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the i tile marsh murder stouy ok a missing actress and the taxing of wits to explain her fate by nancy baku mavity synopsis hon kllsworths wife formerly actress sbella oshay disappears dr cavan- ukh criminal psycholokist learns their warricd life has been unhappy he iden tifies a charred body found in tho tultf marsh as that of sheila barbara iilj daughter faints when she hears him tell tills to peter piper a herald reporter when mrs kane sheilas maid is ar rested she admits that kllsworth mar ried sheila under threat of breach of promise a threatening note signed david orme is found in the murdered womans jafe peter trails orme anj arrests him ormes trial for the mur der of sheila comes up kllsworth in the witness stand admits he was forced into marriage chapter xxxix contd silence gentlemen mr ells worth the voice of the judge rip ped across the turmoil the last re marks may be stricken from the rec ord mr ellsworth kindly confine yourself to answering the questions i thought your idea was to find out the truth ellsworth turned furious up upon the judge as if confronting a new assailant from an unexpected quarter so it is the judge said firmly nevertheless you must submit your self to the rulings of the court the defence may proceed with the next question you say that you did nothing for several days after your wife disap peared did it not occur to you re gardless of your personal feelings to wards mrs ellsworth that the police should be notified it did but i had already sacri ficed a great deal in the effort to keep my personal affairs from being made public it appears that i was to be unsuccessful but i would have given anything under heaven to avoid- this ellsworths arm flailed out in a wide gesture sweeping the press rows the jury the bailiffs and lawyers in an inclusive circle is it not a fact that you delibcr- ateiy took and concealed certain pa pers belonging to mrs ellsworth and laving a bearing upon the circum stances of your marriage i object- the circumstances of mr ellsworths marriage have nothing whatever to do with the case objection sustained let me answer please i demand the chance to explain ive done my utmost all my life to keep out of the papers now i want my side to be heard these insinuations they will be made public they already have been let them at least have tho truth calm yourself mr ellsworth this case is not being tried in the papers officially the judge said sardonically if you desire to make a statement you may do so the papers which i took from mrs ellsworths safe were the docu ments in a breach of promise suit which she threatened to institute prior to our marriage i took them because i feared that they would be consider d suspicious evidence against me give me an apparent motive for for doing away with her a psychiatrist tells me that this fear was due to genuine wish that she should pass out of my life that i was afraid be cause i really did have such a motive although it never was a conscious one jt was a sort of panic i wanted to keep out of it as far as possible i might have known it couldnt be done that the crash had come but if i had really wanted to kill sheila id have done it before i married her and if i had killed her id at leist have had the sense not to try to cover her disappearance its horrible that i cant even now be sorry shes dead but im punished for that punished by having to endure all that ive most dreaded and loathed punished by this again tho rigid arm swept outward then ellsworths head dropped forward on his arms flung across tho railing before him thats all he mumbled almost inaudibly the fierce repression of years had broken down loosing the torrents in one mighty outburst having lost all that he had guarded he flung the remnants of his wrecked life to them with a strange relief in the abandon ment we will take a recess for ten minutes said tho judge tho reporters buried themselves at tho doors great stuff to late for the home jhe morning papersll get it durn em never mind theyll run an extra on this eo if they dont new lead add ormo trial this over the telephone copy boy rush this to the office and step on it this from the q and a twins in chorus peter having telephoned his flash left the smokefilled witness room with its clangor of telephones and stood leaning against the wall at tho back of the now almost empty courtroom he urted at tho touch of a hand on his r and turned with surprise to find ron ellsworth standing white i want to tell you something don said in a low tremulous voice take it easy peter forgot his own fatigue in the lapse from intense excitement his gray eyes beamed upon ellsworth with friendly reas surance and sympathy but want you to know this don rushed on glancing about to make sure they were not overheard i hoped to marry barbara cavanauph maybe you already knew that or guessed it well thats over she told me that you are the man she cares for and its true i thought she cared for me once but even if i hadnt lost my chance she never look ed at me as she looked when she spoke your name i wanted to let