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Show The New Place Is a little brick ell I like them Old Place, quite modern and exthe ell, although none of them thrills me so tremely convenient, to which I retire for pecially; mt best they wo a little innocuwinter. I built it in the first year of ous. Tho blond Brays ere en average the e New Place bears my marriage. The Both lha Cearys happy young couple. for it is always closed in this leva watched Edith finimirnimnninnmiiniiTii "Quotations" A If you ara a frit-ni-l lo Nature you are a rich in an, even in old ifi-Ad-olf Murder Masquerade Lomu. Tin only way of catehiug a train I have ever diarovrred b to miae the train before. C. K. Chesterton. Women ara. lha aoeial guardians of the human, race. Lady Aitor. Beauty in itself ia not a gift, but femininity Is. Henri Bernstein. To live for one'a country ia greater Harold Bell than to die for It. end the Brays went to the masquerade. Their first connection with the murder was when we celled Doctor Geary after my maid, Sarah Derbe, found the body of lha murdered men. Next to the Cearys, and still on the ocean side, is the house occupied for lha summer by Doctor Harden and his step BYgranddaughter. Big, vary beautiful, more modem than the rest and hence naturally Mvenicnl end infinitely law inter-i- t looks forward onto n mmoonlight ' garden. Copyright Inca Hayaca Irwin An interesting pair these: Doctor Myron Harden and his WNU Servlet. Ha, a widower, a by birth, has practiced in Paris for twenty-five years. Caro Prentiss, the was hem in France, had never visited America before. Her mother PRELUDE bed died soon after Cora urns born. 1 Caro Premise is a new type in lha mama is My Mary Amy. I am forty-siyears old and n widow. I hava lived Satuit garden of girls. She has hod a conaU my life in tha Utile harbor Iowa of tinental education end she possesses ths Massachusetts, the scene of the most beautiful type of continental manners. Second Hoed murder. Tho old In conversation, she displays a kind of intelligence very differAvery house on Second Head has boon swift, wide-flunmy home for tho twenty-fivyears that ent from that of our Satuit girls. Grandhave elapsed since I married Murk Avery. father and granddaughter filled admirably It was on my place that lha murder wes into our social life. Both went to the committed. Because of that an d for other reasons I hava decided to write the whole Next beyond the Howard story of that murder. I say the whole story hedged lawns separating them is the because some of its details have never Fames house. Equally with the Stows, I reached the newspapers. Those facts ara love the Eamesas. Paid end Lorn Eames buried deep in my memory and in that went to school with me, end f am godof one other person. 1 shall pul this mother to their only child Molly. Paul manuscript in my sofa deposit box with is one of our leading citizens, the presiInstructions the t It may not ba opened dent of our bank. Lore busies hereself In until my death. good work in the community. They Murder in Satuitl are solid people; fine people. As for It seemed almost as fabulous as a Molly uprising among the flowers In an Tha Eames house Is a little like my old fashioned garden. And indeed when own old. what most people cell "quaint; the murder occurred tea, lha citizens of which, whatever else it may signify, cerSatuit, became almost as helpless as a tainly means inconvenient. It is at presgardener In tha face of such a revolution. ent Me most popular house on tho Head; Thitherto, our equipment for handling for wherever Molly is, the young of her crime had been meager. We had a police gWteration congregate. The mein connecstation, a chief of police, a few policemen, tion of the Fames family with the murmainly engaged in traffic duty; everything der is that Molly Eames was engaged to In short but crime. Patrick O'Brien, our the murdered man. Though why she was chief of police, who bore the leading perl engaged to him constituted the most rein solving the mystery, is of course a cent of Satuit s social mysteries ho wes ! ad-citizen of Satuit, known and loved by all twenty-- re years older then she. In of us. Indeed Patrick end I were graduated the same year from high school. Patrick teea president of the class end I waa treasurer.' It was always a race between us two in the matter of marks. In the end Patrick toon out and finished at tho head of the class. I have noticed that ell mystery stories with a description of the crime; of the locale. I, an amateur, am going to reverse that process. First of ell, I mm going to describe Second Hood where the murder occurred. Second Heed is one of four digs, tether unimaginatively named First, Second, Third end Fourth Heed, which stretch cost into Massachusetts bey. To the west of Second Heed runs a road, ending north at First Heed end south el the Indian river which separates Second and Third Heed. Beyond this rood, to the west stretches broad penetrated at high tide by a tiny from the harbor; end beyond the the rest of the big township. Roughly speaking, the houses on Second Heed which are most intimately connected with this story lie in a big oveL The center of this big oval is a small aval e kind af Common. Here n marble basin, filled with water, supports u colony af goldfish. Every family on Second Hood pays ti small fixed annuel sum to keep this scrap of Common mowed and orderly. We adults cell it The Egg. Successive generations of children have always My Estate Numbers s Generous called it Cat Perk although as far as I Dozen Acres. know, only a few cats ever sunned themselves there. dilion, everybody