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ae he wi bE con oT err. Fp NS a 4 Ma Sortie "5 Le rh bn A o EAR hs = 25 a ph ri ad po v7 oo was a great detective, on lady knew it. 'implication of her words, for, after Ed by ALLYN SLOAN SYNOPSIS, Jean Graham and her brother Euan wtay on the Riviera with Geoffrey \Win- ton and his wife Doreen, who leads Kuan on to gamble at the Casino, Jean coaxes im to go to Paris. On the road to Paris ean finds a string of pearls in Euan's pocket. He snatches the case from her nd the car crashes. The: accident is flattered by Jerry Grant, who takes her ack to his hostess, Helen Gorst, Euan 1s missing, M. Riviuox, French inspector, Investigates, Geoffrey Winton tells Helen that his wife's pearls are missing. Rivaux confronts Jean with this as the reason for Euan's disappearance. Jean visits Euan's friend, Baron de Laurier, + whom she dislikes, and learns that Xuan fs .in debt to him. Meanwhile Jerry Grant meets M. Perichon, ex-detective, who promises to help them. Jerry pro- 'poses to Jean, but she begs him to wall, erichon visits Jean, CHAPTER XVIII.--- (Cont'd.) "Ah, I am Perichon., I know you are afraid," he asserted. . "Know what?" The words "from Jean sharply. ""That you are afraid of something "and, Mademoiselie, believe me, if I am to help you, you must confide in me, So far we are not much. further, My brave comrade Rivaux knows nothing, has found nothing--and meanwhile M. your brother and the pearls of Mme. Winton are lost." ; "Oh, I know." Jean moved impa- tiently. .How often had she been ever and over it all? "M, Perichon," she turiied to him suddenly, "what do you think has happened to Euan?" "Ah, Ca!" His shoulders humped : themselves and "his hands spread out. "But you are a great detective--- can't you even guess? Perichon chuckled broke inwardly. He Oh, yes, it was pleasant that this charming young He overlooked the other all--it- was his guessing which had "made him famous, which had raised him head and shoulders above such ~: common fry as Rivaux, who only fol- lowed their noses. He glanced at the girl, then began: . "Mademoiselle, I do not like to tell "you what I think." * Jean was silent a moment, then: "You mean that you tink he is dead?" "I do not kro; but that is what I fear." "Ah, poor child," thought " Perichon for, although Jean had not . spoken, she had turned away. After a while, she said in a low tone: "I almost wish it were so." "Mademoiselle, you do not trust me. Why. I am not pretty outside, but I am kind au fond. I would like to help you and that poor M. Grant, who is ko impatient and who loves you so much." Jean looked up sharply. "How d'you know?" "Parbleau," laughed the old man. "I am not that stupid!" He leaned for- . ward persuasively. "Come, Mademoi- pelle, have confider.ce in papa. Of what Js it that you are afraid? Why do : you sometimes hope that M. your bro- ther is dead?" Jean did not speak. Torn between the desire to tell the old man every- thing she knew or feared and risk the tonsequences--and distrust of him. He represented the law even if he was kind, and if he discovered that Euan had stolen--she sighed and moved-im- patiently. . Perichon saw that although he had made an impression he had not gained his point, : "Mademoiselle," he said, tell you a little story, Once there was a jeune fille who had a brother of "I will whom she was very fond. This boy, however, was unsteady and lost much money. Then one day he disappeared under peculiar eircumstances, and at the same time some pearls disappeared with hind, Ewryone said that he had stolen them, und some even said that his sister had had something to do with their disapearance,- Now-----" Perichon's lids dropped over his eyes so that he resembled a somnolent old bird, but he was watching the girl's face, noting every emotion which passed over it." Now this young lady knew that her brother had those pearls, and that was why she was so worried at his disappearance--" A gasping sound passed Jean's lips, and she would have risen had not Per- ichon giasped hier arm and forced her down again, on) hava not 2nivhed, Mademoiselle. That young lady was afraid that her brother might try to sell those pearls] ---that he would be taken---' The girl lifted her eyes to his defi- antly: "Well?" The other shook his head and said in gentler teme:: "Mon enfant, why will you not trust me? I am zn old man with much experience, which I offer you for your benciii, and you refuse---you actually refusei" The kind words were more than Jean could endure. All the tears which had been behind her eyes and in her threat, it séemed to her for days, would no longer be contgined and be- gan to course down her cheeks, Hid- ing her face, she sobbed: "I'm so mis- erable--I can't bear it." Perichon allowed her to ery for a while, then patted her shoulder. "Now we will talk, n'est-ce pas?' ~ Blowing her nose, she nodded. ""A Ja bonne heure! Now tell me all that happened on the morning you left Mrs. Winton's villa." For the first time since her accident Jean told the exact story of that ill- fated morning, suppressing nothing. Characteristically, Perichon" listened with his eyes half shut, and his face raised -to the sun. When the girl had finished speaking, le said: "You do not know why your bro- ther called on the Baron de Laurier?" She hesitated before answering: "No.". "That is not true, Mademoiselle." Tha girl glanced at her interrogator, then looked away. Could he read thoughts, that old man, or did he really know? she asked herself uncom- fortably. "Mademoiselle, I am going to put you a question which may seem to you impertinent, but I beg of you to an- swer me truthfully. Do you like Max de Laurier?" "No!" The answer came immedi- ately, almost before she had thought. "Then why do you see him so often? Why do you lunch and dine with him? Why does he--touch you?" Jean made an involuntary move- ment of protest and became a shade Vary your menus with these tempting breads made with rer over 50 years Royal Yeast i. ° Cakes have been the standard = of fine quality, Today, they are pre- -* ferred in 7 out of every 8 Canadian :- homes where dry yeast is used in - home baking. Individually sealed in Wir-tight waxed paper, they stay , 'absolutely fresh for months. You i ©an be sure of full leavening power" 7 Bo time you bake with them. 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It was nearly an hour later that Jean left the villa with Dan Wash- burn and she was in.a were happy and confident mond than she had been for several weeks, The American watched her a moment, then hearing an excited little catch in her laughter, grinned. "Say, old Daddy Ferichon has put a whole lot of uew pep into you hasn't he?" | The girl smiled as she said: rather a dear." "Don't you let. Jerry hear you say that," laughed Washburn, CHAPTER XIX, A few nights later Jean dined with Max de Laurier and afterwards went with him to the opera. It was a 'gala night and she wore her smartest white dress and, contrary to custom, long white kid "gloves. During dinner de Laurier had been perfectly reasonable and here, sur- ~tunded by people, he would have to behave, she thought, determined fux- ther to find someone during the inter- val who would give her a lift home. ~ "He's Jeanne," whispered his voice at her side. "Ips my dress." "Mais non, *I' said you, not your. dress, "Mannei's makyth - man, clothzs makyth woman," she quoted, "That is nonsense; a. generalization. Tiens!" De Laurier broke off, staring at a party who had come in nd stood ir. the gangway. "That is Mr. Wash- burn's sister, is it not?" ' "Yes, Mrs. Van Dyke." Watching the little party consisting of Dan Washburn, Grant, Mrs, Van Dyke, and another woman, as they climbed over the rows of knees and sat down in their seats, Jean reflected that she would ask them to give her a lift in their car, so that she could shed de Laurier at the door of the Opera House; otherwise he would want her to sup with him. The Baron also watched the party settle down in the row ahead of them, and remarked: "I would like to meet that lady. She is very beautiful." "Very," Jean agreed. "Can you not introduce me?" "OY, I---I don't know Ler very well," "No? But that is easy, surely." The lights going down prevented further conversation, and for the next three-quarters «of an hour Jean was able to sit without speaking. The tragically sweet music of Puccini's Madame Butterfly filled her with sad- ness which increased as. the opera went on. EN In the first interval they went out into the foyer, but