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Show . I I I "'HE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS. LAYTON.-- Ut AH . Narrow-Minde- d ' J'J. ivr. -- j. rtrvs. Fi '& BulS ten-.- ; idfs zgzzMavyjffi: - Hastings; pj- - benu-tlfu- vi - cyy.,F-- Bradley J u. siavicE. .? wn i CllOwrtakt' bvi T -- & ,a..i-- nwtgea m CHAPTER to publicity. Arid when backed myself against tVo exports from rails the Inn tier of the Du Vlnel, busing my belief on the evidence analysis of .the pigment of I lie live blue stnrs In (lie saint's tube,, nnd woq nnd the alleged tinder confessed wby then I wtw nii n'litbnrlty'ln iny. own narrow but . .fur reaching flel'd, ' ' ' . I I 1 I lirtdnt hern so angry, tTirouRli It1' nnd through, vlth Hit Jilimil Ho. hot In my fnc tlmt I flung o;un. a window, to. cool off In tltf sharp r have autumn nlr, I would seep tlint blow. And I would never n of-.tli- lo-vc- linvQ o . ridiculous, tny anger. HI dlculous tp feel tlmt anythin); tficse 'I .lmd bootr sent foe now, to ga people might do could hurt me. lint through .the fatuous Keller collection to he treated like a jdnno ituiu'ri like and offer my Judgment on the a a (duin her, like one sfnt for to masterpieces that the. of the present owner .had do some nieiilnl Jol fibout,thehoiise! I, Lellu Seton, hettl-- born niVl bet- believed ha. bought. ter brod tlinn they not good enough I flung open th.o long ylndoty nnd . for their (Uven a trny offered myself to the night. It hnd In my bedroom . been six when I nrrlved It was noW. It was OcIt was silly to let 41iUt gul mG nliolit I ought to luive Inirglied It off; hut tober, nnd nlready dusk; the somehow 1 lmd been childishly ground below mo wus In and all shadow', the .Sound, far below, a eager about this week-en' it seemed to, promise, and I hnd lighter stretch of gray. I hadn't renliy seen the place In spout more than I could afford for the dlhner gown, I wntf so sure I driving in; I had had only on Imwould 'need nnd, their the sight of pression, of high walls and Inclosed all those people' downstairs, stand- acres, and n great tail house nntong ing about- with the cocktnlls. that trees'. Now I took a more cureful were the fug end of the note of the house. The entrance laughing and talking, luid me tin- opened Into a' long hall that ran gling with anticipation at) I followed across the front of the building, the man with my bags up tlieslalrs. with a drnwlng-rooi(it one end, I already knew wlw some of and' wlint I had presumed to he the them were. I knew from the' pa- dining-roout the other. Moth the pers that 'Alan Ieck, the critic, drawing-rooand the dlnlng-roowas t lie there. .1 loved his dry, Jutted forward. ,1 wn. In the third Wtlng sentences'. I lmd hoped for story, two flights owr the drawingrMm beside me at dinner liter- oom. Item use. of the forwnrd-Jut-Unature and, art might he pulre.d toposition of tho wing, my wingether; nnd I'd hnd little di'enins of dow looked directly ncroRH to the his finding me umlorstnndrng nnd other wing, nnd gnve a slant view in my new of the facade of the house.-- . . merry nnd Jlknlde. blue satin Lights were gleaming In the Aiid the Ilfirrhlens were to lie cracks between drawn curtains In there tlmt nniazlng coujde whose some of the windows; nnd behind sensational accusations nipl recon- them I could Imagine people dressciliations New York still rolled un- ing for dinner. In the front of the der Its tongue. .However' tiiy New house, down on tho second story, England blood plight register dis- one wide window was uncurtained,' of this and a mans figure was silhouetted approval of the- giripgs-ospoiled set, my blackly against Its light. Quite sudsoul had been thrilled at denly a woman's figure canto Into the thought of meeting Nora.IInr-rlden- , the picture. the enchantress. She scf'inej to whirl lit, to come I lmd wondered, passing through tip to the man with a sort of rush, the great Imll, whether tlmt slight to stand before hint a moment. 