Be Murder Case BY 8. S VAN DINE. < and the wounding of her youn * she time being; but we'd learn nothing. SYNOPSIS! | Philo Vance, with a hobby for solving mysteries, - becomes interested in the Green murders when District Attorney Markham and Sgt. Heath are called in after the fatal shooting of Julia Greene er sister Ada. Old Toblas Greene's widow, to- ether with five children, Julia, Chester, + Elverla, Rex and Ada (adopted), live in the old Greene mansion. Police investi- tions reveal nothing: then Chester is Found shot dead in his room. Again footsteps are found te and from the entrance of the mansion. Ada goes to Markham's office and informs Hn that Rex has not told all he knows, Five minutes later word comes {lat Rex has been shot. ance becomes convinced that the criminal is 'one of the family, CHAPTER XXVHI.--(Cont'd.) "We might delay the slaughter for And our only hope is to find out-- some way--whet's at the bottom of this atrocious business," "Yeh? And how are we going to do thai, Mr. Vance?" Heath spoke with despair. "I don't know now. But the Greene household is safe for tonight anyway; and that gives us a little time. I think I'll have another talk with Von Blon. Doctor ially the younger ones --are apt to give snap diagnoses." Heath had hailed a taxicab, and we were headed downtown along 3rd Ave. "It can certainly do no harm," agreed Markham. "And it might bring forth something suggestive. When will you tuckle him?" Vance was gazing out of the win- dow. ' "Why not at once?" Suddenly his mood had changed. "Here we are in the Forties. And teatime! What could be more opportune?" He leaned over and gave the chauf- feur an order. In a few minutes the taxicab drew up to the curb before Von Blon"s brownstone residence. The doctor received us apprehen- sively. "Nothing wroag, I hope! trying to read our faces. "Oh, no," Varce answered easily. "We were passing and thought we'd drop in for a dish of tea and a medi- cal chat." Von Blon studied him witha slight suspicion, "Very well. You gentlemen shall nave both." . He rang for his man. "But I can do even better. I've some old Amontillado sherry----" "My word!" Vance howed ceremon- lously and turaed to Markham. "You wee how fortune favors her punctual thildren?" The wine was brought and carefully ted. he asked, Vance took up his glass and sipped it. One would have thought, from his manner, that nothing in the world at that moment was as important as the quality of the wine, "Ah, my 'dear doctor," he remarked, with some ostentation, "the blend on the sunny Andalusian slopes un- questionably had many rare and valu- able butts with which to glorify this vintage. There was little need for the. wddition of vino dulce that year; but then, the Spaniars always sweeten their wine, probably because the Eng- | lish object to the slightest dryness. And 't's the English, you know, who buy all the best sherries. They have always loved their 'sherris-sack'; and many a British baru has immortalized | « it in song. Ben Jonson sang its praises and so did Tom Moore and Byron. But It was Shakespeare--an ardent lover of sherry himself--who penned the greatest and most passionate pane- gyric to it. You remember Falstaff's apostrophe ?--'It ascends me into the brain; dries there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, for- petive, full of nimble, fiery and delec- table shapes. . . .! Sherry, you prob- ably know, doctor, was once regarded 2s a cure for gout and other malaises of faulty metabolism." He paused and put down his glass. "I wonder that you haven't pre- scribed this delicious sherry for Mrs. Greene long ago. I'm sure she would serve you with a writ of confiscation H she knew you had it." The fact is," Von Blon returned, "I snce took Ther a bottle, and she gave it to Chester. She doesn't care for wine. I rémember my father's telling ne she objected violently to her hus- band's well-stocked cellar." "Your father died, did he not, before Mrs. Greene became paralyzed?" Vance asked incuriously. "Yes--about a year." made Von Blon looked at him with an air of gentle surprise, Lo fm no necessity of calling any Hpi. The symptoms clear-cut and "And d Weg yours the only diagnosis : and perhaps less serious, interpreta- |. tion on Mrs. Greene's in%alidism." Von Blon appeared greatly puzzled. "There is," he said, "not the slight- est possibility that Mrs, Greene is suf- fering from any disea.e other than an paraplegia, in fact, of the entire lower part of the body." 5 "If you were to see Mrs. Greene move her legs, what would be your mental reaction?" Von Blon started at him, incredu- lously, Then he forced a laugh. "My mental reaction? I'd know my