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Show MM BLACK ...it, v.uirruKD KNIGHT 0 c " i so V A i v --,4 v. ' o.- .- - m m w ElM CkatfieM. Hollywood artist, la cat of fcer Aaat Kitty, wka f (rem theaa win overdose a morphine. Bartied troa Bor-- a ry, aa amatew deteeUre, and HaniKuxt-Hukt, professional sleatn, is to oa a yacht craise wiU Margaret aad Dwight Nichols. Arriving at Maxatlaa they tad that Elsa aad her party nave preceded them hy pUnc. of Elsa'a faXbey diaa at tha ranch whom Chataeld, gam Sogers ta aboat ail visit ta hU sister, Kitty, aa the night she died. The next day seetioa Caatfield tosses a rotogravnra lata tha sea, hat the pieces are picked who fives them Bp ay Seed Barton, to Borers. Chatfleld la very Indignant aver tha Incident. sjoes-ta0- CHAPTER VI "Here it is," said Dwight, pointing. "Yes," said Rogers. I leaned farther forward to see the picture. It was a reproduction cf a photograph of Elsa; the lovable personality shone up from the damp surface. Unmistakably it was Elsa at her provocative, impish best That, of course, was as it should be; but the staggering, incomprehensible part of it all was the child on her lap. A child apparently about a year old, seeming normally healthy and lovely, and, like all babies, a captivator of the heart. Underneath the picture were the lines: "Elsa Chatfleld, whose caricatures have recently won wide acclaim, and her small daughter Mary Frances." "Well that's that, I guess." "Yes," said Rogers, picking up the torn sheet, and starting below to his stateroom. "Barry" he began. "I I don't understand it." "Neither do I, Reed." There were many things in that strange story not understood until the end. The cruise in the Orizaba planned for that day was abandoned; the yacht lay idly at her anchor. There was no fishing. "What do you make of it, Dwight?" I inquired after lunch that day. Dwight Nichols shook his head. "The whole thing is impossible. The child has been dead now several years three or four." "But how could such a mistake be made?" asked Margaret, her dark eyes very earnest. "Mistakes can usually be explained," Rogers reminded her. "I dare say George Rumble, to whom we must look for the answer, has a explanation. That, very natural of course, is aside from other aspects of the thing. Here's a family secret closely guarded for years, about which neither Elsa nor her father would talk, broadcast to the public- -" "Did Sam Chatfleld see the picture?" Margaret interrupted. Rogers shook his head. "I have it in my stateroom. Exhibit A, so to speak, although there are liter ally thousands of them in existence elsewhere. In Southern California, bowever; not here m Mazatlan." But it was not until the morning , of the following day that we ran across George Rumble. We discov ered him in the last place we expected to find him at Sam Chat- field's rancho, sitting idly . in the patio indifferent to the little green parrakeets screaming in the gnarled old pepper tree .overhead while he waited for Elsa. The shirt of pink and white checks was absent, but in its place was a companion of blue and white. "Some of us have been wondering where you got that picture of Elsa and the baby," said Rogers. "I knew somebody would ask that. Well" his dark little eyes watched the movements of a young Indian girl as she came out of a doorway, walked straight and slim through the patio and disappeared into the kitchen "there's lots of ways to get a picture." "Elsa didn't give it to you." "No." "You understand, Rumble," I began, "there's only one conclusion to be drawn, after seeing how Elsa reacted yesterday when she saw the picture in the paper." "Well draw it, Barry, if you want to. If I say anything to Elsa about what I'm going to do, she won't let me. She'll be going against her own best interests by telling me I can't do it. When you start with a press agent, you ought to leave it all in his hands. Elsa'd be just like ner aunt-t-he one that died. She'd said to me: No, you can't do that. You can't do this. I know what I want in the paper.' So I says to her one day: 'Why'n heck did jrou hire me, if you're going to run it?' That made her mad and she kicked me out of her house, and I never did Set my money, either." Neither Rogers nor I said anything for a moment as we reflected Pon this revelation. "You knew Elsa's aunt Kather-m- e Chatfleld?" nan. f"0 - PATTERNS to tl JfTsjr - ansnw ssnvica up stuff she wants to Conversation lagged; we had exgive me. The next time I see it I hausted all that was obvious in the Pick lt up in Elsa's apartment in affair. Hollywood when I am planning my "Do ycu know where Elsa is?" campaign for