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¢ GE ABSENC AYNOPSIS, Jean Graham' and her brother Euan stay on ths ®*Tlera with Geoffrey Win- ton and 'us wife Doreen, who leads Euan on to gamble at the Casino, Jean coaxes him to go to Paris. On the road to Paris Jean finds a string of pearlyin Euan's pocket. He snatches the case. from her a=% the car crashes, The accls dent is discovered by Jerry Grant whom Jean had meét. Jerry takes her back to 'his hostess, Helen Gorst. Yon Jearn- ing of Egan's disappearance Doreen be- haves in.a strange manner, M. Rivaux, French inspector, investigates the case. Jean is told of Kuan's disappearance. Geoffrey Winton tells Helen that his 'wife's pearls are missing. Rivaux con- fronts Jean with this as the reason for Huan's disappearance, CHAPTER XI.--(Cont'd,) "0 God!" sighed Jean. She did want, her 'brothe> found, yet now she was terrified. Anyhow, what could he have done with himself, where gone? She paused, visualizing the sort of scene she had read of in detective stories. Evan in disguise living in the under- world of Marseilles. The thought made her shudder. She could not bear to think of %im slinking about in those low-down "haunts along the water- front, one of the acknowledgedly most evil places ir. the world, Euan, who was used tc everything that was best in life for whom nothing had been spare. Suddenly an almost fierce sense of protective love for the boy swept over Ler, filling her heart with tears, It was a kind of agony and she clenched her hands, saying aloud: "He didn't do it! He didn't do it!" They should not say that he had. How How could she have believed such a thing against him? He was weak, she knew it, and possibly had lost at the tables, but he was not a thief. As for the pearls, there must be some explanation, She would not believe that he had stolen them. For a long while Jean sat there, turning the yroblem over in her mind, and she found herself wondering who ould help her:in her dilemma; whe- ther there was no one who could throw light on' Evan's disappearance. Whom for instance had he seen last? De Laurier! The police of course had been 0 him, but' perhaps he had not told them much. Sometimes, not wishing to become involved, people held things back. 'The idea that she must see the Baron possessed her. Shé did not like him, but she could' not let her own feelings stand in the way of anything which would help to unravel this wretched mystery. The more she hought about it, the more certain she secame that possibly Max de Laurier might know something which would throw light upon her darkness. After all, he and Euan had been closeted to- |: gether for nearly an hour on the morning of the accident. So strong was the hope, that only immediate action' would satisfy her, so getting up, she fetched her hat and gloves and walked down to the village. She had not been to the town since her accident and it was a long way to walk, but hoping that she might meet a fiacre or taxi, she set out along the . dusty road between the white villa walls, Her antagonism to de Laurier was now in entire subjection to her desire for his help, an assistance of which, in some strange way, she was tonfident. He would know something --he mu-t, : At the hotel she sent her name up '0 de Laurier and sat down to wait. At another table a young man in a orown' suit also seated himself, but 'he girl was far too full of her own affairs to give him a thought. She lid notice, however, that the hdll por- er and buttons stared at her curious- 'y, and a faint flush crept up her aeck. Of course Euan's disappearance vas public knowledge, but owing to the injury to her head she had read very little and had scarcely realized 'he interest which the case had arous- sd. amongst the gossip-mongers of Monte Carlo. d evade his obligations? Was that what rible. I have been so sorry." morning. [ said anything to you about--well, any- of what has happened to him. It's all sc mysterious," He nodded: "Yes, and Maden:oiselle knows, I think, that I would do any- tling to help her, but--" he shrugged. Jean's heart became a little heavier, She had allowed herself to hope so much in this last hour, "Still, he talked to you, Didn't he say anything which might give us a clue?" De Laurier's dark eyes watched her and still held a secret smile in their depths, Triumph would perhaps be too strong a word to describe its mean- ing, yet it was something very like that which lurked there, as he noticed the restraint which he know was only 'a covering for her nervous tension. "Mademoiselle Jeanne," he