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manhattan night tj xyxiam ataan lytttft svxorsis one jump and tout lini sltlr t whole damn strew for good ami all so ralil tack thaytr to hla old coiltk nilte iekt wayne a they stood on tin- roof near the thayer peimique aii lmnl fillowfrtft a dinner at whjea tttx as usual had drunk too much hosi ikm a worm peter recalled these words as he sit outside the penthouse some months later waiting willie inspector connolly and asst istrict attorney 1ar- lay questioned martha thayer taehs wife about tacks murder 1eter had met murtha at kininas night lul with tack and was in love win her before he realized it ielers sister carol mr wentworth had warned him that the thayers were in with a bad ciov1 levari hoss was with martha a kreit dea one ldht martha came into kmm is with a crowd of irlends she had asked teter to take her home chapter ix the penthouse was lighted but that meant nothing kodi knew that mar tha hated coming into a dark house and always left lights on when he went home tack was in though he was in the living room hunched up in a chair he got up stiffly as thy entered and stood rather unsteadily staring at them hello he said hello pete s you is it yes its peter what of it said martha dangerously theyd hid a quarrel earlier that night peter knew the signs by now hes suspected it anyway at emmas when martha had said that shed lost tack nothing of it said tack now guess pll go to bed good night martha didnt speak good night tack said peter tack stared at martha for a moment then turned and walked still unstead ily from the room martha sat down she still stared straight ahead as ii she werent seeing anything give me a cigarette will you please peter she said he found one of hers in a box and gave it to her then suddenly all in a moment as he held a light some thing in him broke martha he said oh my dear you cant go on this way what else am i to do she asked in a queer dead voice you cant go on this way you cant he said again anything would be better than this i oh whats the use its not as if you and tack cared as if either one of you cared- i wouldnt tell you then but martha dont you know i love you something in her eyes stopped him peter dont she said i yes i know i knew it before you did 1 think peter this is the rottenest thing ive ever done i knew and i let you go on because i needed you when i knew all the time that i didnt care for you when all the time i was in love with some one else even then he didnt understand but he said tack i thought i tack her voice rang out almost hysterically tack oh no no peter stared at her the anger that had overcome him at emmas that had never really quite let go its hold on him swept over him again martha dont he said sharply you sound its as if what they said about you were true about ross- she looked at him gently but my dear of course its true she said the crazy thing the incredible thing asit seemed to peter now look ing at the faintly brightening sky in the east was that in effect they had let it go at that for the moment but actually they had had no more choice than the silent watching policeman on the roof gave him now martha was utterly worn out that night her exhaustion had been evident in her voice in her drooping eyes in the ragging of her whole hotly and too somewhere nearby there had been tack who might be asleep or might not and might in cither case at any moment come blundering out my dear martha had said she s the one to speak because just then peter couldnt im so sorry so terribly terribly sorry ive been a perfect beast and i suppose ill- go right on being one but i can be hon est with you at least i owe you that much only not not now she spread her hands wide in appealing almost childlike gesture that made peter catch his breath lis wanted to take her in his arms and comfort her passion of every sort the passion of love and the passion of anger alike were gone clean out of him for the moment all he felt was tenderness and pity and a great longing to help her i he said oh martha my door its all right you havent done anything rotten its all right youre not a boast i im going of course we cant talk now you youre dead tomorrow yes tomorrow she said eagerly wll tell you all i can i want to ill fell you as much of it all as is mine to tell everything that doesnt drag other people in i want to oh i do i she was standing up by that time mid he went to her and took her hand mid kissed it she snatched it away oh she cried and her voice broke in a bos oh peter dont he turned away from her then and went without looking back once in ihc street for a moment any one see ing him might have thought of him as they would have thought of tack he didnt in that first block walk very steadily but then he pulled himself together and he did very well until finally over on third avenue he fcund a taxi in the cab he leaned back wearily he wasnt thinking at all really and when he got home he let him clothes drop anywhere and got into bed and fell asleep at once as if he had been drugged something happened to his brain though in the night he woke up early considering the time hed gone to bed and the state hed been in and he woke up moreover with his mind clear and active and coldly resolute ly angry and determined he wasnt shocked oddly enough and he wasnt at all minded to attach finality of any sort to what martha had told him he shouted to manuel busy some where about the flat and said he wanted breakfast at once anil the water in his shower was running icy cold before he stepped out of it so that as ho slapped himself dry ha was in a fine warm glowr he break- fastcdvin a heavy dressing gown with the windows wide open and the cool crisp winter air filling the room so that manuel waiting on him shiv ered although he showed all his white teeth in a grin when peter kept calling for more toast and coffee deliberately peter glanced through the papers then settling dewn snug ly