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to mohe iced tea brew tea as usual- strain off leaves allow to cooadd lemon and sugar to taste pour into glasses halt full of cradled ice mmw tresh from the gardens the tule marsh murder story of a missing actress and the taxing op wits to explain her fate by nancy bahr mav1ty synopsis don ellsworths wife the former act ress sheila 0stfcy disappears leaviik no trace pr cava nautili tho great criminal psychologist learns that their married life has been very unhappy peter viper herald reporter trlea to get an interview with dr cavanaugn instead he mcetu barbara the attractive daughter and finds that she was engag ed to don ellsworth before his marriage the burned remains of an unidentified body is found in the- tule marsh outside the city the only clue is a patch of rcalp with some hair attached dr ca- van gu requests a strand of hair from ilsvorth and mrs kane sheilas maid both refuse peter piper hopes to cet advance information about the body found in the marsh from dr cavanaugh through barbara chapter xvi he cither dreads his fate too much or his deserts are small who fears to put it to the touch to win or lose it all peter chanted under his breath he did not reflect hat the words had been written as a love poem nor that hardboiled report ers were not supposed to be given to the quoting of seventeenth century lyrics orce again he slid bossy to the curb opposite the cavanaugh en trance and waited barbaras tennis dress bad not boon a fancy sports costume it was built for real play and her racquet showed signs of hard usage if she wa- the kind of girl who got up at eight oclock in the morning to play tennis the chances were that she dii not merely play occasionally peter was placing a iong bet that the morning tennis as a taiy workout not being a psychoanalyst he was un troubled by the suspicion that his subconscious was arranging a possible opportunity for him to see barbara again and that he was pinning his faith on her because he desperately wanted that faith but by the time he had waited half an hour a chill grayness had seeped upwards from his toes and spread unlil it absorbed even the pale sunny blue of tne sky he was a fool a fool without excuse she was not coming dr cavanaugh had doubt less sent his report by mail even now it had been received at the police department on the morning delivery and jcvons of the record was pound ing out the story he was so deep in despondency that he did not even sec the shiny little sports coupeuni the corner of his eye caught a flash of white and rose as barbara slam med the door of the car behind her with that he was across the street thank god he said loudly and fervently oh yes the corners of bar baras lips turned upward is that the way newspaper men say good morning you bet it is peter agreed look here he hurried on glancing uneasily at the closed front door of the cavanaugh house tho other day i asked you to do something for me and you wouldnt now im going to ask you to do something else meanwhile youve done something for me barbara said gravely i dont think you reporters aro half as inhuman as you pretend to be i havent looked in the papers late but im so sure you didnt write any thing about me that im going to thank you peter flushed it was a rare op portunity that tho staft of the herald room missed for not one of them had ever seen peter blush i dont know what id have done ho said with difficult honesty if a big story hadnt broken and let me out im glad yon said that barbara said simply i like people who tell tho truth when it isnt necessary its one of those impractical virtues you remember now what is it youd like mo to do its this peter answered with a directness equal to her own your father is supposed to go to tho city hall this morning with a report i want you to stand hero talking to me when he comes out and introduce me to him hed naturally stop to meet one of your friends ill do tho rest it sounds simple barbara said tho only troublo i can sco with your very neat little plan is that ive- issue no 3431 never been actually introduced to you myself tho friends whom i ask to meet my father arc not usually ac quired so suddenly dont quibble piter said sharp ly the statement you understand will be public property in a few hours anyway if i can get it from your father personally and get it first ill have a whale of a good story if 1 dont well im sunk thats all and it hes more likely to mail it than to take it himself im sunk anyway no said barbara he wont mail it father never wastes time i think for the occasion of a crisis you almost might be one of my friends at that moment the front door opened frami dr cavanaughs bulky figure for a moment before he descenoed the steps with his usual air of deliberation covering the speed that comes of no waste motion can you wait just a minute fa ther barbara called out i want you to meet mr piper hes a friend of mine who works on a newspaper dr cavanaugh held out his hand with his grave but friendly smile my dealings with the newspapers have usually been at second hand he said but this younger generation has a wav of adding to our educa tion i hoped i might meet you if 1 came around peter said with a dis arming grin in fact im supposed to be cooling my heels outside cain- lerwells doorstep at this moment but i cooled them outside yours in stead im working on the tule marsh story for the herald we have it from camberwcll that certain evidence was turned over to you for identification and that your report would be submitted this morning would you have any objection to giv ing me the substance of that report these few minutes in