began in a tone of great confidence, "I will tell yon about that morning. If things had been different I would not have mentioned it, you understand. It is, you see, a matter of honor, byt--well, you see, it is like this, Graham came tc me that morning because he owed me some money," He paused, watch- ing the effect of this statement. "Oh, he went to pay off his debt?" said the girl. A smile twitched in the corner of the Frenchman's mouth, and he shook his head. "No, Mademoiselle, I am afraid not, He came to ask me to give him a week in which to repay me." "A week?' "Yes. He was going to raise the money 'in Paris, I believe." Jean stared: "But I thought he had repaid you. : He laughed outright. "Oh; no! 1 wish he had. You see, I too am a loser by his disappearance." She sat silently looking down at her hands to hide the bitterness of her disappointment, It was as if some- one had dealt her a stunning blow to learn that Euan had failed her again, He had lied to her too, unless--sud- denly she looked up at de Laurier. His eyes, which had been watching her, became more guarded. "Baron, I--I can hardly believe it. Are you sure there is no mistake. My brother told me that he had paid his debts." For answer the Frenchman took out his pocket-book, drawing from it a slip of paper which he handed to Jean, "This 'will show you that T am not lying, Miss Graham." She took it gingerly and glanced at it as if it were some vile thing, as indeed it was. An 1.0.U. signed by Euan Graham for two thoudand pounds!" "Two thousand pounds," the girl gasped, then passed her hands over her eyes in an involuntary gesture of dismay. : over a page of his newspaper, "You are shocked, Mademoiselle?" De Laurier withdrew the slip of paper from between her nerveless fingers and with a smile replaced it in his pocketbook. "You see, I too am--er --concerned over the disappearance of your hrother." , Something in the tone of the words caused Jean to catch her breath and look up. Did he suspect then that Euan had vanished deliberately to "I--I wanted to ask you something about Euan," Jean began, but hesitat- ingly, for she was finding it far more|. difficult than she had expectéd, And| besides, that guarded feeling which she always had with him was creep-|- ing over her, freezing her lips like ice. De Laurier looked down, and said': with great feeling, "Ah, that was ter- "Yes, you gee Euan saw you that! I--I wondered whether he thing which would give us an idea The man in the brown suit turned Soon, however, the porter retu: med and bowed obsequiof p Baron will be with you in a little moment, Mademoiselle," Scarcely had he finished speaking than Max de Laurier stepped out of _ the lift and eame quickly towards her. "Mademoiselle je suis enchante! I have wondered so much how you are, and Mrs. Gorst, she was s0.severe; I could never get in to see you." . sleek dark head bent over her hand, out in an instant he scanned her face with every evidence of concern, "How You are better?" "Oh, -yes, thank you, nearly all right," Jean glanced nervously about her and saw & young man in brown apparently engrossed in a newspaper , seated just behind her. I wanted to ask you something," she Pm a y+ "Monsieur Tey g 3 ¥ ¢ a a a RS Ne Mow SE » vi Sa ovo Caan oe _ ~ et oe a began, haltingly, and in a lotv tne, "How charming!" he smiled, and, following her glance, understood. "Will you not come up to my gitting- yoom?" ; - "Oh, no thank you, I--I don't think ~Look, there is a quiet corner". She moved across to the far side of the lounge where against the wall was a De Laurier called a waiter, "What I Jou have? A cocktail?" 'No, Bome coffee, please." "Now, Mademoiselle, what can I do I Srdimtat sa al Frenchman's face was serio 5 ile Tusked in bis a8 they : straw hit, --- not think that she would give him much trouble now, said with concern: out, you know." : not overdo it, But you will give me the pleasure of lunching with me soon, nestco pas, Mademoiselle?" he meant? Panic stricken, she gath- ~ "%ap-her bag and gloves. The walk down in the sun, the stuffy lounge, the terrors of the day had been too much. She became aware that her head was aching vivlently, and she felt that she must get away where she could be alone. Everywhere she turned there seemed some new fear to face, : Watching her, de Laurier felt desire reawaken within him. The coolness of this English girl ;had a fascination for him which none of the other women he knew could arouse. It was per- haps her air of breeding, her quiet voice and manner, her courage--he knew how she had pulled that brother