although obviously de Laurier was seeking to meet Wash- burn and his sister, they did not ap- pear. Jean took out a cigarette' and. a small lighter. For a moment she fid- dled with it, but having kept her 'I gloves on, could not manipulate it. Baron, I wonder if you would light it for me." She held out the lighter. The Frenchman's dark eyes smiled. "It is too small, Look, mine is better." "No, please use mine, It is a new one and I-want to christen it. It works quite well, but I don't want to soil 'my gloves." Smiling, the Baron took the lighter, lit the flame and held it out to the girl, "Thank you," she smiled. Taking back the lighter, she gazed at it with eager curiosity, then re- placed it at the bottom of her bag. - (To be continued.) -- ne He Talks Fast. Montreal.--Mrg, John B, Lattimer, whose husband, a professor at Mac- donald College, was being sued for $10,000. in a damage action, stepped into the wintess box and ran into a language difficulty, The clerk of the court put the Bible 4n her hand, took deep breath and asked. "Doyousweartotelithetriththe whole truth and nothingbutthe truth go helpyouGodyourname?" "I'm sorry," sald. Mrs, Lattimer, "but I do not understand French," The amazed clerk. repeated the formula of the oath a little more slow- ly. Pmerentia Besner, 18, a domestic gervant, claimed sho siftered infec: tion in her hand as a result of bélng asked to use a disinfectant in the water for House-cleaning purposes and claimed $10,000 damages, Professor Lattimer and Mrs, Lattimer contend. ed the chemical is in general nge and fa mot harmful. = The girl's Miners | was' due to other causes, they oon. tended. "ith a good idea «= civilization. Somebody ought. to ar} it."<~Prince ot Wales, Whatever was she i you promise me not to tell Jerry--Mr. : ! specially They were designed to give the poor "You are looking wonderful. tonight, Exquitite Quality - Also in Black 'and Mixed at Cornell College o Ithaca, N.Y.--Set up for inspection by Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt here was the sclentific, mass production re- sult of serving a new menu at the White House. The wire of the United States Pre. sident pioneered the menu In Wash. ington recently. The result {8 that the Cornell Research Foundation, controls these products, lus just licensed wmanufacwiers te produce three .ot tiem ia sufiicient voluiua to feed milliyng of relief agency bene ficlarles, Nourishing Meals © Tha feuds aro witeat, corn and oats, treated and with milk added. meals cosling only a few cents each, yet containing more nourishment than man; affluent families purchase habit. ually. Mouths of experiment with the new foods, -as' bread; muffing, soups, pan- cakes and cereals, at the Cornel] Col- lege -of Home Economics seem to in- dicate that the dietary scientists have found a working plan new for humans, They borrowed this plan, ready 'Research Releases New Foods Wheat, Corn and Oats, Specially Treated After Experiments Put on the Market which Home Economics, to be made, from 10 years' experience in producing near miracles in improving animals by diet. So-Called Waste Part of the substances for the ani mals were go-called industrial waste products of human food processing. This waste was not merely brans from huiis, but the embryo of grains, and vitaming -and minerals, In the new Coruell £90d these elements are re- stored for human consumption, "Until a few years ago," said H. BE. Babcock, a director of the Cornell Re- (search Foundation, "we lost 26 to 30 iper cent. of young chicks, due to faulty idlet. Now we lose none from. that cause, We hope to do something like 'that for humans." . "No one would think of taking horses . which had not worked for months and had fed only on hay, and putting them to work without first feeding them other foous i. get their strength up. Yet we take men who have been undernourished, load them with pic¢i: and shovel." | Singing a Business Swedish Nightingale of Metro- politan 'Has No Patience With Temperamental Divas New York. -- Goea Ljunberg, the "Swedish Nightingale," of the present day at the Melropolitan Opera, be- lieves the traditional prima donna temperament is "all made up." "I'm not a prima donna, I'm just a singer," she says. nerves and temperament! People