liver was out of order, and that'l was having halucinations." "And if you knew your liver was Zunctioning perfectly--then what?" "I'd immediately become # devout believer in miracles." Vance smiled pleasantly. "I sincerely lope it won't come to that. And yet so-called therapeutic miracles have happened." "I'll admit that medical history is filled with what the uninitiated call miraculous cures. But there is sound pathology beneath all of them. In Mrs. Greene's case, however, I can see ro loophole for error, If she should move her legs, it would contravert all the kncwn laws of physiology." "By the by, doctor"--Vance put the q.estion abruptly--"are you familiar with Brugelmann's 'Uber hysterische Dammerzustande'?" "No--I can't say that I am." "Or with Schwarzwald's 'Uber Hys- tero-Paralyse und Somnambulismus'?"' Von Blon hesitated, and his eyes were focused intently like those of a man who is thinking rapidly. "I kiow Schwarzwald, o: course," he answered. "But I'm ignorant of the particular work you mention. . ." Slowly a look of amazement downed on his face, "Good heavens! You're not trying to ccrnect the subjects of these books with Mrs, Greene's condi- tion, are you?" "If T wege to {.ll you that both of these books are in the Greene man- sion, what would you say?" "I'd suy-their presence is no more relevant to the situation there than would be a copy of 'Die Leiden des J ngen Werther' or Heine's 'Roman- zero"." "I'm sorry I can't agree with you," returned Vance politely, "They are certainly relevar'. to our investigation, and I had hoped you might be able to explain the commection." CHAPTER XGIX. Von Blon appeared to ponder the matter, his face the picture of per- plexity. "I wish I could help you," he said, after several moments. Then he glanc- ed up quickly; a new light had come into his eyes, "Permit me to suggest, sir, that you are laboring under a misapprehension as to the correct scientific connotation of the words in the titles of these two books. I have had occasion to do considerable read- ing along psychoanalytic lines; and both Freud and Jung use the terms 'Somnambulismus' and 'Dammerzua- tand' in an entirely different sense from our common use of the terms 'somnambulism' and 'twilight sleep.' 'Somnambulismus,' in the terminology of psychopathology and obnormal psy- chology, is employed in connection with ambivalence and dual personal- ity; it designates the actions of the b ger, or b ious, self in cases of aphasia, amnesia and the like. It does not refer to one's walking in one's sleep. For instance, in psychic hysteria where one loses one's memory and adopts a new personality, the sub- ject is called a 'Sommambule.' It is tlie same as what the newspapers com- monly refer to as an 'amnesia victim." He rose and went to a bookcase. After a few moments' search he took down several volumes. "Here we have, for example, an old monograph by Freud and Breuer, written in 1893 and entitled 'Uper den psychischen Mechanismus der hyster- ischen Phenomene.' If you care to take the trouble to read it you will see that it is an exposition of the application tain temporary neurotic derangements, And here also is Freud's 'Traumdeu- tung,' published in 1894, in which this terminology is organic paralysis of both legs--a} of the term 'Somnambulismus' to cer- | Florentine 'women at this period was Dorothy Minto, London stage celebrity, sails for home aboard the Duchess of Atholl after a Canadian tour with "Too True To Be Good." "How would you account for the term 'hysteria' in both titles? "Its presence there ig in no way contradictory. Aphasia, amnesia, aphonia--and often anosmia and ap- noea---are symptoms of hysteria. And hysterical paralysis is quite common. There are many cases of paralytics who have been unable to move a muscle for years, as a result of sheer hysteria." "Ah, exactly!" Vance picked up his glass and drained it. "That brings me to a rather unusual request I desire to make. Mr. Markham has decided that it might be advisabls for him to possess a report of Mrs. Greene's physical condition that would carry the very highest expert authority. And I was going to suggest that, merely as a matter of formal routine, we get Luch a report from, let us say, Dr. Felix Oppenheimer." "(To be continued.) iment mmm Domestic Manners of the Latin Races Details of personal traits and do- mestic life have an inexpressible charm for all readers of average hu- man sympathies. We turn with more relief than we are willing to confess from the brilliant generalizations ot the historian to the pages of the humble chronicler or diarist; and what the French modestly call "mem- oires pour servir" are indeed