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¢ Green Murder Case BY 8. S. VAN DINE, SYNOPSIS, ¥hilo Vance, wealthy young bach- elor and friend of District Attorney, 'ohn F, X, Markham, becomes interest- ed in the Greene murder case. Julia Greene is killed and her younger sis- ter, Ada, is wounded. Old Tobias Greene's widow, together with the five children, Julia, Chester, Sibella, Rex and Ada, an adopted daughter, all live in the old Greene Mansion. The burglar theory is repudiated. Mrs. Greene is ques- tioned and Vance finds that Chester Greene possesses an old .32-calibre re- volver, CHAPTER V.--(Cont'd.) "Did you take a good look for it to- day, like you said?" asked Heath. "Certainly, I looked for it," Ches- ter replied, haughtily indignant. "J went through every room and closet and drawer in the house. But it's completely disappeared -- Probably got thrown out by mistake in one of the anual house-cleanings." "That's possible," agreed Vance. "What sort of a revolver was it?" "An old Smith & Wesson 022." Chester appeared to be trying to r2- fresh his memory. "Mother-of-peari handle; some scroll-engraving on the barrel--I don't recall exactly, I bought it fifteen years ago--maybe Icnger--when I went camping one summer in the Adirondacks, Used it for target practice. Then I got tired of it, and stuck it away in a drawer behind a lot of old cancelled checks." "Was it in good working orde: then?" "As far as I know. Fact is, it worked stiff when 1 got it, and I kad the sear filed down, so it was prac- tically a hair-trigger affair. The slightest touch sent it off. Better for shooting targets that way." "And nov, seeing that Doctor Von lon is still with his patient, I won- der if we could see Miss Sibella for 2 moment." Chester got up, obviously relieved. "I'll fetch her myself, he zaid, and hurried from the room. Markham turned to Vance wilh a smile. "Your prophecy about the nonveap- pearance of the gun has, 1 note, been temporarily verified." "And I'm afraid that fancy wea- pon with the hair-trigger never will appear--at least, not until this mis- erable business is cleaned up." "It's quite possible the revolver dis- appeared in the way Greene said it did," Markham submitted. "In any event, I think you unduly emphasized the matter." "Sure he did, Mr. Markhum,' growled Heath. "And, what's more, J can't see that all this repartee with the family is getting us any- wheres. 1 had 'em all on the carpet last night when the shooting was hot; and I'm telling you they Jon't know nothing about it." This Ada Greene is the only person round here I want to talk to. There's a chance she can give us a tip. room, she maybe got a good look at at him." "Sergeant," his head sadly, tively morbid on the subject of that mythical burglar." Markham inspected the end cigar thoughtfully. "No, Vance. with the sergeant. said Vance, imagination. into this inquiry too easily, left the floor to you. our only hope of help here." At that moment there came a sound of footsteps on the marble stairs, and a few seconds later Sibella G:oeene, Housecleaning? USE PARKER'S This is the time of year that we can help you. Send curtains, drapes, cush- ions, covers, etc., for a won- derful Parker cleaning. Dyeing, too, of course. Questions on price and color gladly answered, and postage charges on orders paid both JARKER® ) WORKS UMITED If her lights were on when the burglar go' in her shaking "you're getting posi- of his I'm inclined to agree It appears to me that you're the one with the morbid I let you inveigle me That's why I've kept in the background and Ada Greene's accompanied by Chester, appeared in the archway, CHAPTER VI. Sibella entered with a firm swing- ing guin, her head held high, her eyes sweeping the assemblage with bold interrogation. She was tall and of slender, athletic build, and though she was not pretty, there was a cold, chiseled attractiveness in her line- aments that held one's attention.. Her dark, crisp hair was bobbed but not waved, and the severity of its lines accentuated the over-decisive cast of her features. Her hazel eyes were widespaced beneath heavy, almost horizontal eyebrows; her nose was straight and slightly prominent, and ker mouth was large ard firm, with a suggestion of cruelty in its thin lips. She was dressed simply, in a dark gport suit cut extremely short, silk- wool stockings of a heather mixture, and low-heeled mannish Oxfords. Chester presented the District At- torny to her as an o'd acquaintance, und