of hers out of the slough and tried to hold him in the ways of. decency--or perhaps it was that she was sb diff- erent from himself and the fact that she spurned him, But semehow he did He smiled and "You are going?" . "Yes, It's the first time I have been: "Of course, 1 understand, You must Again there was that strange inflee- tion in his voice as of a thinly veiled] command. Taking her hand, he raised i% to his lps, AT "Thank you. Some day," she anid, "Shall we say Waray she a in- Joseph Krall, Chicago, takes Lis place as 24th person living with- out & stomach, after recent re- moval of same in an operation, No more dyspepsia, "Aht him, de Laurier leaned towards her and whispered: "Of course I have not said anything to the police," '(To be continued.) i beading - Scotland Calling! The lié'rt cry o' Scotland is soundin' Through lands far ayont the wide seas; " = : It is wafted sweet on the breeze. 'Tis the cry 'o the auld grey mither Tae. absent sons, ever the same-- Ye are. mine, though far e ha'e wan- dered; : oh Noo, 'when are ¢ comin' hame? The thorn has been buskit wi' blossom The broom decked wi' braw yella gowd; : Neath the white o' its fair bridal mantle wa bs The bonnie wild gean tree has bowed. Noo the cornfields are ripened an' ready, x The poppies a-flame 'mang the a wheat, An' awa' on the free windswept muir- land feet, The bracken fires sune wull be lichted, The haws an' the rodens are red, An' the rare purple cloak o' the heather Ower the hills o' the hameland is spread. An 'the hamewith' wey Is aye re'rt- some,, Sae ilk ane I'm ca'in' by name. There is love an' warm welcome. a- waitin'; EE 'Noo, when are ye comin' hame? --Joan B. White, in The Scotsman (Edinburgh). -- Smear dl : Woman's sphere nowadays seems to be the big round earth. But Mademoiselle will come, I think. Together we will -find M,} Euan.' : The man in the brown suit moved as if to go. When they were close to It is pipin' saft through the wudlands, The deer woves wi' swift, lichtsome | 'hydrogen affect these? Obtaining Heavy | What the Insect Sees. grees of purity, The whole half more than that bought in bottles, dards. UREY"S EXPERIMENTS. water, pole and oxygen at the other. left in his cells after.the current had passed through to 150--a half per cent, solution of heavy water. Fifty gallons of this Professor Urey himself reduced tv one-third its volume, so that he had about a one-per-cent solution. through, the lighter hydrogen was driven off and collected. What re- 'tained in the cell was electrically de- composed still further, until at last only hydrogen which was all heavy was' given off. "Deuterium" {is the name of this heavy hydrogen; "pro- tium" that of the more familiar, lighter variety. Thanks to this discovery of heavy hydrogen, chemistry becomes a more exact science than ever. Because deu- terium combines more slowly 'with other elements than protium, the chem- ist at last is able to find out what hap- pens in some of his chemical reactions, Take sugar, for example, a comPound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Dis- solve it in water. What happens. when the water is evaporated and the sugar rescrystallized? Does the sugar leave some of its constituents in the water and take back their equivalents in the process of evaporation? It is such questions that deuterium and the new heavy water answer. When heavy water is used as a sol- vent it is just as if the atoms were identified by red and green tags. Hence it is easy to decide whether the hydrogen in the sugar -is all light, as it was originally, or whether it is heavy, Experiments made in Europe seen. to show that the atoms actually wander about. and that some of the hydrogen in recrystallized sugar is heavy. More than 300,000 organic com- pounds contain some form of hydro- gen in addition to carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, ~ How does the new heavy Chemistry has evidently a huge task before it. INSECTS' SIGHT. - It was Darwin who first pointed out the significance of color in nature. The insect 'called a "walking stick" is in- distinguishagle from the surrounding twigs, and certain butterflies look like leaves. Why? So'that enemies will pass them by in blissful ignorance. If a color. is particularly garish in an insect or a lower animal, it is supposed to have a frightening effect or to give warning of a vile taste. Gaudy petals are assumed: to be signals to attract A ------ { EES is doing." "Well, 1 must bee what Mrs, Gort wc F or the New Year Water -- Winter weather, and this generally is In the laboratory