often of more real use as well as enter- tainment to posterity than the works by which in their own time they were overshadowed. In all that has been written of the public and social life of the Lialians, we find few details of their family habits. One reason of this is, of course, that the social life of the Latin races does not center in the home, as does that of those nations whom necessities of climate--quite as much, perhaps, us nobler reasons --have driven to domesticity. The Italian does not bring the stranger, to whom he wishes to be courteous, home with him; he takes his friend to the theatre, dines with him at the cafe, or strolls with him in the park, If he does introduce him, as a rare favor, within his domestic precincts, it is only after due pre- paration, and in such a manner that the spontaneousness of hospitality has had time to congeal into the solemnity of a public occasion. He does; indeed, invite the chance visl- tor atthe hour of a repast, to "favor him" by remaining to partake of it; but he does so when the visitor 1s already at tha door, and would be as much surprised at his assent as would the Spaniard by the accept: ance of the possessions which le lays at your feet. We of the North smile at these gracious insincerities; but the Southerner. wonders mo less at the blunt, unsmiling positiveness which he calls rudeness; a' the want of general sympathy which shuts up all our demonstrativeness within closed 'doors; at the solemn faces with which we go about both our work and our recreation... . Luxury in dress, which had been soverely repressed by sumptuary laws in 1330, was on the incresse at this' time, though it did not reach its highest point until the reign ot Lorenzo de' Medici, The costumy ~t a robe of; silk or woolen stuff ex- tending to the ground, and 'trimmed with fringe; the waist long, and the sleeves usually of the same material e dress. The hair was worn in eh and over it a veil of white elt, a closet, A window Just, for me, 3 clothes As neat as feat can be. A lovely paper's on the wall; A rug is on the floor- - If-1 had known how fine it was, I'd bad a room before. I like to go there after school, Away from everyone; I felt--well--sort ol scared at first, But now I think it's fun. The voices of the folks downstairs Seem faint and far away. I hear the rain upon the roof; I watch the birds at play; Oh, yes, it's often very still, At night there's not & sound-- But I let mother in, of course, When bedtime comes around. --Arthur H. Folwell, Something For Dolly If you have an old ping-pong ball that is no use, you can make a jolly gift for dolly with. it, Cut it into halves. Take each piece and bore three holes equal distances round the edge. Tie three pieces of cotton to these and you will have two splendid hanging lamp shades for the dolls' house. All you need to do is fix the cotton with a drawing-pin to the. ceiling, Of course, they will look every so much nicer if you paint them, "Well, Tommy, how 2 on at school?" "Oh, fine, thanks. 1 .m centre-for- ward in the football te. 1." ° "But your lessons?" "Oh, I am right-back there," said the boy, mischievously. ; you getting The Angry Crow Long ago when crows were wliite, a crow and an owl sat on a log talking together. "I do not like my color," said the crow, "I don't like being white." And the owl said: "I' wish I bad some prett, my back." "So do 1," said the crow. paint each other with oil lamp." "Too-whit, to-whoo;" said the owl. "What fun that would be!" Now, when a cla; lamp gets ail there is a lot of thick black oil in it. The crow took one of the owl's feath- ers,.and dipped it into the oil. Then he painted beautiful spots ell over the owl's body. He did it very well,"and made the owl look fine, Then it was the owl's turn to paint the crow. At first he liked doing it, and made such pretty spots that the crow felt very proud indeed. "I do look fine!" he croaked. But before he was halfway through the owl became tired of working so hard. "This is taking me too lcng!" he grumbled.. "I shan't be finished for hours and hours if I don't hurry up." And taking the lamp, he turned it upside down and po-red the black : all over the crow, "There, that is finished!" he cried. How angry the crow was when he found himself black all over, with no spots! : "I look like a scarecrow now!" he cried. He tried this best 4o get it off, but it was no use, The black was stuck, and ever since then the crow has been black. You look at one and see! Tongue Twisters I have a picture in which there is a pitcher,--the pitcher makes the pic- ture because the pitcher is in the pic ture, . . spots on "Let as from the Jack-in-the-Box