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t manhattan night j hfflia afaonjiw synopsis the door was ung open suddenly tack thayer rt vayms colles connolly stood looking at them his mate at yale lay muerei la ms ift- ey as they met peters were almost house apartment in kast fifties his j t u i wife martha was iene questioned by sad in their ironic satisfaction behind v i irict him loomed the gross bulk of charley inspector connois hd asst distric attorney uarclay ja ieter waited out ide anxious fo yarlha peter ran i v into tack in kmmas night club and met i corner of his mouth martha for the hrtl time before he 1 t i wi realized it he had fallen in love with i eter stared dla a late dinner at the iantoinas club whe tack who had been drinking heavily as usual ame in he was prevented from beating hoss ul and then left as peter recalled this connolly came out and af tor prolonged questioning asked ieter if he could tell anything that might lead lo the murderer shapter xiii peter did take time to think over his answer and that not only because connolly had asked him to murder murder was not a thing to be dealt with lightly and while he didnt think so he couldnt be sure that he didnt in fact possess knowledge that might be of some significance that tome seemingly trivial bit of the in formation that he more than any one else he knew had concerning tack and martha and their tangled ctrnngely hysterical lives didnt have pome bearing on this tragedy but ihen slowly he shook his head no he said no inspector i dont believe i do i cant imagine any motive any one would have for killing tack thayer he had no ene mies that ive ever heard of enemies said connolly thats a queer word to be coming into your mind surely mr wayne its seldom bn enemy does a killing leaving out the mess prohibitions let us in for he rose slowly stood a moment looking down at peter until peter loo got up and stretched himself in the chilly dawn he was stiff it had been colder than he had realized sit ting there so long once again the elevator came up and a uniformed policeman stepped out and approached connolly ounuiiy v its them reporters inspector he stared at hi said theyre raisin hell about bein kept downstairs are they so arc they so now said connolly its sore my heart ue is to be hearing it tell them ill be guess you wont be going so far that down vcsently or ir tne like cant get to see you and talk to can go over to the house and wait you when theres need where theres a nice fire and the desk no she said slowly sergeant for them to be swapping lies was coming in great gasps no with but tell them weve no room but i dont i dont know where to for them up here obrien go she shuddered a hotel i he smiled again at peter then at couldnt go to a hotel peter what b sound he turned to the door of the shall i do where shall i go penthouse in which barclay appear u he wast his dead cigar still pendent in one rner of his mouth rauiwd it hehad fallen in love with peter stared blankly at connolly her martha hu vsnfessed she was in i and charley as they stocd in the door love with evan lloss beltv itokers t id i a peter that martha and itoss were having the smoke from the flashlight still jjjyinj about them something about the way charley looked at him puz zled him there was a curious almost a friendly gleam in the big detectives eyes they were going to arrest martha peter supposed she had in fected him with her terror and he stood quite still his arm about her as i no matter what they tried to do o her he would protect her jiis mouth was very dry he tried to say something but h ooutiit it war connolly who spoke and his voice was gentle friendly even cheerful im afraid the flashlight seared you mrs thayer he said im sorry it slipped my niird o tell you to that youd be ready for it but that wasnt true peter knew it wasnt true this big whitehaired policeman forgot nothing except by j design except because it suited his purpose to forget hed meant martha j and peter to be startled he had calj culated the eitect of that explosion i and peter supposed he had got what i he wanted from it you see we have to take pictures before while every things the way it was when we came i martha was growing tense why didnt the man get on with it now connollys voice was still gentle now you can stay here if you please mrs thayer but im thinking youd be better off at some friends house or a hotel maybe well have to be in and out and therell be the newspaper men wed do all we could to keep them off you but he shrugged his shoulders martha you mean i can go if i please you wont stop me stop you now what would we be stopping you for mrs thayer rd the assistant district attorney rame out nodding absentmindedly to etcr i- johnsonll have a preliminary report for us in a few minutes in spector he said mr wayne mrs thayer is ready to see you now i think youll find ler in the dining room he shuddered faintly the medical examiner is busy in the liv ing room peter went in martha was sitting at the table she raised her head and looked at him as he came in they think i did it i think theyre koing to arrest me peter she said in a quiet lifeless voice he dared not show his feelings rot 1 said peter they know ytry well you didnt do it and he told her