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Th Grecn Murder Case BY 8. S. VAN DINE. SYNOPSIS, Philo Vance, interested in solving mysteries, becomes interested in the Greene murders when District Attorney Markham is called in after the fatal ingot" of Julla Green and the wound- da, her sister. Toblas Greene's Ww, together with .lve children, live in the old Green Mansion. Police inves gations result in a blank wall and the world is again horrified when another murder is committed. Again footsteps are found to and from the entrance of the mansion, CHAPTER XI.--(Cont'd.) "You're sure about 'em being go! oshes?" Heath was reluctant to let what promised to be a valuable clie slip away. "You can't get around it. The run- ber tread was distinct in several places, and the shallow, scooped hecl stood out plain as day. Anyhow, I got Jerym to check up on my find- ings." Snitkin's gaze wandered idly to the floor of the clothes-closet. "Those are the kind of things that made the tracks." He pointed to a peir of high arctics "/hich had been thrown carelessly under a boot-shelf. Then he leaned ove: and picked up one of them. As his eye rested on it he gaze a grunt. "This looks like the size, t00." He took the pattern from the Sergeant's hand and laid it on the sole of: the overshoe. It fitted as per- fectly as if the two had been cut simultaneously. Heath was startled pression. "Now, mean?" Markham had drawn near. "It might indicate, of course, that Chester avent out somewhere last ' night late." 'But that don't make sense, sir,' objected Heath. "If he'd wanted any- thing at that hour of the night he'd have sent the butler. And, anyway, the shops in this neighborhood were all closed by that time, for the tracks weren't made till after it had stopped snowing at eleven." "And," supplemented Snitkin, "you can't tell by the tracks whether the guy that made 'em left the house and came back, or came to the house and went away, for there wasn't a single print on top of the other." Vance was standing at the window looking out. "That, now, is a most interestin' point, Sergeant," he commented. "I'd file it away along with Rex's story for prayerful consideration." He saun- tered back to the desk and looked at the dead man thoughtfully. "No, Ser- geant," he continued; "I can't pic- ture Chester donning gum-shoes and sneaking out into the night on a mys- terious errand. I'm afraid we'll have to find another explanation for thoue footprints." "It's damn funny, just the same, that they should be the exact size of these galoshes." "If," submitted Markham, "the foot- prints were not Chester's then we're driven to the assumption that the murdérer made them." Vance slowly took out his cigarette- case, "Yes," he agreed, "I think we may safely assume that." At this moment Dr, Doremus, the Medical Examiner, a brisk, nervous man with a jaunty air, was ushered in by one of the detectives. I had seen in Rich in body building vitamins. . . Pasteurized for your Protection 34 1b. packages or sliced from the famous 5 Ib. loaf Look for the name "Kraft" as the only positive identi. out of his de- what in hell does that 'the drawing-room. He blinked at the company, threw his hat and coat on a chair; and shook hands with every one. "What are your friends trying to oe | do, Sergent?" he' asked, eyeing the inert body in the chair.. "Wipe out the whole family?" Without, waiting for an answer to his grim pleasantry he went to the windows and threw up the shades with a clatter. "You gentlemen all through viewing the re- mains? If so, I'll get to work." "Go to it," said Heath, Chester Greene's body was lifted to the bed and straightened out. "And how about the bullet, doc? Any chance of get- ting it before the autopsy?" "How'm I going to get it without a probe and forceps? I ask you" Doc- tor Doremus drew back the matted dressing gown and inspected the wound. "But I'll see what I can do." Then he straightened up and cocked his eye facetiously at the Sergeant. "Well, I'm waiting for your usual query about the time of death." "We know .it." "Ha! Wish you always did. This fixing the exact time by looking over a Ldoy is all poppycock anyway. The best we fellows can do is to approxi- mate it, Rigor mortis works differ- ently in different people. Don't ever take mo too seriously, Sergeant, when I set a1. exact hour for you. Huwever, let's see. . , He -an his hands vver the body un the bed, unflexed the fingers, moved the head, and put his eye close to the coagulated blood about the wound. Then he teetered on his toes, and , prauinted at the ceilivw "How about ten hours? tween eleven-thirty and Bow's that?" Heath laughed good-naturedly, "You hit it, Doc--right on the head." "Well, well! Always was a goud guesser," Doctor Doremus seemed vholly indifferent. ? Vance had followed Markham into the hall, "An honest fellow, that archiat:r of yours, And to think he's