into his chair he started to try to thin this business out he was in love with martha that was it seemed to him the chief thing perhaps new york already had made him as selfcentred as egocentric as all these people hed been looking down on so condescendingly he didnt care the fact that he was in love with martha and wanted her and was going to get her if he could was still his starting point she was married she was by her own admission in love with another man not her hus band all right bad dope but it couldnt be helped this wasnt a questior of theory of conventions of abstract ideas he was up against stark and real and pretty bitter facts and the chief fact the only one in deed about which as yet he could be certain was that no matter what martha had done no matter why she had done it he loved her he couldnt as he sat there imagine any con ceivable thing she could tell hirn when he saw her that would alter that he thought of tack and ruled him out without much ceremony he couldnt see where tack came in no matter how you approached this business he did after all know enough from what hes seen for him self and from what both tack and martha separately had told him to ciriie to that conclusion the things tack hd said to him that night on the roof the night hed talked about how easy it would bo to jump off hj somehow a new significance new he didnt feel that he was being dis loyal to tack in loving martha and telling her he loved her he wasnt sure indeed that he couldnt in a queer fashion count on tacks back ing and support that sounded crazy but it wasnt not if the whole mad business had any sense in it ross he scowled as he let his mind work around to ross he never had liked the chap and hed passed al most insensibly from not liking him which was a negative thing to dis liking hiniavhich was with peter al ways a very positive thing indeed he had he supposed been jealous of ross right along because he was prepared to admit to himself now that hed been in love with martha for a long time but he thought his dislike of the chap was based upon something besides jealousy he closed his eyes to evoke a sort of mental portrait of ross a hand some chap tall lean with thin deli cate features and a strong well made body with sullen dark eyes and a rather roman nose with a bad cruel mouth though and a pointed jaw of the sort that in a prizefighter makes the wise man bet on his opponent cruel hands too hands that in a woman might have been beautiful but didnt somehow belong to a man hands with greedy grasping fingers always a little bent as he sat still yet all in all peter knew it the sort of man women do love the sort of man women go mad about and always have and always will he wasnt this morning disposed certainly to underrate ross as a rival something puzzled him though rita gould what lay between ross and that tall redheaded girl some thing he thought something he didnt understand something he was ready to swear that martha too found baffling and mysterious he didnt know much about rita gould no one did you saw her around but she wasnt it seemed to peter really of the crowd he knew the crowd she was with so much he didnt know her at all well himself she disliked him as much he thought ns he disliked her she wrote peter knew hed seen her name signed to stories in one or two magazines she kved with an aunt whom no one ever saw she had certainly no back- a lesson in war pithy anecdotes of the famous parisians are now instructed in the use of gas mask at the iii- valides young and old arc shown how to combat poison fumes ground in new york she came he had heard from the south martha well there it was when all was said and done it began and ended with her no one else really mattered she and she alone held the key he got up and went back into his rqom to the telephone to be continued put africa to work french colonial slogan paris put africa to work this is the slogan of french colonial policy as the economic crisis becomes more severe the trade deficit of france proper recently reached 1000000000 francs a month officials nowjook to the colonial empire the worlds second largest for increased business to wipe out the deficit trade with the colonies has slump ed less than has trade with foreign countries thirty per cent of all french tjxports were bought by the empire in 1932 while the mother country made 10 per cent of all her purchases in possessions these percentages have mounted since the depression set in in 1929 france sold her colonies only 19 per cent of her exports instead of 30 per cent and she bought from them only 11 per cent of her purchases in stead of 19 per cent three tariffs systems prevail be tween france and her vast empire which extends to all continents and includes 61615000 persons one group is consolidated in the french tariff scheme another is on preferential basis and a third has tariff autonomy the most important colonies from a trade viewpoint are algeria mor- oecotunis equatorial africa and in- dochina algeria is frances best customer george bernard shaw incid ents an exarch duke etc one of the best stories about george bernard shaw because it shows as miss ishbel macdonald put it that you mustnt take him too seriously- has to do witi a lecture he once gave in london on socialism after the war at its conclusion gbs invited questions from the audience a man arose and said mr shaw what is your thought about these huge incomes that are i being accumulated by individuals all over the world dont you agree that no man should be allowed to retain more than one thousand pounds then 5oc0 for himself certainly not promptly respond ed shaw besides my income is more than a thousand pounds ill say it is when gbs was a little shaver and going to schcol his father remark ed to him one day more in sorrow than in anger your teacher says that you are the laziest boy in the school is that so no father replied georgie the teacher is the laziest whenever we have