Elsa, the names are on the back: Elsa and Rogers inquired of a sudden. Mary Fran- "All I know is that some guy a Mex, who speaks English said How did you know it when I first came out that she had daughter?" asked Roeers. Her aunt told me that first tim gone out horseback riding." "Alone?" when I saw the picture. I asked "I didn't ask." " who it was. That's why I remember We had had our talk, with George it a year later when I can use the Rumble; the explanation of the picpicture, see?" ture in the rotogravure section had Didn't you know that th child been made, and I was ready to rewas dead?" turn to town. But Rogers was inDead? The baby?" Rumble ech- clined to linger, although we had oed, slightly aghast. "No, I didn't discovered that neither Sam Chatknow that. It ain't none of my field nor Berta was at home and business where the baby is, under- there seemed no object in remainstand, and I don't ask. All I'm ing. looking for is something with heart "You don't know, of course, when mtffest. see? Dead," he mused. Elsa is expected back?" inquired Well that gives me an idea; we Rogers of Rumble. can correct that. I'll get the boys "No, I don't, Hunt." at the office in Los Angeles to run a Rogers got up from the patio little piece you know, unfortunate bench and began a leisurely examimistake; picture of brilliant young nation of the flowers and the riot of caricaturist published last week with tropical shrubbery. Finally he child Say, that's fine! We'll crack pushed open an old grilled gate 'em again. I tell you it don't make which led to a graveled courtyard, no difference what you run, so long or bare The huge house as you keep hammering away at it." formed oneplaza. side of the open square. Rumble's thoughts were busy with A long low line of adobe buildings future publicity, while Rogers sat with barred windows housed the of fice of the ranch and the storehouses, a third side was the living quarters of the ranch workers, the fourth that of the stables. I followed Rogers, leaving Rumble sitting alone, smoking a brown paper cigarette in solitude. As we sauntered toward the stables, the actions of a man in the courtyard, near a gate which opened upon the fields of the rancho, drew our attention. He was stooping above the form of a brown dog lying on the ground. As we drew near he emptied the contents of a bottle upon a dirty rag and held it to the dog's nose, and the dog quivered slightly as if from a chill. "The dog is old," said Rogers in &1 - CIRCLE HH" 1JW(i ONE SV KsaW, out ei every live foma does not hove U own vegetoblt cordon. plant, including the stems and leaves. Because of the many uses for castor oil in vital war products, there has not been sufficient quantities of castor plants available to manufacture any important quantity of the new spray, Mr. Good said. This situation may improve, he went on, if dehydrated castor bean leaves can be obtained. We know that we will have to have very large tonnages of materials to meet 1944's demands for the finished product. For example, one of the large citrus growers in Florida had a crop this year that was much greater and of better quality than last year, and was still better than the previous year's crop. This is the first year that he used the new insecticide exclusively. Somewhat similar results were obtained with potatoes in Maine. Two or three years ago when we began experimenting with the spraying of vegetables, we watched those experiments very closely. The results obtained in the years 1942 and 1943 satisfy us that the spray will adequately protect vegetables from the insects that infest them, and will produce a better quality of vegetables. And remember, Mr. Good emphasized, that no imported materials need be used if castor beans were grown in this, country in quantity. All the possibilities of the new insecticide have not been explored and experimental work is going on continually. For instance, it has been combined with sulphur or copper and used in commercial applications for control of red spider, purple mite, rust mite, mite, melanose and many worms that infest vegetables. It is not claimed that this insecticide will kill all insects. In some cases it seems to act as a repellent; in other cases as a contact poison on sucking insects such as aphids, thrips, lice, mealy bugs, and red bugs; and controls chewing insects such as beetles, leaf rollers and caterpillars. A few of the many crop insects that have been reported to us as being controlled are: Beans: Mexican bean beetles, aphids, leaf rollers. Beets: Flea beetles, worms. Cabbage: Imported cabbage worms, cabbage loopers. Cucumbers: Melon aphids, melon