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th t NoW GO ON wWITH THE STORY "Oh, yes, they are nowadays. * 1 ean see it"â€"she clowed her eyesâ€""I can see .ow it curves aroundâ€"yes, the right footâ€"the right side of the foot." 0 on uonl ToR Cneme k â€" i tss . »ur dn dn ty Li "And the footpriar was pointed toâ€" ward or away from Mr. Raynor?" "Toward him." "Miss Raynor, your testimony is valuable, indeed. You have unusual powers of observation and of descripâ€" tion. The footprint has been washed away?" P > F & se s a 0e maynor out CE CTIUIUIICC t W a celebrated detective, with his girl assistant, fizi, are called to take the case eut o the hands of Detective Dobbins. Miss Mattie testifiece to seeing the print of overshoes on the floor of the sun room after the murder C ETCO ELCOS camescrear Douglas Raynor is found shot through the heart in the early evening on the Beoor of the sun POOIDJ' Flower Acres, his Long Island home. Standing over the dead man, pistol in hand, is Malcolm Â¥Finiley, former @#weetheart of Raynor‘s wife, Nancy. Eva Turner, Raynor‘s nurse, stands by the light switch. Then Nancy; her brether, Orville Kent; Edra Goddard, friend of Finley, Miss Mattic, Raynor‘s sister. and others, enter the scom. Lionet Raynor, son of Dougla® KRaynor by first marriage, comes to elaim his father‘s estate. Nurse Turner finally confesses to attempting to poison Raynor out of revenge Pennington Wise, oF @ut CE CT TDE Co6em Iuba arbrl ":.'&;F{"i;s Raynor saidâ€""but the gardens are often damp, and a footâ€" print would be possible." 7 L 1 L o% smm o ic3 '.;';t;.â€"t'b'o“!o&irint mud?" asked Lizi sharply. e n f "I‘m not sure," Miss Mattie said, thought{ully. _ "It may have been merely the impress of the rubber sole on the stone floor of the room. It was dust rather than mud, anyway." "Probably the footprint of a serâ€" vant," Wise said, as he rose from his chair and strolled about. ‘"You see, If there had been an intruder from outside, he would have left more than one footprint." "No," Orville Kent remarked, "there was no floor space just there except "No," Orville Kent remarked, "there was no floor space just there except between the rugs. Other feotprints would have been on the rugs and so unobservable." "Yes," Orry srid. "I realize now that such a man might easily have escaped my observation." Orry was nervous as usual, twistâ€" ing up a bit of paper he was holding. "I think," he went on, throwing the paper aside, and picking up a burnt match, which he proceeded to worryâ€" "if you will turn your attention to _ "You incline to the outsider theory, Mr. Kent?" the detective inqpired. some one outside this household, Mr. Wise, ou will get on the right track sooner." it & "Perhaps so," and Wise nodded acâ€" quiescently. "Tell me what you saw when you arrived, Mr. Kent. The room was lighted then?" "On, yes. They all stood in the doorsâ€"as you‘ve already heard deâ€" seribed. â€" My sisterâ€"" "Did you notice her first?" "Yesâ€"I thin, 1 did. 1 saw her white seared face, and 1 sprang to ward her, fearing she was going to faint. Then i «aw the body of my brotherâ€"inâ€"law on the floorâ€"" "Why do you say the bodyâ€"did you then know Mr. Raynor was dead?" Kent stared. "Of course not. 1 only saw that he lay on the floor. But, in view of all we have learned since, it seems naâ€" tural that 1 should refer to that stricken form as the body. No, at the noment, 1 had a confusec notion that he had had a strokeâ€"or someâ€" thing like that." â€" Orry‘s voice as even, but his fingers were nervously working. The family were used to these nervous manifestaâ€" tons, but the detective looked at him evriosuly Take Off Overâ€"weight Modern science says sugar supplies energy :3 lets you carry on with | soives the sugar and reâ€" leases the flavor. in this pleasant way you Ezewing the chicie dif WRIGLEY‘S is pure ISSUE ‘No. 39â€"‘ .nq sn menth cngetie css nd :| case on our hands. . "Me have, for fair," the girl replied. The two were strolling through the great gardens of Flower Acres. "Want me to delay the case, that you may see more of the gardens!" "Delsa, the case! You‘H be lucky if you cver get this case finished. Why, I never saw one with such a lot of side issues and contradictory clews!" . "Let‘s straighten it out then. What‘s our problem*" "Who killed Mr. Raynor, and why?" "His wife." "Oh, Penny, no!" "Don‘t let your sympathy run away with you Just