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manhattan night wem a4n ww synopsis tetf r wayne anir and unable to mep due to martha thaytr is startled by the ringing of the telephone he had retired about halfpast one and it was near four when he hears marthas voice telling him that her husband tack thayer has been murdered peter rushes oer to their penthou e apart ment in the east fifties the police evidently think martha guilty chapter ii it wasnt only his conviction that connolly thought martha lad killed tack that frightened peter as he- sat on tho roof waiting for the sun to come up he knew enough about po lice methods just from his newspaper reading to understand that the police practically ayways did start when a wife or a husband had been murder ed with the assumption that the sur vivor was guilty it seemed silly at first blush but when you thought it over it wasnt the police in drawing that ready ami facile conclusion were right oftener than they were wrong as peter sat there thinking re membering trying to get things straight in his own mind trying to anticipate what was to come and to be prepared for it he couldnt simply dismiss conolly as the traditional thickheaded heavyfooted policeman of the detective stories he hated and despised charlie the sullen ugly detective but his contempt was for his manners for things about him that were superficial nonessential he had to respect the mans mderlying quality these men might or might net have already some evidence that actually seemed to point to marthas guilt he didnt know but whether that was so or not he was afraid a little more than afraid indeed that as they went on they would find just such evidence interpreted as they were bound to interpret it and that fear grew out cf matters within his own knowledge peter didnt think of course even for the fraction of a second that martha had killed tack that was flatly impossible but it was one thing for peter to know that and it might prove in a very terrible way indeed t be quite another to convince con nelly and the vest of the pack as yet of course peter didnt know what they had in the way of evidence or of what they regarded as evidence theyd given him no opportunity to learn even the bare facts what peter did know though and what he assimed connolly could hardly help fiiding out was that whatever really had happened that nigh on the roof wasnt the begin ning of the story for poor old tack of course it had been tho end and the wretched pitiful end of a sorry and wasteful history peter pitied tack as he sat there pitied him he thought as much as he worried about martha he knew at that time much mre than did connolly much more than nearly any one about those two aid the queer life theyd hved to gether but his knowledge even so was confused onesided grotesquely inadequte and incomplete peter had known tack for years as he had told charlie truthfully enough but not quite accurately but hed seen martha for the first time only a few monhs oefore and it was of that meeting that he thought now and of the crazy kaleidoscopic pat tern the intervening months had been hed known tack first at new ha ven but as tack had come in as an arts freshman whm peter was a senior in shcft they hadnt really known one another at all yet he had remembered him because tack had been a far more conspicuous figure than the average freshman ever is hed been a famous track and foot ball star at exeter in college he came to be as noted as ted coy or frank hinkey had even been in their time peter wont west after his gradua tion and cw york saw him for sev eral years only about once every six months and then only for n day of ro at a time he must have run into tack peter supposed on those visits at the club or at parties but he never really got to know him he knew all about him though every one who read the newspapers did he knew sendrfor ms z i free ssook does your baby cry at night and wake you how much should he wigh when should he walk how much food rhould ho take what clothes should he wear these and many other vital questions answered in our new edition of baby wel fare free for tho asking tao ittt i1 b r j m co umikd vdlj llouic toronto vm i atlfit eagle brand condenseo mivkj issue no 1933 that tack had been passed over twice in the final phase of choosing the in ternational polo team and hed heard that that was because he wouldnt stop drinking long enough to train seriously and hed read too of his marriage to martha during those years of his absence from new york peter was working of course doing chemical research in the laboratories of a big industrial corporation which is generally speak ing about as colorful and- exciting as keeping books in a bank especially when as in peters case the work was wholly commercial but he stumbled across a promising lead once and the people he worked for were decent about letting him follow it up in his own time with their facilities so he perfected an alloy that made a lighter airplane engine than any one had ever dreamed feasible and sold his patents for a cash payment and a royalty that stnggertd him peter wasnt at all by way of beinjr one of those ardent and selfsacrific ing scientists paul de kruyf describes so romantically he never thought of devoting his leisure and his com parative wealth to adventurous at tempts to conquer some of the un known regions of the scientific world not he he quit his job as soon as he could get his successor broken in and headed for the fleshpots of manhat- tan his sister found him an apartment with a roof terrace and a filipino boy to look after it and him tnd he ac quired a wicked looking and absurdly fast mercedes roadster for himself and so equipped he set out to make up for lost time plenty of men in peters case have