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<\«a ^^^fffs by Agatha Christie svNorsis. I'uiit. Trevrlyan rents his liouRe In Hlimfurd to Mm. Wlllt-lt and takrn u •iniUler "no In Exhumpton. Whlli- his frUnd Major Hurnalry utid three nelnli- bors play at tal>l'-tl|ii.ln(5 wllli Mrc WillPtl anil liir .lauKhler VIol.'t. a "Hiilrll" niissaKr l.< rnvlvnl that Ti t- vrlyan huK l><-<-n numlTol Hurnaby (liuls hi* frii-nil dt-ad. Tn-vflyana eHtate 1« willed to his sister. Mrs. Jennifer Uard- ner. and the three children of another sister, Mrs. J'earson, now dead. Jatncs F*earpon had oonie to Kxhttini>ton from Uondnn the d.iy of the niurJcr. lie Is arremcd F.niily Trifufls. his fiancee, meei.f t'harlrB Knderby. reiiorter and axks hlni to help her. Altc-r she hud talked to Violet, she heard Mrs. WllU-tt mutter -Will nlijht never com.-? 1 .an't hear It!" Kiiderl^y, watcUlng the Wll- lett's house, sees Violet secretly meet Uilan HearHOn, one of the helr« who was supposed to lie In Australlii. Emily learns that a pair of Trevelyana hoots are missliiK. »;he finds theni hidden In a 'hlniney. CHAI'TKR XXVH. -(CX.nftl.) Rycroft and Burnaby were (rre<>U'U by Briuii Pfai'.son. A.s thoy rtmoved their overcoats in the hall, Mr. Rycroft observed the tall, broiid-shouldered young man with an in(<»i\-sted eye. "Fine specimen," he thought, '"Very fine specimen. Strong temper. Cur- ioue angle of the jaw. Might be a nasty customer to tackle in certain i-in-um«tances. What you might call ^a dangerous young man." A queer ftjeling of unreality Mtolc ovtfT Major Buniaby as he eot«;reil the drawing-rwom, and Mrs. Willett rose to greet him. "Splendid of you to turn out." The same words as la,st week. The same Waging fir<! on the hearth. He fancied, but was not sure, the samp ITOwns on the two wonK-n. It did give one a queer feeling, as ihotigh it were la-st week againâ€" as though Joe Trevelyan hadn't died â€" as though nothing had happened or were changed. Stop, that was wrong. The Willett woman had changed. A wreck, tiiat was the only way of describing her. No longer the prosperous, deter- mined woman of the world, but a broken nervy creature making an ob- vious an<i pathetic effort to appear as usual. "But I'm hanged if I ca-i see what Joe's death meant to hei-," thought the major. For the hundredth lime he regi.sler- fd the impression that there wa.s sonie- •hing deuced wrong about the Willetts. As usuf.l, he awoke to the rcaliza- lion that ho was being silent and that -iimoonc was speaking t<i him. I'.HAPTER XXVIII. "Our last little gathering, 1 am !i raid," Mn'. Willett was saying, "What's that?" Ronnie CarlleM Uioked up .>ud<lenly. "Yes." Mrs. Willett sh<«,k her head with a would-be smile, "We have to fortqjo the rest of the winter in Silta- ford. Personally, of (-(jurse, I love it â€" the snow and the tors and the wild- ness of it all. But the domestic iirob- lem! The domestic problem is t^^o diffi- .•ult â€" it. defVats me I" "I thought you yre going to get a chauffeur butler and a handy man,'' isaid Major Bumaby. A sudden shiver shook Mrs. Wil- K-tl's frame. "No," she said, "1 -I have had to give up that idea." "Dear, dear," said Mr. Rycroft. "This is a great b'<yw 'i; us all. Very sad indeed. We will sink ba<k into •ur little rut f.fter ;ou have gone. When do you g.-., bj the v.ay?" "On .Monday, I expect," said Mr.s. Willett. "Ij'nlo.ss I can get, away to- morrow. It's .so very awkwaid with rjo servants. Of cour.se, I mast ar- range things with Mr. Kirkwood. t Umk the lioii,«e for ftnir months," "You are going to I/ondon?" in- M'lirwl .Mr, Ryci<.>ft "Yea, piol>al.ly to sUirl with any- way. Then I exp«t we shall go abroa<l to the Rivici-a." "A great !o.ss," said Mr, Rycroft, bowing gallantly. Mrs. Willetl tnv* a nueer aimleai* bUle titter. "T<K) kind of you, Mr. Rycroft, Well, (tJiulJ we liave tea?" Ten was laid lea.ly, Mrs. Willett pf»ur«l out. R^onnie and Brian hand- ed thing.