1 creature In gbld pajamas, rather .could see no faces, no movement apart from the others, were she of the outline of her face; hut I or not. had nn. Impression, somehow, that I had said, as the man put down she was talking rapidly! And then a suitcase on the little ' folding he struck her. stand: "You wlli tell Mrs. Keller I saw hls arm go out, In nn I am here?" Naively I had thought blow. Not a but it odd he hadn't announced me when a .savage smack. And thrust, then they ' I arrived. were both out of sight. , "Oh, yes, Madame, pile will he InI was still staring out when the formed, he Bald perfunctorily. curtains were suddenly drawn. And "And wlmf time Is. dlnuef?" I then I grinned .to myself. I told wanted to know. I wns quite ns wtdl off The man had looked vague, Oh myself that ns here up dining with such guests; the usual hour, 1 expectAt for their cocktails had evldcutly eight. I.ut yoii cau tray removed whatever veneer any 'train-sent at any time you wish. A little hnd put upon them. Ing earlier? I I was afraid Tstared. As quickly" I wus feeling much better by then. about the pictures nnd as I could, 1 snld, "No nt eight ranthought over In my mind tho ilst of althen, and niy voice was not sue. leged' masterpieces tlmt had. been ccssful, either, In cloaking wlqit I old Hiram Kellers vnunt... ' felt man . had said the gallery The Tor the sake of saying. somewas on 'the same floor,, ncross the . I asked thing frout of the house, sa I went out quickly, "Just where. Is the art gal-- . Into the hulk I passed the head of lery here? nnd he told me that It' the stairs the twin staircase riswas around the .corner from my from the tlrst floor brnnefted ing room, on the same floor, ncross flic right and. loft to gqln (he 'second front of the house. hnd a stair .rose then to the Then he shut the, dooY with pro- floor, nnd turned fo the door at third fessional quiet Mid I pretended to the left. Finished the door open. tho' be busy about room, unpacking, was dark ns a' tomb, The place roy suitcase, trying to admire the the curtains drawn, I surmised, spacious comfort, .the black lacso that not even dun, any against quer of thq ChlheSe furniture,' the the paje oblongs of evening wore note of lovely ruse In the I fumbled for a switch, discernible, chair. Iiut I wu's Just getting-morangry Inside. A warm With' It wits great-grandfath- r houso-purly- t - It-w- . . stepping Into the shndow of the wall to find' one. Out of the darkness a voice spoke so suddenly thnt I Jumped.. for a moment, still obsessed by my European experience, that It was some watchman of the gal lery, and I said, quickly! "Its all right. , I honrd somebody walking toward me. Then mj? fingers found the switch; and the lights sprang orf. And before me tbe face of a mnn In evening dress seemed to spring out at me with the light?, It was so white, so startling. It was a l face, narrow, highbred, challenging, like some of the portraits of gay young aristocrats In old Eng llsjc enn vases. Hut the- expression was queerly desperate. the most, hitter nid tormented (ace 1 hnd ever seen. A little breathlessly I said;. OK! I 'thought It was the wotehnmp. I Just wanted toaeo(the pictures." Ills words pricked me with cut barrnssment at having blundered on some rendezvous. 1 wus Just .waiting," be said a llftle vuguely, You we pavent met before lmve, we? "No oh, no' 1 Btamine'red. I: I Just came to see the. pictures." And I turned to he gone, before that girl for whom he was. wn.lt-- . Ing should arrive. ' . "You cnixt See the' pictures If you gd," lie reminded me with a sort of negligent amusement.' ' ' They- stay on tbe walls." "I 'mean i Just came to the house to see the pictures to examine them, I explained. "Im not 111 see part of tbe house-partthem better by daylight." And ns he snld nothing to. thnt, I -- ' 1 seven-thirt- y land-senpoi- d - . Indifferent-sounding,- deep-cushione- e didnt - 'I - Uir. . e - : . . - . . . Oh, Miss Seton Is so