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Show iTHE MAY DAY MYSTERY lyOCTAVUs Roy iCoprrlfbt ay Octru WNTJ Bay Service. Cohen Cons, I CHAPTER IX Continued 15 Be wouldn't tell me. There's al- ts been a lot of mean talk around jjie campus about Pat He was better the rest of them and they all iated him for being more of a man. ind Larry knew of It I never made ttf secret about It" I "They why did be suddenly comeInd speak to yon day before yester-- iay?" her cheeks turned white. had told him something." was Infinitely 1" J' Tea. -wnortient Antoinette Peyton now . see. Ana aia miss rey-- n "I JT Again Somebody j happen to pick to tell him?" . "Because well it L, that particular "No'm, I havent Honest Tve Just ueen waiting ror Jim Hanvey." Ivy withered him with a glance and stalked off down the ball Reagan euierea tne room grinning. "Any lnck, Jim?" "Plenty." "Got any hunches?" "Yen." "Against who?" Hanvey chuckled- - "Everybody." he answered. Then: "Did you see Ver non r -- 1 did." "Show him the knife?" "Tep." "What did he say?" "He said." answered Reagan, "that tne Knite is his!" CHAPTER X They spoke briefly to the dean nrt left the building together. Below them was the Bowl : long concrete stand on either side, cinder path circling the diamond; men in track suits Ioninu easily around the oval or practicing fleld sports; the regulars indulging In a practice game against the freshman happened this She walked to ay, Mr. Hanvey." fte window and motioned him to join er. "Ton see, all the college bulldogs are on a hill here. Way over yon-e- r on that big bill Is the women's When you walk over there the hill beyond the Bowl Iormitory. through a pretty little patch f woods. There's a place down there kind of closed In everybody knows It's called the Bower and couples It's a sort of o there lota of times. iollege rule never to go In there when I mean not omeone else Is there. o go In when you hear somebody, "Tony Peyton was coming from the Iormitory and Pat and I were In there. and then 'ony Peyton eavesdropped usted right In on us. She she gave fat the devil." "I see. . . . But what business as It of hers?" The face which Ivy lifted to Hanvey as a study In bewilderment "I don't know 1" "Didn't she say?" No. Of course I could tell that ere was something between Tony fnd Pat; or, anyway, there had been, tony was awful sore, and Pat was He told Tony to mind her own fiad. and that If she butted In on "Mm-m- ! im she'd be starting something she Did You Tell Your Broth, r That You and Pat Were iouldn't stop. Tony said he ought to le ashamed of himself because I was Inch a kid, and he said he'd do what baseball team. Under the trees were he d n pleased." a half hundred cars; some empty, I "And you?" some occupied by youthful couples; "I Just stood there. It seemed like the stands held perhaps a hundred I hadn't ever seen was an outsider. students and through the woods one 'at mad, and I never thought Tony could glimpse couples usually of ould get so sore." mixed gender walking slowly and "It was a real fuss?" talking earnestly. "Yes. sir. I think Tony must be It was a quiet, peaceful scene: a about razy him, and she was Jealous, scene which made a profound impresnyway, I mean she acted Just like sion on the Brobdingnagian Hanvey. bat." He was fascinated by the Informality "You didn't get any hint from of It His Idea of college had been Ither Pat or Miss Peyton what there so different: earnest, spectacled young ras. or had been, between them?" men and women studying aggressive"No, sir." ly ; a general air of stiffness and "And you think Miss Peyton told But this . . . why, they our brother that he ought to do some-titnseemed to like It He gazed actually about It?" upon the young folk with real envy "Yes. . . . Larry Is crazy about and there was a feeling that he had er. He didn't act nice. He said I'd missed something in life something jave to quit going with Pat I said I would like to go back and Iouldn't, and he said he'd see that which he take. He expressed all this haltingly laid." to his companion and Reagan looked 1 Jim's were half closed. Ills at him in amazement. eyes 1 folce came In a slow, disinterested would you do with "What the h a Jim?" education, college then he told you he was going "1 dunno. It ain't the educasee Thayer, didn't he?" tion, John. But when I look at this sir." of thing I get