-. A i)ue«>r kirul of "nibar- r»,t*nient lay over the party. "What about you?" said Buniaby abruptly i^. Brian P<»r.«,on. "You off, too?" "To l>iii(i> II. yes, Xalurftliy 1 shan'' K<> abroad till this buiineit;: is over." "This business*?" "I nkittii until my broHiir is cicacod of thi.s ridicuNiu.s charge," He flung the words at them dt-ftaiit ' ij- in tim-h a challenging manner that •obody knew quite what to w.y. Major Buniaby rolivx-d the sitiiation. "Never have Wiev*<l h« did it. Not for a niotnent," he said. "Noix? of uj. think lo," said V»l«t, lliiUfing him a grateful glancie. Th« tinkle of • bell bn>k« tih« mx mint pause. "Thtt's Mr. DuJet." muJ Mr*. Wll- ktt. "Ij«t htm in, Brian." Yourtjf Pe*T*»n Ud fvM to thf Kindow, "It't not Ihike," h« Mid. "Ifi that lunned jouma.ltet." "Oh <W»r.'* Mild Mr*. WUl«bt. "Well i guppnnr w« mu»t M h*m in *I1 th- Briun nodd«d and r'.n>,.i.-^:d ii, « 'ew minutes with C%*rln« EtvIwS.v. *'''ti.'r).y ent«rad wMI) hi* UMkl ni" of bMminc mi The idea thiit he night not be wel- come did not seem to occur to him. "Hullo, Mrs. Willett. How are you? Thought I'd just drop in and see how things were. I wondered where every- one in Sittaford had got to. Now, I see." "Have some tea, Mr. Enderby?" "Awfully kind of you. I will. I .see Kmily isn't here. I supjxxie she's with your aunt, Mr. Garfield." "Not that 1 know of," said Ronnie, staring. "I thought she's gone to K.xhampton. "Ah! but she's Imck from there. How do 1 know? A little bird told me. The Curtis bird, to be accurate. Saw toe car pass the post office and go up the lane and came back empty. She is not in No. 5 and she's not in Sitta- ford Hoiuie. Puzzleâ€" where is she? Failing Miss Percehou.se, she must be sipping ;.ea with that determined lady killer, Captain Wyatt." "She niay have gone up Sittaford Beacon to see the snnset," suggested .Mr. Rycroft. "Don't think so," said Burnaby. "Should liave seen her pass, I've been in the garden for the last hour." "Well, I don't think it's a very vital I roblem," said Charles cheerfully. "I mean I don't think she's been kidnap- pe<l or murdered or anything." "That's a pity from the point of view of your paper, isn't it?" sneered Brian. "Even for copy, 1 w()uldn'l s;tcrilice Emily," said Charles. "Emily," he added thoughtfully, "is unique." "Very charming," .said Mr. Rycroft. "V^ery chamiing. We areâ€" er â€" col- laborators, she and I?'' "Has everyone finished?" .^^aid Mrs. Willett. "What about .oome bridge?" "Er- one moment," said Mr. Ry- croft. He cleared his throat importantly. Everyone looked at him. "Mr^. Willett, I am, as you know, deeply interested in jwychic phenom- ena. A week ago t<Klay, in this very room, we had an amazing, indeed, an awe-inspiring experience. There was a faint sound from Vio- let Willett. He turned to her. "I know, my dear Miss Willett, I know. The exix-rionce up.sel you, it wa.s upseltir.g. I do not deny it. Now, ever since the ci ime the police foice have been seeking the murderer of Captain Trevelyan. They have made an an-est. But some of us, at least, in thi.s room, do not believe that Mr. Janus Pearson is the guilty party. What 1 propo,s<> is this, that we ieiH;at the experiment of la.>it Friday, though approaching it this time in a rather <litTerenl spirit." "No," cried Violet, "Oh! 1 say," said Ronnie. "That'.s a bit too thick. I'ln iu>t going to join in anyway." .Mr. Rycroft t'Hik no notice of him. "Mr.<. Willett. wliat do you say?" She hesitated. "Frankly, .Mr. Rycroft, 1 do not like tlht idea. 1 don't like it at nil. That miserable biisin^'.