a public servant of our beneficent govern- ment!" "There are many honest men in public office," Markham reproved him. "I know," sighed Vance. "Our de- mocracy is still young. Give it time." Heath joined us, and at the same moment the nurse appeared at Mrs. Greene's door. A querulous dictator- ial voice issued from the depths of the room behind her. " ... And you tell whoever's in charge that I want to see him--right away, do you understand! It's an out- rage, all this commotion and excites ment, with me lying here in pain, try- ing to get a little rest. Nobody shows me any consideration." Heath made a grimace and looked toward the stairs; but Vance took Markham's arm. "Come, let's cheer up the old lady." As we entered the room, Mrs. Greene, propped up as usual in bed with a prismatic assortment of pil- lows, drew her shaw! primly about her. "Oh, it's you, is it?" she greeted us, her expression moderating. "I thought it was those abominable policemen making frée with my house again. . . What's the meaning of all this dis- turbance, Mr. Markham? Nurse tells me that Chester has ben shot, Dear, dear! If people must do such things why do they have to come to my house and annoy a poor helpless old woman like me? There are plenty of other piaces they could do their shooting in.' She appeared deeply resentful of the fact that the murderer should have been se inconsiderate as to choose the Greene mansion for his depredations. "But I've come to expect this sort of thing. Nobody thinks of my feelings. And if my own children see fit to do everything they can to annoy me, why should I expect "total strangers to show me any consideration?" "When one is bent vn murder, Mrs. Greene," rejoined Markham, stung by her callousness, "one doesn't stop to think of the mere inconvenience his, crime may cause others." "I suppose not," she murmured self- pityingly. " "But it's all the fault of my children, If they were what chil- dren ought to be, people wouldn't be breaking in here trying to murder them." "And unfortunately auded Markham coldly. "Well, that can't be helped." She suddenly became bitter, "It's their punishment for the way they've treat- ed their poor old mother, lying here for ten long years, hopelessly paralyz- ed. And do you think they try to make it easy for me? No! Here I must stay, day after day, suffering Say, be. midnight succeeding," agonies with my spine; and they never | i lat might at the time your son. Big dourh Well, aise 1 was, a wonder, thoughyghat some one didnt J leae my door open just so I'd be ais turbed." "And you Kuiow no one who would : ; have any reason to kill'y "son?" "How should I know? Nobody tells ing. I'm a poor neglects, | me anyth lt old cripple. . ." ; "Well, we won't bother you any fur. ther, Mrs, Greene." Markham's 'tone held something both of sympathy and consternation; As we descended the stairs the nurse reopened the door we had just closed after us, and left it ajar, no doubt in response to an order from her pa- tient. "Not at all a nice old lady," chuckl- ed Vance, as we entered the drawing room. "For a moment, Markham, 1 thought you were going to bex her ears." i "I admit I felt like it. And yet I couldn't help pitying her. However, sich utter sclf-concentration ns here saves one a [Jt of mental anguish, She seems co regard this whole damnable bnginess a a plot to upset her." Sproo: appeared obsequiously at the + door "May TV bring you gentlemen 'some coffee?" No emotion of any kind show- ed on his graven wrinkled face, The events of the past few days seemed not to have affected him in any de- gree. "No, we don't want coffee, Sproot," Markham told him brusquely. "Bat please be good enough to ask Miss Si- bella if she will come here." "Very good, sir." The old man shuffled away, and a few minutes later Sibella strolled in, smoking a cigarette, one hand in the pocket of her vivid-green sweater: jacket, Despite her air of nonchal- ance her face was pale, its whiteness contrasting strongly with the deep crimson rouge on her lips. Her eyes, too, were slightly haggard, and when she spoke her voice sounded forced, as if she were playing a role against vhich her spirit was at odds. She greeted us 'blithely enough, however. "Good morning, one and all. Beast. ly auspices for a social call." She sat down on the arm of a chair aad 8 ung one leg restlessly. "Some one certainly has a grpdge against us Greenes, . Poor old Chet! He didn't even die with "his boots on. Felt bed- room slippers! What an end for an outdoor enthusiast! Well, I suppose I'm invited here to tell my story. Where do I begin?' She' rose, and throwing her half-burned cigarette into the grate, seated herself in a straight-backed chair facing Mark- ham, folding her sinewy, tapering hands on the table before her. (To be continued.) rr ee Yr. Absurd! The man who had received a notice from the tax-collector was both in- dignant