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SAP SYNOPSIS, Jean Graham and her brothér Euan Nay on the Riviera with feofrey Win- . lon and his wife Doreen who lead Euan on to gamble at the Casino, Jean coaxes him to go to Paris, On the road to Paris Jean finds a string of pearls in Euan's pocket. He snatches the case from her and the car crashes The accident is discovered by Jerry Grant, who takes Jean to his hosteas, Helen Gorst. M. -Rivaux, French inspector, investigates. Geoffrey Winton tells Helen that his wife's pearls are missing. Rivaux con- fronts Jean with this as the reason for Euan's disappearance, Jean visits Euan's . friend, de urler, whom she dislikes, ; and learns that Euan is in debt to him. Meanwhile Jerry Grant meets M. Perl- chon, famous detective, who promises to help them. Having tea with de Laurler, Jean learns that he knows Euan had the pearls with him. Rivaux produces a $ petrol lighter which Jean acknowledges hr x i as her brother's. Jerry Grant laments i wy the supposed friendship between de \ Toa Laurier -and Jean to his hostess, Helen Gorst, CHAPTER XVI.--(Cont'd.) (4 It was only a moment before Grant \ returned from phoning, looking some- what more cheerful, "].gay, Dan has just rung up to say that old Perichon wants us to take him somewhere, so it's just as well that Jean isn't free atter all. Only I wish}, she was lunching with someone else." "So'do I. The only thing for you tg: do is to hurry up and annex her you self," smiled Helen. "Gosh, don't I want to," he exfed. "But--oh, well--by the way, Dan' s sister, Mrs. Van Dyke, is arrivipg to- morrow: night," he volunteered: Reluctantly Grant left the "yilla, stopping to look back at Jeafte win- dow, which was wide open; then he walked down the road untif he met @ fiacre which he hailed and drove to the Hotel de Paris. - There fie discov- ered M. Perichon looking melodrama- tic in a long black cloak and wearing a broad-brimmed felt hat pressed down on his head, Washburh was also there, stowing some peculiar-looking parcels into the car. i Both men hailed him with, satisfac- tion. "What's it all about?" asked Grant. M. Perichon smiled at: him mildly. "Today, my friend, I am going to show you some of the most beautiful places along the Riviera, Allons, en voiture!" "Oh, look here, sir," Grant burst out. "Is this thing ever going to work out? We don't seem a jot fur- ther than we were." "Today, mon ami, progress. I feel it." © + "But have you any reason for say- , ing it? We don't seem any further (E than we were two weeks ago." : The Frenchman eyed the troubled face humorously, then he turned back to the car, saying: "You may not be any further--but I am!" : Grant eyed 'the ex-detective coldly, incredulously, but climbed into the car and sat alone in the back seat, gazing bloomily at the beautiful country which unfolded itself before his eyes, as the car climbed up the Grand Cor- | niche, What did this expedition mean? What bee was buzzing in Perichon' s bonnet now? - : . Washburn 'was a fast but steady i : driver and the Mercedes ate up the fie white roads as they passed through one-after another of many of-the most * famous resorts of the French Riviera. Nice, Cannes and finally St. Raphael fell behind them, until they came to the small seacoast town of St. Tropez, when M. Perichon, who had been "al- 5 most entirely silent, seemed suddenly it to awake and drew from his pocket a 7 paper upon which certain hierogly- : phics were scrawled. Grant's thought vf had been mainly upon .the problein RE which was absorbing them all, and upon the mystery of Jean's apparent liking for de Laurier. Also, staring at the back of Perichon's nodding head, he had wondered whether the old fellow knew anything at all, or whether he was. after some mare's nest. As far as he could see, only time had moved since the day of the fateful acident; Euan 'Grah&m was _ still lost and Mrs, Winton's pearls were unrecovered, There had been the \ ; clue of the petrol lighter; of course, » : "Gosh!" Thut vvas where they were : going--to the place where the lighter had been picked up. Anyway, the / very sense of rushing through the air 2 "as they were doing gave him a feeling SPEAR of activity, and Grant's spirit Nigue today we shall by ALLYN_ SLOAN thing against M. the Baron, It was one o'clock when they d La Croix, and 'again M, Perichon be- gan to study the paper in his hand, Then all at once he cried, "Stop! Stop!" 