about the search for the re volver but she shook her head i know she said i dont mean they think i actually fired the shot they think evan did that and ind that i helped him that im what they call an accessory if they do theyre crazy said ieter hotly of course said martha peter you you know evan didnt do it iont you he didnt even come up stairs with me when he brought me home 1 never let him just just be muse he and tack oh and tonight pf all nights she gt up and came around the inble and put her hands on peters thoulders peter she said im afraid im terrily afraid ive never been really afraid before in all my life iv ir in the next room there was an ex plosion and a cloud of pungent smoke tame creeping through the interstices of the closed door martha screamed and peters arm closed about her in stinctively it was the first time that hi- had ever embraced her steady darling he said they must have used a flashlight they ibey always take pictures ive heard oh oh i didnt know she said bhe clung to him sobbing 1 didnt know for sale blacksmith shop located in toronto j complete equipment two forties pnsumatlc hammer and cutter drills lathe and a very complete stock of tools will sell as a floing concern with favorable lease or will sell machinery separately en bloc or piecemeal h watkins 73 west adelaide st toronto lets see he said he was trying to think your mothers awav isnt die yes shes in california and fathers south sos mary young or i could go to her i i know said peter ill get hold of my sister shes got loads of room and shed love to have you but peter i scarcely know her forgot it shes a good egg ill call her up right now leave it to me you start packing a bag he went out into the hall to tele phone it was about half past six he hadnt had an idea until he looked at his watch of the time it took him some time to get carol at all and then he had to wait while she woke up but once she understood she was all quick helpful sympathy the poor child how dreadful she said of course bring ler over right away peter ill have every thing ready so that she can go right to bed peter went back into marthas bed room then and helped her vaguely to got what she needed together it was a shock to come upon things of tacks a pair of riding boots a white waistcoat that had fallen to the floor cf a closet martha had pulled her self together she was beginning to tlink of things that had to be done a cable must he sent to tacks mo ther lawyers and his office must be notified telegrams ought to go if only for forms sake o her people i suppose theyll want to know if im going to be arrested she said not that theyll o anything they never have when i needed them sna out of it said peter ill attend to all that and youre not going to be arrested jet that idea but of your head she gave him a forlorn smile you werent in here when they were talking to me she said i know now how a mouse feels when a cats playing with it after its caught it before it eats it youre all wet abvut that said peter stop thinking that way or youll put the idea in their thick heads iook here you didnt have anything to do with this business remember that theyve got to have some evidence before they arrest any one and they havent any against you you can put it up to stevo went- worth later hes a good scout and a good lawyer if he is my brother-in- law and hell tell you quit worry ing and come along they went out into the hall char ley was waiting for them hold it a minute he said the inspectors gone on down to draw off the newspaper gang ill get you through any that arc still hanging around downstairs obriens going to call up on the house phone when its all clear ieter had to admit e- the skill and precision with which marthas fllitbt was arranged the- houje phone buzzed and in a minute axel came up for them in the car martha and peter hung back while charley step ped out go west give him the address later called chawey good luck they were off with two or three yojng men running after them shout ing angrily peter laughed that bit of action was exactly what he had needed the cab turned up second ave turned west again block north and petei knocked on the win dow then and gave the driver car ols address to be continued english mystery writer delves into arab love london miss agatha christie the novelist has just arrived hack in eng land after an adventure as romantic as anything in her own novels for six months she has been living in an arabs house in the mesopotam- lan desert with her husband m e mnllowan ami other members of the british museum expedition to tal ar- pachiyah near nineveh here she fas been helping to unearth clues to a lost prehistoric civilization the discoveries made by miss christie and her husband throw light on the mode of life customs and re ligions rites of a people who lived at leasf 7000 years ago centuries be fore the rise ot ur finds made in her excavations miss christie said include mud and brick houses clustered round a central court pottery of egg shell thinness decorated in bright black and red paints in geometric de signs and shapes which compare with the finest work of classical greece marble pendant of an oxs head of ex quisite workmanship tiny terracotta figures of goddesses whose painted clothing is