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manhattan night svk0cs1 ir wayne and tack thayer had tr cuge mates at yale tack had fceen found murdered in their ikmiioue by his wife martha and she and evan item with wnow she is in love are sus pected by inspector connolly ieter had fallen in love with martha following his return to new york in dread or arrest martha is sheltered in the home of leters sister carol mrs steve wnt- worth detective sti mitchell doesnt bhana the opinion of his chief connolly and usked peter to work with him to solve the mystery some months earlier martha had asked ieter to give a costly bracelet to a man named benny at eift- mas ntgnt club questioning martha ieter learned that tack while drunk hal lost money in a crap name at km- inas and that benny had hteii black- mailing martha chapter xx peter wanted to talk to charlie mit- rhtll he cursed his stupidity when he remembered that he hadnt asked the detective how to reach him it wouldnt do he supposed to call up headquarters and ask for him but that problem solved itself he had hardly gone a block when heavy feet fell into step with his been doings eh said charlie bouton catch the bosi dealin one of the bottom of the deck he went in like a lion but he come out like a lamb with its tail between its legs he chuckled at peters report but he didnt know what ross had said im not in on that he said they picked him up walkin into his place as cool as you please about four oclock said hed been in the country all day i heard that may be a lot of boloney though probably is he walked along thoughtfully sil ent for half a block and the madam thinks he was with this redheaded jane well thats an idea too well have to see what else did you find out from her peter told him about the bracelet nl marthas explanation of that episode benny rufano eh bemiy now hows he come to be sittin in i yonder you know him do you listen does a bank teller know a phony tendollar bill dont be fool ish sure i know him i know him like you know your school books so bennys started shaking them down has he ill tell you what i didnt know that that was one of his rack- els thats good dope pete i hand it to you for digging that up peter felt distinctly flattered pete rasa distinct promotion he felt from fella i dont fit it in just yet but it br- kmgs all right said charlie thats what this game is pete gettin hold rf the bits that ytelong one after an other anuvdeing patient till you have rnougnof them that fit together so fiat even twelve boncheads on a jury tnnt help seein what its all about benny rufano eh guess ill look benny over what can i do charlie huh i dont know pete not yet thats the trouble hold up a bit guess ill do some phonin an get the low down on ross if i can theyd turned across from park avenue now and walking down van- derbilt avenue charlie turned in at the roosevelti and went to the slot telephones in the long corridor peter watched him marked with interest charlies utterly expressionless face and the way he spoke without letting his lips move at all they turned him loose all right charlie said took him over to the t house and barclay and the boss work- ciosoti but only nodded indifferently of greeting peter took a stool at the bar ed on him for twothree hours no line on what he said they didnt have a stenographer even hes bein ttailcd theyre keepin an eye on the gould woman too how much you know about her pete not very much said peter re luctantly rosss girl friend on the side i dont know then after a mo ment i think so yes so do i pete so do i and i aint troubled with a nice mind the way you arc luckily for the madam you nint in so strong with her no she doesnt like me too bad you couldnt get any thing out of her then how about koss any chance hed open up to you i doubt it no i suppose you and hed get along like a couple of strange tomcats youre too damn simple abjut your feelings pete thats one of your troubles all any ones got to do to to know avhat youre thinkin is to look at you well ill tell you what you show up at emmas along about one am if you see me act like you didnt know me see but watch me and try to get it if 1 slip you a sign to do anythin whit are you driving at i doit know wisht i did i just got a hunch somethin might break around there dont ask me why i wouldnt tell you if i knew and 1 dont know anyway all right slong peter disappointed vaguely and feeling discouraged because though he didnt quite know how charlie had disappointed him and let hin down went home and dressed the more he ricked his brain the less could he understand the meaning of what he knew and the farther did he seem to be tfom fitting the pieces together ross benny connolly like a hound on the scent tack lying cold and still martha still free on sufferance but facing arrest and the prospect of something that would lie like a pall over her whole life no matter what the outcome unless the truth about tacks death could be proved she was beset by hatreds by veiled and open enmities it seemed to peter connolly was her enemy imperson ally perhaps and only because she had presented herself to him as the most available means of adding to his own reputation but none the less her enemy and a formidable a terrible one tacks mother hated her already anl was sure now to hold her respon sible for tacks death rita gould was another of her enemies ross he wondered about ross wondered if in some curious and subtle fashion ross too didnt hate her some deep stinct within him warned him