worms, beetles. Potatoes: Aphids, beetles, leaf hoppers, leaf rollers and flea beetles. Spinach: Flea beetles, aphids, cabbage loopers, worms. Fruit worms, flea Tomatoes: beetles. Lettuce: Worms. Peas: Aphids, weevils. The purpose in mentioning these details and properties is not to emphasize one insecticide particularly, Mr. Good said in closing, but to point out that an efficient insecticide can be made from farm crops grown in the United States for the United States. "Very old, sir," the man replied, looking up sadly. "It is best that he should die now, sir." He caught a whiff of something and turned his head away. "Chloroform," I said to Rogers. "Yes," he answered, and stooped to pick up the empty bottle the man had discarded. "He 11 die quickly," he said to the executioner. "Yes, sir. Senora Chatfield would not have him shot. She said this was merciful." "The senora gave you the drug?" "Yes, sir. Do you think the dog - 1 Navy 'Pancake' The navy "pancake" is a recently perfected Diesel engine whose cylinders are stacked one above another, flapjack fashion. It is used in a speedy new type of sub-chas- er. 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Pattern No. DTTDDVT) V? long-sleev- e Spanish. is dead, sir?" "Not yet, but soon." While I was standing there, gaz ing at this odd scene, my ears picked up the sound of hoof beats. For a moment or two their source Elsa seemed to be flying for her life. was not apparent. I walked through gate and out into the open away with a curious look in his mild blue the from the stables. Rogers followed eyes regarding this strange mem- me. Across the wide fields along an ber of that great and honored body unpaved ranch roadway leading to of men who direct a nation's thought came pounding a horse the house, and whim. and rider as if in a tremendous hur"You say that Katherine Chatfleld ry to arrive. A hundred yards or died that night after you threatened so behind was a second horseman to sue her for your money?" asked following in the wake of the other. Rogers. As they came nearer in their mad "Yes. I don't call till after din- race, I made out the figure of Elsa ner, see? This guy Elsa's poppa astride the leading horse, and on and his Mexican wife arrived while the other Chesebro. Elsa seemed I was still talking with the old gal to be flying for her life; she was in her study. They don't know leaning far over the neck of her me now, but I don't forget people. mount and applying a short quirt in The Chatfleld woman gets sore as vicious mechanical strokes, her arm heck when they come in, end jumps rising and falling as if geared to up and slams the door. I thought the flying hoofs of her horse. she was going to have a stroke. They drew rapidly toward us. Maybe I'd have got my money out Elsa, looking back over her shoulof her, if she hadn't been so mad der, of a sudden sat erect and reined when she sees them out in the hall." in her horse. There was something "Do you know anything about the very intent about her every action. death of Miss Chatfield?" She had not discovered us, stand"What do you mean, Hunt?" ing as we were beside the huge "I mean do you know of what, or wheel of an old oxcart. She was inhow she died?" tent upon Chesebro now reining up "I don't know anything, except at her side. She sat quietly astride what I read in the papers the next her horse which, with heaving flanks, day. They said it was suicide. was uneasy and nervous after the run. Why?" "Has it ever occurred to you thit Rogers grunted half in astonishit might have been murder?" For a ment at something, half in warning long moment George Rumble gazed to me; he seemed to sense what at Rogers without speaking. Rog- was about to happen. For there ers added: "When did you leave the was something deadly in Elsa's house that night?" firmly seated figure, in the way she held herself in readiness. Chese-bro- 's "About nine o'clock." restless horse sidled close to "She was alive then?" Chesebro's hand was extendElsa's. at?" are "What you getting "The woman was murdered; can ed as if in expostulation, in protest, in appeal to an iron someyou tell us anything about it?" "I didn't do it. I left her still thing in Elsa. It was all too apparent now that alive. There wasn't any reason for me to kill her. She owed me mon Elsa had not so much been flying her life as running away from ey, and we had a row, and I threat for situation that had angered her, ened to sue, ana sne iriea io kick me a out. and I says: No you don't, old and had now thought better of it and eirl: there ain't no woman going to was decided upon action. That ackick me out of any house. Im a