ance men were a discloses that Cleaver is a who bas been seen with her CHAPTER XV. Markham sat up. "I kiow Cleaver--if it's the same ne." "It's him, all right," declared Heath. "Former Brooklyn tax commissioner; been interested in a pool-room for pony-betting over in Jersey City ever since, Hangs out at the Stuyvesant Club, *vhere he can hobnob with his old Tammany Hall cronies." "That's the one," nodded Markham. "He's a kind of professional gay-dog wo murderer and an- hy clothes- i "Still, if such is the case," he said, "why did this rienced 'burglar first use the in t poker? And why did he overlook the living-room clothes-press?" a "I'll find all thas out, Mr. Vance, when I get my hands on him," asserted Heath, with a hard look in his eyes. "And the guy I want to have a nice, quiet little chat with is the one with the pleated silk shirt and the chamois gloves." r "For. myself, I have no yearning whatever to hold converse with him. Q, ~known as Pop, I believe." Vance gazed 'nto space. "Well, well," he murmured. "So old Pop Cleaver was also entangled with our subtle and sanguine Dolores." "I thought, sir," went on Heath, "that, seeing as how Cleaver is al- ways in and out of the Stuyvesant Club, you might ask him tome ques- tions about Odell. He ought to know something." "Glad. to, Sergeant." Markham made a note on his pad. "PII try to get if touch with him to-night. . . . . Any one else on your list?" "There's a fellow named Mannix-- Louis Mannix--who met Odell when she was in the Follies; but she chucked him over a year ago, and they haven't been seen together since. He's got an- other girl now. He's the head of the firm of Mannix and Levine, fur im- porters, and is one of your night-club rounders--a heavy spender. But I don't see much use of barking up that tree-- his affair with Odell went cold too long ago." "Yes," agreed Markham, "T think we can eliminate him." "I say, if you keep up this elimina- tion much longer," -obserod Vance; "you won't have anything left but the lady's corpse." "And then, there's the man who took her out last night," pursued Heath. "Nobody seems to know his name--he must've been one of those discreet, careful old boys. I thought at first he might have been Cleaver, but the descriptions don't tally... . And by the way, sir, here's a funny thing: when he left Odell last night he took the taxi down to the Stuy- vesant Club, and got out there." Markham nodded. "I know all about that, Sergeant. And 1 know who the man was; and it wasnt Cleaver." Vance was chuckling. "The Stuyvesant Club seems to be well in the forefront of this case," he said. "I do hope it doesn't suffer the sad fate of the Knickerbocker Ath- letic." Heath was intent on the main issue. "Who was the man, Mr. Markham?" Markham hesitated, as if pondering the advisability of taking the other into his confidence. Then he said: "I'll tell you his name, but in strict confidence. The man ras Kenneth Spotswoode." He then recounted the story of his being called away from lunch, and of his failure to elicit any helpful sug- gestions from Spotswoode. He also informed Heath of his verification of the man's s'a.ements regarding his movements after meeting Judge Red- fern at the club. - "And," added Markham, "since he obviously left the girl before she was murdered, there's no necessity to bother him. In fact, I gave him my word I'd keep him out of it for his family's sake." "If you're satisfied, sir, 1 am." Heath closed his note-boo% and put it away. "There's just one other little thing. Odell used to Ive on 11(th Street, and Emery dug up her former landlady and learned that this fancy guy the maid told us about used te call on her regularly." Take Off Over-weight alougry sclence san (EERE Fo Alu Jy TT ---- mie oy au how, I can't just picture a pro- fessional looter trying to rend a steel box with a cast-iron poker." "Forget the poker," Hea.h advised gruffly. "He jimmied the box with a steel chisel; and that same chisel was used last summer in another burg- lary on Park Avenve. What about that," "Ah! That's what torments me, Sergeant. If it wasn't for that dis- "That the dope that ou wanted?" asked the imperturbable Bellamy. "Pll say!" Heath was almost jovial. Bellamy one eye on the district attorney; and Markham, as if suddenly remember- ing something, took out a box of ei- gars and held it out. "Much obliged, sir," said