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i rgwfcshs the tule marsh murder story of a missing actkess and the taxing of wits to explain her fate by nancy bahx mav1ty r synopsis don ellsworths wife formerly actrcs sheila oshay disappears dr cavli- lufh criminal psychologist learry their married life has been unhappy he iden tities a charred body found in the tule marsh as that of sheila itarbara his daughter faints when she hears him tll this to peter piper a herald reporter when mrs kane sheilas maid is a- rested she admits that kiisworth mar ried sheila uifder threat of breach of promise a threatening note signed david orme is found in the murdervd womans safe peter trails orme and arrcs him then peter sees barbara destroy a jewelled comb belonging to sheila lt-ir- bara refuses to talk and leter really s she is protecting someone chapter xxxvi contd yes barbara said gravely be is a great man and he had been good to me but oh sobs rose in her throat but she fought them down i tand you never can never tell you dont under can understand 1 your listen to me peter said sternly were talking at cross purposes youre not being frank with me- i saw you find that comb behind the seat of your car and destroy it her hands reached out in n gesture of frantic protest but he disregarded them i said i didnt care what youve dene i meant it as a matter of fact i think that you probably killed sheila oshay and that we may have the deuce of a time getting you out of it now will you marry me you think that of me barbara said wonderingly you think that i killed her i with these hands com mitted murder she held out her hands palm upward and looked at them curiously you think 1 am a murderess and that i may be hanged for it and still still you want to marry me peter did not know that he had moved until he reached her and lifted her from the chair and held her close his cheek against her hair they shant hurt you barbara nobody shall hurt you i wont let them staring into the distance above her bowed head peter defied the world- i think murmured barbara that it might be worth dying for to know that somebody felt like that then very gently she slipped out of those encircling arms but i wont do it peter no power on earth not the power of love itself can makt me marry you that is the ultimate truth and you will have to believe it peter looked long and steadily into jier eyes lifted bravely to his but they did not waver it only makes things a little hard er darling he said at last you know that ill do whatever i can any way and we mustnt be frightened i was standing in the driveway when you got out of your car im sure that nobody else saw you perhaps when all this is over and forgotten youll be willing to decide differently i cant please unless you want to pain me terribly dont ask me again but you dont want me not to love you do you barbara once again barbaras face was lighted by its elfin smile i dont think theres anything can prevent cither of us she said chapter xxxvii public interest in a murder trial is as unpredictable as the success of a theatrical production but the trial of david orme was sure fire from the beginning its got everything jimmy assert ed with enthusiasm sex appeal mystery big money its a wow of a storyi peter glared dourly at his fellow human being as he fought his way through the crowd in front of the court house it was a quiet even contented crowd content to stand and staro all day at the familiar outline of the building familiar and yet tub tly dramatic now because of the drama of life and death opening be hind its walls there was absolutely nothing for them to see peter reflect ed crossly and yet they thought no thing of waiting there hour after hour there were women with small children jammed against their skins men carrying their lunches in paper bags ropes guarded by policemen cleared a lane to the door but inside the crowd poured itself down the cor ridors from wall to wall they show ed no disposition to make way for peter im sorry youll have to let me through he reiterated mechanicaly displaying his press badge and re inforcing it with the sharp prodding of elbows theres too many of theso here press fellows thats whats keeping everyody else out where do they gut all their pull anyhow peter shouldered the speaker aside forcing his way forward yard by yard say young mar how do you get issue no 5131 in to sec this boy thats killed some body ive been here since six oclock this morning and i aint no nearer than when 1 started peter felt the pressure of a hand on his arm and turned to lok down into the face of a neat little old lady gaibed in her best of faded black you dont get in he snapped and you wouldnt understand a word of it if you did youll learn a whole lot more if you go home and read he herald well i never did see the inside of a courtroom the old lady persisted plaintively i thought it would be kind of nice to see it once that was what it was to them a show it would be equally a show if it were barbara inside instead of orme a hastily erected fence of unpainted laths walled off the entrance to de partment 21 peter ran the gamut of six policemen holding fast to his card of admittance pres pass admit i a piper representing herald to all court sessions