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TEA . "Fresh from the Gardens" : | § : | The Green Murder Casc | BY 8S. S. VAN DINE. SYNOPSIS, Philo Vance, with a hobby _ rv solving mysteries, becomes interested in the Green murders when District Attorney Markham and Sgt. Heath are called in after the fatal shooting of Julia Greene and the wounding of her younger sister, Ada. Old Toblas Greene's widow, to- ther with five children, Julia, Chester, bella, Rex and Ada (adopted) live In the old Greene mansion. Police investi- gatlons reveal hothing; then Chester is 'ound shot dead In 'us room. Again footsteps are found to and from th en- trance of the mansion. Ada J forms Markham that Rex has not told all he knows. Five minutes ]| ter word comes that Rex has been shot. Vance becomes convinced that the crimnal is one of the family, The next near victim is Ada, poisonec by morphine, CHAPTER XXX.-- (Cont'd.) "Tell us all yqu can, Miss O'Brien. Was there any evidence as to how the poison was alministered?" "Notting but an empty bouillon cup." The woman was ill at ease. "I guess you'll find remains cf mor- phine in it, all right." "Why do yor thin: the irig was given by means of the bouillon?" She hesitated and shot Heath an uneasy look. "It's this way. 1 always bring a cup of bouillon to Mrs. Green a little before eleven in the morning; and if Miss Ada's around I bring two cups-- that's the old lady's orders. This morning the girl was in the room when I went down to the kitchen, so I brought up two cups. But Mrs. Greene was alone when I returned so I gave the old lady hers and put the other cup in Miss Ada's room on the table by the bed. Then I went into the hall to call her. She was down- stairs--in the living room, 1 guess. "A.ayhow, she came right away, and, as I had some mending to do fcr Mrs. Greene, I went to my room on the third floor, . . » "Therefore," interpolate« Mark- ham, 'the bouillon was on Miss Ada's t.ble unprotected for a minute or so afte: you had left the room and be- fore Miss Ada came up irom the lowe. Lall" "It wasn't more than twenty sec- onds. And I was right outside the door all the time. Furthermore, the door was open, and I'd have heard any one in the room." The woman was obviously 'defending herself des- perately against the imputation f negligence in Markham's remark. Vance put the next question. "Did you see any one clse in the hall besides Miss Ada?" "No one except Dr. Von Blon. He was in the lower hall getting into his coat when I called down." "Did he leave the house at once?" "Why---yes." "You actually tivoug'. the door?" "No-o. But he was putting on his coat, and he had said good-bye to Mrs. Greene and me. . . .» "When?" "Not two minutes bafore, I'd mot him coming out of Mrs. Greene's door just as I brought in the bouillon." "And Miss Sibella's dog--did you notice it in the hall anywhere?" "No; it wasn't around vier I was there," "Vance lay back drowsily in his chair, and Markham again took up the interrogation. "How long did you remain in your room, Miss O'Brien, after you had called Miss Ada?" "Until the butler came and told me that Dr. Drumm wanted me." "And how much later would you Ry da was?" out twenty minutes--m little longer." y oes Markham smoked pensively a while, "Yes," he comented at length; "it plainly appears that the morphine was somehow added to the bouillon. You'd better return to Dr. Drumm R 6 a saw him pass now, Mis: O'Brien. for him," "Hell!" growled Heath, after 'he nurse had gone upstairs. "She's the best womar for this sort of a job that we've got. And now she goes and falls down on it." "I wouldn't say she'd fallen down exactly, Sergesnt," dissented Vance, his eyes fixed. dreamily on the ceil- ing. "After all, she only stepped into the hall for a few seconds to summon the young lady to her' matutinal broth, And if the morphine hadm't found its way inw the bouillon this morning it would have done so to- morrow, or *he day after, or some time in the future, in fact, the pro- pitious gods may actually have favor- ed us this morning as they did the Grecian host before the walls of Troy." We'll wait here "They will have favorec us," ob- served Markham, "if Ada recovers and car tell us.wko visited her rnom before she rank the bouillan." The rilence that ensued was termi- nated by the ertrance of Dr. Drumm, a youthful, earnest man with an ag- gressive rearing, He sank heavily into a chai) and wiped his face with a large silk handkerchief. "She's pulled through," he an- nounced. "I happened to be standing b the Yindowy looking out--sheer chance--when 1 saw the curtai down. ite uy "I grabbed my bag and the pul- motor, and was over here in a jiffy, The butler was waiting at the door, and took me upstairs, Queer crab, that butler. The girl was lying across the bed, and it didn't take but one look to see that I wasn't dealing with strychnine, No spasms or sweating or risus sardonicus, you understand. Quiet and peaccful; shallow breath- Ing; cyanosis. 