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a ' door + 'been ** "the highl~ raised mv bet that he had me beaten. At once I ro: that he was not the man I was after. "By what reasoning?" "A 'poker rlayer, Matkham, who +» would bet on a sure thing is one who . confidence which.wold never have permitted h'™ ta bet 4h a sure thing. THE STORY TH) ' THI us Bkeel's by hig oy ee narder of 'Skeel, af! revea! the murderer, theory out. Spotswoode, who, had on 'he girl, , rushed to her at the sound of n scréam, but had reassured through the door that nothing was wrong. Vance has Mark- ham i_vite Cleaver, Mannix and Spots- woode to his apartment for a poker me, promising to name the murderer he next day. And he names Spat: woode! : CHAPTER'L. - "+, * Vance paused and looked up. - "You perhap. recall "the" ciroums stances? It was a jackpot' Alen dealt Cleaver a four-straight-flish and gave me three kings. ' The other hands were, 80. poor that every one else was com- pelled to drop out. y "I openad: and Cleaver stayed. On the draw, A'"=n pao me another kina! in that amazing the psychology of the crime?" to be pondering the matter. rs you yourself, Vance, satisfied at the time," he submitted and worried." "True, old. dear. I was no end wor. ried. The psychological proof of Spots- y' know. After eliminating Cleaver 1 had a parti pris, so to speak, in regard to Mannix; for all the material evi- cence--that is, the seeming physical impossibility of his having strangled the lady--had, I admit, impressed me. "I'm not perfect, don't y' know. Be- ing unfortunately human, I'm still sus< ceptible to the malicious animal mag- netism about facts and appearances which you lawyer chaps are continu. ously exuding over the earth like some | vast asphyxiating effluvium. And even when I found that Spotswoode's psy- aiid gave Cl aver the card he readed ckological nature fitted perfectly with to complete his straight flush. Twica 1 bet a =ma'l amount. and eash time LCleaver raised me. . Finally I eallad him and.' of course. ha won. .He| eouldn't help but win, d' ve see, He "was betting on a sure thing. Since I opened th» pot and drew two cards, the highest Yand 1 eon possibly have «held would have hesn four of a kind. Cleaver knew i this, and having straight flush, he also knew, before he Jacks the evotistical self-confidence of ubtle 31d s'tepemely cap- able gamb'er He is not a man who will take hazardous chances and tré-| mendous ricks. for he possesses, to some deovas whet the psvchoanalysts call an inferior tomplex, and instinet- ively he gre-=s at every possible op- portunity of protecting and bettering himself. e is not. the ultimate "In <hort h uanadv'tarat~d gambler. And the man who kVed *ha Odell girl' was a su- preme vambler who would: stake every- thine on a single turn of the wheel, for, in killlng her, that is exactly what he did. And only a gambler whose paramount self-confidence would make him scorn, throngh sheer egotism, to bet on a surething, 'could have com- mitted such a crime. Therefore, Cleaver was eliminated as a suspect," Markham was now listening intently, "The test to which I put Spotswoode a little later," Vance went on, "had originally been intended for Mannix, but he was out of the game. That didn't matter however for, had. I been able fo eliminate "hoth Cleaver and Spotswoode, then Mannix would un- doubtedly have been the guilty manu, "Of course 1 would have planned something else to 'substantiate the fact; but, as it way, that wasn't nee- ess'ry. . . The test T anplied to Spots- woode Wwhs pretty well explained hy the geatleman h'mself. As he said, not one player in a thousand 'wou'd have wagered the limit against a pat hand, when he himself held néthing. It was tremondoue--superb! Tt was + probably ths most remarkable bluff ever made in.a game of poker. "I couldn't heln admiring him when he calmly shoved forward al] his chips, kriowing. as T Aft. that ho held no- thing: " T's «mked everything, d' ye see, wholly oa his conviction that he could fo"ow. mv reaconing step by step and, in t t aralysis, outwit me. Tt took couraze and daring to do that. "And it also took a degree of self- "The psr~hological volved in fhat hand were, identical with those of the Odell crime. I threatened Spof woode with a power- ful hand--a pat:hand--just as the girl, no doubt, threatened him; and instead of compromising--instead