Oh, I'm the tramp of the nurs-ry! All alone in the dark live I; No window is there in my small house, No light ever meets my eye. Do you wonder that I plot mischief, Do you wonder my deeds are dark-- And hooks where 1 on Nees i and asked him if The man told hi a ) | through, and told hi. the Eis Wh When he was a yo 'master 'was blinded by a oe thrown by a boy, and his whole life was changed by this misfortune. One of his worst blows was the loss of the joy of reading, but he was helped by his friend, our workingman, who went three times a week to read to him, 'and so read right througi Dickens. -- Economic Self-Discipline By SIR ARTHUR SALTER The economic system of the world must to a large extent achieve its own regulative institutions. 1 should for examp!ly, like to see industrialists --first, for given industries, then for all the main industries of a coun- try, and lastly in conjuncfion with in- dustrialists of other countries--form. ing their own councils and associa- tions, not for the mere protection of their own interests but to secure that their business is conducted un- der conditions which protect the public interest. I should like to see bankers uniting to secure that the conditions under which loans .are raised and lent should be in the in- terests of the borrowers and the in- vesting public. 1 should like to see a similar de- velopment over every main sphere of activity. And I should like these separats organizaiions to be linked to each other and to the machine of publi¢ government through economic councils, national and international. So, only, with the aid .of all the available constractive intelligence in every sphere, will what I may call "governance," or the defense of the "res publica," be adequate for its task under the infinitely complex conditions of medern life, Now, not with professional pride but with a kind of professional apology, I wish to claim that this task of "governance" is overwhelm. ingly the most important of man's tasks at this stage of the world's history. * * * For it is only because "governance" is more defective, has Jagged behind the specializd activi- tis of man, that it is this important. PERSE, SE Fashi The morns are meeker than were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out' of town, they The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on, --Emily Dickinson, "Poems." ee meee Feminine Outlook on Clothes "The Colonel's lady an' Ju.' O'Grady," wrote Rudyard Kipling, "gre sisters under their tins," and, according to Edward H. Symonds, pre- sident of the British Fashions and Fab- rics Bureau, the society woman and mill-girl are much the same in their mental outlook about clothes. Ad: dressing a London trade school Tre cently, he said: "There is no appreci able difference between the style pol=t of view of the society woman and the mill-girl, It is purely a question of relativity. They hove all, more less, the same mental outlook in re- gard to the clothes théy wear and the manner in which they wear them, whether they Lave pounds or only shillings to spend." mer mm ease furniture cream recipe your mother |c gave me----" "Here!" said her hus- "| band, putting down his spoon, "where "I've searched high and low for the |Meats, by the of a port Shon that 85 ol we The only consolation available to those who live in the shadow of this terror is that a very ~respectal fortune, by local standards, accrues to natives who are fortunate enough with spear or cheap Belgian shot- gun to slay a tiger. They receive, first of all, thé gov- -ernment reward, varying from £10 to £25. The Chinese buy the meat, which they consider a great delicacy. The fat can.be sold to Indians as a cure for rheumatism, The clavicles' ornaments. The liver is prized by warriors for a stimulant to courage. And if the man-eater is a tigress, her milk is bottled as a cure for blind: | ness. i Finally, the lucky hunter sells the skin to a homie-going European, and the sum total of his profits sets him up for life, -- London (England) Standard. etme mens. Home God's mercy spread the shelteriag roof; Let faith make firm the floor. May friend and stranger, all who come, Find love within the door. May peace enfold each sleeping-place, And health surrourd the board; From all the lamps that light the > 0 palsy Be radiant joy outpoured. Let kindness keep the hearth aglow, And through the windows shine; Be Christlike living, on the walls The patiérn and design. --T, L. Paine, In The Christian Cen- tury, Chicago. ered "Did your wife's father follow you when you eloped?" ""1 ghould say so, he's living Ih with us yet." eee A mms A Friend We can never replace a friend. 