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s BY S. 8. VAN DINE. SYNOPSIS. Philo Vance becomes interested In the Greene Murder Case after Julia Greene is killed and her adopted sister, Ada, is wounded. There are Mrs. Greene, and five children, Julia, Chester, Sibella, Rex and Ada, lvi in the old Greene man- sion. Chester Greene is the next victim, murdered in his bedroom, Sibella seems to be on inmtimate terms with Dr. Von Blon, the young family physician. Ada comes to District Attorney Mark- ham's office, While she is there Rex is murdered in his bedroom. In each case there are footprints outside the house. Dr. Von Blon reports that deadly doses of morphine and strychnine have been stolen from his bag at the Greene house. The next morning Ada is poisoned with morphine, but the doctor reaches her in time. The same pight Mrs. Greene dies of strychnine poisoning. Ada and Sibella are the only.survivors. Vance Cro.s- examines the cook. CHAPTER XXXVIL--(Cont'd.) "And it was exactly fourteen years ago that Mr. Greene adopted Ada." The woman caught her breath sharply. A look uf panic contorted Ler face. "So when your husband died," con- tinued Vance, "you came to Mr. Greene, knowing he would give you a position." He went up to her and touched her filially on the shoulder. "I lave suspected for some time, Frau Mannheim," he said kindly. "that Ada is your daughter. It's true, isn't it?" With a convulsive sob the woman hid her face in her apron, "I gave Mr. Greene my word," she sonfessed brokenly, "that I wouldn't tell any one--nct. even Ada--if he let me stay here--to be near her." "You haven't told any one," Vance consoled her. "It was not your fault that I.guessed it. But why didn't Ada recognize you?" "She had been away--tc school-- since she was 5." When Mrs. Mannheim left us a lit- He later Vance hac succeeded in al- laying her apprehension and distress. He then sent for Ada. : As she entered the drawing room the troubled look i: her eyes and the pallor of her cheeks told clearly of the strain she was under. Her first ques- tion voiced the fear uppernost in her mind. "Have you founi out anything, Mr. Vance?" She spok: with an air of pitiful discouragement. "It's terrible alone here in this big house--especial- ly at night. Every sound I hear--" "You musn't let your imagination ge. the better of you, Ada," Vance counselled her. Then he added: "We know a lot more now than we did, and before long, I hope, all your fears rill be done away with. In fact, it's In regard to what we've found out that I've come here today. I thought perhaps you could help me again." "If only I could! But I've thought and thought--" Vance smiled. "Let us do the thinking, Ada. What I wanted to ask you is this: Do you Jmow if Sibella speaks German well?" The girl appeared surprised. "Why, yes. And so did Julia and Chester and Rex. Father insisted on their learning it. And he spoke it, too--almost as well as he spoke Eng- lish: As for Sibella, I've often heard her and Dr. Von Blon talking in Ger- man." "But she spoke with an accent, I suppose.' ; MA slight accent--she'd never been long in Germany. But she speke very well German." "That's what I wanted to be sure of." "Then you do know something!" Her voice quavered with eagerness. "Oh, how long before this awful sus- pense will be over? Every night for weeks I've been afraid to turn out my fights and go to sleep." "You needn't be afraid to turn eut your lights now," Vance assured her. "There won't be any more attempts on your life, Ada." She looked at him for a moment, pearchingly, and something in his manner seemed to hearten her. When we took our leave the color had come 'back to her cheeks. Markham was pacing the library when we arrived home. "P've checked several more points," Vance snnounced. "But I've missed the important one ~--the one that would explain the un- believable hideousness of the thing I've unearthed." He went directly into the den, and we could hear him telephoning. Re- turning a few minutes later, he looked anxiously at his watch. Then he rang for Currie and ordered his bag pack- ed for a week's trip. "I'm going away, Markham," he said. "I'm going to travel--they say it broadens the mird. My train de- parts in less than an hour; and I'll be away a we2k. Can you hear to be without me for so long? However, nothing will happen in connection with the Greene cree during my ab- sence. In fact, I'd advise you to shelve it temporarily." 