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the tule marsh murder story of a missing actkess and the tax 1ng of wits to explain her fate i by nancy bark mav1tx sysorsis what did you get out of him peters bon ellsworths wife formerly actress chair was once again poised at is sheila oshay disappears lr cavaa- nreearious ancrle aush criminal psychologist identities a charred body found in the tule marsh as i as to the actual events no more that of sheila liarbara his daughter h you already know you are in faints when she hears him tell this to t feter pijwr a herald reporter as good position to judge as i am when mrs kane sheilas maid is ar- what do you think rested she admits that ellsworth mar- 1 i t rled sheila under threat of breach of i honestly don t know peter saw promise a threatening note signej slowly ive seen r good many mar- in the theatre where sheila was danc ing there was not the slightest concession to the formality of a court proceeding in ormes manner- his voice was not raised in the conscious ness of addressing an audience neither did it sink to the embarrassed mumble of stage fright it was low but carried with perfect clearness to the farthest corner of the courtroom i i played his lips twisted sar- i donically as if forced to admit the point of a rather cruel practical joke 4 j i played the sandpaper rubbed sheets of sandpaper together you know- it was what s called a jara orchestra perhaps i may be allowsd to explain that i was trained to be a concert violinist i was what is some times called an infan prodigy to be continued laid orme is found in the murdered womans safe peter trails drmc and arrests him peter sees barbara destroy him circumstantially its a strong a jewelled comb of sheila s and when she- refuses to talk he realizes she is pro- c but circumstances take lunny testing someone at ormes trial mrs j quirks sometimes seeing stars new counts of the number of stars that could be seen with perfect tele- kan land state orme dr cayanaugl sheilas real reviews the sive noncooperation ever had a client like and if that i you d guess youd get a few homicidal impulses yourself youre wearing yourself out to no purpose dr- cavanaughs calm auth ority had its effect graham plucked the pen out of the blotter and leaned back in his chair you leave the evi dence to me that what im here for- is orme going to take the stand ptcr inquired- he says he is and i cant very well stop him but i havent a ghost of an idea what hes going to say thats pleasant position for a mans lawyer to be in isnt it i suppose if hes as cracked as dr cavanaugh says he is he might say almost anything i didnt say he was as cracked as all that dr cavanaugh corrected mildly i havent a notion in the world hut that hell tell the exact truth perhaps thats what hes afraid youll argue him out of if he lets you know about it beforehand look here doctor graham half rose his face flushing angrily just a moment the doctor waved him back with a placating gesture orme may have the idea that the i truth will not sound convincing and since it is your job to be convincing you might not look very favorably upon that particular brand of truth it might need a good deal of varnish- hg it is just possible that orme is holding wih all his strength of will to his purpose of telling exactly what he knows and that he is afraid he might weaken under our combined persuasion if he gave us the chance chapter xlii contd that gives you a certain rather impressive sincerity dr cavanaugh said blandly but it may not weigh heavily with the jury juries are like ly to have a general idea that lawyers are an unscrupulous lot its parly of course because legal procedure ueems to them a very elaborate game whose rules are too complicated for them to understand and human na ture has a way of being suspicious of what is beyond its comprehension whatever makes people ill at ease is likely to make them hostile the average man would assume you to be an honest person my dear graham you have an open countenance if i may say so not at all the sort of person who would misrepresent the value of a stock for example or cheat at a bridge game and yet because you are a lawyer they will suspect you of working a magic hocuspocus to try to throw dust in their eyes even if you know your client to be guilty the three men were gathered for an evening conference in the office of the defence attorney at grahams re quest the young lawyers tound cherubic face seemed to have lost some of its roseate chubbiness there were puffy circles of fatigue under his eyes and his mouth sagged in a discouraged droop peters long face looked even longer than usual and his cheekbones stood out sharply his brows were drawn together in an anxious frown that frown had become so habitual of late that it had etched two lines in parallel grooves above his eyes sinco the adjournment of court at half past five peter had gone back to the office and written his lead for the next mornings city edition and had stopped only for a cup of coffee on his way to the lawyers office graham had como directly from the court house the calfbound books marked with slips of blue paper which strew ed the desk and the pyramid of ashes j to argue with him mind you i know- in the brass bowl at his elbow indi- no more about it than you do but cated that he had taken no time for thero is nothing more stubborn than dinner dr- cavanaugh had stoppsd an unstable personality set on com- down town for an early and leisurely batting its own instability tepast of the three he alone showed well ive done my best to keep no sign of perturbation him