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manhattan nighx wolxatrnvm iiur svsorsis vvayims and tack tbayer bad kmi coiickc mates at yale tbayer was ihct tj uatli ui his penthouse after fcclng iiucslicntl by inspector conolly thayers wife martha goes to the home of waynes slsur carol mrs steve twntuorth althoukli connolly suspects martha and isvah uoss ivter bad t- ne west jitter his graduation to do chem ical research for a bl corporation until he stumbled on an alloy sold his pat ents for cash and headed fr manhattan he met martha at kmmas night club md fell hoiklessly in love he knows martha is innocent hots di appeared immediately after the murder but next day connolly says uoss is in custody and has made a statement he demand- rd to see lartliahut lr jimmy watson tnd arthur houton iter eousel succeed- td in bluffing him off until the next day peter went to martinis room to t if he could get a lead from her chapter xix so theyve fount evan martha said mr bouton fays hes made a statement and he seems to be wor ried about it but why peter evan rint have told them anythig about how tack was killed he dcesnt know mi- boutons afraid theyll use something evan has said or that theyll pretend he has said to trap m- into saying something foolish but he neednt be i wouldnt believe anything like that no matter what inspector connolly told me martha feter didnt find it easy to go on you krow theres something you ought to take into account there was wasnt there an hour last night after 1 went home from sanborns when ross wasnt with you the look in her eyes hurt him yes she said there was well youll have to know this cooncr or later mitchell says ross might have gone to your house then i see said martha slowly then she lifted her eyes to peters he didnt she said quietly he was with rita gould do you know that martha i couldnt prove it she said if thats what you mean but im sure of it im as sure as i am that youre pitting beside me now suddenly as she went on there was an extraordi nary bitterness in her voice oh peter yes yes im sure 1 know it you you must have seen how i look ed when evan and i came in at san borns id been rude to you thered been that awful row at the fnntomas with poor tack and i didnt care nothing mattered he looked at her and he remem bered it was true she had been radiant he had never seen her look quite as she had then as defiantly she kept ross with her off in their corner refusing to share him with hty one the bitterness of that mem ory had been wiped out of his mind by all that hrd happened since but he hail carried it home with rim it had sharpened his anger with jeal ousy steeled him in that abortive resolution of his to be done with her ok yes he remembered you sec peter oh my dear hate to tell you these things 1 hate so to hurt you but i think it was the first time in weeks that id been saire of evan sure that hefeally did tare for me sure that somehow sooner or later things would come right and then he made some ex cuse he went off and i knew why i nioai i knew where he was going yes said peter yes youd know 1 see well he can account for- that hour then i suppose with her to back him up yes said martha she sighed jearily i dont understand peter i dont understand what martha dear anything she said everything why why evan should have lied to me why why he tried to make me ihink ho cared when all the time hold on said peter i martha i dont like the chap but youre fond of him im with you about one thing im damned sure he had no thing to do with tacks tacks death and this rita gould well that sort of things queer a woman like that gets hold of a chap she makes him do things he wouldnt do if he were in his right senses i mean martha shook her head i dont understand she said again i know what youre trying to tell me peter youre sweet but i just dont understand peter let that go there was no thing more that he could say he didnt after all understand it all so jkcllhjmscl that he was especially qualified to enlighten her and uny- wny something else was on his mind martha i think youll have to tell mo now about that business with bonny at emmas about the brace let you wanted me to give him i tnenn j- 35 that hasnt anything to do with i this peter she said quietly we cant be sure of that martha dont you soo that there must be jomcthing we dont understand s5versa clew to this thing some where he hesitated i told bou- toft about it i thought i ought to and he says it may be very import ant he thinks bennys a crook oh of course said martha al most smiling she lay still thinking for a moment all right she said ill tell you but it wont help peter leaned forward berray itnew something about tati said martha peter started hed been sure of eourse that black mail in some form had been involved but hed teen equally sure that what ever benny knew and had been using had involved either ross or martha herself tack got tight one night and got into a crap game and lost a lot of money he didnt have enough to pay and they turned ugly they wouldnt take his cheque if he hadnt been drunk he wouldnt have done it but he let them have a certified cheque he happened to have with him some thing he was supposed to have turned in at the office he got the money the next day his mother