2 He would say no more, and in haif an' hour he was ready to go. "There's one thing you can do for me while I'm away," he told Mark- ham, as he slipped into his overcoat. "Please have drawn up for me a caom- plete and detailed weather report from the day prece ling Julia's death to the day following Rex's murder." He would not let either Markham or me accompany him to the station, and we were left in ignorance of even the "direction in whicl his mysterious trip was to take him. CHAPTIR XXXVIII, It was eight days before Vance re- terned to New York. He arrived on the afternoon of Monday, December 12, and, after he had had his tub and changed his cloth s, he telephoned Markham to expect him in half an hour, He then ordered his Hispano- Suisza from tWe garage; and by this sign I knew he was under a nervous strain. In fact, he had spoken scarce- ly a dozen words to me since his re- turn, and as he picked him way down- town through the late afternoon traf- fic he was gloomy and preoccupied. Once I ventured to ask him if his trip had been successful, and he had mere- ly nodded. But when we turned into Center Street he relented a little, and said: "There never as any doubt as to the success of my trip, Van. I knew what I'd find. But I didn't dare trust my rea.cn; I had to see the records with my own eyes before I'd capitulate unreservedly to the conclusion I'd formed." Both Markham anl Heath were waiting for Us in the District Attor- ney's office. It was just 4 o'clock and the sun had already dropped be- low the New York Life Building which towered above the old Criminal Courts structure a block to the south- west. : "I took it for granted you had some- thing important to tell me," said Markham; "so I asked the servant to come here." "Yes. I've much to tell." Vance had thrown himself into a chair, and was lighting a cigarette. ""But, first, I want to know if anything has hap- pened in my absence." "Nothing. Your prognostication was quite accurate, Things have been quiet and apparently normal at the Greene mansion." "Anyhow," 'interposed Heath, "we have a little better chance this week of getting hold of something to work fon. Sibella returned from Atlantic City yesterday, and Von Blon's hang ing round the house ever since." . "Sibella back?" Vance sat up, and his eyes became intent. "At 6 o'clock yesterday evening," said Markham. "The newspapermen at the beach ferreted her out and ran a sensational story about her. After that the poor girl didn't have an hour's peace; so yesterday she packed up and came back. We got word of the move through the men the ser- geant had set to watch her. I ran out to see her this morning and advised her to go away again. But she was pretty thoroughly disgusted, and stub- bornly refused to quit the Greene house--said death was preferable to being hounded by - reporters and scandalmongers." Vance had risen and moved to the window, where he stood scanning the gray skyline, EE * USibella's back, eh?" he murmured. Then he turned round, "Let me ses the weather report I asked you to and handed him a typewritten sheet of paper. i After pérusing it he tossed it back > | broke in \ Markham reached into a drawer Greene house bef 'ore 3 | "But, damn it all, Vance!" Mark. | born. ham expostulated, "why don't you tell us what's in your mind?" "I can't explain now--you'll under : stand why later" ow so much, Mr. Vance," eath, "what's keeping us from making an arrest?" { "You're going to make your arrest, Sergeant--inside of an hour." Though . he gave the promise without enthusi- "asm, it acted electrically on both Heath and Markham, 1 { Five minutes later the four of us ' were driving ur West Broadway in Vance's car. Sproot as usual admitted us with- ! out the faintest show of interest, and | stood aside respectfully for us to ' enter. : | "We wish to see Miss Sibella," said 'Vance. "Please tell her to come to i the drawing room---alone." | "I'm sorry, sir, but Miss Sibella is "If you | ou | "Then tell Miss Ada we want to see her." (To be continued.) eee fb rns Troughs For Dogs London.--If motorcars can get a drink 'of water on the road, why not dogs? So argued an animals' friend, with the, result that it has been decided to provide all the A. A. telephone boxes in England with drinking troughs for dog travelers. As almost every main road anG secondary road in 'the country is provided with these boxes, "Faithful Tray" will be able to "wag his tail and wet his lip" whenever and wherever he chooses. a aa "New" Sphinx Discovered Near Second Pyramid Cairo, Egypt.