off the stand graham said wear- you know peter brought the ily you remain our one white hope front legs of his chair to the floor with j doctor i was afraid even you would a thump i believe ellsworth and the slide out from under after todays kane woman were telling the absolute testimony truth queer as their stories were neither ellsworth nor mrs kane their testimony was a good deal could possibly alter the facts relative worse than queer graham said to david orme dr- cavanaugh said gloomily it was devastating- and i am willing u stake my professional yet when you go over it in cold blocd reputation on that in fact i am dislike of publicity ard fear of scandal hereby wagering a nickel and he especially somebody elses scandal produced the coin and balanced it on sound like mighty feeble motives for the tip of his finger that i shall trying to cover up the facts of a acquit david orme and it wont murdei thats the trouble with motives the doctor examined his cigar with calm detachment before lighting it the stronger of them so often do seem feeble to tho other fellow aptvp vr m theres the familiar notion for in- wial ifcit alllj stance thai all murders are commit- tho haggard beauty of david orme ted from jealousy anger fear or j as he walked firmly to tho witness greed and yet there was tho woman chair had its immediate effect on the who took a hammer to her husband courtroom despite the commonplace because he did not want her to go tp a or modern dress and surroundings his bridge party a patient not long ago face might have served as model for tamo to me suffering from what we the painting of a tortured god or- call a compulsion neurosis he was pheus torn by tho nymphs of promc- obsessed by tho homicidal impulse to theus chained to tho rock kill his wifo because for 20 years she r tho carved immobility with which had ipped her coffee audibly from a he had sat day after day beside the spoon perhaps if one of us had had sheriff had given place to a controlled to liston to that sound for 20 years but vibrating tension that face with wed be inclined to call it justifiable its hollowed temples and sunken eyes homicide somehow relegated tho jurors the at any rate graham interrupted group of court officials in their railed irritably todays testimony brought enclosure and the rows of newspaper out a perfect good recognizable mo- j men in their numbered seats to in- ti two of them in fact for orme consequence even tawdriness what- to kill mrs ellsworth it might have ever else he might be david orme was been jcalousy and it might have been not a sordid criminal tcvcnge you may call him a psycho- 1 before he had opened his lips ex- pathie case doctor but those aro go- cept to murmur an almost inaudible ing to look like mighty sane human response to the oath the room was motives to tho jury attuned to strangeness a shivor of psychopathic or not dr ca- excitement something not heard not vanaugh asserted orme is not the seen but felt liko the blowing of a type of personality to bo moved pov- wind rippled across the press rows erfully by cither of those two par- the men and women in the jury box ticular emotions- if he did kill her uncrossed their legs ceased fiddling it was for some other reason w handbags and leaned slightly weil just try to convince the jury forward that regardless of motive and opporl if graham viewed his witness with tunity he simply hasnt the right kind somo trepidation he concealed his un- if face for it graham snorted easiness under a manner of firm and i will my lad i will dr cavan- confident friendliness ugh said cheerfully- ive convinced j will you just toll the jury in yoni j ries of much queerer things than own way tho circumstances in which that theyve almost got into the you first becamo acquainted with the habit of bolujvrng me i lady known as sheila oshay youve examined him doctor i was a member of tho orchestra dereis but ive never seen one like scopes or unlimited power to gather light and magnify images were an nounced by astronomers of mount wilson observatory at the annual ex hibit of scientific work by the carnegie institution of washington held recent ly in that city the number of stars visible to an unaided human eye prob ably is not over 6000 but even a small telescope increases this number many jquality has no substitute g8t fast mm yan de ens well i dont believe he did it graham stabbed at the blotter so vi ciously that the pen stood erect and quivering a guilty man would either try to get out of it or throw up the game but thats not evidence if it werent for that belief id never have times largo telescopes like the great kept en with the case not even for 100inch one at mount wilson which is you peter hes absolutely no help he largest in hes adopted an attitude of of pa- he world show millions en in a small part of the sky the possibility of a complete count depends however upon the fact observed with these largo telescopes that the stars are not scattered through spaco as far as these giant in struments can see on the contrary it is found that all of the individual stars which can be seen belong to a limited star cloud of which our sun is one earthly astronomers necessarily see this cloud from inside looking out like one insect looking out through a vast cloud of other insects calcula tions based on the numbers of stars visible in tho 100inch telescope in dif- ferent directions outward from tho earth have made possible an estimate i of the distance at which the stars be- gin to thin out marking the edges of the star cloud these calculations in- 1 dicate that the total number of sfcrs in this