BYS.S. V c Green Murder Casc AN DINE. SYNCPSIS. * Philo vance, with a hobby for solving becomes interested in the Greens Wurders when District At'orney nd Sgt. Heath are called Fi after the fatal shooting of Julla Greene and the Founding of her younger aistely Ada. 01a Tobias Greene's widow, er with five children aul Ches Delta, Rex and adopted) live in the old Greene mansion. olice in- gations reveal nothing; then Chester nd shot seated in a chair in his room. Again footsteps are found to and from -the entrance of the mansion, Ada goes to Markham's office and in- forms him that Rex has not told all he Five minutes later worc comes that he has been shot, A few hours later dn Blon reports a theft of poison from his satchel. CHAPTER XXV.--(Cont'd.) Vance continued: "I see in this whole afiair a carefully worked-out plot that's been in preparation per- haps for years, We're dealing with the persistency of an idee fize, and with the demoniaca logic of insanity. Znd--what is even more hideous-- we're confronted with the perverted imagination of a fantastically roman- tic mind. We're nitted against a fiery, egocentric, hallucinated optimism. And this type of optimism has tre- mendous stamina and power. The his- tory of nations has been convulsed by jt. Mohammed, Bruno and Jeanne about the will is, I should say, the manner in hich he left th. money. How was this distributed?" "It wasn't distributed. With the ------------ ito separate and go away," | the Inspector, "That would only postpone the in- evitable," Vance returned. "And be- sides, it would rob them of thei: patri- mony." "A court ruling might be obtained upsetting the Jrovisions of the will," itied: Markham dublousl Vance gave him an ironical smile. "By the time you could get one of your beloved courts to act the mur- derer would have had time to wipe out the entire local judiciary." (To be continued.) RRUSIRECRR SIRS Michael ventured exception of a few. minor bequests, it was left in its entirety to the widow. She was to have the use of it during her lifetime; and could, at her death, dispose of it to the children--and grandcLildren, if any--as she saw fit, It was imperative, however, that it of Greenes get their living expenses? Are they dependent on the old lady's bounty?" "Not exactly. A provision was made for them in this way: each of the five children was to receive from the "Sproot was left a competency, for instance--enough to take care of him comfortably whenever he wished to retire from service. Mrs. Mannheim, also, as to receive an income for life, Upon the forest-side in Grasmere Vale | There dwelt a Shepherd, Michael was his name; An old man, stout ef strong of limb. 'His bodily frame had been from youth heart, and all remain in the family." to age "Where do the present generation |Of an Juss) strength: his mind was een, Intense, and frugal, apt .or all affairs, And in his shepherds calling he was prompt And watchful more than ordinary men. Hence he had learned the meaning of executors a stipulated amount from all winds, Mrs. Greene's income sufficient for [Of blasts of every tone; and often- personal needs." Markham folded up times, the paper. "And that about covecs|'When others heeded not, he heard the Tobias' will." South "You spoke of a few minor be- Make subterraneous music, like the quests," said Vance, "What are noise they?" Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock : Bethought him, and he to himself would say, A n "The winds are now devising work for d'Arc--as well ar Torquemada, Agriv- | haginning at the énd of the twenty- me!" pina and Robespierre--all had it. It|goe years." And, truly, at all times, the storm that operates in diffcrent degrees, and to] «Ant! Now, that's most interestin' drives different ends; but the spirit of indi-| Ang in the meantime she could, if she The traveller to a shelter, summoned vidual revolutioa is at the bottom of | ohoge, remain as cock at a liberal him it salary." Up to the mountains: He had been "Hell, Mr. Vance!" Heath was un- "Yes, that was the arrangement." alone easy. "You're trying to make this| «The status of Fran Mannheim fas- [Amid the heart of many thousand case something that ain't--well, na-| cinates me, I have a feeling that some mists, tural." day ere long ske and I will have a That came to him and left him, on the "Can you make it anything else, | heart-to-heart talk. Any other minor heights, Sergeant? Already there have been |paquests?" --From Wordsworth's poem, three murders and an attempted mur-| «A hospital where Tobias recovered "Michael." der. And now comes the theft of thel from typhus fever contracted in the mer ---------- poisons- from Von Blon." Inspector Moran drew himself up and rested his elbows on the table. "Well, what's to be done? That, 1 believe, is the business