--A hitherto unknown sphinx was reported to have been un- earthed near the Second Pyramid by Prof. Selim Hassan of the Egyptian archaeological department of the Uni- versity of Cairo. Twelve Mastabas, ancient Egyptian tcmbs, also were reported to have been discovered. een The bliss of the drunkard is a visi- ble picture of the expectation of the dying 'atheist, who hopes no. more than to lie down in the grave with the 'beasts that perish'.--Jane Por- ter. Goiter Takes its Toll % 'Stock owners are advised to take me by the and thereby prevent lose by er in calves, lambs and pigs, that are due, to be during the late winter" or 8 This can be done by giv- ing the pregnant animals on your farm, a small quantity of lodine in some form. If you farm in a goiter district, do not delay giving the un- born anfmals this protection. = The calf and lamh crop can be saved from goiter, by giving the pregnant cows and ewes free access to a salt lick that contains potassium iodine, at the rate of one ounce of potassium fodine to each 100 pounds of salt, The little pig crop can be protected by giving the pregnant sow, each day a tablespoonful of a solution, made by dissolving 34 ounce of potassium jodine in two quarts of water. This use of a'small quantity of iodine in some form, to prevent goiter in young animals {s necessary In the greater part of the older farming sections of Canada, excepting the sca coast districts. econ is Plane Service from Britain Trans-Canada 'to Far East Britain persists in her progressive conquest of the air. Sir Alan Cob- ham will soon attempt a nonstop 10,- 000-mile flight from Great Britain to Australia, refueling in the air from tanker planes stationed along the route. These long flights from Croy- don and other airdromes in England to the ends of the earth are becom- Ing quite ordinary events in the ang nals of Imperial Airways Limited. Sir Eric Geddes, just back from an 8,000- mile trip to C&#pe Town, states that the regular time for this route is to be cut to seven days, with Armstrong- Siddeley monoplanes, This year the great British-Indian service is to be extended to Australia with off-shoots to Hong Kong and Tokio. But parti- cularly interesting to the people of this country is Sir Eric's prediction that within two or three years at the latest Imperial Airways Limited will have a regular trans-Atlantic and trans-Canada air service from the British Isles to the Far East, "That," he says, "will take our commercial services right around the world." The air-ports under construction by way of unemployment relief all across connection with this far-flung project. ian mn Keeps Upholstery Clean Raising the car windows when parking in a busy street ir one way of keeping the interior clean which apparently escapes many motorists. A J. a g . fot x ? Cr. = ese Se qe Ny fone Tat weds Te LL "Se Sie ts Cris ane oN \ est 66 Shere Epes ££ . the Dominion will come in handy in |- Baggage-Room Voyaging Terry ard I have discovered >- | lightful way to travel! We found it quite by chance yesterday, when If went to question the baggage master about a mysteriously delayed crate, and Terry trotted along at my heels. The man was busy when we arrived, 8p we were left to our own devices for a time. Terry really deserves credit for the idea, since, if he had not al- most immediately begun to sniff at the various crates and boxes with his in- quisitive fox-terrier nose. I should never have thought of looking around myself, It took me but a few mo- ments to discover that a baggage room is a veritable hemisphere, The trunks nearest me were evi- dently unseasoned travelers, bouni only for neighboring towns. But over ir one corner Iispied a steamer trunk, generously tagged. It was toward this venerable globe-trotter that I turned my attention. What a gay col- lection of labels! Most of them were partially eradicated through time and many voyages, but this made them all the more priceless. I stooped to ex- saw Eagar. and he to the Jhelum. Gondolas on Dal the gatcs of Shalimar. "You wanted to see me, Miss?" The voice brought me back to tke baggage room. Yet the very room was differ- ent--now that I knew its possibilities! pee Eat Spinach If You : Would Be Beautiful Philadelphia.