10 THE YELLOW STUB QREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL By Ernest Lynn : Henry Rand, 55, a business man, is found murdered in 'a cheap hotel in Grafton. The only clews are a woman's hand- kerchief and a yellow ticket stub from a theatre. at the handkerchief O'Day held in his hand. She was silent. J "Who was the man?" O'Day rg- "I don't know." She lifted her arms helplessly and let them drop. "What do you mean, you don't know who it was?" O'Day began "*You--"" "Just what I said,' she said re- signedly. "1 don't know who it was. I never saw him before that night." "You éxpect me to believe that?" The lieutenant had risen to his feet. He was bending over her menacing- ly. "Look here--either you're lying when you say you .weren't fn the Canfield Hotel or you're lying when You say yeu don't know whe this man was. Which is it?" . "I told you it would sound like a weak alibi. I knew you'd think I was lying. If you'll listen I'll ex- plain. You still won't believg me, I If Ru men, womsn or at once to W. 8. 9 E Main St, Adams, N. Y., for a free trial of his wonderful stimulat. ing application. Just put it on the ru 'e and the muscles begin to gin to bind together naturally and. su dangers and innocent little rup- that has thrown thou- a smal ture, the kind on of men women are dai Tinhing such risk Just because thelr ptures do not hurt mor prevent from. gettin around, Write at duce the man--but until may send me entirely free a ple treatment of your stimulat. : application for Rupture, NRG ivvivnery connainia 1h guess, but every word's I swear it is." "Go ahead, Miss Maynard," en- couraged J¥nmy, "We're listening." "You probably get the idea from the lieutenant, Mr. Rand," she said, "that I'm not a --a very nice wo- man. All right, maybe I'm not, ac- cording to your way of thinking. The man I went out with that night spoke to me in the lobby of the Paragon Theatre as I was coming true. to put it that way." She looked appealingly at Jimmy. He nodded "is head. "Go on," he said. "Maybe you've never been broke and lonesome and out of a job," she continued, half to herself. "It isn't a very nice feeling." ] "When he asked me to go some place where we could eat and dance, I went with him. He had a bottle of liquor with 'him, and he got drunk. He tried to make me drink and I wouldn't. That's why he got mad. I never drink unless I know who I'm with, He said a few things to me that I didn't like, so I got my pocket- book from him and went home. '"That's all there is to it," she fin- rd. "A tine story," scoffed Lieutenant O'Day. "I suppose you'll say next that you don't know what he looked like. D'you suppose you could tell us that, or did you forget that, too?" "I remember what he looked like. aly right. I'm not apt to forget that. Hé" was a big man---a régular giant with long arpus and big, freckled hands. I was afraid of him when he got to drinking." "What kind of hair did he have?" Jimmy asked. > "Red hair. ight red. It was cut short at the sides. Just long én- ough on top to part it." '"Lieutenant," sald Jimmy. "I think she's telling the truth, That's the deseription the hotel clerk gave is Jones of New York. He said the man had his hat on--pylled down over his eyes so he couldn't see much of his face. But he described him as a big man with close-cut red hair. He sald he had rather large ears. Did you notice, Miss Maynard?" ¢ "Yes. He did." "I'll be darned if I know what to do," sald O'Day. "We can't let her g0 here, even if we wanted to. We're holding her for the police in Graf- ton. I'll telegraph Mooney." "What do you suppose they'll do?" Jimmy asked. Olga Maynard was sitting dejectedly, holding her head in her hands. "They'll fix it so she can't get away until they find this man she's talking about' They've got enough to go before the grand jury and get an indictment for murder. I suppose that's what Mooney will try to do." "Do yon mean they'll--they'll charge me with murder?" She raised her head and gazed at the po- lice officer, dull hopelessness in her eyes. O'Day looked at Jimmy when he answered. "They'll want to be able to put their hands on her whenever they want to. We're holding her on suspicion. First degreo murder's un- A | ballable. Jf the grand jury indicts her, they'll«be able tp. keep her jan)" < A ' He turned to Olga. "Your story might be all right if you could pro- you do you'll have a hard time getting a jury to believe it." ; "But if she is allowed to go free she