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Vance, with a hobby for solving mate. becomes interested in the Greene murders when District Attorney John Markham and Sgt. Heath are called in after the fatal shooting of Julia Greene and the wounding of her younger sister, Ada. Old Tobias Greene k widow, together with five children, Juiia. Ches- ter, Sibella, Rex and Ada {adopted) lve in the old Greene mansion. olice in- vestigations reveal nothing; then Ches- ter is found shot dead, seated in a Shap in his room. Again footsteps are fount to and from the entrance of the mansion. Ada goes to Markham's office and in forms him that Rex has not told al! he knows. Five minutes later word comes that he has been shot. CHAPTER XXIIIL.-- (Cont'd) Vance sipped his coffee and inhalad a moment on his cigarette, "The point Iie trying to briay out is this: there is no proof whatever that all these footprints were not made by some one in the house who first went out and then returnel or the express purpose of leading the police to believe that an outsider was guilty. "And, on the other hand, there is evidence that the footprints actual'y did originate in the house; because if an outsider had nade them he would have been at no pains to confuse the issue of their origin, since, in any event, they could not have been traced buck farther than the street. There- fore, as a tentative starting point, I assumed that the tracks had, in real- ity, been made by some one in the house--I can't say, of course, whether or not my layman's logic adds 'ustcr to the gladsome light of jurispru- dence--"' "Your reasoning is consistent as far as it goes," cut in Markham tartly. "But it is hardly con plete enough to have led you directly to the linen- closet this morning." "True. But there were various con- tribut'ry factors. "For instance, the goloshes which Snitkin found in Chester's clothes- closet were the exact size of the prints. At first . toyed with the idea that they were the actual instruments of our unknown's vestigial deception. But when after they had been 'aken to headquarters, another set of sim- ilar tracks appeared--to it, the ones found this morning--I amended my theory slightly, and concluded that Chester had owned {wo pairs of ol- oshes--one that had perhaps been dis- carded but not thrown away. That was why I wanted to wait for Captain Jerym's report: I was anxious to learn if the new tracks were exactly like the old ones." "But even so," interrupted Mark- ham, "your theory that the footprints emanated from the .ouse strikes me as being erected on pretty weak scaf- folding. Were there any other indi- nts?" "I was coming to them," replied Vance reproachfully. "But you will rush me so. Pretend that I'm a law- yer, and my summation will sound po- s'tively breathless." "I'm more likely to pretend that I'm a presiding judge and give you sus | per coll." | "Ah, well," Vance sighed and con- | tinued. "Let us consider the hypo- | thetical intruder's means of escap: ! after the shooting of Julia and Ada. Sproot came into the upper hall im- | mediately after the shot had been fired in Ada's room; yet he heard nothing | --neither footsteps ir. the hall nor the front door closing. And, Markham, old thing, a person in goloshes going | down marble steps in the dark is no | midsummer zephyr for silence. | "In the circumstan' :s Sproot would ' have been certain to hear him making | his escape, Ther:fore, the explana- | tion that suggested itself to me was that he did not make his escape." "And the footprints outside?" "Were made lLeforehand by some one walking to the front gate and back. And that brings me to the night of Chester's murder. You remember Rex's tale of hearing a dragging noise in the hall and a door closing about fifteen minutes before the shot was fired, and Ada's corroboration of the door-shutting part of the story? "The noise, please note, was heard after it had stopped snowing--in fact, after the moon had come our. Could the noise not easily have been a per- son walking in goloshes, or even tak- ing them off, after having returned from making those separated tracks to and from the gate? And might not that closing door have been the door of the linen-closet where the goloshes were being temporarily cached?" MarkKam nodded. "Yes, the sounds Rex and Ada heard might be explain- ed that way." "And this morning's business was even plainer, There were footprints on the balcony steps, made be'ween 9 o'clock and noon. But neither of the guards saw any one enter the grounds. Moreover, after the shot had been fired in Rex's room; and if any one had come down the stairs and gone out] the front door Sproot would certainly have heard him. "It's true that the murderer might have de-cended the front stairs as Sproot went up the servants' stairs. 