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SYNOPSIS,
Roger Barling, dining at the Cygnet
Club, in London, meets Nlo1iy Carstairs,
Who confesses tho.t she is looking for a
secretarial position. Roger, who has
taken an instant liking to 14olly, prom-
ises to exert his intiaenc.e among his
friends.
CHAPTER II.
The following morning Molly
arose with a feeling of expectant ex-
c`_tement, All night—or what part
of it remained to her after her ad-
venture at The Cygnet—she had lain
half asleep and half awake with a
mental portrait of Roger Berling be-
fore her in the shrouded darkness of
the room. She laid convinced herself
that Roger Barling was no ordinary
young man, and yet she wondered
whether she should take him serious-
ly, that is, with regard to his offer
to find employment for her,
Molly had found no adequate an-
swer for her inquiry by the time she
had breakfasted and told Bertha Daw-
lish, her landlady's daughter who had
given her the ticket to the dance, how
much sl.e had enjoyed herself.
After telling Mrs. Dawlish `that
she would be back home again within
the hour should anyone inquire for
her, Molly set out for Knightsbridge.
It might, of course, she argued, be
hopelessly misguided optimism, but if
Roger Barling did chance to land a
job for her, she would need a new
}tat, and yesterday she hacl seen one
that bad intrigued her as much by
its shade and shape as by the modest
price ticket.
Mrs. Dawlish's apartment house
was in the Chelsea district in that
labyrinth of crowded streets west of
the King's Road, and as the morning
was fair Molly decided that the feat
of walking to Knightsbridge was not
beyond her powers of endurance, At
the junction of Sloane Square, how-
ever, Molly suddenly found herself
confronted by a pink-cheeked con-
stable whose brown eyes were regard-
ing• her with curious interest. The
girl paused as the officer barred her
very far away from here, We'll get
a taxi, eh?"
Panic clutched at Molly's heart.
The incident had suddenly taken a
turn for which she was unprepared.
She wanted to fight it out there and
then, wanted to convince this over-
zealous constable that he was making
a terrible mistake. But at that Mo-
ment Molly's mind was made up for
her. A little knot of pedestrians had
collected aror.nd the pair and they
were staring at her with a sudden, if
incomprehensible interest.
The constable, too, apparently, had
no desire for crowd publicity, He lift-
ed up a hand and beckoned to one of
the taxicab drivers standing beside
his vehicle in the Square. The driver
held the door open for them and nod-
ned, with apparent understanding, to
the officer.
Molly sank back against the leather
seat with a feeling of utter helpless-
ness, yet she was conscious that she
must do something to ddscover just
why she of all people was being bowl-
ed along to the police station in a
taxicab with a uniformed constable
beside her.
"Look here, constable," said Molly,
striving desperately to take a firm
grip on the chaos of her emotions,
"perhaps you will' be good enough to
explain. the meaning of this—out-
rage?"
The constable's face held a smile
of tolerant understanding.
"Of course, Miss, you aren't charg-
ed with antything. It's just a little
matter that'll soon be adjusted. But
you didn't want to walk to the sta-
ion with me, did you, now?"
Molly was quick to detect the al-
most humoring note in his voice and
she resented it hotly.
"What can soon be adjusted as you
call it?" she demanded.
The police officer was young and
being young he was human. He
hadn't been attached to the Metro-
politan force very long but he had,
nevertheless, a shrewd eye for a
pretty girl. As a matter of fact the
Way. constable was a rather observant and
"Excuse me, Miss," he began polite- painstaking young man. He had am-
ly, "but I think you're wanted. Least- bitions. He had no intention, of re -
ways, I'll make sure."
The color rose to the girl's cheeks.
"Whatever do you mean by 'want-
ed'?" she demanded, her Briton's out-
raged indignation waxing warm. "I
think you are making a mistake, con-
stable:'
But the pink-cheeked constable was
far from being interested in either
her indignation or her denial. He had
extracted his black -backed notebook
from his breast pocket, slipped the
band of securing elastic and pulled
from its pages what appeared to be
a scrap of newspaper. The constable
unfolded the scrap of paper and
glanced at it. Prom it he transferred
his glance to the girl rho stood before
"Might I ask your name, Miss?"
Molly was beginning to feel anxious.
The constable was so calm, so unut-
terably Garro of himself. Was a po-
lice constable empowered to ask one's
name? .Molly was not sure. The in-
tervention had been so inexplicably
unexpected.
"Miss Molly Carstairs," she found
herself saying.
"That's right," returned tl.e con-
stable, more to himself than to Molly.
"Of course it's right," retorted the
indignant girl. "Are you accusing
nee of giving you a wrong name? I
can't think what it can all be about."