suspended by braces jew ellery including amulets and beads a circular grainary containing wheat thousands ot years old it was exciting work miss christie declares my job was to clean the finds and you can imagine the thrill of nibbing away dust and dirt to find say an amulet worn 7000 years ago i was also in charge of the photo graphic work and in addition acted as chief cook and washerup shortly the finds will be on view in the british museum remember your pets advises the montreal daily star the annual appeal of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals u householders who are spending the summer in the country to remember their pets merits wide publicity every yea there is a pitiful record of dogs and eats and birds having been left behind in closed houses to starve to death it is incredible that anybody with decent instincts would do this in tentionally of course it is due to forgetfulness and it is with the ex press intention of reminding those liable to forget that the spca calls attention to the fact that in all cases where people find they cannot take their pets with them the society will undertake either to call for them or to receive them at its headquarters and give them a swift and painless end the society has authority to enter closed houses where pets have been left behind but its appeal is to the humanitarian instinct of all who keep dogs cats or birds in their homes it is an appeal that ought not to go unheeded in a single instance queer things in rockefeller centre six hundred members of the new york electrical society recently in spected the 850foot central building of rockefeller centre from lobby to roof they investigated there some of the curious scientific anomalies resulting from its great size and height to quote a statement issued by the society one of the experiments while the party was on the roof 850 feet above the street included the dropping of a plummet down an elevator shaft to show that a body falling from this great height does not fall straight downward that is does not follow a plumbline but because of the earths rotation is carried about five and one- third inches to the eastward toward fifth avenue by the time it reaches the ground also it was revealed that mr john d rockefeller in his new offices on the upper floors of the seventystory structure will have the experience of traveling more than a mile farther each day as the earth rotates com pared with his daily rotation in the former offices nearer the ground ac cording to figures computed by a light ning calculator in the party the electriceyes which control the elevator doors in the building came in for careful examination while the large crowd of science visitors was being whisked aloft at 1200 feet per minute one fat lady in the party unconsciously protruded slightly across the elevator causing an eclipse of the electric eye on guard instant ly this electric automaton took con trol of the situation reopened the ele vator doors and blocked the elevator from moving until the fat lady could be gotten back within bounds fifty- eight elevators in the rockefeller centre group are being equipped with these eleetriceye safety features number of ash blonde babies is increasing twice as many blonde babies are being born in britain now as there were ten years ago doctors say that modern develop ments in the diet and habits of their mothers are responsible if the babies were 20 years older they would be called ash blondes a siiade extremely race only a few years ago now one has only to walk through any park to see dozens of children with hair of the fashionable shade the reporter recently counted 15 in a minute and a half as a harley street doctor explain ed a diet ot fresh vegetables and salads with a fair supply of meat contains those ingredients which might be expected to lead to fair hair and skin fresh air and exercise may also affect the coloring of children in directly by making the parents more healthy we are going back to the appearance of our viking ancestors tending graves new occupation for women bride broder writing in the to ronto mail and empire says one of our correspondents writes in these days when women arc look ing for means whereby they may earn the odd dollar it struck me that many more might elo as one woman i know- has done she has offered to care for the graves in b country churchyard placing fresh flowers there each week it seems a reasonable occupation for a woman in the quiet country places and i am sure there are many people living in cities who would be glad to contribute something towards keep ing the family plot in the little church yard tidy and beautiful of course this brings one i know to the proper upkeep of cemeteries but at all events i thought youd be interested in what seems to be a new occupation for women if this suggestion were generally adopted many country churchyards a tangled but lovely garden of natures own planting would be saved from those devastating onslaughts known as clearing up the cemetery too often the bonnie brier bush at the head of the grave has been torn up and an aluminumtinted tin affair of some kind bearing the word fathsr or darling planted in its place the tree that cast a grateful shade or held a nest of robins in its hair