nice! There. your, place. It was .the- only vacancy between . - . , ' . ." at fhy .left pushed a . -, dont yon "Thats 'Harrlden khow him? said the young man; aqd while I murmured that j didnt know a soul there, 1 was' pfurlng face of the at the big,' famous Harrlden. ' I 'wondered where Mrs. Ilarrldeu Was; .then I before' me with saw the place-carher name on IL So I was lining In .for Nora Harrldcir! . There wus a queer amusement In It. ,f luid even the wonder If she wns fhe woman wlmse face had been smacked, and so wirs staying away from dinner to hide the mark. hard-bone- Saw Hls Arm Go. Out, In an Un . mlstflkabte Blow. away like a school girl, for l( there was any part of the liousn to Which I did have a 'right of entry, ft wits he gallery. I wondered about ids rendezvous anil Its strange secrecy, Surely, In n house like this, with all Its oppnr Utilities fot meeting, there must he something desperately Intimate between two people, to draw them to an unfrequented gal lery for a few minutes together,-- . ', . And Ids fuce had been so queer. It did' not look as If. It were rapture he was ' . . awaiting. 1 was beginning to tplok about my trny, for I hnd a healthy nppe tltc, for all my Ihdlgmitlon, when the houseman . appeared suddenly at tiiy door with u message, ' "Mrs.. Keller would bq pleased, Madame, If you come dowa ut dinner." My first impulse, beyon'd the sudden surprise, was to refuse. Mrs Keller hadnt wanted me once my prlde wns ns high us hers. It wns I wns not a little after . eight. dressed for dinner why should I trouble myself because some guest hnd failed and upset her table, nnd she hnd tukeu the whim to send for d - d ' Mr. Heck made not tbe' slightest effort to tulk-tme, but sat silent, ns far ns I could guther, .while Mr. Mitchell claimed my attention. He wanted to know who was. nnd what sort 'of artistic work did; and.l wns trying to putdt Into social words that would not reveal my too renl enthusiasm when Mr. Harrlden- created an abrupt diversion by pushing hack. Ida ch'hlr and leaving the table. , Mr. Mitchell relayed the "He's gone up to aee how Ids wife's headache Is she .dldut o I- - I- - - tcxplau-ntloir- cotiu? down. It Is Important that 1 remember the right Intervals; at least. It ! Important to my story. I believe It was only very few moments when Mr. Hnrrideri cium back, lie fytldv quite loudly;- "I the room was' think ' dark so .1. didn't disturb her. Ami . 1 recall that Alan Deck ' looked 1 . began dressedMown toward him Intently, ad If Ob ' flown Its soon serving him a moment. me? "On not doubtfully., "She as'yotl could. . saJd-to-come the dinner In - she'?-sleepin- (TO BE . COSTlSir.D) house-part- A Poignant Romance A Chilling Mystery . , i Begins Today Witn This Opening Installment of IJWCCDWIfESSEtb . : MARY HASTINGS BRADLEY 'ey i , .Author of Murder In Room 700" "Caravans and Cannibals "Favor of Kings" "On the Gorilla Trail" "Road of Desperation" -- . , , ' , . . ' houseparty was proceed Guests mingled smoothly, uning gaily. restrainedly, It was the absence of the alluringly beautiful New Yorker, Nora Harriden, from the dinner and the spectacle of her empty room that first announced something was wrong. She was found lying dead In the shrubbery below The t Rnd y murder, the first as to "Mixing r mantle as the second is baffling, Mrs. Bradley has produced an entertaining novel," the Boston Tran- script says of this new serial novel love-stor- week-en- d Start This Thrilling Story Now The Italian soldier Badoglio, la the striking uniform of an Italian marshal, returned to Rome and embraced Mussolini, who wore the uniform of' a 'corporal- pf fascist militia. Napoleon also liked to be called the corporal" Tittle Marshal Dadoglio. .is an Italiaq who obeys orders. When' Mussolinis forces were marching oh Rome, Bad'oglio, according to What the 'story, said to the king: ' The 1 out? them shall dowipe No; no violence. king ordered: Now, Mussolini rules, and on hls orders