because Mrs. Raynor is beautiful, softâ€"eyed, pathetieâ€"‘" "Oh, Penny, you don‘t read her "Oh, Penny, you don‘t rێad NeF right at all!" "At least you‘ll agree that she is in love with Mr. Finley." "Of â€"courseâ€"who wouldn‘t be?" "And the pair are glid to be relievâ€" ed of the presence of Mr. Raynor?" "Yâ€"yesâ€"I1 suppose they are." "Well, then, in the absence of any other suspect, why balk at one or both of those two*" _ "Let‘s try for another suspect." _ "Just to leave those turtle doves in "You are agitated, Mr. Kent." "Nothingâ€"nothingâ€"" said . Orry. "A nervous affection habitual to me. 1 ean‘t help itâ€"I‘ve always been soâ€"â€" and a trifle of shell shock in the war helped it along." n es NEeaep en‘ +/ 7 Eumt CR o He jnmped up and N‘- mh‘ the terrace. CHAPTER XV. GRIM GANNON, "Well, Zizi," Pennington MWise said to his funny little Af\ssismt, "we‘ve a peace "No, Penny"â€"the big black eyes were very earnest nowâ€""but because, if they should . be innocentâ€"how dreadful to suspect them." us "vOâ€"f- course. She adored: her breâ€" therâ€"but now she seems toâ€"cotton to his widow. Were they always friendâ€" _ "MGo ahead, thenâ€"who‘s your susâ€" wt?’, > # C= _ "Let‘s check ‘em off. Miss Mattie is out of it." m h ly "Pretty much so. I‘ve sounded the servants, and I find that Miss Mattie and Mrs. Raynor managed to hit it oc fairly well. But the old maid is variable, blows hot and blov:~ coldâ€" and so Mrs#. Raynor was now in favor and now out. However, there‘s no question of Miss Mattie. What about the son?" "He‘s a rotter, but he never killed his father. He‘s frank and outspoken â€"1 don‘t think he‘s honest, though. But, you‘re hunting suspects for the crime nowâ€"arent‘s you?" _ â€" "Mre. Ra'ynor and bherâ€"erâ€"admirâ€" erâ€"her brother, and the nurse." "";â€"i"e;;wkarve the Lionel thing till later. Now, who are left?" x "The brother is out of itâ€"a poor nervous wreckâ€"shell shockâ€"though the servants say he always was a deliâ€" cate chap. The nurse, I should say, is out of it, for she had admitted the poisoningâ€"and â€" don‘t believe she shot him too." "Then we have left the two I sugâ€" gested at the start, Mrs. Raynor and Mr. Finley. I don‘t suppose you susâ€" pect Ezra Goddard?" * _ "I don‘tâ€"no. But I‘d think of him before 1 would of those two darling people!" "Ziz, you‘re hopeless. Those lovers have turned your sentimental headâ€" and 1 foresee you‘ll be no good on this case at allâ€"you may as well go home." "Oh, you think soâ€"do you? Well, suppose you turn your attention in a direction that evidently hasn‘t as yet occurred to your blind old v!oo.” 7 _ "An intruder? An outsider? It well may be, Ziz!." _ And Wise looked thoughtfal "It may be, yesâ€"but I don‘t mean that. 1 meanâ€"Grimshawe @annon." "As the murderer?" “Y“'" "Why?” "He had a hold over Mr. Raynorâ€" or Mr. Raynor had a hold over himâ€"" "I ean‘t make out yetâ€"but 1 think it was a sort of mutual thing. I got around a parlor maidâ€"who is of the eurious, prying type, and though she hasn‘t much interest in it, she did say that Mr. Raynor and old Gannon had interviews sometimes late at nightâ€" secretlyâ€"" l 900 "She imagined the secrecy. Why! should they be seeret about it. Ganâ€" non lives on the placeâ€"he is a sort of pensioner on Raynor‘s bountyâ€"" "Of course he isâ€"but why?" "1 gathered that they were old friends or acqaintancesâ€"that Ganneon was less fortunate than Raynorâ€"that he cared only for his Natural History studies, and that Raynor gave him a home and a place to carry on his butâ€" terfly huntingâ€"or whatever he does." "You gathered most of the crop ef: Gannon â€" informationâ€"but not all. That old codger has aâ€"had a hold on the great manâ€"on Douglas Raynor, that made Raynor afraid of him. On the other hand, he was in some way afraid of Raynor. Soâ€"w all this from the maidâ€"they, used to argue over something an~ they spoke in low Ivoices and behind closed doors. She "Which?" 