was over here then and he managed it somehow but when he gave them the money they wouldnt give up the cheque 1 think thy lieu pi first and pretended it was lost but of course they kept it so that theyd have something on him benny wis in that ross was in the game too and lost some money not as much as tack it was before tack began hating evan so you know well tack didnt take that very seriously apparently hed paid the money and he get payment stopped on the cheque he put in the money at the office first to cover it and then explained that it was lost and he had to put up a bond of sove sort it seems to me because the cheque had been certified i dont know just how- all that was but tack seemed to think it was all right rle told you all about it lid he oh yes tack and i werj always good friends peter realty wed started rowing a lot about evan by the time you came along but in be tween we were all right well tack seemeil to forget it and so did i until benny got hold of me one night at emmas and said tack still owed money for that crap game and the men he owed it to were tired of wait ing and if they didnt get it they were going to the firm and take the cheque and tell the whole story by that time tack was in very wrong with his mother and they didnt like him at the office you see oh i mean they like him all right but tack was tight all the time and he wasnt doing any work it would have made a frightful mess benny said he liked tack and hed tried to help him he pretended you see that he was just acting for these other men and that it made it better for tack for him to be mixed up in it and he said he was afraid that if he put it up to tack tack would do some thing silly i was too peter you got to know a lot about us but i dont think you ever realized what a frightful temper trck had he was perfectly capable of killing some one that was why i was always so careful about keeping him and evan apart late at night when tack was tijht and i was terribly afraid that if he really thought any one was trying to blackmail him hed shoot them hee have thought he had a right to do it think so sowell i agreed to find the money myself somheow and of course once id started there wasnt any end to it that night id promised to pay five hun dred dollars and i simply hadnt been able to get it they insisted on cash always of course i knew i was going to have it the next day but benny wouldnt wait he was the one who suggested that i should give him the bracelet he said hed give it back as soon as i gave him the money but he wouldnt have i suppose not a chance said peter he was disappointed when i gave him the cash 1 thought so thats the story peter you can sec it hasnt anything to do with with tacks being killed im not so sure said peter im going to tell mitchell and bouton anyway it cant do tack any harm now for them to know no i suppose not said martha with a sigh peter left her then the drug seem ed to be regaining its power over her and she was yawning peter went out after a dinner eaten hurriedly with all three of them he and carol and steve trying pretty obviously to talk of anything but the murder of tack thayer and to think of any one rather than the girl who lay asleep they all hoped in car ols guest room and the boy who by this time the law being done with him lay somewhere else forever still he couldnt fit what martha had told him into the cray pattern of this crime nor could he sec why connolly was so viciously sure of the strength of his case against martha rs only too plainly he was everything the police themselves believed it seemed to peter tended to clear her rather than to implicate her the evidence or lack of evidence rather about the pistol their certainty that the murderer could have reached the roof without axels knowledge her movements the night before by connollys own showing ross was no longer suspect ed of firing the shot to be continued pithy anecdotes of the famous in the days when william butler yeats irish poet and playwright was living in the celebrated rcoms over a tmall bootmakers shop in woburn buildings a somewhat dingy part of london not far from euston station john drinkwater called on him one day to be warned that the pcet was expecting a h bullen the eliza bethan scholar and publisher and that when bulkn arrived drinkwater wtultl have to make himself scarce as they had some private business to transact bullen was publishing yeats at the time presently the doorbell rang i went downstairs with yeats relates drinkwater in discovery the sec ond volume of his fine autobiography the lii st volume was inheritance and there is more to come he open ed the tloor and bullen was standing there the cape of his ulster draped ever a bundle of papers under one arm and two or three folios under the other yeats greeted him in rich irisa tones ah bullen will you go r und the corner and get threepence worth of cream offering coppers which there was no hand free to take prior to that visit and when john drinkwater was one of the leading lights of the birmingham repertory company yeats had visited drink water at his lodgings in birmingham he stayed with me and at night i was anxious to see that he was warm enough in his room there be ing a heavy frost outside remin isces john i lighted