permitted Markham to make the other introductions. "I suppose you know, Mr. Mark- ham, why Chet likes you," she said, in a peculiarly plangent voice. "You're one of the few persons at the Maryle- bone Club that he can beat at golf." She seated herself before the centre table, and crossed her knees comfort- ably. "I wish you'd get me a cigarette, Chet." Her tone made the request an imperative, Vance rose at once and held out his case. "Do try one of these Regies, Miss Gieene," he urged in his best draw- ing room manner. "If you say you don't like them, I shall immediately change my brand." "Rash man!" Sib:lla took a eigar ette and permitted Vance to light it for her. Then she settled back in her! chair afd gave Markham a quizzical might feel things keenly, would not permit any misfortune to get the bet- ter of her; and I put her apparent callousness down to a dogged, if per- verted, courageousness. Markham, however, * resented her attitude. "One cannot blame Mr. Greene for not taking the matter lightly," he re- proved her. "The brutal murder of a defenceless woman and the attempted murder of a young girl hardly come under the head of diversion." Sibella became suddenly grave. "Why draw a long face over some- thing that's happened and can't be helped? Anyway, Julia never sought to brighten her little corner. She was always crabbed and fault-finding, and ker good deeds wouldn't fill a book. It may be unsisterly to say it, but she's not going to be missed so dreadfully. Chet and I are certainly not going to pine away." "Oh, cut it, Sib," objected Chester irritably. "You yourself had a spasm this me: ning when I told you the po- lice were hot-footing it after a b.rg- 1| lar." Sibeila made no answer. With a slight toss of the head she leaned over and threw her cigarette into the grate. "By the by, Miss Greene""---Vance spoke casually--"there has been con- siderable mystery about the disap- pearance of your brother's revolver. It has completely vanished from his desk drawer. I wonder if you have seen it about the house anywhere." At his mention of the gun Sibeila stiffened slightly. Her eyes took cn an expression of intentness, and the corners of her mouth lifted into a faintly ironical smile. "Chet's revolver has gone, has it?" fhe put the question ¢olorlessly, as if her thoughts were elsewhere. "No - I haven't seen it." Then, after a momentary pause: "But it was in Chet's desk last week." Chester heaved himself forward angrily. "What were you doing in my desk last week?" he demanded. "Don't wax apoplectic," the girl said carelessly. "I wasn't looking for love missives, I simply «couldn't im- agine you in love, Chet--" The idea semed to amuse her. "I was only looking for that old emerald stick-pin you borrowed and never returned." "It's at the club," he explained sulk- ily. % 'Is it, really? Well, I didn't find it Are you quite sure it's gone?" "Don't be absurd," the man grow!- anyway; but I did see the revolver--!' Delores Del Rio, whose latest picture takes her to Hawaii, sports a pyjama ensemble of horizontal look. "Quite a wild party we'pulled| strips and eight bracelets on one here last night, wasn't it? We've| arm. never had so much commotion in the | pn old mansion. And it 'was just my luck Hert C0 "W hy involve to sleep soundly through it all." She yourtelf unnecessarily?' made an aggrieved moue. "Chet, Che ester shifted uneasily. didn't call me till it was all over "This gentleman"--he again point- Just like him--he has a nasty disposi- | ed impersonally to Heath--"asked me | tion." [if 1 owned a revolver, and 1 told hit | Somehov. her flippancy did not| 'ves. If I hadn't, sore of the ser shock me as it might have done in a | vants of my loving family would have different type of person. But Sibella told him. .And 1 thcught the truth struck me as a girl who, though she | Was best." | Sibella smiled satirically. "My older brother, you observe, is a model of all the old-fashioned vir- tues," she remarked to Vance. But she was obviously distrait. The re- volver episode had somewhat shaken her self-assurance. "You sap, Miss Green, that the burglar idea does not appeal to you." Vance was smoking languidly with half-closed eyes. "Can you think of any other explanation for the tra- gedy?" The girl raised her head and re- garded him calculatingly. "Because I don't happen to believe in burglars that shoot women and sneak away without taking anything, it doesn't mean that I can suggest alternatives. I'm