of tonight's conclave." He forced himself to speak with matter-of-factness, "We can't break up the establishment; and we can't assign a separate body-guard for each remaining member of the household." "No; and we cau't give 'tm the works at the police station, either," tropics; and a donation to the chair of criminology at th. University of Prague. I might mention too, as a curious item, that Tobias left his lib- rary -to the New York police depart- ment, to be turned over to them at the expiration of the twenty-five years." Vance drew himeel! up with puz- zled interest. "Amazin'!" Heath had turned to the inspector, "Did you know anything about this, grumbled Heath. "It wouldnt help you if you could, Sergeant," said Vance. "There's no third degree known that could unseal the lips of the person. who is execut-' ing this particular opus, There's too much fanaticism and martyrdom in it." "Suppose we hear those wills, Mr, Markham," suggested Moran. "We! may then be able to figure out a mo- tive. You'll admit, won't you, Mr.! Vince, that there's a pretty strong motive back of these killings?" "There can be n. doubt as to that. But I don't believe it's money. Money may enter into it--and probably does --Dbut only as a contribut"ry factor. ¥'d say the motive was for fundamen- tal--that it had its matrix in some powerful but suppressed human pas- sion. However, the financial condi- tions may lead us to those depths." Markham had taken from his pock- et several legalized sheets of closely typed paper, and smoothed them on tne table before him. "There's no necessity to read these verbatim," he said. 'I've gone over tliiem thoroughly and can tell you briefly what they contain." He took up the sheet and held it nearer to the light. . "Tobias Greene's last will, drawn up Jess than a year before iis death, makes the entire family, as yov know, 1" e residuary devisees, with the stipn- lation that they live on the estate and maintain it intact twenty-five years. At.the end of that time the property may be sold or otherwise disposed of. I might mention that the domiciliary stipulation was particularly strict; tke legatees must live in the Greene mansion in esse--no technicality will suffice. They are permitted to travel and make visits; but such absences may not exceed three months in each " respective year. . . . "What provision was made in case of them should marry?" asked e inspector. "None, Even marriage on the part of any of the legatees did not vitiate ike restrictions' of the will. If a Greene married, he or she had to live out the twenty-five years on the es- tate just the same, The husband or wife could share the residence, of Iie event of children the wil sir?" "It seems to me I've heard of it. But a gift of books a quarter of a century in the future isn't apt to excite the officials of the force." Vance, to all appearances, was smoking with indolent unconcern; but the precise way he held his cigarette told me that some unusual speculation was absorbing his mind. "The will of Mrs. Greene," Mark- ham went on, "touches more definitely on present conditions, though person- ally I see nothing helpful in it. She has been mathematically impartial in doling out the estate. The five chil- dren--Julia, Chester, Sibella, Rex and Ada---receive equal amounts under its terms--that is, each gets a fifth of the entire estate." 2 "That part of it don'tfinterest me," put in the sergeant. "What I want to know is, who gets all the money in case the others pass outa the pic- ture?" "The provision covering that point is quite simple," exclaimed Markham. "Should any of the children dic before a new will is drawn, their share of the inheritance is distributed equally among the remaining beneficiaries," "Then when any one of 'em passes out, all the others benefit. And if all of 'em, except one, should die, that one would get everything--huh?" "Yes." < "So as it stands now Sibella and Ada would get everything--fifty-fifty --provided the old lady croaked." "That's correct, Sergeant." "But suppose both Sibella and Ada, as well as the old lady, should die: what would become of the money?" band, the estate would pass to him. But, in event of Sibella and Ada dy- ing 'single, everything would go to the State. That is to say, the State would get it provided there were no relatives alive--which I believe is the case." Heath for several minutes. already happened. and the two girls." "Two from three leaves one, Ser- geant," suggested Vance quietly. "What do you mean by that, siri?"' "The morphine and the strychnine," 1 ugly face. He struck the table with his fist. "It ain't coming to that if I can stop it!" Then a sense of help- os kuow how 08 Sees Vance spoke with troubled discou: "But I'm afraid we'll all have to wait. If the Greene millions are an actuating force in this affair there's no way on "If either of the girls had a hus: ondered these possibilities "I can't see anything in the situa- tion to give us a lead," he lamented. "Everybody benefits equally by what's And there's three of the family still left--the old lady Heath gave a start and made an| lessness tempered his outraged reso- es, wept sie evra : Honor British Racer Daytona Beach, Fla.