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(money order) -50c. out- side of Cantata and Newfoundland, Name.. Address. „ ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ........ The New Five Roses Cook.3ooro that 15,000 Canadian Women helped to prepare --- edited try the famous lianadion dietitian—Jean Brodie.. Murder at fridge By ANNE AUSTIN, SYNOPSIS . Jutinitn, Selim is murdered at .bridge; tour days later Dexter• Sprague is also murdered during a bridge party at the T.aoey 7,1'liles' home. Police think both Were killed by a New York gunman, to avenge^ the death of "Swallowtail Sam- my" Bonnie" Dundee thinks the mSavelil.urc:ers were committed .by o:. of six people, guests in both homes at the time of the murders. Nita banked $10,01., since her arrival in Hamilton, which the police think was her pay for double-crossing Savelli, and which Dundee thinks Is blackmail. The possible case against Flora lvilles 1s strong. r Dundee learns that Miles was rushed into the engagernent mentsfor Flora, an intensely p siontgirl, who e..red oft her prospective suitors. Penny Crain assures Dundee he is on the wrong track. Arriving in New York, Dundee asks at the store where Nita bought the dress that was her shroud, for the date of the sale. CHAPTER XLI. The white-haired, smartly -dressed buyer accepted the sheaf of photo- graphs Bonnie Dundee was offering. "I'll do my best, of course," she began M. briskly, then paled and • uttered a sharp exclamation as her eyes took in the topmost pictt re. "This is .Juanita Leigh, isn't it? . But-" she shud- dered, "how odd, she looks—as if—" "Yes," Dundee agreed gravely. "She was dead when that picture was taken, Did you know Mrs. Selim?" "No," the woman breathed, her eyes still bulging with horror. "But I've seen so many pictures of her in the papers.... To think that it was one of our dresses she chose for her shroud! But,you want to know when the dress was sold to her, don't you?" she asked, brisk again. "I can find out. We keep a record of all our French originals and of the number of copies made of each. , . Let nee think! I've been going to Paris my- self for the firm for the last fifteen years, but I can't remember buying this Pierre model.. . Oh, of course! I didn't go over during 1917 ant. 1918, on account of the war, you know, but the big Paris designers managed to 'send us a limited number of very good models, and this must have been one of them. Otherwise, Pd remember buying it.... If wot'Il excuse me a regiment—" When she returned about ten min - ass later, Miss Thoinas brought him a penciled memorandum. "This Pierre model was imported in. the summer of 1917, several ,months in advance of : the winter season, of course., Only five copies were made --in different colors and materials. The royai'"blua velvet copy was sold to Juanita Leigh in January 1918. I am. sorry I can- not give you the exact dey of the month." "You have been immensely helpful, Miss Thomas; and I thank you with all my heart," said Dundee. Before he ctuld follow the case farther, however, Dundee Lad an ap- pointment to keep. After arriving .at his hotel that horning he had made two telephone calls. He smiled now as he recalled the surprise and glee of one of his former Yale classmates, new a discouraged young bond sales- man, with whom he had.kept in touch. "You want to borrow my name and any kid sister?" Jimmy Randolph had. chortled. "Hop to it, old sport! But you might tell me what you want with such intimate belongings of mine." "You may not know it," Dundee had retorted, "but young Mr. James Wadley Randolph, Jr., scion. of the fainous old Boston family, is going to visit that equally famous school, For- syte-on-the-Hutson, to see whether it is the ideal finishing school for his beloved young sister, Barbara. She's about 15 now, isn't she, Jimmy'?" "Going on 16, and one of Satan's prize hellions," Jimmy Randolph had answered. "And the family would be eternally grateful if you could get Forsyte to take her, but make them promise not to have any more chorus girls who plan to get murdered, as directors of their amateur theatricals. Hole Nine Miles Deep In Floor of Atlantic San Juan, Puerta Rico, --• Dr. Paul Bartsch, head of an oceanographic ex• eedition: operating off. Puerto Rico, has reported the discovery of a new At- lantic depth of 