of calling me or laying down--he outreached me; he resorted fo one supreme coup, though it meant risking everything. . . My word, *Marklham! Can't you see how the man's character, as revealed principles. jn- ------ -- | Weary, miles geet. shorter SEE orem facts are wrong. they /jmay not actually be wrong, but they're 8; could have strangled the | 9 204 sansnced the portent, and all the factors' of the crime, I still harbored a doubt in regard to Mannix. i It was 'barely possible that he would 'have played the hand just as Spots- | woode. played it. That is why, after the game was over, I tackled him on the subject of gamblirg. I wanted to check his psychological reactions." "Still, he staked everything on one turn of the wheel, as you put it." "Ah! But not in the same sense that Spotswoode did. Mannix is a cautious and timid gambler as compared with Spotswoode. To begin with, he haa an equal chance and an even bet, whereas Spotswoode had no change at all--his hand was worthless. limit on a pure bit of mental calcula- | tion. That was gambling in the higher ether. On the other hand, Mannix was i merely tossing a coin, with an even chance of winning. Furthermore, no calculation of any kind entered into it; there was no planning, no figuring, no during: And, as I have told you from the start, the Odell murder was pre- meditated and carefully worked out with shrewd calculation and supreme daring. . . . An. what true gambler would ask an adversary to, double a bet on the second flip of the coin, and then accept an offer to redouble on the -third flip? "I purposely tested Maniiix in that way, so as to preclude any possibility of error. Thus * not only eliminated him--I expunged him, eradicated him, wiped him out utterly. It cost me a thousand dollars, but it purged my mind of any lingering 'doubt. I then kr.cw, despite all the contr'ry material indications, that Spotswoode had done away with the lady." . "You make your case theoretically plausible. But, practically, I'm afraid I pan't accept it." Markham was more impressed, I felt, than he cared to ad- mit. "Damn it, mar!" he exploded after a moment. "Your conclusion demolishes all the established land- ruarks' of rationality and sane credi- bility. Just consider the facts." He had now reached the argumenta- tive stage of his doubt. "You say Spotswoode is guilty. Yet we know, on irrefutable evidence, that five min- utes after-he came out of the apart- ment the girl screamed and called for help. "He was standing by the switch- went to the door and carried on a brief tainly alive then. Then he went out tke front door, entered a taxicab, and drove away. Fifteen minutes later he was joined by Judge Redfern as he alighted from the: taxicab in front of the club here--nearly forty blocks away from the apartment house! "It would have been impossible for him to have made the trip in less time; and, moreover, we have the chauffeur's record. Spotswoode simply did not have either the opportunity or the time to commit the murder be- tween half-past eleven and ten minutes of twelve when Judge Redfern met him. And, remember, he played poker in the club' here until three in the morning--hours after the murder took place." Markham shook his head with em- phasis. ; "Vange, there's no human way to get round those facts: They're firmly established; and they preclude Spots- woode's guilt as effectively and finally as though he had been at the North Pole that night." / Vance was unmoved. "I admit everything yom say," he rejoined." "But as I have stated be- fore, when material facts and psycho- logical facts conflict, : the In this case, deceptive." "Very well, magnus Apollo!" The situation was too much for Markham's exacerbeted nerves. "Show me how "'Pon my word, I can't do it," ex- Vance. was me, But--deuce take jt!