you know that personally and to tell you be fore i go that i was a fool for mazing out at you when you came to the house oh thats all right all in the days work peter said inadequately he felt very much as if he wanted to cry but his gray eyes alone shone a little more warmly on the man be side him what i really wanted to say though was this don went on the other is only between ourselves but i thought you might like to know that as soon as this is over im going to africa to hunt big game i dont know a thing about big game hunting but i guess it can be learned i dont know a thing about africa either only i have an idea its a country where there arent many newspapers a wan smile flickered across dont face i thought you might like to have that as a scoop for the herald isnt it thanks said peter briefly he dated not trust his voice beyond the single word the two hands met in a grip that both sets of fingers aching e nf used as to what tlie witness was answering i the court reporter bent over his j notes the last question of the district attorney was what he announced in matteroffact tones the angular face of the judge be- crme a deep mahogany color he glared out of the window for a mo ment then gave it up and seized his handkerchief from the bench came a scries of choking sounds inter spersed with snorts the men in the press rows rocked back and forth throwing decorum to the winds the bailiff drummed an unheeded tattoo with the hand holding the gavel while with the other he wiped his eyes- to be continued how trees split rocks it is done says itobert sparks walk er in american forests washington by beginning early and proceeding slowly nature performs these feats so quietly that not even the squirrel or woodpecker in the top of the tree above the stone is conscious of the great task that is being accomplished if man could perform such a deed with his hands alone or even aided by maul or wedge he would sound a trum pet that could be heard around the world but nature is not a braggadocio she performs a remarkable feat and through it teaches mankind that true worth lies in achievement rather than pomp or fame to accomplish this feat nature must be extremely patient at first an insignificantlooking acorn or nut or other seed of a tree is dropped in a crevice it may be through the act of a bird or a squirrel who was frisk ing around and lost his prize as it fell into a small opening in a stone sunshine anil moisture will germin ate a seed on a bare stone or on a housetop where there is apparently not an atom of plant food available just about as quickly as it does in the i ground decaying leaves and twigs are then blown into the crevice and soon tho rootlets have a little real food to munch and then the tree is started on its career play in nursery tool of learning salada green tea drinkers drink the best green tea shorts i if you have ever watched children at play you realize that it is a serious business writes h m r in the christian science monitor the great philosopher of childhood frederick froebel says the child learns by do ing he learn3 by playing for play constitutes the major part of his ac tivity imagination plays a large part in play but just as the worker needs things to work with so the child needs things to play with his toys are the tools with which he works while h plays the type of play is governed largely by the kind of tools he has at his command the wisdom of those who supply him with his play equip ment is an important factor in the in fluences brought to bear on his form ing concepts of society the custom of giving children toys at christmas time is so common that sometimes we are in danger of forget ting that christmas has any other meaning those who realize that the reat message of love is at tho bottom of the true christmas spirit can help their children to have the joy of giv- tt ive mg as we as receiving and avoid cul- lmdon cw 8 cmi 0 000 tivatns selfish indulgence tons 0 smofeo annually about one- it 13 also important that adults m i i vi third of this being due to domestic selecting gifts for children should love fl those children wiselv enough to use n more than 70uu000 nn and women bought and care m the selection of served uner h jtwl fl fl their gifts to one who takes the play war of children seriously knowing its rej ij- lation to their future it is amazing cats are evidently pouplar in tho that so many children are allowed to g estimte own toy pistols arguments against o this total new this type of toy have often met with h 7 ridicule but the proof is so evdenced by boy bandits and accidents with rear l2o0 pays income tax in gt britain guns that there is no need for further areument equivalent of 75 smeem tea fresh from the gardens 1s1 adult human being irhales g like 35 b of air daily te o general knowledge is lave a trial run at liverpool uni- ono thousand and fortyfour boys wero born for every thousand girls in gt britain last year on an average soldiers do not live as long as sailors among soldiers what new york is wearing by anxebelle worthington illustrated dressmaking lessor fur nished nith every