and mystified. He was called upon to pay £50 forthwith. He hadn't £. He wrote back as follows: "Dear Sir,--On my Income-Tax re turn I clearly stated my profession which you appear to have misunder- stood. You demand £60 forthwith. I s2id I was a contractor--not a con- jurer!" rei Swedish Population Up 20,000 Stockholm. -- Sweden's population was 6,162,300 at the beginning of 1932, the government statistical bureau an- nounces. a a @ HP Vitamin C Is Improved A synthetic form of the valuable vitamin C has been produced. Varie- ties of this vitamin, called narcotin, have been obtained better than those of nature, In vie early ave of ¢ electric power, public utility companies stopped their machinery when a thunderstorm loom- ed up because of the rick they ran from lightning strokes. Most houses had combination gas and electric fix- tures, "Although no central station 'no stops the generation of electric energy during an electric storm--such | is the adequacy of the protective de- vices infroduced in the past two de- cades--lightning is still 'a menace, perhaps the only menace that the elec- trical engineer fears. With more than $800,000,000 spent annually for exten- 'sions of existing transmission and dis- tribution systems and for intercon- nections required to carry out a vast super-powef program, the problem of lightning is of such economic conse- quence that industrial research was called upon to solve it. Thus is to be explained the work that F. R. Peek Jr, has been doing for the last twenty-five years, of which more than half have been spent in a high-voltage research laboratory main- tained for him at Pittsfield, Mass., by a great electrical manufacturing com- pany. - Recently he gove there a de- monstration of hig latest apparatus by causing giant bolts to flash between a sixty-foot spark gap at a pressure of 10,000,000 volts. Never before had any one produced artificial lightning on such a scale, Study Peek's complicated apparatus, consisting of a generator, capacitors, transformers, aluminum spheres and insulators, and its resemblance to na- ture's thunder clouds and the electri- cally strained atmosphere is not ap- parent. Two aluminum balls between which lightning rends the air--who would take them and the capacitors behind them for cloud and earth? And yet that js what they are, in a sym- bolic manner of speaking. Putting Lightning to Use Now that Peek has found out so much about lightning, what can be done about it? "Harnessing," that frayed word of the romancers of science, is out of the question. Light- ning cannot be tamed. It must be d.toured and given 2 chance to spread itself out and trickle away. Peek has placed it on an engineering basis. Designers and builders of cen- tral stations now know the height at which conductors should be strung, the nature of the "grounding" the best method of shielding insulators, and how lightning rods and towers may be used to advantage in regions that are especially exposed to lightning, Golfers' Swings Measured The photoelectric cell, which now has about a thousand and one uses, has been made part of a highly sensi- tive apparatus, devised by H. W. Lord, vacuum-tube engineer of Schen- ectady, N.Y, to time th eswing of a golf club in the hands of an experi- enced driver. Standing on a platform, the driver swings at the ball placed ona tee and cuts two beams of light at right angles to the path ofthe club ~--the first a minute fraction of a sec- ond before the ball is struck and the second immediately afterward. The momentary interruption of the beams is enough to affect electrical circuits of an apparatus so sensitive that with its aid speeds up to about 1,000 miles an hour can be measured. Two practical golfers were tested, the one heing James Reynolds, winner of the national driving championship at Chicago in 1930, and the other Alexander McIntyre, a country club Three English Nymphs $3 and, when cornered, he | river--" yaclessioinll 6 Reynolds made a drive which speed of 106 miles an hour. His sec ond estal ished a high mark of 125 : miles. Mclntyre's driving speed var ied from 70 to 97 miles an hour. Lord's apparatus shows that driving speeds depend not only on the driver but on the club. Lightness rather than weight of club-head and length of shaft have much to do with the at- tainment of the hihger driving speeds. --W. K,, in The New York Times. in Aten A Connacht Man's Philosophy 1 watch'd the rain come peltin' down An' peltin' down for-fun For days and days the clouds stood up An' blotted out the sun. To Galway Fair because o' rain I knew I couldn't go . I took a pull at my ould pipe An' left the matter so. For weeks an' .eeks a. blazin' ball Went wheelin' round the sky; It rose an' set, an' sat an' rose An' all the wells ran dry . What time the wells might fill again, For one I didn't know-- I took a pull at my ould pipe An' left the matter so. I set