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_ on i wt (¢ h ad * "Well, it‘s like this. She‘s a fashâ€" wnable sort of woman. Dressed up tw the ninesâ€"daughter‘s a smart, pretty girl. atural thing would be for them to be staying at the Ritz or Claridges, or some other big hotel wmewhere. You know the sort." Narracott nodded. "They don‘t keep themselves to themselves, do they?" he asked. "You don‘t think they areâ€"wellâ€"hiding?" â€" This was cl 1 clearly a P"Bfig_'“e pondered 3 "Well, I never thought of that. They were very gushing to him, certainly. Not that they got any change out of Byt no. gfl"‘&' was just Ei‘r \fi%} fiiilfne a Oér friendly, know, like colonials are." + "I see. Now, as to the house itself. Captain Trevelyan built that, 1 unâ€" m‘d?n savetvses ~A1 ENE . Lc € § flfi nobody else has ever lived in K2 1 mean, it‘s not been let before?" 39 '\ye}?. & ap sal ie ioi JA "Wellâ€""the major rubbed his nose Juviously, "she talks a lot, she‘s that tind of womanâ€"beauties of natureâ€" ut of the worldâ€"that sort of thing. Sutâ€"" He paused rather helplessly. Inâ€" weetor Narracott came to his rescue, "It didn‘t strike you as natural on »er part." "fien’ it doesn‘t seem as though it tould be anything in the house itself hat was the attraction. It‘s a puzzle. Â¥en to one, it‘s got nothing to do Aloud he said innocently. "You vere at Sittaford House, you say sir. Fhe lady has been there nowâ€"about ow long?" "A couple of months." The major was eager to escape the result of his imprudent words. It nade him more loquacious than usual. _ "A widow lady with her daughter?‘ "That‘s it." "Well, 1 suppose there‘s no accountâ€" ng for tastes," said the Inspector. "Very odd taste for a woman of hat kind." "You know the lady?" "I know her? Why I was at her louse whenâ€"â€"" "When what?" asked Narracott as he major came to an abrupt halt. "Nothing," said Burnaby. Inspector Narracott looked at him weenly. There was something here he would have liked to get at. The maâ€" lor‘s obvious confusion and embarâ€" assment did not escape him. He had wen on the point of sayingâ€"what? "All in good time," said Narracott » himself. "Now isn‘t the moment w rub him up the wrong way." A party of neighbors, gathered at the kome of Mrs. Willett and her daughter Â¥tolet turned to table thpping for amuseâ€" ment. . Seated around the table were Mrs. and Miss Willett, Mr. Duke, Mr. Rycroft who dabbled in the psychic, RKerald Garficld and _ Major Burnaby, For two months the Willetts had been weupying the house of Captain Joseph Frevelyan, who had been unable to reâ€" sist an offer of 12 guineas a month rent ind bad taken a small house for himâ€" «w17 at Exhampton, six miles distant. Wajor Burnaby, his friend for years, weupied one of the five eottages Trevliâ€" yam built on land near his house. A}l ‘hose seated at the table weres tartled when a "spirit‘ stated that Captain Frevelyan had been murdered. Burnaby, worried, leaves and finds his friend Jead. _ A man named James Pearson w# London had registered at an Exâ€" w»ipton hotel the afternoon of the mur. ter, and taken the first train back to eondon early the following morning. He did not wish to antagonize the wajor just at this moment. He promâ€" ged himself that he would get to the wttom of the matter before the day vas out. » INSTLLMENT V. "Why shouldn‘t I say twentyâ€"five jast five that the Captain was murâ€" lered"" Major â€" Burnaby demanded xuculently, "or twentyâ€"five to sixâ€"â€" w twenty past four, for that matter?" "There‘s one thing that strikes me is curious, sir," he went on. Y es ?" "This business of the letting of Sitâ€" aford House. I don‘t know what you hink about it, but it seems to me a wrious thing to have happened." "If you ask me," said Burnaby, "it‘, «id, very odd." "That‘s your opinion?" "It‘s everyone‘s opinion." "In Sittaford?" "In Sittaford and Exhampton, too the woman must be mad." "Does she give any reason for her hoice of resident?" “Quitc' s-o, sir," said Inspector Nar acott soothingly. p woW GO ON WITH THE STORY T new idea to the over it for some obifijiqy;;â€",â€"_’_’ esmm "None." P s "Then I see no reason why I should not accede to your request, lnspecggr_."" "That is so." "It was made some time ago?" "Five or six years ago, I cannot be sure of the exact date at the moment." "I am anxious, Mr. Kirkwood, to know the contents of that will as soon as possible. It may have an imporâ€" tant bearing on the case." "Indeed?" said the lawyer. "Inâ€" deed! I shoyld not have thought that, but naturally you know your own business best, Inspector. > Wellâ€"â€"" he glanced across at the other man. "Major Burnaby and myself are joint executors of the will. If he has no Mr. Kirkwood was an elderly man with a benign expression. He was a native of