'Washburn: drew ng to the side of the road, "Now what?" he asked, "Descendez. We will have our lunch by the sea," Suiting the words, M, Perichon got out, left the road, and began to slither down the steép pine- clad incline which led to a small white-sanded beach. "What the devil--" exclaimed Wash- burn, watching the old detective swinging from tree to tree to keep himself from falling. "I think it's the place where Gra- ham's lighter was found," Grant pro- pounded. Pas Carrying the lunch, which M, Peri- chon had supplied from his hotel, they ng him to the beach, When they reached: the sands, they discover- 4d standing staring up the hill at ite villa which gleamed through the trees high above their heads. #0Is this where the lighter was Found?" asked Grant. "Yes, on that slope," Perichon nod- ded. "That's odd, isn't it?" The slope was not that which led down from the road, but was a further one be- tween the semi-concealed villa and the sea, A "Perhaps it is peculiar--perhaps it is not. Come, let us lunch!" The Frenchman, sat himself down on a rock and began to opén one of the parcels. As he munched a great sand- wich of bread and cheese, the old man! waxed lyrical about the surrounding beauties of nature. "Those red rocks --that amethystine sea--the lovely sun --the air sweet with the breath of the forest, it is marvellous!" Grant agreed, but thought it would more nearly resemble heaven if Jean were lying in a bathing suit beside him on the hot sand, instead of being seated, as he supposed she then was, across a small table from that un- necessary addition to the world's store of beastliness--Baron Max de Laurier. Perichon's voice rolled on: "Nature is superb, but I often ask myself, when I meet myself in the glass, 'Why is it that you are so ugly, mon vieux? You are yellow, your hair is a dirty white, you have pig's eyes." . The two young men laughed, then for a while they munched silently. Suddenly Washburn mentioned his sister's advent. "Mme. van Dyke you say? Is she not the lady who owns the Pink Dia- mond?" Washburn idea. it set in a fing know ?" YSuch" stones are famous, It be- longed at one time to the Grand Duke Ivanovitch, » ""That's so. My brother-in-law bought it at the Russian sale in-New York." e "And will Madame bring that stone here?" "Why, I guess so. quite frequently." . _Perichon nodded and raised his eyes to the gleam of white plaster through the trees. 4 Sure, She has But how did you She wears it "You're a mysterious old fellow,"|. thought Grant, lying on "his back on the sand, "but I don't believe you know a thing." Perichon and reverted to thinking about Jean and her host at lunch. The memory acted like an irritant and he sat up. I "M. Perichon, who is Baron de Laurier? D'you know anything about him?" For a moment the 'Frenchman was pensive, then he remarked Guielly: "You are jealous, yes?' . .Grant hesitated, then blurted out: "Damn it, yes, I am. He's always with Miss Graham now and I--I---" "You think she should be with your" AN--not exactly, but--" * Perichon nodded. "I 'understand perfotlly, mon fal but as far as is known, there is no- As far Hs is known--" he repeated slowly. Then with a suddenness which startled the other two, he got up. "Allons! We must work! Now, Messieurs, I A ed appreciably. want to know about that villa, To dE ind A . iA i he . 9s MAGIC But he forgot about] - (AG 4) ; AoA UST THINK~it takes less than 1¢ worth of ris ; Magic Baking Powder to make a deli- MADEN CANADA : 2 cious three-layer cake! And Magic is al- £7 73 ways dependable--gives the same perfect 7 fe jissevary time. No wonder Canada's i ng sook ery sxpests Say it doesn't pdy' to take baking pow= der. Bal owt ih Magi and and be surel ih HR ih of any harm ane on every tin fe Trot from alum ie HEA 2 SE PARA whom it belongs and if they aré there, You will go and ask. You will say-- say anything you like, but describe to me the owner of the villa. Allez!" Glad to be doing something definite at last; Grant set off with Washburn, They made for the road, so as to ap- proach the villa by the drive which evidently must be a long one, for the house stood