me out to ax a wife An' up the ould boreen (I mind the day--the sky was, blue An' all the trees were green). A redhaired woman crossed my path, So back I turn'd nor slow, An' took a pull at my ould pipe An' left the matter so. When Dochter Pat the dacent man, Comes round the little road To grip my fist an' shake his head I'm throwin' down my load. I'm throwing down my load, my boys, But once before I go, I'll take a pull at my ould pipe An' leave the matter so. --By Padraic Kelly in Irish Travel (Dublin). Bi o World's Wisest Dogs At the most remarkable school in the world dogs are being. trained to led the blind. This experiment in the interests of the blind was started a few years back by .. Mrs. Harrison Eustis, an American, and has met with much success, The school lies near Lausanne, and ite pupils are German sheepdogs, be- cause this breed has shown a remark- able capagjty for "mothering" blind men. To be led Ly one of these 'rain- ed dogs is almost like going. out with 2 human companion. Ho.ding his 'lead," the blind man can feel each movenient of the dog ahead. The animal has learned wo give a number of signals. She will pull on the lead to guide him round 1s ~.p-posts, pillar-boxes, and other oot stacles. She will not take him under a low obstruction which® might catch his head. Wken it comes to crossing a road, she stands still upti' her master is properly balanced to step off the kerb. If steps have to be negotiated she signifies their 'presente 'by sitting downs These dop-paplls from L'@il qui Voit (The Eye That Sees), as the school ig called, are now leading thou- sands of blind men about in Germany and Central Europe, The dogs have proved themselves véry lovable *ani-|' mals and are highly popular with all who know them in those countries. In fact, they are s. intelligent and well behaved that blind men are per- mitted to take them, free of chyyge, in trams dnd trains. Of course, these results are only pb- tained after a long spell of very care- ful training. First, the dog must be taught her duties, then the man and dog must practice together until he understands her methods. Not until then is the good work complete.--Lon- don Answers. rier il reais Just So! : The man who had just. returned from France was relating a thrilling experience at the dinner table. "Yes," said He, "an Apache spr 28 Toe. Ji. re OF Uh Sri PAE anstohed my Be ot ol of notes, " ted! TI arm eet into the "Ah!" said a listener. Seine" © : had a Flying is now becoming very much Bing is ey ming vy vc ditions, Miss Earhart's great feat is one recent proof of that. The storm which she flew into ver the Atlantic might easily have meant a tragic ter mination for an aarlier ocean flight, but she weathered it successfully, and breame the first woman to fly the At- lantie alone. This isn't an isolated case. The uther day the air liner Horatius was struck by lightning while flying over "Tonbridge at a height of 2,000 feet. The wireless equipment was the prin: cipal sufferer 'ro: the shock, being put out of action, and the aeroplane i ad therefore to return to Croydon, it being an Imp:rial Airways rule that m..chines must not continue a journey without wireless. Bit the air liner was never out of cont ol for a moment, and 1oue of its occ pants felt the slightest shock. About the same time the United States dirigible Akro., the largest air- Pship in the world, was weathering successfully" a sever. thunderstorm during a flight from New Jersey to the Pacific Coast. The whole of one night she was compleiely surrounded by severe lightning. In the end she emerged unscathed from a two days' fight against the worst weather condi- tions a rigid airship has ever been called upon to face, 8,000 FEET UP IN 30 SECONDS. The way in which the Akron behaved throughout her ordeal is particulariy encouraging - because of the severe bstraing which a violent thunderstorm puts on the comparatively vulnerable structire of an airship. But that structure is not quite so fragile as the layman may think; R-100 proved this on her last voyage to Canada, when shy was caught in vertical air currents during a 'thunderstorm over the St. Lawrence, and shot vp 3,000 feet in less than thirty seconds. It wes a tremendous test, but only the tail-fin fabric was torn, and that was repaired by members of the crew who crewled along inside the fin while the airship was kept head on to the gale, In the case of aeroplanes, there has been a great improvement in design during recent years, and the great passenger air liners can now, as the ease of the Horatius showed, practic- ally laugh at lightning. There is, indeed, practically nothing about an aeroplane that attracts light- ning now, unless, indeed, the trailing aerial of the wireless set. Taking it all round, an aeroplane, especially one of the crack passenger air liners, is probably safer in a thunderstorm than » good many of our houses. It is built to defy light- ning.