of thing." Hale next made his way to Casper Kneeland's town house. It was a "brownstone front" on a street week-end- CHAPTER V 12 Hale continued, "I'd like toaskyou about another guest there Mrs. Spencer Forbes. Do you know her?" "Ruth Sprneer Forbes? Of course I know her. Who doesn't know her," replied Stuyvesant. "She's a pal of my mother's. She often comes to the 1 house. rather like her myself. She's good fun, if you get her in the right mood. Four or five cocktails usually do it. The things I've heard that woman say! What tV you want to know about Ruth Spencer Forbes?" he ended more seriously. "I suppose you know she's on the financial rocks Almost everyone is, just now. But I think her position is worse than that of most." "Yes, someone spoke of that. She's spending the summer with Miss Hosanna Kneeland." Stuyvesant nodded. "I've heard of her. Ruth picks "em up wherever she finds 'era, She's like Ainsworth in that respect, very democratic. I suppose Miss Kneeland has always bowed down before Ruth, and Ruth has taken it like Buddha, on a shrine. She would. That reminds me of something else. Isn't there an heiress of sorts in the Kneeland family a girl called June or Joan or something?" "There is." "And Is she easy on the eyes!" Stuyvesant spoke enthusiastically. "I met her twice last winter. I wanted to meet her oftener but she dropped out of sight in the spring. Is it her house you're visiting?" "It's her uncle's Camp, but she's there." "You're in luck," Stuyvesant said simply. "Say, old man, couldn't you get me down there for a week- end?" "I'll suggest it of Miss Joan on this good one." It's a wall bath-robes- ity to lubricate at "Who doesn't know the poor old girl?' doing it all the time." His cau- just off the Avenue, in the Sixties, tion returned. "You understand that and much like a dozen other brown-ston- e I can't be quoted in any way or houses in its neighborhood. even mentioned in connection with His ring at the bell was answered a case of that sort" with deliberation by a middle-aged "Given the conditions I've suggested, what would be the procedure for the innocent bystander who is watching them?" It was the doctor's turn to talk, and he did it Hale listened, put questions, made a few notes. At the end of twenty minutes he got up and held out his hand. "Thanks," he said gratefully. "You've given me just what I needed." The doctor returned the grip. Hale went away optimistically. He was still walking in dark places, but light was breaking through and at least he had one destination in sight It was fifteen minutes past four. He called up the second psychiatrist and had another break. The second psychiatrist was a different type from the first. He was impressed by Hale's letter from Doctor Kingsbury, the psychiatrist and obviously rather proud of his brief association with him. Hale suspected him of being a bit of a medical snob. Like Dewar he attached much importance to Kingsbury's assertion that Hale's discretion could be relied upon. After a little fencing the two men got down to brass tacks. Yes, Doctor Hitchcock knew Doctor Craig. Then all the unhelpful data Hale had expected Craig's fine training, his medical connections, and the like. "All that being granted," Hale asked Doctor Hitchcock, "why isn't Craig more popular? Why hasn't he any friends?" Hitchcock was ready to answer that. "He's too young, for one thing," he pointed out. "For another, he's too Doesn't care for friends. He hasn't time for them. He considers his own time very valuable much more valuable than some of us think it is," he smiled. "He has dropped hints that he's on the track of something important He's corresponding with some bigwig in Vienna, but he doesn't say "It's jest for comp'ny, suh. That's why Miss Joan's picture's here. Miss Joan, she don' like that pic." to her," Hale smiled. The waiter was clearing the table for the salad. The two young men ate their luncheons and talked of other things. Then Stuyvesant jumped to his feet "I'm oil." he announced, "but I've got to see more of you. I hope I've told you what you want. How about my putting you up at the Engineers' Club? Would that be useful?" "Very much so. Thanks. It migl be convenient to have some place I can use for town appointments. You're treating me mighty well, I won't forget it" Stuyvesant "What's your present address?" Hale gave him the address and telephone number of the Kneeland town house, and the Camp address as well. The two young men faced each other rather self consciously. "Don't drop out of sight again," who it is." Stuyvesant said. "You bt I won't." They shook "What about his character as you hands enthusiastically. see it?" "Ambitious rather abnormally Doctor Gordon Dewar had made the appointment with more than res- so. Ruthless, I'd say, in going after ignation. "I'll see you right after what he wants. That's all I know my office hours," he promised. "Not about him. Part of that is theory." Hale was satisfied. He had put a that there will be many in the office. Most of my patients are going off wholly different problem to Hitchtheir heads these days without my cock from the one presented to Dewar. He had got what he wanted help." He chuckled and Hale liked the from both. He returned to the buildsound. Here, he hoped, was a man ing that held Ainsworth's office and who would "open up." But Doctor again interviewed the elevator opDewar's opening up was cautious. erator. No, Mr. Ainsworth had not Indeed, almost at Hale's first words, been In the building that day. The he changed from a rosy-faceand operator didn't expect him. He had been there last Thursday. He nevsomewhat exuberant to a canny Scot with suspl-ciou- s er came more than once a week these days and often he didn't show eyes. "All I want, Doctor," Hale be- up for two or three weeks. gan briskly, "is to put a hypothetical "When he does show up you won't case to you. Granting that a cer feel obliged to mention that a red- - colored man neatly dressed and prematurely bald. "I'm stopping here tonight," Rex said. "Mr. Kneeland telephoned you about it, I suppose." "Yes, suh." "Here's my luggage," said Hale as he entered. He took from his pocket and held out a comb, a box of safety razors, a tooth brush, and a small cake of soap, each article chastely there." wrapped in cellophane. He had just Kneeland looked startled. purchased the collection in a corner "Are you expecting an emergendrug-stor"My plan," he added cy?" sedately, "is to escape In a sheet "It's always possible." if the house catches fire