Bellamy, helping himself to two, and putting them into his waistcoat pocket with great care, he went out. "I'l use your phore now, if you don't mind, Mr. Markham," said Heath. He called the homicide bureau. "Look up Tony Skeel--D ide Skeel --pronto, and bring kim in as soon as you find him," were his orders to Snit- kin. "Get his address from the files and take Burke and Emery with you. If he's hopped it, send out a general alarm and have him picked up--some of the boys'll have a line on him. Lock turbin' fact, d' ye see, I'd be lightsome him up without' booking him, see? . . . "There's a fellow by the name of Mannix--TLouis Mannix--who met: the Odell girl when she was in the Follies." \ this afternoon, inviting my soul over a dish of tea at Claremont." Detective Bellamy was announced, and Heath sprang to his feet. "That'll mean news about those finger-prints," he prophesied hope- ully. Bellamy entered unemotionally, and walked up to the district attorney's desk. "Cap'n Dubois sent me over," he said. "He thought you'd want the report on those Odell prints." He reached into his pocket and drew out a small, flat folder which, at a sign from Markham, he handed to Heath. "We identified 'em. Both made by the same hand, like Cap'n Dubois said; and that hand belonged to Tony Skea" . "'Dude' Skeel, €h?" The sergeant's tone was vibrant with suppressed ex- citement. "Say, Mr. Markham, that gets us somewhere. Skeel's an ex- convict and an artist in his line." He opened the folder and took out an oblong card and a sheet of blue paper containing eight or ten lines of typewriting. He studied the card, gave a satisfied grunt, and handed it to Markham. Vance and I stepped up and looked at it. At the top was the familiar rogues'-gallery photograph showing the full face and profile of a regular- featured youth with thick hair and a square chin. His eyes were wide-set and pale; and he wore a small, evenly ustache with waxed, needle- » d Bs » double photograph wag! en Sal dent ve s his nam And, listen, Search his room for burg- lar tools: he probably won't have any laying around, but I specially want a one-and-three-eighths inch chisel with a nick in the blade. . . . I'll be at headquarters in half an hour." (To be continued.) NE An Eye To Business Patrick had decided to sell his re mainin ghorse as busi was very lingered expectantly "with snioke's «| merely the obvious method of com: {eountry around that river was a hap n nals, by which' the bush were broadcast for hundreds of miles. ; {ment at that particular spot when first fleet- was sighted and the great Kamillaroy tribe sent up the first sig: nal notifying other tribes of the event; Which, ir a few hours, could easily be together," crow doesn't roost with the" "To prevent trouble, 'Good settle thelr accounts at once. "The friendships of those who may | Weather The study of these smoke signal opens up a story of entrancing inter- est, one which Involves the beginning of the human Trace. The Australiin aboriginal is often desribed as one of the most uncivilized types of surviv- ing humanity. No doubt there is a good deal of truth in: this, for his is probably the only race which has sur vived, uncontaminated by contact with others, from prehistoric times. It seems paradoxical that, although the aboriginal's mentality is of a bar barous order, he should yet have been capable of evolving a thoroughly ef- ficient system of conveying messages over vast distances by means of smoke signals, which are as clear in their meaning to him as a telegraphic message 1s to civilized man. If it were merely a mateer of send ing up a column of smoke, the abor- iginal's idea of signalling would be municating his own whereabouts, or the approach of an enemy to the camp. But his system is much more comprehensive. By its means he can make known almost anything he de- sires, for in reality, it is a crude form of Morse code, and must have been in common use thousands of years be. fore the very rae to which Morse be- longed was evolved. ; Signals Repeated When an important smoke signal goes up, the limit of its significance, or news value, is not confined within the boundaries of the territory con- trolled by the tribes sending it, but is repeated by tribes who may have been at constant war with the original senders. Thus it travels on till it reaches districts hundreds of miles