^s '.ast week made a mt>&t (lisagreenbl^ impression on me. It will tiike me a long time to forget ii." j "What are you getting at exactly?''] askefl Enderby interestedly. "Do you' projjose that the spirits should tell us j the name of ('aptain Trevclyan's uiur- dei-er? That seems a pretty tall order." j "It was i pretty tall order, as you | call it, when last week a message] came through ,'4iyin>. that Captain Trevelyan v\a,s de.nd." ' "That's true," igrocd L.tLroy.! "But- well- j-oa know this idea of; your might have consequences youj haven't consiclere<l." j "Such as?" I "Suppo.sing u name wa.s mentioned?! Could you l)e s'.ire that someone pre?- ' ei.t did not deliljeratelyâ€" •" He pau.se<l and Ronnie Garf\e>ld ten-j dere<l the word. | "Shove. Tliat's wliat he nieans. ; Supjvx'iiing sonielxKly goe.s end Mioves." "This is a sei-ioas experiment, sir," said Mr. Rycroft warrnl.v. "Nt-'oody would do .such a thing." "I don't know," said Homiie dubi- ou.sly. "I wouldn't put it pa^^ Lheiu, I ilon't mean myself. 1 twoiiu- I j wouldn't, but suppoM everyone tui-na ; on me and says I have. Jolly awk- ward, you know." "Mrs. Willett, I nm ii; eai .-.e.-v.,' th« little olil gentleman disregaruetl lion- j nie. "I beg of you, lo.t us male the, exiK>rimcnt." ', She waveix'd. "I ilon't like it. 1 really don't, I '| .She looketl rountl her une«s.ily, aa'| thoug-h foi- a way of escape. ".\Iajor Bumaby, you were C^tptain Ticvel- yan'f! fi-tend. What do you aay?" The Major'* eye« met tho.se of Mr. Rycriift. Thij!, he understood, wa« the eomt in4f«in^ which the l«tt«T ha«l for«- Khadow«l "Why not?" h« .•muU tyruffly. It had all th* deeifdon of • ca«tliijr vote. Ronnie w«iit into th« MMoininc rooo) and lm>u:g1it th« HMtU «»hl« whieH hMi been umd bcfor*. R« cm It In tlM naiddlo of th« floor and chair.s wen diftWin up TvxtnA It. No cm« •pokn. The «jiperiment sV'** cleaiply not pop- ;iltr. (To he fii:' ",'i. Maa ia made of <!.. Wl*W H»ink thiii Catlor Oil Orâ€" Magistrate David Triester of Philadelphia has • new cure for tipplers who come before hlni, Do«« of castor oil or ten days. Here'! a couple of the boys before the bench taking the castor oil sentenct without a quaver. ,, -tJjaâ€" J» - â-  -.-. ^ 1 . « ^rsiâ€" Trade Names Which Last For Many Centuries The Journal of the IX)ndon Cham- ber of Commerce, London, Eng., re- cently published a list of 850 butd- ness houses which have been In ex- istence in fJiat city for one hundred to five hundred years. The list con- stitutes a wonderful tribute to the stability of British business and the steadfastness of Britisli business men. Pir)ni It a member of the Cal- gary Herald editorial staff coniplled two extitomely interesting articles which not only recall names of world- wide familiarity hut brings out the iomani.0 connected with many of f.he firni.s. It .seem.s almost incrftdlble that .1 firm of wlno inevrhants. Hunt, Roope, Teagle & Co., founded In 16r)4, should have any connection willi the faniou.s fight between the Shan- non and the Chesapeake. And yet it is so, for lu 1S13 twenty of the flrm's ynung.'fter.s KOilip out to New- foundland took paa-t In that battl.'. For this the firm wa.s granted tJie right to fly the White Ensign In Nw- foundland. One pi" maiiy hnmior- ous incidents narrated relates to Rnplnnd's most famous seaman. It i.s recorded that Mr. Glouny, when Nelson visitod hlg shop in the Strand in 17117, after losing his arm at Santa Cruz, liastciii'd to express regret for the losvs. But Nelson cut him short with: "Tut, tut, man; damn lucky for you it was not my leg; 1 v.ant an- other dozen pairs of .silk siocklngs.'' â€"Toronto .Mail and EmpirH. Salads For Health The .--aUid or raw vegetable slaw is an important adjunct to the dinner, as raw vegetable.^ are health hiilklors and necessary to the system.- -«- To govern men you must either ex- cel them In their accomplishments or dsFpise them.- Hoaconslielil. Latest Findings Of Science Obtaining Heavy Water â€" What the Insect Sees In the laboratory of Profes.