a hunch It ain't sort I'awl. was about half past one?" what's written In books that these so." kids take away with 'em. Maybe I'm was real sore when he left you, wrong, but It seems I'd sort of like to he?" look back on four years of this kind seemed "Not sore startled. of stuff." to kill anybody, Mr. Hanvey. "Teh I and all they're thinking about fon't you understand: Larry Isn't is finishing up." bat kind at all. Maybe he could have Barreled with Pat and bad a fight "P'raps. I ain't saying they ain't. . although I never have known But, by golly! a few years from no rry even to do that. But anyway, they'll look back on this. . . . Oh, e could have beat Pat up. He never h 1! there I go getting mushy again. Fine big stiff I am to yearn for an 'ould have used a knife." education at this late date." "Do you know If he and Miss Pey-m- i "You said It!" muttered Reagan. are engaged?" "I dnn't think so. I mean, I think "Me, I never have thought college wry would like to be, but I'm sure amounted to much." "No I reckon maybe It wouldn't 'on? was crazy about Pat Thayer." for you. I'm Just a softy." "Mmni! Did you tell your brother tot you and They slowly descended the hill Pat were engaged?" "Sure I did." toward the PsI Tau Theta fraternity was parked. "Did you mention that Thayer was house where Reagan's car Students eyed them curiously and 'earing your diamond ring?" "o. I Just didn't remember. I buzzed with conjecture, Hanvey was relaxed. He was thinking and Rea"isn't scared to tell him. though." "1 don't believe you were. . . . Tell gan was bitterly disappointed because he didn't seem more excited about his e: Would Larry have been likely to disclosure regarding the ownership of "cognize that ring? Did he know It the knife which had been used to kill fretty well?" He was even a Paterson Thayer. "Yes, sir. It was my mother's." he wouldn't say so. trifle though hurt, "Larry went to see him to make him to elicit a comment from He attempted 'ay away from you. mad was He fhen he went. Hanvey and went at his task Yet you think he Jdn't kill Thayer?" "You and the kid seemed to get "I'm sure of It, Mr. Hanvey. Larry fine, Jim." along wuldn't stab a man. would Anyone 811 .vou that." "Ivy Welch? Say, she's a regular, John." "They have," admitted Jim. "And "Darn little cat if you ask me. Did told me same the .jey've thing about but scratch my eyes out" everything Peyton and Mai Vernon." He "You don't say. I reckon she must te ponderously. "I'm much obliged, Hiss Welch. You've been a darn good have a weak spot for a poor old fat feller like me." and you've helped me a heap." She rose and "Ten to one she didn't tell you anyfaced him, and for a cond a womanly dignity seemed to thing." "Gimme the ten, John. She told me ;laJ settled upon her. "Win you tell me the truth about plenty." ne "What?" Doubtfully. tf'lng, Mr. Hanvey? Have I Wped my brother or hurt him?" We-e-lShe said that she and J;m smiled a broad, lazy smile. Pat Thayer were engaged. Thayer You've helped him. Ivy. I give you and Max Vernon quarreled Just bef ire v word on that. You see, for the Thayer was killed. Thayer and Miss "me I got a little of the truth." because he was Peyton had a run-iI 'e wnrrhod her as she opened the shinin' up to Ivy Welch. Then Ivy and 4f'0r' He saw her give a start, and her brother had a row, and he left figure stiffened. her with the Intention of seeing I .. . !" R,ie pried sharply. Thayer and ordering him to lay off." I ph. it's me," answered Reagan "She knew we had all that dope al 'he hallway. ready." ion ve bem listening!" "Maybe she did, John and then. I studi-ousnes- g 1 ... l, F' f'im r n again, maybe she didn't Anyway, It was refreshing to get It from some- noay who sint accused of this klllina Allowing for the fact that she'd maybe try to shield her brother. I don't think snes got a thought In the world ex cept to help us catch the person who really killed Thayer." His eyes closed -&ne sure wa, lB love wlts siowiy. the guy." "Kid stuff!" Hanvey turned slowly and regarded iieagan for a minute. "1 think that's the same mistake everybody made when they thought of ner in connection with Thayer. All tney said was: Kid stuff." Reagan's eyes narrowed. "What you driving at Jim?" "Nothin' special Just rarablln tn my speech, as nsuaL Only remember this, John when a girl of seventeen falls in love. It ain't kid stuff to her, no