against ross warned him that ross was not to be counted among those who were on marthas side friends she had to be sure himself and steve and carol bouton too a hired retainer but a powerful one charlie too by grace of charlies jealousy of connoly and his resent ment of the way he had been pasxd over for promotion but itdiorc mat ter why charlie rai their side the fact was nl to the good and he was coiinall the rest of marthas friends put together just now peter believed he loathed the idea of going to emmas tonight of going to any place where he had been wont to see martha and tack any place where gayety and good cheer and laughter prevailed but he had always been one to obey orders and he went doggedly getting there as charlie had told him to soon after one the bar was almost de serted people wouldnt begin crowd ing it for another hour zach the big bartender was sitting down not more than half awake the music from the other room could be heard faintly through the half open doors emma just then was singing her blue songs for the outsiders who had to pay a cover charge something not exacted for some odd reason from those al lowed to use the bar benny fat and gross and oily had been lounging opposite the elevator when peter came wp- he glanced at peter momentarily through his half which were like a pigs by way around he caught zhn looking at i of gnf firidlillffs in science world him at last zahn got up and came over may i have a word with yen mr wayne he said in his soft voice will you come over and join me in a drink they have some old brandy here that most of you dont know- about i think ieter distinctly surprised accepted and rose the brandy appeared and peter though he was no connoisseur knew that it was not speakeasy stuff i have been shocked by this mur der young thayers killing last night said zahn i understand that you were there scon afterward i have tried to reach mrs thayer to day she has as 1 suppose you know been a patient of mine for a year or so can you tell me hew she is i think shes as well as you could expect said peter it was a fright ful shock of course naturally she is with your sis ter is she not mr wayne peter stared and zahn laughed in his curiousy mirthless fashion to be continued summer passes j on the golden loom of day tiger lily weaves her spray weaves her spray with softly blended fires of summer nearly ended now the asters purple hood decks the hillside and the wood flowering sedges fringe the cool emerald shadows of the pool golden rod is here again with her torches down the lane and the sumacs velvettipped and the haws are crimsonlipped theres a whisper in the grasses summer comes and summer passes meadows still are sweet with clover but the robins song is over kate colqnhoun in the montreal star and ordered a whiskey sour he didnt want a drink but he had to have some excuse for being there thas good stuff in that drink mr wayne zach said we been get tin pretty good rye lately right from canada with the government seal i can get you a case if youre interested i dont believe i am zach said peter i wouldnt get rid of a case of rye in a year the way i use it at home you got the right idea mr wayne me im off the stufl that poor kid that got his last night why say hed be up and around now if hed known when to quit what makes you say that zach stands to reason mr wayne you ever see him get sore when he was lit wasnt anythin he wouldnt say and mighty little he wasnt apt to do manys the time ive been ready with my bung starter under the bar here when he was all set to start somethin and now the bulls are tryin to make out that his wife did it why ds yogjhjjik flujk say i can tell mr wayne wasn t they drillin me for two hours here last night theys been a dick around here tonight charlie mitchell i guess you must have scon him but theyre away off if they think they u1 hng it on mrs thayer she neer doncit of courseshe didnt said peter some people came in just then dr meyer zhan appeared and nodded to peter as usual zahn sat by himself emma sat at his table when she was free and they talked in low tones there was still no sign of charlie and peter grew impatient he felt practical fashions for slim pocketbooks paris practical fashions for poor er pocket books have made their de but at winter style shows in the midst of the luxurious mode launched by many dressmakers coats without a touch of fur en sembles of green blue and brown wools enlivened witlibrighter colors and evening frocks with detachable sieves are offered as fastidious fashions without great cost trim wool ensembles combining a slender skirt and a three quarter length coat or hip jacket with a blouse of another hue lead the prac tical parade most of them are iin- trimmed by fur though a few have touches of some inexpensive flat pelt one model fashioned by the eng lish designer peggy morris and named lobster american combines a skirt and jacket of greyish brown wool with lobster red wool blouse another called september morn has a mauve wool skirt and jacket collared with mole and a violet wool blouse the same designer displays fall and winter coats of black dark green and mahogany brown angora wools fashioned with big collars of the same fabric which fit closely about the throat they are designed with a drooping bottle neck shoulder line in contrast to the widened shoulders shown by many designers fashion writer talks of style trend its all very well to talk at length about what madame la princess this or that is wearing and what her