might he able to find the man," Jimmy suggested, "If she's in jall, he might run around town here with- out anybody to identify him." "That's true enougl, Rand. But on the other hand, {f we let her loose she might beat it out of town." "No, I won't. I swear I woh't. Lieutenan!."ghe cried. O'Day shrugged. "It's out of my hands. I'll hold you here. until Mooney comes and gets you. Then we're through. It's his case--not ours." ' "Then I'm going to Grafton to- night and make arrangements to have her freed," said Jimmy. - "You'll have to talk the district attorney out of trying to get an in- dictment." "All right. I'll try that. It seems out. He picked me up, if you want of the man.who registered as H. A. | expect to be back day after tomor- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG It's the Original Flaked Lye-- 100% pure. Save thé labels for premiums. Catalogue free. Comfort Soap Ce., Toronte 14 $ first, Lieutenant, that no woman was involved in this case. I said it when they first showed me the handkere chief and I sald it again when Fogarty told us he had given his theatre ticket to .a woman. "I'm going to Grafton to get hold of a lawyer." | "There's plenty of them here, Rand," observed O'Day dryly. "I have one in mind. He's the best friend I've got." } He turned to Olga. "When I come | back, Miss Maynard, they're going! to let you go, and you and I are go- ing to find that man. He doesn't know we're looking for him, so he won't be hiding. You're going to look for him every evening--do you hear?" He thought he had never seen any- thing so pitiful in his life as when she turped a tearful face to him and said, "I'll try, Mr. Rand. I'll try awful hard." . He stopped in a telegraph office and sent a wire t6 Detective Mooney and another to Barry Colvin. At the railroad station he was able to set | a lower berth on the train leaving for Grafton at ten o'clock. It was a later train than he had planned to take, but there was no choice; there were no berths left on L¥he other. He decided to eat dinner at a downtown restaurant and thén g0 home and throw a few things in his traveling bag. slowly, trying to formulate some plan of action. He must get hold of Barry, and have Barry argue with the district attorney against indict- xz Olga Maynard for murder. TTy was a friend of the district at- torney; once they had both worked for the same law firm. : In front of his rooming house he almost collided in the darkness with a man coming through the gate. "I'm sorry," he murmured as the other stepped quickly to one side to avoid a collision. The man lowered his head and walked swiftly away. {He might have had the decency to accept my apology," Jimmy muttered. "Still, I guess I'd better watch where I'm going. I almost knocked him down. Wonder it he lives here?" Mrs. King, the landlady, was in the hall when he entered the house. . "Is that you, Mr. Rand?" she said in surprise. "I though I heard you moving around in your room' a few minutes ago." "I was in earlfer in the evening, Mrs. King, but I went out again. I've been gone about three hours." "I.could have sworn I 'heard you just a few minutes ago, Mr. Rand. I didn't hear you go' out and I thought you were still here." "By the way, I'm going out of town tonight. Going to Grafton. I row. No phone calls for me, were there?" "Np. In his way upstairs he was think- ing of Mary Lowell. "I don't know why 1 think she'd call me up," . he said to himself. "T guess I'm a plain darn fool to think of it even." In his room he threw some cloth ing and toilet articles into his bag. lit a cigarctte and sat down for a smoke befose leaving for the raii- road station. It was then that he saw an envelpoe on the telephone stand, He picked it up: It was seal- ed, but unaddressed. Puzzled, he tore it open and read it, and then sank back In his chair in amazement. Written fn pencil, in a scrawly, amateurish hand, were the words: "If you want to keep out ot trog- ble, leave town and leave quick." On the way to his room he walked |. OLAIMS PETTING PA IS WOMAN'S PRIVILEGE Morals Matter of Eras, Not Geography, Argues Divorce . Sulit Attorney. New York, Feb. 10.