Badoglio wipes out Haile Selassie and the' government of ' ' ' Ethiopia. soldier GeoVg Sperm Whale Ha Large Throat The sperm whale could swallotf man. It grows .to a Kugth'of OO feet and has . an eno'rmous head, hich amounts' to 'about half ks bulk and a third of Its .length. lt.4 throat Is broad enough. to allow Jt to swallow a man. The spernj whal Is found chiefly lq southern w,r. ters, and In considerable nvt'niVr In the vicinity of New Zealand. Occasionally, though. It Is met with as far north as the Arctic, pn a number of Important point that distinguish It from other whale? Is that It has teeth. The throats of most 'Varieties of whale are comparatively small hot more than four or five Inches aeros. III III, the English king , George chiefly . responsible for the bitterness which led tq the American Revolution, was so narrowminded and selfish that be would permit none of hls six daughters to marry. The eldest was allowed to marry dt thirty-one- ; the second and best looking of them was the "official' virgin of ''the family and lived to reach tbe age of seventy ; tbe third .'tried many times to marry and was the allowed to do so. at forty-six- ; fourth was over forty before allowed a husband; the net. most passionate gjrl, created enough scandal, but never married; and the last, being the youngest and most favorite, was, of course, never allowed to marry. . InyeAte'd Linoleum Frederick Walton, an Englishman, is credited with the Invention of linoleum, In 1S53. ne coined the word ; as well, deriving It from "linum, flax, and "oleum pH. From Its' crude beginning he helped It to develop' toward Its present useful and petfected state. lie worked for five years alone on a single machine that would produce Inlaid llnoleflm, cutting the blocks from colored sheets and fitting theid to: gethep according to pattern. . Odd Metal also known as an odd metallic element which, djffers from, other metals In' that It appears In a liquid state at ordinary temperatures. It does not attain a solid state until the temperature Is minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit ,or colder. Pathfinder . Magazine. , Mercufy qulck-sllver-y-- is Largest Temple in World The largest temple In the world Is probably the Temple, of Ammon In Karnak, Egypt, which Is now In ruins. Erected 4,000. years ago, there is comfortable standing room for as maby as 00 people on the top of the .columns still o'f rnuiry erect . . Anything could happen In. Eu' rope, and one of the things considered qtiite possible, extremely disturbing to respectable old- England and others, is an agreement between Mussolini and Hitler to make. "a deal on Austria profitable for both; not for Austria. - however, the memory bf 1914, whon Austria, Italy and the Kaiser had the triple alliance that did not stand up' Such alliances usually go along racial lineS, if they are to last. ore natural alFrance and Ita-lboth lies, Latin; England and the United States" would probably be found not far aphrt.if a really big World war should ever come, with one or two other IFS. There is always, Weight of Elephant Calve The average weight of elephant 200 calves at birth Is from 1(50 mature pounds. Young elephants yery slowly and do not gain very much In weight during the first week. .They live entirely on mjlk for several months. - t-- Dancing Spain The Romans Imported their dnne ers from Cadiz, and Spain Is the dancelnnd of the Mediterranean with castanets, rhythmic hand clapping and stamping of pretty feet. Spanish dancers cast a spell over all visitors. . . Scotland YfcVd Territory Scotland Yard In. London Is of the metropolis police force. The . metropolitan police area lricludos Lyndon county, and extends dvpr adjacent, territory to an extent, of nearly 0O square miles.' To the. metropolitan' police Is Intrusted the public order of this Central rart of England. This highly trained force Is directly under the home secretary of Cnwit Britain. ..'