have to do things with temperament when they don't do it with the voice, to show they're artists. "Singing is a business like every- thing else, but a nerve-wracking busi: ness, The best way to do it is to keep the nerves calm. Treat everyone as a friend, be easy about things. You learn that after a while) An opera singer's life, she_goes on, is "absolutely like living in a convent" during the 'season. "You can't use perfume. It's bad for the vocal cords. You can't go out for more than an hour or so, because you work so terribly hard. You can't let: yourself he disturbed." Gold Blondes to Have Their Day Platinum Hair Not in Favor --Fingernails to Match Costumes 1ave gone off New. York.--Blondes the platinum standard. So said beauticlans and hair stylists at thelr annual convention, It's more desirable now to be gold-blonde, safd they. 'They talked, too, about'a haircut that matches the new car. It's stream. lined; and these experts said it will be "the coiffure." The way of it is this: Straight back from the forehead to the ear-line, with no wave, But at the back, a riot of small curls, "More curls than. ever this spring" was the hairdressers' prediction, No slick bobs, no. feather edge necklines, no shingled heads. : "We're getting back to feminity af- ter two years," sald the hairdressers. But women's tresses will go right of being bobbed, they added. ' A medium-length bob is pheterreds and when a woman wants to look re- gal, for evening, she will add to her bob an artificial] braid. A trend away from. the highly rouged cheek also was seen. But color is leaving the cheeks, it seems, only to gleam more brightly on eyelids, Eyelashes will Be IIOP more Justions EGGS WANTED We Pay Top Prices For Egge Write For Our Weekly Quotations Whyte Pag Packing Co. Front St 3h fa Toronto TISSUE Noi 9--'34 - As Everything Else This screaming and |' than ever before, the 'beauty experts said, and eye shadow of more positive shades. Fingernail note: They will be bril- lant, Many women will cling to:deep red;- but ladies of the exotic type will {int their nails . to match their cos- tumes, and will flash purple and green. rime freien To Build Homes More than 1,000 workmens' houses are to be built in Belfast, Ireland, SECRET NAT "Wanderlust fs the most precious of all the troublesome appetites of the soul of men,""--J. Ramsay MacDonald, | -- et ee "I believe that the master key to success is in the hands of every one of us at the start.,"--Sir Henri Deterding. Star i into 'trucks and expect them to work} | -------- ep LA ling Pie is _ A Sterling Dish Fit to Set Before a King--or a President ~-- Says Mrs. Angelo Biacoli Taylorville, .JILl--A woman came along recently with d-neat tip for Gov- ernment officials at Washington w»ho have been driven to distractior. by starlings, The small birds have long flocked around the Government buildings in pestiferous numbers. They invaded the midland coal field district here and it took Mrs. Angelo Biagoll to find that starlings make potpie fit for a king. Here's her recipe: Make a deep crust, put in a bit of" onion, cabbage, tomatoes, green peas and _salt pork, then add a couple of- starlings well cnt up and bake, TO REDUCE INLINE AA OF TEL 3c an NEW, LARGE BOTT CoA. pure, wholesome, and economical table ~ Syrup. Children love its delicious flavor. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED. MONTREAL er Here's THAT QUICK WAY TO STOP A cop Take 2 Aspirin Tablets. 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Get a box of 12-tablets or a bottle of 24 or 100 at any drug store. i 'them Says 50 Per Cent. da's People Are Non-British Plan to Create Permanent Em- pire Dévelopment Com- mittee Talked out in 'House ~ ndon, -- Recommendation of Sir gy Jo Assheton Pownall that a* standing committee representing the whole Em. e be established to promote Empire _- | ae be seta} wag talked out last week An the House of Commons. | The proposal was seconded by D. @, omerville, who declared there were 0,000: forejgners settled in Canada and asked why Britons might not have gone there instead. He was supported - dn_this stand by Hamilton W. Kerr, wha held 60 per cent. of Canada's population was non-British, Malcolm MacDonald, son of the Prime Minister and Under-Secretary for Dominion