tonight." "Well, give me a line on it" will jest come this "I can't do that, sir." "If you-al- l way" The man led him up the "Why not?"to staircase. be frank, I'm afraid "Because, "What's your name?" Rex asked you might spill the beans. You as they went might see something and go off at half-cocbefore the time was ripe. "George Davis, suh." "Well, George Davis, there are Since you have put me in charge those who like to wrap themselves of this investigation, I feel justified in silk pajamas on a night like this, in asking you to give me a free but I'm not one of them. There's hand." Kneeland frowned and savagely no one but you In the house, Mr. bit off the end of his cigar. Kneeland said." "That's a large order and I don't "No, suh." like mysteries." warmed Into George hospitality "I know you don't sir. That's why as he led the guest along an upper you asked me to look into this one." hall. "And there Is one? You're sure "Mist' Kneeland say you-al- l can of that?" have anything you want," he an"I'm pretty sure of it. But I nounced, throwing open a door. can't prove it unless the person "All right, thanks," Hale said back of it gives himself away." gratefully. "I'll take that portrait (TO BE CONTINUED) New Zealand Women Propose Government Agency to Handle the Servant Problem The dearth of household servants is as annoying in New Zealand as it is in Britain, so the women organizations of the Dominion got together and have suggested a remedy to the government, according to the Christchurch correspondent of the Observer of London. It is proposed to train a national corps of domestic workers, to be paid and hired out by the government. Employers would reimburse the government according to their means. A special committee has been formed to look into the whole question. It is called the Household Service campaign committee, and is representative of all the leading women's organizations. The opinion is widely held among New Zealand women that the btatus of domestic workers must be raised considerably if a good supply 0f efficient workers is to be maintained. The committee proposes that the government should "recruit" a national domestic service corps of young women agreeable to enter-in- g the domestic service profession. Under the scheme recruits would be asked to undergo whatever training is considered desirable at a technical school, and when they "graduated" would be guaranteed continuity of employment as long as their services were satisfactory. The government's domestic service department would insure that living and working conditions were up to standard. 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Serious trouble rah be brewing and you cannot sfltsi to take a chance with any renrt ter less potent than Creomulsion, goes right to the seat of the troub WC" and aids nature to soothe and bet the Inflamed mucous membraiB ait. and to loosen and excel Ctrs- Eo: wfam e. k I ' speeds (3) durability for reasonable mileage CuT enough these requirements! contradictory in that to assm, factor it is very easy to unto H another. The only safe rule to folio, preparing your car for Wiats to buy the very best mote, Acid-Fre- e Quaker State. 'l The refiners of Quaker were pioneers in developing &j oils for Winter use. Today m great modern refineries the modern equipment and me ." "That settles that Is this the room you're putting me Into? If it is, hustle along one of Mr. Kneeland's discarded bathrobes. I'm a busy man, George, and the responsibilities of life are pressing upon me. Step lively." George returned, dropped the bathrobe over the foot of the bed and tactfully retired. When Rex had bathed, shaved and he was a giant refreshed. He had not quite decided what to do with his evening. Now he suddenly resolved to dine at Maxim's and see a cheerful play. There were several good hold-ovefrom the spring season. He carried out this program and enjoyed it When he returned to the Kneeland house a little after eleven and started upstairs he saw a line of light under the door of a room George had described as "Mist" Kneeland's la'bly." Simulta-neousl- y the door opened and Kneeland looked out. "That you, my boy?" he called. "Come in a minute. I hope George is making you comfortable," he added carelessly, as Hale took the chair he offered. "Altogether too much so," Hale testified. "I'm getting to be a sybarite. I ought to be working with a few mule teams on the side of some Andalusian mountain, to bring me back to normal." Kneeland shook his head. "Grab everything you can get while the grabbing is good," he advised. "That's my motto. There will be plenty of times when you can't get what you want." "All right, sir," Hale agreed briskly. "What I want now is to ask you a few questions." "What kind of questions? If there are many of them you'd better light up and have a drink before you begin to shoot." "There will be many, after that lead," Hale said firmly. He helped himself to a cigar from the box Kneeland indicated. "What I want," he said after the two men had lighted up, "is your authority to act for you at Halcyon Camp in any serious emergency that may come up when you're not ovX each det To damaging wear, the moJ must possess three essential acteristics: (1) iow cold C quick easy starts ( this?" ture ft! Coldweath"eTesnew&gSe They had entered a front bedroom on the second floor. Miss Kneeland's Adportrait painted by Wayman commanda from them faced ams ing position above the mantel. "Ah reckon," George suggested thoughtfully, "Mist" Kneeland. he meant "Maybe he did. Whose room Is rs Continued d Good Merchandise tain doctor is doing so and so, what would be the penalty in your profession if he were caught at it?" "You'll have to be a lot more definite than that, my friend," Doctor Dewar said curtly. "I expect to be. Here's the hypothetical situation. Assume that I'm writing a play around it, and need some information about the ethics of the medical profession in such a case." "Ah." The doctor looked relieved but still cautious. Hale talked for ten minutes. At the end Doctor Dewar nodded slow- t Horse Sense Aboui WinterOilChas: WNTJServioe Century Co., Ins. sni NiiTg - Even if other remedies . dont have f aW be discouraged, try Creom&'S slon. Your druggist Is authorial). refund your money if you are at, thoroughly satisfied with the bea-- r fits obtained. Creomulsion ii word, ask for it plainly, see that tfci name on the bottle Is Creomulslot and youll get the genuine proo, and the relief you want. 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