--I ture, dovetails with Markham was silent for a while; he ee Ct taunts and jeers of the multitude with ""In*faet, you looked doubtful ® woode's guilt came so dashed unex. pectedly--I wasn't looking for it, don't! dence in favor of Spotswood's inno- 8 "And yet Spotswoode wagered the | . | board, and, accompanied by Jessup, he conversation with her. She was cer- | interfere with my newly adopted psy- chological means of deduction. Crip- pen's nature, you see, fits perfectly [rin all the esoteric and recondite in- dications of the crime. Tomorrow I'll {apply for an order of exhumation." Vance looked at him with waggish reproachfulness, and sighed: genius, I gee, is destined to be post- 'humous. In the meantime I bear the stout heart. My head is bloody, but unbowed." He looked at his watch, anc then seemed to become absorbed with some line of thought. "Markham," he said, after several inutes, "I've a concert at three o'clock, but there's an hour to spare. I want to fake another look at that apartment and its various approaches. potswoode's trick--and I'm convinced it was nothing more 'han a trick--was | enacted there; and if we are ever to ifind the explanation, we shall have to look for it on the cene." I had got the impression that Mark- ham, despite his emphatic denial of the I possibility of Spotsw ides guilt, was {not entirely unconvinced. Therefore, iI was not surprised when, with only a (half-hearted protest, he assented to i Vance's proposal to revisit the Odell apartment. (To be continued.) What New York Is Wearing By ANNABELLE WORTHINCTON Hlustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Zvery Pattern ¥ ' "Recognition of my transcendent | on the baking sheet it is much easter » (From "When the 'Cook is Away" by erine Ives), Casserole of Fish Ingredlents.--2 Ib. fish fresh haddock or whiting), 3 onions, 1 1b. tomatoes, 1 oz butter, % pint of milk, pinch of mixed herbs, % pint fish stock, pepper and salt, 1 oz. flour. Utensile.--Casserole, knife, fish knife] He and fork, wooden spoon, asbestos mat, baking sheet, basin. N.B.<The bak: ing sheet is used when a ed in the oven. If the fish is placed to handle, and there is less danger of food spilling over and falling to the bottom of the oven. Instructions. -- Pthe trimmings into a samcepan with salt, pepper and a plece of onion, and onions and chop them finely. Place the tomatoes in a basin of boiling water for two minutes to make them easy to skin. Skin them and cut them into quarters, Melt the butter in the casserole and cook the onions gently in this for a few minutes. Heat the milk. Add the flour to the butter and onions, stirring well with the wooden spoon. Add the hot milk and fish stock very gradually, stirring con- stantly, Add the salt, pepper and herbs, and cook all together quickly for three minutes. Add the fish and tomatoes. Put on the lid of the cas. gerole and simmer gently for about twenty minutes. Fryit Custard Pudding After baking a custard in a pie dish, put it away till it is cold, then turn out into a glass dish and spread rasp berry jam over it (be sure to use raspberry jam, as it adds to the qual! ity of the pudding), then slice some ! nice bananas to cover, and repeat, al ternately spreading jam and bananas till there is sufficient quantity. The pudding is completed by pouring cream that has been whipped till very thick, over all, Shrewsbury Wafers Beat one egg until light, and add gradually, while beating constantly, | half &. cupful of sugar; then add two- thirds of a tablespoonful of melted butter, two-thirds of a cupful of rolled oats, one-third of a cupful of shredded cocoanut, one-third of a teaspoonful of salt, anl one-fourth of a teaspoonful of vanilla, Drop the mixture by tea- spoonuls one inch apart on a thor oughly buttered tin sheet or inverted dripping pan. Spread into circular shapes witha case knife first dipped | in cold water. Bake in a moderate oven until delicately browned. Semolina Cake Ingredients.--Six ounces of self-rais- ing flour, three ounces of castor sugar, | three ounces of semolina, two eggs and a little milk, and a quarter of a pound of lard or cooking butter. Meth- od.--Mix the dry ingradients well to- fish (cod, hake,| ish is cook |. Remove the skin and bones of the fish} and divide it into meat pieces. Put} cook to make fish stock. Peel the| to door!! Both. the soft y'rns and * BROWN LABEL AT ALL GROCERY STORES the weave of a huck towel make it ab- sorbent. However, its yarn may be linen, cotton or "union." This last Is. should know. It-means that the malin thread or warp is cotton, but the woof or filling, is linen. Of course linen huck, like other linen fabrics, sells for more than cotton. Linen or flax yarns are strong and do not lint; are absorbent and dry quickly. Also, they bleach attractively with each launder- ing, and wash easily. However, a good cotton or "union" huck towel is to be preferred to one of a poor quality of linen. On