'When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.--Schiller. Man Home From Australia (visiting native village after an absence of thirty years) -- "Well, Samuel, you don't remember me, eh?" Samilel-- 'Wy, it be young George Porter. Bless 'e, 1 were only sayin' to Sarah yester- day Oi 'adn't seed 'e about lately." A COMPLETE COURSE .in Cookery for only 50c¢ postpaid The new Purity CookA3ook is the most complete and popular work of its kind. Took two years to edit and vost many thousands of dollars. Contains 743 test- ed family recipes--bread, pastry, cakes, salads, desser* Taian: New, Steph step method assures suc- king aad baking, Clear woe grease: si for 50c, Ms Western Canada Flour 107, Ti ronto, did you get*the recipe for this soup?" That my nose is red and my whisk . fierce-- That my Lat came out of the ark? When I jump out suddenly at you, And pussy arches her back And the baby screams--then happy Is the tramp of the nursery, Jack. Shake hands, Evangelina! you.lose your hair? And monk-on-a-stick, how are. you? Your leg's broke, I declare! Ha, woolly Cog, I salute ! how did Can you ou se wi with your sho 'button: at 'persons killed by Neh in Johoré during 1931." ame | been publicity through th and the claws fetch a falr price as, | should be best protected, | they will become familiar witir the world troubl : Today, in a number of clinic country, in localities for seventeen years, t] cancer has fallen from enteen, - the hopel hi vii Bodog cer from more aT to less than five per cent. the actual cures have risen from 'les 'than ten to more than sixty per cent. This tremendous change for the' better has nothing to do with improvement in surgery 'or the advent of radiation (x-ray or radium). accomplished unless the diagnosis ey to sev- But it cannot be the surgery and the {irradiation are of the best that can be. obtained any- where. 5 y The enigihtened woman should have no fear of cancer of the breast, if she reports for an examination the moment she observed unything un- usual in the breast or nipple, or in the region of the armpit or axilla. It is safe to pay attention to anything unusual, no matter how insignidcant --pain without a lump, a lump with. out pain, any change in the nipple, any irritation, any discharge from the nipple, pulling in of the nipple, anything that can be felt in the breast, like a cake, or something that could not be felt before; any lump under the armpit. Go at once to your family physician and request a thorough examination. If you are properly educated, you will have selected your medical adviser, your breast will have been examined al the last periodic examination ny your personal physician will - familiar with the normal ta of your breast. In a large number of cases of this kind your selected family physician will be able to de- cide that the condition of the breast which has attracted your attention has no relation to cancer, and, ex: cept for irritations of the nipple, no treatment is necessary. The treat ment is necessary of the nipple is discussed in another taper of this series and has already been publish. ed. the general practitioner, after exanr ining your breast will decide that it is safer for you to be studied by a specialist. In a group of one hund: dred women who seek an examination the moment they are warned and after being examined by one or both doctors, the chances are that siven. ty-five per cent or more will reguire no operation or irradiation. From proiection, a number will be re quested to return for a second examin. ation. Among this enlightened group of women properly examined, In about twenty-five per cent there will be a definite lump and a simple operation in a hospital will become necessary. In lumps of this Kind it is impossible to detect the pres ence of cancer by any method of examination previous to operation, Do not consent to any form of blooa test for cancer or preliminary treat- against cancer. Your surgeon should tell you before the operation that In one you remove the lump only and save the breast. In the other you remove the breast by the com: pleie operation as the best protec tion against a return and the besi e of 'a per t cure. In addition, in some instances it is a good plan after operation fo have protective irradiation with x-rays or radium, Women Who have 'borne children because value of periodic examination be | tors and after the birth. of their children. They will be instructed as to the absolute necessity for protec: tion against Santer ot Be | cervix In a certain portion of the cases ' the standpoint of greatest safety and - ment with any serum, for protection : there are just two kinds of lumps.