pattern fcni spent ide him issue no 1 32 chapter xl the appearance of mrs kane on the witness stand caused a ripple of uncontrollable delight to sweep across the rows of press seats she stalked up the narrow aisle her voluminous skirts almost brushing the chairs on either side with the un swerving directness of an ocean liner she had already stepped to the plat form before the astonished clerk could check her progress mumble mumble mumble nothing but the truth so help you god chanted the clerk mrs kane fixed him with severity in her eyes thats what im here for she an nounced succinctly the judge blew his nose behind his handkerchief the bailiff with rigid contorted countenance banged his gavel the sketch artists seized their pencils with furious haste it aint possible one of the q and a twins nudged the other as the farmer said when he saw a giraffe theres no such animal murmured his companion silence in the courtroom please admonished the bailiff with the har- rasscd air of a teacher trying to main tain discipline over a class of unruly youngsters mrs kane surveyed the room with a disapproving stare which said ns plainly as words what have all these people got to eo with it anyhow theyd better go home and mind their own business mrs kane began the district at torney with wary courtesy do you know tho defendant david orme well i ought to clicked mrs kane viewing the questioner with manifest scorn of his stupidity the roll of fat across the back of the district attorneys neck reddened i didnt ask you whether you ought to i asked you whether you did an swer the question yes or no he said sharply i already said so the district attorney cast on im ploring glanco at the judge who was sedulously staring out of the window- what were the relations between mr orme and mrs ellsworth at tvc time when you first knew him just what they are now he was and is miss 0shays husband what a rustlo of astonishment passed over the court room the lounging re- i iytcrs straightened and leaned for ward as if pulled by invisible wires i you heard me mrs kane re- marked caustically ho left anil miss oshay let him go she never got a divorce from him your honor i object graham leaped to his feet as if galvanized by an electric shock tho witness san- iiot possibly know this of her own knowledge i certainly do theres precious little about miss oshay that i dont know of my own knowledge- objection sustained you may re- frame your question will tho reported please read the question i i seem to be a little a recent visit to the toy department in a large department store revealed the largest display of war toys the writer has ever seen there were three long cases containing miniature soldiers and sailors of very nationality even african warriors with raised spears in hand all the apparatus for i carrying on modern warfare is avail able in miniature a child fully equip- every year the wind and rain bvtog p with t o piay material in supplies of fresh food material the roots reach as deeply as they can their sizo increases and soon the cavity seems to be filled completely the new cells in the young tree con tinue to double and that is the whole process new england bibrds i have never heard the skylark sing at cloudy gates in early spring i have never heard the nightingale wooing the shadows in a dale but i have known the bobwhites call the songsparrow singing clear and small and i have heard the whippoorwill lilting at moonbeams on the hill and once at morning in an hour when mountains to the sunlight tower i heard the hermit thrush make song until woodshadows seemed to throng with magic notes and break away as though his bright throat brought the day there i was pleased to stand and hark forgetting nightingale and lark harold wesley melvyn in the christian science monitor trees in paris each year before winter sets in the paris trees are thoroughly attended to they are pruned changed and even replaced if necessary one section of the boulevards however between the place de la republlque and the rue drouot is not up to tho usual stand ard tho municipal service which looks after the trees of paris is wait ing for work in connection with tho new subway to bo completed to take this part of tho boulevards in hand and provide it with large and beautiful trees such as lino the rest of this thoroughfare as all work in connec tion with the subway is to be finished by the end of the year there is pro mised for next summer an uninter rupted length of shady boulevards such as delight the heart of tho pari sian stroller could stage a world war involving every race on the globe for many hours his thought would be given over to war manoeuvers and killing while some sources are busy work ing among the youth in our colleges and universities to break down pro hibition others are at work propagat ing war in the minds of our children our children are our responsibility either directly or indirectly they are future citizens of our nation the heirs to the prosperity or adversity result ing from our achievements do we want them to grow up with the idea that war is the only worth while achievement