advance i take it that it will be made public at once of course but if i had it from you direct and well a few minutes be fore tho other boys ot hold of it it would be a help dr cavanaugh paused his face de void of expression while peter felt his hands grow icy with anxiety some day he said at last i am going to write a monograph on occu pational psychology so youre try ing to work a little gentle graft through barbara here peter swallowed yes he said looking rather as if he were backed against a wall in front of a fireing squad a queer thing human nature dr cavanaugh mused if you had denied it i should have sent you pack ing but i sec no real harm in telling you thab tho body found in the marsh is that of mrs don ellsworth whoopce peters face was illum ined with an incredibly wide grin his wideset gray eyes were sparks of ex citement he turned to barbara his arm extended for an eager hand clasp but barbara was leaning against the side of the car her knuckles white whero her fingers clung to the door handle for support her eyes were closed her lips were only a faint compressed line against the pallor of her pinched wan face then with an effort that summoned the last reserves of vitality she open ed her eyes im glad you got your story mr piper sho said and crumpled to the running board chapter xvii dr cavanaugh despite his age and his position on the steps several feet farther away from tho curb was the first to reach barbaras side peter in fact was rigid with astonishment his faco a blank mask of amazement only tho sight of cavanaughs dark figure bending low obscuring peters vision of tho littlo heap of roso and white on the running board brought his feet into tardy action dr cavanaugh turned his head as peter reached his side if your reaction timo is always as slow as that ho observed youll be at a disadvantage in a number of situations what do you think peter stammered inanely its nothing to be upset about dr cavanaugh assured him he did not add that the degree of peters concern was rather excessive the s of a faint could hardly be in itself alarming to an experienced newspaper reporter too much ten nis before breakfast ive warned her before that she played too hard he continued extracting a small bottle from his pocket he withdrew the cork and waved the phial under bar baras nose shell be all right in a few minutes peter abstractedly picked up the tennis racket from the sidewalk and stood turning it in his fingers but cant i do something he asked miserably barbaras eyes opened wearily and closed again in another moment she had struggled unsteadily to her feet dont be in a hurry dr cavan augh advised youve gone at things a little too hard and you paid the penalty in a fainting attack natures way of enforcing withdrawal from the scene of activity a days rest hi bed will set you up finely maynt 1 carry her in peter had never in his life felt so incompetent thero was a hint of humor in dr cavanaughs glance no such lomantic measures are necessary young man he said my arm will be quite sufficien t though less spectacular im not saying this to hurry you but wasnt there some thing about your trying to get a story to your office ahead of time suffering cats peter exclaimed i forgot all about it youre right ive got to beat it he was half way across the street when dr cavanaugh called him back by the way he said you might return my daughters tennis racquet for the second time that morning peter blushed as he looked down and saw the racquet unconsciouslyclutch ed in his hand he bounded back to the curb and tilted it against the side of th car 3nrbara said nothing she leaned against her fathers encircling arm and as far as peter could judge was oblivious to any other presence to be continued thankfulness for light we should render thanks to god for having produced this temporal light which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of tho air and earth and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold his works caussin what new york is wearing by annebelle worthington illustrated dressmaking lesson fur nished with every pattern qeadventopjes cf wiat cure before captain jimmy la reed down in his plane on a desert island while flying from china to japan night after night he builds a fire in hope of attracting a passing ship then one evening he 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patterns write your name and address plain ly giving number and size of such patterns as you want enclose 20c in stamps or coin coin preferred wrap it carefully for each number and address your order to wilson pattern service 73 west adelaide st toronto night cant last forever gradual ly a faint light showed in the east there we sat all huddled around the are waiting a dozen times i thought 1 made out a ship only to find out that it was my imagination then came an excited yell from chung lookee lookee bigeo boat thero sure en ough was a good sized freight steamer anchored several miles from shore just about sun up a boat put oft and a little while later it was beach ed about where wo landed our pane the captain whose name was bueno had seen the faint glare of our fire and decided to stand by and investigate in tho morning the crew were all philipinos and spoke not a word of english i explained to him that wo must take the piano ipart and bring it with us and after a while we dis mantled it and carried it abroad general lu had gone with the first boat to the ship from which he re fused to budge but chung stayed with scottie and me and went in tho last boat chung i said when leaving what shall we call that island of ours chung gave it a scornful look call him egg and so egg