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ADMIT ONE BY SIDNEY UORLEK. SYNOPSIS. Philip Cran*. a young nrroi>lana da- Igner. In I.i-il"ii cm it li"li('V, SUM-* Margery KcrguBon by inuu-hlng her from benpnth a lurtte oar. on arrival at the Mtd-WfutiTii Mi. id. ho In Hurprlecl to find letter, wrltcn In oixle. Thiit evening an unknown Ki'l culls nn Mill. Reanlved to si the adventure through, he goes with Judith l-Y!M.-.i.! to man nam-d stt-n -IISMIII. Ills Impersona- tion ! discovered when the otln-r <'i n.'- appears. He esrajx-s anil rnoi-tg Margery FeruuHon at-aln. I, earning that her la- ther la In the hands or Steveniaon Jid hli fan*, hn (X-rsuades Margery to seek hrltrr In H c-Min*rit whlln he poe to Handling. In Ki-nt. t<> rescue her fathrr. Meanwhile < 'luring Whittle la on the trail of a gang of f'li--:' CHAPTER VII. (Cont'd.) Charles Whittle be.ieved in mixing with his kind. It was all right to pay a visit for business purposes to th" Carlton, the Savoy, the Ritz, and other "swell joints" of that type, but he would have been supremely uncon- fortable living in them. He was just thinking about lighting a fresh cigar when he suddenly sat forward in his chair. The next sec- ond he had picked up the evening pa- per from the small table, and had placed it before his face. This did not prevent him, however, from secretly crutinizing the man who walked through the room towards the big fire which commanded a view of the whole apartment. Whittle was used to surprises; but, Inured as he was in this particular, he yet felt a swift shock of excite- ment. This small, undersized indi- Tidual with the shifty eyes, he recog- nized. He had run across George Melton on the last occasion h had crossed swords with Jim Birchall. What was Melton doing in England? He usually operated in the towns of the Middle West, not often venturing into New York, or even Chicago. And now he was in I<ondon. . . Working with Birchall? He lowered the paper quietly. Mel- ton had not seen him yet. The mar. was standing only a couple of yards Take a gun with you. There's a wo- man there " "A woman! Something now, eh?" "Yes, very new. You'll laugh when you see her; that is, if you get a chance to laugh before she plugs you. 'The Empress, 1 they call her. . . The Empress. . . ." Whittle took a third sip at his whis- ky and soda. Life had changed from the ordinary and commonplace to the stimulating exciting. Old campaigner as he was, his pulse was beating at a slightly higher rate than usual. The blood was thudding through his veins at a quicker pace. He was getting on the trail. "That's all want to know, George, he said; "and I won't forget it. Now, if you'll take my tip, you'll clear :>ut of this town. You say you want money here," taking a notecase from his pocket, "is a hundred dollars. That ought to help you to where you're <jo- ing. . .. Is it too inquisitive to ask you why you came here tonight?" "I was looking for someone," was the noncommittal reply. "Has this person turned up yet?" "No and now he won't." A hand raised the glass and set it down empty. "Well, pushing along. he concluded, Goodbye." I'll be away, sun-eying the room with eager, questioning eyes. "Hullo," drawled the detective. The other turned swiftly. Whittle was an enemy or had been an enemy. But the New Yorker was now smilil-g Invitingly, and patting the chair by kis side. It was impossible to make a scene. After all, Whittle had nothing on him. There was no risk. Besides "Well, well, well," said the detec- tive, when the other had accepted tilt- Invitation. The tone was markedly friendly. "You'll have something, George?" Melton made a swallowing move- ment and scratched the side of his neck. He couldn't "get" the situation yet. "Thanks," he said; "I'll have a whisky." When the waiter had brought the order "two largo whiskies and not too much soda" Melton's host took up the talking aj'-'i'"- "What brought you to I-ondon. George?" he asked. "Oh," quickly, "you needn't IH- worried; I'm here r>n a holiday, and I'm not looking for work." "Even if you were," retorted the other, with an uncanny smile, "you wouldn't frighten me. I'm out of the fame now." "Running straight, eh?" "Ye* and finding it damned hard, tet me tell you." The detective raised his glass. "I helped you once, George; and, if possible, I'll help you again," he said. "What's the trouble?" The answer was succinct. "Lack of dough," he said. "Como over here to try to get ome?" "Yeah!" Hut the word was accom- panist by a grim and ironical smile which Whittle knew '.o be significant "Got anything to tell me?" ho asked raising his glass again. "Anything to toll you? I don't quite get