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6 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 1932 The Green Murder Case BY S. S. VAN DINE. Greene mur.l«r» wln-n 1'istrict At "ii Jul,:; Mm-Ulu.m un.l Set. Il.-nlh aiv oal in utter the fatal shooting of Jr Greene an.l thv w,.iiii.itn«r of hc-r youii sister, Ada. Old Tobias Greene's wul. t!'r. Si!."-lla."rti-x':i)i.» A'hi ' ;i■ i■ ■ I• t ■-■' 1 > 1 his r.Hira. AKtiin km.hi-!.- sire found to at,.! !.-.•:,! Hie -nuance of the mansion, tcbea to Markhain's office and in- c has not told all h CHAPTER XXV.--(Cont'd.) Vance continued': "I see in this whole affair a carefully worked-out plot that's been in preparation perhaps for years. We're dealing with the persistency of an idee fixe, and with the demoniaca logic of insanity. /in<j--what is even more hideous-- we're confronted with the perverted imagination of a fantastically romantic mind. . We're pitted against a fiery, egocentric, hallucinated optimism. And this type of optimism has tremendous stamina and power. The history of nations has been convulsed by it. Mohammed, Bruno and Jeanne d'Arc--as well a? Torquemada, Agrip-pina and Robespierre--all had it. It operates in different degrees, and to different ends; but the spirit of individual revolution is at the bottom of it." "Hell, Mr. Vance!" Heath was uneasy. "You're trying to make this case something that ain't--well, na- "Can you make it anything else, Sergeant? Already there have been three murders and an attempted murder. And now comes the theft of the poisons from Von Blon." Inspector Moran drew himself up and rested his elbows on the table. "Well, what's to be done? That, 1 believe, is the business of tonight's conclave." He forced himself to speak with matter-of-factness. "We can't break up the establishment; and we can't assign a separate body-guard for each remaining member of the household." "No; and we can't give 'cm the works at the police station, either," grumbled Heath. "It wouldn't help you if you could, Sergeant," said Vance. "There's no third degree known that could unseal the lips of the person who is executing this particular opus. There's too j much fanaticism and i irtyrdor "Suppose we hear those wills, Mr. Markham," suggested Moran. "We may then be able to figure out a motive. You'll admit, won't you,, Mr. Vance, that there's a pretty strong motive back of these killings?" "There can be n. doubt as to that. But I don't believe it's money. Money may enter into it--and probably does --but only as a concribut'ry factor. I'd say the motive was for fundamental--that it had its matrix in some powerful but suppressed human passion. However, the financial conditions may lead us to those depths." Markham had taken from his pocket several legalized sheets of closely typed paper, and smoothed them on tne table before him. "There's no necessity to read these verbatim," he said. "I've gone over them thoroughly and can tell you briefly what they contain." He took up the sheet and held it nearer to the light. "Tobias Greene's last will, drawn up less than a year before lis death, makes the entire family, as you know, t' e residuary devisees, with the stipulation that they live on the estate and maintain it intact twenty-five years. At the end of that time the property may be sold or otherwise disposed of. I might mention that the domiciliary stipulation was particularly strict; the legatees must live in the Greene mansion in esse--no technicality will suffice. They are permitted to travel and make visits; but such absences may not exceed three months in each respective year. . . ." "What provision was made in case one of them should marry?" asked the inspector. "None. Even marriage on the part of any of the legatees did not vitiate the restrictions of the will. I Greene married, he or she had to live out the twenty-five years on the tate just the same. The husband wife could share the residence, of course. In event of children the provided for the erection of two other small dwellings on the 52nd street side of the lot. Only, one exception made to these stipulations. If Ada should marry, she could live elsewhere wihout losing her inheritance, as she apparently was not Tobias' own child and could not, therefore, carry on the blood line of the Greenes." "What penalties attached to a breaking of the domiciliary terms of the will?" Agair. the snspector put the question. "Only one penalty--disinheritance, ccmplete and absolute." "A rigid old bird," murmured Vance. 