"What I meant, Miss, is that it was
right about you being wanted."
Molly began to laugh. Of course it
was all some stupid mistake, but the
irony of the phrass amused her.
".Wanted'." That appeared to be about
the very last thing that she was. Her
trouble so far had been that no one
had wanted her. But the constable
was not sharing, her nervous amuse-
ment. He still held that little scrap
of paper in his hand, together with
his notebook.
"I'll have to ask you to come along
v ith me to the station, Miss. It's not
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ISSU• No, 19—'33
maining a uniformed constable a day!
longer than was necessary. One eye
he kept assiduously glued on Scotland
Yard and the other en the quickest
way of getting there.
Since his arrival in London and his
appointment to the force, and with his
ambition ever before him like a glow-
ing
lowin:g beacon of encouragement, he had
made it a practice to read the news -
rapers. There was nothing in Police
Regulations either for or against this
literary habit. In any event Police
Constable Matthews had little flair
for literature. He read newspapers
for news, and 'was immoderately un-
concerned with the method of its pre-
sentation. News interested Constable
Matthews. He felt that a policeman
with Scotland Yard ambitions ought
tc be au fait with current events and
what better vehicle for his purpose
than the newspaper?
That morning he had reported for
duty at eight o'clock, but an hour be-
fore that time had seen him studious-
ly scanning three or four news -sheets)
fresh from the presses of Fleet Street.
And it had been during that perusal
that he had encountered the picture
of a girl.
As as been mentioned, Constable
Matthews had an eye for a pretty
face, and here was such a one, if you
like! Why, that picture alight have
been selected from. a host of film l'
beauty aspirants which are always
popular with newspaper art editors
who are also connoisseurs of Hellenic
beauty in the modern girl. But it was
not enibirely the attractive face that
intrigued the constable; it was the
name and the caption that interested
him. It told him that the portrai
was that of Miss Molly Carstairs who
had been missing from her home,
"Lawn House," Ham: stead, since the
previous Friday when she had left to
keep an appointment in the city. Any
information as to her whereabouts
was eagerly sought by her Aunt and
Uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Silver. A
further. line " added: "It is believed
that Miss Carstairs may be suffering
from loss of memory."
It was in no way Constable Mat-
thews' job to restore young ladies to
their relations; but this. was news,
and the young .aspirant to the Grim-
i.,al Investigation. Department had
forthwith neatly cut the portrait from
the newspaper and placed it in his
pocket book "for reference," as he
put it.
And his unexpected meeting with
the girl in Sloane Square had justi-
fied his dilligenee. Now' she was de-
manding to know vaby she was 'want-
ed.'
wanted.'
"1 suppose, Miss," he smiled, "that
you won't deny that this picture isn't
yourself," and he handed her his
newspaper cutting as ont method of
clinching the argument and justify-
in ;• his actions,
For a full minute Molly sat staring
her portrait and the letterpress
v.hichaccompanied it. The color had
I- t her eheeke. For the first time
sir.e'r encountering the "constable less
than ten minutes ago she fait desper-
ately afraid, She knew that she could
not deny that this was her portrait.
A. copy of it adorned her dressing
table at Chelsea, It as one she had
had taken some lrrobxths ago to .send
up to Blstree in the hopes that it
might awaken some response in the
normally critical hearts of the l' elm
di• ectors there, Yet here it was re-
pz'oduced in a newspaper, It seemed
41cl-edible--impossible,
And then there was the annoce-
ment that she " was missing from her
home at Hampstead! Molly's brain
—usually calm and equal to most o£
life's emergencies--begaii to swim.
"Really, Constable," she faltered,
almost breathlessly. "There must be
same mistake. I have never heard
of Mr. and Mrs. Silver in my life, I
have never lived in Hampstead, Oh,
I can't imagine what it all means,"
The taxicab was slowing up before
a grey -fronted building. The next
"That's all right, Miss," soothed
the young constable, patting her hand
as he leaned across to release the
door. "If there's been a mistake the
Superintendent will put it eight. He's
a nice, fatherly gentlernan. Now,
Mise, here we are,"
(To be centro led.)
e•rest P of
(From Harper's Magazine.).
This, oh, heart, is the place,
For this is dark and lonely,
.And silence is a grace
'Upon this spot, and only
Rabbit and bird and deer,
The shy, the comely ones,
Will stand in the half-light, here,
At the rise and set of suns.
Take it out of your breast
And bury it here, and go. ,
On the floor of the pool it will rest
And age and alter and glow;
For sorrow turns like the leaf
When a year and a day . are told,
So strange a thing is grief
That alters from green to gold.
And afterward, rabbit and bird
And deer, in their going by,
Will listen to no sound heard.