639 all she could get was Minard‘s Einimentâ€"Used for 60 years Cay and Little Cay, Struck by bul lets from the rifle of Kingsbury Moore a few days ago, while he was bunting for the devilfish, the monster evidentâ€" ly succumbed to his wounds. Linus Munroe, a carpenter, discovâ€" ered it on the beach,. The fish still show:d signs of life, so Munroe and two companions managed to chop its head off. * The fish was nine feet long, eight feet wide and three feet thick. Its outâ€" er skin . was a thin film, almost as:â€"thin as paper,. Under the outer skin was the main skin, a quarter of an inch thick, very black, which looked like patent <leather. Its head was blunt like a shark‘s, but its mouth was small compared to that of a shark. A great crowd.soon gathered, and it was not long before a feast was held. A few timid natives plféed sait on their portion before eating it. In a few nours every pound of the sea visitor had been consumed. One man chopped up the backbone and carried it home to make a "stewing." the sound of quarreling voices and after each interview a sort of patchâ€" ing up of the matter until it broke out the next time." (To be continued.) Nassau, Babamas.â€"A monster devilâ€" fAish, eight feet in width, which has terrorized the fishermen along the western shore for several weeks, has been washed ashore between Long Bay Alexandria.â€"The Nile is higher than for many years ‘and is still rigsing, causing apprehensions of disastrous floods. River Nile Higher Than For 50 Years ‘ Ibrahim Fubmy Bey, Minister of Publi Works, assisted by officials of the Ministry of the Interior, is worl-‘ ing unceasingly to prevent breakages in the river banks. Despite his efâ€" forts, the Nile has overflower the broken banks in several places, floodâ€" ing large areas of growing cotton and maize, ruining the crops. 9â€"Foot Devilfish Washed Ashore, Feeds Bahamans Natives Declare Fish and Pork The cellars of houses in Gezireh, the British and American residential quarter of Cairo, near the river, are flooded. The Sudan reports the river already out of bounds, in many places transforming the lowâ€"lying land into large lakes. _ London. â€"Incessant rains on the "Abyulnian plateau are the cause of the Nile flood, which is reported 58 inches above the normal crest this year. The flood started three weeks earlier than usual, and the volume of water passing down is estimated at 25 per ent. greater than at any stmilar period in the past 50 years. Sea Monster Believed to Have Been Wounced by Rifle Shots of a Hunter Work on new irrigation drainage projects is stopped and gangs of laâ€" borers in 30 sections under the direcâ€" tion of engineers are now striving to strengthen banks which have been weakened by insufficient saturation in the past 12 years of low Nile. Saint John Telegraphâ€"Journal: A| number of acute British observers have lately expressed the view that British investors and manufacturers have not realized their opportunities in Canada, not merely in relation to the sa‘e of British goods, but ostab-‘ lishing branch factories in the Doâ€" minion. Such action would be of imâ€" mense benefit to Canada, and there fore to the Empire. This country is steadily enlarging its export of manuâ€" factured goods. It is no longer conâ€" cerned merely with the export of naâ€" tural products. British capital, inâ€" vested in Canadian factories for exâ€" port trade should find a good fAeld, and by expansion of our foreign trade strengthen the position of the Emâ€" pire in an economic sense. British Factories for Canada Toronto Star (Ind.): The mandate given to the MacDonald Government by the British people has greatly altered the standing of Britain in the eyes of the world. _ Nations that felt that Britain was not fulfilling her misâ€" slon as the leader of civilization and the promoter of everything tending to human betterment bave had their confidence restored. The cause of peace, which was at a standstill beâ€" eause of the suspicions and Allâ€"will aroused by Chambe:lain tactics, is again in a position to make progress. British subjects everywhere can take pleasure in the added prestige of the Travellers The road bas been so broadly trodâ€" den by the hosts that have travelled along it, that the main rules of the Journey are clear enough, and we all know that the secret of breakdown, and wreck is seldom so much an inâ€" suficient knowledge of the route as imperfect discipline of the will.