not a police-woman --though I've often thought it would be jolly good sport--and I had a vague idea it was the business of the police to run down criminals. You don't believe in the burglar either, Mr. Vance, or you wouldn't have followed up Chet's hunch. Who do you think ran amuck here last night?" "My dear girl!" Vance raised a pro- testing hand. "If I had the foggijest idea I wouldn't be annoyng you with impertirent questions. I'm plodding with leaden feet in a veritable bog of ignorance." He spoke negligently, but Sibella's eyes were clouded with suspicion, Presently, however, she laughed gay- ly and held out her hand for another cigarette. (To be continued. yoo on What the automobile has taught women about household lubrication Experience with motor cars has taught worien that moving parts must be protected against wear by a film of oil. Many of them haven't learned, however, that moving parts of sewing machines, vacuum clean- ers, lawn mowers, washers, and ,other mechanical devices must also be protected against dirt and rust, 3-in-One Oil not only lubricates; it also cleans and protects. It is different from all others, because it is a scientific blend of three high grade oils -- animal, mineral and vegetable. 3-in-One is the oil yon should use on mechanical equip- ment if you want best results. Don't risk your explnsive house- hold devices - using oil that does only half the jcb. Insist on the old reliable 3-in-One. It_costs little ed, "I've searched everywhere for it-- Including your room," he added vengeful ly. Py "Oh, you would But why did you admit baving it in 'the first place?" more to buy and much less to use. At good stores everywhere, For' { "your protection, look for the trade mark "3-in-One" printed | in Red on srersapachage, ¥ Latest Offerings 'I the rigidity of what we call terrs Earth's Primitive Forces Still At Work--Diamonds Evolved From Carbon Earthquakes and voldanie eruptions are evidences that the forces which began shaping the earth 3,000,000,700 years ago are still at work. For all firma, mountains are still heaving, continents are still tiiting, bedrock is still trembling, while beneath all the primal magma is still welling. In the volcanic activity that recent- ly terrified the inhabitants along 409 miles of the Andes 'we see these pro: cesses at work, The view that an active volcano is a purely local pren- omenon is certainly wrong. On the borders and in the middle of the Pa- cific Ocean are long chains of vol- canoes--the Fujiyama, Hawaiian, Aleutian and Andes chains. Usually a single voleano is active, while its im- mediate neighbors are dormant. Buf the Andes eruptions prove that sub- terranean forces are at work which effect whole. regions, so that the theory of isolated activity is actaully misleading. In the Andes chain three voleances were especially active. Their history is obscure. Of the three, Tinguiririca has a definite past record, although not very clearly traced. It seems to belong to the variety that emits steam, gases and some ash. 'Explosively vio- b lent volcanoes from which lava exudes gre rare. Some who have flown over the Andes recently report outpourings of lava, Beneath the Andes volcanoes mag- mas is now moving and magma is the sea of molten niatter on which solid land floats as if it were an iceberg the ocean. Magma is just as active under New York City as it is under the Andes. If it happened to mani- fest its existence along the western coast of South America recently it was because the volcanoes there 'ie over especially thin portions of the earth's crust. Lava is simply magma that has been forced out of a volcano by pres- sure from below, but magma physic- ally and chemically changed. No one has ever seen magma in its original s.ate. As it wells up and the over- lying pressure is relieved gases bub- ble up. These react with one another and with air to produce combustion »f hydrogen, carbon monoxide and sul- phur vapors. The melt itself changes into lava, a glassy foam. . SYNTHETIC DIAMONDS. Like IL. H. Barnett, who recent'y received the endorsement of Dr. Ralph McKee, Professor of Chemistry in Columbia University, half a dozen ex- perimenters within the last generation believed that they had produced min: ute but genuine diamonds in the la- boratory. Professor Henri Moissan started them off. On the assumption that carbon can be made to crystallize under high pressure and thus produce a diamond. Moissan melted pure iron with sugar charcoal in