«or Har- old C. Urey in Columbia University is a half pint of water in various .small glass containers and of various de- grees of purity. The whole half pint is worth about $-S,r)00. At k;'.st it cost Professor Urey that much to obtain it by patient electrolytic decomposition. Some day similiir water nvny cost no more than that bought in bottles. It stands to reason that thi.s is no ordinarj- water. In fact, it is the "heavy" water which was discovered two years ago by Profes.sor Urey in collaboration with Di'. George Murphy of Columbia and Dv. F. G. Brickwe<lde of the United St;U<'s Bureau of Stan- dards. It looks like ordinary water, yet it is different. It is compo.sed of two atoms of hydrogen and T>ne of oxygen, but the iitoms of hydrogen are twice as heavy u.s those of rain-water. UREY'S EXPERIMENTS. Much of the oxygen which is .sold commercially to hosnilals and chemi- cal laboratories is obtained by pa.ssing an electric current through ordinal"}' w;'t.er. Hydrogen bubbles off at one jiole and oxygen at the other. Prof. I'rey induced a commercial decom- poser of water to reduce 4,000 gallons le'ft in his cells after the curivnt had passed through to 150 â€" a half per cent. s<>lution of heavy water. Fifty gallons of this Profos.sor Urey himself reduced to one-third itii volume, so that he had about a onc-per-cent solution. As more and more current wa.s passed through, the lighter hydrogen was driven off and collecU-d. What re- tained in the cell was electrically de- compiled still further, until at last only hydrogen which wa.s all heavy was given off. "DeiiUirium" is the Trial Honeymoon Ends in Mr.vri-d-^'j name of this heavy hydrogen; "Pro- tium" that of the more familiar, lighter variety. Thanks to this discovery of heavy hydTogen, chemistry becomes a more exact science than ever. Because deu- terium combines more slowly with other elements than protium, the chem- ist at last is able to find out what hap- I»en3 in some of his chemical reactions. Take sugar, for example, a comPound of carbon, hydrogen "nd oxygen. Dis- solve it in water. What happens when the water is evaporated and the sugar rescrystillized? Docs the sugar leave some of its coiistituents in the water and take back their ecjuivalents in the p)\x;e6js of evaporation? It is such questions that deuterium and the new heavy water answer. When heavy water is used as a sol- vent it is just as if the atoms were identified by red and gi-een tags. Hence it is easy to decide whethei the hydrogen in the sugar is all light, as it was originally, or whether it is heavy. Experiments made in Europe seen, to show that the atoms actually wander about and that some of the hydrogen in recrystallized sugar is heavy. More than 300,000 organic com- pounds contain some form of hydro- gen in addition to carbon, nitrogen and oxyg'^n. How does the new heavy hydrogen affect these? Chemistry has evidently a huge task before it. INSECTS' SIGHT. It wa.s Dai-win who first pointed out the significance of color in nature. The insect called a "walking stick" is in- distinguishagle tvom the surrjunding twigs, and cei^ain butterflies look like leaves. Why? So that enemies will pass them by in blissful igrnorance. If a color is particularly garish in an insect or a lower animal, it is supposed to have a frightening effect or to give warning of a vile taste. Gaudy petals are asisfumed to be signals to attract a pollen-bearing insect from another flower. Even one who is not a biologist must be struck by this anthropomor- phism. In other words, Darwin as- sumed that the lower animals, includ- ing the insects, see the world as we see it. But is the assumption justi- fied? Dr. Frank E. Lutz of the Am- erican Museum of Natural History has been making experiments which show conclusively that it is not. All of which makes one wonder if the whole Darwinian doctrine of mimicry and the pur^Kysefulness