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BEGIN HERE TODAY Hanry Rand, middle-aged business man, is Sipeiad oy by his family to. celtbrate his James Rand's 27th birthday. theatr: party is planned to elude Henry Rand, his wife, his daughter Janet, her fiance, Barry Colvin, and Jimmy. While they are waiting, police tele- Phone that Henry Rand has been ound dead in a cheap hotel. The body is f in a filled Toou A slight welt is on the back of the head. The only ¢ ot 's handkerchief and the stub of a yellow theatre ticket. The coroner's verdict is murder, Jimmy learns that the theatre is in Buffalo and decides to go there, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY At Henry Rand's funeral Detective Mooney mingled quietly with the small crowd and cocked an appraising eye on everyone present. He also made careful inspection of the group of curiosity seekers outside the house. If he expected to find anyone to whom suspicion might point as the murderer of Henry Rand, he was dis- appointed. He spoke to no one, except to explain his presence to Jimmy. After the funeral was over, he slipped away as unobtrusively as he had come. Mrs. Rand had rallied sufficiently to stand tke ordeal of the funeral service, She remained composed until the last words had been said in the cemetery, when, with Jimmy's arm around her, her body shook with sobs, . . . Jimmy wondered how he was going to tell her that he was going away to Buffalo. . But he told her--on the way home, in the presence of Janet, and of Barry, who was riding with them. The thought of the pain he was giving her made him miserable. , . "I can't lose you, too, James. I can't." With her black gloved hands Martha Rand pressed her handker- chief to her mouth to hide her trem- bling lips. "What good will it do, James? The police will do all it is humanly pos- sible to do. They'll send somebody to Buffalo or at least communicate with the police there." "I've talked it all over with the police here, Mother. They're sending a man, but I'm going with him." "But, James, you're not a detective. What do you know about hunting criminals? Besides," her lips wero quivering again, "you don't know what kind of danger you might run into." "I think I can take care of myself, Mother," he said, confidently. "For your sake, I'll be careful." He tried to make clear to her his feeling that Frere was no other course for him to 0. I feel that it's my duty, Mother my job. Feeling as I do, it wouldn't be right for me not to go." . "Don't go, James." "I'm sorry, Mothr, but I'm going. Somewhere in Buffalo, I think, is the man who caused all this If the police can find him, well and good. If they don't, I will. "At least, I'm going to try my best," he amended. ... His jaw had set grimly, in the fashion familiar with him when his emotions were stirred. "I think he should go, too, Mother." This from Janet, who was staring, white-faced, out of the car window, Her left hand clenched and un- clenched nervously. "If I were a man, nothing could keep me from going," she burst forth. "If I were Jimmy, I'd devote the rest of my life, if neces- sary, to running down that--that fiend. "The cruelty of it--and tha she cried. "The shame! Why, Janet, what do you mean?" It was Barry. "You know very well what I mean, Barry. You're a--a friend--" "Well. I hope so!" cried Barry. "You were very close to father," she continued, speaking rapidly and still looking out of the window, "and it may not occur to you what other peo- ple, who didn't know him, are bound to think. "Oh, I know!" she cried. "They'll be sympathetic, but just the same they'll lift their eyebrows when we're not present and want to know how Henry Rand came to be in that room in the Canfield Hotel." The tingling taste of fresh mint leaves is a real treat for your sweet tooth. ~ WRIGLEYS <hame!" lews are a] "Janet!" There was real pain in Barry's voice. "Not that, Janet. Any- one who knew your father--" "They all didn't know him as well as you did," she interrupted. "They'll be sorry, "but they'll wonder . .... They'll talk about the disgrace, as they'll call it, and they'll pity Mother and me. ... I tell you," she cried fiercely, "I don't want their pity! Do you hear me? I don't want pity. I want to know! "Jimmy," she turned to her brother, her gray eyes seeking his. "Jimmy, you go." "Janet is right," said Jimmy. He was holding his 's hand . . . patting it. Their car--the chief mourners'-- Lad stopped in front of the Rand home, Jimmy helped his mother out and led her up the board walk--Henry Rand's board walk that he haa so stub- bornly preserved in the face of his family's united ridicule and pleas for a cement one. The shabby walk seem- ed strangely dewr to them now. He accompanied his mother straight to her room, where she las down on the bed, exhausted. "About our finances, Mother. I've got about a thousand dollars saved up and I've had most of it transferred to a checking account in Janet's name. She'll have to be the man of the family now. "I've got enough to last me until I get a job in Buffalo. I'm not going to touch your bank account here. You'll need it, Then, there's the insurance; it isn't very much, but it's enough to keep up the payments on the house and take care of you for quite a while." * * * Barry had left and Janet was alone in the living room when Jimmy came down stairs. She was seated on the piano bench, her back to the keyboard, staring fixedly at the rug. She was a dejected looking figure, her chin cup- ped in one hand, the other lying limp in her lap. "What's the matter, Sis?" Jimmy tried to put some'of the old time light- heartedness in his voice. "I've broken with Barry, Jimmy." She was still staring at the floor. The words were flat, toneless. "You've what!" He was staggered. "You mean that