Aas evening pales in the sky,
But cock their heads in their drinking,
To gaze at a leaf in the pool,
Being strangers to grief, but thinking
It golden and beautiful,
—David Morton, in The N.Y, Herald -
Tribune,
Care of Pictures Planned
Paris.—Experts recently meeting in
Paris under the auspices of the In-
ternational Institute of Intellectual
Co-operation, have drawn up a pro-
gram of experiments to enable great-
er conservation of paintings and art
works.
The committee dealt especially With
question of hygiene in picture gal-
leries, their heating and ventilation
as affecting the preservation of the
art works. Experiments will be ear-
ried out by the International Mu-
seum's office in collaboration with the
International Institute of Refrigera-
tion with a view to determining the
degree of atmospheric moisture most
favorable to the conservation -of paint-
ings in museums,
The committee will also draw up a
handbook on conservation of pictures
which will be published by the insti-
tute.
This Week's
Science N4ltes
When Meteors Blaze—Is, there
Life on Mars?
"His wore marks an epoch in me-
teor astronomy," says Dr, Harlow
Shapley of Pr. 1. M. Millman, whose
specialty is meteors, Although lean -
deeds of meteorites have fallen to the
earth and many of ilrem ha 'c been
cut open and chemically analyzed,
there is need of just the study that
Dr. Millman has made,
We know what meteors are made
'of, thanks to chainical analysis, but
we ]snow none too much about the
physical processes that make a meteor
visible, It is an inert thing that falls
to the earth, if it is not consumed in
the atmosphere. Dr, Millman is inter-
ested in the dynamic thing, the fierce-
ly glowing mass which is trying to
tell us something of the conditions in
our atmosphere at heights of twenty
to a hundred miles.
Up to 1930 just eight meteoric
spectra had been recorded. Most of
these had been photographed accident-
ally at Harvard, Moscow, Hamburg
and Mount Wilson. That is, while
the prism and telescope were directed
at a given star in order to obtain a
record of the different kinds of light
(wave -lengths) that it emits,-. bright
meteor happened to flash across the
field. When he secured two more
spectra in a deliberate hunt for me-
teors in November and December,
1931, Dr. Millman began his study at
Harvard under a fellowship from the
Royal Society of Canada.
LINES OF IRON FOUND.
As might be deduced from the an-
alyses that have been made of me-
teorites that have fallen to the earth,
Dr. Millman found the bright lines of
iron in nine photographs that he se-
lected. He also found—what the an-
alysis of a fallen meteorite can never
show—that the iron glows with a
temperature of 2,600 to 4,600 degrees
Fahrenheit. This i$ rather low—
about the temperature, in fact, of a
furnace. Calcium, magnesium, alum-
inum, manganese, chrornium.i.nd sili-
con were also. detected, though not in
all the spectra. Sodium is fairly corn -
mon.
Many observers of meteors speak
of the green color of the light that
streaks across the sky. ,Dr. Millman
explains it readily by the presence of
magnesium. The element was the
strongest feature he the meteorite.
LIFE ON MARS.
Mars as a subject of controversy
will never die. Is it alive or is it
dead•? Thanks to the work of such
physicists as Dr. Coblentz, the ease
for life on that planet is better than
it ever was. Oxygen and water Va-
por leave been discovered in the Mar-
tian atniosp'he e --both essentials in
the maintenance of life. The surface
temperature has been treasured and
found to compare favorably with that
of the earth,
During the Martian winter a. white
deposit accumulates around the poles,
only to melt away with the. approach
of summer—deposits now generally
assumed to be hoar frost and snow.
As the melting proceeds, vast areas,
ochrous red in color, change to green.
And so we now find many astronomers
agreeing with Dr, Coblentz that vege-
tation thrives, dies and is reborn with
the Martian seasons,
Healthy and Practical
Of all the farts of recent years thebicycle craze seems the most
Constructive. Here we see Mrs. Younger- and Mrs. Piper, Chicago
society matrons making their rounds, coilectinr odds and endsto
sell at their infants welfare thrift shop.
The Leader: for Forty Years
„Fresh From the Gard ens's
More Theatres in Paris
The late Professor. Percival Lowell,
founder of the Flagstaff Observatory
in Arizona, did much to popularize the
view that Mars is a living -,vorld. Al-
though many of his deductions were
challenged in lis lifetime, there can
be no doubt that they have gained in
strength with the years. One of his
most aggressive opponents was E. M.
Antoniadi of the observatory of Meu-
don in France. The notion that Mars
may be the abode of life is to him so
repugnant that he has written a whole
book, "The Illusion of the Canals," to
challenge the conclusions and his sup-
porters.
BLOOD REVEALS INEBRIETY.