- Plastic Surgery Old 'As early as the Sixteenth centnrj-famous .Italian surgeon, Invented some of the 'plastic surgery practices In- use- to .thl day. The Hindus performed operations centuries ago by grafting pieces of skin from their forehead?. Justinian II enlisted tic to rebuild a help of nose which iie had lost on the bat- a Tagji:-cozjt- l, nos-repa- lr - , skln-grafte- tlefield. . rs . Immensity :of fhe Amaio The area dralhed by the Amazon and Its tributaries totals mor than 2,970,000 square miles; largely untamed tropical, forests, and tin volume of water discharged Int the sea ahnually Is probably flvt times as much as that of the "Old Man River. Vessels of small draught enn ascend the Amazon proper more than 3,G( miles. Cauied Ponc-- de Leon' Death A condition Vailed modorra U said to have been fata! Fonce de Leon and several Dominr lean priests who accompanied ' him went he went to Mexico to relieve Cortez of hls commnnd. .The nnme Is still ' In use anwng the. common people of Mexico and signified heavy somnolence or light coma. e s . Canada, U. S., Alaska Area Canadas area is '3,C9i,8G3 - . ' t Mr, Mitchell took pn the duties of host. "And this Is Miss Van Miss Seton," ho suld of the young woman at Ids left, who gave me an' Instants view of a vuguc smile nnd then .turned buck to the man at iter .left. ' "And-whIs beside lior? I want' ' ' ' ed to know. I . - her-bes- soothe me, nor dunning, the red frock I had brought for "flvo oclock. My checks were laming. I found myself dwelling on the noble origins of my ancestry, ainl : the presumably Ignoble blng strains In these upstarts absurd, the Intensity of childish emotion I wasted on that experience'll. Of course, my "disappointment was making Itself felt, for It was not only a blow to my pride,' but to the little vague, excited . liope$ I had bepn cherishing ever since I had been given the commission to go over the Keller collection, and the Keller secretary through whom the arrangements had been made hnd asked me to come down Friday afternoon. Why Friday afternoon. If I was not to be part of the that the papers said the Kellers were assembling? . Wby, I was an artist! Not a painter but an authority on old masters. In studying abroad I had worked under Herenzen, fascinated by bis science of detecting Impostures, and had given myself to study of the past. I knew canvas, I might have threads, pigment. known them, unrecognized, for long years; but by luck my discovery of the Lorenzo substitution, Just an the Detroit millionaire was completing the purchase, flashed me In money-grub- , : timate - have-you- r blu;-und-sliv- o-- d - sift-ln. z g . a - place card toward mo. Ttn Mitchell,' he 'said with a quick Smile. He lmd bright Httle black eyes, a pince-newith a black ribbon, nqd-bald forehead, The other man wns the young mun the gnllery. So. that wns'Alun Deckl And I was beside him, after all. "Monty Mitchell to my' Intlmntf." said . the one at. the left. "And 1 can see tlmt we are going to be In- n super-glide- Im-- Mr. Dock," The man ion-hou- ' -- went Hack In my room, I told my- tlie bluck shoulders of the men, A self thnt I hnd been silly to ftish butler drew hack my chair; and as I Bcuted myself,, the hostess called down That Is Mr, Mitchell and - . Rut I dld,wnnta to eo. I wanted terrjldy to see wliat wns happening downstulrs, fthu--t lay behind tbat Invitation. And I told' rayselt that. It wns more dignified, nun-- ImperTlllS-WEEK.'- ; vious to any feeling otellghtfdness, to go down, as If it were a matter . of Indifference. Fajevvell . ' ' A King down "You ekn tell be Jll CWSoMicr Oitcj-cusunlty. When lie- wns girt of : An K or Tdo' the room, 1 fairly flew., , . 