of Professor Har- old C. Urey in Columbia University is a half pint of water in various small glass containers and of various de- \ pint is worth about $8,600, At Icast it cost| Professor Urey that much to obtain it I | by patient electrolytic decomposition. Some day similay water may cost no It stands to reason that this is no; the occasions of pleasure. They rank ordinary water. -In fact, it is the as the princesses of inns against the 'heavy" water which was discovered two years ago by Professor Urey in; - | collaboration with"Dr. George Murphy '| of Columbia and Dr. F, G. Brickwedde of the Urited States Burcau'of Stan- It looks like ordinary water, yet it is different: It is composed of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen, but the atoms of hydrogen are . | twice as heavy as those of rain-water. Much of the oxygen which is sold commercially to hospitals and chemi- cal laboratories is obtained by passing an electric current through ordinary Hydrogen bubbles off at one Prof, 1 Urey induced a commercial decom- poser of water to reduce 4,000 gallons As more and more current was passed Th 'New York, -- Kay Francis of the McKenna, are "amicably separating," ie Most English inns appear to h been designed and furnished again true: But there are exceptions, and these you will find in the Thames Val- ley. They are the only inns I know whose builders had spring .and sum- mex in their minds, and some of my happiest hours have been spent in them..... LE These inns have a lightness, lent, ne "doubt, by the water scenery, that is lacking in other inns, Our inns mostly exist to serve the occasions of business: these exist solely to serve prinees of our highways. Their style is light, their paint is light, their fur- niture is light, their food is light; and they effuse aiways the sense of holi- .day. Designed for the summer, they carry their grace into the winter; and even in those months when the Thames Valley evokes a shiver, their rooms seem to hold, like a bowl of potpourri, some hoard of the sparkling flush of summer, They have not the rough, Learty, smoky air of the inns of the Great North Road--no coach-yards, no hams hanging in the hall, no Falstaf- fian cheeses, - They are gracious cot- and their spirit is medium for. ther all the inns I know and love, I lo | these most. They belong as perfectly], . to their setting as its trees and meadows, | ii under its aspens, They are in a high key. Words cannot reach them. The em is water-color, Of love oe: i I " Are small, its That setting--the stretch of the Thames between Reading and Oxford experts. --is for na the most beautiful spot of England.- It has the radiant ser:| enity of a lyric of George Herbert; safer. La and when Theodore Dreiser told me killed for It is not Rn ---- ee ----T a pollen-bearing insect from another flower. : i Even one who is not' a biologist must be struck by this anthropomor- phism. In other words, Darwin as- sumed that the lower animals, includ- ing the insects, see the world as we see it. But is the assumption justi- fied? Dr. Frank E, Lutz of the Am- erican Museum of Natural History has been making experiments which show conclusively 'that it is not. Al of which makes one wonder if the whole Darwinian doctrine of mimicry and the purposefulness of color must not be modified. - : £ ~ Writing in Natural History, Dr. Lutz points out that "a red flower looks red to us because out of all the wave lengths of light which we can see it reflects only or chiefly the long ones which give us the optical stimulus we cal red. If this ower reflected only these, an insect which ¢annot see red, at least as a color, would say, if it could talk, that such-a flower is black or dark gray. If, on the other hand, such a flower reflected ultra-violet we. ve léngths which an insect can we, that insect, if it could talk and kwaew physics, would say that the flower is ultra-violet color. Probably it could even distinguish several colors in the part of the spectrum we call ultra- violets" : VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE. On the mimicry - theory a yellow spider ought to be invisible to visiting insects beside -the yellow flowers in which he is accustomed to hide. Photo- graphs show that the flower: is only slightly ultra-violet. To an ultraviolet seeing insect the spider ought to be as conspicuous as a red hunting coat amid green foliage. Dr. Lutz proved photographically that red, yellow and pink portulacas are strongly ultra-violet except in the centre. But neither a vivid yellow nor a pink zinnia: had any