has been cut down the blueflowered peri winkle that clothed the grass in rich luxuriant green has been torn up were a woman to have individual res ponsibility these wellmeant errors might be avoided the chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us and in prudently cultivating our under growth of small pleasures since very few great ones alas arc let on long leases sharp the bliss of the drunkard is a vis ible picture of the expectation of the dying atheist who hopes no more than to lie down in the grave with the beasts that perish jane porter soviets new oil gusher a bullfighters farewell senoritas in mantillas and high- backed combs applauded frantically the other day as spains most daring bullfighter twice wounded was car ried about the ring shoulderhigh after killing two bulls in his farewell performance when it came time to cut off his pigtail in token of his retirement the crowd protesteel so loudly that the pigtail stays on it is getting gray and its owner mafias lara whom all spaniards know as larita is growing stout retirement costs him a struggle however for the jport has afforded his own burning interest in life and the auckland new zealand weekly news tells us as a lad he played with boys of his own age at bullfighting in the streets using any reel rag that come to hand while one of his comrades with a pair of horns snorted and charged like a bull when still a youth larita dis- j played his prowess by jumping into the ring in the course of a bullfight and playing the bull like a finished torero amid the frantic applause of the people for the bullfighting jhiblic loves and encourages a fearless and promising suicide as these youthful aspirants are called from that day onward laritas progress was a triumph he soon be came a novillero or fighter of young bulls and his utter contempt of dan ger hairbreadth escapes and wounds won for him the enthusiastic admira tion of the spectators larita might have been the great est bullfighter in spain had he not elected to sacrifice art not only to courage but to a certain childish clownishness which pleased the gal lery hut was severely condemned by connoiseurs of the art as being un dignified so that today belmonte reigns supreme as master of the art nino de la palma as the most grace ful and larita as the most fearless hullfighter a view showing the great rush of oil gushing from the new well at iockhatan in soviet russia much of the precious fluid was lost because drillers were unprepared for such a trinendous spurt kreuger inquiry reports complete in 8000 pages stockholm after fourteen months work by the stockholm police the criminal investigation of the affairs of ivar kreuger has been completed the results are embodied in fifty re ports the equivalent of an 8000page bjok more than fifty persons have been formally prosecuted and of these twenty have been sentenced many new points of law have been raised during the investigation espe cially as regards swindling of the general public and responsibility of directors of a company for false book keeping k g a samistrom proscctiirg at torney has announced his intention of seeking changes in some ot the prevailing laws there is virtue in country houses in gardens and orchards in fields streams and groves in rustic recrea tions and plain manners that neither cilice nor universities enjoy alcotl sound cooks egg it has been only a short time since it as announced that intense sounds both audible and supersonic could kill bacteria in milk water fruit juices and other liquids at the cur rent science convention in chicago drs e w flosdorf and l a cham bers of the school of medicine at the university of pennsylvania ljve con tinued this work and sought an answer to this simple question if these sounds can kill bacteria what chemical changes will they produce in the li quids that contain the organisms in milk for example will sounds change the chemical nature of the desirable proteins sugars and fats for proteins the pennsylvania sci entists found that intense sounds in their apparatus will strt coagulation instantly a hens egg treated in this fashion for a few minutes at room temperature appears to have been softboiled they found also that acetic acid the acid of ordinary vinegar could be pro duced from ethyl acetate when expos ed to intense sound waves ethyl acetate is a substance which is chemic ally somcwhat similar to fats they were able to crack vegetable oils to produce acetylene gas and other sub- stances like investigators working in the supersonic range they were able to turn glucose or grape sugar into starch in small amounts most interesting perhaps were stu dies of water solution in the ordinary table salt here the dissolved oxygen yielded free chlorine gas in solution since some salt is present in milk it might te possible that this free chlor ine is the agent which kill the bac teria flosdorf and chambers do not think so however since a quantity of chlorine sufficient to kill bacteria can not he liberated in the short space of time in which the intense audible pen etrates the milk they belie e rather that it is the change in the protein of the bacteria which results in their instant death although chemical changes can be produced in milk with prolonged sound