â€"John Morley in "Aphorisme." Empire. . Yields 3 Kinds of Meat Labor and the Empire it is Steak, all in One Â¥ "* _ Some Palestine "‘*His Majesty‘s Government view with favor the establishment in Palesâ€" tine of a national home for the Jewâ€" ish people, and will use their best enâ€" deavors to facilitate the achievement of this object,‘ and it goes on to quality this with the proviso:â€" is slowly becoming aware of their significance, _ On the point of the immediate situation, the general view held is that expressed by the Times: Firmness First "Apart from consideraticns of jusâ€" tice and of our responsibilities as a mandatory ,there is a plain reason of the political kind why firmness and .decision are in this case indispensable. Everybody who has any acquaintance with the East knows how concessions made apparently to violence affect the Oriental mind. Ibn Saud, King of the Hedjaz â€"The Dead Sea and Its Potential Wealth â€" The Canaanites, the Zionists "‘It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing nonâ€"Jewish communities in Palestine.‘ ‘In the text of the British Mandate approved y the League of Nations, the cbharacter of the British underâ€" taking is seen to be twofold:â€" "The obligation to carry out these undertakings is acepted by and imâ€" posed upen Great Britain in the Manâ€" date; and it ought to be clearly reâ€" affirmed forthwith that she stands upon the Mandate. . . . She underâ€" takes to safeguard the free exercise of all forms of worship; but equally to ‘exercise such supervision over religious bodies . . . as may be reâ€" quired for the maintenance of public order.‘" â€"Daily Chronicle. There are naturally many influences at work in Palestine ,and the public ~and ‘the Arabs "On the main question there can be no going back on our word. In the chearing of all the world we: proâ€" mised this home to the Jews. _ With tact. at all times, with economy if possible, with firmness when men are brutalized by passion ,we must labor to deserve the mandate that we claimâ€" ed."â€"Mr. H. N. Brailsford, in the News Leader. "They are invariably attributed to weakness or to fear. The Moslems of Palestine are already appealing to the Moslems of India; the Jews of Palestine are appealing to the Jews in the United States. _ Their friends and coâ€"religlonists beyond the oceans are watching narrowly for signs of vacillation on the part of the Mandaâ€" tory Power. "Itf she were to flinch from dolngi her duty in Palestine, fresh attempts to wrest new concessicns from her would quickly follow. And they would not be confined to Palestine. The example Palestine had set with success would be studied and followâ€" ed in other lands by all the fomentâ€" ers of disorder, Palestine is a test case; if we were to hesitate or to change our accepted policy there we should soon bave greater dangers to confront elsewhere." "There is a difference between mak-‘ ing Palestine the national home of, the Jows and establishing a national home for the Jews in Palestine," asâ€" serts the Scotsman. ‘"The first interâ€" pretation was not accepted in 1922. It was then said that what was meant was not the imposition of a Jewish nationality upon the inhabitants of Palestine as a whole, but the further development of the existing Jewish community. "It is clearly the duty of Britain to show no favors to the Jews or to the Arabsâ€"an admittedly difficult task, which is not made easier by the clamour of the Jews in this country and throughout the world. "In the interests of British rule in India and other parts of the East, it is important that the Mosloms should be treated fairly, and that whatever is done should be done impartially, and sbould not be thought to be the resuit of Jewish influence. . The conâ€" tract with Jewry must be fulfilled, but there are also oligations to the Arabs population in Palestine which cannot be ignored." "There is great excitement in many parts of the Arab world," points out the Daily News, "expressing itself in vehement demonstrations and calls for ‘unity in the Arab countries under the kingship of Ibn Saud.‘ posses to keep the peace or to break it. He exercises an immense influence OYer a wide expanse of Arab territory. o B m PeC td P a magnetic personality; and the tew Englishmen who have made his ac quaintance bave been impressed with his courage, his administrative akill and his honesty. > & "To come to a proper understandâ€" "He is a religious enthusiast, with Live Side Issues To Ignore These Signs potential wealth. The grievance conâ€" sists in the fact that the development of this has been entrusted to a Zionâ€" ist; and the suggestion is made that Britain should keep a firm hand on the control of the future of the Sea, sharing out the proceeds of develop ment equally between Jew and Arab. <10 ARCHIVES TORONTO ing with Ibn Saud would be to reduce our task in