cloud probably is 30 or 40 bil- lion about six or seven million times as many as can be seen by the naked eye a schwab story- charles m schwab steel magnate does not claim to be much of an ora tor but he does tell some good stories at a recent banquet according to editor and publisher mr schwab told of a farmer who aproached him ive got a cow i want to sell to you charlie the neighbor said yes would she fit into my guern sey herd no i dunno as she would has she got anything to recom mend her wall i dunno as she has does she give lots of milk no i cant say as she gives lots of milk but charlie i can tell you this world flight of all the nervewracking moment that the hon mrs victor bruce ex perienced during her lone fligh round the world that time when che made a forced landing in a jungle clearing on the borders of siam must have been the worst the torrential rain she tells us in the bluebirds flight had saturated the engine of i her little machine she was literally i miles from anywhere and night was i coming on at its greatest length the clearing was not more than a hundred and eighty yards bluebird needed i a hundred and fifty in which to rle j and there were high trees all round she swung the propeller but there i was no sign of life in the enginp hurriedly she changed the sparking plugs and cleaned the magneto points still nothing happened i sat on the edge of the wing to take breath how oppressively hot it was perspiration was pouring down my face i felt i hadnt the strength to keep swinging that heavy propeller i knew if the throttle were opened more fully there might be a better chance of getting the engine to start but i dared not do this without some thing to hold the wheels of the ma chine from moving forward i felt desperate precious moments were being lost the sun had already sunk below the trees i returned and gave the propeller another desperate swing the engine burst into life and i leapt into the cockpit and manipulated t throttle for two or three seconds there was a spluttering and back firing and then the smooth even firing to which my ears were so used finally she got tip touching the tops of trees with the wheels of the undcrcarriage just out of the wood a landing on quicksand another time flying towards jask on tho persian gulf she found her oil pressure getting dangerously low so she decided to come down on the sand near the water and fill up with some fresh oil she was carrying in the fuselage as i landed i felt the whees of the undercarriage sink and the nose of tho machine dive downwards at the same time i was shot violently for ward against the windscreen amid a deafening sound of splintering wood l- was painting the name bluebird its nose and vas ready to be off it ro wonder a visitor who asked a hnic what bluebirds registra- n letters gabds stood for ved the reply a b daft the truth about wljite etephants by p b prior in animal life if you ask the average person what he knows of siam he will probably re ply that european capital is invested in tho mines there beyond that he knows little or nothing hero and there however one may recall having read of siam as the land of the white elephant which is greatly venerated there and he win be little disposed to accept the statement that siam is nothing of the kind the siamese do not and cannot claim that theirs is the land of tho white elephant because in ceylon to the west and cambodia to the east veneration for certain elephants is as apparent as in siam yet another and ufficient reason for avoiding vas piece what most increases ange feeling thai one is n tho wrong stunt and no wonder that when she rang up her husband on caching munich to tell him im here he re plied where in kent england in siam one of the interesting features of the flight was the fact that she never knew what fresh experience she might have on landing at some out-of-the- 1 way aerodrome sometimes she had pleasant surprises at lakhon in siam for instance where the siamese jean paul richter governor came to escort her to his house on arriving i was very interested to see how english everything was the interior of the houso was a per fect example of an old elizabethan dwelling tho governor was particu larly proud of hs garden and i was highly amused to see that even the banana trees were surrounded witn white paling to create the atmosphere of an english park tho entrance to his drive was also typically english with a fivebarred gate and at the side an oldfashioned english stile round the porch was a great arch of foliage with masses of orchids the found tea waiting for her not the usual siamese tea but served in english fashion withplenty of cream and sugar the earthquake after crossing the yellow sea five hundred miles of lonely water and eight hours of suspense she safely reached japan bi her troubles were by no means over she was told at her hotel not to worry if she felt the building shake as there had ben over two hundred small earthquakes that year i had not been asleep more than three hours when suddenly i was awakened by my bed shaking violent ly at first i thought so this is japan and turned over and tried to go to sleep again but the shocks be came more violent and i simply had to sit up and lake notice then the whole room began to move a horj rible thought struck me an earth- quake and a bad one i tried to very turn on the light but it wouldnt such a claim is that the white ele- work sparks were coming out of the phant is not white at all the myth electric radiator the whole hotel of tho white elephant was apparently was in darkness every second the j set abroad by some