tion was so swift, so startling and cruel that I gasped, scarcely able gentleman and I'll walk out like so as I was to follow the figure that one. stiffened in the stirrups, the arm We fell silent for a few minutes rose and fell like lightning. that while overhead in the old pepper lash of the short quirt which The little parrakeets green the tree a few moments before Elsa only shrilled. scolded and her horse struck used upon had out us could wish help you "I across the face. I still Chesebro observed ahnnt that nieht. George." remember the sound of it, can can Rogers casually. see the white line it left along his "I .wish I could too, Hunt." cheek. Elsa's horse reared. She fat "Did anything arouse your suspl clung to the saddle without touching rinn.a while you were there; any believe the pommel, so intent was she upon thing that would lead you to to be the object of her wrath. Chesethat Miss Chatfield was about bro's horse whirled about, but didn't rnnrrlpred? bolt; the man was dazed, bewilsee it's You "No-I euess not. the blow. vpnr and a half, almost, since- dered by BE CONTINUED) re(TO I the thing hardened: and iWa,- - l HlNK. of Farm Victory Gardens T E L E F ACT wed muttoa War Inventions Of the 160,000 war inventions submitted to the National Inventors' council since 1940, about SO have been adopted and are in production, while more than a thou sand others are being tested. U. S. Can Grow Needed Poisons, Say Chemists For a number of years the United States has been importing many millions of pounds of insecticides and the bases for insecticides from foreign sources, many of which are now cut off by the war, J. Edmund Good, vice president of a chemical company, told members of the MidAmerican Chemurgic conference and the National Farm Chemurgic council at their joint convention in Cincinnati, recently. Raw materials for the larger part of our food insecticide needs today can be grown right on the nation's farms, he continued. Probably 90 per cent of those importations upon which we formerly depended can be replaced with products from our own American farms.' There is a direct connection between an adequate domestic supply of insecticides and our domestic crop of castor beans which was recently begun. A newly developed insecticide, commercially called "Spra Kast," is derived from the castor bean Kite suet at medicated herself to rein colds' cougiiiiig and muscle aokea. Now mothers just rub on Penetro. Has base containing old reli&Ue muttoa suet, with modern aeientiiie medication added. 25c, double supply 36c. Get Penetro. Castor Beans Furnish Base for Insecticide a-- air may bo a regular oo the poirwor automobile, making the car owner independent of roadside stations when emergency tire Inflation Is necessary. The air homes, now ined by me Army, can be refilled at any air Una. Borneo1 cenory Size Nama Address In UncLMIC Say5: Traveling often takes the con ceit out of a man, but coming home puts twice as much of it in him again. Everybody wants the biggest half but there is no such thing. The older a man gets, the hap pier he is that he wasn't allowed to have his own way as a boy. Sub's Batteries The electric batteries of a submarine, which are used only for submerged propulsion, constitute h of its weight, or about surface displacement tonnage. ' Agitators who want to set tA world ufirt usually find the world is like wet wood it won't burn. Some men dislike being alone. Perhaps afraid of being judged by their company. one-fift- six-spott- soft-bodie- . o. SEWING the way grandma did. I. Elsa and the baby, when we're setmember, of course, is the row I ting one day at the old gal's desk had with her." looking some "I'll say I knew her. She was a t and no mistake. She was e first Job I have in California when I come out from New York. I f "d they were putting on some camPalgn in Pasadena; she Tlv the chairman. I go to see her nd she says okeh, and we start to But we start fighting, too, ZotJt"gnt from the start. I don't get my money and I go to see her about 1 tell her I'm to sue her nd that night she going dies. That' the time I ever taw the picture of that "fU-ca- Xk - TRY OVERNIGHT CARE FOR WISER ABLE CCLD- S- d leaf-hoppe- Farm Notes I ; Expenditure of a few cents for a vermifuge, such as phenothiazine, (or goats, is considered a good in vestment by veterinarians. More than a million pounds of beeswax a year is needed for use in aar products, adhesives, waterproofing for shells, belts, machinery, and protective covering for fighting olanes. njssjsop TiliMllli'.'WF aWsOTllWilolW" IWIW'- iUUWWnr. ?tsr- 3 9 ?. 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