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4» s1b * "I came in {t the south door," Orry began, "and 1 found the scene much as you have all deseribed it. Douglas Iny on the floor, Finley stood near him, revolver in hand, Miss Turner was at the north door, or just inside it, and "I haven‘t spoken yet," Kent said, deliberately, "I suppose 1 have a right to be heard, Mr. Dobbins?" "Certainlyâ€"1 wish you would reâ€" ceunt what you saw when you apâ€" peared on the scene." Eva Turnerâ€"said nothing, but the triumphant look on her face told of her conviction of Nan‘s guilt. audible Raynor ening 6 t 1y The quiet tones, the straightforward air did more to carry comviction than emphasis could have done. Nan lookâ€" ed at him gratefully, and Orry showed relieft at the words. "You think she was going out, Miss Turner "I heard the shot, I went from the ea«st verandah to the east door of the aun roo n, I went in, and 1 saw Dougâ€" las Raynor on the cor, a revolver at his side. 1 picked it upâ€"an involunâ€" tary act, for which 1 have no definite explanation, and at that moment Mis# Turner snapped on the lights." "Did you see Mrs. Raynor in the reom? teollnt, you are on oath." © "I saw her at the west doorway." "Coming in or going out?" "As I was so amazed at the sight of Mr. Raynor, and a litt!= blinded by the sudden light, 1 cannot positively a. awer your question. But to the best of my knowledge and beliet she was coming in." "Granting that pocsibility, then," Dobbins continued, "I say that we have here present the three known to have been at the other three doors, and Mr Kent, who appeared at the south door a very little later. 1 would like a sworn statement from each of you as to what you saw and heard. Mr. Finley, will you speak first, and reâ€" member you ace on cath." "That‘s true," Finley said, "and 1 agree, Mr. Dobbins, that you have that south door sccounted for, and you must take into consideration the posâ€" wibility that the murderer of Mr. Rayâ€" nor escaped that way." Your Kids "Noâ€" Douglas Raynor is found shot through the heart in the early evening on the fHoor of the sun room of Rlower Acres, his Long Island home. Standing over the dead man, pistol in hand, is Malcoim Finley, former sweetheart of Raynor‘s wife, Nancy. Eva Turner, Raynor‘s nurse, staunds by the light switch. Then Nancy. her brother; Orvil+ Kent:; 2i Goddard, friend of Finley; Miss Mattie, Raynor‘s sister; and others, enter the room. Detective Dobbins is official inâ€" vestigator. Lionel Raynor. son of Dougâ€" las Raynor by first marriage, comes to elaim his father‘s estate. Nurse Turner, arvested in New York, finally contesses to attempting to poison Douglas Raynor, before the shooting, out of revenge. Now Detective Dobbins in que.flo-!n‘ the four people who stood at the four doors of the sun prior immediately after the m urder | NOW GO ON wWITH THE STORY 1 know she was," said the nurse. saw her even before i saw Mr. nor and 1 can «wear she was hastâ€" g out of the room." Mrs. Raynor, do you care to tesâ€" It supplies body fuel for the energy that keeps them going and growing, No need to stuft or get tat and lazy. Use WRIGLEY‘S for sugar and flavor, and see how ruddily the boys and girls respond. It‘s the new science of heairn â€" buillding. Try WRIGLEY‘S yourâ€" selft and stay thir;, 999 ower AC1PSRx I‘drather noo"-ui*)ul, in swo lo* as to be almost inâ€" BEGIN HERE TODAY â€" Fresh from the gardens‘ _TEA | _ The neweor~; ut Flower Acrés was t« foodlooking, ‘well setâ€"up man of thirtyâ€"five or so, with thick chestnut hair, brushed back from: his forehead, keen, blue eyes and a manner that inâ€" lapired confidence. *( 34 _ _ "Make no objections," he said, "you will be ill #â€"you don‘t get out of doors more. " Now you‘re" going for a long walk all around the place, and if you "I am not sure that 1 do," Nan reâ€" turned calmly. "But 1 think it is proâ€" per that you should stay, and so 1 ask you to do so. . . You may take the reom you had beforeâ€"and I will ask you to respect my desire @"be let alone." say so, we won‘t mention the affair of the traged"at all." . "Then I‘H go," Nan said, and they started off.