~-Any won:an can be beautiful, according to Dr.'J, Howard Cru, plastic surgeon of New York-- but he must be willing to eat spinach. "What you eat is the answer to how fast you age," Dr. Crum told dele- gates to the trade display and fashion show. He promises a beautiful cori- plexion to any woman who would each day eat a generous portion of a thin- leafed vegetable, follow it with a good- ly dose of spinach or carrots, and top them off with a quart of milk. "Woryy and fear are to be avoided." amine them more closely, Bristol, -- CROWN (Of The economical and delicious table syrup EDWARDSBURG fu me nourishing sweet for the whole family LIMITED, MONTREAL It is a city of surprises. Lake-- | myself the other day turning from of the busiest streets in the heart of - town and in thirty steps reaching a secluded spot that fell upon the imag: {nation like a pool among mountains, It 'was Soho Square, haunt of ancient publishing houses and other business enterprises. The peace of the place seemed almost incredible in relation - to the roar of London that went on just round the corner; and the sense of seclusion was intensified within one of the old houses, where a Raeburn portrait of Scott looked down upon a set cf the Waverley Novels that Scott himself had scored with corrections, which enables this particular publish. fng concern to issue definitive editions of his works. Seeing the hooks and seeing the portrait of the man im. mediately set the fancy flying to Ab- botsford, where the Tweed flows se- renely between hazel-dotted banks and the sheep bleat wistfully among the Border hills of Scotland. London is like that. It is continnal- ly telescoping time and history. Vir tually every street, however new in outward aspects it may be to-day, still breathes the history of an ancient place. The very names of the streets enshrine their origin. - Fleet -Street was not always a street of literary adventure; it was once the line of a stream (the Fleet) that went adven: turing through green pastures, Kven London's old amusement places kave been given definite status 'in plare names. Red Bull Yard once housed the Red Bull Theatre; the site of the Vold_. Fortune Theatre is marked by Playhouse Yard to-day. Globe Alley and Rose Alley are mementoes modern London of famou§ thaatres which once bore these names, while the Curtain Theatre of another cen- tury is commemorated in the road of that name now. Rural Drama and City Folk "I thought of these theatrical things of an earlier time as I dropped into the Royalty Theatre the other night to see Mr. Eden Phillpotts' new play, "A Cup of Happiness." The play be: longs to the bucolic school of comedy which Mr. Phillpotts . has made pe: culiarly his own, Whatever the critics may think of My; Phillpotts' rural dramas they make an undoubted ap- peal to Londoners, particularly those plays which belong to the genre of "The Farmer's Wife," "Jane's Leg. acy," and "A Cup of Happiness" Mr, Phillpotts told me recently that he thinks his best play is "A Comedy Royal,' a work that has not yet been produced. I understand that it calls for a cast equal in strength to that of a spectatular musical comedy, and so far no London manager has had the courage to tackle its production. 1 expect it will be left to some enter prizing theatre in the Provinces to take its courage in both hands and produce the work, with the possibility of malk- ing its own name and adding to that of - its author, Peer Places Many Pictures .|*--Sir Joseph Duveen, the Londoner who was recently elevated to the peer - tional barriers. Sir Joseph, world fa- mous as an art connoisseur, now ass sumes the title of Lord Duveen of Millbank. His name thus survives and his artistic predilections are suggested | in the territorial title he has chosen. Millbank is the thoroughfare on the bank of the Thames on which the Tate Gallery is situated, and the Tate Gal lery is considerably indebted to Lord Duveen for the gifts he has made it. Indeed, both the United States and France have to thank this Londquer for much. The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery at ) Calif,, owes not a little of it interna: Lord Duveen was able to put in its way. The Pasadena institution pose sesses the finest collection of paints nr age, believes the arts may leap na. tional renown to the art works which = 5