an are furnace and drop- ved the crucible containing the molt2n n.ass into cold water, He obtained microscopic crystals which resisted the action of powerful acids. "Dia- monds," he conciuded--diamonds pro- duced by the pressure that resulted from the rapid chilling of the crucible. Barnett's process is much like Mois- san's. Among others who thought they had made diamonds was Sir William Crookes, who exploded cordite in clos- ed steel cylinders and, at a pressure about 8,000 times that of the atmos- phere and a temperature of about 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit, obtained what he thought were diamonds. Sic Charles Parsons, inventor of the staam turbine, went still further, with pressures of 15,000 atmospheres, bnt decided that diamonds could nov we produced in the man.er that Moissan and Crookes supposed. Two "German chemists, Drs. von Hasslinger and Wolf, announced that they had obtained diamonds by the crystallization of magnesium silica'e. A French engineer, Guyot de Bois- monds one-eighth -of an inch in dia- r ~ter by electrically decomposing fused calcium carbide. After Sir Charles Parsons died the distinguished British chemist, Pro- fessor Henry E. Armstrong, reviewed the claims of all the diamond makers from Moissan down, and handed down this devastating opinion: "The who'e of the literature relating to the pro- duction of the diamond, I venture to say, might now be safely burnt. . . . Moissan's interpretation of his result: is not now accepted by his French col- le.gues. The von Hasslinger and Wolf work is genuine enough, bnt there is no proof in it that diamond was obtained or that their method vas a likely one. . .« You can trust a chemist no more than any one else further than you can see him. Only when he produces the goods in vays in which you can repeat may you ue- cept him." ALUMINUM UTENSILS SAFE Four research workers of the Mel. lon Institute, George D, Beal, Richard B. Unangst, Helen B. Wigman andj Gerald G. Cox, have measured che, amount of aluminum picked up i foods cooked in aluminum nai! ' They have found: that only barely de- tectable Sods of aluminum are | the tissues after food containing 'ige , aovity of plush Tat fede, 'eaten. menu, claimed that he had made dia-|. Thirty-three different kinds of food | 100,000,000 to 900,000,000 years ra were cooked in both glass and alumin- | st. vlted. um utensils according to standard recipes, The _argest amount of alum- inum was taken uy by apple butter--- 1i2 parts per 1,000,000.- This was found to be less then one-tenth the amount necessary to produce symp- toms of phosphorus starvation on a low phosphorus diet. Creamed chicken became impregnated with 11-3 parts per 1,000,000, lemon pie filling with 2 parts per 1,000,000, and sauerkraut with 12% per 1,000,000. Institute researchers calculated the amount of aluminum that would be consumed by a person on a halanced diet, if all the foods were cooked in aluminum, and determined that the aluminum content of the original foodstuffs is greater by 40 per cent. than the amount that would be add.d y cooking in aluminum utensils. THIS YOUNG UNIVERSE. The Mellon ik finds supporting -evidence 'of hci conclusions in the double stars. A study of the distances ¢nd that double stars have mot shrurh much in the lapse of time, again prov ing that the universe is young, rela tively speaking. W. K. ef Something Cool 1 like the sound of something cool, Of ice and sparkling snow, Or pools that lie in shadqws deep, And beds where pansies grow. The ocean on a summer's day, The dunes across the bar, The silver moon when riding high With one small lonely star. I like the sound of something cool, Of rivers broad and deep, - And night that leads each restless Acco ding to recent estimates by a day committee of the National Research Council, the probable length of 7en- logic time is about 1,600,000,000 years. Dr. Ernst J. Opik of Tartu University Observatory, Estonia, now lecturing in astrophysics at Harvard, conclud:s that the universe is not much more than 3,000,000,000 years old. reliance is to be placed upon these two estimates, it follows that the un:- verse of stars and nebulae cannot Lave evolved as slowly as we have been taught oy cosmologists. Dr. Opik bases his conclusions "on analyses of the helium and radiom content of meteorites made by Pro fessor Fritz Paneth of the University of Konigsberg. Values ranging frem EE as NAVY a TISSVE so "AN EDDY It any PRODUCT" To quiet aisles of sleep. --Lydia Lion Roberts. ere Qe "It the people of one nation go on a speculative spree, the world wakes up with a headache."