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those plants were this side dthmuhthmzydny‘,.e. cording to Dr. Willinm M. McGovern, assistant curator of South American and Mexican ethnology at the museâ€" wm. ?dth-vorl“-butedhcâ€" tions this ancient plant pottery is wow on exhibition at Ficld Muesum. ___._ Antedate Conquest How some of these problenmis are solved is illlustrated by exhibits at Field Museum. For example, in the last few years scientists have estabâ€" li:shed that certain plants are indiâ€" genous to the American continents, 2nd not the result of importations by the early European settlers, through the unearthing of some very ancient pottery on the coast of Peru. These pots, made many centuries before the discovery of America by the white man, are modelled in the shapes of various plants, and thus prove that Scientists are solving the problem of when and where various food plants were first cultivated. The origin of many is now definitely known, accordâ€" ing to researchers on the staff of Field Museum of Natural History; others are still in dispute. SOLVE PROBLEM OF FOOD PLANT ORIGIN WHERE THEY STARTED Field Museum Shows Certain "That‘s about all," Carter said. "We went into the dining room and Mr. Drane talked to me awhile. It was mostly about my prospects and what I was planning to do with my life and whether I would be willing to come to this house to live after we were marriedâ€"Amy and I. He said "Naturally," agreed Brennan "Well ?" "Late," Carter said. "After eleven and before twelve. Mr. Drane said he wanted to see me; he sent Norbert to tell me so yesterday afternconâ€" just before we went for the drive, you remember, Amy? There was no hurry, Norbert said; either last night or toâ€" day would do. I rather knew what he had on his mind. I had asked him if I could marry Amy, and he had put off answering me. So last night I happened to pass here and I saw the lights in the library and I came in." "Ring or knock or anything?" ‘ "I went to the library door at thltJ side of the house and knocked on the: door, and Mr. Drane let me in," Bob! said. "Mr. Dart was with him; no one else. I said good evening to Mr. Dart and Mr. Drane said we could go across the hall to the dining room for | a few minutes, and we did. There‘s| one thing I ought to tell you, I guess; just as we were going out Mr. Dart said, ‘Now, remember what I told: you, John; I don‘t approve‘ It was something like that; he may h.lve/ said ‘I‘m against it‘ or ‘I won‘t have ) it‘ I was rather excited, you see;| what Mr. Drane was going to say meant such a lot to me." | "And as far as you know, there was no one in the house last night but your uncle, Mr. Judd here, Mr. Dart and the servants?" Brennan asked her, "I know." he added, "that you can‘t say whether others may not have come in unknown to you." Amy‘s eyes turned to Bob Carter. "Yes, I was in the house h:?‘fiight," Carter said. "About when, Carter?" Brennan asked. "This potter antedates even the conâ€" "No; not a reason; not the slightest reason!" Amy declared with absolute positiveness. "I can‘t even imagine why anyone should want to kill myâ€" uncle." . Brennan questions the persons in the house, asking Amy if anyone had any reason to kill her "uncle." NoOW GO ON WITH THE Dr. Blessington discounts the theory of suicide, saying that Drane was defâ€" initely murdered. Dr. Blessington comments on the fact that all the servants in the household of Drane are sick, and that Drane has never discharged a servant for ill health. Dick Bremnan, the detective, arrives to investigate the case. Police officers call and investigaâ€" tions begin. Dr. Blessington is called, and after seeing the murdered John Drane, makes the astounding revelaâ€" tion to Amy Drane that her "uncle" is not a man but a woman. WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Simon Judd, amateur detective, and William Dart, an undertaker, are visiting John Drane, eccentric man of wealth, at the Drane place. Suddenly the household is shocked to find that John Drane has been murdered. The dead man is first seen by Josie, the maid, then by Amy Drane and Simon Judd. The latter faints. Plants Were Indigenous to American Continent ; Others Imported is called,| _ "Well, it was rather queer," Carter| and immediat red John| said, blushing. "I thought it was | to yes! "Ne g revelaâ€"| rather queer then, but it doesn‘t seem | she said. "It r "uncle"| so queer nowâ€"not when we kno" not in the v | what we know now. He asked if he I can see thi he lheory} conld kiss me." | me." was defâ€"| "He did?" Brennan exclaimed. | _ "Might no essington "Not quite so brashly as all that," ; Brennan aske c all the/ Carter said. "He laughed and laughed| "Yes, but 1 f Drane| and said that if we were French he‘ tionate is wt as never| supposed we would kiss each other on ably. I didn‘t 1 health.