Exhampton and has sueâ€" ceeded his father and grandfather in the firm. neighborhood that at all fulfilled the requiremerts. The lady mentioned in her letter that she would be willing to go to twelve guineas, and in these cireumstances 1 thought it worth while writing to Captain Trevelyan and asking whether he would conâ€" sider letting. He replied in the afâ€" firma‘ive, and we fAixed the thing up." "It concerns the late Captain Tre velyan‘s will," said Narracott. "I un derstand the will is here in your of fiee." "She agreed to take it without seeâ€" ing it, and signed the agreement. Then she came down her for one day, drove up to Sittaford, saw Captain Trevelyan, arranged with hm about piate and linen, etc., and saw over the house." "She was quite satisfied?" ‘She came in gnd said she was deâ€" lighied with it." "Good morning, Major Burnaby," he said. "This in a very shocking affair. Very shocking indeed. Poor Trevelyan." "You are in charge of the case spector Narracott?" Taking up a speaking tube, he spoke a few words â€"down it. In two or three minutes a clerk entered the room and laid a sealed envelope in front of the lawyer. Mr. Kirkwood drew out a large and important looking docuâ€" ment, cleared his throat and began to readâ€"â€" "No, it was not. But as a matter of fact it was the only house in the Without Mrs. Willett seeing the house?" "You learn never to be surprised at anything in the house business," he said, as they left. On reaching the offices of Messrs. Walters & Kirkwood, they were told that Mr. Kirkwood had just arrived and they were shown into his reoom. He rose, put on his mourning face, and shook hands with the major. He looked inquiringly at Narracott and Major Burnaby explained his presence in a few succinct words. * _‘"Yes, Mr. Kirkwood. In pursuance of my investigations, I have come to ask you for certain information." "I shall be happy to give you any information if it is proper for me to do so," said the lawyer. â€"The young man shrugged his shouolâ€" ders. "And what dil you think?" asked Inspector Narracott, eyeing him keenâ€" ly. "No, she merely said she wanted to rent a house for the winter, it must be right on Dartmoor and have at least eight bedrooms. Being near a railway station or a town was of no consequence." "Was Sittafford House on your books ?" "Did she mention Sittaford House by name?" f e o "I Joseph Arthur Trevelyan, of Sitâ€" taford House, Sittaford, in the County "By letter. She wrote, let me see â€"â€"" _ He opened a drawer and turnâ€" up a file. "Yes, from the Carlton Hotel, London." ter "I want some information that I think you can give me," said the inâ€" spector, "I understand _ you put through this let of Sittaford House." "To Mrs. Willett? Yes, we did." "Can you give me full details, please, of how that came about. Did the lady apply personally, or by letâ€" "This is major said with the case, but it just struck me as an odd coincidence. This house that Captain Trevelyan took, Hazelâ€" moor, whose property was that?" There seemed nothing promising there. The inspector shook his head. "Williamsons were the agents, I unâ€" derstand?" he said. OlYes.” "Their office is in Exhampton?" "Next door to Walters & Kirkwood." "Ah! then, perhaps, if you don‘t wind, major, we might just drop in on our way." An alert looking young man ros to receive them in the office of Messrs Williamson. "Miss Larpent‘s. Middleâ€"aged womâ€" an, she‘s gone to a boarding house at Cheltonham for the winter. Does every year. Usually shuts the house up, but lets it if she can, which isn‘t often." The Major, who hah finished his breakfast some time ago, nodded asâ€" sent and rose. C 999 Inspector Narracott," the , In "(3) 1 give the said John Edward Burnaby, as a token of our friendâ€" ship and of my affection and regard for him, all my trophies of sport, inâ€" cluding my collection of heads and pelts of big game, ze well as any challenge cups and prizes awarded to me in any department of sport and any spoils of the chase in my posâ€" session. Three tariffs systems prevail beâ€" tween France and her vast empire which extends to all continents and includes 61,615,000 persons. One group is consolidated in the French tariff scheme, another is on preferential basis and a third has tariff autonomy. "(2) I give to Robert Henry Evans, who has served me long and faithâ€" filly, the sum of £100 (one hundred pounds) free of legacy duty for his own benefit absolutely, provided that he is in my service at the time of my death and not under notice to leave whether given or received. Paris.