44,000 feet --- nearly line mites: 1'51 JE No. 10---'33 The hole in the deeean floor is netts' Mare's Deep, about 75 Miles xt$Yl. Puerto Rico, be said. Nautical eht2a show the deepest not hitherto leasi1 in..the Atlantic ae 27,972 feet, Tn Oat same vicinity. Sometimes its not what the fighter does but what the`ref' ee that counts, Bab would be sure to be mixed up in the mess., ... I suppose that's the job you're on, :to flat-footed dick, your' The second telephone call had se- cured an appointment at the Forsyte school for "Mr, James Wadley Ran- dolph, .Jr., of Boston," and Dundee rather relishing his first need for such professional tactics, relaxed to enjoy the 10 -mile drive along the Hudson. It was a quarter to 12 when his taxi swept up the drive toward the big, gray -stone, turreted building, se- dately lonely in the midst of its valu- able acres. "Miss Earle says to come to the office," 'a maid told him when he had given his name, and led him from the vast hall to a fairly large room, whose long windows looked upon a tennis court, and v. hose walls were al- most covered with gr)up pictures of graduating classes, photographs of amateur theatrical performances, and portrait studies of alumnae. .A. very thin, sharp faced woman of about 40, with red -rimmed 'i- es which. Leered nearsightedly, rose from an old-fashioned roll-top desk and came forward to greet him. "I am Miss Earle, Miss Pendleton's private secretary," she told him, as he shook her thin, clammy hand. "I should have told you when you tele- phoned this morning that both Miss Pendleton and Miss Macon sailed for Europe yesteeday. We always have our commencement the last Tuesday in May; you know... But if there is- anything sanything I can do for you—" "I should like to know something at first hand of the history of the school, its—well, prestige, special advan- tages, curriculum, and so on," Dundee began deprecatingly. "I should certainly be able to an- swer any question you may wish to a."; Mr. Randolph, since I have been -with the school for 15 years," Miss Earle interrupted tartly. "Then Forsyte must take younger pupils than I had been led to believe, Miss Earle," Dundee said, with his most winning smile. "I was never a pupi- here," the sec- retary corrected him, but she thawed visibly. "Of course, I was a mere child when I finished business school, but I have been here 15 years -15 years of watching rich society girls dawdle away four or five years, just because they've got to be somewhere before they made their debut... But I musn't talk like that, or I'll give you. a wrong impression, Mr. Randolph. Of its kind, it is really•a very fine school—very exclusive; riding mas- ters, dancing masters, a golf 'pro' and our own golf course, native teachers for French, Italian, German and Spanish.. , . Oh, the school is all right, and will probably not suffer any loss of prestige on account of that dreadful murder out in the Middle West—" "Murder?" Dundee echoed, as if he had no idea what she was talking about. - "Haven't you been reading the pa- pers'?" Miss Earle rallied him, with a coquettish smile. "But I don't sup- pose Boston bothers with such sordid things," she added, her thin-lipped mouth tightening. "Miss Pendleton was all cut up about it, because Mrs. Selim, or Juanita Leigh, as she was known on Broadway; had directed our Easter play the last two years, and the reporters simply hounded us the first two days after she was murdered out in Hamilton, where a number of our rich girls have come from—" "By jove!" Dundee exclaimed. "Was the Selim woman connected with this school, really?" "1 wish," Miss Earle interrupted tartly, fresh tears reddening her eyes, "that people wouldn't persist in re - GOOD MORNING -A THIS;IS MRS. DREW: WHAT bO,YOU SELL: TO CLEAR ACLOGGED- UP ,DRAIN`.PIPE2 NOTHING 1'VE TRIED DOES ANY GOOD, The Leader For Forty Years LAD TEA "Fresh from the Gardens" eo ferring to her as 'that Selim woman'. When I think how sweet and friendly she was, how, how kind!" and to Dun- dee's surprise she choked on tears before she could go on: "Of course I know it's dreadful for the school, and I ought not to talk +.bout it, when you've just come to see about putting your sister into the school, but Nita was my friend, and it simply makes me wild—" "You admired and liked her very much?" Dundee