'Morphine evidently, Then I looked at her pupils. Pinpoints, No doubt now. So I sent for the nurse and got busy." "A close call?" asked Markham. : "Close enough." The doctor nodded importantly, "You can't tell what would Lave happened if somebody hedn't got to her in a hurry. I figured she'd got all six grains that were lost, and gave her a good stiff hypo of atropine--a fiftieth, It reacted like a shot. Then I washed her stomach out with potassium permangante. after that I gave her artificial res- piration--she didn't seem to need it, but I vwasn't taking any chances. : "Then the nurse and I got busy exercising her arms and legs, trying to keep her awake, Tough work, that. Hope I don't get pneumonia sweating thers with the windows all open... . Well, so it went, Her breathing kept getting better, and I gave her an- other hundredth of atropine for good measure. At last I manazed to get her oa her feet. The nurso is walk- ing her up and down now." He mopped his face again with a triumphant ficurish of the handkor- chief, "We're greatly indebted to you. - tor," said Markham. "It's te ol sible you have been the means of solv-|* ing this case. When will be be able to question your patient?" "She'll be loggy and nauseated all day--kind of genera' collapse, you undeistand, with painful breathing, drowsiress, headache, and that sort of thing--no fit condition to answer questions. But tomorrow morning you'll be able to talk to her as much as re ke? 'That will be satisfactory. And wat of the bouillon cu mentioned ?" P the use It tasted bitter--morphine, all right." As Drumm finished speaking Sproot - ! A COMPLETE ~ COURSE in Cookery for only 50c paid post FEE ae Bg tho on ally d down the hall to the front door. A momunt later Von Blon paus- ed ab the archway and looked into the drawing room. The strained sil- rocings cata To Snel ange of ca to study us with growing alarm, "Has anything happened?" he fin- It wes Vance who rose and, with quick the 4 4 CO 3 ante S------ % ALgEDy 'PAYSON TERBUNE - If Popular Mechanics How much hava you bothered to tearn about your dog? Have you bothered for example, to stud, his nany different barks? | think it was ir John Lubbock who said that a dog's bark is an effort to copy the human voice. Wild dogs, it fis pointed out, never bark; nor do their cousins the wolves; nor does any member of the canine family which bas not heard humans speak or the barking of domestic dogs. There is all the difference in the world between a bari and a growl, When a dog barks he flings his head high, leaving the throat ex- posed. It is not a war cry. But when he growls. he lowers his head. For a growl means impending at- tack, and the vulnerable throat is guarded by the sinking of the crest. When you go up the path to a house, and the family dog comes barking to meet you, you are in no immediate danger. But if he ad- vances toward you, growling and with his head lowered and his tail as stiff as a ramrod. then look out for trou: ble. Stand stock-still, your hands on your chest, If you do this, not one dog in ten will actually bite you. But if you make threatening gestures at him--above all if you turn and run --your chances of one or more bites are extremely strong. Of all the absurd legends about dogs, the mad-dog scare is the worst. Not one supposedly mad dog in thousands is really hydrophobic. Moreover, a rabid, dog is a desper- A relisved sigh escaped Lim, and he sank into a chair. "Tell me about it. When was the --the murder discovered?" Dramm was about to correct him when Vance said quickly: . "Immediately after you left the lcuse this morning. The poison was administered in the bouillon the nurse brought from the kitchen." "But . . how could that be?' Von Blon appeared unbelieving, "I was just going whan she brouzht the bou- illon. I saw her enter with it. How could the poison--?" "Tha. reminds me, doctor." ,Vance's tone vas almost dulcet. "Did you by any hap go upstairs again after you h,ad donned your coat?" Von Blon looked at him with out- raged astonishment. "Certainly not! immediately." "That would have been just after the nurse called down to Ada." "Why--yes I believe the nurse did call down; and Ada went upstairs at once--it I recall