* * _ .A ( The group broke up and Finley took Ng‘r: _off for a walk in the grounds. The newe0"~; a; Flower Acres was| Calcutta Statesman: The hief anxieâ€" # #ood Jooking, ‘well setip man of|ty Of the Indian Princes is to avoid thirtyâ€"five or so, with thick chcstnn:'“‘mil! into the i.wer of a Governâ€" hair, brushed back from: his forehead,; ment of India that may develop in keen, blue eyes and a manuer that inâ€"| ways distasteful to them. ‘The Govâ€" spired confidence. . |ernment that may come into being in Pennington Wise was his narte, and. the near future may be of the kind to he was ajustly.celebrated private deâ€" | Which the Princes will ‘be ‘very reluctâ€" tective. & . ... jand, to trust ';:I&Etinkt. Many of Ezra Goddard had engaged him, for the advanced politicians of India have Ezra &kra:p:‘. come‘ to *ver,l‘ngué it clear that if they"have thetr very ite eonglusions. One d‘ta;u own way tha Princes‘ will have BttMe of was that Detective Dobbins 334 §2" M «1e sapido dy + l ewing m»&gflflfl 'Q!' M e i e was, that probably any other peo! d‘s Linimentâ€"Used for 50 ‘years ‘"No; no, Miss Turner, not yet. At least, not until I talk with the chief. But your case is graveâ€"I cannot hold out much hope of leniency for you." Eva Turner said nothingâ€"her plaâ€" cid face seeming <to conceal every thought or emotion of her brain. "I am not sure Mrs. Raynor wishes me to stay here," she said, turning to Nan with an air half diffident, half insolent. € "I think," he said, at last, wiping his forehead. "that 1 must take some time to think this thing over, I must aigest this pew information that 1 have received from Miss Turner; I must report it to my superiorg, and I must be guided by them in my next move," » & ©44 "Am 1 under arrest?" asked, a little fearfully. nite or illominating testimony he had was that of Eva Turner, and if he must discount that, his case was hard indeed. "Before 1 begin my work, I must beg for a few minutes to absorb this beauty !" & Poor Dobbins ~looked worried to death. He saw no loophole of exâ€" planationâ€"it was all to him a deep inexplicable mystery. The only dehâ€" "Mr. Dobbins, you have only Miss Turner‘s unsupported word for that and 1 hold that is not sufficient." _ Kent looked baffied. More nervous than ever, he picked at his coat collar â€"pulled his handkerchief from his breast pocket and returned it there, drummed on his knees with his fingers and finally said: "Mr. Kent is quite right,"â€"she said, "but it must be remembered that he came a few moments later than the rest of us. That was Mrs. Raynor‘s return that he saw. 1 saw her leave the room, hastily, as I said, and 1 then saw her return, coming in at the door, as her brother also entered at the south door. This, I think, explains the seeming discrepancy in our accounts." Miss Turner gave a supercilious smile. 1 came in at the south door my sister was just entering the west door. ‘She was not going out, she was not ‘fleeâ€" ing‘ ot unning away, she was coming inâ€"I saw herâ€"her face . horrorâ€" stricken with surprise and fright." Miss Mattie was close to her. : But as CchHAPTER XIv. PENNINGTON ‘wise. Eva Turner | and its dream. CGiants are slain, becauso while strong ‘ men cower \ Somewhere a lad has traingd for his high hour! 8 â€"Molly Anderson Haley, in The Churchman. k new flame £ Tosses aside the tooâ€"familiar crook, And lifting eyes from routine‘s flock, takes aim With stones worn smooth in truth‘s unsullied brook. Thereafter Jays hold burning quests to share, f And more and more be seeks the pebbled stream; Fearless he fells the Hon and the bear That prow! between a boy‘s heart COf fruit succeeding starryâ€"petalled bloom, Somewhere a lad, stirred by a strange Glants are slain as in the olden day, For never glant shadowed camp with gloom â€" But moving in the sure and ageâ€"old "Was she frightenedâ€"looking?" ‘Yes, indeed she was!" "Ahâ€"how did. you observe this when her back was toward you? How do you know that she did not wear an expression of triumphâ€"" the lights on. Miss Turner, can you swear that Mrs Raynor was leaving the