--London Answers. sisi mane Guest (departing at last): "Good- bye. Hope haven't kept yoy out of bed." Host (politely): "That's quite all right. We should have been get- ting-up soon in any case." Stops Summer Odors-- The heavy smell which warm weather brings to many people is largely prevented by regular hath- ing with a free lather of Baby's Own Soap. The delicate aroma dispels all unpleasantness and the skin feels 80 refreshed, cool and sweet. Baby's Owns sells at 10c. a cake at -dealers everywhere, 39-26 "Best for you und Baby too" Only wealthy people can afford cheap oil, One kind of oil is as good as an- 'other 'in the container. It's actual service that makes the difference. Clieap 'oil is never worth the. price | you pay. For it leads you into think- ing you are getting proper lubrication. your sewing machine, lawn mower, ric fan, vacuum scleaner kind of weather they are | through months ahead? An Amazon Mother : The spotted bower bird of Western Australia Is able to accomplish this, 'Her usual clutch of eggs is two, but she Varies the number according to the amount of food she will be able to: collect for her family when they are rive. If a good season is approaching -| she will lay three eggs, for instinct tells her that food will be plentiful. It a'long drought is on its way, she gives up domestic affairs entirely for that season. If moderate weather is expected, a single egg is laid. The mating season is about six weeks has to work out her problems well in advance. » species of turtle which lays its eggs in the sand a few feet above the line that will denote high-water at the time when the young are due to ap- pear. The eggs are laid weeks ahead of the actual rising or falling of the river, and in some seasons there may, be a margin of at least three miles in its width, but this tortoise or land tur- tle never makes a mistake, always de- positing them in a secure spot just the right distance above the line which later will show the high-water mark. There is a difference in the number of eggs laid by British birds in vary ing seasons. The lapwing will, if the spring is likely to be warm and-damp, depart from its usual custom ef laying only four eggs, and add one, more to her clutch. A few years ago there to be suitable for the young: Moving Before the Storm Many of the larger birds are good weather prophets. Those roosting on cliffs, such as buzzards, rayens, and eagles, will use the same sheltered ledge for years in succession, but if a storm is likely to rise in the night and blow directly into their shelter, they will move to more favourabe spots. I have known a raven to do this om three occasions, and in each instance a great gale arose during the hours of darkness. Had the bird been in its original shelter it would have had a most uncomfortable time. Last October 1 saw large flocks of lapwings flying over my home. All were going north. Now, according to all the rules of Nature, they should have been flying south on the ap- proach of winter, knew in some mysterious way thad they would not suffer, and the follow- ing winter was. exceedingly mild. sre ad "A Mighty Man Is He"" Progress has its price. But some- times it offers a rebate, For instance, when it brought to the world the motorcar, it implied that it would ex- act in payment something almost as dear to the heart of childhood as Is the old swimmin' hole. But now comes the rebate, The blacksmith shop need not be entirely surrendered, "For in . Great Britain smithies still are needed. Perhaps not bigger or better ones, but at any rate more of them. The decline of the blacksmith has gone too far, it was officially declared at the annual horseshoeing contest' for the West Midlands. Despite the growth of motor transport, the president of the Master I'arriers' Association 8aid, the horse still is unequaled for short hauls and geeral agricultural work. So a call has been sounded in Great Britain for more apprentices in this ancient profession. An honorable profession, be it said--indeed, an honored one, Great musicians have harmonized it. Poets have eulogized it. Handel's "Harmonious = Black- fellow's "The Village Blacksmiths have added to the oft dingy, sooty || blacksmith shop a luster not quite matched even fin the spic-andSpan garages of to-day. And, recalling the. simple grandeur of that blacksmith who toiled "under the spreading chestut tree," must mot 'have less need than Great Britain of "his profession still have as much need = Seiguoe Monitor. The city of Stolberg, Prussia, ha | library 'containing abot ) were records all over the country of' clutches of five, and the season proved - smith," Verdi's "Anvil Chorus," Long-' ahead of the actual hatching, so she ° On the shores of the Amazon lives a | but these birds ° one feel that even those countries that - of men like him? -- The Christian ~