correctly." Vance smoked a moment, his gaze resting curiously on the doctor's troubled face. "I would suggest, without any in- tention of bei.g impertirent, that your present visit follows rather closely upon your former one." Von Blon's face clouded over, but I failed to detect any resentment in Lis expression. "Quite true," he rejoined, and shifted his eyes. "The fact is, sir, that ever since those drugs disappear- ed from my case I've felt that some- thing tragic was impending, and that I was in some way to blame. When- ever I'm in this neighborhood I can't resist the impulse to call here and-- and see how things are going." "Your anxiety is wholly under- standable." Vance's tone was non- committal. Then he added r egligent- ly: "I suppose you will have no objec- tion t¢ Doctor Drumm continuing with Ada's case." "Continuing?" Von Blon brought himself up straight in his chair. "I don't understand. You said a mo- ment ago--" "That Ada had been poisoned," fin- ished Vance. "Quite. But d' ye see, she didn't die." The other looked dumfounded. (To be continued.) 1 lest the house d 'that an early symptom of rabies is a dog's refusal water. Both are les. A dog may foam at the mouth, or may slaver, from any of a dozen trivial causes which range from in- digestion™to temporary nervousness. Also, if a dog refuses to drink water, there is. just one genuine cause for such refusal. Namely, that he Is not thirsty. : : There are several thinzs about your dog's mouth that you may not know. For example, he has 42 teeth--ten more than you have. Also, oot one of these 42 teeth nor any part of his digestive-tract is geared in any form is definitely bad for him. Again--do you know that your dog's panting is a form of per- spiring? A dog perspires nowhere except through his mouth. If you you are inflicting just as much tor. on you if all your pores were hermeti- cally sealed on a hot day. If you are obliged by law to muzzle him, then get one of the several types of muzzle which allow the mouth to open and permit the dog to lap water, It you put a looking glass in front of your dog. the chances are that he will not give it a second look. His eyes tell him there.is another dog facing him there. But his nose tells him there is not. His power of scent is his strongest sense. His eyesight is his weakest. Therefore, he believes: his nose and discredits what his eyes think they see in the mirror. Your dog will recognize you without difficulty, if yon wear a mask or a makeup which would de- ceive your closest friend. He has learned your scent. You have been told always that a dog with a cold and moist nose is In good health and that a warm and dry nose is a sign of illness. The healthiest dog | have ownea --old Sunnybank Lad--had a warm and dry nose throughout all bis 16 years of vigorous life, On the other hand, I have found cold and moist noses on dogs that were dying. There is no set rule for determining the state of"a dog's health from the temperature of his nose One of the best ways of finding out whether your dog is ill is to look at his gums. It they are pale and sallow, the chances are that he is in bad condi- tion. Most healthy dogs have brightly pink gume. Another fallacy is that puppies al- ways opya their eyes when they are nine days old.* Many a fine pup has been drowned by an ignorant owner who thought he was blind. Often the eyes don't open until the pup 1s from 11 to 14 days old. But of all the insanely idiotic theories tie most absurd is that a dog knows good people from bad. I wonder how many good men have been branded as bad because dogs didn't like them, and how many un- worthy men have been trusted be- cause they had the knack of making themselves liked by dogs. Bill Sykes's dog loved his master quite as much as did George Wash: ington's or Bishop Doane"s, One of the holiest men of my acquaintance cannot induce a dog to come near him except in anger. A crook who had robbed an orphans' fund came to me for help to keep him out of jail. My usually conservative Sunnybank collies were effusive in their liking for him. 7 Personally, I believe it is all a mat. ter of scent--of a subtle human odor which is pleasant or distasteful to dogs. But I cannot prove this. Nor can 1 prove that dogs have a language of their own. Yet no dog man can doubt that they have some means of communicating thelr wishes to one another. I have seen this done by the touching of noses and in other way. 