in Satuit believed that Next to mo o wide field bordered by Weller Treadway ww the man whom high lilac hedges, intervening live a Molly really loved. (Toiler Treadway had childless couple, Mr. and Mrs. Peter been for two years secretary to lha murdered man. Molly hod been engaged to Stow, f mm very fond of lha Stowe. Peter Weller for six months. A year before the is a pointer end n good one. Mattie Stow murder, the engagement was suddenly is perhaps the plainest women in Cod's broken off and Weller left world; she is also perhaps the nicest. six months after Wallers departuretown; and Their house, on old one end m big one. six months before the murder, e Molly its lower floor amplified by wide glassed-iengaged again end to a man who piazzas adapted perfectly for tho pur- uas destined to be murdered. All three pose of entertaining, is one of the most of tho Eameses attended the masquerade. Coming around tha curve of tho circle charming in Satuit. Every summer for and down the slope of tha Head, wo twenty-fivyean, tho Stows have given n reach It is the social event of the weatherthe pretty little house of the Fair sisters. Flore, the younger. Is dying from cancer mid Margaret, the oldIt was one of tho guests of this row's er, nurses her with a passionate devomasquerade who teas murdered. tion. Naturally, neither was present at he Stow I masquerade. New up tho slant of Second Heed toComing still farther down the hill, we ward tha ocean to the east come two bouses belonging to Doctor end Mrs. dose- the circle with my house, which, Ceary. Doctor Geary is o surgeon with an separated from it by gardens, lawn, trees office in Boston. Tho Cesrys occupy the end road, overlooks the marsh; m big, one nearest the ocean and their married old piece, built in 1710 by my husband's first ancestor in the country the origdaughter Edith end her husband, Alfred inal Mark Avery. It consists of what in Bray, tha one nearest the Stows. I hove the family we call the Old Place and lha always known the Cearys end of course I New Place. - Inez Haynes Irwin fright. Weeks Supply of Poatum Free Read the offer made by .the to grow up. Poa- middle-western- tum Company in another part of this paper. They will send a full weeks supply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for it. 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Liquid fl.00 ft U.K, Write Or. fiercei Cl laic. Sulalo, N. V. weak. - ; story port scenes of during the summer; but many as the Satuit case" known was what ore. played themselves out in tha Old j Inside, it foUmrs an a largish scale the hall plan of many colonial houses broad the doorway past running from down fine broad stairway ending the width of the house. On one side of the halt is the library, an tho other, a Bock of tho hall and small living-roohock of both these rooms, lias what was formerly the ample kitchen and is now stretching across the my big living-roowhole width of the house. Beck of this and now we ora in tha all ora diningroom and kitchen. Upstairs is a colonial tangle of big rooms and small. Broad screened-ipiazzas augment both ends of tha house. Outside, tha place is a little haphazard and complicated. But it is, f think, utterly charming. In front ara a pair of s gardens, one on each side of stepping-stonewhich lead to the front door, ai surrounded by a white picket fence. Beyond that is smooth, velvety lawn running down to the stone well which proteds me from the road. To my right the driveumy comes up pul mjr tide door , turns in a great loop, rejoins itself, so to speak, and flow s back to tho road. To my left is a small wood which f call lha Spinney. My estate numbers a generous dozen acres and tha Spinney takes up perhaps a half dozen of them. A patsy path runs from my piazza to lha edge of tho Spinney. There it becomes a brood gravel path, and pursuing ' a course irregularly oval, runs through the Spinney, curves upward and around and ends at my back door. In the Spinney, farther toward the ocean not in sight from my house is a tiny which tea hare always wooden celled tha Little House. Years ago two of my nephews built the Little House. They sleep there by preference whenever they come to visit me and entirely through sentiment I hare always kept it in repair. The Spinney path runs past the Little House. Down the stone trail, within sight of my house, there is e liny pond. It is circular and no larger than a small room. Until I coma here, everybody celled it by its hereditary name the cow well. Bat when my nieces end nephews began to grow up about me, we decided that it should have u more agreeable nemo. Some of them had waited in Connecticut in a house situated on the Mad river. IF a adored the name. After long debate it was decided lo call the pond the Merry Mere. The Merry Mere is fed from a spring in tho hillside; it is perhaps three feet deep in the center. Near it is a big, gray Uchened rock which, from time immemorial in lha family, has boon called Mud-Pi- e Rock. Here I live mil the year around; Mono except for my maids Bessie Williams end Sarah Darbe, colored women who have been with mo for years. At tha lima of l my eightyeerold niece, Delightful, Modish Models at Satuit? MURDER MASQUERADE new appreciation for mystery thrills, humor, suavity, a subtle to entertain the reader will give you a serials, it has plot . . . every-thin- g who ia seeking variety. Starts TODAY in these columns! A M HOP ntl W PKKINfi A SMALL AflfeR UP HIS VELOCIPEDE, MM) VOO LEf OF If NOW, HElL WJMJOD DDtff LET 60 THE WHOLE NEHbH-- BE ON HAND, PROBABLY SMALL BOV'S OPINION THAT YOU'RE 1WIH& 1b STEAL If MJ |