out on a promontory sur- rounded on three sides by the sea, and as they went they discussed the pos- sible meaning of this latest of M. Peri- chon's whims, _ "D'you think that Graham is shut up in that vila?' asked Grant. "Golly, what a brain!' grinned the American, "I never thought of that." "Well, how did the lighter get on that hill?" "You're right. Wouldn't it be AA if we found and took him back to Miss Graham?" A thrill of excitement: passed through Grant and he quickened his pace, This was 'really doing some- thing, Walking up to the great iron doors they pulled the rusty old bell and, scarcely knowing what to expect, waited. The bell clanged lustily, but they rang in vain, "Nobody Tome," remarked Wash- burn, "Let's walk to 'the end of the wall, "There may be another gate," suggested Grant. : This took them some time, for the wall was long, but it remained blank and impenetrable until at the far end it dropped down again'to the sea. Thus the -small promontory was completely shut off from the land, the only way of circumventing the wall being by boat, and there was no boat handy, Grant took off his hat and fanned his face with it. "We're stuck again," he grumbled. "We'd better go back, That was the trouble with the confounded mystery, no path seemed to lead out of the maze, When they reached the hgach again M. Perichon was at first nowhere to be seen, but suddenly Grant clutched the American's.shoulder and pointed. "Look at that!" (To bé- continued.) BELARUS XN _-- An Exotic Menu Two hungry Canadians walked into the Hotel Central in Panama City the other day. In this sleepy old Spanish town, they were keen in the expecta- tion of enjoying a luncheon of strange and delectable tropical foods, quite different from anything they could. get at home. The bill of fare, written in the Spanish of the country, prom- ised well, It offered: 'Ensalada de Remolachas Sopa de Frijoles Chuleta de Puerco Frito, Salsa Manzana Papas Lyonesa Mazorca Pan Y Mantequilla Cafe o te Canny, they asked for a transla-| tion. Then they learned that this ex- otic bill of fare Teally comprised the following: ~° Pickled Beets Salad Puree of Native Beans Fried Pork Chop, Apple Sauce Lyonnaise Potatoes Corn on the Cob "Rolls and Butter Coffee or Tea 'The Canadians decided that they might just as well be lunching' in a Chinese restaurant in a prairie town. Finally some gesticulatory conver- sation with a semi-comatose waiter produced a - baked corbina and. j papayas, Panama's reputation host was saved.--Financial Po 0) 0 How to Cure an * Inferiority - Complex Lack # self-confidence, Mervensness, blushing in company and'other symp- toms of what is termed the inferiority comple, seem to trouble a number of people." : Now, the cause of all these things is that the sufferer things too much of whut others think of him; The remedy lies not in medicine, but.-in yourself. Beyond advising ton- ics, sound diet and fresh air, a doc- tor can*do- little when the patient is «bviously on the way to ill-health as a result of worries, It .is useless and harmful to spend the best years of your'life wondering what others think of you, especially when. you "are convinced that such thoughts are the reverse of flattering. Try to adopt the attitude that you are as good, if not better, than your fancied critics. You should realize that life is much too short for others to worry about your particular trouble, ; MEEIEY Girl Wins Dental Award For the first time the most coveted award of the London School of Den- tal Surgery has gone to a girl. She is Miss E, L Stamiper, of Willis: den, England, nd the award is the Saunders Scholarship, the holder of which is regarded as the senlor atu- dent in the final year of the course. Miss Stamper also took prizes In dental surgery, bacteriology, and den- tal diseases in children, and a cert filcate of honor in radiology, The gohool will mot admit women, stu- 'dents hereafter, = ET a "It woman's Intuition is so wonderful why does she ask so many questions? bod hat ad p= 'Delicious Quality GREEN TEA Also in Black and Mixed Pithy Anecdotes Of the Famous "In John Forster's account of Dick- ens' visit to Montreal (in 1832) there occurs one of the few out-and-out er- rorg to be found in that magnificent work," says Stephen Leacock (in his