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The next morning Ada is poisoned with morphine, but the doctor reaches her in time. The same night Mrs. Greene dies of strychnine poisoning. A and Si- bella are the only survivors. Vance makes a mysterious journey to Atlantic City after questioning the cook, and on his return learns that Ada, Sibella and Von Blon have gone for a drive. Sus- pecting another crime, he and the po- dice start in pursuit. CHAPTER XXXIX., I leaned over below the panel of the front door, and a few second later a sudden swerve told me that we were circling about the Daimler. The next t we were back in the road, rushing forward in the lead. Half a mile further on the road narrowed. There was a deep ditch on one side and dense shrubbery on the other. Vance quickly threw on the brakes and our rear wheels skidded on the hard-frozen earth, bringing us to a halt with our car turned almost at right angles with the road, com- pletely blocking the way. "Out, you chaps!" called Vance. We had no more than alighted when the other car drove up and, with a grinding of brakes, came to a lurch- ing halt within a few feet of our ma- chine. Vance had run back, and as the car reached a standstill he threw open the front door. The rest of us had instictively crowded after him, urged forward by some undefined sense of ecitement and dread forebod- ing. 'The Daimler was of the sedan type with small high windows, and even with the lingering radiance of the western sky and the dashboard illumination I could barely make out the figures inside. But at the moment Heath's pocket flashlight blazed in the semidarkness. . The sight that met my straining eyes was paralyzing. During the drive I had speculated on the out- come of our tragic adventure, and I had pictured several hateful possibil- ities. But I was wholly unprepared for the revelation that confronted me. The tonneau of the car' was empty, and, contrary to my suspicions, there was no sign of Von Blon, In the front seat were the two girls. Sibella was on the further side, slumped down in the corner, her head hanging forward. On her temple was an ugly eut, and a stream of blood ran down her cheek. At the wheel sat Ada, glowering at us with cold ferocity. Heath's flashlight fell directly on her face, and at first she did not recognize us. But as her pupils became adjusted to the glare her gaze concentrated on Vance, and a foul epithet burst from her. Simultaneously her right hand dropped from the Wheel to the seat beside her, and when she raised it again it held a small glittering re- volver. There as a flash of flame and a sharp report, followed by a shatter- fug of glass where the bullet had struck the windshield. Vance had been standing with one foot on the running- board, leaning into the car, and, as Ada's arm came up with the revolver, he had snatched her wrist and held it. "No, my dear," came his drawling voice, strangely calm and without ani- mosity; "you shan't add me to your list. I was rather expecting that move, don't y' know." Ada, frustrated in her attempt to shoot him, hurled herself upon him with savage fury. Vile abuse and unbelievable blasphemies poured from her snarling lips. Her wrath, feral and rampant, utterly possessed her. She was like a wild animal, cornered and conscious of defeat, yet fighting Ee _. 'with a last instinct of hopeless des- peration, Vance, however, had secured both her wrists, and could have broken her arms with a single twist of his hands; he treated her almost tenderly, he a father subduing an infuriated child. Stepping back quickly he drew her into the roadway, where she continued her struggles with renewed violence. t Vance spoke ; speration. "You' better put handcuffs on her. I don't want to hurt her." : Heath had stood watching the amazing drama in a state of béwilder- ment, apparently too nonplused to move. But Vance's voice awakened him to sharp activity. There were two metallic clicks, and Ada suddenly relaxed into a listless attitude of sul- len tractability. She leaned panting against the side of the car as if too weak to stand alone, Vance bent over and picked up the revolver which had fallen to the road. With a cursory glance at it he handed it to Markham. : "There's Chester's gun," he said. Then he indicated Ada with a pitying movement of the head. "Take her to your office, Markham--Van will drive the car. I'll join you there as soon as I can. I must get Sibella to a hos- pital." He stepped briskly into the Daim- ler. There was a shifting of gears, and with a few ceft manipjulations he reversed thé car in the narrow road. "And watch her, Sergeant!" he flung back, as the car darted away to- ward Ardsley. I drove Vance's car back to the city. Markham and Heath sat in the rear seat with the girl between them. Hardly a word was spoken during the entire hour-and-a-half's ride.. Several times I glanced behind me at the sil- ent trio. Markham and the Sergeamu appeared completely stunned by the surprising truth that had just been revealed to them. Ada, huddled between them, sat