Affairs, emphasized what he sald was a need for Empire co-operation. He declared agreement of all the Empire governments would be necessary before Sir Assheton's suggestion could he made effective, and recalled the_fate of the defunct Empire Marketing Board as an indi. cation there was little hope of such agreement, Mr. MacDonald recalled that the Ottawa economie conference had mot adopted such a recommendation. -------- Is Golf Too Slow? For some little tim time past. the golf 'professionals have been debating vari- ous proposed changes. in the game, with the object of "speeding it up. -| The modern craze for speed has at last swept them along with its flood, and the result is that the "Royal and An. cient" sport is threatened. with pro- posals that will sound very like sacri- lege to the golt devotee who has held the rules that have governed golf for long years as something not tp be lightly tampered with, if, indeed, alter- ed at all, save in minor detail to suit local conditions or Tequirements. : Leo Diegel, four times hblder of the Canadian oper: championship, whose | lengthy surveys of the greens when he is putting have become a matter of history, ls the leader in. the revolt : against the slowness of the game. 'Something, he says, is radically wrong, It has reached a point in golf competi tion when the field stretches out like a slow. movie parade, with no particu. lar objective except to sh w oft the uniforms of the procession, Well, we might agree with Mr. Die- gel as to the "uniforms." Some of the | professionals appear to be under the . impression that they are entering a coloured hosiery competition, not a .golf match, 'But as for 'he rest, sure. ly it.is up to the playe.s themselves. Nobody spends more time in surveys ' ing a "lie" than: the average profes- sional. The general complaint, is that the average amateur takes too little time. He is always.being warned by the pro. to "take your time, Don't hurry." This looks - like 8 case of practising what they do not preach, But the amateur golfer ig hardly likely to worry about that, To him there are other features about golf than merely cutting down his. handicap. . One of is "3 delightful leisureliness. Once that {3 taken out of golf, it will' lose half its attractiveness for, the great majority. Can we ".ot have one sport left which has aot bowed down in crazy worship to the modern demon of speed ?---Montreal Dally Star, May Grow Tobacco But Not Cut It Up Windsor, -- Tobacco manufacturing may bea good business but it's no Job for an amateur. That became. clear following examination of Chapter 60, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, Chapter 60 pertains to the Excise, Act and its enforcement. : It may be strange, but none the lesg true, that farmer can grow tobacco {n a field but cannot process it into t 'bacco for-his own use by running, it through a cutting machine and pre There's a law against it. =~ Section 12 of the chapter says, In effect, "No person; unless licensed, shall carly on the business or trade 'of tobacco manufacturer or use any utensil, machinery or apparatus for the carrying on of such trade or bust: ness." Section 55 is a clause stipulating ;| that all tobacco intended for-commer. cial use shall be placed in bonded warehouses; 42 : Section 102 says, in part: "Every person carrying on any businéss sub ject to Excise ,or.having in his pos 'session jor in his premises any ma chinery, tools, utensils, apparatus ot 4 appliances suitable for carrying on any business subject to excise; whe -makes use of a tobacco press or cut ting machine not reported to a prgper.- officer or for the use.of which ng license has been taken out," shall he lable to a penalty for the first offence not exceeding $500 nor less than $200. 'For each. subsequant offence the penalty is $600 and for any. offence first or subsequent, provision is made \ for a further penalty of: $100 for cack day offence was committed, Three men who appeared recently ix Enst Windsor Police Court werd charged: simply with "manufacturing 'tobacco. without a license. One of the acensed, at whose home machines. for cutting tobacco were found, ag Aned $50 and costs with the alternative of one month in jail, The ether twe were finad $25 and costs, or ten days.