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WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. th strikes Garrett Folsom while bathing "at Occan. Twn, NJ. After oe, op vcarly eximined by 0 8 rou; sol Majusaca, where an inquiry is EE Ta bathing companions had n Roger Neville, Mrs. Helen Bar- naby and Carmelita Valdon. x, is tablished pat Folsom, S death, had been standing Boni A ro arron, lmown as the copper Then. the startling announcement ic made that Folsom had been stabbed to death in the water, Ross, his valet, is questioned, as are Barron and e, but no fight is shed on the my ter, iT nastasia Folsom, eccentric and masterful sister of the dead man, ar- rives and takes command. At the in- quest it is established that the death weapon was a ichag, an Oriental knife, and that it and its scabbard mn nee] on the boardwalk. It is also established that Croydon Bears is a fancier of curious knives. Anastasia engages Titus Riggs to work on the case. Ile asks perm ssion to go through the dead man's effects. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XXVIII "Stop nothing," commanded Anastasia. "Tell any one who cares to know the fullest details of Garrett Folsom's life. Show him up entirely, and you will be pleased with the re- sult. I haven't lived with that man half a century for nothing. He was as incapable of conscious wrong-doing as I am myself. And 1 assure you I would do an. injustice to no one." "I beliese you implicitly, Miss ¥ol- gom, but I want to warn yoa ehce more, that you may be mistaken. That, blinded by love for your brother, you have misread some signs or indi- cations, and that, in his love for you, he may have kept from you some de- tails of his life that must have dis- tresged: you." "You make him out worse with every word 'you utter. If you are working for me, Mr, Riggs, you are working at my orders, and thuse arg for you to go cn the lines I lay down fcr you and no others, Will you do this?" "I will," raid Tite Riggs, gravely, "now. that, I have carefully warfied you of the calamities you invite." "They are my calamtiies, 1 meet them should they come. "Nr then, Mr. Riggs, you will investigate such cases as you can get further de- tails about from that notebook--" "There are many definite dates. and names of places, Miss Folsom. Shall I go right through the list?" "By all means." "Hold on, auntie," said Dan Pelton, "you may get yourself inyolved in libel suits and all sorts of horrible things." "For heaven's sake, Dan, remember' that I ordered you to keep out 'of this. You have no regard for your uncle's good name, no-care for his unjust arraignment; but at least you may keep quiet and let me go, my own way." "As if I could stop you!" Pelton gazed at his formidable rela- at , and' proposed a stroll on the bossa which Robin| accepted ully, "Where's the namorsta?" asked Riggs. : ; "Dunno," Robin said. "She's get- ¢ ting sort of elusive." "Had a mad?" "Very likely. 1 heard Mr. Nexille say he thought the affair would Mow over as an unsolved mystery." "Oh, he did, did he do nothing of the, sort! an unsolved mystery, for we may not to | am embarked succeed, but it won't blow over! It will take more than Roger Neville to blow over any siterpriog on which I Go. to it, Mr, Riggs. Do your | he ecto Tite R was always amused at the sudden lapses from dignified die- tion to less formal phrases, and 'walk- "No, nothing of the ort. But Madeline is weedy. They want to go home, at least Maddy does, and what she wants Angel generally wants, too." "And Barron?" "He's all for sting dow; "Bays the weather -is perfect and the kiddy past hi rs inquest--" "Oh, the ae isn't the be-all nd end-all of a murder case," "What can Ido to help?" ed smilingly away. is doing ne, and there's. no place Left alone in her brother's rooms, where there are more diversions and Anastasia Folsom devoted her atten-|wetter water and rollier *chairs and tion to the dolls! no mosquitoes, and he just wants to For the first time she regarded stay. So, whatever Madeline wanted "Nothing, if you ask 'ju that Yael adaisical 'way." "Now there's a word Deo always enjoyed. 