asked, forgetting his role for the moment. "Yes, I did! And Miss Pendleton liked her, too. And :'ou can imagine how clever and popu]av she was, when a wonderful woman like Mrs. Peter Dunlap, who was Lois Morrow when she was in school hese, admired her so much she took her to Hamilton with her to direct plays for a Little The- atre.... Why, I never met anyone I was so congenial with!" the secre- tary went on passionately. "The girls here snub me and make silly jokes about me behind my back and call me nicknames, bu't Nita was just as sweet to me as she was to anyone— even Miss Pendleton herself!" "Were you with her much?" Dundee dared ask. "With her much? .. I should say I was!" she asserted proudly. "I have a room here, live here the year 'round, and both years Nita shared my room. Say! you aren't a reporter are you?" "A reporter? I should say not!" Dundee denied. Then he made-up his mind swiftly. This woman hated the school and all connected with it—and she liked Nita Leigh Selim better than anyone she had ever met. The oppor- tlnity for direct qusetioning was too miraculous to be ignored. So he changed his tone suddenly and said very earnestly: "No, I ani not a re porter, Miss Earle. But I am not James Wadley Randolph, Jr._ I are James F. Dundee, special investigator attached to the office of the district attorney of Hamilton, and I want you to help me solve the mystery of Mrs. Selim's murder." "But I shan't and can't tell you anything bad about Nita!" she pr -- tested. "The papers are all sayii,g Low that she got $10,000 for double- crossing some awful racketeer, but I know she didn't get the honey' that way! She was too good-" "Have you any -'dea how she did get the money?" Dundee asked. Miss Earle shook her head. "I don't know... Maybe she found her hus- band and made him pay alimony—" "Did she tell you all about her mar- riage and divorce?" Again Miss Earle shook her head. "The only time she ever epoke of it was last year. I asked her why she didn't get married again, and she said she couldn't --she wasn't divorced, be- cause she didn't know where her hus- band was, and it was too expensive to go to Reno." "She must have got a divorce, since she was planning to be married again to a young man in .Hamilton," Dundee assu'ed her. "If poor Nita had belonged to a rich family," Miss Earle stormed, "they would have spent a million to hush up any scandal on her! . . I've seen it done!" she added, darkly and venom- ously, (To be continued.) . A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are rn infrequent con- comitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemn- ity tor science, and pomposity for eru- dition, --Colton. March is a Tease -rn March When coaxing breezes blow And springtime fancies Flower in snow, I budge not from the hearth. Instead I go To stir aflame The dying embers of the winter's Sly( And take a new book from the eheld So well I know The chili that lies In March's laughing April eyes That I mistrust her siren song As through the streets she sweep along. But when she rattles at my windolw pane And sings for me her loud refrais; I turn my head To watch just how She conjures blossoms on the naked bough. Then back to the bookshelf Goes the book, Into the firelight One last look— And I am off to follow her! —Geoffrey Clumber, in The Chrlstiat Science Monitor. Twins Born at Midday At the instance of the Federal Bur• eau. of Statistics, Privatdozent von Verschule of the Kaiser Wilhelm insti- tute for anthropology and hereditary' research has been.investigating the question as to the time of day at which twin births most frequently oc- cur, says the Berlin correspondent of The Journal of the American Medical Association. From an examination of his own cases and the books og the re- corder's office in Berlin, Verschuler reached the conclusion that most twin births occur around midday; accord- ing to the investigations of the Leip- zig gynecologist Professor Beliheim, most births in general occur during. the night. As to the seasons in which twin births are more frequent no con- clusions could be reached. Famous English Stone Used At Mount Vernon Whitehaven, Enge--Paving from a sandstone quarry here has been sent to Mount Vernon, Va., to renew simi- lar paving in Washington's hduse there. 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