of color must not be modified. Writing in Natural History, Dr. I.utz Points out that "a red flower looks red to us because out of all the wave lengths of light which we can see it reflects only or chiefly the long ones which give us the optical stimulus we cal red. If this ower reflecte<i only these, an insect which cannot see red, at least as a color, would say, if it could talk, that such a flower is black or dark gray. If, on the other hand, such a lower reflected ultra-violet Vcve lengths which an insect can see, that insect, if it could talk and knew physics, would say that the flower is tiltr:'.-violet color. Probably it could even distinguish several colors in the part of the spectrum we call ultra- violet." VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE. On the mimicry theory a yellow- spider ought to be invisible to visiting insects beside the y»ellow flowers in which he is accustomed to hide. Photo- graphs show that the flower is only slightly ultra-violet. To an ultraviolet- .seeing in.sect the spider o"aght to be as conspicuous as a red hunting coat amid green foliage. Dr. Lutz proved photographically that re<l, yellow and pink portulacas are strongly ultra-violet except in the centre. But neither a vivid yellow nor a pink zinnia had any ultra-violet. Obviously the zinnias have not much to say for themselves if floral colors mean anything to insects. In the same way Dr. Lutz found many flowers must look very different to insects. And that insects are resi>onsive to ultra-violet rays there can bo no doubt. Lublxjck proved it many years ago with ants and Dr. I.utz more recently with bc'-s and fruit flies. So They Say "The world today is a kind of lni> mens« laboratory of civilization." â€" Cuglielmo Ferrero. "If two per cent, of our population should take a personal, resolute stand against war, that would end war."â€" Albert Einstein, "World recovery won't come at once, or overnight, but step by step."â€"' Thomas G. Masaryk. "The American man will have to di.scover that, in order to gain th« love of a woman, he should never try to deserve it." â€" Countess Karolyi. "Under no circumstances will there be allowed a return to competition in armaments."â€" Stanley Baldwin. "The spell of a technical achieve- ment such as radio can never replace the spell of direct human contact." â€" Bruno Walter. "Women do not trust each other as much as men."â€" Ernst Luibtsch. "European husbands throw a bar- rier a*"ound their wives that amounti to vassalage." â€" Princess Pignatelli. "The equal and even enforcemeni of the law is the cornerstone upon which rests the whole structure oi democratic government." Alfred E Smith. "The right to acquire property anfl make unlimited profits is not a sacred right." â€" George W. Norris. "I am convinced that seadromes will never be used for transoceanic flying"â€" Clarence D. Chamberlin. "There is no true prosperity with- out a direct attack upon the maldis- tribution of the national income." â€" Norman Thomas. "No form of luck will carry a man far unless it is backed by hard slog- ging endeavor." â€" Sir Henri Deterding. "It isn't getting lost that usually does the damage, it's losing our heads."â€" Henry Ford. "There cannot be a complete aban- donment of force until human natirrs changes and the ideals of ci^-ilizatioti are world-wide."â€" Sir Philip Gibbs. "Under modem condition, produc- tion does not vary with man-power; it increases faster than man-power." â€" Stuart Chase. "The people of the United Statej are people avid for strong emotions.' â€" And""e Maurois. "We may laugh at the Victorians but would not every sensible man lik< to have a Victorian wife?" â€" Dean Inge. "I would rather hear other people's troubles than to talk about mine- then I can forget mine."