that." "I think you do, George." Then "Is Jim Birchall trailing around?" Too late the crook endeavored to control his features. That sudden ex- pression of suspicion hud given his ecret away to an astute questioner. "That's funny," ho remarked. "Perhaps," conceded the detective. "Anyway,"- taking n gamble "I fan-- cled I saw Jim in tho West End to- night." "The dirty swine," muttered the other beneath his breath. Whittle glowed with satisfaction. Luck was with him. Tho "end" for which ho had been waiting so long now appeared a possibility. "Do you ever think of that night in Dallas?" he asked seductively. Melton turned in his scat. "I'm not tell you a thing, mind," he whispered fiercely, "but if you care to go down to village called Mnn.i- ling-" "I'll look it up on the map." "No need to do that. It's in Kent. You go- from Charing Cross." "And who is at Mandling?" "That's for you to find out. P. i I'll tell you this, Charlie Whittle: This was an unusual evening. Whittle signified it by calling -/r a third whisky, which represented two over his usual allowance. But there was matter for congratulation. George Melton had not been kidding him. Of :hat he was sure. The man had be*n sincere for what reason, he could not yet decide. Of course there were difficulties. These were represented in the two questions: (1) Why was Melton in I/ondon? and (2) Why did he give the information? There was yet a third query: What was going on in Mand- ing, that quaintly-named Kentish village? But there was much to be said. Ac- tion promised. "Waiter!" "Yes, sir?" "You have a Gazetteer here?" "Certainly, sir." The book of reference, admirable aa it was, was able to supply very little information. Beyond the mere mention that Mandling was a village of a few hundred inhabitants, and that it was near a Castle, famous for the- fact that the knights who crossed from France with the intention of murdering Thomas a licckct, stayed there one night before proceeding to Canterbury, it had nothing to tell. Ah, well, ho would be there the next day. There was not long to wait. Whittle had just closed the book, when a commotion was heard in the hall of the hotel thirty yards or so away. There came a sinister cry: "Mur- dered!" The mind of a crime investigator has to work quickly. Whittle bounded out of his chair and forced a way through the press of people. A sud- den fit of apprehension seized him. The sight outside confirmed his worst suspicions. On a leather lounge a man's body had been placed. There was an ominous stain at the base of the neck. A police constable was con versing in low tones with the Manager of the Washington. A crowd four- deep watched in awed silence. "What's happened here?" Whittle Quality has no substitute room on the right, his guard halted to tap lightly on the door. "Come in," said a cultured voice. The prisoner might well have de- luded himself that he was merely dreaming this scene and not living it. Even in this age of sensational crim?, what ordinary person would have ere dited his story? that he had been kid- napped in broad daylight, taken .o a Grasses Still Most Vital | Living Thing to Mankind What New York Is Wearing Berkeley. Grasses always have been and still are more Important to mankind than any other living things, finds Morris Halperln, research as sis t- courrtry house in Kent, and there kept ant in agronomy of the University of, a prisoner by a gang of crooks who, through him, were intending to gather a harvest of several million pounds? (To be continued.) California. "Evidence for this state- ment," states Halperln, "la abundant throughout the history of man In all ages and on all continents The geo- ! logic age of mammals, the nomadic "Follow the Equator" Is Goal life of P rlmlt 've man, the beginnings of civilization, and the existence of are are closely closely lnlerwoven interwoven f\e u .1 . i T ol civnizaiic Of Hypothetical Air Trips modern llfe Among the possible airplane flights | modern life for 1932 being discussed in Europe, the j with the Indlspensablllty of grasses to "follow the equator" feat Is talked man. about more than any other. European | "Every known primitive civilization airmen say the best starting point has been built directly upon one or would be Libreville, French Equatorial another of the cereal grasses, supple- Africa. After crossing Africa In two ' mented In some cases with pasture "legs" there would be a long and dan- 1 grasses. Primitive man, living by gerous flight across the Indian Ocean, hunting, was completely dependent on with a stop at Maldive Islands for fuel. | grassland and became a nomad as he Next would come the 7.000-mile' followed