of orno trial atust a w moore clerk charles harvey judge seat number 53 it was his ticket to the arena where the gladi ators would lunge at one another with their wordlances where the judge would loll in his chair thumbs up thumbs down and outside the blindly patient crowd waiting hun grily for its crumbs of vicarious ex citement peter flung himself worn and dishevelled into seat 53 inside the courtroom it was very quiet in one corner a muted telegraph instrument ticked sharply like the sound of an industrious cricket behind the rail ing which divided the courtrom in half peter recognized the roll of fat on the back of the neck of the district attorney the scrubbed blondeness like a small boy just out of the tub of the young defence lawyer the stal wart motherless shoulders of dr ca- vanaugh orme himself was over shadowed by the huge figure of he deputy sheriff from the homicide squad who sat beside him twelve ncn and women ranged in two rows along the side wall contrived to look at the same time blank and selfconscious one of them wore a green hat percb- e high above her sallow face peter decided that a hat like that deserved a peremptory challenge the case of the people against da vid orme as alleged in the in dictment that he did wilfully and feloniously murder one sheila ellsworth intoned the district attorney the judge with a face all sharp angles like a cubist drawing topped by hair that glistened like spun sugar rapped out questions conscientious scruples against the death penalty in a proper case any prejudice for or against the de fence of insanity the criterion of accountability is this questions questions questions the people will excuse mr war ren- the challenge is with the de fence the defence will excuse mrs barnes that was the woman in 1c green hat thank heaven he would not have to face tha hat in the jury box day after day the personnel in the twelve chairs shifted the bailiff pulled slips of paper out of a revolving tin box and boomed new names one by one orme peter could see him now over the shoulder of the sheriff sat with fold ed arms staring dreamily into space his profile motionless in relief against the plaster of the will not once dd he glance towards the jury box the questions and challenges floated un noticed over his head not once did ho start at the words murder sheila ellsworth hanged words reiterated and hammered on peters consciousness until he wanted to strike out against them in unreasonable fury the very worst feature of being tried for murder peter decided was the torturing abysmal boredom of it if they would only get on with it the press correspondents slumped in their chairs jotting down the names and addresses of jurors amncrossing them out again when they were challenged a sketch artist in tho row ahead amused himself by drawing a libelous caricature of tho court reporter with one accord the men and women in tho jury box denied that they ever read anything in tho newspapers or had ever heard of the murder of sheila oshay tho faint slipslip of pencils on copy paper the chirping o the tele graph cricket sounded as a constant faint overtone to the droning of ques tions and answers thero was an indefinable stir like wind sweeing through a forest court adjourned until 2 oclock order in the courtroom please keep your scats first juror chosen in orme mur der trial it would be shouted in extras on every corner within the hour stumbling and pushing the re porters crowded the aisle breaking for tho telephones in tho witness room outside quality has no substitute lcs fresh from rdeh e aaraens bet you two bits they dont get a jury in a week not with judge harvey hell speed em say do you remember in the cogswell case he told em he was going to begin trying it by monday noon jury or no jury peter grimaced over his shoulder at tho q and a twins of the herald staff they sat in adjacent seats one of then taking down in shorthand the questions and the other the answers to the testimony between whiles they invariably engaged in a spirited conflict over the expected progress of the case in hand as he turned peter for the first time had an unobstructed view of the chairs set back from the table within the enclosure to be continued drunkards at the wheel quebec action catholique intl at tho last term of tho assizes in arthabaska mr justice pouliat sen tenced a young man to three years in the penitentiary after being found guilty of involuntary homicide for hav ing caused the death of a person while i during the year driving his ear in a state of intoxica- canadian population jumps 1565- tion and not carrying his licence the 839 in ten years almost a million of automobile is a great benefit to man- this between quebec and ontario kind but if madmen and drunkards become the absolute masters o the silver lining by heck eminent economists attest their faith in upward rend for wheat jobless experts offered work by soviet russia president of cpr originates move ment to supply credits for live stoc- western motor officials report bet ter business and improved conditions king township sells 2000 acres of land to be settled by dutch nmi- grants burlington ont to get a new fac tory to make and distribute insect eides western mercantile failures were much fewer