â€" Clavenc Darrow. "Age after age, it is the new and even ridiculous generation whicl' brings back morality." â€" G. K. Ches terton. "The excessive worship of the great god Exercise will seem as weird to oui descendants as the excessive piety ol our ancestors now seems to some of us." â€" Bruce Barton. "If the motion picture industry should ever start a clean-up, there would be plenty to clean up." â€" Eddie Cantor. "The depression was not caused primarily by excessive production but by defective consumption."â€" Harry Elmer Barnes. "Let's not forget that America has always been the land of plenty and opportunity and that better days ar« coming."--John D. Rockefeller. "One of the most important things in modern affairs is to know the short- cuts which have been tested and prov- ed." â€" Gerard Swope. "Wives influence their husbands much more than husbands theii! wives." â€" I^ady Astor. "A master of politics must be a psychologist." â€" Benito Mussolini. "If you learn something of the art of happiness you are likely to receive a mild kind of condemnation from those friends who have not yet learn- ed it." â€" John Erskine. "The progress of thought is fitful and proceeds by leaps." â€" Aldous Hux- ley. « "Uncle Sam" first appeared In a newspaper cartoon In 18S2, In the Lan- tern, a New York weekly. 4 "These Inns Have a Lightness â€" " .i: l.iiiii >iiiii.,ii, I'itl litir.ay, \lvacion- Ki-t>in|i.caiiiuliaB nnd M.uir CO Ulll, hftd th« knot tletl. Trust mister iii-i Joixf^- he sant them thw« "baby" shoes. Most English inns appear to have been designed and furnishe<l against winter weather, and this generally is true. Hut there are exceptions, and thtve you will find in the Thames Val- ley. They are the «m!y inns 1 know who.^e builders had spring nnd sum- mer in their minds, and some of my happiest hours have been spent in them These inns have a lightness, lent, n< doubt, by the water scenery, that is lacking in other inns. Our inns mostly exist to s^rve the occasions of business : these exist solely to serve the occasions of pleasure. They rank as the princesses of inns against the princes of our highways. Their style is light, their paint is light, their fui- niture is light, their i"t>od is light; and they effuse n".w \v.s the sns.- of holi- day. Designe<l for the .-timnier, they carry their grace int.i the winter; and even in lho!<e months when the Thame;; Valley evokes a shiver, their rtniios ,secn\ to ho'd, like a bowl of potiniurri. some hc:ird of the spariiling flush u' suir.nter. They hj-ve not tho n u :'.>., I.r;'.uy. -.noky air of the inns ol" the (irciit North Read- ro r •:\.'h-yar('.>, no hams bunging in the hall, no EaKtaf- fiau chie.^es. They are grnciotis cot- tage homes, chintzy and lavendery, Their rtH>m.<s are small, and daintily, rather than baronially, impressive; and their spirit is the spirit that pos- ses.ses you when drifting in a punt last the Cleeve Woods between Pang- b(urne and Goring, or when moored under its aspens. They are in a high key. Words cannot reach them. The medium for them is water-color. Of all the inns 1 know and love, I love these most. They belong as perfectly to their >ettinp as its trees and it? meatlows. That settingâ€" the stretch of . th* Thj>.n\ts between Kertiling and Oxford -is for me the most beautiful spot of Eiiglaad. It has the radir.nt ser- enity of a lyric of George Ilerlx^rt; and uhin The<Hlore Drei>er told me that it had illuminated for him the .-t>Irit thai moves Ivhitul all Knglish poetry, ho ifave it its duo tribute. I tti.n yro bad; to it spring after spring, iar.J it never stales u* more lu.scious p.'ii'aiiisos ^inle. Always it yields new .vvclatio.i and rofre.<hmcnt. It is not â-  •(•• pui'ii'. ;i''il lb'* helps to preserve its I'liKim; iho few people who cime t» it are taf. i'l:! itt t*" kntci; again.'t it. •- From "i'he English Inn," by Thonui* 1 trke. iNew York: L-'ngmnns Greri.) :m I f