| both cheeks. I said I had been kissed, thinkâ€"how a , arrives| when I was given my cross. ‘Then| can see now, | you won‘t mind if I do kiss you,‘ he! was more lik rsons in‘ said, and he kissed me. I feltâ€"well, in the way he yone had I felt sorry for him, that‘s how 1| me and smoot & felt. I thought ‘Por old fellow!" 1‘a woman, moi | knew nobotly around here cared much _ "Have you STORY| for him, and he was getting pretty ; be was your m slightest | old. That sort of feeling. And now,| and Amy . sta absolute . when I know he was a woman!" eyes. imagine| "It‘s bound to come out now and "Unecle Johr | Mr. Dart | do ?" is known that pineapples, tobacco, tomatoes, chocolate, and cocos from which cocaine is made, originated in the Americas. On the other hatnd, waâ€" termelon, believed by most people to be a hundred per cent American prodâ€" uct of our southern states, apparently originated thousands of years ago in Africa, says Dr. McGovern, for reâ€" mains of watermelons and their seeds have been discovered in tombs of anâ€" cient Egypt. f Among the plants which the Field Museum collection proves are indiâ€" genous to America are peanuts, maize, squashes, pumpkins, beans, potatoes, and the poisonous tuber called manâ€" dioka from which ‘tapioca is made. All of these have been used as modâ€" eIs for the shape or the decorations of quest of the Peruvian coast by the Inca empire," says Dr. McGovern, "and thus it gives a very definite picâ€" ture of what American agriculture was like during the period of ancient Peruvian civilization." â€" ‘"But your impression was that Mr. Dart referred to the talk you were about to have with Mr. Drane ?" Brenâ€" nan asked. ‘Not really," Carter said. "It may ) for a long time. Yes, until ‘83â€"that be they had been talking over Allyf was when he went out West. He was and me and Mr. Dart didn‘t care for| thirty yearsâ€"we was born together me enough to have me marry Amy.| as you might say. Sure there was a i se P venn n Botah At it S Mr. Drane and Dart were old friends | John Drane!" â€" what they call ‘cronies‘ almost. Or _ "I was goi it may have been giving Amy so much questions late money in a lump that Dart objected| _ "Exâ€"cuse m to. I don‘t know." | Judd said wi door." "So you didn‘t see Mr. Dart again*" "No. I went down the driveway there and walked home:" "You haven‘t any idea what it was "Through the library again *" Brenâ€" nan asked. ‘‘He spoke about money," Carter went on. "He said he had made his will in Amy‘s favor and that he was leaving her everything he had. Then he said she was a good girl; he said very nice things about her and said he meant to give her outright a hunâ€" dred thousand dollars the day she was married, if I did not object. I have nothing of my own, you know. He said that he thought, living in his house and having to be mistress of it, Amy should not be compelled to ask him for money. He meant for the extra expenses, the things I could not pay for. I didn‘t see anything wrong in that. I didn‘t see that it had anything to do with my loving Amy. Amy knows it‘s not anybody‘s money 1 care for. So then we shook hands and I catnie away." "We talked a few minutes about when the wedding might be, and I said I would have to leave that to Amy. Then he saidâ€""* Carter hesitated a moment but Brennan said nothing. "It‘s bound to come out now and again," said Brennan tersely. "A woman can only stand so much withâ€" out affection. The very worst I‘ve ever known came to it now and again. And then what did you do?" "And then what?" Brennan asked, seel-r_:gthnt Carter was he-itqting. we had best travel for a year, or stay elsewhere a year. After that he wanted us bere. 1 told him that was what Amy wantedâ€"it was the only reason she hesitated about marrying; she did not want to leave him. So he said it would be all right." "I‘m so glad, Bob!" Amy cried, "I‘m so glad to think he was willing!" Hm:"...hll;lh&p.-. 