in the losing year than during the 1921 depression says pre mier brownlee of alberta ottawa figures show that canadian motor car purchase increased over 10 per cent during october electrical power utilities show an increase of 100000 in electricity used road tho people who have some slight no fire loss in guclph in one month london canacian wheat export during the boxes be the kind of dynamite which will blow depression to picton ont half a million dol lars is paid to farmers in cash by canning factories new railway- crossing warning be ing tried out fraser mills iic mammoth haw mill employing 700 men was rcop n- ed after being closed two months st thomas tho railway shopmen to return to work next week at pore marquette shop premier taschereau announces a surplus of 77o775 for the irovirco of quebec at the end of the year partial moratorium on mortgages is proposed by toronto city council to ontario government sir frederick iewis chairman of board cunard line has given con tracts to vickers armstrong for new ship at cost of 8000000 to re place the fireswept bermuda liner the optimists clnh toronto ed 4732 will collect old toys have them repaired by vuniov vocational school and distribute then to e poor labjr gvigress ask ontario gov ernment to insure unemployed european miser wills 800000 to metropolitan court poor what new york is wearing by annfiielle worthington regard for human life will end by re week was 3534278 bushels international live stock show at fusing to drive in an automobile again large chain store doubled telephone chicago opened saturday more than and the highroads which cost the service necessitated by increased patj 12000 head of cattle sheep and swine population so much the roads whose ronage are stalled grain and hay entries increase of 4c a oushel chicago have 5000 samples ontario exhibi- wheat pit last tuesday j tors s 22 first p since last december 209057 men kentucky coal mine owner keeps mine going at a loss to minimize de- utility is so general would in the end be abandoned to a small number of brainless idiots oh mr porter porter said an old woman it a country station what time is there a train to greenock sixthirty replied the porter sharply what exclaimed the old woman who was slightly eaf sixthirty repeated the porter angrily and turned away not being satisfied she approached another porter and asked him the same question theres a train at halfpast nix maam replied the porter politely thatll do very well said the woman i just asked that other fel low and he said next thursday found jobs in london england professional hockey in toronto con tinues to fill 12000 seat arena pression new york has an unemployment program to raise 18000000 for rc- toacco firm prophecys favorable i vear j j building permits for the week in the 150000000 national serv ei lonn english irish and scotch looms t now humming as trade improves- toronto inspector littleproud re- milis tm 3 belfast ports that 35913 deposits were i aoe in november by school children he biggest week in the history of the easy 1 hunt rated iirrm mehctl with iking icehoh far- try vatlrra why gold is standard penny bank an angler had a fourhours tussle by walter e spahr professor of economics new york university speaking before a forum in the stock exchange governors room gold has been accepted by tha world as a standard of value largely because it tatlsfies a desire for orna mentation ostentatious living and dis play the value of gold as an orna ment depends largely on its scarcity if gold were as plentiful as water its possession would confer no dis tinction and its value as an ornament and as a medium of exchange would bo destroyed it is si interesting fact that the monetary standards which have outdistanced all others have been anchored to the superflu ous in life to the frilfs and trinkets rather than to tho necessities naturally not all ornaments could servo as standards of value or aa media of exchange certain other characteristics aro also necessary tho standard must have durability stability scarcity it must be easy to carry about easily recognized have the quality of divisibility be made ot homogeneous material and it must have the character of malleability tho assumption in various pro posals put forth by the blmetalists for the adoption ot silver standards by certain countries is that the valuo ot silver will bo increased if this la done if the value of silver is in creased it is reasonable to assume that the production of it would soon increase and tend to depress its value it is fundamentally a commo dity and therefore can never become a monetary standard unless all the leading countries adopt it th whe buyer the montreal daily star it is ot interest to note that a more sensible argument than the sentimental is now being used in urging us all to buy more and buy now not from patriotic rea sons but because it is distinctly to their advantage to do so after all when it comes to a matter of expendi ture sentiment plays a very minor part with the great majority of the spending public they prefer facts and facts are forthcoming facts that ought to convince the purchas ing value of the dollar is far greater now than it was three years ago it is greater than it has been for many years