--A lasting trl- bute to the memory of 'the late Sir Henry Segrave, famous British race car driver, is underway here. The city has begun work on a new avenue to be named in honor of the sportsman, who twice established world speed records on the ocean speedway here before he was killed in a motorboat accident at Lake Windermere, England. BE Birthdays Most people celebrate their birth- days as only so many victories over time, with not a recollection of the many good and gentle hopes and thoughts they may have wounded or destroyed in the battle--~Wise Say- ings. + ----me fb eee 400 Prehistoric Walls Found Some four hundred prehistoric fort- ress or castle walls, many of them well preserved, have been found in the Province of Bradenburg. The oldest of these walls date from the Bronze Age (900 to 600 B.C.) Wheat 3,500 Years Old Found More than half a pint of wheat be- lieved to be 3,600 years old, was found during excavations at Hembury Fort, b Reminiscences Among the many good stories Geo. Jean Nathan tells about his literary friends (in "The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan" -- emphasis on Jintimate?) is this one of Sinclair Lewis: "One altefioon a year or so ago" chuckles Nathan, "our hero (Lewis) ously hinted that 1 had better be at his house in West Tenth Street (New if 1 didn't want to miss something good. Since he is generally as mys- terious as a traffic cop, my curiosity was aroused and at seven promptly I was on the scene. Three other male guests, as mys- teriously summoned, they told me, were already there ... After a cock- tail or two, we were bidden to sit to dinner. In the middle of the meal, our host arose and excused himself, Returning a few minutes later, he in- formed us that he had to have a min- or operation performed and had just telephoned the surgeon to come over. We had been invited, it appeared, to stand around and be company while the operation was going on. Protests being 'of no avail, we had to enter- tain Lewis while the surgical perfor- mance was in progress. " 'Looking at you guys, gives me such a pain,' he observed, 'that tie other one dn comparison won't seem so bad." One night Nathan Dreiser sat together the literary scene." got around to George Said Dreiser: "The old fellow makes a sad"idiot of himself trying to convince Djmselt through other people that he's still young and spry. I had lunch with him in his flat when I was last in London and guess what hc did! and Theodore "contemplating Presently they Bernard Shaw. "After each course, he jumped up from "the table, grabbed hold of' two chairs, placed them some five and & lf feet apart, adjusted his chin on one and his feet on the other, and then -- in a horizontal position -- chinned himself up and down <n them for a couple of minutes. When lunch was qver, and 1 was safely out of the place, he probably had io go to bed and rest up for twelve hours from the exertion of having impressed me, as he believed, with his remarkable youthful vitality," The saying, "putting on side" has an interesting origin. It seems that one of the first farm wagons had movable side boards. These side- boards were slid into place only when the driver had a good load, and then taken out again when the wagon was empty. But some of the less pros- perous farmers tried to give the im- pression of taking great loads to market when the yield was really light--says Marion Nicholl Rawson, in "From Here to Yonder": "Hank's got his side-boards on and hasn't got any load," a canny neigh- bor would chuckle. That was shortened into "putting on side""--to describe an acquaintance who is giving himself "airs" with noth- ing to warrant it. In the days of my youth a visit to Sanger's Circus was three parts hea- ven and one part awe. Awe because the proprietor was "Lord" George Sanger. England. It was not until years later that I Fairbanks Jr. Re J aarih tv avert ab leas gue wore 130. jo him i» his atast Po A Favours Danes : called me up and somewhat mysteri-| York) at seven o'clock that evening| {rived at the country house that after- '|lence and his shunning of publicity-- "Fresh from the C discovered there was nothing in the "Lord" business. That it was a self- assumed, empty title, And. 1 learned the truth from the "Lord" himself as to how he came to take it. It seems--according to '"Seventy'] Years a Showman" (being the mem- oirs of "Lord" George Sanger)--that