When the Voletead Act was passed
and just before it was repealed dozens
of physicians and psychologists ap-
peared before Congressional commit-
tees to answer the question: How
much alcohol is intoxicating? Last
year there appeared a volume, edited
by Dr. Haven Emerson, which bore
the title "Alcohol and Man; The Ef-
fects of Alcohol on Man in Health and
in Disease." It cannot be said that
the testimony or the book gave any
definite answer, not because neithe'
could be trusted but becaese alcohcl
affects no two persons alike.
The Norwegians seem to have solv-
ed this problem in the sensible and
therefore in the scientific way. In
other words, a man charged with in-
toxication . is tested—or rather his
blood is.
It is the motor car thathas aroused'
the practical Norwegians. A man may
reel along on his feet, a harmless ob-
ject, but when he reels on pneumatic
tires behind the steering whel of a
high-speed car he is a public menace.
When, therefore, a drunken Norweg-
ian driver is taken into custody there
is not much argument at the policy'
station. A surgeon steps up to the
accused, pricks the lobe of his ear
and takes a sample of blood, which is
immediately dispatched to the Phar-
macological Institute of Oslo. There
tests are made in accordance with a
technical method familiar to pharma-
cologists but much simplified by Dr.
Klaus Hansen of the University of
Oslo. Little rubber stoppered tubes
for collecting blood are supplied free
of charge.
It 'has been found that when the
concentration of alcohol in the blood
lies somewhere between 2.61 and 5 per
thousand, drunkenness is indicated.
But what of eases when the concen-
tration is much less than 2.61 and the
policeman who made the arrest insists
that his prisoner drove as if he were
drunk and charges hint with having
been. drunk? Dr. Hansen saved. one -
driver whose blood concentration was
as low as 0.08 per thousand by prov-
ing that he had lost self-control
through sheer nervousness,
Carrera Takes 2500
Pictures a Second
New York.—Twenty-five hundred
pictures a second can be taken in or-
dinary light by a super -rapid motion -
picture camera shown here April 18
for the first time.
Its pictures showed the seemingly
instantaneous ' flare of a photogra-
pher's flashlight bulb lasting in "slow
motion" for a full minute. More ex-
traordinary, it showed one of these
bulbs beating another to the flash,
although both were -wired on the
same circuit, controlled by a single
switch, and ignited by the selfsame
electrical impulse.
The camera differsafrom anything
previously evade by taking its pic-
tures in ordinary light, either day-
light or artificial. Lights flashing
hundreds of thor sands of tinesa sec-
ond have been heretofore the only
means of taking such pictures. But
they could not show the action of a
self -illuminating object, like the 'pho-
tographer's flash.
Mr. Fordyce Tuttle of the Eastman
Kodak Company laboratories in Ro-
chester c]evelcped the came.a. It was
shown here by the Electrical Research
Products, Incorporated, to demon-
strate its first practical application,
the recording of a timing clock on the
edge of each "fr..rne" of filar. •
. One hundred feet of film which
usually runs ,in four minutes, speeds
through this carr-, in 2 1-2 seconds.
The camera has no shutter and the
filen runs continuously instead of be-
ing stopped for each "frame."
A New dRuse
London, Eug,—A. young span . walk-
ed up to a house in Bermondsey and
rang the bell.
dl am a sanitary inspector," he
told the married couple who live
there, "and I have conte to make some
measurements,
He asked the wife to hold nee end
of a piece of string in oai:e room and
the husband to hold the other end
in another room,
Then, rvliile they were otit of sight,
ho seized everything handy and lied.
Paris.—While many forms of busi-
ness and industry wore declining, the,,
number' of amusements and entertain
merits showed a steady increase in
Paris during the year 1932, according
to municipal statistics just issued,
The number of theatres, includiing
legitimate stages, contort halls, mo-
eion picture houses, circuses and va-
riety shows, increased from 609 in
1930 to 641 in 1932. During that period
23 new moving picture houses were
opened in Paris and seven in the imi
mediate suburban region.
Twelve street fairs were held in
the year in Paris and 156 in the sub-'
:Urban district, Ten new gambling
halls were opened. Permits for redid
concerts musical performances and
other amusements issued to cafe and
restaurant proprietors for special en•I
tertainments number 2,038, and near')
ly 6,000 other permits were,,given fore
dances and evening entertainments'
to which admission was charged,
Two hundred and thirty-seven open
air concerts were held in the Parii
region, and there were thirty-five sop*
erate and distinct expositions held
either at the Grand Palate or at the'
Parc des Expositions.
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England has more than 91,000 peL'-4
sons over eighty-five years of age, and
of these the women outnumber the
hien by nearly two to ono. 1
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