in life rather let us strive to emphasize the peace and joy and satisfaction of useful living as exemplified by the farmer the store keeper the shoemaker and all the busy people who help to make living more pleasant there are toys to be had which encourage tho child to re produce in play the interesting activi ties of community life froebel says what a child imitates he tries to un derstand through a better under standing of tho interdependence of community life will como a greater appreciation of the services of others and a healing for hard times and war an autalkie have you heard the latest about the women of the village asked bragg havent heard a thing said spragg inquiringly theyvo formed a secret society bragg told him spragg burst into a roar of un controllable laughter thats rich he replied at length why women dont know how to keep a secret but this society isnt to keep sec rets returned bragg its to tell them in only five marriages out of tho 315109 contracted in england and wales last year were the brides and grooms of the same age the average hardness of water in england is fifteen degrees although there are places where it rises as high as twentyfive degrees children get married in egypt where there are 152 husbands and 087 wives all under ten years of age of i these child wives sixty are widows professional letterwriters still write i the love letters for the young men of barcelona who can for five cents make a choice from a number of speci men proposals women in chicago who would be really smart must have their lips har- i monizing with or matching their frock for instance with a dress of wine color the lips of the wearer should be deep red wheels are fitted to a tiny oneman submarine designed by its american whe one acejuircs teens she also acquires all kinds of dress privileges inventor to cruise along the bed of the mother cant insist 1 pon those little ocean like a motor car it can also travel on the surface of or under tho water drilling teeth may become unneces- j sary if a recent german invention is successful by this new method the affected tooth is enclosed in a case i with the decayed portion exposed on few drops of acid are dropped poetry and winter it fr quite natural to turn to the poets for inspiration in summer hut why not also la planning for the win ter garden poets are frank enough in their likes and dislikes they have a habit of observing minutely and as often as not their observations are suggestive practically as well as in- spirationally true there are a hundred and one poetic references to summer gardens to one for those of winter certain poets indeed you can scarcely think of in connection with any but the sum mer season but there hav been poets one wonders if possibly they were of more robust physique who took a delight in natures sterner moods charles kingsley positively gloried in the spot he called his winter garden a plantation of four kinds ot evergreens with here and there a leafless birch whose purple tresss seemed to him even moro attractive than the green ones of springtime and summer and lowell did you ever think to look over lowells verse for wintry pictures or to reread the essay called a good word for winter part of this are somewhat apologetic to be sure but it is worth turuing to whether your winter garden is situate on a realestate map or in the iimbo of fancy he too is keen about all the varie ties of evergreens but he notices that many of the deciduous trees and shrubs have interesting color in their twigs lowell is excellent besides for calling our attention to some of the forgotten poets he discovers that old scotsman grahame writing of win ter now is the time to visit nature in her grand attire he finds ambrose phillips reveling in the sight ot nature in a rich disguise for every shrub and every blade of grass and every pointed thorn seemed wrought in glass in pearls and rubies rich the haw- thornes show and through the ice the crimson ber ries grow possibly the first poet to note what cheer snow can bring to tho winter scene was goethe beautiful indeed ho wrote the mist heaps itself to gether in light snowclouds the sun looks through and the snow over everything gives back a feeling of gayety interesting this to compare with a stanza from robert frost in a winter eden it lifts existence on a plane of snow one level higher than the earth helow one level nearer heaven overhead and last years berries shining scarlet red ignorance there is no slavery but ignorance liberty is the child of intelligence this and in a few minutes tho decayed por tion is removed painlessly potato health improved by change of soil that a trip to the mountains is good for potatoes as well as for sickly human beings was reported recently to the academy of sciences in paris by j constantin p lcbard and j magrou these same investigators re ported previously that growth for a few years in a mountain climate tends to restore the vigor of sickly varieties of sugar cane and other cultivated plants last year a similar experi girl types delightfully smart is todays model in more sophisticated handling a