apathetically with closed eyes, her head forward. Once I noticed that she pressed a handkerchief to her face |: with her manacled hands; and I thought I heard the sound of smother- ed sobbing. But I was too nervous to pay any attention. It took every ef- fort of my will to keep my mind on my driving, As I drew up before the Franklin street entrance of the Criminal Courts Building and was about to shut off the engine a startled exclamation from Heath caused me to release the switch, Then he thumped me on the back. "Get to the Beekman Street Hospital --as quick as hell, Mr. Van Dine. Damn the traffic lights! Step on it!" Without looking round I knew what had happened. . I swung the car into Centre Street again and fairly raced for the hospital. We carried Ada into the emergency ward, Heath bawling loudly for the doctor as we passed through the door. It was more than an hour later when Vance entered the District At- torney's office, where Markham and Heath and I were waiting. He glanced quickly round the room and then look- ed at our faces. "I told you to watch her, Sergeant," he said, sinking into a chairs but there as neither reproach nor regret in his voice. | None of us spcke, Despite the effect Ada's suicide had had on us, we were waiting, with a kind of conscience- stricken anxiety, for news of the other girl whom all of us, I.think, had vaguely suspected. Vance understood our silence, and nodded reassuringly. "Sibella's all right. I took her to the Trinity Hospital in Yonkers. A slight concussion--Ada had struck her with a box wrench which was always kept under the front seat. She'll be , 3 0 GOOD MORNING = | THISIS MRS DREW. COMMEND GILLETT'S PURE FLAKE! LYE ~ | | IT KEEPS DRAINS CLEAR AND FREE. =KILLS GERMS AND out in a few days. I registered her at the hospital as Mrs, Von Blon, and} - then phoned her husband. I t| mn March eg him at home, and he hurried out. He's | When coaxing Drosuss Go Ba ; we 't reach him at Mrs. Rig-| ROW, Sa lander's is because he stopped at the 3 budge Bot | from the hearth: office for his medicine tase. That de- Sustead 3 lay saved Sibella's life. Otherwise, 1 fore Ada Yad run her over the preci- pice in the machine." : He drew deeply on his cigarette for a moment. Then he lifted his eye- brows to Markham. "Cyaride of potassium?" Markham gave a slight start. "Yes--or so the doctor thinks. There was a bitter-almond odor on her lips." He shot his head forward angrily. "But if you knew--" "Oh," 1 wouldn't have stopped it ip any ease," interrupted Vance, "I dis- charged my wholly mythical Guty to the State when I warned the Ser- geant. However, I didn't know at the time. Von Blon just gave me the information, When I told him what had happened I asked him if he had ever lost any other poisons--you see, 1 couldn't imagine any one planning so devilish and hazardous an exploit a. the Greene murders without pre- paring for the eventuality of failure. "He told me he'd missed + tablet of cyanide" from his darkroom about three 'months ago. And wlen I jog- ged his memory he recalled that Ada had been poking around ihere and asking questions a few days before. The one cyanide tablet was probably all she dared take at the time; so she kept it for herself in case of an em- ergency." "What I want to know, Mr. Vance," said Heath, "is how she worked this scheme. Was there any une, else in on the deal?" "No, Sergeant. Ada planned and executed every part of it." "But how: "» Vance held up his hand. "It's all very" simple, Sergeant-- once you have the key. What misled ur was the fiendish cleverness and audacity of the plot. But there's no Jonger any need to speculate about it. I have a printed and bound explana- tion of everything that happened. And it's not a fictional or speculative ex-; planaticn. It's actual criminal his- tory, garnered and recorde. by the greatest expert on the subject the world has yet Xnown-=Dr, Hans Gross of Vienna.' \ "I phoned Currie from the hospital and he has a belated dinner waiting for all of us. When we have eaten Ill present you with a reconstruction and exposition of the entire case." "As you know, Markhan.," Vance began, when we were seated about the library fire late that night, I finally succeeded in putting together the items of my summary in such a way that I could see plainly who the mur- derer was; Otice I had found the basis pattern, every detail fitted perfectly into a plastic whole. The technique of the crimes, however, remained ob- scure; so I asked you to send for the books in Tobia's.libraiy--I was sure they would tell me what I wanted to krow.." 2 (To be continuel.) ' | sim mma A hafmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are ni infrequent con- comitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemn- ity for science, and pomposity for eru- dition, --Colton. i ee in If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done--Lloyd George. mn SD a March is a Tease The dying embers of the winter's fire | And take a new book from the shelf. So well 1 know The chill that lies In March's laughing