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charming candid amusement with
“ About half-past twelve.”
a warm Irish appreciation.
“ You walked home?"
•'What time was this?”
"Yes.”
*T should say about half-past
“ Did you go straight up the
ten—certainly not much before and Head?"
certainly not much later.”
"Yes—exactly the way I came.”
"By what door did you go out?”
“When you were in the Spinney,
"Through the kitchen and out the did you hear any noise in the
little door in Mrs. Stow’« garage.” bushes, let us say, or among the
“Why did you go out so secret­ trees?”
ly?”
"I heard nothing."
"In order to be alone. My head
“ Don't you yourself think. Doc­
was buzzing a little with the warm tor Marden. that it's a little strange
air and I didn't want anybody to that you did not volunteer this
come with me.”
information the first time I talked
Inez H ay n es Irw in
“ Did you put on your outer with you?”
Doctor Marden smiled. “1 think
clothes?”
"Yes. I retrieved my long cape it might scent so. But what would
Copyright Irei Hiynea Irvia
and beret from the garage where you have done, Mr. O'Brien? There
was a woman involved. I didn’t
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I left them when I came in ”
know what sort of trouble I might
"Did anybody see you go out?
get her into.”
"No! Yes!" Doctor Marden re­
"Well, of course you realize,"
considered; smiled reminiscently; Patrick advanced, “that some peo­
smiled with that tender gentleness ple might say that you invented the
T H U R S D A Y — C o n tin u e d
which I might describe as my fa­ woman to save yourself.”
— 17—
vorite of his many charming ex­
Doctor Marden bowed in a polite
I kept reminding myself that pressions. "Mrs. Avery’s little
I really knew—of my own knowl- niece, Sylvia. She had gone out acquiescence. He made no com­
edge—nothing about Myron Marden into the kitchen. For some reason, ment.
"What to your best knowledge
and his granddaughter. I had ac­ none of the maids was there.”
and belief was Doctor Blaikie's
cepted them on their face value.
“Did she recognize you?”
frame of mind while you talked
I had accepted them on the ac­
“Yes. I lifted my mask.”
with him? Did you get any im­
ceptance of Ace Blaikie and Bruce
“Did she speak?”
pression?”
Hexson. But now I recalled to my­
“ Before she could say anything I
"He gave me the impression that
self how easily friendships were put my Angers to my lips and she
he was extremely happy—triumph­
made between men who were in the kept perfect silence.”
ant, definitely triumphant. I might
World war . . . out of nothing . . .
"Where did you go?” Patrick say, he breathed, he emanated tri­
out of anything . . . fleeting as a asked
next.
umph.”
whisper . . . strong as iron cables
"I
took
a little stroll,” Doctor
Patrick's thick - lashed eyelids
. . . Yet every instinct I had, ev­
ery intuition, every ounce of that Marden answered, “ through the dropped. He seemed to reflect deep­
judgment which comes from experi­ meadow which stretches between ly. “Well, I guess that will be
ence of the world kept telling me, Mrs. Stow’s and Mrs. Avery's all," he said. "Wait a moment
though. I'm the poorest hand in
kept shouting to me that these two house.”
“ You were in costume, Doctor the world at remembering figures.”
were everyting I thought they were.
That last feeling arose so strong­ Marden. Did your walk injure it— He reached into his waistcoat pock­
ly in me when Myron Marden soon I mean, dew, vines, weeds, etc.?” et, brought out the little red leath­
“There's a very pleasant little er notebook. "I'd like to take down
entered the room that again the
tears pricked for a salty instant in path between the two places,” Doc­ the hours as you remember them—
my eyes. He came immediately tor Marden informed Patrick po­ of your arrival and departures
from the Stow house.”
ovet to my chair, bowed in his court­ litely.
I had a feeling that I was watch­
ly continental way over my hand,
He reached into one pocket and
turned with a “Good morning, Mr. ing the preliminaries to a duel of then another, another and another.
two
skilled
fencers.
O'Brien!” to Patrick.
'I cannot keep a pencil!” he mut-
T went through the opening in tered.
1 had not seen him since the fu­
I moved in the direction of my
neral. I noted how pale and tired the hedge, across Mrs. Avery’s
he was then. This day he looked drive, across the lawn in front of | desk. Before I could reach it how­
her gardens and onto the path lead­ ever, Doctor Marden had offered
ravaged.
“Won’t you sit down?” 1 asked. ing to what Mrs. Avery calls the Patrick a fountain pen. Patrick
Doctor Marden did not sit down. Spinney.”
busied himself a moment or two
He stood—his whole graceful easy
“Did you see anybody on the writing, handed the pen back.
length subtly emanating question— place or on the road?
“Thank you very much, Doctor
and looked at Patrick.
Nobody.”
Marden. I won’t detain you any
“Go on!”
longer.”