he got into a legal conflict with Buf- falo Bill, and that during the trial of the suit the constant reiteration of the phrase "The Honorable William Cody" got on his nerves, At last he said: "Hang it! I can go-one better than that, ahyhow. If he's the Honorable William Cody, then I'm-Lord George Sanger from this on." And so he was ever after. Speaking of titles, some years ago, John Galsworthy -- his new novel "Flowering Wilderness" is due this month--was offered and refused a knighthood. That is to say, he pre- ferred to remain plain Mr. John Galsworthy instead of becoming Sir John Galsworthy, It was quite a rarity for a man to refuse a prof- fered handle to his name, inasmuch as it is tendered him in the name of the sovereign and thus takes the na- ture-of a royal command, The usual procedure is for some one interested to sound the person so to be honored. As a rule, it is unnecessary to do much sounding. But in the case of Mr. Galsworthy some one blundered, for his name actually appeared in the honors list published in the newspapers as "Sir John Galsworthy." Explanations fol- lowed, but just what they were I have forgotten, -It is not usual, how- ever, for authors to turn down a title. Possibly Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling may have turned a deaf ear to the voice of the charmer--at all events, it is generally believed so. Since the typewriter has almost done away with handwritten manu- scripts and collectors find them in- creasingly difficult to obtain, galley proofs of the works of modern authors, corrected by them have acquired a considerable value. Not long ago a first corrected proof of an old Kipling short story brought $360 in a New York salesroom. Kipling, for one, has long been aware of the commercial value attached to his handwriting and does not scatter it around promiscu- ously. I am told that his contracts contain a clause requiring the return to him of all manuscripts to which they relate, typed or otherwise. Once when a group of Wall Street bankers asked the late Iver Kreuger, spectacular Swedish "Match King," at a week-end party why he did not fall in love with some American girl -- "a nudge prompted no doubt with an eye to business as well as romance," says Earl Sparling (in "Kreuger's Bil- lion Dollar Bubble")--he smiled and said: "I prefer a Swedish match." Kreuger was fond of performing "little miracles," says Mr. Sparling. For instance: "He met some American women at luncheon in Stockholm one day. The spring had been late and cold. The American visitors spoke sadly of the absence of flowers on the countryside. 'Ah, said Kreuger, 'you have not been to ghe right places. You will come with me to one of my country places for tea this afternoon.' When they ar- noon they found the walks lined with rogebushes in bloom. Between lun- cheon and tea time Kreuger had ran- sacked the hothouses of Stockholm to provide them." Mr, Sparling who--as an American newspaper correspondent in Stock- holm--knew Kreuger, quotes him as once saying: "My success can be attributed to three things. One is silence. The sec- ond fs more silence. The third is still more silence." "I am often asked," adds Sparling | --apropos Kreuger's reputation for si- "if a dislike of publicity, after one has ostensibly courted it, is a Viking inheritance, since it appears in indiv- {duals of Swedish ancestry from Lind Garbo." "|that' is the procedure in the house class in Illinois. In previous years the ! furniture claim attention because they .| takes." oR. Jack ond Jill House Jack builds, JM deco decorates. At Jonst built and decorated by a high school boys have translated their theoretical] knowledge into the actual construc tion of a saleable house, but this is the first time the girls have participated by decorating and furnishing its rooms. The trim English cottage, sturdily constructed, artistically landscape! and tastefully furnished, which the pupils have just completed, is eloquent testimony of their gapabilities. Ac- cording to the American Home Maga: zine, the house is, in every way, as finished as though mature architect, builder and workmen, instead of boys, had assisted in its construction, while the artistic, quiet atmosphere which the girls have achieved with little money, but with good taste.and com- mon sense, would do credit to a pro- fessional decorator. The "Jack and Jill" house is an at- tractive six-room English cottage, with a spacious lawn, shrubs and pine trees. Inside, one finds the wall and floor coverings harmonious, and the chairs, tables and oter furniture prac- tical, Decorations and furnishings seem to "belong." Several pieces of are usually well built--a davenport, two large stuffed chairs, a walnut din: ing table and chairs, and a Sewing cabinet, in each case, the boys have