ultra-violet. Obviously the zinnias have not much to say for themselves if floral colors mean anything to insects. In the same way Dr. Lutz found many flowers must look very different to insects. And that insects are responsive to ultra-violet rays there can be no doubt. Lubboék proved it many years ago with ants and Dr, Lutz more recently with bees and fruit flies, FE RROPA ALL Sali hs Melancholy 'Reflections : After a Lost Argument I always pay the verbdl score With wit, concise, selective, - I have an apt and ample store Of ladvlike: invective My mots, retorts, and quips of speech, " Hilarloug or solemn. Placed end to end, no doubt, would reach, a iEas any gossip. column. - But what avails the epigram, i The claver and 'the clear shot, Invented chiefly when I am. The only one in earshot? And where's the good of repartee To quell a hostile laughter,, That tardily occurs to me . A half an hour after? : P God rest you merry, gentlemen, .Who nastily have caught The art of always striking when The irony is het, : ~--Phyllis M'Ginley' in the New Yorker, . A : Kay Francis and Husband ~~ ""Amicably Separating" movies and her husband, Kenneth Warner Brothers Pictures Ino, an: 'The McKennas he bid or row vo 7 nmense laboratory of civilization."-- Cuglielmo Ferrero, should take & personal, resolute stand against war, that would end war.'-- Albert Einstein. : or overnight, but step by step."'-- 'Thomas G. Masaryk. &; discover that, in order to gain the love of a woman, he should never try to deserve it."--Countess Karolyi, be allowed a return to competition in armaments."--Stanley Baldwin, "The: spell of a technical achieve- ment such as radio can never replace the spell of direct human contact'-- Bruno Walter, much as meén,"--Ernst Luibtsch. = rier around their wives that amounts to vassalage,"--Princess Pignatelli, * "The equal and even enforcement of the law is the cornerstone upon which rests the whole structure of democratic government." Alfred E. Smith. = : SN make unlimited profits is not a sacred right."--George W. Norris, 5 will never 'be used for transoceanis flying"--Clarence D,. Chamberlin, out a_direct attack upon: the maldis- tribution of the national income."-- Norman Thomas. 5 Ax far unless it is backed by hal ging endeavor,"--Sir Henri De does the damage, it's losi our heads."--Henry Ford. . "There cannot be a complete aban- tion does not vary with Mian-power; it increases faster than --Stuart. Chase, : are people avid for strong emotions." --Andre Maurois. but would not every: sensible man like to have a Victorian wife?"'--Dean Inge. N troubles. than to talk about mine-- then I can forget mine' --Clarence Darrow. even : brings back morality."--G. XK. Ches- terton, ° god Exercise will. seem ag weird to our descendants as the excessive piety of our ancestors now seems to some of us."--Bruce Barton. ould ever start a clean-up, there would be plenty to clean up.,"--Eddie | Cantor. primarily 'by excessive production but by defective consumption."--Harry Elmer Barnes. : always been the land of plenty and fe eee opportunity and that better days are coming,"--John. D. Rockefeller, in modern affairs is to know the.short- cuts which have been tested and prov- ed.'--Gerard Swope, 2 . "Wives influence their husbands mich more than hushands 4 y Je d Asto \ noutices, They sald the announcement | "a: ay Astor | was made at the request of Mies | Francis, who is "somewhere in the country" just now, en were married in California, January 17, 1981, * She came to the movies fron Broadway, he from the banking psychologist,"--Benito Mussolini, of happiness you are likely to receive a mild kind of condemnation those friends who have not yet leayn- ed it."--John Erskine, + "The progress of : ; | ley. - #Unel ed tern to the system. i t adjunot tho dinner, as an i aro healt bo ors f new So They Say "The world today is a kind of im- "If two per cent, of our population "World recovery won't come at once, "The American man will have to "Under no circumstances will there "Women do not trust each other as "European husbands throw a bar- "The right to acquire property and "I am convinced that seadromes "There is no 'true prosperity with- "No form: of luck will carry a man slog- ding, "It isn't- getting lost that' donment of force until human Hature|" changes and the ideals of civilization are world-wide."