tavcrite for classroom developed in tweedlike lightweight woolen the neck and sleeves are finished with white pique the sleeves may be made and two almost forgotten writers long if desired j edith matilda thomas and john t ribbed wool jersey in dark green trowbridge have given us happy is an excellent choice with almonl green jersey trim wool crepe tweedlike cottons and rayon novelties are charming satisfac tory mediums style no 345c is designed for sizes ii 13 15 and 17 years size 16 requires 3 yards 39inh material and yard 39inch contrast ing material how to order patterns write your name and address plain ly giving number and size of such verses about the unpopular season edith thomas calls the frost a rude and gothic sprite who doth unbind the summers pal- aced wealth to but shows us how ho then goes work and sets up in its place a mimic garden cold and bright but it was dorothy wordsworth who discovered that sounds carry farther in wintry air commenting in her patterns as you want enclose i0c in journal after a walk on one of her stamps or coin coin preferred wrap favorito bills near alltoxden she mar- it carefully for each number i nd veled how she could distinctly hear address your order to wilson pattern the sound of tho sea which in summer ment was begun with potatoes seed service 73 wesi adelaide st toronto was never heard this effect she do- evening from the london mercury the last bee has carried tho last pollen and the first moth does not stir i potatoes from strains grown for many years in lowlying parts of france were transplanted to highland fields on the slopes of the alps here the lowland potatoes grew for a year just as they would have grown in their lowland homes seed potatoes pro duced in the highland plantations then were taken hack to the lowland fields thc wind has falicn and planted side by side with others tho has falcn from plants that never had been away tho potatoes with a year of mountain undel the weight of laviaa experience turned out to be markedly a sc more vigorous and productive tho ex- and ftc x o perimentcrs report than those of pre- tnese are the ecems cisely tho same strain which had been of quietness denied tho mountain trip whether the years lifo at a higher altitude with its cooler nights and other moio rigorous conditions strengthened the constitution of the potato plants them selves or whether the benefits were due to elimination of bacteria or other parasites which could not withstand the mountain climate the investigators do not know not by rustle of wind nor of bird nor of moths wing is the air stirred with one exception the cheery fellow met a friend at a christmas dance- well well old man ho said hap pily so youre married at iast al low me to congratulate you he paused and then added with a sly smile i hear you have an excellent and accomplished wife the newlywcd nodded and in this stillness mingles bright thc days gold breath with the blue breath of night- marie de l welch elded must bo due to the absence in winter ot such other overpowering sounds as the singing of tho birds the humming of insects and the murmur ing of leaves it was dorothy woodsworth too who found out that winter ha3 a way of revealing tho character of every treo and shrub and stick and stone what a beautiful thing she wrote god has made winter to be by strip ping tho trees and letting us see their shapes and forms interesting this is to compare with the thought of a comparatively recent poet f l knowles about win ter behold ho comes like aaron of old a priest with ashy beard downflowing from his chin regardful ho of sacrifico and feast the holy placo of nature entering in quite the reverse tho christmas party woro assem- true a winter garden has its minus as well as its plus side it does not j require tho poets to tell us that it ean- not bo a garden of iuclous scents nor ono that is a kalcidoscopo of various colors nor a placo to loiter in or idlo away tho hours rather must it bled for tho musical program smith be a plac0 t0 tak0 brisk walks and found himself next to an agei pro- j breaths and to becomo ac cessor qualntcd with tho individualities ol youre the gentleman who is teach- your trec3 ani plants a place too ing my wifo voice culture is that not j w to cultivate an appreciation of so tell me what sort of a pupil is j no just as tho characteristic of she he asked an object but in an art sense as urn snowy of the london zoo presents an interesting study here of staring eyes sharp tusks and wrinkled nose i have indeed he replied why shes at home in music shes at homo tn0 professor leaned confidingly 0 jtcnaissanco garden makers saw- in art shes at homo in books shes across to his neighbor at home in science in short shes at well ho said i find her very home everywhere except apt to say tho least yes except what camo the in- tha seemed to surprise smith i he who is taught to hvo upon little aaixy j thats rather strange ho replied owes moro to his fathers wisdom except at home thc ether dole- 1 always find her very apt to say the than ho that has a great deal loft fully repied bst him oocs to hla facers care penn