ideas like his and muff them as badly as he did for the truth was that after three months or so of hard con scientious play he was bored beyond words he was jiut about ready to go back to science his tail between his legs when he got to know mnrj tha thayer nerv york in ten years had grown clear away from all he had remem bered and missed and longed for dur ing his term of exile he was it hap pened that rare bird a born new- yorker in the new york of peters mem ories speakeasies had not taken the place of saloons prohibition was still something that people said with a tolerit laugh wouldnt come to pass in their time just as the same people say nowadays between dlrinks that no one now living will see it repealed there was still a great many places to which no man thought of taking a nice girl a girl of his own sort peter remembered how during his last easter vacation a crowd had slipped alwoy from sherrys old place the one thats a bank now and gone over to the palais royal on broadway which hed found on his return had become a chop suey joint paul white- mans band had been a brand new sensation there then and that crowd had had a thrilling feeling especially the girls that they were doing some thing exciting and distinctly daring when peter came back he was out of step from the first the pace was too fast for him the whole town was strange and new it was populat ed by strangers whose very speech was foreign in his ears he couldnt grow acustomed to finding young giris hed seen at midnight at a debutante party at pierres lined up on stools at a speakeasy bar at four am swal lowing drink for drink with their boy friends he felt as one does who tries to bopml a moving trolley car that keeps gathering speed and dragging him along as he tries to plant a foot on its running board in a queer confused way he didnt have such a bad time but he was seifconscious he was what a psycho analyst would insist on calling in hibited people were remarkably nice to him considering how little he real ly had in those early weeks to con tribute to the gayety of an evening they were amazingly tolerant of what he himself felt was his dumbness he had and accepted any number of in vitations tho trouble was that he didnt know what to do when he arrived most of the men hed known in school and college were married na turally their wives were very nice to peter they asked him to dinner aid took him on afterward to par ties for most of which of course since hed been away so long he didnt have cards but it seemed to him people didnt go to parties for their own sake any more but rather to meet their own crowd and go on somewhere cist tex guinans or the jungle club or emmas or for that matter before breakfast to all three and half a dozen more like them emmas that year was usually the last port of call no one went there much before two but after that until dawn a was crowded and peter found the people there more amusing and more agreeable generally than in any of the other night clubs emmas was a queer place to look at theire were two rooms one small and one smaller the first had a dance floor and a melancholy useless orchestra but they little knew of emmas who had to stay in there th km- wflfi ha rl fmwo that was in a tiny practically air- proof room with a few tables for those who couldnt find room for their glasses on the bar itself there was a very bad cabaret show in the other room but emma herself a high yel low wench who had made something of a sensation in paris sang in the bar at intervals peter saw all sorts of people there i novelists playwrights actors and act resses but mostly there were kids from over park ave way peter liked the place he was talk ing one night to a girl who thought it ought tc bore him well he said i dont know look at that chap over there you wouldnt expect to see him here this man had been puzzling peter for half an hour he was a jew aobut forty with an inscrutable face and eyes he was short had a big head and high forehead mysterious though his eyes were they werent unpleas ant in fact they were beautiful his features were sensitive and finely cut betty rogers laughed he she said why thats dr zahn meyer zahn the psychoanalyst hes very famous too zahn turned just then and caught peter staring at himand peter look ed away quickly just in time to see martha thayer for the first time in his life to be continued queens rooms restored london queen victorias rooms in kensington palace have been reopen ed to the public restored to practic ally the same condition as they were a century ago when queen victoria occupied them with her mother duch ess of kent queen mary who was born at ken sington palace has taken the greatest interest in tha scheme for refurnish ing and decorating the rooms she has made a careful inspection to see no detail has beer overlooked a large number of articles of furniture associated with queen victoria have been brought to the apartments from frogmore visitors now see the royal apart ments as they were in queen vic torias day the sofatable the quaint chiffonier the tapestry and chintz of the victorian period all are there as well as many of queen victorias toys the apartments look out to ward the famous round pond in ken sington- gardens weak tea is harmless avoid strong brew a doctor was asked recently whether he thought it harmful to drink large quantities 0 very hot tea luring the day this woman would drink it on first waking up at break fast in the middle of the morning after lunching at tea time after supper and finally before going to bed recently she noticed that she suffered a good deal with heartburn and vague discomfort high up in the stomach tea drinking is harmless enough the doctor said but it is certainly bad for you to drink it very hot and lit is equally