past it will buy for yon now what will cost you a great deal more in a years time if present indica tions are any sort of accurate cri terion prices are away down things peo- pie need are cheap today they will not however always be so cheap hence it is a wise economy to buy things needed while the low prices prevail these are simple facts that stare everybody in the face but most people do not give them more than a passing thought it they thought a ittle more over the situation un doubtedly there would be a very-con- a suit- ike dress in black and red j slderable augmentation of buying to tweed mixture with flaring slit sleeves bu now is o ave v cr be paris adores saved later on toronto school children now own with a huge salmon before he was able over 725000 ymca offers education to jobless recreation and to land it when at length he nad made sure of his catch he took it home and related his triumph to his wife and laid special stress on the time it prairie provinces have paid all the took and the energy ho had to expend money they owe to the banks j before he could secure the salmon it is probable that felspar mines when he had finished he waited anxi- around kingston which have bean 0u for praise dormant for years will be reopened for some moments there was sil- sarnia ont new management to ence then with a puzzled expression his wife looked up from her knitting but my dear she said why didnt you cut the string and get rid of the brute g rabbit you can never depend on mr snake in a panic turtle how come rabbit he gets rattled and loses his head talis over the sarnia brewing com pany and operate it as a going con cern national service loan canadians nskcd for one hundred and fifty mil lions government receives two hun dred and fifteen millions and to use the words of the minn weekly long- faced dour pessimists began to dis the vest and softly falling jabot revers of the crossover bodice are of plain red woolen in blending shade the pointed treatment of the hips is slimming the full circular sway ing hemline is effective color in the patent office the monotony of the black and white of the united states patent of- fice files is now to be enlivened by and its yours simply for the mak- bright coiorsi accor to tho ameri- mg and a few yards of material j can association for the advancement style no 3349 may be had in sizes o sclence the plant patents recent- 16 18 years 36 38 40 and 42 inches y auth0 by act ot congress will bust i bo issued in full color whenever the omissions an equitable man looks not outward on a detective law of tho mistakes or omissions of which ho seeks to tako size 36 requires 2 yards 54inch color lg a part ot the invention with yard 35mch contrasting i ciaime1 by tno horticulturist who has a silk and wool novelty is small r0luce the new variety of plant tho woven pattern m maivebrown with tw0 co patents issued so far are reddishviolet plain wool vest is hic a whito carnation with a dolicate black crepe satin with white revers ot yell0w an1 tor a roso o ieev pink tho necessity for putting out and vest is adorable how to order patterns write your name and address plain patents in color has set a new prob lem for patent office officials for color appear as the mists before the morn- advantage but ho looks inwards upon ly giving number and size of such has never previously been required for ing sun but to use my own words i that law of rectltudo which is written patterns as you want enclose 20c in any typo of patent despite tho great say turn those two hundred and upon his heart and ig guided by its j stamps or coin coin preferred wrap additional expense for printing tha of- fiftcen millions into wages that will dictates william fleming dp equine school for future racers here at this equlno school at agus callente yearlings are being taught how to get away at tho jarricr it carefully for each number and address your order to wilson pattern service 73 west adelaide st toronto doubtful compliment speeding tho parting guest might be described as one of the nega tive virtues of hospitality a woman rather overdid he part recently she was saying goodbye to some flco is not allowed by law to charge any more for copies of tho patents so it is planned to limit tho sale of them to thoso who can show that they have real need for them the younger generation clifford bax in tho womans jour nal london just as my father grew visitors who had long outstayed their up in a period when railways had welcome ceased to cause any wonder and i in it was so sweet of you to lot us turn when it was surprising if any- stay so long they said with effusion body could not ride a bicycle so tho oh im so glad youve been she members of tho new generation tako replied with obvious relief titbits j it for granted all tho mechanical in ventions which men have devised in her only hope and what if the engine fails when tho course of this century it is al most as though they had been born with added senses they expect to were up in the clouds asked the bo ablo t0 trave on a roaq at sevcnty pretty grl of tho p ot as she was an houp an1 hear a conccrt about to enter a machno for her first wu troubllng to attend u tbey l t j v havo como into 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