highness these or those has selected for the season here or there but what about simple you and me says a parish fashion writ er what are we going to do about our wardrobe after all we have to count tor something in this fracas called life and we do count for something bo- cause we in the happy medium class show the world tendencies in all directions take this particular season for instance we are wearing printed silks and being very lovely in them those chalk prints of schia- parelli those soft flimsy things from patou those billowy ladylike dis criminating afternoon gowns from molyneux and those highly desir able individually woven fabrics from chanel that make us have all the glamor that the glossy paged maga zines give to their mannequins j as to colors we who make the backdrop of fashions year in and year out are wearing navy blue with touches of red and white green and beige pink and yellow colored ac cessories in these shades against our background of navy blue are intrigu ing and extend the livelihood of our fundamentals to no end fir the same basic costume with ilia addi tion of collars and cuffs applied front and belt pockettiook shoes gloves and hat make all the differ ence in the world after hanging in a thundcrsley es sex church for 340 years a hell was taken down in 192s and dispatched for recasting to the same lqndon firm which had cast it in 1688 scientists have already cooled liquid what brakes must accom plish on new fast light trains other notes new york when the union pa- cfic recently announced that it had placed an order for a threecar streamlined train to travel 110 miles an hour and thus recapture traffic lost to highway buses nine people out of ten leaped to the ccnclusion that the new- speed was entirely a matter of light weight and horsepower to railroad officials knew better track signals trains all constitute part of a colossal transportation machine above all there was the question of brakes it is one thing to run a train at 110 miles an hour and another to stop it rapidly and safely tucked away inconspicuously in the news columns was an item that told of the award of a contract to the new- york air brake company for the brakes of the highspeed union pa cific train if they were ordinary brakes this comment upon them would not be written but they happen to be a departure from established prac tice so important a departure that they made a notable advance in air brake engineering indeed without the brakes there might be no 110-mile- anhour train the union pacific streamlined threecar train is so lignt that it weighs no more than a single pull man hence the new brakes had to be light too in fact they weigh only about a third as much as those now- required for a standard sleeper a re sult achieved not only by careful se lection of materials but by research that yielded new principles there can be little doubt that both railways and highway transportation compan ies will profit by the new way which has been discovered to stop fast trains importance of brakes why does the braking problem be come more difficult as the speed is increased in this instance by 80 per cent the distance in which the en gineer must stop cannot be changed without changing the spacing of sig nals at a prohibitive expense and in curring intoleralbe delays but if the rate of retardation is not modified to compensate for the higher speed espe cially where slow and fast trains run on the same track the danger of colli sions at high speed is increased to maintain the old stopping distance made necessary the invention of brake of extraordinary flexibility and responsiveness when a runner hears the crack of the pistol it takes time for him to respond so with the man in control of a highspeed train if a signal is suddenly set against him or he sees a cow on the track it takes time for him to make up his mind to apply the brakes with a train running at 110 niles an hour he may run a consider able distance before even his trained quick mind can tell his muscles what to do hence the brakes must respond with the utmost rapidity and yet without jarring the passengers the full effect is obtained rapidly safely and comfortably so that only a small percentage of the total stopping dis tance represents the distance the train is running without brakes applied in a 110mileanhour streamlined train only one man is in control we have a situation somewhat like that fouml in the subways of new york with the exception that underground trains rarely travel at more than 40 miles an hour in the subway a so- called dead mans handle automatic ally stops a train if the engineer should collapse at his post so with the highpeed streamlinei train there is an automatic emergency ap plication of the brakes what brakes must do this sounds simple enough but wheels and brakes will lock if the pressure is steadily applied so the dead mans emergency application of the subway train can hardly be taken over bodily no live engineer forces the shoes against the wheels at the highest pressure and keeps them there unless he is trying to prevent a ser ious accident or save a wayfarer on the track he applies a major brak ing pressure and thereafter relieves it ii steps throughout the stop thus by gradual and successive applica tions of air pressure he brings the train to a stop without throwing the passengers out of their scats ah this the new brake accomplishes automatically if the engineer should drop dead a combination of pneu matic and electromagnetic devices