Palestine and to remove a farâ€"reaching menace." "While most of us were under the impressicn that racial and religlous differences lay at the root of the pres ent trouble, it is interesting to read of another cause," comments the Steffield Daily â€" Telegraph. "The President of the National League, the body which claims to vcice Arab opinion on Palestine affairs, proâ€" pounds a new theory. â€" ‘The Dead Sea Problem "All the bother, he asserts, centres in the Dead Sea and its illimitable "This seems ratber a belated stand to take up. The Dead Sea for cenâ€" turies bhas been in Arab bhands, but it has been permitted to remain just what its name implies. _ No sooner do outsiders come upon the sceng and explcit its wealth than in steps the Arab with bis claim to participate in a wealth be ignored in the past and does nothing to develop toâ€"day. We must look further afield for an explanation of the recent disturbances, Nct Dead Seas but living hatreds and jealousies are at the bottom of them all." The Sunday Times calls attention . to still another factor in the dificult gituation. _ It says:â€" "The religious differences between Jews, Mosiems, and. Christians in Palestine ,.which has always been A stormâ€"centre of controversy through the ages, are not the sole cause of the unrest that the Mandatory Power has seemed to minimize or ignore. "It should be remembered that the native peasantryâ€"the Canaanites, as they may be calledâ€"are a primitive folk, mostly very pcor and shiftless, whereas the Zionist immigrants are for the most part educated . people from Western Europe and America, who work hard and are building up modern industries. "Two widely different types of'i civilization _ have . been suddenly brought into contact in a small coupâ€" try, and the adjustment of the relaâ€" tions betweer them constitutes a very serious and â€" delicate problem. _ It may easily be imagined that the culâ€" tured Jew looks down with contempt on tilebe ignorant peasants U DlAuOND DYES are the finest dyes you can buy. They_are made to give you real ~ervice. They y CUL s 4) sccalthes Diamond &z 4*# Dyes \z>%~x3%2 ho. Th 509e permonen* EASY TO USEâ€" Every tiny leaf is a storchouse of flavour Dyeing this wa makes faded Dresses NE W ‘Fresh from the gardens‘ and nomâ€" ED VY mePCCCRsE 0 alized, the two races will learn to dwell togetber in harmony and to re spect each other. . But this will take %time, and meanwhile order must be preserved at all costs." A stately old aristocrat, on being reâ€" quested by a rich and vulgar young fellow for permission to marry one of his girls, replied, "Certainly; which would you preferâ€"the housemaid or ads, and that they in turn regard bim Minard‘s Linimentâ€"The King of Pain. with envy and fear. "When education has spread through the native masses and the full mean ing of impartial British justice is r‘o me aac l hy the cook?" Aspirin is a Lrademark Hegistered in Canada ** quick comfort of Aspirin. For these perfectly harmless tablets will ease an aching head without penalty, Their increasing use year after year is proof that they do help and can‘t harm. Take them for any ache; to avoid the pain peculiar to women; many have found them marvelous at such times, The proven directions found in every package of Aspirin tell how to treat colds, sore throat, neuralgia, neuritis, etc. All druggists. CPASPIRIN DOCTORS quite approve the mutal nnorstrtint Auntsin â€"Har L "We‘ve Got en e C C00g voyage and succeeded in beating alb records for the Atlantic pr "w' there were people who shook "the beginning of the end" for British ’..mm. Then an amazing thing bappened. CE CE whish had EWB EC CCE The veteram Mauretania, which Dad held â€" the Atiantic record for over F BP TCOR _« ufous ‘m old tc26 0t on +t tions, while the Mauretania had the weather against her. In these circumstances the Maure tania‘s feat is one of the best adver tisements that British shipâ€"building eould wish for. There has been no pre vious case of a steamer attaining be: highest speed after twentytwo yeart otworkummnnu.ndthouct ~. wolc_Gas has anaam. neld | 11 008 0 h omoats * 4 twenty years, beat her own previous best by nearly #ive bhours True, she was still four hours behind the Breâ€" men: but the latter, & brandâ€"new boat, WHe Ec uit And We Still Build More New Ones Than .'All Olur Rivals e en 0 CSBS that the great Cunarder has accomâ€" plished this shows how well