--Petting parties, cocktails, short ékirts and rouge are defended as permissible for women under modern day con- ventions by Max D. Steuer, attorney, in a brief opposing the appeal of Thomas H. Symington, railway equipment manufacturer, from a jury decision denying him a divorce. Morals are not only a matter of geography but of eras, Mr. Steuer said in the brief filed yesterday. "To-day soclety recognizes and re- spects the rights of both married and single women to enjoy and exercise far more latitude and freedom ° of action in their conduct than in form- er days," he declared. The attorney held that the change in custom justified Mrs. Symington in her associdtion with Maurice Fatio, and, architect, and Talbot W. Chambers, coal merchant, . whom Symington had named as co-respon- dents. He denied the charges of misconduct, however. : "Women's rights have grown," ar- sued the lawyer, "and their polifical franchise 1s only part of their fran- chise to other privileges and pre- rogatives. "That which not so long ago would stamp a woman as a courtesan, or cause soelety to treat her as an out- cast, is now widely accepted as en- tirely conventional, perfectly permis- sible, and not at all improper or 'a violation of marital duties or obliga- tions." <A HANGMAN'S OPINION. Ellis Says All' Executions Ought Be | x in Penitentiaries. Winnipeg, Feb. 10>--AH execu- tions in Canada should be carried out behind the walls of the penitentiar- ies and away from the gaze of the morbid curious, Arthur Ellis, official hangman, declared after he had sprung the trap which sent John Stanton and Steve Nagar, convicted murderers, to their doom here yes- terday. : "I do not believe in sentences of capital punishment being carried out in the provincial jails. The peniten- tiaries are the proper places for such things, and they should be so utiliz- ed," he said. N° No matter © how atrocious the crime, sentiment is generally arous- ed in favor of the convicted an, while execution, Mr. Ellis asserted, had a revolting effect on the popu- lace. "With executions held in the dls- trict penitentiaries, sentiment would die down between the date of the sentence and the hanging. There would be no excitement; there would be no gathering of the curious. That would be far better than the present system. I speak. from experignce," he concluded grimty. = Revival of Interest In Emigration to Canada Lofidon, Feb. 10.--Revival of in- terest in emigration to Canada fol- lowing auguration of the three pound rate of passage recently agreed upon between the British and Cana- dian Governments, is specially mark- ed at Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Southampton, Cardiff and Belfast, ac- cording to representatives of the Ca- nadian Pacific Steamship services, who say that at these places there are long lists of applicants for steam- ship passage to Canada. Objects to Holding of Conference in Switzerland Moscow, Feb. 10.--Theé Russian Government continues to ingist as a condition to its participation the League of Nations. preparatory disarmament copference that the conference shall not be held in Switzerland. "Carry Protest to Coolidge. Washington, Feb. 10.--Protesting against the divérsion of water from Lake Michigan by the Chicago sani- tary district, a delegation represent- ing the Great és Harbors Assoc- fation, called on {deft Coolidge today to urge the enactment of legis- lation "to protect the Great Lakes as a navigation highway." President Coolidge expressed no opinion. The death occurred at Kinburn on Sunday of Hilen Groves, wife of in| 1883--L. E. 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"1p someone's trying to scare me off, they've run up the wrong tree, Still, Egon know of anyone . aa. fiestions were 3 short by _voleé of Mrs. King. phon Mr, Pama Tr / TSieRhone, His heart gave a Jeap. "If it's only Mary---but no, she wouldn't--" He lifted the. receiver and then al- most dropped it in surprise. ' A voice sald: "Did you get thay note?" : 5 3. 4 5 i Hugh Anderson. The late Mrs. An- dérson was born at Fitzroy. C. F. Faulkener, aged thirty-eight years, died in Halifax, on February 6th, of pneumonia. He was formerly of Belleville. Vi Fifty persons were arrested at Verona, Italy, in connéction with the alleged plot against the government. The Ontario Government has re- ceived a report of a discovery of a gypsum bed near Cochrane. Woodstock's fire lose during 1925 was only $1,757.80, according to the of chief. to me that I have as strong an inter- est in this case as the state has. I'm satisfied she's felling the truth. Wo need her to help us find the real mur- derer. I've maintained from =sthe "Mrs. I. N. Marshall died in To- ronto, on ursday. "She was the wife of the late I. N. Marshall, bar- your infernal note, and you can"