we call ed it which after all was appropri ate for it was nearly eggshaped it was hazy and growing towards dark as we stood on the bridge of the madrigal peering by turns through a telescope at the vessel which lay on the very horizon now and then we could sec faint flashes as though weather influence on forest fires a small gu was being fired through the glass we could make out the ship as a small steamer while dead a head of it and partly bidden from us was a second boat that we couldnt see clearly it was late in the afternoon ot the first day out from karatsu japan with a full load of coal bound for manilla scottie and i were mak ing the trip with capt bueno and planning to spend some time on the islands securely lashed on deck was our plane the borden eagle at karatsu we hal built her some pontoons and we had rigged a der rick and sling so that in a very short space of time we could launch the plane overside tho captain was intently examin ing ho strange ship through the telescope when chung rudely inter rupted chung lookee through longee stlick he announced that china boy was all a quiver to get the glass into his hands never had ho seen one before let alone hold one and he was all excit- i ed with enc hand he held the i eye piece to his eye and grasped the other end of the telescope firm ly the very next minute there was and ex clamation o f surprise and dismay and there stood chung with tho telescope all tlilpjf8l collapsed he j had pushed the two ends to gether and instead ot a telescope about two or three feet long he held in his hands one that was only about eight or nine inches long you should have seen the surprised ex pression on his face tc be continued note any young reader writing to captain jimmy 2010 star bulg toronto will receive his signed photo free first chorus girl these cam era fiends from tho newspaper are awfully annoying i a second chorus girl indeed they aro but dont move dear fj street london has a name- thcres one justa going to take sa j toronto where a twentyone us now story building has just been built for j ag a merchandise mart whero increased means and increased loi- manufacturers and wholesalers can sure aro the two civilizers of man display their goods for the benefit of benjamin disraeli the retailers chocolate malted milk the healthgiving delicious drink for children and grown ups pound and half pound tins at your grocers armour of 25 foot crocodile is discovered in texas ann arbor mich tho museum of paleontology of the university of michigan recently announced discov ery of the dorsal armor of a giant when depressions were depressing i can remember back in 1s73 when times were really hard writes f van dyck in the saturday evening post laborers in our streets were glad to get 87 cents for twelve hours of hard j phytosaur of the triassic age work and tried to keep their families the discovery was made near am- alive in tho squalor of insanitary arillo texas by an expedition corn- slums posed of dr e c case director of the there were all kind3 of bargains be ing offered in those times men said the country had gone to the demni- tion bowwows there were a lot of museum of paleontology w h euelt- ncr prepaiator and theodore white graduate student in the university dr case describes the phytosaurs as sptctacular failurevvhat grew out of j largo carnivorous reptiles resembling an equally spectacular boom t was crocodiles in form and habits the i was offered a seat on the new york stock exchange for 55000 by a member who believed the economic bottom had specimen was part of the skeleton of a great animal about twentyfive feet long which lurked in the swamps dur- dropped out of tho world he believed in l triassic period some 50000- new york was bankrupt 00 i ni0 i the phytosaurs back was covered communists unpopular in spain our red menace in those days was the red flag of tho auctioneer ho be lieved that before long the flags of auctioneers would be floating above tho doors of most business houses he was scared and he had to have armor jb pam js a uniqu0 mone i discovery as it will solve many ques- i do not remember who bought that tons collc the form of these ex- seat that was offered to me for 5000 u crea i by an armor made up of thick bony plate3 an dthe michigan expedition made the first find of a set of armor plates and the michigan oxpedition case said the finding of the plates of but i know that it might have been near axnhrillo tne expedition found besides the specimens of phytosaur ar mor a large amphibian skull probably now to science two phytosaur skulls and many other portions of the skele tons of reptiles and amphibians f sold a few years ago for 025000 i have not the slightest doubt that in the futuro a new york stock ex change seat will bo rated a bargain at 1 million dollars one of tho bargins 1 did buy during that panic was a 43acre farm with an 8room houso and barn at scarsdale in westchester county new york i paid 11500 to a man who felt that a counj washington country boys who do try place was an extravagance that 110t vant iola were hailed as the tho united states of america was llo ot agriculture in a recent radio ruined address by dr j c wright director i sold off that place in small plots ot hc j board for vocational today tho tract with tho imprpvpi education mcnts is assessed at more than -100- 1 wright described the cnthusi- 000 there are thirty or forty houses asm f01 cm jitirie displayed by canadian experts find species of trees makes big difference in spread of flames at the petawawa forest expcilment station maintained by the forest ser vice department of tho interior in tensive research work is being carried