long-awaited--and well worth waiting for--" Charles Dickens® His Life and Work"), "Misled no doubt by Dickens' handwriting in the letters he received, he says that Dickens and his wife stayed at Peasco's Hotel, This is in- correct. Recent researchec personally conducted in front of the hotel (still standing, in St. Paul S'.) show that the name (still legible) is Rasco's Hotel: All research workers in the history of our literature will find in this correction of a standing error a distinct contribution to our knowledge of the life and character of Dickens and an ample justification of the pre- sent volume," : : L] LI ] * By the way, and as an ample justi- fication of the present praragraph, re- rent: researches personall; conducted show that Professor Leacock (or is it the printer? or the proofreacer?) is incorrect in referring--on page 16 to "the Dodson and Foggs, the Vho- leses, the Parkers,:and the Tulking- horns," ete, 'I can hear all Dickensi- ans, including the Professor, shout: "Isn't he perky? "And pray, oe Lamb," asked a lady of dear old Charles Lamb, "how do you like children?" ~ "B-b-boiled, ma-ad-am," in his stuttering way. x » ee In one of Mrs, Clemens letters to her famous husband (Mark Twain) when he was away from home oi a lecture tour, she wrote: ; "This afternoon Susie (~ small daughter) and I had a rather sad time because she told me a lie=--she felt very unhappy about it This evening I prayed for her that she might be for- given for it. Then I sald: 'Susie, don't he replied you want to pray about it and ask for] yourself to be fotgivem?" 'Oh, one's enough,' Tr A ¢hip off the old block. 2 - LJ] ® » : x And that reminds me of a story told by Mrs, Alice M. Willamson, the novelist (who passed on recently), in her reminiscences "The Inky Way." A London doctor was pigtonbing for a pretty girl, "My child,' he said, "the trouble is with our little tummy. We must diet." ~ "Al right, doctor," the docile child sighed, 'What color?" ow * " Israel Zankwill was no beauty--in fact he was fascinatingly ugly, When Mrs. Williamson -- an American by birth--first met him--he and Maeter- 4] linck came to lunch with her and her husband, C. N. Wilijamson--she rath- er stared a littles "Well," said dill, "IT know I'm considered the ugliest in London, if not in England. Many 'people be- lieve that I ought to have been born centuries earlier to inspire gargoyles, Am I better or worse than you expect- ed?" "To such a challenge I hardly knew what answer to give, "but I stammer- el some banality-about having thought go much about his books I'd had no time to think of his looks." La ® L [ Can you imagine an author writing six serial storles at one time! Yet Mrs, Williamson did. It is true that she had the help of her husband, C. N, Williamson, who, however, had no palt in the actual writing. In the ear- ly days of her career, she accepted a commission from Lord Northeliffe-- or Sir Alfred Harmsworth, as he was then--to 'begin six serials for simul. taneous publication in his newspapers | . and magazines. LJ » LJ : While he was writing them, in her "spare time," she also began a travel bhook=<"'The Lightning Conductor'-- which-became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic. - of used to feel guilty about spend. ing timé on "The Lightning Conduct- or', recalled Mra. Williamson, "lest I should be fempted to neglect the six serials, and often I worried so much EGGSWANTED We Pay Top Prices Fo Eggs. ~Write For'Our Weekly Quotations, pt yte Packing Co.| 7880, Front St, East, Toronto ISSUE No. 6-- 6-34" that I fell Vlotim fo one --_-- dream, It was always the same, LB * LJ L "I had got the serials mixed, and had given the lover of heroine number one to heroine number two, and so on through the list, In the dream; also, a heroine or a hero who had started out with brown eyes suddenly developed orbs blue as sapphires, in the mix-up of characters, Their names got switched around, too. But fortunately nothing of this kind happened, except in night- mares," LJ LJ LJ The genuine poetical turn and the studied affectation of Oscar Wilde's character are well illustrated in this incident related by Frederic Whyte (in his biography of William Heine- mann, the publisher). Whyte had gone to Paris to see the author of "Salome" 