his gasstove and left him i returned later to find he had donned a thick white sweater over his nightsiirt which stood out in consequence like a ballet skirt and when in my solicitude i ventured a third call he was in bed covered by a large ponyskin hearthrug from the floor the next day i left him in my room to himself and at lunch time he told me he had done an excellent mornings work having written four lines and destroyed them a story of figaro french poodle told by his master colonel a a an derson noted american artist and sportsman in experiences and im pressions not feeling very well one day i was lying on the lounge in my studio alone figaro seemer to realize my condition and appeared to be very anxious about me a girl model whom i was painting at the time came into the studio and over to the lounge to shake hands with me figaro object ed to her attentions however growl ed and grabbed her by the wrist from that time on he took a great dislike to this model growling every time she came to the studio figaro neve injured anything in the studio except on one occasion i had painted a head of this model and just before going to lunch one day placed it against the wall with the face ex posed figaro was left alone in the studio and while i was gone he com pletely destroyed the picture with hi claws something of an art critic eh to extract the essential soul and flavor of certain books one should en deavor to read them in the exact sur roundings in which they were con ceived as in surroundings as nearly ts similar as may be holds edwin valentine mitchell in strange news of books a jolly useful little book let for example shakespeare one would naturally- read shakespeare in warwickshire meadow in buttercup time or else in norfolk chapel at arundel arlen michael mr the words of this ingenious author will most agreeably 1 think be read in the but lers private bar at the running footman public house off berkeley square during the london season some more kipling mr the words of this famous author are most profitably read in the crystal palace on empire day during a massed brass band contest if that can be arranged chekhov to extract the best from this author and his english imitators their work should be read in a dimly- lit dissecting room the corpse rather damp and the surgeon and his assist ants rtther sick of it in a moody gaga sort of way quite so the first rule to be observed in caring for ones personal library is to weed it frequently advises mr mitchell charles lamb had perhaps the simplest method for disposing of his superfluous books he treated them in precisely the same manner in which becky sharp treated the copy of dr johnsons dictionary which had been given her as a grudging gift lamb threw his unwanted volumes out the window even books which had been inscribed to lamb by their authors were found by lambs neighbors on his lawn at hampstead it was the contents and not the bindings of books which he revered at a chinese theatre in pekin from once upon a time and today by maud nathan i watched with interest and amaze ment a unique custom up and down the aisles went the ushers the boys bearing trays piled high with towels which had been wrung out in hot water these were presented to indi viduals in the audience who would take one mop the brow wipe the hands and return it to the boy who put it in a bag when this bag was full he tossed it over the heads of the audience to another boy on the opposite side of the theatre who re turned the compliment by throwing back a pack of towels which had been freshly wrung out in hot water it was an astonishing sight to see these packages of towels hurtling over the heads of the audience london models in paris show history of old england told in coloured scenes girl doesnt know if shes hired or fired washington theres a young miss at the recovery administration who wants to know if shes hired or fired anyway she has worked three weeks and theres been no pay jt happened this way the young lady completed typing her application for a clerical job with the nua in bustled an executive take this letter he commanded she did and several more a second executive sent her on an errand thus began three weeks work 10 hoars a day now the nua finds no record she was hired government lias not any too rosy a record in running itself thus far henry ford set new longdistance record in the ninth century the emperor charlemagne commanded his people to grow certain herbs and vegetables j in their garden maurice rossi and paul codes french aviators set their silver monoplane down at rayah syria after tacking 560 miles on to long hop record they arc tboun at new york just before leaving london a fascinating way of learn- ing about the people wtio lived in eng land from the earliest known times up to the fourteenth century has been made possible by an artist mr t ives- ter lloyd who has modeled in color a series of seven scenes so realistic and so exquisite in detail that as you look at them in the strong artificial light you seem to be transported to those longago limes and to be living through tho experience ot the men women and children who formed the british race these dioramas as they are tailed have already had quite an eventful history of their own having