solves the problem the brakes work quickly and effectively too if a pipe line should break in fact the train cannot start from a station or run in the open if the pressure is not high e ough even with an engineer who is very n- ch alive the operation of the brakes is not left to the feel of the hand or to judgment rapid uniform ap plication of the pressure at high speeds is wanted without jolting th passengers sliding of the wheels must be avoided when they are locked to the brakes at lower speeds a de- icelerometer sees to these things on the new train the engineer has no- i thing to do but turn on the air instead of applying the heaviest pressure as our new leisure how to use it twenty ships from churchill sailings from the port of churchill will be doubled this year twenty ships are to carry graiu from the northern port to the liverpool and european markets they are also re ported to be bringing in a considerably larger quantity of package freight than was available last year it is a slow but reasonably satisfac tory rate of growth there are a num ber of canadian ports on which large sums of money have been expended in providing facilities for grain trade and which have been much longer in the grain shipping business which handle no more than the 5000000 bushels which will go out via churchill this year if the 5000000 bushels repre senting an increase of 100 per cent over last year becomes 10000000 bushels next year churchill will rank as one of the leading grain ports of the continent conditions have militated against churchill from the beginning if the great war had not mtcrveued it is altogether probable that long before this churchill would have been com peting in the grain trade with montreal vancouver and new york on fairly even terms in the intervening years everything possible was done to pro vide facilities at the other ports giving them that much more advantage over manitobas seaport and then by the time churchill was ready the world wide depression had settled upon us imposing a further handicap churchill has been establishing its i ate to day place in the sun in spite of all these thousands sweet are the uses of adveiitr says shakespeares exiled duke so journing perforce in ardeu forcet this in current times is a seutllccnt tbat may be questioned by niy it fact that seuteuce is one upou trhicli some people base their belief that th plays were written by the weejltljy stl francis bacon and cot by slake- speare no one they argue would have written these words wbo had been as familiar with adverslry as th stratford bard no one who stcod aj shakespeare must have on many a wintry night holding the horses ol some more fortunefavored lord before the globe theatre while the bittet english winds blew on the icy avon and whipped through his thin doublet and hose and shabby cloak rather were they written by some one who made occasional sallies from the comfort of lordly circumstances in to the simplicity of arden whetting a jailed appetite with the sharpness of camp fare savouring that touch of na ture that even the most cityridden of us long tor at times playing at poverty with a welllined stomach however there is a sound core of wisdom under the phrase as there is under most of shakespeares obser vations a message peculiarly approprl- adverslty is now forciig to recognize varieties of difficulties the high hopes of the pleasure and happiness truly satisfying western pioneers who demanded this northerly outlet to the worlds markets arc in a fair nay to be realized as the years pass winnipeg tribune perhaps the chief reason why it was unnecessary to rearrange signals or provide for other highly expensive and- important departures from the established principles of running a railroad faster ocean liners if the records made by the rex conte di savoia bremen and europa are to be exceeded by more than an hour or two it will not be by packing more boilers and nore powerful tur bines into a hull which after all is intended to earn money by carrying passengers speed is more than a matter of energy the designer must reckon with resistance higher speed by only 10 per cent must be attended by an increase of power of 30 40 even 50 per cent depending on hull lines and other fao tors an increase in power which means higher fuel consumption more expensive machinery and personnel not to mention loss of deadweight ca pacity in order to find out how resistance can be reduced water re sistance admiral david w taylor built a tank in washington towed lit tle models through it under known conditions and thus made very ac curate measurements with results that upset many traditions sharp prows foaming wakes and swirling eddies all the picturesque evidences of speed so dear to the artists mean high resistance air resistance to vessels latterly designers have begun to pay some attention to the air resis tance of the structure above water a subject which also engaged the at tention of admiral taylor in his pioneering work there is reason to believe that fully 10 per cent of the resistance encountered by a fourday passenger liner comes from the air if so the bremen and the europa are more or less wasting about 13000 horsepower when they are steaming at thirty knots here we have the inspiration for the work that professor proll is doing at the polytcchnicum of hanover germany he builds models of ships and tests them in a windtunnel after thought of many hours of leisure but hitherto neglect buried under the laziness of too easy living leanness