'worms! "ve skipped their rent eaten heif the house Besides." But is that likely? Would he have Rex, knowing that some one was like- ly to step out and discover him? I think not. And anyway, the guards saw no one leave the estate. "Ergo, I concluded that no one came down the front stairs after Rex's weath. I assumed agein that the foot. prints had been made at some earlier hour. This time, however, the mur- derer did not go to the gate and re- turn, for a guard was there who would have seen him; and, furthermore, the front steps and the walk had been swept. So our trackmsaker, after hav ing d d the gologhes, stepped out of the front door, walked round the corner of the house, mounted the bal- cony steps, and re-entered the upper hell by way of Ada's room." "I see." Markham leaned over and knocked the ashes f om his cigar. "Therefore, you inferred that the gol oshes were still in the house." "Exactly, But I'll admit I didnt think of the linen closet at once. First I tried Chester's room. Then I took a look around Julia's chamber; and 1 was about to go up to the servants' quarters when I recalled Rex's story of the closing door, I ran my eye over all the second-s.orey doors, and straightway tried the linen-closet-- which was, after all, the most likely place for a transient occultation, And lo! there were the goloshes tucked under an old drugget. The murderer had probably hidden them there both times before, pending an opportunity oi secreting them mors thoroughly." "But where coull they have bien concealed so that our scarchers didn't run across them?" "As to that, now, I couldn't say. They may have been taken out of th: house altogether." utes. Then Markham spoke. well proves your theory, Vance. IL. your reasoning is correct, the guilty person is some one with whom we've been talking this merning. It's an a) palling thought. I've gone over in told; and I simply car't regard any one of them as a potential mass- murderer," "Sheer moral prejudice, old dear." Vance's voice assumed 2 note of rail- lery. "I'm a bit cynical myself, and the only person at the Green man- sion I'd eliminate as a possibility would be Frau Manvheim. She's not sufficiently imaginative to have plan- ned this accumulative massacre. But as regards the others, I could picture any one of 'em as being at the bottom of this diabolical slaughter." CHAPTER XXIV. "It's a mistaken idea, don't y' know, to imagine that a murderer looks like a murderer. No murderer ever does," Vance was defending his theories to Markham. "The only people wha really look like murderers are quite harmless, Do you recall the mild and handsome features of Richeson of Cambridge? Yet he gave his inamor- ata cyanide, The fact that Armstrong was a meek and gentlemanly looking chap did not deter him from feeding death to his wife, "Doctor, Lamson, with his philan- thropic eyes and his benevolent beard, was highly regarded as a humanitar- ian; but he administered poison rather ---- PAIN relieved instantly us Aspirin will dispel any pain. doubt about that. One tablet will prove it. Swallow it. The pain is gone. Relief is as simple as that. No harmful after-effects from As- pirin. It never depresses the heart, and you need never hesitate to make use of these tablets. So it is needless to suffer from head- ache, toothache or neuralgia. 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Edith Thompson admitted putting powdered glass in her husband's gruel, ' "Madeline Smith certainly had a Constance Kent was rather a beauty-- a nice girl with an engaging air; yet. she cut her little brot er's throat in a thoroughly brutal ma: | i Bompard and Marie Lo, er were any- thing but typical of the donna delin- quente; but the one strangled her lover vith the cord of her dressing most respectable countenance. And] crippled brother. | gown, and the other killed her moth with a cheese knife. And what of Ma- dame Fenayrou---?" , "Enough!" protestec Markham. "Your lecture on criminal physiog- nomy can go over a while. Just now I'm trying to adjust my mind to the staggering inferences to be drawn from your finding \ those goloshes." A sense of horror seemed to weigh him down. "There must be some way out of this nightmare you've pro- household could possibly have walked in on Rex Greene and shot him down: in broad daylight?" "'Pon my soul, I don't know," Vance himself was deeply affected hy the sinister aspects of the case. "But some one in that house did it--some one the others don't suspect." "That look on Julia's face, and Chester's amazed expression--that's v hat you mean, isn't it? They didn't suspect either. And they were horri- fied at the revelation--when it was too late. Yes, all those things fit in with ycur theory." "But there's one thing that doesn't fit, old man." Vance gazed at th2 table perplexedly. "Rex died peace- fully, apparently unaware of his murderer. Why wasn't there also a look of horror on his face? His eyes couldn't have been shut when the re- velver was leveled at him, for he was standidg, facing the intruder. It's in- EL) pounded. What member of that| Inset shows a typical unit of sound-film equipment in operation. Photo shows one of that battery of Canadian sound-trucks that pairols the Dominion in the filming of outstanding Canadian news-events. explicable--mad!"" (To be continued.) | -- CRD Nutting | | The little spring that has been bub- But | ; bli