on to ascertain more clearly the in fluence of the weather on forest fires with a view to putting this knowledge to use in rendering the suppression ot such fires prompter and more efficient the study is described in a news bul letin released by tho secretary of tho department of tho interior the composition of the forest that is to say the species of trees of which it is composed and the relative propor tion of each species makes an im portant differenco in regard to the oc currence of these fires the bulletin says tho investigation has been con ducted in two different types ot forest namely puro red pine forest and mixed red pine and white pine forests and a third type mixed forest of white red and jack pine is now be ing worked over the top halfinch layer of tho dead needles or leaves and duff that lies above the soil in the forest contains the greatest fire risk when this layer becomes sufficiently dry a dropped match an ember or similar flaming object starts a fire whose intensity and speed will depend on how dry this layer is careful measurements of the mois ture are made in the morning ac cording to the relative amount of moisture in the duff the risk of fire that day is designated ranging from entire absence of risk to an extreme risk as nil low moderate high or ex treme in the first two grades there is little or no likelihood of fire being started beginning with a moderate risk however the danger increases up to extreme when a fire may bo started by the most insignificant agency and is extinguished with con siderable difficulty at this stage it may even be possible for a fire to start from a campfiro though the embers have been left floating fn water fires start more readily in a red pine forest than in a mixed forest of white and red pine careful measure ments showed that in a red pine forest litter containing 35 per cent of mois ture would burn as readily as litter in a mixed white and red pine forest that contained only 23 per cent of mois ture this arises from the fact that red pine needles are larger contain much resin and lie loosely on the ground allowing muoh space for air to circulate while in the other forest the needles pack more closely to gether and so retain their moisture better and at the same time allow less circulation of air future of young farmers lies right at home there now travelers song he who would travel far must travel light and for his company take dear delight delight loves slmplo things her rjcs are few sho is as young and fair as untouched dew but if delight should prove a fickle friend let him to sturdy grief a hearing lond ho from her welllined store a cloak may borrow no cobbler patches shoes so well as sorrow 10000 boys belonging to the future farmers of america an organization sponsored by vocational agricultural means impossible a larger scientific third known meteor crater discovered in australia tbo third place on earth where a comet or a gigantic meteorite must have struck at some time in the past undoubtedly with force enough to have demolished a city had one been on tho spot has been discovered near fink river in central australia thirteen craters dug by tho impact of tho met eoric fragments have been mapped the largest nearly a thousand feet in diameter hundreds of fragments of meteoric iron aro reported to be scat tered over tho nearby desert messrs wlnzor and alderman two young scientists from tho university of ade laide who visited the sito when pros pectors brought back reports of the meteoric irons stato that tho former walls of the craters have been washed down greatly by rain and that large- trees aro growing in the hollows indi cating that the meteoric impact must have occurred many years ago another similar meteor crater exisls in arizona tho second known crater is the ono in siberia recently studied by soviet scientists and identified with tho fall of a large meteor observed in that region 21 years ago and which cre ated earth shocks and air waves re corded on scientific instruments hun dreds ot miles away the discovery of the third crater iii australia strengthens tho conviction of many scientific men that such col lisions of tho earth with comets or largo meteor swarms aro less rare that onco was imagined and that tho terrible catastrophe of one of them striking near a largo city is by no twentytwo rounds of rapid fire from tho machinegun and artil lery units by spanish soldiers left this building headquarters of communists in seville in ruins tho man who knows these two grief and delight may view tho varied world and sleep at night schools they aro learning their best op portunity for tho futuro lies right on tho home farm or another farm said dr wright you will not find them walking the streets of our large cities looking for jobs where there aro no jobs they form and operate their own cooperative associations they buy and sell they conduct agricultural meetings and they participate in tho agricultural program of tho com munity their laboratories arc their home farms expedition has left for tho fink river sito to study tho australian craters more thoroughly and to bring back further specimens coal deposits discovered rio do janiero largo deposits of highgrado coal havo been discovered in tho xingu region according to ad vices from para tho coal a com modity somowhat scarco on tho cast coast of south america is described elluncd lowls in the london i as equal in quality to tho best grado sunday times mined in wales and how did you spend your months vacation woll i spent tho first two weoka trying to look as if i wcro just go- ing away and tho inst two weeks trying to look as if i had just got ten back