made the furniture. The girls for their part, have 'made the smart overdraperies return, nds of i 4 unpurchasable in the little one-eyed village of Cliffc- at-Hoo. loved the sight of the carrier's cart and Harris of Ulffe! For, of course, from other towns, but Harris of Cliffe spelt enchantment, joy, peace, free- dom, happy days, holidays. Once & year, every August or September; as svon as she was old enough to leave her mother, she was invited by a kind and motherly aunt to stop and play with her cousins, for a lon, happy month, in the low-ceilinged country home at Cliffe. LONGING FOR DAYLIGHT. The night before the great day no sleep closed her wakeful eyes. Fear lest thing should hap to pre- vent her going kepi her turning and tossing and longing for the light. The norning found hep tip-toeing about, collecting little treasures to be packed. The carpet vag (of the period) was ready packed in her bed-room. By dint of coaxing and worrying her mother she was all ready by 10 a.m.. Even now something might prevent her going. Fear gripped her! If only she was .. her way, out of the house, in the street, she would feel happy and content. Why not sit ir. the carrier's cart all day? She was sure she would bs quite happy. She timidly suggested it into the flushed, anxious face, and, un- derstandi half. and curtains, bedspreads, lamp shad sofa cushions, and have attended to the many other details which make of the house a comfortable and restful home. School projects of this and of simi- lar nature make it very clear that educators in ever-increasing numbers are finding it is a good and useful thing for students to learn to use their hands as well as their eyes and ears.-- The Christian Science Monitor. Maid--"It's no use, stand the missus." Master (sarcastically)--"It's a pity, Bridget, that I couldn't have selected a wife to suit you." Maid--"Sure, sorr, we all make mis- sorr, I can't se ff eet Intelligence upon children depends, to a large extent, upon diet. Relieve that pain safely You can always relieve that ache or pain harmlessly with Aspirin. Even those deep-seated pains that make a nan's very bones ache. Even the sys- temic pains so many women suffer. They will yleld to these tablets! As- pirin has many important uses. Read the proven directions in every pack- age; and don't endure any needless pains Som neuralgia, neuritis, rheu- Keep. a bottle of these tableis In the house; carry the pocket tin if subject expected role wh Sadie ~ Giant Fro The Yargest frog known is the. Bull of Africa, It | the early moraing, "But you'll be so tired, dear." "No, I won't. Oh, please let me do it! I'm sure I'll love it." AT THE INN YARD. A little packet of sandwiches was hastily prepared while her mother kept saying: "I don't like to let you go!" But she got her way, and after gratefully hugging her mother she grasped the carpet tag and happily made her way to the inn yard. ] Here was all the bustle of an inn in ostlers running about with pails, washing down carts, grooming horses, the noise of vehicles over the cobble-stones, and then a very little red-faced maid in a long ulster, clutching a huge carpet bag, obviously not full. First she peeped round the gate, then advanced timidiy. One or two ostlers, busy with their work, winked and vent on again. A few steps farther, and she reached Harris' cart, gnd looked at the shafts, wondering if it would be pos- get into the cart by way of the shafts, And then a kindly ostler asked: "What do yer want, missie?" "I want to get into the cart." "What! Harris doesr.'t start till six to-night." Another kindly glance. "Hold on--up with yer." And she was hoisted into the cart. ON THE WAY, Right to the back she crawled out of sight, and the awning completely hid her from view. Happy was she? matter of degree. Six hours of per- fect joy she slept in the van, living in blissful anticipation, and free from the fear that dogged her childish life. In her secluded spot at the back of the cart she heard the wondering remarks that passed amongst the ostlers, But safe in Harris' cart, she was oblivious to all else. She was on her way. , Six o'clock came and the arrival of the passengers of the morning, and expressions of surprise at the extra one already there. But she was re- cognized, for her mother was a native of the village. "You have curls like your mother," said one. "She always looked as if she came out of a bandbox," said an- other. And then the pleasant sound of the horse being put into the shafts, the rough shaking over the cobblestones, and she was more than on her Now the lovely sound of te her mother, who looked with tears. sible (when no one was looking) to. i hd ae when laden "She was only eight, but how she there were other carriers who came There is no doubt. Happiness isa way. the pat ;