and truly her builders did their job. lost on the shipping world. indeed, even before this feat of the Maure tania‘s, the tonnage of merchant ships under construction in Great Britain and Ilreland was showing an upward trend. At the end of June there were 365 vessels of 100 tons and upwards under construction in British yards, itho tonnage being 1,453,906. ‘This was an increase of 37 vessels and 96,531 \tou as compared with March and of 93 vessels and 251,286 tons as comâ€" EEeoer en uis the tonnage being 1,453,906. This was an increase of 37 vessels and 96537 tons as compared with March and of 93 vessels and 251,286 tons as comâ€" pared with June, 1928. More important still, we are now building just over halft of the totab tonnage that is under construction in the world‘s shipbuilding yards. At the end of June the proportion was 51.2 per cent. for Britain and Ireland, and 48.8 per cent. for all other counâ€" tries combined. These are encouraging fAgures tor British â€" shipbuilders, especially in view of the fact that foreign competiâ€" tion has never been keener or more formidable. But there is no room for pessimism concerning an industry which is doing more business than alb its rivals put together, & Our Upâ€"toâ€"date Fleet True, we are not yet back to our preâ€"war position, In the twelys months before the War our share of the world‘s shipbuilding was 57.2 per cent. of the total tonnage under conâ€" struction. But we are regaining lost ground, and the tonnage we are now building is considerably more . than what we had on the slips (wenty years ago, in 1909, when we had nothâ€" ing like the present competition to So far as shipping is concerned this country also maintains her old preâ€" eminence. The gross tonnage of steamers and motorâ€"ships owned by Great Britain and Ireland at the end of June last was 20,046,000, The only other country which anything like apâ€" ‘pmchod this figure was the United States, with 11,036,000 of seaâ€"going \tonme. The world‘s total tonnage was 66,408,000. Of our tonnage 22 per cent. is less than five years old, as against 3%, per cent. in the United States, We can also claim that 83% per cent. of our tonnage is under twenty years old, as against 71 per cent. in the case of vesâ€" sels owned abroad. 4 e her famous When m mn,._.‘H- hastine a1 We also seem to own most of the big ships. ‘There are in the world 425 steamers and motorâ€"ships of 10,000 tons and over, and of these we own mo fewer than 237, We can also claim that we own 65.4 per cent. of the big liner tonnage of the world, counting in liners of 15,000 tons and upwards. Bo, even apart from the fact that the Oceanic, to be built at Belfast for the White Star Line, should meet the challenge of the Bremen and regain for us the blue riband of the Atlantic, we are holding our own, both in shipâ€" building and shipping. The lesson is But when the Oceanic is completed, it should astonish the world. For much experience has been gained and immense progress has been made since the Mauretania was designed. And if, in those days, we could turn» out a ship capable of so wonderful an effort after the lapse of twentytwo years, what can we do toâ€"day? Saskatoon Starâ€"Phoenix (Lib.); This country cannot afford to be accused of giving oficial sanction to the Illicit traffic in liquor across the boundary. Our national reputation is not imâ€" proved and our friendship with the meighboring country is not strengthâ€" ened when Canada is attacked as the ally of lawâ€"breakers. -;'In Dominion must be freed of any #lUch imputation. It may be true that the supply of strong drink available in the United States will be scarcely affected by any action this ountry will take. ‘That is not Canada‘s business. Canada‘s busiâ€" ness is to keep clear of anything like a tacit alliance with the rum running fraternity. barrassed. friend: "Don‘t be silly, old man; the race is won." Excited gent: "I‘m talking of the bookies." Speed King Coming Along Put Together ‘That Won‘t Be Lost will not be Government B template S Mandate mor mm of th th Of sho K Support May Feisul‘s A i Frak minatc the mem!t membe would 76 the recently dra treaty, still to those and other m that l.abor has « expensive advent 4o an end and cle tin His Mai 1t is gene British wil stationed 1 Angio Pers King Will N to Shootâ€" #1 ons wwil Ir q ECGYPTIAN # P To A Unemploy h ther that tive retai ally t on d drat seT {us VC