treatment the physicians regard these effects as insignificant considering the short length of time necessary to kill bacteria the coagulation of the pro teins might be expected to make the milk even more digestible than before there is nothing unusual in these reactions since all of them can be pro duced by other iieans in fact say flosdorf and chambers we believe that all of these chemical effects may be an acceleration entirely due to a nomentary kinetic effect on the mole cules such as is produced by high temperature a good hint to inventors m you cant aliy yourself try y eagle brand if cminile- thousand of health j happy bahiet ha been reareil po on ka liranl durlnfl the jr- 1 y revenlyiive yearn yoi tltl cnl mr liliielkuklel welfare full of iluahle mnlit uo luly cure write for it ue coupon below the oonlen i fjmlte1 yanllejr home toronio gentlemen hrae neml me free copy uf buuucl enllllei llabya welfare amo add re it wmmmmm dont try to devise a machine that will imitate mans motions human motions are reciprocating on to and fro most machines hav rotating parts mans legs move in steps th wheels of an auto or a train go ioun and round this is the editorial advice of s writer in roads and streets chi cago he says in the shop of an old inventoi with wlom the writer worked for t time there hung this motto what the hand does a machine can do per haps the motto expresses undue faitl in machinery but it is the sort o faith that inventors should have this old inventor ross by name was wont to add but dont let your machine imitate the hand he went on to explain that the fingers anc the arms are levers that move back and forth their motion is a recipro cating notion whereas rotary motion k the most effective in machinery for example he said a carpet- sweeper has a rotary broom whereas a broom wieldeel by the arm moves back and forth at times there appears to be no substitute for the intelligence that guides the hand says the writer thus in separating diamonds from their blue ground matrix only the hand guided by the eye was effective until one day a man chanced to observe that a diamond that fell upon a thin layer of grease adhered strongly to it strangely enough neither quarts nor any other common mineral seem ed to adhere so strongly to grease when the blue ground containing diamonds was washed down an in clined table coated with grease only the diamond were checked and held by the grease here again was no imitation of the human hand and eye he goes on until men invented boats the legs were their only means of transporta tion either their own legs or those of animals legs like arms operate back and forth had some early in ventor attempted to produce a trans port machine having legs he would have failed the first transport machine was probably either a floating log or a rolling log the former being the pro genitor of the boat the latter of the twowheeled cart or the wheelbarrow in the case of the wheelbarrow we have reciprocating legs replaced by a revolving wheel this was mechanically efficient because the load was not lifted inter mittently a walking man lifts his weight tvery step it became econ omically efficient not only for that reason but because men- or animals could haul much greater loads than they could carry the wheel and axle is mans first great mechanical invention with tha possible exception of the bow and ar row in the wheel we see no imita tion of the legs in the bow we sea no imitation of the arm for the arm docs not hurl a spear by virtue of energy stored up in a spring when man successfully rivaled the birds it was not by imitating the up and down motion of their wings but by using planes driven by a rotating propeller these examples serve to indicate the wisdom of avoiding a servile imi tation of the jperation of the arm or leg or wing on the other hand there have been many occasions when close imitation of nature has led to success ful invention issue no 28 33 countess szechenyi marries american london one of the most fashion able weddings of the june season was that of countess cornelia szechenyi 21 daughter of the new hungarian lister to croat britain count laslo szechenyi and eugene bcwic roberts of maryland at the roman catholic church of our lady of as sumption a notable gathering of london so ciety including several ambassadors and their wives the united statca envoy robert w bingham and mrs bingham among them titlcndud the ttedding roberts is a son of mrs kugcne roberts of prince george conrity maryland the couple left for a honeymoon on the continent before proceed iny to the united slates to live striking costumes worn at lorjchamp3 lorigchaiiiis france rd- ot para dise aigrettes and monkey fur frm- nied the- most sli iking eesliimos worn at the running for the grand prix pre dicting tlib possible return die vogue of elegance the largo black velvet hat rimmed with black birds of paiailfs was wcrsi with black gloves a black frock arid ft beige coat black suede glove cufled ivth blpek monkey fur from wrs elbow an a black monkey fur coat wcic worn vwi a pale biie crepe frock kigiiiy monks liavo left rangoon to convert iho peoples of europe to bad- dbsrh they will vcw robes made ol rags cat only oncia day and sleep hlways in ihu opc during their mis- kicu