early western tra- building shook more violently there jveller wo collected information rather was a crash just besute me two china perfunctorily es had fallen from the mantel- j what the siamese regard as sacred was almost impossible to and do greatly honor aro what aro keep my feet known as curious elephants per- needless to say she had arrived i haps freak elephants would be a bet- just in time for one of the wort iter translation of the siamese phrase earthquakes of the year j though it savers of want of respect to j his majesty tho elephant but the un- r is the usual in him has probably nothing shes a kind gentle gooddispositioned and a smc of escapiri petrol t fom old cow and if shes got any milk shell give it to you effect the verdict one particle f you two come out and have the dinner you should have eaten two or three hours ago a higher vision nay falter not tis an assured good to seek tho noblest tis your only good now you have seen it for that higher vision poisons all meaner choice for ever more george eliot hon margaret ruthven daugli tcr of lord ruthven governor of jersoy is engaged to marry peter davies godson of sir james bar rio and said to be the original ft potcr pan myself hanging by my straps the tail of tho machine bolt upright in th air and the engine buried out of sight in the soft sand i had landed on quicksand half dazed she released herself to find that she was on one of the most desolate stretches of desert on the gulf even when help came in the shape of some none too friendly na tives the difficulty was to get blue bird on to its wheels again but at last although the wind was blowing hard they succeeded oh the joy it seemed too good to be true to have got it back again with out damage for usually when a ma chine has landed on its nose it is a tricky business to right it requiring skilled labor ropes and other mater ial for lifting i was delighted and was naturally smiling the baluchis were- so pleased that they joined hands and began to dance round the aero plane they insisted that i should joint their ring o roses but i soon stopped for the heat was terrific and 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approaches to white is a kind of dirty grey whatever his peculiarity however they mark him out for extreme favoru from youth directly a baby elephant is found with strange markings in tho north or northeast of siam news ot the discovery is sent to bangkok tho capital experts go at once to ex amine the youngster and if their re port is favorable still greater most probably royal experts are despatch ed to make final decision as to wheth er he is worthy of veneration and as to the degree of veneration in him may reside the spirit of somo departed great one of the royal family in him may even be the spirit of tho lord buddha himself it is not for us to inquire how these experts make a decision so momentous the way ot experts in siam are like the ways ot experts elsewhere they are beyond the understanding of ordinary people once it is decided that the youngster is the real thing the country is agog with excitement he has to be taken to bangkok there to be royally housed in special quarters within the boyal palace the journey is in tho nature ot a triumphal procession an occa sion for merrymaking is to the siam ese to bo seized with both hands and on it they spend lavishly no other na tion can excel the siamese in tho art ot making holiday or in discovering excuses for making holiday the young elephants journey to the nearest large railway centre is a suc cession of boisterous welcomes and ot ifts of choice foods when he reach es the railway he finds a special train awaiting him with spare engine and breakdown outfit attached his ma jestys progress must be made aa smooth as possible he travels in state and high comfort attended by high members of court and church and by many officials one member of the royal family will accompany him to say chicng- mal the northern capital and will there hand him over to a more im portant member with a moro imposing rotimie of priests with officials when tho last days journey from pitsanu- loko to bangkok is entered upon one very near to tho reigning monarch probably the heirapparent takes charge many canadian folk will re member prince purachatra of kam- bangbejra hardly a name to conjure with who visited canada some years ago this is the man who today takes final charge by now the youngster is probably tired of the travelling and the cheer ing of feasting and having lustral water poured over him but ho has still to be welcomed by the king and to be blessed by the highest dlgna- tarles ot tho clnirch he has still to sco a city made gay in his honor and hundreds of thousands ot people lin ing the streets and joyously acclaim ing him as ho passes for two days the city is en tote thon ho goes to his royal quarters and tho capital returns to normal not for him any more aro the joys of free dom tho loss of his freedom is the prico ho pays for his extra toes or whatever proclaims him royal or oven sacred ills is tho bondage that some times attaches to royalty occasionally ho introduces a littlo excitement into his humdrum life ho goes mad for a littlo while and kills his beeper kneels on him and crush es him into a shapeless acd unrecog nizable mass that is tho ono grim privilege en- joyed by tho white elephant who la never nearer to white than a kind ot dirty grey a mirror tho privato llfo of man is a mirror ih which wo may seo many useful crf- sons reflected napoleon 1 simplicity simplicity is an exact medium be tween too little and too much ney- colds v