bad to drink it very strong very strong tea particular ly if it has stood a long time and has become bitter and very hot tea must be very irritating to tho stomach and alter a time you are bound to get a chronic gastritis with heartburn and its accompanying unpleasant nesses if you drink a lot of tea make it fresh each time may flowers whalebone is not bone at all but an elastic substance found in the mouths of whales the worlds total of motorbicycles is placed at 2750000 eightyfive per cent ot them being in europe by lighting and beating a beehive by electricity the output of honey has been increased by ts much as 17 lbs the extra days pay due to last year being leap year cost the united king dom 50000 for the royal air force alone travellers on board british ships run so little risk ot death from fire that it works out at less than 00003 per cent last years output of films was the lowest for twenty years there was however an increase in the number of british films smokeless fuel motor spirit and heavy oils can be obtained from any suitable kind ot coal by the use ot a brick retort of a new type we are sam to be acquiring gradual ly the power of shutting our ears to noise this is natures response to the increased noise of modern life swordsticks consisting of smart malacca and other canes containing a slim steel blade are becoming increas ingly popular in gt britain it is claimed that no film rejected by the british board ot film censors but afterwards passed by a local auth ority has ever proved a financial suc cess private flying is increasing in the united kingdom there are now over 100 private aeroplanes on the british register while sixteen lightaeroplane clubs receive the subsidy lunches can be served at the rate of 2000 a day from the 40000 kitchen installed in the new bank of england it is said to be the largest and most costly staff kitchen in london charts are being made for the first time ot the dangerous coasts of labra dor by challenger the survey ship of the british navy it is estimated that it will take fifty years to complete the survey for the first time for five years the number of road deaths in gt britain last year showed a decrease on the previous year the figures were 0c51 in 132 as compared with gg91 in 1931 on the other hand the number of non fatal accidents has increased travelling 20000 miles by air a london business man recently did a trip in sixty days at a cost of 1500 which by other modes of travel would have occupied iso days and cost 1s00 he visited palestine iraq egypt uganda kenya rhodesia and south africa the leader for forty years tea fresh from the gardens germany offers prizes for best book and film berlin the hitler government has set up annual national prizes for the best patriotic book and motion picture produced by a german joseph goeb- bels national socialist minister of propaganda let it be known today the prizes are to bo distributed every may day the award for the best book will amounts to 12000 marks 2956 while the author and leading artists of the best film will be rewarded with special art objects the propaganda minister will appoint five men on new years day as a jury to pick the wor thiest productions for the current year the prize is to be granted for the best works deal ing with the history of the national revolution and the events connected therewith so they say a great substantial advance to ward disarmament and toward equal ity can only be measured by the amount of confidence and trustful ness that exists ramsay macdon- ald because of the anguish of the worlds soul just now i prophesy there will be a great return to that romantic love which is giving not taking elinor glyn the solution of our troubles will come when the world realizes we must all be partners michael ar- len we can have no now deal until great groups of people particularly the women are willing to have a re volution in thought mrs franklin d roosevelt the more intelligent and cultur ed are as a rule the people who find it most difficult to feel fraternal ly towards their fellow men aldous huxley it is not good to think too well of the past and it is even possible to think too ill of the present bertrand russell to talk of maintaining or im proving moral standards without re ligion is to talk sheer nom bishop william t manning ense no two leaves ot a tree are identi cal in shape why should we ex pect the shape of two souls to be identical havelock ellis there is an adjective which is ruining the western world the ad jective dynamic guglielmo fer- rero propaganda has become one of the major instruments of govern ment aldous huxley i believe that in the future we are going to think less about the pro ducer and more about the consumer franklin d roosevelt i cannot guarantee myself as the greatest living hokum merchant but i am certainly one of the best ten george bernard shaw a tennis giant a towering tennis champ is leacr stoefer of california who de feated marcel nainvllle cnifadas ace at hot springs 62 c 3 ft j3 jl u nr it foot oml imrtl one r nrollv oft for him there is only one rule for good writing to write that which you really desire to write in the way which seems best to you branch cabell men thought they had achieved a perfect peace but instead they found to the contrary pope pius our danger is that because wo cannot seo where we are going wo do not even try to start bruce barton x democracy should he redefined as meaning not the equal right of all to hold oflico but tho equal right and opportunity of all to make themsel ves fit to hold office will durant piety and the study of works of devotion seem to go with a predis position for tho reading of detective stories archbishop of canterbury tho worst feature of any kind of prohibition is that if