been sent to belgium for display in the antwerp exhibition and later taken across the atlantic to be shown in buenos aires now however they have found a per manent home in london having been presented to the london museum by their owner mr e s makower the first scene is of the sweeping downlands of sussex about the year 2000 bc and shows a prehistoric flint mine being worked by rough men part ly clothed in fur who are getting flint for the making of tools and weapons from layers in the chalk a strongly notched trunk of a fir tree acts as a ladder the picks are made of deer horns while a wicker basket has been woven to haul the flint to the surface in the distance circular dwellings are seen with smoke rising from an open fire in the ground in the second scent is depicted pre historic britain about 1500 bc cop per with its alloy bronze has been discovered in the hilly banks of a pic turesque river and men clothed in skins arebusy obtaining the metal from surface workings and smelting it in simple furnaces after which im plements are cast by pouring the mot- ten metal into moulds of stone clay or bronze the women whose hair hangs in two long plaits over their shoulders and are busy cooking food on an oven they have made while children play games in the sunshine a useful-look- ing boat is moored to the bank and we feel that civilization is going on apace in the third scene is shown the ro man invasion of britain under the emperor claudius in the year 43 ad the emperor who is seated on a wood pile on- the banks of the thames is re ceiving the submission of british chieftains in the background is seen a native village in flames with a mounted roman soldier driving a herd ot longhorned cattle to safety the emperors plumed helmet is placed at his feet while a wreath of silver leaves encircles his head he is at tended by soldiers in scarlet and by men wearing the skins of wolves and lions on their heads and shoulders another invasion is depicted in the fourth scene which shows london be ing sacked by the saxons the he- longings of the inhabitants are being carried off through the fine roman gateway of the city while the build ings are in flames in the fifth scene the first recorded viking invasion of britain in 7s7 ao is shown it is now the saxons turn to defend the shores and one is seen endeavoring to summon aid by blow ing a horn while dogs dash down to the beach in an attempt lo frighten off tho vikings who having left their graceful sailing ships are wading ashore number six depicts the building of the tower of london in 1078 with wil liam the conqueror seated on a white horse in the foreground tho famous white tower which william ordered to be built for the purpose of overaw ing the citizens is going up stage by stage within a corner of the old ro man walls and close to the thames the work of construction is being supervised by the bishop of rochester also seated on a white horse while at his side a monk is examining a scroll containing the plans of the build ing the workmen must have done their job well for the old white tower still stands and is visited by numbers of boys and girls every day and now we come to the last scene which is not laid in england but in belgium here we see the emigration of the 70 flemish weavers from ant werp to england in 1331 owing to heavy floods about the year hoc the people had been driven from their homes and had made uir way to eng land where they settled in norfolk carrying on their famous weaving in dustry they must have proved them selves to be good neighbors for in 1331 the king invited 70 more flemish weavers lo take up their abode in eng land under royal protection the scene is laid on the quay with a strong sail ing boat walling alongside peasants young british designers cap ture imagination of for eign buyers quakt r bonnet is daring innovation my first report on the paris autumn and wirtcr collections writes victoria chapclle in tho london daily mail a of a show by two young b de signers whose audacity in bringing over their models from london has completely captured the imagination of the foreign buyers when 1 found my way to their temporary salon in the faubourg st honore i fouid it crowded the collection is one of the most practical we are likely to see over here although the evening gowns are their children are seen carrying i uitir iiinuin occasionally almost medieval in their driving them magnificence but peggy morris the ies and their possession dwon to the ships in a threewheeled cart while in the distance is a fine view of the quaint old city with its pointed roofs the christian science monitor victorian fussiness to be replaced by chinese placidity so says paris designer who has launched models on simple lines influenced by oriental art paris the first gun in a war against victorian fussincss was fired at the fashion shows when mme elsa schiaperelli launched models of the extremest simplicity influenced by chinese designs and art the designer declaring she had been impressed by the placidity of the chinese and desired to give the s me influence to clothes displayed e ats simply cut like coolie and man- da i coats and frock trimmed with chinese designs the collection was announced as based on the idea that simplicity followed