Barry--¥' "No, Jimmy, Barry didn't; I did." "Well, what in the name of heaven --what was it, a quarrel? make it up, Sis, you'll make it up." "There was no quarrel Jimmy." Her voice was barely more than a whisper. She lifted her head and turned to face him. "I simply told him, Jimmy, that I couldn't marry him as long as this-- this thing was over us. I told you before I can't stand pity. People will say he married me out of sympathy. Well, they can't say it now." "Well, gosh all hemlock, Sis, people knew you were engaged." "Oh, don't you understand, Jimmy? You do, you do, I know Can't you understand that with the notoriety and all and the--the disgrace that hangs over us until this thing is clear- ed up, that I simply can't go through '| with it?" "I think I do, Sis" had set again. She said, almost fiercely: "If I can't bring him a name as free from reproach as his own, we'll never marry." Jimmy was running through the sheet music above the piano keyboard. He felt tremendously sorry for his sister. He turned from the piano, shoving his hands in his pockets. "How did Barry take it, Sis?" "He told me I had entirely the wrong perspective. He told--he told me I was a fool." "So you are, Sis, just a little fool. "Ve both are, I guess." He patted her shoulder. For the first time since the shock of Henry Rand's death, Janet was visibly moved. "Don't worry, Sis, we'll see this thing through somehow, I know, "Tell me," he caught her chin with his hand to lift her eyes to his, "tell me, do you still love Barry?" She tried to look at him steadily, but her lips trembled. Her eyes fell and she covered them with her hands, "Yes, Jimmy, I lov him. I always will love him. Oh, why, why did this awful thing--" She could go no far- ther. She threw her arms down on the piano keys. ... They struck a strange, harsh sound. ... Her face buried in her arms, she gave way to long-suppressed tears. * Ld * That night Jimmy left for Buffalo. With him was Detective Mooney. Barry was down to see him off and wish him well. "Good luck, Jim, and fight hard, old man. And if you need me, let me know and I'll coms a-running." He pressed Jimmy's hand and turned Barry Jim ed him th my se by e His lean jaw : shoulder and Oh, you'll] Hlustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fuy- nished With Every Pattern A chic youthful wearable type that is slimly flattering. Designed along Princess styling it achieves a lengthened silhouette. The collarless Vionnet neckline is softened by sunburst effect beneath the knotted trimming piece. The flared sleeves are particularly smart. The curved seaming narrows the effect through the hips. It is printed crepe silk in attractive lime green tones tha. is smartly ap- propriate for town or resort. Style No. 2552 comes in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. 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But you've no idea of the sacrifices we've made and the outside things we've given up to make the children love their home like that. You know what gadabouts Dad and I used to be? Well, my dears, 1 soon discovered the children were follow- ing suit. When they came home and found us gene they and their friends went romping off, too. "'Well, Mom,' Jim said to me one day, 'I guess home is just a place to stay in while the 'automobile is being fixed. "Now that opened our eyes," the lite tle mother went on. "Dad and 1 de- cided then and there that our children came first. We knew we'd have an up-hill fight winning them back. We started by staying at home in the evenings ourselves. We would casual- ly say, 'Bring a few of your friends in for dinner to-night. . Then we'd join in the fun after dinner. We soon dis covered the young people loved that kind of an evening. Dearie me, but we were happy over it." "Well, it's fine not only for Jim and Sister, but for their friends as well," Aunt Emmy-Lou agreed. "And for us!" the mother continued. "When we saw we were getting such splendid co-operation we began trying harder than ever. We encouraged the children to take more interest in their rooms, in their home, and in their town. We're trying to teach them to be good future citizens as well as kers and h 1 8.' And 1 went away thinking, "Wise parents!""--Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York City, are appearing weekly in St i---- Man's Hand and 2 i Woman's Hand The first finger of a woman's hand is almost always longer than her third, while the first finger of a man's hand is likely to be shorter. This has been confirmed, says Dr. E. BE, Free in his Week's Science (New York), by Rug- gles George of the University of. Tor- onto, and is reported by the Wistar Institute Bibliographic Service of Philadelphia, We read: "The result was obtained, Mr. George reports, by examining 630 hands of white adults in North Ameri- ca, : ¥ "There is no difference between right hands and left hands in this par- ticular; both feminine hands tending to have"long first fingers while both masculine hands have long third ones. Mr, George's announcement does not commit him to any theory of the cause of this curious difference, although some cause must exist in differing ac» tivities or heredities of the two sexes. "It is tempting to consider the dif- ference a result of different habits of men and women in salvage times or in the still more ancient period when mankind was evolving slowly out of or prehuman conditions, the male hand probably was used most import- antly for grasping something; per haps the limb of a tree or the handle of a weapon, third finger, which is at the centre of | the grasp. 'Under the same social conditions 'women, it 1s probable, had 'much less need to grasp eed apelike utacreres. Under such savage Such use might be ex- | pected to strengthen and lengthen the -