it fails you live under a system ot hypocrisy john ersklno the american people are to a considerable extent poetic and ro mantic john maseficld for one who has genera debility local weaknesses have their greatest chanco ot showing themselves sir josiah stamp the iron law of supply and de mand regulates the production of commodities but not the production of human beings albert einstein i have made it a point to try and forget my birthdays de wolf hopper general prosperity can be hast ened by enlisting the unemployed- to create under proper leadership a desire to buy roger w babson public opinion rctonts coarseness or vulgarity in motai pictures will ii hays no people ever hated other peo ple unless they were ignorant of their tru character joccphus bud and lamb spring is not soft it is not gentle it is not a season of light song it you find this bud and this iamb gentle you are blind you are wrong they are lovely to see then is to have new eyes but they are no gentle they have broken away by marvellous violence from the close womb they triumph they are not softly by- winter only is the season of gentle ness when the seed and the sheep nurture the tempest of another spring in stillness and sleep marie de l welch lieutcolonel hassan hilal of the egyptian army was riding a mule across the desert suddenly there was a deafening explosion the of ficer escaped and the mule dropped dead the mules foot had detonated a shell buried in the sand since the war he who would he singular in his ap parel had need have something super lative to balance that affectation feltham kennedy menton g 421 college st toronto harleydavidson distributors write 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are the mlrrora of your physical state says jo sals tout paris tha shape of the nails reveals all sorts of diseases this shapes your heart is wrong that shape your liver medical colleges are in for a bad time it this theory 1 right they are superfluous a glance at the nails all your organs are as good as laid on the table tho french periodical elaborates the new science thus the shane of the nails their con sistency their color their spots may bo so many signs pointing to organic troubles all is based upon the labor of prof henri mangin balthazard mem ber of tho international institute o anthropology he says that examination of the horny shells tipping our fingers makes possible a diagnosis of many diseases the normal nail indicative of a harmonious state and of good health ought to be supple nelthor llabby nor brittle neither too long nor too short neither very broad nor very narrow it should occupy nalt tho length of the distance to the first finger- joint calculating from the fingertip its sides the lateral extremities ought to be parallel its true color is slightly rosy it is softly smooth iu its normal state curved gently and unspotted with no hollows no excrescences no sur face projections or points it it departs markedly from this description it may show or rather it always shows an organic difficulty a marked tendency to some physical ill if the nail be too long there is likely to be a predisposition to maladies caused by lack of energy or by lassitude ic the nail be too short especial ly when flattened and almost square there is a definite tendency to heart trouble as well as to nervous pros tration if the nail be quite foreshorten ed and very broad- the indication is irritability and neurasthenia should nails of this sort be found with spatulated phalanges shoving abnormal enlargement they point to maniacal tendencies to fury and violence too triangular nails indicate that cerebrospinal accidents and paraly sis are to be feared trapezoidal nails point to mor bidity of imagination narrow nails indicate health not at all robust equilibrium being maintained through the nervous forces almondshaped nails or nutkernel nails show that the arterial system la not capable of much resistance glancing now at he profiles ot the fingernails we are told when all the nails are convex that is to say bulging up from the root to the tip the indication is to ward troubles of the respiratory passages such convexity if marked is of ten a sign of liver complaint looked at from the fingerends the nails are normally in the form of an arch if this curvature end3 in a very abrupt drop of the sides imitating in a way the slope of a roof the indication is arteriosclerosis often indeed cancer if the nail of the index finger bo very convex talonuke or rather like a rounded dome it suggests a malady of the lungs it the arch of the fingernail be vaulted to the extent ot a halt circlo in aspect tho indication is intoxica tion as a result of kidney complica tions the evidence is the more alarm ing if all the nails present tho same deformity if too fiat tho nails indicate a lymphatic organic passivity it flabby there is a lack ot physi cal strength it hard and brittle the nails indi cate anemia it friable easily crumbled and reduced to powder tho nails point to gland troubles involving the inter nal secretions forgotten umbrellas bring revenue to british railroad london the southern hallway has hit upon a novel idea for using umbrellas left behind by forgetful travelers and unclaimed notices are posted in suburban statiore offering to hire them out to passengers caught in a shower holders of commutation tickets can hire them for a reital of only i penny a day it only remains for some one to bo lionowing his own umbrella frcn the railway the southern railway is now try- iig to find out what to do with tho 2500 sets of fake teeth that arc eft in railway trains every year tires for shoes a great many of the old automobile tires discarded in the united stnls arc tent to mexico china spain mid portugal where they arc made over