â€""Put Africa to work." This is the slogan of French colonial policy as the economic crisis becomes more severe. Trade with the colonies has slumpâ€" ed less than has trade with foreign countries. Thirty per cent. of all French exports were bought by the empire in 1932, while the mother country made 19 per cent. of all her purchases in possessions. These percentages have mounted since the depression set in. In 1929 France sold her colonies only 19 per cent. of her exports, instead of 30 per cent., and she bought from them only 11 per cent. of her purchases inâ€" stead of 19 per cent. The trade deficit of France proper recently reached 1,000,000,000 francs a month. Officials now look to the colonial empireâ€"the world‘s second largestâ€"for increased | business . to wipe out the deficit. of Devon, declare this to be my last will and testament which I make this thirteenth day of August nineteen hundred and twentyâ€"six. 4(1) I appoint sohn Edward Burnâ€" aby of 1 The Cottages, Sittaford, and Frederick Kirkwood of Exhampton, to be the executors and trustees of this my will. "Put Africa to Work," French Colonial Slogan Parisians are now instructed in the use of gas mask at the Inâ€" valides. Young and old are shown how to combat poison fumes, Lowered 1,250 feet into Miharayama "suicide" volcano, Tokuzo Iwata, Japanese scientist, found the bones of a suicideâ€"one of 270 since January. Iwata‘s descent is the most sensational of its kind. A Lesson in War (To Be Continued.) Japan‘s "Suicide" Crater Explored "‘Imperial Highness, give me two pints of milk, or ‘Archduke, be sure to keep me some fresh butter,‘ or ‘Your Serene Highness, can you inâ€" troduce me to a good sausage" " "My little shop was in Vienna," he adds, "and my customers were mostly working class folk who knew me for the archduke I once was. This fact that an archduke had turned grocer seemed to amuse them, and they always addressed me by my title, each in his own special style. Their orders given to me ‘over the counter still ring in my ears: When G.B.S. was a little shaverâ€" arnd going to school, his father remarkâ€" ed to him one day, more in serrow than in anger: Since the end of the World War, many are the exâ€"royal personages, especially when hailing from Central Europe and Russia, who, in the effort to earp an honest penny, have had to turn their hands to all kinds of menâ€" ial jobs. The recent marriage of Leoâ€" pold Walfing, exâ€"archduke of Tuscany and former cousin of the old Emperâ€" or Francis Joseph of Austria, recalls the fact that in his reminiscences, "My Life Story: From Archduke to Grocer," he says, not without pride, "so far as I know, no other reduced royal bigâ€"wig except myselt has ever been a grocer. "Your teaches says that you are the laziest boy in the school. Is that "Mr. Shaw, what is your thought about these huge incomesg that are being accumulated by individuals all over the world. Don‘t you agree that r> man should be allowed to retain more than one thousand pounds (then $5,000) for himself?" _ "Certainly not," promptly respondâ€" ed Shaw. "Besides, my income. is more than a thousand pounds." % tA I‘ll say it is. PÂ¥< 80 "No, father," replied Georgie. "The teacher is the laziest. Whenever we have to work and write, he sits in his chair, doing nothing." _peaking of the budding geniuses recalls a story about Anatole France, the French writer, who when seven rears of age, was listening to some of his school mates telling about their birthdays. Joining the con ersation he said : * "I know when I was born." "When?" piped several voices. "At 8.35 in the morning," proudly asserted little Francois Thibault â€" * hich was Anatole France‘; â€" seal name. One of the best stories about George Bernard â€" Shawâ€"because it shows, as Miss Ishbel MacDonald pus it, that "you mustn‘t taze him too serivusly"â€"has to do with a lecture he once gave in London on "Socialism After the War." At its conclusion, G.B.S. invited questions from _ the audience. A man arose and said: "Dad, you always tell people I am lazy. But you should have heard how teacher praised me this mcrning." â€" "He said there might be boys still lazier than I," repliea the young hopeâ€" ful, triumphantly. & "That isn‘t true," retorted one of them. On another occasion young G.B.S. said to his father: Shavian, even then, you see. So you mustn‘t take him too seriously. "Ah! that‘s right, my boy," beamed father. "What did he say?" Pithy Anecdotes Of the Famous George Bernard Shaw Incidâ€" entsâ€"An Exâ€"Archâ€" dukeâ€"Etc. But, sighs the former archduke, to a successful grocer one must have 19 The great social event at Athens in those days was the King‘s Ball. A Greek lady, wife of a prosperous mer» chant, made up her mind to get into society. She gave her money and support to the Greek industry. In due course an invitation to the royal ball was the reward. There, King George commended her silk efforts. "The titter that broke out among the few Americans present was quickly suppressed