grass-feeding animals in their flight across the Pacific on a course where shipping Is scarce. A pilot might make land at the Gilbert Is- lands, at Christmas Islands, and at From the Quito, in would follow a journey across South America to the mouth ot the Arn.i wanderings. Cereal grasses changed BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON man from a nomad to a settler and led I to the cultivation of land. Even the calendar and social life were made necessary by the cultivation of cereal grasses. "In 1700 B.C., the Chinese Instituted the symbolic ceremony of sowing five useful plants each year, these being rice, wheat, sorghum, millet and the legume, soybeans. In Egypt, barley and millet were produced as early as 4000 B.C. On the American continent all civilization from Canada to Pata- gonia Is practically synonymous with one grass, maize or Indian corn. "To-day grasses furnish all the breadstutfs and most of the meat and sugar consumed by man. Grasses also play an important part in building material, reclaiming land, providing turf for lawns and the athletic fields. The greatest portion of the dry land surface of the earth Is occupied by grasses" I Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Amusing Anecdotes "'''* duri.g the cial reporter as recorded in "M).-e The old Barron": Boston, June 5, 11)20. Mrs. Coolidjre ,e,,s the foUowing story It is her run <>' "^"" t the Lyceum Theatre, custom, when going out, to leave oer address so that governor Coo lidge London, in the palmy ('ays of Henry ... _ was Governor of Massachusetts at tne zon. His gigantic flight would ter- Irving and Ellen Ten-y, is recorded by tjme) may call ner up if he returns "^^.In" tTC ? f lhe AtlaD " W - Gr * ham Robertson, in his captivat- [ Recently the governor returned home, ing reminiscences "Life Was Worth rang the telephone of the party giving Living." One evening, Ellen Terry ; U8 afternoon tea and said to put M:s tic to Libreville. Eros Soon to Appear as Corc'clia and Robertson stood to- Again in Piccadilly gether at the wings during the last act when the great actress said: "Graham, why do oen always spit on their hands when they are going to take up anything?" London. The long heralded replace- ment of Kros In the Piccadilly Circus Is now expected to bo only a matter of days. The base of tho famous me- morial has been completed, but the bronzo basin of tho fountain must be erected and otbor work done such as or a navvy gripping a pick-axe." t oolidge on the teleph>ie. The conversation was as follows: Gov?ri.or: "Mrs. Coolidge?" Mrs. Coolidge: "Yes." Governor: "Hop home." If any body can get that conversa- tion into fewer words or letters with- 'They don't," said Robertson, ''at ( out cutting the sense, he deserves a least only laborers handling a spade p,ize, remarks Barron. "Well," said Corjelia, "you come and look at Henry." (Irving was play- ing Lear). It was almost time for Lear's en- Unaer date. New York, November 16, 1927, is this entry: George Harvey (former American Ambassador in London) said: "I sup- connectlng the waterptpea. This Is now goliiK on behind tho canvas-cov- ered scaffolding that screens It from public gaze. According to the latest Information the little god Is certain to shoot hla arrows over Piccadilly again before long with the unveiling gan to get ready, stretching herself ft | forty times and eacn time he seems probably early In December. ' full length upon a table that she might o get a new chuckle out of it. He is trance, bearing the body of his mur- 1 pose I have told John D. Rockefeller dered daughter, and said daughter be- the story of the minister's call at least "I do not agree- with the people who try to apply mathematics nnd extreme' logical abstractions to tho regulations of the human race." Sherwood Anderson. | be tho more easily gathered up. King swe Pt down ' r m his dressing ISSUE No. 50 '31 usked his "Ix>oks ns though the poor chap's been shot," was the reply. "I heard the policeman sny he was dead, any way." Tho American detective gave a non- committal grunt. But his mind was very active. He had recognized the dead man immediately. It was George Melton! C1IA1TKK VIII. 1I stumbled weakly towards the door, this man who had been H pris- oner for tho past week. Faint through want of food, his nervo broken by actual physical torture, George Fer- guson would have excited the pity ot any observer. His manner was distraught; several times during the previous hour he had wondered if ho wero going mad. His actions now wero tho.se of one whole bruin was rapidly becoming unbalanc- ed. Clawing at tho door until the blood oo/.ed from his broken finger- nails