away where the senders are entirely unknown. The fact that these smoke signals were well understood by all is proof that practically throughout the con- tinent, a common code prevailed. The coastal natives and those in: habiting hilly country, where timber is »olentiful, make more frequent use of this method of 'distributing infor mation than do those of central Aus- tralia and the open plains. In no part of Australia are smoke signals more used than in the ranges on the east. ern coast of North Queensland. Away inland on the Diamantina, when the py hunting ground for the aboriginal, the passing of a traveller through the district would be signalled from one vantage j oint to another. It is rather uncanny to know that one's every movement is being watch. ed by unseen eyes, whose owners await an opportunity to become openly hostile. The aboriginal employs different methods of signalling for different oc- casions; the most common is to build a fire of dry material, on which he heaps grecn boughs, creating a 'dense bad. He took the animal to market and offered him to the first farmer he met. x "Three pound!" said the farmer, af- ter one quick look at the docile quad- ruped. "What!" exclaimed the Irishman. "Three pounds for a herse?" - "Well, it's only got one eye." "One eye, did ye say? echoed the other. "Be oft wid ye, man! Can't ye see the intelligent craythur's giv ing me the wink not to accept your offer?" RG Plain English Sydney Bulletin: If the Si p Base scheme survives the MacDonal Government, the Dawes Amb d 1 of black smoke. If it is neces- sary to continue the message when that has subsided he repeats the operation. Another method, and one which re- quired a good deal of skill, ayd, at the same time, displays much ingenuity, involves the selection of a hollow | standing tree with a hole at the base. it is well under way, green leaves are thrown on it. The draught created by the fire sends the smoke up and rac- ing through the hqllow trunk at a great height. When it is necessary to break the smoke column, a sheet of bark, or the skin of a kangaroo, is thrown momen tarily over the fire and as rapidly re- ship and Britain's unemployment Sisia ht 'will deserve to rank amongst © immortals. It is in the unfortun- ate position of providing the two La- moved, sing the smoke to issue out of the top in puffs, much as it may be seen coming out of the funnel of a v ngine. A fire is made in this hole, and when |. to the Q and be many thousands of miles north, This was quite clowe- to where 'stands to-day and where the first land- ing of the white men was made. At that {ime this district was thickly covered with bush, while today it is bricks and mortar, snd the great Kamillaroy tribe that greeted the first fieet on that memorable occasion has since been completely annihilated, Chinese Problems a -lotus- root may - be bre! Sydney silken fibres remain alt ay who bave seen how the sticky vious ; ents refuse to fall apart will appreci- highest speed after ate the simile." baie Weed-- Do you think kissing is un- ~ healthy 7--Stenographer-1 don't know. lost on the shipping world. Indeed, 7 I've never been-- Weed--What! Never Sr - been kissed ?-Stenographer-- No, I've|€Ver before this feat: of the Mau ever been ill after it! parated by sea or land is beautl-| 1 % fully described n the following, 'The! tania' : d bbu- its tisemen In these tytwo years of work on the high seas, and the fact that the great Cu r has accome Minard's Liniment--The King of Pain, Plished this shows how. well and truly her builders did their job. Lesson That Won't Be Lost The lesson 'is one that will not be under construction in Great Britain A List that Expresses the Na- tional View of Friend- ship "Ihe Chinese have an exalted" Idea of real friendship, nnd in spite of their supposed antipathy to foreign: ers, extend real friendship to people of other races," writes Mr. C. Wil fred Allan in the Methodist Magazine, "Some of the common proverbs are as follows: -- "'A well-known friend is a tréas- ure.' X . 'Friendship must rest on goodness rather than gain. "Unless your friend is your sup- erior, you had better have wone. * 'When friendship is real, men talk withcut reserve.' "* 'Mutaal confidence is the prop of friendship.