by the look of horror on the faces of others, and the remark of a seriousâ€"minded Frenchman : ""I have always understood,/ he said, ‘that respect for parents was not so thoroughly inculcated in the 1inds of children in America, as in other countries‘" "I was once at in international dinâ€" ner at a legation," reminisces Mr. Horton, "at which the guest of honor was an American Congressman, a famous raconteur. He told, with much detail, a story of a farmer who had two sons, one good and prudent, the other a spendthrift. On his death he left the farm to the good young man, and the other brought legal action to break the will. The suit lasted for years, the lawyers‘ fees eating up the property, until the fences, house and barns became dilapidated. "One evening, the owner of the farm, sitting on his porch and lookâ€" ing out over his mortgaged fields, murmured : "‘When I think of it all, I‘m someâ€" times sorty that Pa died. Ernest Rhys recalls in his remiâ€" niscences how when Oscar Wilde once met Oliver Schreinerâ€"author of "The Story of An African Farm" â€" who was living in the Whitechapel district of London, he asked her why in the world she went to live in the East George Horton, for _ over thirty years in the American Consular serâ€" vice, tells some amusing stories about his experiences abroad in his book, "Recollections Grave ind Gay." Mr, Horton‘s first post was Athens, where in 1893, he got to know King George of Greeceâ€"a rather decent sort of chap, one guthers. "Your Majesty," she said, "the soâ€" ciety ladies of Athens should set the fashion of wearing local silk. Every stitch I have on is Greek silk." She patted her skirt and murmured "Greek silk!" She lifted that, and revealed anâ€" other, "Greek silk!" How far the demonstration would have gone (speculates Mr. Horton), I do not know, for the King, evidently convinced, fied. "Hold me back," roared Banaste to the onlookers, "or 1 shall do someâ€" thing terrible to him." Nobody moved to interfere. Nonâ€" plussed, Banaste glared indignantly at the crowd. "What," he said, "you don‘t hold people back in this cafe, then She lifted it, disclosing .. petticoat, "Greek silk!" "I live in the East End," she said, "because the people don‘t wear masks.‘ "And 1," rejoined Oscar, "live in the West End because they do." Over a game of cards in a cafe, Banâ€" aste had a furious quarrel with his opponent. In his rage he threw off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeves while the other man did likeâ€" wise. "I, myself, don‘t possess them," he frankly confesses, "and I was never more conscious of my lack than reâ€" cently when, after I . had slaved away as a small grocer in Vienna for nearly a year, my creditors swooped down on me and I had to shut up the shop." . brains and "brains are a commodity which few royal personages posâ€" From "Histories Marseillaises," by Edovard Ramond: 999 hesfrt Kst ‘Fresh from the gardens‘ Not since the discovery of the Chaulmoogra oil treatment, ten years ago, has a development in the field of leprosy been regarded by physicians as of such importance as the isolaâ€" tion of the germ after sixty years of effort. In 1872 a Norwegian bacterioâ€" logist discovered the germ believed to be responsible for leprosy, closely resembling that of tuberculosis. But the mere establishment of the fact that leprosy was a germ disease was of little value in its conquest until the germ could be taken into the labâ€" oratory and studied. In proportion as we love truth more and â€" victory less, we shall become anxious to know what it is which leads our opponents to think as they do. We shall begin to suspect that the pertinacity of belief exhibited by them must result from a perception of something we have not perceived. And we shall aim to supplement the portion of truth we have found with the portion found by them, Dr. Earle B. McKinley, dean of George Washington University Mediâ€" cal School, and Dr. Malcolm H. Soule, of the University of Michigan, are the scientists who have succeeded in isoâ€" lating what they believe gives every evidence of being the true leprosy organism. Washington.