to work and write he sits in his chair doing nothing on another occasion young gbs said to his father dad you always tell people i am lazy but you should have heard how teacher praised me this mcrning ah thats right my boy beamed father what did he say he said there might be boys still lazier than i replied the young hope ful triumphantly shavian even then you see so you mustnt take him too seriously infuse six heaping fcaipoonfuls of salada black tea in a pint sized teapot after fix minutes strain and pour liquid into halfsailon container while hoi add a cup and a half of sugar and the juice of two lemons then fill container with cold water do not re- fiigetate as lea will turn cloudy serve as required with an ice ube in each glass fresh from the gardens brains are a commodity royal personages pos- brains and which few sess 1 myself dont possess them he frankly confesses and i was never more conscious of my lack than re cently when after i had slaved away as a small grocer in vienna for nearly a year my creditors swooped down on me and had to shut up the shop jpeaking of the budding geniuses recalls a story about anatole france the french writer who when seven years of age was listening to some of his school mates telling about their bhthdays joining the con ersntion he said i know when i was born when piped several voices at 835 in the morning proudly asserted little francois thibault i hich was anatole france real name that isnt true retorted one of them solitude society spurs on the ordinary aver age man who only gives out sparks- when rubbed against a foreign sub stance but solitude is the best en vironment for the great soul just as a bare lonely spot is the best site for a palace here surrounded by friendly dreams and imagination he develops into a being of moro unity and symmetry than if he had applied himself to practical but uncongen ial labor among men since the end of the world war many are the exroyal personages especially when hailing from central europe and russia who in the effort to earn an honest penny have had to turn their hands to all kinds of men ial jobs the recent marriage of leo pold waiting exarchduke of tuscany and former cousin of the old emper or francis joseph of austria recalls the fact that in his reminiscences my life story from archduke to grocer he says not without pride so far as i know no other reduce royal bigwig except myself has ever been a grocer my little shop was in vienna he adds and my customers were mostly working class folk who knew me for the archduke i once was this fact that an archduke had turned grocer seemed to amuse them and they always addressed me by my title each in his own special style their orders given to me over the counter still ring in my ears imperial highness give me two pints of milk or archduke be sure to keep me some fresh butter or your serene highness can you in troduce me to a good sausage but sighs the former archduke to be a successful grocer one must have japans suicide crater explored lowered 1250 feet into miharayama suicide volcano tokuzo lwata japanese scientist found the bones of a suicide one of 27 since january iwatvs descent is the most sensational of its kind from histories marseillaises by edouard ramond over a game of cards in r cafe ban- aste had a furious quarrel with his opponent in his rage he threw off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeves while the other matt did like wise x hold me back reared banaste to the onlookers or i shall do some thing terrible to him nobody moved to interfere non plussed banaste glared indignantly at the crowd what he said you dont hold people back in this cafe then george horton for over thirty years in the american consular ser vice tells some amusing stories about his experiences abroad in his book recollections grave and gay mr hortons first post was athens where in 1893 he got to know king george of greece a rather decent sort of chap one gathers the great social event at athens in those days was the kings ball a greek lady wife of a prosperous mer chant made up her mind to get into society she gave her money and support to the greek industry in due course an invitation to the royal ball was the reward there king george commended her silk efforts your majesty she said the so cicty ladies of athens should set the fashion of wearing local silk every stitch i have on is greek silk she patted her skirt and murmured greek silk she lifted it disclosing i petticoat greek silk she lifted that and revealed an other greek silk how far the demonstration would have gone speculates mr horton i do not know for the king evidently convinced fled i was once at n international din ner at a legation reminisces mr horton at which the guest of honor was an american congressman a famous raconteur he told with much detail a story of a farmer who had two sons one good and prudent the other a spendthrift on his death he left the farm to the good young man and the other brought legal action to break the will the suit lasted for years the lawyers fees eating up the property until the fences house and barns became dilapidated one evening the owner of the farm sitting on his porch and look ing out over his mortgaged fields murmured when i think of it all im some times sorry that pa died the titter that broke out among the few americans present was quickly suppressed by the look of horror on the faces of others and the remark of a seriousminded frenchman i have always understood he paid that respect for parents was not so thoroughly inculcated iin the iinds of children in america as in other countries t ernest rhys recalls in his remi niscences how when oscar wilde once met olivet schreincr author of the story of an african farm who was living in the whilechapel district of london he nskcil her why in the world she went to live in the east end i live in the east end she said because the people dont wear masks and i rejoined oscar live in tlw