the whole, the demand for good cotton huck towels is in excess of that for any other kind. "Union" towels are more absorbent than cotton, but 'less so than linen. The housewife can learn to tell the difference between these three tex- tiles. Linen is stiffer and more lus- trous than cotton. © The threads of salad, fruit dressing. Combine all in! gredients. Add dressing. Savita Brown Gravy % cup butter, 1-3 cup flour, % tea- spoon grated onion (if desired); 1% | teaspoons Savita, 1-8 teaspoon salt. Meut the butter. Stir in the flour to & smooth paste. Place over the open fire, stirring constantly until light brown. "Remove from the fire and add the water gradually, stirring until smooth. Dissolve the Savita in a small amount of hot water and add to the gravy. Cook from five to ten min-' utes. * Mystery Pudding Two eggs, and their weight in but- ter, flour, and castor sugar, a table spoonful of marmalade, a teaspoonful of baking-powder. Beat the butter to a cream and add it to the sugar, then the flour, with which the baking-pow- der should be mixed, then the marma- lade, Beat the eggs well, yolks and whites separately, adding the whites last. When the other ingredients are well mixed, pour into a well-buttered basin, tie over with greased paper, and steam for an hour and a half, Turn out and spread a little marma- lade over the top, and serve with gether, then rub in th fat, add the eggs and milk well beaten. When thoroughly mixed, pour into a well greased cake-tin and bake in a moder " ate oven for one hour. Caraway Cheese Biscuits ! Mix two cupfuls of flour with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder half a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, half a A printed crepe silk in hyacinth [blue with its feminine ruffles in white" cotton net is demurely smart and becoming. A blue leather belt nips the normal waistline. The circular skirt empha- {sizes the snug fitted hipline through 'its scalloped outline. It is so appropriate for spring, and may be worn all thro gh the summer. | Style No. 3469 comes in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. | Shantung, tweed printed cotton, dimity print, chiffon, printed voile and crepe de chine fashionzble suggestions. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, an address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. smg----a-- Campers Carry Minard's. ef eee MAKING SURE Wilson was on his way home from the station. When he was about three | miles from the village and about a mile from his*house he saw a man ap- proaching him from the opposite di- rection, "Excuse me, sir," said the stranger, when they met, "do you happen to have seen a policemau anywhere about?" "I'm afraid I haven't seen one for! over two miles," returned Wilson un-' snapped the stranger, changing his tone of voice. "Hurry up and give me your watch and pocket book, then." I've done rather well ad pene gation am now I bee A prglessor.of pro- Crippen penetration » Odell girl. T o be s EB | Fill well-oiled muffin tins one-half full 'milk. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake in teaspoonful of salt, and two t fuls of caraway seeds. Rub in two tablespoonful of fat. Add a cuptul of | grated cheese. Stir in a well-beaten ezg and two tablespoonfuls of milk. Turn out on a floured board. Cut into oblong or crescent shapes. Cook in a hot oven for fifteen minutes Nut and Cherry Pile 1 1b. protose, 1 quart cherry sauce, 3% cup sugar, plain pastry sweetened, Mix one fourth of the protose with the sweetened cherries, and place in a buttered baking dish. Slice the re- mainder of the protose and place on top of the cherries. Cover with pastry dough and bake in quick oven until crust is well done. Serve as main pro- tein dish, Whole Wheat Fruit Muffins 3 tablespoons butter, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 egg, 3% cup raisins, 1% cups 100 per cent. whole wheat flour, 3 tea- spoonfuls baking powder, % cup milk, % teaspoon salt. Blend the butter and flour. Sift the dry ingredients, add the raisins. Beat the egg, add milk and stir in the dry ingredients. and pat on top with spoon dipped in quick oven twenty to thirty minutes. Salad Delicious | 2 cups Tokay grapes, 1 cup diced pineapple, % cup unsalted almonds, SCATIEA form of relief from 3 sweet sauce poured round it. "The modern novel impresses me as a sort of sack which people use as an indiscriminate dumping place for ideas."