April eyes That [ mistrust her siren song As through the streets she sweeps along. But when she rattles at my, window- 5 pane z And sings for me her loud refrain, I turn my head To watch just how She conjures blossoms on the naked bough. Then back to thé bookshell Goes the book, 5 Into the firelight One last look-- And I am off to follow her! --Geoffrey Clumber, in The Christian 'Science Monitor. eA en Twins Born at Midday At the instance of the Federal Bur- eau of Statistics, Privatdozent von Verschule of the Kaiser Wilhelm insti- tute for anthropology and hereditary research has been investigating the question .as to the time of day at which twin births most frequently oc: cur, says the Berlin correspondent of The Journal of the American Medical Association. From an examination of his own cases and the books of the re- corder's office in Berlin, Verschuler reached the conclusion that most twin births occur around midday; accord- ing to the investigations of the Leip zig gynecologist « Professor Bellheim, most births in general occur during the night. 'As to the seasons in which twin births are more frequent no con- clusions could be reached, p------------ Famous English Stone Used At Mount Vernon i Whitehaven, Eng.--Paving from a sandstone quarry here has been sent to Mount Vernon, Va, to renew simi: lar paving in Washington's house there, Red sandstone from this area ' of Cumberland was used in the build- ing of the house. | The paving, of an - unusually even texture, is of a cream color, and is dificult. to duplicate. The quarries of the Whitehaven district have long een celebrated for their stone. LER ILI [8 TTT ITT DRAINS - | * London's only woman | samples as Gem y a8 200 or 300 cu; tea a day. it is only sipped. ~~ The were rej \ the first time in an English Parliament in the one which Simon de Montfort sum moned in 1265. : ! Official tests go to prove that the average time taken by a telephone operator in Gt. Britain to answer a subscriber's call is 4.8 seconds. In disposing of a deceased man's property, a Pennsylvania (U.S.A) sheriff sold a small motorcar for 60 cents, while a horse fetched 6 cents. Cocoa is now one of the principal products of the Gold Coast territory of Africa, aout 500,000,000 Ibs. being grown annually. In 1891 only 80 lbs, were produced. : At the age of seventy-five, the Bishop of London is still an enthusi astic player of such energetic sports as squash rackets, hockey, and tennis, not to mention golf. By injecting dyes into growing trees by a secret process, wood is produced veined with red, green, blue, etc. The sap In the trees carries the colouring matter with it. Fires are a big item in London's . balance-sheet. Last year they cost the City ninety-four lives and 548 other casualties, in additipn to a mone tary loss estimated at £660,805. People with faulty memories in New York can arrange to have birthday and other anniversaries "remembered" for them with messages or suitable pre sents by a cable company. Four doctors are engaged in medi cal work by aeroplane in the interior of Australia. Called by telephone om wireless, they fly to homesteads hun- dreds of miles from a town.: Masculine styles in long trousers, felt hats, and sweaters are becoming popular among smart American wo- men. The fashion is said to have started in Hollywood, where the star, Marlene Dietrich, has even attended formal parties in full male evening dress. The number of road deaths in Great Britain for last year showed a de- crease on 1931, but there were more injuries resulting from road accidents, London's figures for both forms of casualty were less, but in parts of Chesire, Hampshire, and the West Rid- ing of Yorkshire there were increases in both deaths and injuries. ein fp elmiin Why Unhappiness J 148 * Makes People Sick A possible physical explanation for the fact that many people are made ill by being unhappy, rather than un happy because they are ill, was sug: gested in a recent address in London by Dr. Langdon Brown, professor of medicine at Cambridge University, w Scence (New York): school of medical theory which insists that every disease must have asphysis | cal cause. Experience has convinced him that this is not true. Purely men. tal distress may make a patient just as truly ill as a broken bone or a germ infection. Many people who have _| such mental illness are unwilling to | admit this fact and manufacture for figments of the imagination but which spring from a desire to find a tangible reason for being sick." apes from Life's Scrap-book _ "God has prohibited despair,"--Mme, | Swetchine, "We never need to despair of an honest heart.'--Mary Baker Eddy. "Despair is the greatest of our er ~Vauvenargues, ; (5 "He is the truly courageous man. who never desponds."--Confucius. Jae iat despairs measures. Pro "It is impossible for that man 1p None of the tea is drunk; for the, Says Dr. E. E. Free, in his Week's "Like the majority of present-day ? | physicians, Dr, Brown admits that he 'grew up in the purely materialistic themselyes symptoms which really are * a Ef