'Don't know how to spell it; don't know how to pronounce it, butI just adore that word" : - "Stalling!" Riggs thought"to him- | Wig ous ailed. the | self, amazed. chap? + (Té bo continued.) " | Radio Attracts _- Varied Market - | Even Silo Dealers Adding Line | candy of Equipment--Electrical Shops Lead Washington--Even silo dealers and stores are retafling radio equipment nowadays, according to an analysis of returns made in a recent survey of radio stocks just compiled | by the electric equipment division of | the Commerce Department, Fifty- eight varieties of radio dealers were indicated, = Coal dealers, farm imple ment stores, jewelers, groceries, seéd _| stores, animal pet shops, and printers FOR THE FIRST TIME SHE REGARDED THEM WITH INTER- EST, AND AS SHE GAZED AT THEM HER INTEREST IN INCREASED. them with interest, &nd, as she gazed or however 'much h she e craved i it, she'd on them, her interest increased. give in to old Ned." "My heavens and earth!" she ejac-| "So they're staying on?" ulated. "That one is the very image] - "For another week or: two. My jof Jeanie: Frew! Poor little Jeanie.! old man loves it, too.. Dad is in his Garry wasn't very good to her. But|element down here, He loves the bless his heart, he couldn't be tangled | water, and even more, he loves to pot- up with a stenographer! 1 wonder | ter: about the shops."® : {1 he.bought that doll becuse it looks | "Odd taste it." so like Jeanie!" "Om 1 don't mean the. cateh-pennies. "And that one," she Went on, com-| He never bothers with ind stuff. muning with herself, "ig Kitty Leigh 7 to the life! I believe the boy did buy all sell radio, Innumerable combinations such as furnitures apd. hardware, sporting goods and music were found, in such cases the stores were listed "under each' classification involved. It is possible, in some. communities, for a man to go {nto &-plumber's shop and | {get his radio wants' other man in another town can have his furnace fixed or buy a five tube, set at the same office. Replies from 8546 dealers indieated their main businéss activities out of a total of 7718 recelfed. 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Vaugh- an, British; M: *nl RIE Latvia with reg vian Treaty.) statement means a ain t indication ' vaione Latvia that she Hn laide St.," Toronto. return mail. "Paris Capitals After Toh" erie: Uons. following repeated requests. by oakly" lit." says the Standard's editorial. "One tive with something of admiration. |these puppets when they looked like "And there's anothér thing," the|the girls he admired. For that blond Jady went on. "As I came in you two one is enough like May Farmer to be mentioned the name of Croydon Sea made for her. Yes, and this is like Is hé in your precious book?" Loo Balley--though not so much so. "The initials C._R. 8. occur a few{ Well; Garry, dear, you were always a times," Riggs told her. boy!" How well I remember you as & "Very well. That's Mr. Sears. And, | baby. Fond of dolls even then. of course, he'is the murderer. Don't} . Her loving eyes saw only an inno-| { you remember he was at the auction|cent exhibition of romance--but it] 'where that knife was sold?" was romance. that had represented to "But he didn't buy it!" | Folsom's mind the number and qual: ' "We don't know that he didn't. Ha's ity of his conquests. the man, I tell you." = . He had had many and varios sorts "Then you must admit that Folsom | of "romances" and when he could find Tad 8 such a : vantage of our; ally, the Britain ahd Spain, exultant ia oy had scored over us, put thety signa: ™ [tures at the bottom of 1929 agree- t con: or, a oe together With Wag cons ginal settlers were either Thraolans or I if riage is of, a unique type. ts builders filled boxes with earth, much as ncocrete wills are constructed to- day, piled them together and covered the whole with a layer of earth. The method of construction' can clearly seen, 3000 years was erected. When the Slavs came, probably 1500 years. later, they found the wall in such a state of preserva. tion that they were still able to em: ploy it as a defense. for their settle. ment. In the middle, of the settlement the . excavators have found a E Bumper of of them eighty feet deep, ning 'the gen 0 i and oh, mals whi 1iber: . Duried there. In thes: shafts the top of a human skull d' in circumstances x ing. hu) ly of the settlement has a8 yet excavated, but it is already ob 'that Buschmuehle' is dest! come. as linportant for the. study of the Bronze Age as is Pedogne for Be. Stone age. The finds establish for the firs e. the presence of Traclans or an allied. folk 'so far northward. Both Thra clans and 'Tllyrians occupied "the Bal kan. peninsula before . the ancient Greeks appeared in history and they may 'even bave extended -into Italy.. Thrace still exists, but the Thracians long ago disappeared. 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