'But tl/S important thing about the will is, I should say, the manner in hich he left th. money. How was this cistributed?" "It wasn't distributed. With the exception of a few minor bequests, it was left in its entirety to the widow. She was to have the use of it during her lifetime, and could, at her death, dispose of it to the children--and grandchildren, if any--as she saw fit. It was imperative, however, that it all remain in the family." "Where do the present generation of Greenes get their living expenses? Are they dependent on the old lady's bounty?" "Not exactly. A provision was made for them in this way: each of the five children was to receive from the executors a stipulated amount from Mrs. Greene's income sufficient for personal needs." Markham folded up the paper. "And that about covers Tobias' will." "You spoke of a few minor be-qiests," said Vance. "What are they?" "Sproot was left a competency, for instance--enough to take care of him comfortably whenever he wished to retire from service. Mrs. Mannheim, also, as to receive an income for life, beginning at the end of the twenty-five years." "Ah! Now, that's most interestin'. And in the meantime she could, if she chose, remain as cook at a liberal salary." "Yes, that was the arrangement." "The status of Frau Mannheim fascinates me. I have a feeling that some day ere long she and I will have a heart-to-heart talk. Any other minor bequests?" "A hospital where Tobias recovered from typhus fever contracted in the tropics; and a donation to the chair of criminology at th University of Prague. I might mention too, as a curious item, that Tobias left his library to the New York police department, to be turned over to them at the expiration of the twenty-five Vance drew himself up with puzzled interest. "AmazinM" Heath had turned to the inspector. "Did you know anything about this, "It seems to me I've heard of it. But a gift of books a quarter of a century in the future isn't apt to excite the officials of the force." Vance, to all appe: smoking with indolent the precise way he held his cigarette told me that some unusual speculation was absorbing his mind. "The will of Mrs. Greene," Mark ham went on, "touches more definitely on present conditions, though personally I see nothing helpful in it. She has been mathematically impartial in doling out the estate. The five children--Julia, Chester, Sibella, Rex and Ada--receive equal amounts under its terms--that is, each gets a fifth of the entire estate." "That part of it don't interest me," put in the sergeant. "What I want to know is, who gets all the money in case the others pass outa the pic- "The provision covering that point is quite simple," exclaimed Markham. "Should any of the children die before a new will is drawn, their share of the inheritance is distributed equally among th% remaining beneficiaries." "Then when any one of 'em passes out, all the others benefit. And if all of 'em, except one,' should die, that one would get everything--huh?" "Yes." "So as it stands now Sibella and Ada would get everything--fifty-fifty --provided the old "lady croaked." "That's correct, Sergeant." "But suppose both Sibella and Ada, as well as the old iady, should die: what would become of the money?" "If either of the girls had a husband, the estate would pass to him. But, in event of Sibella and Ada dying single, everything would go to the State. That is to say, the State would get it provided there were no relatives alive--which I believe Heath pondered these possibilities for several minutes. "I can't see anything in the situa tion to give us a lead," he lamented. "Everybody benefits equally by what's already happened. And there's three of the family still left--the old lady and the two girls." "Two from three leaves one, Sergeant," suggested Vance quietly. "What do you mean by that, sii "The morphine and the strychnii Heath gave a start and made ugly face. He struck the table with his fist. "It ain't coming to that if I can stop it!" Then a sense of helplessness tempered his outraged resolution, and he became sullen. "I know how you feel." Vance spoke with troubled discouragement. "But I'm afraid we'll all have to wait. If the Greene millions are an actuating force in this affair there's no way on earth to avert at least gedy." "We might put the matter up to the two girls and perhaps induce them to separate and go away," ventured the Inspector. "That would only postpone the inevitable," Vance returned. "And besides, it would rob them of theh patrimony." "A court ruling might be obtained upsetting the provisions of the will," submitted Markham dubiously. Vance gave him an ironical smile. "By the time you could get one of your beloved courts to act the murderer would have had time to wipe out the entire local judiciary." (To be continued.) Michael An old man, stout of heart, and strong of limb. His bodily frame had been from youth n unusual strength: his mind w: lse, and frugal, apt i.or all affairs, And in his shepherds calling he was And watchful more than ordinary men. Hence he had learned the meaning of all winds, Of blasts of every tone; and often- Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and- he to himself would say, n "The winds are now devising work for And, truly, at all times, the storm that drives The traveller to a shelter, summoned ns: He had been .f many thousand Thai n others heeded r South Make subterraneous ;, he heard the msic, like the Reminiscences Among the many good stories Geo. Jean Nathan tells about his literary friends (in "The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan" -- emphasis on "intimate") is this one of Sinclair Lewis: "One afternoon a year or so ago," chuckles Nathan, "our hero (Lewis) called me up and somewhat mysteriously hinted that I had better be at his house in West Tenth Street (New York) at seven o'clock that evening if I didn't want to miss something good. Since he is generally as mysterious as a traffic cop, my curiosity was aroused and at seven promptly I Three other male guests, as mysteriously summoned, they told me, were already there .... After a cocktail or two, we were bidden to sit to' dinner. In the middle of the meal, .our host arose and excused himself. Returning a few minutes later, he informed us that he had to have a minor operation performed and had just telephoned the surgeon to come over. We had been invited, it appeared, to stand around and be company while the operation was going on. Protests g of no avail, we had to enter-Lewis while the surgical perforce was in progress. Looking at you guys, gives me such a pain,' he observed, 'that the other ie in comparison won't seem . bad."' Amid the heart e to hin and left him, o the Honor British Racer tytona Beach, Fla.--A lasting tribute to the memory of the late Sir Henry Segrave, famous British race car driver, is underway here. The city has begun work on a new avenue to be named in honor of the sportsman, who twice established world speed records on the ocean speedway here before he was killed, a motorboat accident at Lake Windermere. England. Most people celebrate their birthdays as only so many victories oter time, with not a recollection of the y good and gentle hopes _ard thoughts they may have wounded or destroyed in the battle.--Wise Sayings. Bg*> 4C0 Prehistoric Walls Found Some four hundred prehistoric fortress or castle walls, many of them well preserved, have been found in the Province of Bradenburg. r. lie oldest of these walls date from the Bronze Age (900 to 600 B.C.) Wheat 3,500 Years Old Found More than half a pint of wheat believed to be 3,500 years old, was found during excavations at Hembury Fort, England. ORANGE PEKOE BLEND "SALADA" TEA "Fresh from the Gardens" One night Nathan and Theodore Dreiser sat together "contemplating the literary scene." Presently they got around to George Bernard Shaw. Said Dreiser: 'The old fellow makes a sad idiot of himself trying to convince himself through other people that he's still young and spry. I had lunch with him in his flat when I was last in London and guess what hi. did! "After each course, he jumped up from the table, grabbed hold of two chairs, placed them some five and a ialf feet apart, adjusted his chin on me and his feet on the other, and then -- in a horizontal position -- chinned himself up and down on them for a couple of minutes. When lunch was over, and I was safely out of the place, he probably had to go to bed and rest up for twelve hours from the exertion of having impressed me, as he believed, with his remarkable youthful vitality." The saying, "putting on side" has an interesting origin. It seems that one of the first farm wagons had movable side boards. These sideboards were slid into place only when the driver had a good load, and then taken out again when the wagon was empty. But some of the less prosperous farmers tried to give the impression of taking great loads to market when the yield was really light--says Marion Nicholl Rawson, in "From Hero to Yonder": "Hank's got his side-boards on and hasn't got any load," a canny neighbor would chuckle. That was shortened into "putting on side"--to describe an acquaintance who is giving himself "airs" with nothing to warrant it. n the days of my youth l visit I the propriet Sanger. three parts hea-re. Awe because "Lord" George Fairbanks.Jr. Favours Danes liscovered there was nothing in Lord" business. That it was a .ssumed, empty title. And I learned the truth from the "Lord" himse! to how he came to take it. It seems--according to "Seventy Years a Showman" (being the i oirs of "Lord" George Sanger)--that he got into a legal conflict with Buffalo Bill, and that during the trial of the suit the constant reiteration of the phrase "The Honorable Willi Cody" got on his nerves. At last he "Hang it! I can go one better than that, anyhow. If he's the Honorable William Cody, then I'm Lord George Sanger from this on." And so he was ever after. Speaking of titles, some years ago, John Galsworthy -- his new novel "Flowering Wilderness" is due this month--was offered and refused a knighthood. That is to say, he preferred to remain plain Mr. John Galsworthy instead of becoming Sir John Galsworthy. It was quite a rarity for a man to refuse a proffered handle to his name, inasmuch as it is tendered him in the name of the sovereign and thus takes the ture of a royal command. The usual procedure is for some one interested to sound the person so to be honored. As a rule, it is unnecessary to do much sounding. But in the case of Mr. Galsworthy some one blundered, for his name actually appeared in the honors list published in the newspapers as "Sir John Galsworthy." Explanations followed, but just what they were I have forgotten. It is not usual, however, for authors to turn down a title. Possibly Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling may have turned a deaf to the voice of the charmer--at all events, it is generally believed so. Since the typewriter has almost done away with handwritten m scripts and collectors find them creasingly difficult to obtain, galley proofs of the works of modern authoi corrected by them have acquired considerable value. Not long ago first corrected proof of an old Kipling short story brought $360 in a York salesroom. Kipling, for one, long been aware of the commercial value attached to his handwriting and does not scatter it around promiscuously. I am told that his contracts contain a clause requiring the return to him of all manuscripts to which they relate, typed or otherwise. Once when a group of Wall Street bankers asked the late Iver Kreuger, spectacular Swedish "Match King," at a week-end party why he did not fall in love with some American girl -- "a nudge prompted no doubt with an eye to business as well as romance," says Earl Sparling (in "Kreuger's Billion Dollar Bubble")--he smiled and said: "I prefer a Swedish match." Kreuger was fond of performing "little miracles," says Mr. Sparling. For instance: "He met some American women at luncheon in Stockholm one day. The spring had been late and cold. The American visitors spoke sadly of the absence of flowers on the countryside. 'Ah,' said Kreuger, 'you have not been to the right places. You will come with me to one of my country places for tea this afternoon.' When they arrived at the country hous2 that afternoon they found the walks lined with rosebushes in bloom. Between luncheon and tea time Kreuger had ransacked the hothouses of Stockholm to provide them." Mr. Sparling who--as an American newspaper correspondent in Stockholm--knew Kreuger, quotes him as once saying: "My success can be attributed to three things. One is silence. The ond is more silence. The third is more silence." "I am often asked," adds Sparling --apropos Kreuger's reputation for silence and his shunning of publicity-- "if a dislike of publicity, after one has ostensibly courted it, is a Viking inheritance, since it appears in individuals of Swedish ancestry from Lindbergh to Greta Garbo." Giant Frogs • The largest frog known is the giant Bull Frog of Africa. - It weighs ten pounds. The smallest species of frog is found in Cuba. It is so tiny that its weight is hardly equal to that of three grains of wheat. It would take twenty thousand Cuban frogs, to equal the weight of one bull frog. Evident!, Doug. Jr. likes his dogs in large editions. Here ' with his latest pet at his Hollywood home. i Eyes of true blue are becoming' comparatively rare, as most so-called blue eyes contain a certain proportion of brownish-black or yellow pigment. Jack and Jill House Jack builds, Jill decorates. At least that is the procedure in the house built and decorated by a high school class in Illinois. In previous years the boys have translated their theoretical knowledge into the actual construction of a saleable house, but this is the first time the girls have participated by decorating and furnishing Its The trim English cottage, sturdily constructed, artistically landscape I and tastefully furnished, which the pupils have just completed, is eloquent testimony of their capabilities. According to the American Home Magazine, the house is, in every way, as finished as though mature architect, builder and workmen, instead of boys, had assisted in its construction, while the artistic, quiet atmosphere which the girls have achieved with little money, but with good taste and com~ mon sense, would do credit to a professional decorator. The "Jack and Jill" house is an at tractive six-room English cottage, with a spacious lawn, shrubs and pine trees. Inside, one finds the wall and floor coverings harmonious, and tha chairs, tables and oter furniture practical. Decorations and furnishings seem to "belong." Several pieces of furniture claim attention because they are usually well built--a davenport, two large stuffed chairs, a walnut dining table and chairs, and a sewing cabinet. In each case, the boys have mads the furniture. The girls for their part, tave made the smart overdraperies .nd curtains, bedspreads, lamp shades, sofa cushions, and have attended to the many other details which make of the house a comfortable and restful School projects of this and of stmt r nature make it very clear that educators in ever-increasing number* finding it is a good and useful thing for students to learn to use their Is as well as their eyes and ears.-- The Christian Science Monitor. Maid--"It's no use, sorr, I can't stand the missus." Master (sarcastically)--"It's a pity, Bridget, that I couldn't have selected', - wife to suit you." Maid--"Sure, sorr, we all make mis-Intelligence upon children depends, to a large extent, upon diet. Relieve that pain safely iu can always relieve that ache or pain harmlessly with Aspirin. Even those deep-seated pains that make a s very bones ache. Even the sys-c pains so many women suffer. They will yield to these tablets! As-i has many important uses. 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