'THleinemann. He found Oscar wearing deep mourning and looking very mel: ancholy. * L} LJ *® Naturally Whyte thought Wilde was suffering from some recent and' cruel bereavement and cautiously ventured an inquiry on the delicate subject, only to receive the unexpected reply: "This happens to be my birthday, and I am mourning (as I shall -hence- forth do on each of my anniversaries) the flight of one year of my youth into nothingness, the growing blight upon my Summer." - ; | J * * . After leaving Cambridge, Hugh Wal- pole joined a mission for Liverpool seamen--his father beinz Bishop of 'Edinburgh--but the enthusiastic young man was no match for the smooth- tongued and oily sailors who loved to bait unwary missioners, says. Mar- guerits Steen (in "Hugh Walpole.) He consoled himself by reading "Frau- lein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther," | which was appearing serially in the "Cornhill Magazine," and committing some of his enthusiasm to a letter to its author, #Elizabeth." (Pen name of Countess Atrfim, afterwards the Count- ess Russell). ¢ LJ LJ * In die time he received an answer saying what a nice young man he sounded and inviting him to tea. "Eliza- beth liked the romantic-minded and good-looking young man and immedi- ately invited him to become,the tutor of her three little" daughters--the April, May and June babies--in Ger- many the following Autumn. - "Until September- 'Hugh -lived_.in 'a pleasant dream in which 'Elizabeth' occupied the centre of the stage and the babies barely a corner," adds Miss Steen. .,"But upon his arrival, the full enormity of the fact that he knew nothing at gll about instructing the young threw him Into a panic. It was not long before-he returned to England with the first draft of a novel in his bag." J] * ®, [ ] One great disappointment of his childhood that Hugh Walpole-remem- about some work he was to do for | bers was the time he was given; by his reverend father, the choice of see- ing Wilson Barrett in "The Sign of the Cross" and Beerbohm Tree in "Henry IV." Tremulous with excitement, Hugh stammered out his preference for "The Sign of the Cross." The pa- ternal brow clouded. "Come, come, now, Hugh! Think again: "Shakespeare, you know!" In spite of the note of admonish- ment and warning in his father's voice the quaking Hugh proffered, from the depths of his desirous heart, a dither. ing reiteration of his former choice. an act of untoward daring that met with its awful deserts, "I'm disappointed in you, Hugh!" The Walpoles went to "Henry IV," and to rub it in, as it were, the outing. was referred to as "Hugh's Treat!" * * * . "Elizabeth's second husband, th late Earl Russell, whose brother, Bertrand Russell, the author, succeed ed to the title on hisvdénth) told this: story in his book "My Life and Re- miniscences': f "My grandmother, Lady John Rus- fell, was a great favorite with: Queen Victoria throughout her life, Not alone, of course, because she had the peculiar and unusual capacity of wag: ing her ears like a dog, But this ac- complishment intrigued. the Queen, and she suddenly called on Lady John to show it off to an Ambassador. My grandmother was so taken aback that she lost for a long time the power to move either ear, ang' only ultimately regained the power to move one, which she occasionally did for my edi: fication." "Manitoba's next coming producer. Maps and Fu!l Information on | Request, - Doran Securities Ltd. 67 Yonge St, Toronto 'Show, Card ~ Writers Earn increased Salar- les ae Salesmen. We "teach you how to produce good ones. 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And for a gargle, Aspirin Tablets dissolve so com- pletely they leave no irritating 1 particles. Get a box of 12 'tablets or a % bottle of 24 'or £100 at any drug J store, fife DOES. NOT HARM ' THE HEART In Distant China Pigs a s and Shickens Dogs and in. 