40,008,000 Degrees now. The sew ; Tbe blue of dying chiffon Rfpeklngs. The Parts To last wordy of added. chain willbe Jhose slippers. The crystal men the .late King nnd bracelet. stroke at my hair. . Qcorge of Eng-r- j with, a comb. am land Liite as I wnk, ? passed for n Hist h keep sorry Y feminine p'eep'nt the girl lu ihe y.8 you waiting like She wust surely doing glims. this. Typical of for' me;, she might .have been, a good,' modest with twenty ,'lnstend- of tUenty-sIx- , always her fresh clenr color, only a lilul reinforced! her. bright, .light yellow hair, and tbe .eyes Unit looked Ilkir deepej shadows of that frock.. I wns quite poetic about myself sir as I hurried down the stitlrs.' The John Simon,.' sound of voices rtitwe from the op-- ' who waited upen1 doofs of. the dining room beyond. on him at .the moment, They ha'du-- t waited they hnd sat last A rtfcar nrlbt.".-thdown I walked to tbe open doors klng name and looked In with uncertainty bentgtc.d pathetically to sign his comIng hnr.d tinder my effort at to p state paper, .succeeded, then, ' ' ' . posure., turning to his advisers, spoke those words, followed by a Bmile a last Jt was large white' room' wltk a blitck floor'; there were about a and nod with which he' was accus. tomed to end art audience. dozen paople about a long black taIn- the Star '. was This published ble with the' glitter-o- f green glnsk of Johannesburg, South Africa, in on It. At one end a women Iri green, ' Mr. Gunia with lmlr that was either white or a Reuter dispatch. . from Bibsonia, the sends clipping platinum, looked, up and called Jo. ' Pa. ' Much, obliged. ' ' , me. ' A murderer, impelled by some obscure motive, molded a chain of malignant false clues that drew Leila Se ton. youthful but clever art critic, into an insidious web of guilt How Leila broke that chain and made her heart's choice be tween two men provides a modem mystery-romanat once baffling and charming.. her window. ce Follow It Serially in This Paper ' Science proudly demonstrates for. the Westinghouse. company a new lamp that "rivals the beams of the The demonstrator explained sum that the temperature at the suns surface is about 11,732 degrees Fahrenheit, while the new lamp reaches 25,232 degrees Fahrenheit That howevbr, as scientists know, is a long way from the suns best temperature. According to Sir James Jean9, the.re prevails 'in the depths of the sun temperature of "forty million, degrees centigrade, 'which Is Cone siderably higher than any. temperature. . II you came within 1,000 miles of a 6 cent piece with a temperature of 40,000,000 degrees centigrade, you would be burned to a cinder; hard to. believe, but true. . man-tnad- 'England protested against raising the elevation of 'guns on American warships: becau.se 'that would make our guns shoot too far. In case of War we might hit a British .ship lined up against Us. . WHICH INCLUDES WIRING, IS FOR A Are animals capable of any . . 'thought? A dog on Trince Edward island, whining nnd bowling with its muzzle q gainst a pile of clothing on the edge of a pool, attracted men who too"k 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 thq disappearance of its youpg owqers? At 'Ur. ancient city of the Chal- dearts, they show a gigantic brick temple, recently uncovered, where It has lain in the ground oovered through the ages'. It was constructed originally, like the tower of Babel, to enable the builders to get up into heaveh and reach tiie 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 i to be hoped that the government is trying to build bomber planes able to fly any ocean. If war came, our bombing opera tions could be carried on in countries across the Atlantic or the Pacific. We should not want to do any bombing in America. After the first experiment, no country would send any ships within easy bombing or submarine range of these shores. C Kins Ftur WMJ Svndlcntt SrvM. . f . THIS EXCEPTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE PRICE, . . Limited Time Only! What a wonderful opportunity . it gives you to have an Electric Range, of guaranteed quality in your home at an unusual bargain. . RIGHT NOW is the time to discard wasteful and methods of cooking. 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