--Qgden L. Mills. --r re. 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Generally those vegetables of which the leaves are used, such as let- tuce and spinach, and also the pea | crop, go in just as soon as the ground is ready to work. follow next, with early corn and pota- toes. the more tender things which cannot stand frost, squash, and the main planting of corn, potatoes and tomatoes. the season, we should use early, med- jum and late maturing sorts, and in Beets and carroig In the third planting will come such as beans, melons, 'To lengthen the case of most things we should plant two or three times at ten-day in- tervals. Check Over the Flower List Before mailing our flower order, we should check over our list to make sure that we have flowers for cutting, bedding, edging, background and frag- rance. There should be early, medium and late bloomers so that there will be flowers alt season. We must have a variety of color, but planted so that there will be no clashing of shades. A hastily planned and planted garden where the vegetable rows are crooked or where pink and yellow flowers come into violent opposition, will certainly not improve the first morning view when one is apt to be most critical. Select your standard varieties, that is, flowers which have given satisfac- tion in the past, but also add a few new ones for the sake of gaining ex- perience and adding interest, Fix Up Lawn Now This is the best time, when the earth is soft and moist, to put the lawn into shape. Dandelions, plantain and other | persistent weeds come. out easily and in removing them get out as much of the foot as possible. Some of the many weeding devices now on the mar- ket will save alot of stooping, At this time, too, a heavy roller is used to good effect, levelling down high spots and firming soil about roots of" the grass, Loosen up bare spots with a rake and re-seed with a good lawn mixture----cheap mixtures are mnever permanent and sometimes are danger- ous. Protect this new seeding with some poultry netting or brush so that sparrows will not get at the seed. Top" dressing with well-rotted manure or an application of a good commercial fer- tilizer, high in nitrogen, is advisable. If manure is used, be careful that it is wellrotted and -free from weed seeds. ' The lawn should be cut every four or five days, after growth gets well started, with a sharp lawn mower. A dull'machine will pull out much of the grass. Later on, when the weath- er turns hot, less frequent cutting is advisable. Transplanting Makes Sturdy Growth Flowers or vegetables started in the hot bed or in shallow boxes indoors, should be transplanted at least once in order to seeure: stout, vigorous and hardy plants before being transferred to their permanent quarters out-of- doors. This rule applies to most flow- ers and vegetables such as tomatoes, caulifiower, cabbage, head lettuce, marigolds, asters, petunias, zinnias and cosmos. It does not apply to those things like corn, melons and sweet peas, which may be given an early start indoors during a backward sea- son. These should be moved with as little disturbance as possible. Trans- planting should be done on a dull day and the new beds well watered after moving .is complete. At this time a little quickly available fertilizer will have a tendency to start growth quick- ly after the®shock of transplanting. ef tis The End of the Day The shutter closed, the lamp alight, The faggot chopt and blazing bright-- The shepherd now, from labor free, Dances his children on his knee; While, underneath his master's seat, The tired dog lies in slumber sweet, Starting and whimpering 'in his sleep, Chasing still the straying sheep. The cat's rolled round in vacant chair, Or leaping children's knees to lair --Or purring on. the warmer hearth Sweet chorus to the cricket's mirth. The redcap, hanging over head In cage of wire, is perch'd abed: Slumbering in his painted feathers Unconscious of the out-door weathers; The sparrow, too, a daily guest, Is in the cottage eaves at rest: And robin small, and smaller wren, Are in thelr warm holes safe again From falling snows, that winnow by The hovels where they nightly lie. --John Clare; "Poems." wistful Faces % It takes so little to make a child happy, that i: is a pity, in a world toll of sunshine and pleasant things, that there soli be any wisttal