Patrick, who had risen as he en­
“I walked into the Spinney. As I
“Oh by the way. Doctor Mar­
tered and was still standing, steadi­
ly returned that gaze. Rarely have entered I heard voices.” He paused den—” Patrick reached into his
I seen a greater contrast in men. politely. “ Does this interest you,
Marden exuded that unanalyzable Mr. O’Brien?"
suggestion, alien in manner and
"Very much. Whose voices were
clothes, which expatriates so often they?”
acquire unconsciously; his deep
“There were two voices. One
dark coloring; his distinguished, ir­ was a woman's. I did not recog­
regular aquilinity; Patrick with his nize it. The other was a man's
perfect athlete’s figure, so light in Doctor Blaikie’s.”
pose, so perfect in poise and bal­
"Did you hear what they said?”
ance, his sun-shot Irish coloring,
“I heard nothing!”
his regular Celtic features.
“ But as you got nearer-----"
Patrick explained, “I want to ask
“When I realized that there was a
you some questions, Doctor Mar­ tete-a-tete going on in the Spinney,
den. I ventured to suggest that I stopped, started to turn back but
you come here as I have been us­ the voices stopped and I heard
ing Mrs. Avery’s home as a sort of footsteps retreating. I waited a
annex to the police station. It minute and kept on until I came
makes the whole business a little across Doctor Blaikie.”
less unpleasant and we have no
“ You did not see the lady at all?”
kibitzers. You realize that more
“No.”
evidence in this Blaikie case comes
spoke with Doctor Blaikie
in from time to time. Then we of “You
course.”
have to go over what everybody
“Yes—for several minutes.”
else has said and check up. I
“And then you went on?”
wanted to ask you a few more
“ Yes.”
questions in regard to Mrs. Stow’s
“Was your conversation a long
masquerade.”
one?”
“Quite!” Doctor Marden assent­
“A very brief one.”
ed. He sat down.
“What was the nature of your
“I must tell you. Doctor Mar­
den,” Patrick added, thrusting his talk?”
“It’s one of those talks that you
keenest glance acruss the space
between them, “that in case of sus­ can’t reproduce because really
picion being turned upon you, any- nothing was said. I knew that a
thing you say here may be’ held | }®?y
just
the Spinney. I
‘D o You Recognize That?”
against you and that there is a think he knew I knew that. I don’t
know whether he was embarrassed
witness present.”
Doctor Marden made a depreca­ or not. I was a little conscious of pocket again “—do you recognize
tory gesture outward of his long, the situation. I think I told him that?”
Doctor Marden answered instant­
slender hands. “Ask me anything that I’d come out because the house
you want, Mr. O’Brien. I shall was so warm and that I wanted to ly, “ Yes.”
“Does it belong to you?”
avail myself of your suggestion and | srn°ke
"Yes.”
“Had you lighted a cigar yet?
“When did you last see it?”
“No. But I told Doctor Blaikie
The last time I noticed it was
I became conscious of mounting that I was going back to the
excitement. Everybody else who house and I asked him to join me when 1 Put °n my slippers to go
had submitted to Patrick’s inter- | in a smoke.”
| to the masquerade. It’s one of a
rogatories under my roof—Sarah
pair of old paste buckles that I
“What did he say to that?
Darbe, Bessie Williams, Molly
“He said no; that he was re- bought some years ago in Paris.
I lost it that night.”
Eames, Walter Treadway, Marga- turning at once to the dance.’
“Had you any idea where you
ret Fairweather—had said in effect:
“Did you go after that?”
“ Ask me anything you want. I
“As I remember, that was my ‘os‘ *^?
thought it must have dropped
«hall tell the whole truth.”
last remark.”
I “I thoi
Perhaps Doctor Marden felt that
“ You left Doctor Blaikie in the off in that walk I took. It seems to
he had made a false step; for he Spinney?”
me that had it been lost in the
immediately added, “I have no an­
house, I would have noticed it.”
“ Yes.”
ticipation that you will ask me any
“Did you make any attempt to
Had he turned—had he started
find it?”
question that I shall not prefer to to leave the Spinney?”
answer fully.”
| “No."
Yes. I got up very early Sun-
“ Doctor Marden,” Patrick began,
“By what path did you go out day morning and went over the
at what time did you go to the from the Spinney?
road I took, to see if I could find
m asquerade?”
“I continued along the path that
“Somewhere between half-past
___ runs beside
___ ___
__
_____
Mrs. ___
Avery’s ____
Little
“ Don’t _ you
think that that might
nine and ten,” Doctor Marden an- I House; then up onto th ero a d and I l°°k suspicious?”
swered.
then back to the Stows’
“Perhaps. But I suppose I would
“ How did you get there? By
“ Did you smoke on the way also think that whether it looked
c a r?”
back?”
suspicious or not would depend on
“ No. It was such a beautiful
my standing in the community—
“ Yes—one cigarette.”
night and as there is only concrete
“Did you meet anybody else on my reputation for decency and hon­
road between our house and the the way back?”
or. I am perfectly willing to ad­
Stow house, my granddaughter
"No.”
mit that I didn't want to be in­
suggested that we walk. Besides
“How did you enter the house?” volved as a witness in this case.
she thought that there might be
“ By the garage door—as I left Naturally I did not want to get into
some difficulty in parking.”
it.”
it. Moreover, the buckle is an ex-
“ What time did you get home?