â€"Another step toward the conquest of leprosy has been anâ€" nounced by the Leonard Wood Memâ€" orial for Eradication of Leprosy. It is the isolation and cultivation of the germ outside the body. Dr. McKinley and Dr. Elizabeth Verder, an associate, in experiments still in progress at George Washington also have developed a method by which fresh strains of the organism can be started at any time from lepâ€" rosy tissue. Leprosy Germ Isolated; Cure Now a Step Nearer cube in each glass. with cold water. Do not reâ€" hrigerate as tea will turn cloudy. Serve as required, with an ice Infuse six heaping teaspoonfuls of "SALADA®" Black Tea in a pint sized teaâ€"pot. After six minutes strain and pour liquid into halfâ€"gallon container. While hot, add a cup and a half of sugar and the juice of two lemons; then fill container «Ts T ALMUV _ MAKVUMIIY LA ISSUE No. 26â€"‘33 graphy. _ Write THE BORDEN (_1).. LlMl:l'EQ.)::nlley House, TEA TRUTH. L L That was Miss Mary Ann Smith, of Hove, Eng., whose will reveals that she left a fortune of nearly a million dollars. The reporter watched girls clamber ing along shafting high in the roofs armed with grease guns, others deep in the intricacies of big machines, and still others quickly and â€" efficiently turning out machined parts cut ac curately to the thousandth part of an inch. s "The woman whom everyone loved," once lovely daughter of a Tasmanian sheep farmer, entertaining on such a scale that her own mansion was not large enough. She lived to the age of 103, and after many years on her father‘s ranch for the past 52 years dwelt alone, save for her maids, in ber large bome in the Drive, Hove. "To succeed one must have the will to succeed."â€"Edouard Herriotk The factory now makes delicate airâ€" plane parts for many of the great air companies, and turned parts for ships, wireless sets and domestic use, A Museum Piece. Some time ago Miss Ashberry was approached by the British Broadcastâ€" ing Corporation to make a special gramophone pickâ€"up. She was given the work because the B.B.C. thought a woman would be the best to handle it, as the details were a confidential secret. Her gentle disposition and her lavish generosity earned fame for her far beâ€" yond the seclusion of her palatial home. Inheriting riches from her rancher father, in her younger days, Miss Smith _ delighted in giving great parties, and was the centre of local society, The will, dated September 13, 1892, provides for bequests to many instiâ€" tutions, the largest being $20,000 each to the Church ‘of England Temperance Society and the London Temperance Hospital. A sum of $12,000 is left on trust for forming a missionary staff for visiting shepherds and other occupants of the bush in Tasmania. London.â€"One of the most remark able books published by the British and Foreign Bible Society is being re issued. Entitled "The Gospe}) in Many Tongues," it gives specimens of 665 languages in which the society has published some portion of the Berip tures. Dr. Kilgour, the editorial superâ€" intendent, remdrks that philologists will find in the_specimens material for comparison of cognate or diverse forms of speech; but to the Bible Society they stand for nearly 440,000,â€" 000‘ books, distributed all over the world during the last 128 years, Some of the girls left offices and shops to learn engineering. One was a speedway rider, another was a road scout in a women‘s motoring organi zation. "One model machine we made was considered such a fine production by the firm for which it was made that it was presented to the Science Mu seum," said Miss Ashberry, Among the great variety of pro ducts of the factory are razor blades, motor car clutches, hosiery machines, patent spanners, baconâ€"cutting ma chines and even a patent flyâ€"trap in vented by a woman. Lady Bountiful Dies Aged Hundred and Three 440,000,000 Boocks in Record Women Conduct Engineering Works Kennington, England, Busi ness Handled Solely by Women Workers The only engineering wo®» in the world run entirely by womenâ€"from proprietor to oflice girlâ€"is at Kenâ€" nington, England. "I had many rebuffs like that early one, and, for some time, it looked as though we were going to fail. I had to reduce my staff of girls from four to two. Then the tide began to turn and now we employ twenty girls as engineers." Not only is every employe> a womâ€" an, but much of the work is manuâ€" facturing the engincering inventions of women. This unique business was s‘mrted by a woman, and at no time in its history has any man been connected with it. Its founder, manager, organizer and the inventor of some of the products is Miss A. Ashberry. Many Rebuffs. "It was difficult to get the business going," she said,. "Once, just after we had started, 1 went to a mana facturer‘s office for an order, but was turned out with his ‘What! let women engineers do it? Not likely!‘ "But I kept at him and be is now one of our best customers. "Did Brown lose control of his car?" "Completely; his wife uses it ali the time." pus sp catls 1 ad ege whi when th Md bro bi M lhmu bath H: is ht 0 14 There weak h t ak make the f More any do athra hott! Tabl over in & a blob of are made up in tubes or screw 4top ped up in a pamphi ty showing forth 4 remedies they enc and toilet creams. 1 ply of reading mat ly attached to the ban d We are so much accompaniments 1 generally thrown ad )1d Th P Dru A s1 ih ild Pp) | id Botties a Bak wy