matter what it seems like to other folks. I think maybe everybody wonld have done better to realize that Ivy Welch was a woman grown. Get me?" No!" exploded Reagan, "I don't What do you mean?" Hanvey shrugged. "Durned If I know," he confessed. Then: "So Max Vernon admitted that was his knife, eh. John?" "Yes." "Did be see the blood on it before he made that admission?" "H L no. Chief. I ain't that dumb. I had the blade covered when I showed It to him. I asked him If he'd ever seen It before and he said, sure, it was his. I said : 'You couldn't be mis taken about that, could you?' and he said he certainly could not Then I told him he'd put his foot in right be cause that was the knife that killed Pat Thayer and I showed him the bloody blade." "And what did he say?" Reagan shook his head. "He said he didn't give a d n if It bad killed Thayer or not, he didn't have anything to do with It ne's a darn fresh kid. Jim and he hasn't told the truth about anything since 1 first stuck him in the hoosegow. Let's go over and have a talk with him. What say?" "Not yet, John. Let's go to the undertaker who's got Thayer's body I want to take a look at it." "Come ahead." Reagan stepped into his car and Jim crawled in on the other side. "Any of Thayer's family down here?" asked Hanvey. "A sister. Seems to be a pretty nice sort, but she won't talk much. I got a hunch that he was always a sort of bad egg, Jim. And. of course, a feller can't press that kind of an investigation too strong with a man's sister when he's lying dead In the next room." "Gosh, no." They turned Into Mar- land road and sped along under the spreading shade trees which lined the paving on both sides. "John," asked Hanvey suddenly, "when you searched Thayer's room did you find any jew elry?" "Nothing but a watch and chain." "No diamond ring?" "Sure not What gave you the Idea? Just because I overlooked Max Vernon's knife you haven't got any right to think I'd miss that sort of stuff everywhere." "Aw, now, John don't you go get tin' peeved at me. I Just asked you a question friendly-like- , and " e "I ain't peeved, Jim. But it You seem to have more Ideas and less words than anybody I ever saw." Jim chuckled. "Don't mind me, Kid. I'm Just dumb, and the less I say the smaller chance there is of anyone find lng It out." John. Reagan laughed. "Kid yourself.JIm If you want to, he said. "But don't try to kid me." At their destination, the undertaker conducted them into the cubicle where Thayer's body was being held under police orders. Hanvey was frankly frightened by the sight of death, and didn't even look at the body as Rea gan gave a clinical dissertation on the killing. ". . . right in the neck," he was saying and the voice came to Hanvey as though from a distance. "The doc says it severed the Jugular vein which is why there was so much blood. I asked him would it need to have been struck by a person with any strength and he said no, in that spot the slightest shove of a keen "knife would do the work. I asked him if a woman could have done it, and he said, sure, a child could have. Then I asked the dog-gon- 1 doc" "Tell me that later," suggested Han vey hastily. "I want to get out of and Humo VACCINATION WILL CHECK POX LOSSES Polish Fowls Are Good for Show and Utility number of varieties of poultry are the Polish fowls White Crested Black, Silver. White, Golden, Silver and White and Bearded Golden. Except for the lack of a "beard" or "whiskers" represented by feathers on the throat, the are the same as the bearded In all other standard requirements. All the Polish varieties have an un usual appeal to the chicken fancier and a backyard farmer may be attracted first to such fowls by their unusual plumage, although they really have utility value. There Is considerable doubt about the origin of the Polish fowl, although it probably originated in Poland, Dutch poultry fanciers in the Eighteenth century were instrumental In In type, the perfecting the crest. It Polish Is much like the Leghorn. was formerly very common In the United States, but with the increase In the popularity of the Leghorn, Interest In the Polish waned, although It still holds a place as an ornamental fowl. Los Angeles Times. weeks old?" His friend laughed. "Don't be absurd," he replied. "Of course It Isn't" Hayes gave him a friendly push. "Then how does It live?" he asked. "Tell me