room?" ""Yesâ€"ch, yes." "Was she frightenedâ€"looking?" "Be careful in your statements," he counseled "There is nothing so unâ€" certain as human evidence. If I am to get at the facts of this case, I must have the most meticulous efforts on the part of you all to speak the truth. Let us take this point of Mrs. Rayâ€" nor‘s position when Miss Turner put | Jt was teatime, always a pleasant fpnetion at the Raynor honse., and Ezra Goddard had arranged that the first inquiries of the detective should be conducted under the guise of a soâ€" cial chat rather than an officia! grillâ€" ing. % It transpired that the ‘detective knew the history of the case. From a secluded alcove of the torâ€" race, almost hidden by a tall palm, Lizi, for that was the girl‘s name, looked out, raptly, over the flowery acres No one noticed her. __At last Wise drew a long sigh, as of very surfeit of the beauty before him, and turned to the group, who awaited his questions, with . widely different anticipations Indian Princes and Self: With him had come a strange little being, who, he said, carelessly, was his assistant. She was‘a small scrap of a girl, slender as a willow wand, inconâ€" spicuous, unnoti¢eable, almost invisâ€" ible, so persistently did she keep in the background Yet she was always there, always at the beck or call of Pennington Wise, and her assistance was as valuable as it was unostenta» tious. ° **Wonderful â€" place," . Wise said, standing on the terâ€"ace. "Before beâ€" ginning my work here I must beg for a few minutes to absorb this marvelâ€" ous beauty!" on cwith tainty. Miss Turner was frightened; Lionel Raynor was angry, and Miss Mattie, though affronted "at hot having been consulted in the matter, v/as deeply interested: and agog with curiosity â€"as to what the new developments would So she greeted"> Pennington â€"Wise with cordiality and welcomed him to Flower Acres, while the others looked on cwith varying degrees of uncerâ€" tried to conceal their ’ip.t‘ehen_s‘loéé. Nan Raynor and her brother Jooked aghast "at the nows Of" the drrival; yet Malcolm Finley was, onâ€"the *whole; glad, yet he felt a certain uneasiness as to what might tFanspire. _ . ‘_ _ _ ‘"Somewhere a Lad!" W1â€"20 1 m e o Whnne t yoe e 6h t o0 (To by continued.) «much better ‘ Asplrin 19 n~Teadematk â€"Registered ....,,,. Ottawa Journal (Cons.): It is hard to see what Mr. Thomas can do in Canada. He may find openings for British capital here, and he may be able to return pome and induce Briâ€" tish manufacturers to opn branch factories here. ‘That would make for more employment. . But apart from that, and unless Premier King‘s Govâ€" ernment decides to ask Parliament for a vote of ten millions to forward some great stateâ€"controlled scheme of immigration, we greatly fear that Mr. Thomas wil return home with little of accomplishment. Write your name and address plainâ€" ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. 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Christchurch Press (N.B): . ‘The truth is that the dying down of racial jealousies in South Africa is going to be such a gradual process that the reâ€" sult of one election is neither here nor there. _ ‘The history of Uanada bas shown us that it is guite possible for two racial clements to exist. side by side in one State without a serious upâ€" heaval, even though: there nay-u] friction. w BÂ¥ > a __And remember that the Irish priest who told his Aock to "sweat once a day and be 4apy" knew more than th ~â€" Harleyâ€"street ~specialists who charge fifty guincas for taking off 7 pounds in a month by diet, medicine und electrical vibrators. _ If you are between forty and sixty rise earlier, drink hot water n rising, move about more, cut the daily intake of food by onsâ€"third, and then half; M'f plenty of cold water Between meals, and don‘t drink with meals. 