up to a point to be sure gives a certain lightness of body that only those who are too fat and soft can appreciate a delightful and youthful sensation there is too a savor to even the simplest food when one is hungry that cannot be equalled by the most skillful chef above all there is in spite of worry and the gnawing pain of failure and fear for the future a chance to get acquainted with that least appreciation of pleasures in amecica leisure v to many persons wbo have been accustomed to eight hours work a day there is something terrifying in the the fashion long followed by the do signers of recordbreaking airplanes before se started he knew that per fect streamlining is impossible on a ship whatever the windtunnel may teach strength must be the primary consideration in a structure which is bjffcted by wind and wave and which must stand up when masses of water what shall 1 do is a cry common not only to unimaginative children on a rainy day but to grownups as well the first thought of the average person confronted with much unfilled time is how to amuse himself often today finances will not permit except rarely even a cheap moving picture show what then can the jobless one do with weighing hundreds of tons arc hurled himself or herself in the long hours athwart the bow so the best that tan be done is to rouid off bridges funnels and similar projections and thus enable them to part the air more efficiently it is not likely that the recordbreaking liner of the future ill look very different from her pres entday prototype a lost ball saved two lives when a plymouth girl searching in a trench by the roadside discovered two men overcome by fumes from a fractured gas main and ran for aid a james 1 wine glass five and one- half inches high was sold for c100 in london recently v royal yeast cakes p try this easytomoke recipe for form cake iiuv made-in- canada goods cream 4 cup sugar vltll 4 cup butter add to i beaten egg and beat until fifth add i cup lukewarm milk stir well add 1 cup royal vcnst sponge 4 cup citron 4 cup raisins j4 cup chopped almonds i teaspoon salt jnd enough flour co mak royal veast sponge soak 1 royal yeast cake in bulk pint lukewarm water for 15 minutes dissolve 1 tablc- ipoon sugar in pint milk add to dissolved yeast cake add 1 quart bread hour beat thoroughly cover and let ibc overnight tu double in otr dough tnhotrf cups knead well covet and set aside in warm place reelrom draughts lorise until double n bulk about ii hours knead down and place in wcllftreascd cube pan brutih top with egg and oak in moderate oven about 4- mm narm place frci from draughts maker 6 to 6 cups of battel between job hunting the public libraries are more crowd ed than ever before the magic lands that lie between the covers of books are opening to thousands of tourists who never before had time to read the mentally lazy are being forced to use that most unexercised of all mus cles the brain as a people we have lived more ob jectively that is externally than any other nation we need external stimuli before our imaginations will work our books stories and plays must have plenty of action for success we ad mire those who have rather than those who are there are several measur ingsticks however today we are becoming more and more aware of that vast un- conquered world that lies within our selves our own thoughts speculations conclusions our own brains and imag inationswhat a universe of possibili ties lies therein if we wil but turn our attention inward san francisco ar gonaut packing of eggs for the trade k oval veast cakes have standard for over 50 years i jssufc no 3533 to within half a degrep of absolute i the train slows down the decelcromet- zahns eyes upon him two or three jr which is 431j degrees fahrenjer applies it at high speed this is limes once or twice when he kokttl belt of frost lomething new in railway practice and a supply on hand to use w at home scaled in air tight waxed paper they keep fresh for months and get your copy of the rovac veast bake book contain ing 23 practical tested recipes for delicious breads address standard brands ltd fraser ave liberty sttoronto ont study reveals if packed broad end up less watery white considerable time has been devot ed to an effort to solve the problem of watery whites in eggs a prob lem which has given rise to much difficulty in the trade and consider able loss to producers says the ro- pori of the empire marketing board over a period of two years a num ber of factors including the liability of various breeds to produce wa tery whites the system of manage ment for example free ranges versus semiintensive low versus high feeding etc have been ex amined none of these factors ap pear to bo responsible to any ap preciable extent for the condition known as watery white in the course of the investigation eggs twentyfour hours old and pack ed broad end air cell down had to bo sent eighteen miles by read and they showed on testing a re markably high proportion of wat- lery whites on following up this clue consignments of eggs one halt packed broad end down llio other half broad end up were despatched on journeys by motor and tra tho results confirmed previous indica tions and a report 13 to he ksued a further interesting fact has emerg ed from the investigations namely that if the vibration and joitlig re ceived in transit ha3 iot ben ex cessive tho watery white condl lion will disappear in a few hour if after receipt at the packing norm the eggs are stored broad en np f