--+Gilbert K. Chesterton. ------e Heal the Sprain with Winard's, Plan Now For This Summer's Good Times! HUNTING, fishing, ple. nicing, swimming and cruising on lake, river, sound or bay add to the zest of living, happiness. contentment and enjoy- men of Cruisabout owners. This double Cruisabout, 29' 10" wide an is a completely equipp~d summer home and is riced at $4,186 at rac ory. Sleeps six, four forward cabin and two in stern cabin. Excellent design, perfect balance and staunch, quality con- struction make C 5 rthy for an. te: 6-cylinder, 6 P. Gray Marine motor gives drufs. Ing speed of thirteen miles Write for a cata. ngue "Would Anyone be a social lion this A faded, battered hat is hardly. le. , . yet no worse tshould » fs the. . ways include a * 5 shine --vhich waterproate oh than dull, gray "your morning 1 : shoes as it polishes. Lady: "Isn't .t wonderful how a filling single policeman can dam the flow . {ot De Boy: "Yes, Grannie; a texture. Unble#tched linen is of a sil- ! you should hear the bus driver." Richardson 1930 Cruisabouts, T. B. F. BENSON, N.A. 371 Bay Street and Service by i) Hl : f ~. | "A highbrow Is a beyond his Matthews. Toronto, Ont. 'anion" may be drawn and tested to show the difference between warp and Cotton has a distinguishing {Yer oyster color and is considered 2% particularly durable because it has not person educated beems "full bleached" with chemicals. Intelligence." --Brander The housewife does her own bleach- ing in time with soapsuds and sun- shine and gets the benefit of both"a lower price and lengthened service. i An ecru-colored linen is called a "guar- | ter bleach." i | " Turkish Towels | With Turkish towels weave called "Turkish" or terry is | familiar, of course. An innovation in bath towels is the heavy ribbed weave, and is preferred by the bather who wants friction rather than absorbency after the bath.' These ribbed towels in either linen or cotton are very durable and come in the large sizes. i The yarn used in a Turkish towel is . spun medium-hard and is woven with _ two sets of warp threads against only lone set of woof threads, The best . Turkish towels have two loops on the | surface, or a double thread. This adds strength, of course. But the number of filling thread between the loops al- 80 influences the durability. This numbér varies greatly in different grades. "Ply yarn" is the term used for the thread Wn the warp of the best weaves, where several strands are twisted together to make one firm one. Of course the more of these "singles" that are twisted into the ply yarn, the firmer is the towel. To judge the quality of a Turkish towel, examine the selvage'to look for a firm edge. Plenty of closely-woven threads means that the towel will stand many launderings. Next count the number of filling threads between the loops. With this weave, the woof is as important as the strength of the warp. Last, notice the number of threads to each loop. If the yarn making the loop can be pulled apart, this indicates that it is double-ply or strong yarn, The length of the loops is also a point. A long loop makes an absorbent towel, but the shorter close- set ones a more durable one. Colored Towels Small Turkish towels are also use- ful as hand and guest towels. They are absorbent and softer to the skin than in the huck. They may be had with attractive colored borders. The all-colored towel is very decora- tive in the bathroom, and handsome lacquered patterns feature many of these. Some with deep colored bor- ders, especially in the Turkish weaves, are designed by artists. The newest woven borders 'rival the hand em- broidery and monograms formerly | popular. Nearly all the pastel tints, including orchid, pale green, pink, rose, blue and buff, can be bought to mateh walls, draperies or tiling, but the fastness of color interests the clever buyer. A fact to understand. in this connection is that cotton retains dye better than linen. Therefore the linen or, Turkish towel with a deep id n border in ¢ is a, buy oan an aioe oo omer Size Is a matter of individual prefer ence. Twenty-seven by 42 inches is a good 'choice for a face 'towel, while guest towels may vary from 16 by 22 | to 16 by 24. Men nearly always pre- for a generous sized towel. In Turk- the looped 'a term that the well-informed buyer i # is?