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(The seythes have a‘szont of melody), But all the scent, and Athe swoetpe=s «weng;= /» > ~@Â¥ Flow out enâ€"the sthildess of #summer The Waves Of a : perfumed z.1 Mowers with burnished scythes arow, HMaye laid the fowers and grasscs se aPs The moon a horn of sliver shows, A whining stream ber clear light fNows;â€" * (The moon has a light of radiany), And: l:,goch beaped _ on a fucent r, Beeth huge sand castles along a shore, Beside a Juniinous sea. wNer the flower heads softly pags ; â€" (The wind has a volce of melody), And the setting sun sinks rapidly . down, Crowned with a ruby and golden crown, As night falls silentiy. e showers,_ In mcented« swathes of a thousand fowers, The waves of a rainbow sea, Color has great dignity‘ in the now styles." Neither the intense primary colors nor the very pale shades are eonsidered smart,. For dayum â€"droes the "autummâ€"browns, reds and aH the wood tints with biege, castor, green, and black and white will be worn. The «light colors, known hitherto as evening shades are passee and, inâ€" stead, the fashionable ones wilt be green, even very dark greenâ€"the dahlia and aster purples and pinks and all of the gtowing capucine tones, Cyclamen, delphinium, violet and llac are shown in taffetas, crepes and sating N700 TmCre is raisond etre, Black net, both plain and dotted, makes chic, youthful dance frocks which are oxâ€" pected to be worn a great deal this season. ‘These hbave either the long bodice accenting the hips, or a simple shorter one to the normal walistline, with mahy layers of Rouncing to Bare briskly out at the bottom. is more distinguished than the evenâ€" ing gowns of plain black watin of exâ€" quisite quality which Philip et Gaston are making. None of these are trimâ€" med with anything= other than a beautiful fower or shoulder straps, for which there is raisond‘etre. Black net. s h t.> their individual modes. Many brilâ€" diant costumes in allâ€"white are shown, One, the epitome of elegance also from the revue of the Garment Reâ€" tailers of America, was made of beavy white satin. ‘The decollectage, moderâ€" ating low in front, was drawn to the normal~â€"waistline at the back where were fastened two straps of diaments uind pearls that were passed over the shoulders. A circular flounce of the satin, piped on the edge, fittec about the front of the wkirt like an mpron, and was drawn up to the waist behind, and ‘the skirt dropped to a pointed train. Premet makes a stunning and very tormal evening gown of pale ‘ satin that sweeps in scalloping wry downward at the back, The leée: is elongated, with wrinkling folds "over the hips, a stiffened bow wash and satin shoulder straps: Callot Boeurs are making some sumptuous ensembics (vr evening of ‘chiffon veiâ€" vet and ~of. satin, going in rather heavily for the meliow shades of gold, maize, ijvory and ‘capucine. Nothing Satin is exceedingly fashionable this season and is being used by all of the couturiers df authority to interpret and the Arregular hemline continues to be a"mdtter of points and scallops, dipping at the back, at the sides, or both, and runningt up sbhorter in front. Black is popular at Paris, and some of the most chic evening gowne Are made of allâ€"black, usually chiffon or tulle, An intriguing example of this endurâ€" ing favorite is shown by Drecollâ€"Deer, in which a blak chiffon dinner gown is made with &A soft slight} bloused, gleeveless bodice, the hips being fitted with a diagonai yoke, and circular floating panels of the chiffon hanging in deep points at the rides and back. Lugien Lelong makes an evening gown of ‘lemonâ€"yeliow chiffon with a long ‘bodice that fits tightly like a basque in the back and is shortened to an emâ€" pire waistline in front. This gown has a skirt of three circular flounces in tiers that hbegin a few inches below the knees in front rgad ripple to the floor at the bak \ While L. Prussing While social activities are still iargeâ€" 1y in the open and entertaining is all fresco, evening Oress is being shown it many originalâ€"and artistic models from the wellâ€"known designers, â€" The styles areâ€"distinctive and widely varâ€" Jedand w ip the different fab» riee and all new colors, _ The bizarre is dacking. in all ot these adâ€" winds that ripple Hay Sweetness the flower silently rumed sca, Mildred Rickman, the o Nav rita quc& W1