wtct kvi krwowy 4uv 1t leprosy germ isolated cure now a step nearer washington another step toward the conquest of leprosy has been an nounced by the leonard wood mem orial for eradication of leprosy it is the isolation and cultivation of the germ outside the body dr earle b mckinlcy dean of george washington university medi cal school and dr malcolm h soule of the university of michigan are the scientists who have succeeded in iso lating what they believe gives every evidence of being the true leprosy organism dr mckinley and dr elizabeth verder an associate in experiments still in progress at george washington also have developed a method by which fresh strains of the organism can be started at any time from lep rosy tissue not since the discovery of the chaulmoogra oil treatment ten years ago has a development in the field of leprosy been regarded by physicians as of such importance as the isola tion of the germ after sixty years of effort in 1872 a norwegian bacterio logist discovered the germ believed to be responsible for leprosy closely resembling that of tuberculosis but the mere establishment of the fact that leprosy was a germ disease was of little value in its conquest until the germ could be taken into the lab oratory and studied truth in proportion as we love truth more and victory less we shall become anxious to know what it is which leads our opponents to think as they do- we shall begin to suspect that the pertinacity of belief exhibited by them must result from a perception of something we have not perceived and we shall aim to supplement the portion of truth we have found with the portion found by them neic baby send for free booh tj- babys welfare women conduct engineering works kennington england busi ness handled solely by women workers the only engineering works lit tht world run entirely by women froir proprietor to office girl is at ken nington england not only is every employee a worn an but much of the work is niatiii facturing the engineering intention of women this unique business was started bj a woman and at no time in its historj has any man been connected with it its founder manager organizer ani the inventor of some of the product is miss a ashberry many rebuffs it was difficult to get the bushiest going she said once just aftei we had started i went to a manu facturers office for an order but was turned out with his what let womcr engineers do it not likely but 1 kept at him and he is now one of our best customers i had many rebuffs like that earlj one and for some time it looked ai though we were going to fail i had to reduce my staff of girls from font to two then the tide began to- turn and now we employ twenty girls as engineers some of the girls left offices and shops to learn engineering one was a speedway rider another was a road scout in a womens motoring organi zation the factory now makes delicate air plane parts for many of the great air companies and turned parts for ships wireless sets and domestic use a museum piece some time ago miss ashberry wat approached by the british broadcast ing corporation to make a special gramophone pickup she was given the work because the bbc thought a woman would be the best to handle it as the details were a confidential secret one model machine we made wat considered such a fine production bj the firm for which it was made thai it was presented to the science mu seum said miss ashberry among the great variety of pro ducts of the factory are razor blades motor car clutches hosiery machines patent spanners baconcutting ma chines and even a patent flytrap in vented by a woman the reporter watched girls clamber ing along shafting high in the roofs armed with grease guns others deep in the intricacies of big machines and still others quickly and efficient turning out machined parts cut ao curately to the thousandth part of ar inch new mother expectant other 1 sent for mot helpful booklet on baby care you ever awl 84 pager 1 what to do before baby come layette baby bath deep airing sunning bowel habit o weight height chart urea feeding motile feeling ialet find ing supplementary food page for baby own bio graphy write the uorden co limited vardley lloue toronto tor ellle copy jvamo lady bountiful dies aged hundred and thret the woman whom everyone loved once lovely daughter of a tasmanian sheep farmer entertaining on such s scale that her own mansion was nol large enough that was miss mary ann smith ol hove eng whose will reveals that she left a fortune of nearly a million dollars she lived to the age of 103 and aftei many years on her fathers ranch for the past 52 years dwelt alone save for her maids in her large homo in the drive hove her gentle disposition and her lavish generosity earned fame for her far be yond the seclusion of her palatial home inheriting riches from her ranchci father in her younger days miss smith delighted in giving great parties and was the centre of local society the will dated september 13 1892 provides for bequests to many insti tutions the largest being 20000 each to the church of england temperance society and the london temperance hospital a sum of 12000 is left on trust fol forming a missionary staff for visiting shepherds and other occupants of the bush in tasmania 440000000 books in record london one of the most rerqark- ablo books published by the british and foreign bible society is being re issued entitled the gospel in manj tongues it gives specimens of c65 languages in which tho society hai published some portion of the scrip ies dr kilgour the editorial super intendent remarks that philologist will find in the specimens material foi comparison of cognate or diverse forms of speech but fo tho bible society they stand for nearly f10000 000 hooks distributed all over the world during the last 128 years s did drown lose control of his car completely his wife uses it all the time icci1c to succeed one must havo the will lo succeed edouard hcrriol