that." A Fast Worker Plutocrat (to young man asking for hand-feedin- g lt d hand-feedin- g e Real Effort Farmer Thought you said you had e field? plowed the Plowman No, I only said I was thinking about It The Stout One Yes, I spent the Farmer Oh, 1 see; you've merely entire evening telling him that be turned it over In your mind. had a terrible reputation for kissing Where I Got It girls against their will. The Thin one And what did be Actor When I play "Othello" the do? whole pit Is bathed in tears. The Stout One He sat there like Explorer That's nothing. My last wireless speech on my North pole a boob and denied it trip was so realistic that most of the listeners are still in bed with colds. Big Things Doing Maid The furniture man Is here, ACCOMPLISHMENT ma'am. Mistress I'll see him In a minute. Tell him to take a chair. Maid I did, but he started with the piano. Montreal Gazette. ten-acr- Alibi "Why is there never any cream on top of your milk?" "Well, we fill the bottles so full there ain't any room for cream." Passing Show (London). "Oh, no, I never talk scandal." "Yes, my dear, but you are a good listener." New-Yorke- Poultry Facts dual-purpos- e g one-hal- Explained Antique Dealer A rare piece. A revolver dating from Roman times. "The Romans had no revolvers." "That Is why It Is so rare." Stock, holm Vart Hem. The Right Place "I've come from the employment Comeback r bureau, ma'am," said the girl. "They Owner of New (firmsaid you wanted a servant" ly) I wouldn't lend It to my own "But I do all the work myself," re- father. Would-B- e plied the lady of the house. Borrower You're wise, "Then the place will Just suit me," I know the old chap. Humorist Magazine. Over the Radio "Pardon me, but doesn't madam WEAK LINK, TOO , need the piano tuned?" "I'm afraid that's not ours you hear. You'd better call at the Broadcasting company 1" Humorist Magazine. Lawn-Mowe- No Hope "Have you said your prayers Dickie?" "Yes, Mummle. I prayed for you and Daddie, but not for Uncle Reg, because I heard Daddie say be was past praying for !" And Then Some! "Think o' poor old Arry beln' sent "Jack has pretty big ears. to jail! One o" the fastest working "Yes, they are so big that his head seems merely a connecting link beburglars in the game." "Ah, well, he's takin' his time tween them." now." Tit-BMagazine. it THREE AT A TIME Facet Red? "'Ave you eaten the sandwiches, mum?" "Yes." "Then I'll 'ave to clean the shoes with cream cheese." Everybody's. Connecticut for Turkeys Turkey raising in Connecticut is Increasing, the total on farms In 1032 being more than double 1929, and with a farm value of about $200,000. A better understanding of turkey sanitation has made Increases In number possible, and a sound marketing program The state, brought added profit through Its agricultural department, has established grading, labeling and advertising of Connecticut turkeys, giving them a market standing not before possessed. Rural I Would-bSuitor Not yet, sir. loo see. It was only last night that I heard you had a daughter. London Opinion. d Feeding of corn and oats and laying mash In hoppers and wheat at the rate of four to six pounds per hundred hens daily. Is a new method of feeding that promises to be practical for corn-befarms, states Paul G. Riley, Indiana poultryman. The wheat Is higher In price than other grains, Is likely to be and when hopper-feused in too heavy proportions to other grains. An added advantage in Is that the hens will keep the litter stirred up, whereas it Is likely to be packed down in houses where hopper-feedin- g is practiced exclusivePrairie Farmer. ly. THE BOOB ter? d Feed Wheat by Hand "Oh, darling," said her young man. do It for you. What Is it you want?" "I want to And out why they havent delivered that box cf chocolates you promised yon were going to send me," she replied. Answers Magazine, "111 his daughter's band) And have you said anything about this to my daugh- n this place quick." "Good Lord, Jim if you didn't want to look things over, what did you come here for?" "To find that diamond ring. You see, John at the time Pat Thayer was killed, he was wearing a diamond One poultry farm In Kent county, ring which Ivy Welch had given him. Mich., sold an entire carload of hens I want to see If he's still wearing It." for market. Reagan bent over the body. When he straightened his expression was The