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I had heard that queer timbre in adog howl twice before, in other years, So 1 made a note of the exact time, Next morning I learned that my mother had died at exactly 1.30 am. on June 3, 1922--more than 30 miles away from Sunnybank. Never be fore nor after, during his ten years of life, did Wolf give vent to such eerie sounds. | One winter night .n 1894, I heard a multiple repetition of that fifimis- takable death howl from every dog within two miles of our lake--a lake wherein a woman drowned herself that night, The spot where she was drowned was far out of sight, or of scent or of hearing, of any of these] dogs. 3 g 2 Yet I refuse to regard any of these things as supernatural, Somewhere, 'could 1 find it, there must be a logical cause, based on somé natural The optimist sees--kindress, en- f ho! 3 goodwill, dilig- Poo eauty and around that stake or tree until the rope is wound tigui, holding him a prisoner without an inch to move in, Never have I had '& dog with the ru¢imentary bra'ns to reverse tha! motion and to unwind the rcpe again, In brief, 1 marvel at the mingled cleverness and senselessness of the canine race. It is a blend I cannot grasp. ------r Autumn Plane Peeled white and washed with fallen rain, And weighed with' all its jingling pearls, The girl-white body of a plane, In whose red hair the autumn swirls, Standg out, Soliciting the cruel Flame of the wintry sun, and dies, It only to the watcher's eyes, In red-gold anguish glowing; fuel To that cold fire, as she assumes (Brunhilde)' her refulgent plumes In leaves that kindle as they die-- Of all that triumphs and returns The furious aurora burns Against the winter-boding sky. --Roy Campbell in the New Statisti- clan and Nation, ; ---- > - Profit or Loss? The cafes Jidn't look Inviting, and charged rates that indisated their. opinion of all Americans as million. 'aires; therefore, 1 scouted up steep and rocky strects for some private deal of knocking at cautious doors, roof to shelter me. After a good I found a largesouled widow with five children. who admitted me tc the family circle. In a condition of moist disreputa bility as to both person and effects, 1 entered the house of Lenormand, a cozily hospitable French g white-plastered, with tall chimney- stacks, hinged windows, geraniums in the usual window-buxes bravely displayed to the occasiunal sun, and a little shop below-stairs. Here the doorbell jangled as merrily as in Old Brittany; the laces made by the charming Mademoiselle Lenormand were on sale, and one might wall have thought one's self three thous- and miles overseas. . . - "1 returned along the road with a gleam of bright sunlight falling over my shoulder. At a farm 1 observed an old man with huge trousers of meal sacking, engaged in sawing wood with a bucksaw which be held between his knees, rubbing the stick up and down on the teeeh. The ~.' man's red sash told me that he was a Basque, He invited me to 'inspect his pigs, hens and cows, bat they did not interest me as much as the Basque himself. His wrinkled face bright eyes, and sweeping mustaches would have warmed a painter': heart. He was a very voluble ol¢ tellow, and for half an hou he tol me words and phrases in the sys terjous and little-known Basque ton gue. No foreigner; 1 believe, ha ever learned to speak it well, an one must be born a Basque to fath om its complexities.--George Alla England, in "Isles of Romance. (New York: Century.) av------ nie The World is Better The world is better for a smile Upon a cheerful face, For aught that will dull care beguile And brighten up the place, For, as the sun dispels the cloud And makes the landscape bright, So is a smile with power endowed To lighten sorrow's night. The world is better for a word Of comfort and of hope, For having sluggish pulses 'stirred By joy's bright horoscope; For though there's much in human Hf To sadden and depress, 4 No instigation to new strife Can make that sadness less. The world is better for a deed Of kindness, though it may Fall like the unsuspected seed And lle for many a day Beneath unsympathetic earth Until upon the sight, When hope seems dead, it blossom: forth : Ana fills the world with light. --A. B. C, In Tit-Bits, The Shorter Working Day By WILLIAM GREEN, > President, American Federation of. Labor Arc we going to resign ourselves to an economic situation where eleven to fifteen millions are to be continu ally idle? How long are we going to be patient? Will our.social order sustain such a condition? How long will it be tolerated? These ar¢ questions answers to which will nol be denied. . . . 5 ; The time has come when «we musi. tell the world that we will no. longer tolerate this situation and that w( on be taken te