der th edge all along the do you realize what confronts us now? Sng one oF 106, hedge oie begins, now that we have' mounted the eminence and are imper- ceptibly descending, to deviate into a | capricious variety-of clear deep pools and channels, so narrow and so' j choked with weeds that a' child might |overstep them, _ The hedge has alsg changed its character, It is no longer the close compact vegetable wall of hawthorn, and maple, and' brier-roses, intertwined with bramble and woodbine, and crowned with large elms or thickly set saplings. No! the pretty meadow which rises high above us, backed and almost surrounded by a tall coppice, needs no defence on our side but its own steep bank, gar-| nished with tufts of broom, with pol-| lard oaks wreathed wit hivy, and here | and there with long patches of hazel overhanging the water. "Ah, there are still nuts on that bough!" and in an instant my com: | panion, active and eager and delighted as a boy, has hooked down with his walking-stick one of the lissome hazel stalks, and cleared it of its tawny clusters, and in another moment he has mounted the bank, and is in the midst of the nuttery, now transferring the spoil from the lower branches in- to that vast variety of pockets which gentlemen carry about them, now bending the tall tops into the lane, holding them down by main force, so that I might reach them and enjoy the pleasure of cgllecting some of the plunder myself. A very great pleasure he knew it would be. I doffed my shawl, tucked up my flounces, turned my straw bonnet into a basket, and be- gan gathering and scrambling--for, manage it how you may, nutting is scrambling work--those boughs, how- ever tightly you may grasp them by the young fragrant twigs and the bright green leaves, will recoil and burst away; but there is a pleasure even in that: so on we go, scrambling and gathering with all our might and all our glee.--From "Our Village," by Miss Mitford. ---- ein Gems from Life's Scrap-book "Mind produces all action. If the action proceeds from Truth, from Im- mortal Mind, 'there is harmony.'-- Mary Baker Eddy. "Surely the actions of men seem to be the justest interpretations of their thoughts and the truest standards by which we may judge them.'--Henry Fielding. "Push on--keep moving."--Thomss Morton. "The act of God injures no one."-- Juvenal. "Be great in act, as you are in thought.'--Shakespeare. "Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.'-- Francis. z "To be active is the primary voca-| tion of many."--Goethe. "Activity is the presence of function --Greenough. Remember ~ Florence Nightingale proved: that constant activity inspired by love was its own protection, ER One of the most notorious receivers All Things Are Possible By Henry Thomas Hamblin, Editor of The Science of Phought Review. All things are possible to the one who believes them to be possible, When once we grasp this great truth, nothing can prevent us from rising. There are powers lying dormant with- in us which, when aroused, make pos- sible the achievement of our highest ambitions, and the realization of our dearest hopes. It does not matter how we may have failed in the past to at tain to our ideals; it matters not how difficult or hopeless our position or cir. cumstances may appear to be, there is a Power in us that is greater than any- thing that is against us, It is useless and weakening to brood over our failures. The pa.. is dead, the present' and the futu: . are our own, Life wants to use our hidden powers, to arouse the power that makes all things possible of achieve- ment, and which can make our life blossom like the rose. The improvement of one's life by the ordinary methods, by strain, effort, and the use of the surface mind, is so difficult and tiring that few can suc- ceed by such means. And so they have to remain as they are, hoping, longing, yet unable to realize their hopes and longings. But, by the use of the Power within, the greatest achievements become possible, with out strain or undue effort. When in- ward powers are called upo., all that we need for our highest expression comes to us just at the right moment. Opportunities come to us, doors open, and the so-called impossible (impos- sible only because we think it to L: N fig, R possibl of achievement. Weaknesses of will and character, indecisions and fears, all can be overcome in the same way, by anyone who believes that such achievement is possible, and who will do a little work each day in the silence of his own inner being. All the problems of life can be over- come if we believe they can be over come, and Will call upon inward spiritual powers to solve our problems. Infinite Wisdom then guides and di- rects our activities ipto the right chan- nels, so that instead of being wasted they bring about the desired results. ' Those who do not believe that bet- ter things are possible, and who brood over their failures and - disappoint. ments, open the door to negative and destructive forces and happenings. 