- " 'The best kind of acquaintance Is the ccquaintance with each other's hearts.' "Faithful friendship is referred to in the following -- : "Without a good mirror, no lady can know her true appearance; with- out a true friend no gentleman can know hls own errors of conduct. "'Frierds are?at fault when a man is allowed to wear his dress awry. "'A faithless friend is one who "stands on the dry shore," that is, makes mo attempt to save one from drowning.' "There are, of friendships. "'When you have, and | have le. money) then we are friends. " 'With wine and good feeding you course, spurious express i. OCTORS quite approve the quick comfort of Aspirin. For these perfectly harmless tablets will ease an aching head without penalty. Their increasing use year after year is proof that they do help and can't harm. Take them for any ache; to avoid the pain peculiar to women; many have found them marvelous at such times. The proven directions found in every package of Aspirin tell how to treat colds, sore throat, neuralgia, neuritis, etc, All druggists, bh bei Brock's of choicest so6ds from all parts of the corvect diet for cage birds. of ful, tific st led us Fk which sed. So hee Sous Prosi and Just which ced ration. Your bird's son, gone! health wil be fmproved' 8. | bird offer a To asking. Write the Correct Seed Jour bitd needs a proper) balanced diet just the same as do ird Seed is selected from world, Brock' for a Dresses % [DIAMOND DYES are the finest Lr and Ireland was showing-an upward trend. At the end of June there were 365 vessels of 100 tons and upwards under construction in British yards, the tonnage being 1,453,906, This was lan increase of 37 vessels and 96,531 tons as compared with March and of 93 vessels and 251,286 tons as com. pared with June, 1928. More important still, we are now building just over half 'the total tonnage that is under construction in the world's shipbuilding yards. At the end of June the proportion was 51.2 per cent. for Britain and Ireland, and 48.8 per cent. for all other coun. tries combined. or These are encouraging figures for British shipbuilders, especially in view of the fact that foreign competi tion has never been keener or more formidable, But there is no room for pessimism concerning an industry which is doing more business than al} its rivals put together. Our Up-to-date Fleet True, we are not yet back to our pre-war position, In the twelve months before the War our share of the world's shipbuilding was 57.2 per cent. of the total tonnage under con- struction. But we are regaining lost ground, and the tonnage we are now what we had on the slips twent years ago, in 1909, when we had noth- ing like the present competition to face, So far as shipping is concerned this country also maintains her old pre- eminence. The gross tonnage of lenty of friends; but in steamers and motor-ships owned by a er, RR Great Britain and Ireland' at the end "We sometimes say, 'Birds of a fea \ of June last was 20,046,000. The only, ~ther flock together," but the Chinese! ~ ay ~% other country which anything like ap- it negatively--'Tigers and Aspirin is a Trademark Registered in proached this figure was the United States, with 11,036,000 of sea-going tonnage. The world's tofal tonnage was 66,408,000. Of our tonnage 22% per cent. is less than five years old, as against 3% per cent. in the United States. We can also claim that 83% per cent. of our tonnage is under twenty years old, as against 71 per cent. in the case of ves- sels owned abroad. Speed King Coming Along We also seem to own most of the big ships. There are in the world 425 steamers and motor-ships of 10,000 tons and over, and of these we own no fewer than 237, We can also claim that we own 55.4 per cent. of the big liner tonnage of the world, counting in liners of 15,000 tons and upwards, <I Bo; even apart from the fact that the Oveanic, to be built at Belfast for | the White Star Line, shonld meet the challenge of the Bremen and regain. for us the blue_riband of the Atlante: We are holding our own, both in ship- building and shipping, é 5 But when the Oceanic is completed, it should astonish the world, = For much experience has been gained and immense progress has been made since the Mauretania was designed, And if, In those days, we could turn out a ship capable of so wonderful an effort after the lapse of twenty-two years, what can we do to-day? ee re- : tania's, the tonnage of merchant shi Nd building is considerably more onl