Barred Plymouth Rock, a disone of complete bewilderment tinctly American bird, first Introduced 'You sure you got your dope 86 years ago, is today among the leadstraight, Jim?" ers of breeds. "Yeh." "Then there's something darn funny Nonsitting breeds usually lay at because Thayer ain't got anything weeks and heavy-sittineighteen on his fingers except a signet ring breeds at from five and f to with some foreign letters on It." six months. Hanvey turned reluctant eyes on the body. Safety first practices in raising "It's gone all right, John." chicks are to use litter free from mold "I'll say It has." Reagan's fore and change it at least twice a week; head was creased with intensive to use clean mash hoppers and water thought Suddenly he smashed his fountains placed on wire platforms; of fist his the othei Into palm rfght and to remove the cockerels as soon hand. "And you know what It mean as possible. Jim that diamond ring being gone?' "What does it mean. John?" Nothing can be done to cure dis (TO BE CONTINTUED.) eases of the liver because the bird must be killed to discover the trouble. Tomb-Chapof Egypt Enlarged livers are believed to result s of Egypt nortnn from over feeding and lack of exer series of scenes of the normal life else. Old or musty feed and Impure man and woman of ancient dnyg. water contribute to bad livers. Tomb-chapel- A Fowl Reply "I'm going straight down to the Hayes looked thoughtful office to make a complaint" said post "Tell me," he said, "Is a chicken Fre'da pertly. two It Is when to eat big enough In Buff-Lace- father." Her Complaint Vaccinating young chickens against chicken pox Is now a proven way for farmers to protect the cash income from poultry, according to the labors' tory of animal pathology and hygiene. College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. Poultry and eggs now bring in about 11 per cent of the cash Income of Illinois farmers, but the total would be eyen higher were It not for the inroads of chicken pox and other barriers to the production of high quality products, it was pointed out The disease also Is known as canker sore mouth or avian dlpththerla. Routine vaccination Is recommend ed to all owners of flocks on infected result of a two years' premises as study by the laboratory. Either fowl pox or pigeon pox vaccine can be used. It was demonstrated that there Is no danger of causing chicken pox by using pigeon pox vaccine. Occasionally, however, serious results follow the use of fowl pox vaccine. It also was found that unhealthy flocks are not good subjects for Immunization with pigeon pox vaccine. Complete protec tion was not established in all flocks vaccinated with the pigeon pox prod uct In 1932, but In general the results were satisfactory. Vaccination should be restricted to flocks in which the disease occurred during the previous year. All fowls vaccinated with fowl pox vaccine should be placed in voluntary quar antine for two months. Chickens suffering from any other disease should not be vaccinated. Leading hard-workin- g The girl smiled. "How Interesting 1" she Bald. "Ii must have been real fun winding np his estate." Philadelphia Inquirer. Plan Recommended to Owners of Diseased Flocks. Continental-Europea- Will of Wheel. Freddie was giving his lady friend a long discourse on his family his tory. "My Grandfather." he said, "was London just a poor, When he died, a few clockmaker. years ago, he left all his estate, which consisted of 200 clocks, to my A Wise Mot "I thought you always frequented good clubs? How Is it I find you In this doubtful place?" "My wife said that If I went to such places I could go alone." Defending Him "Why did you have to tell your Unwed I hear the stork lias been mother 1 kissed you?" making a trip to your house. "She's always saying you haven't Dadmoor A trip! Triplets. the nerve." Louisville Courler-Jonr-na- l. On the Go Helen is getting prettier, Control Curiosity don't you think so? Those who don't mind being Father Really, my dear, I can't say. I must get up early some morn- rapped over the fingers, ask many questions. ing and meet her as she comes in. Mother If He It Genuine Better Gift A xt Kan RnHHv T rra va ttii i tn genuine orator can go on long after he is through, and Is wel- a poor little boy who had no father." tlTTV ! J I ,1 Lt come to. itturcrr wujr uiuii i give uiui (.tlWi A 1A juu |