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It is possible for man to identify himself with this Divine perfection, wholeness, order, etc, so that he suffers no lack of ill-health, but lives always in a state of harmony, ee WA Modern science has entered som- ber old St. Paul's Cathedral, Lon- don, and come to the rescue of speakers and congregations. A microphone has been concealed in the pulpit and loud-speakers placed beneath the choir galleries but quite concealed from the sight of the con- gregation. It is hoped to extend the benefits of betier hearing to the nave in time. "My husband says it's my - prettiest dress" "l want to tell you how I got acquainted with Diamond Tints," says a 'cordial letter from a Windsor wo- man, "I was in the drug store and saw some attractive Diamond Tint packages. The druggist told me they were for tinting light shades without boiling. He said they were made by the Diamond Dyes people. I have al- ways used Diamond Dyes for dyeing dark colors and know they are the best dyes made. 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This little animal, hardly bigger than a young rabbit, has been carefully timed in South Africa, where it lives, and has been found to cover shc-t distances at a speed of over forty miles per hour, while the Khirghiz jerboa, a seven-inch-long re- lation living in Central Asia, is so fleet of foot that a man on horseback chas- ing it is left nowhere. Also able to beat the horse on occa- sion is the kangaroo, who cas put up a very good show when out to save his, skin, The largest kinds can cover a distance of Tjty feet in a single leap. Staying the Course The kangaroo can give the modern petrol engine pojnts. One of these animals, while being unpacked at the London Zoo, escaped frown the keepers and, leaping over the boundary of the Gardens, fled away across Regent's Park. Though pursued by a motor- car, it was not caught until it was run to ground in the garden of a Baker Street house. For most of the way the motor-car was toiling ingloriously in the rear! Nearly all the cat tribe are excellent \speed merchants. "They have to be; | their food depends upon their fleetness of foot. The fastest are the serval, the cheetah, and the caracal, all of which have been trained by man to race and hunt. The cheetah can do eighty miles an hour, which enables it to catch practically anything that runs. An antelope's speed is sixty-two miles an hour, and he cannot keep up very long, and an elk's fifty-two miles an hour, These speeds were all ob- tained by trials against cars in the Uinta Desert, in the United States. A lion, tested at the same time, managed to get up to a speed of sixty-two miles an hour, but only maintained it for three seconds, None of the cat tribe likes a long run, but for short distances few c-n touch them. Incidentally, the speed of all the cats is enhanced by their mag- nificent leaping powers. It has been said that a leopard can spring twenty feet upwards, and that a lion can leap a distance of thirty feet in a horizontal direction. The dog tribe are no mean speed merchants. Though not so swift as some of the cats, they have greater {powers of endurance. The wolf's job, for instance, is to run down his prey till it is exhausted. Consequently, he has not only to be fast, but must also be able tq stay the course. Curiously enough, the difference be- tween the speed of an elephant and that of a snail is out of all proportion to the difference in their size. Al- though Jumbo is capable now and then of attaining a surprisingly high speed, his average pace is only about four miles an hour, Against this we find that the haliotis, a four-inch-long snail found in the Channel Islands, can move at the almost incredible rate of six yards a minute, which works out at something over one mile every five: hours, which is "some" speed for a snail! Surprising speeds are attained by many birds. The carrier pigeon is one of the fastest for long distances, but the swallow can beat him for short flights, The Virginian plover is said to be able to cover a distance of over 200 miiles in an hour, and a swift 160 miles an hour, : Timing a Golden Eagle Lapwings also are good for long flights. Marked birds set free in Cum- berland were shot down in Canada soon afterwards, and it was estimated that these birds must have travelled at quite 100 miles per hour, and that they had crossed the Atlantic in little more than twenty-four hours. The golden eagle has always been reckoned a pretty fast flyer. The other day circumstances arose in which a specimen could be timed, = One of these large birds fiying from Spain to Scotland travelled for some distance above.an aeropl that h d to be making a similar flight. The tacho- meter on the machine was registering ninety miles an hour, and as the eagle was able for many miles to keep up with the plane, it must have been go- ing at a similar rate--a marvellous ° exhibition of wing power. = Estimates of the speeds attained by 5 do seventy-five miles per partridge and the sparrowhawk fifty miles per hour, and the blac 'and many of the finches twenty-five fo reeset n e smaller birds show tat the merlin = or Lo