'Houses hick loon Bile 'With Few or No Windows Writing to the Women's Page editor' of the Toronto Globe, a woman mis~ sionary tells of homemaking in'Chinas : "Homemaking in China is very dif : ferent from homemaking in Canada. I shall describe one place, which is typi- eal of 'the poor, or even middle class, home of South China. The floor is' mud, which is almost as hard as ce- . ment. On the "ight as you enter the door is a bed made of boards, and ° placed on a stand about two feet from the floor. This is covered with a mat, ; and during the day they sit on it to ® do their work or eat their rice, In the ' i middle of the room is a table, on which : i they place their food. "This table, as § well as.the whole house, is thoroughly -| cleaned once a year, It is almost im~ possible to make a Chinese understand that to keep a place clean is so much better than to clean it after it is dirty. I might say, thcugh, that lately' my own cook has begun to take a pride in if keeping the aluminum pots clean, for i they always look so nice, and I do not § hesitate to tell him so. But coming back to the little Chinese home, as I enter the woman is sitting on a low B stool, with a small table in front of : : her, 'shelling watermelon seeds to be used for moon-feast cakes, EARTHENWARE POTS. "I have tried my best to think of ~ gome places in Canada to which I could compare the Chinese kitchen, but have failed. Anyhow, the stoves ara; | open earthenware pots; into which the Pwood or grass is put; a kettle is placed on top, and the rice cooked in this way, When the rice is' prepared, then they take a'huge frying-pan, much deeper than ours, and prepare their other food. "The smoke has no outlet, so it set= tles around the room and makes' the walls black. The floor is littered with wood or grass for burning and the family pig or chickens." I have more: than once had to step over a pig or have one come and lie down with a = i grunt by my side. Most of the homes, : especially the heathens' are built with few or no windows, as the fewer théy have the less likely the evil spirits will =~ _ enter the building. "The doors at the front and back are closed up tight at night to protect them from thieves; the whole family dogs, chickens, and cats brought into the house also. Is it ahy that so many 'of the natives are sick? It is always a wonder to me that the 3 children live-at all, Most of the bed- = tg ; rooms are inside rooms with no light whatever, -except what comes in through the small door. "If you will come and have a meal with me in January I will serve you a lettuce and tomato salad, fresh|from --__ it '|our garden, and strawberries with whipped cream (if the canned cream will whip; if not, beaten egg white). Then there will be plenty of bananas also, if the thieves do not get too | many. We have more than 10 bunches coming on now. Our garden is best i from December to'April; after that ib is too hot for anything to grow. This year -we had about 30 pineapples, and I used them mostly for jam, The Chi- Lese use them quite a bit with heer) Acrea 'Reduction ee Red na oliesls : x Regina.-- Possibilities that * Saskat- chewan farmers will be faced by com= pulsory wheat acreage reduction when they sow their 1934 crop are remote, according to Premier J. Li M. Ander- son. The manner in which SERA Hear "| will fulfill its share in lopping 4,000;= += = * 000 acres off Canada's. area is not known, but details of . 'the' province's policy "are. expected to be announced =~ - shortly by Hon, M. A, MacPherson. Astortiey-(enieral and treasurer. ----e--e Sport Skirts Twelve Inches from Ground: Paris.--Spring fashion shows, give ing the first hint of new 1984 modes, opened in crowded salons recently on the eve of President Leébrun's annual gala reception at Elysee Palace, While hundreds of Parisiennes pre- pared elaborate toilettes for the eve- ning festivities, . Worth displayed sports - modes designed with trim, cleancut lines, with skirts 12 inches from the ground, Colors shown were chartereuse green, tea green, gray beige, navy, ° pale blue and white. : re A sien Brewery Emplove Gives Queen Lift Cambridge, England--Percy Tit= mous, who works for a brewery, drove into town this morning with Her Ma~ 'jesty, Queen Mary, riding in his little automobile, The : townsfolks stared in amazes ment from. the sidewalks, Queen Mary's automobile had bro- ken down between Ely and Cambridge - while. she was motoring from Sane dringham to shop for antiques. Saal ; Titmous saw Her Majesty's plight q ag he drove down the road. He of- ; fered his aid. The Queen accepted, EN JRE AR ne host 'eure for a Hite Informa Lal tion is more knowledge." ~Nicholas Murray Butler, Sen 5 &