the slender sil houette with normal waistline and skirt lengths and widened shoulders fabrics included rich quilted taf fetas deeply crinkled crepes and wools in such colors as bright peiping red dark betel red bright cathay blue light celeste blue gobi beige and ti- betaa brown many coats cut on the simplest lines had quilted or padded linings remin iscent of oriental fiiish dark crepe frocks had round necklines like chi nese womens coats igncr whose clothes are being shown with jeffs hats is out to prove that coats may be both important and chic w ith- out adding 2h cr so to their cost by the addition of enormoi r fur cel lars straight and slim she is making collars of the coat material or ingeniously placing large piped motifs on the shoulders to give a totally new shoulder effect almost suggestive of the bottleneck line the line of the day dresses is vry straight and slim jut for the even- in skirts is considerably wider an offthcshoulder movement is in troduced on another mack velvet en semble which has a most remarkable coat this garment practically fitting to the waist has a very wide skirt and sleeves which are no less than a yard and a half in width eightinch collar the blouseandskirt idea is played on here very cleverly for evening especially in one outfit which has black velvet skirt and a gold brocade blouse with an eirhtinch hijh collar there were little draped velvet toques above which nodded half a dozen tiny ostrich plumes and adop tions of the turban h cotton velvet chenille with feathers set at the back just as in the dress houses the riiilliners here are using an enormous amount of angora fabrics and this london collection shows something new in angora berets and sports hats there is one daring innovation- after the hard lines of the summer a little quaker bonnet which the de signer describes as being the idsal autumn hat since it is warm keeps the hair tight and frames the face charmingly canadian salmon trade to benefit paris as the first direct result of the recently signed francocanadian trade treaty france has granted canada a tinned salmon quota for 13 months beginning next october of 71600 quintals with a value of 30- 000000 francs as compared with the 1032 quota of 6000 quintals with a alue of 1628000 francs the new canadian quoa will mean a big reduction in the quota from japan which attempted to monopol ize the market during the period of 18 months when no trade treaty ex isted between frayice and canada a quintal is about 110 pounds iff yon cfflhlt rvrairso baby vowrscii m efflge berand r k countleu ihouanil of healthy 5 happy bable have been reared on ranle llrnd durlob ibe lal henlyoo j y cod r llllleboullelllaby a welfare full of lloi oo bbj r- it u otipoo below tle narn to- tjmllei vnllcy linn toruni tlenllemidi imeafe end m- frw eopy of booklet oollllej baby welfare sam aadrett issue no 3433 motors give to cyclists under denmark laws in denmark the bicycler always has the right of way there are no exceptions and no excuses automo bile drivers who dislike dodging bi cycles ought certainly to leave t eir cars behind when they visit the little land of the danes true most two- wheeled riders there usually hold out a hand to right or left when about lo swerve from a straightforwaij route so habitually in fact that many danes unconsciously do so even rn foot and not a bad idea at that but a cyclist may cut in from eider side at any time on any street or road an excellent highway runs up the cast coast of the island of zealand from copenhagens to hamlets elsi- nore and the popular sea beach be yond but it is not open to automo biles on sundays between thj middle of may and the end of summer ex cept to car owners who live along it all summer bicyclists swarm along that read on the sabbath lin tne mere automobilist must go far niacd and take a narrow winding ard withai poor road which is usually so crowded with other motorcars that he will probably decide to stay home rcxt time instead of trying to go for a swim and ro doubt it serve him right for owning a car and paying the aristocrat the constant motionless sailing through the air of solemnfaced peo ple on bicycles highhatted ministers of the church frocktailed ministers of the government haughty ladies in limovisirc gavi stodgy old ladies from the country waiters in ijil dress irrcspaclive of he hour of the day is one of the principal sights of den mark its most distinguishn charac- terstic out in the country eld pea sant women whom you would never suspect of mounting anything more unseemly than a rockingchair se dately and noiselessly glide past on bicycles harry a fraick in a scandinavian summer new oik century masefield upholds poetry wrexham wales what the world longs for is poetry mr john masefield britains poet laureate jsald here hut it invents substitutes such as speed to obtain tne excitement that poetry would give mr masefield spoke at the welsh eisteddfod poets he said have begun to think they are not wanted by the world because poetry hrs been ecparated from the heart of the world another poet present at the welsh festival is the rev simon bartholo mew jones who like mr mnselltil was a eallor in his youth the rev mr jones the son of a chrtyfii farm er has six brothers every o a poet