--8ir Philip Gibbs. "Under modern condition, produc- manpower." "The people of the United States "We may laugh at the Victorians, "I would rather hear other peoples "Age after age, it is the new and ridiculous' generation which "The excessive worship of the great "If the .motion picture industry "The depression was nob caused "Let's not forget that America has "One of the most important things their "A master of politics must. be a "If you learn something of the art from TE pnoug | proceeds by leaps, ht 1s '| season. 'Bone," Soft Colors in New b! De on New Yor ~ He : RL lg sesses you when drifting in 8 punt London's motor-buses cover move t the Cleeve Woods between Pang. than 2,600,000 miles without a fatal urne and Goring, or when moored road SE Atta y are in use. "A pe n suffering from a common _ or her efficiency, accorling to some British air travel is getting still st year only one person was every 1,039,666 "ms trav. that it had' illuminated, Por Ham She) elled on air lines, ~~ spirit that moves behind all English tr. he gave it its due tributes I will form an invisible ink 'which be- ean go back to it spring/after spring, comes visible when . the =aper on and it never stales as more luscious which paradises stale, Always it yields new revelation and refreshment. popular, and this helps to preserve its bloom; the few people who come to it are careful not to knock against it.-- From "The English Inn,' by Thomas Lurke (New York: Longmans Green.) A weak solution of cobalt chloride 'anything "is written In this liquid is warmed, 5 ; Colds have their "seasai," the peak periods being September and October, . January and February, "and April and May. Fish has recently been fifty per cent. dearer in Great Britain than it was twelve months ago, ¢2d which cost 8d, a pound then costing 1a, 2d. now. 2 As---- ~ Flower-pot making is o=i §f Eng- land's reviving industries. More than 1,260,000 are turned out each week, and then do not meet the full: de- mand. . °° SR There are about 480. public library - authorities: in England. and Wales; they have an expenditure oi £1,708; 276 and supply 4,320,781: borrowers, with books. i Greenwich time is indicated by th first stroke of Big Ben, London's famous bell of 'the Houses of Parlia~ ment clock, when striking either mid-. day. or midnight. Finger-prints cannot. be forged, ac cording to one expert, because of the microscopic. marks which' oceur be tween the ridges, These are due to 'the perspiration ducts. | Pilfering on_the part of assistants is estimated to cost Britain trades- men: about £12,000,000 a year. It is largely due to the rather loose meth-: ods of handling cash in the smaller shops: - : frosts : Japan is now said to lead the world | ifi'the export. of cotton goods: In the - first eight months of this year she exported $392,000,000 square yards: of' cotton: cloth; this - was . 6,000,000 square yards. more than the total British exports. : Electro-plating. sets, home tele- phones, medical shocking-coils; " eom= plete] home: telephones, scale model 'Army aeroplanes, and complete elec- tric-lighting sets for dolls' houses are among .the scientific toys: on sale this / =3 . Those in search of a "reducing" diet 'should avoid sugar, cakes, pas- tries, puddings, jam, bread, potatoes, fried food, and rich sauces, while, eating plenty of green vegeta bles, salads, and all fresh fruits, with the exception of bangpas. =! In an official publication dealing - with physical training in British schools are given details of games with such quaint titles as "As Tall as. - a House, As Small as a Mouse; as Thin as a Pin"; "Catch Your Part. ner's Tail," a nd "Two Dogs and a Worth Frocks Paris-- Soft colors and fabrics, slender lines and: striking trims are: the rule around which 'the House of Worth fashions its new frocks design- ed for mid-winter wear and hinting of spring fashions, aR "Olive green, deep blue and beige in soft pliablé wools fashion the advance 1984 dresses. They are cut on a slen- der silhouette, often finished with elbow-length sleeves and ornamented with striking belts and accessories to brighten up winter wardrobes. New hats of felt and velvet 'are shown with the frocks, Most of them follow the design of the close-fitting toque, with trimming concentrated at the back rather: than the front. Beige Kasha makes one frock de- signed' with a simple bodice, slender skirt and elbow-length sleeves, It finished with glittering gold buttons and . trimmed * in brown astrakhan, Olivesgreen wool makes another frock which has a wide belt of the fabrie edged in copper wire. It is a SNR" yi We are told that the bravest are . generally the tenderest, Judging by 10: of tha steaks we have hind, bul ust be frightful cowards, ches which 08COW, only J @ % cold loses about forty per cent. of his