7 to 9 p.m. 16 North Sheridan Road Hightand Park, ML "No. Mr. Drane let me out by this Mymdhifiym FRED L. DR. MITCHELL LAWYER Phone Deerfleld 133 wanted Mr. Drane not to ALLUSTRATIONS BY KE.VEATSOHN . _ "I was saying Miss Dane, Brennan said," "that I am only trying to gather _ "I was going to ask you a few questions later," Brennan suggested. | _ "Exâ€"cuse me for buttin‘ in!" Simon | Judd said with hearty good nature. ;»“Go right ahead and I‘ll shut up till "And I knew him a blame long time, black my cats‘" Simon Judd exâ€" claimed. "Why look here â€" John Drane was born along about when I was, along towards 1853, and we chummed together, thick as thieves, for a long time. Yes, until ‘83â€"that was when he went out West. He was "There was a John Drane then," said Brennan. "You knew him." ‘"You bet your boots there was!" declared Simon Judd. "John Drane and me was chums, 1 tell you, when we was boys back there in Riverbank. Regular boys and no mistake, and don‘t you forget it, mister! You can prove that by me any time you want Brennan leaned forward in his chair. "I‘m not digging into this from curiosity," he said. "I have plenty to do without wasting time that way; my job is to find who murdered this woman who posed as John Drane. There may never have been a John "I can answer that," he said. "Amy told me all that." "Let her tell me," said Brennan but his tone was kindly. "You knew your mother?" Brenâ€" nan asked. "You see, Miss Drane, I don‘t know any of the facts; I have to ask for them. Did you know your mother ?" Bob Carter frowned with annoyâ€" ance that Amy should be annoyed He looked at her and turned to Brenâ€" Uncle John my mother?" she gasâ€" ped and put her fingers to her lips as if in fear. "Oh, he couldn‘t be my motherâ€"heâ€"" "Yes, but not in that way. Affecâ€" tionate is what [ should say, probâ€" ably. I didn‘t know, you see â€" I didn‘t thinkâ€"how a man would be, but I can see now, Mr. Brennan, that he was more likeâ€"more like a mother in the way heâ€"in the way he kissed me and smoothed my hair. More like a woman, more like a mother." "Have you any }Q;sé:â€"l’f:rfiihinking be was your mother?" Brennan asked and Amy stared at him with wide "No," Amy said without besitation, and immediately changed her answer to yes! "Never while he was alive," she said. "It never entered my head, not in the very slightest. But now I can see things. He was so kind to "Might not an uncle be kind*" Brennan asked. "And now, Miss Drane," Brennan asked without a pause, "have you ever seen anything that made you think, even in the slighest degree, that your uncle was a woman?" "That‘s what I thought," Carter adâ€" mitted. "I hadn‘t any dougt of it I thought to myself ‘What business is it of his, anyway!‘ 1 don‘t like him l never knew ;ny mother," Amy Residence Studio. 820 Ridge Terrace, Evanston. _ Tel. Greenleaf 802 MOLDANER & HUMER 16 North Sheridan Road Phone Highland Park 54 Teacher_of Piaze â€" FVANG JOHN ZENGELER LOUISE M. The Best of Craftemanship and Serviceé They will cost no more. 25 North Sheridan Road WeOpenteOurOwnPlnfln i Highland Park Telephorie Highland Park 2801 CLEANERS â€" FURE FUR STORAGE Cleaner and Dyer "You don‘t know anything out of the way about this William Dart?" (Continued Next Week) der?" he asked. all so "I don‘t think so," Amy answered. 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They raised me; uncle John used to send them money for my expenses and he "He went to California? _ When was that?" "Well, which brother was it?" Brenâ€" nan asked Amy, showing the first imâ€" patience he had shown. "It was Daniel," Amy said. "Danâ€" iel went to California and married Mary O‘Ryan there, and they had one sonâ€"Thoman Drane, who was my father. He married Mary Gartner, but just after I was born they were drowned in a flood. Some river overâ€" flowed and they were drowned. Grandâ€" father was dead then, too, and grandâ€" mother had died before that. So I was put in an orphanage and that was where uncle John found me." "I‘m not saying a word," Judd said. "Exâ€"cuse me!y'f.!or‘ol myself." "But you said something," Brenâ€" nan insisted. ‘"What did you say?" "All I said," Simon Judd said, "was which brother *" "What did you say*" asked Brenâ€" nan, turning to Simon Judd. in California. You see, I‘m uncle John‘s brother‘s son‘s child." to call him thatâ€"came to Wescote?" 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