ho kept up a continuous cry: "Let me out! Let mo out!" It seemed as though Fato had dv cided to answer the appeal, for the door suddenly opened. Ferguson, un-l able to avo himself, sagged forward; but, before ho reached the floor, hi.. body was caught in n pair of stroiur arms. "Now, then pull yourself together, you fool! You're wanted downstairs." Resistance was out of tho questicr , ho could only obey the command by shuffling feebly forward as the other held his left arm in a vice-like grip, j Down the broad staircase skiritlrii; a wido hall, at the other end of which could l>e, MTU tin- heavy front door of tbu IM.UM-, tho two went. OuUld* a I Artificial Inflation of stocks must with it on the stage, be considered a crime as serious as * counterfeiting. Bumbles." very appreciative of wit. I tell it I that there were rumors about Peach and stood beside her, waiting for am for many weeks that the ministji his cut. As it came he stooped over , had had a call to a larger parish, but Cordelia and whispering "Now then | nobody seemed to get any informa- rend>?" carefully spat upon both tion and the minister said nothing. "Finally, the deacons agreed that one of them should -all and ask him directly. So the old deacon knoc!.'i on the front door and asked the boy palms, rubbed them hastily togethor ' and, shouldering his burden, trudged 3215 "Buddy" Dines in Style which It closely re- Tit-bits from the intimate diaries' who responded to see his father. Th3 \ndrn Maurols. of the late C. W. Barron, noted finan- boy said that his fatiier was engaged. _______^___________ ^ , 'Then can I see your mother?' and tho boy replied that his mother was busy. "Then the deacon, smilingly, ocgan upon the boy and said, 'Can you *eli n.e anything about the report that your father has hail i call to anoth?r church?' "The boy said: 'I don't know any- thing about it, but father is in tho pi.rlor praying for lijht and mother it up in the attic packing the trunks'." Paris centres intercut in sleeve ful- ness below the elbows for afternoons. This darling black crepe satin model is both practical and versatile. It uses white crepe satin for its lower sleeves and for the neat moul-Jed-to- the-dress trim in inset .vestee at the front of bodice. The skirt is cleverly gored at the front, lending height to the figure. Style No. 3213 is designed for sizes 14, 1C, 18, 20 years, :!6, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. The 36-inch size requires 3% yards of 39-inch material wtih 1 yard of 39-inch contrasting. For less forrm.1 wear choose a sheel printed wool voile in rich new brown coloring in combination with vivid plain red wool voile contrast. Rlack transparent velvet is enchant- ingly lovely for more dressy wear. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write youi name ami address plain- ly, giving number and size of such. patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for erch number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 Wesi, Adelaide St., Toronto. The Lion Roars Dreaming the Lion sits, While all around The greedy chorus rings measure. vdliiK to a scientist's recent statement monkeys !tcr than children. Perhaps they "ape" their elders m.>r effi c This Urouz 00 clilnip, Muddy, Hkos uls moal tb ' y. In a talk with Dr. Walter B. Ja.nes at Battle Creek, Michigan, on October 25, 11)22, Mr. Barron quotes the doctor as saying: "I think the development of women has come largely by discarding their] ( lmitln * J ackal . fleeln S hound. j clothing. A father will come to n.ei H as no forgot his kingship, with a cold and si,rr throat nnd pull Uo ,,ght with the price of years? , off clothes like a human onion; they, Ig thls tho end ot g rca tness? ; would fill a bushel basket But his Squandered the blood and tears? daughter's clothes would go in a i)uiit ; Sudden tho Lion rises, Tho Lion roars. . . . The curs that yapped He silent, c j t?- u o 1 Licking their sores. ounned risn supply .-M. D., in the Morning Post. Vitamin D to Foxes Foxes on the ranches of Prince Ed ward Island now get vitamin D In their diet through tho medium ot flsli. Twice a week sun dried herring are fed to them. The fishermen split the fish through tho back, wash them In fresh water, place them In n 5 per cent salt solution for six hours and ther- mit them In the open air for the sw to do tho rest. On tho ranches the fish are soaked In water for an houi nr so before belns fed to the foxe "' llave I" 8 ' be reading H, nstltuttoa of the United States." tho plant was tried out for the fir "Well 7 " iime last year and at once proved a - Am i j was sllr ,,vlsed to flnd out success. how uiiiuy rights a fellow - ;