“Did you leave your cape and tremely valuable one. It is part
T left earlier than my grand- cap there?”
of a set and although that was
daughter. Half-past twelve I should
Yes.”
not, in view of the great tragedy,
say .”
Did anybody see you come in?” of momentous importance, it was
“ Doctor Marden, between the
I think nobody noticed it; for of some importance.”
time you arrived and the time you the reason that the kitchen was full
“Well,” Patrick decided, "I guess
went home, did you leave the Stow | of masks. They had come out, that will be all.”
house?"
I think, for water. There had been
Doctor Marden arose. He bowed
Doctor Marden answered instant­ plenty of punch about, but no wa- to Patrick; came over to my side;
ly, “ Yes.”
ter and apparently a big group bent ' " low over my - hand.
- —
“Dear
“ Why did you leave it?”
had suddenly invaded the kitchen. lady,” he said, “I cannot tell you
Well, for no reason or several, Nobody paid any attention to me how much I think of you in these
just as you choose. I am not much and I went back to the dance.”
distressing days.”
of a dancing man, Mr. O’Brien, and
"You were there then at the un­
Something in his voice brought
after I'd been there about an hour, masking?”
the tears to my eyes again. Then
I began to find it very hot and also
“ Yes.”
with his quick, light step, he started
I wanted a smoke.”
“And what time did you say you to go
He smiled and Patrick met his went home?”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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T h u rs d a y, M a y 13, 1937
Items of Interest
AROUND
>h. HOUSE
Outer Leaves of I.ettuee—The
outer leaves of lettuce, often
trimmed off and thrown away, are
more than 30 times as rich in
vitamin A as the inside leaves.
•
•
e
Hanging Pictures—Never allow
picture frames to touch the wall
if it is dump. The frame will soon
become damaged. With u small
tack or gramophone needle, at­
tach two small corks at the bot­
tom of your frame. These will
keep the frame off the wall.
• • •
Removing Mustard Stains —
Mustard stains can be removed
from table linen by washing in hot
water and soap and rinsing in
warm water.
"Quotations"
--V--
the Housewife
pinch of salt, put the beef and wa­
ter in a glass jar and stand it on
ice, over night. Shake and strain
it through coarse muslin, squeez­
ing hard to obtain all the juice.
• • *
Butter Layer Cake—When rasp­
berry jam that is not of firm con­
sistency is to be used for filling a
sponge sandwich cake it is ad­
visable to butter the inner surfnce
of each layer before spreading it
with jam. This will prevent the
moisture from soaking into the
cake and making it sodden.
• • *
Soaking Salt Fish—When soak­
ing salt fish add u small glass of
vinegar to the soaking water and
it will draw out more of the suit.
Let inc nul furgrt that the power
«ml Joy of sacrifirp grow upon I hasp
who rxorslse it. Pure passions grow
as well
dark ones. IN. 7 . I.
U'olkin«»).
Ttiia thing that we rail “failure’’ la
not the falling down, l i n t the »laying
down. Mary f*irfc/<>r<L
Villago linpi ovcniml la the only
foundation on which conditions in
India ran ho |>erinanrntly amelio­
rated. IfuAiitmu Gandhi,
Human heinga feel bon d hl thia
mechanical world whirh they them-
•elves Treated hy mean« of brains
and hand a,—D r. f/e« n (,'arref.
Aa once we put an and Io »lavery,
ao now we must atop war or war
w ill dealroy ua. XAsruvMxf Addy.
Americans are hrroniing loo civl-
liaed too much like the effete Euro­
pean». I>r jamas Munhall.
r
Roiled Whitefish—Clean a white-
fish. To sufficient water to cover
add salt and vinegar and a bunch
of parsley and a quartered onion.
Cook until the flesh separates eas­
ily from the bones. Drain and
pluce on n hot platter, garnished
with parsley and serve with a
sauce.
• • •
Beef Juice—To make beef juice
add 1 pound of fresh, raw, finely
chopped round steak without fat
to 6 ounces of cold water. Add a
Washing Windows—Add a little
IT S NO
starch to the water used for wash­
EFFO
RT
ing windows. It not only helps re­
TO
KEEP
move the dirt, but gives a lasting
polish.
FURNITURE
• • •
BEAUTIFUL
Tomato and Lima Bean Casse­
WITH
role—Drain the liquid from a No.
2 can of green buby limn beans
und combine the beans with a can O-CEDAR
P O LIS H / IT'S
of tomatoes. Add a little butter
and seasoning, then mix. Place
SO QUICK AND
in buttered casserole. Cover.
• • •
EASY TO USE
With Fancywork—Before start­
ing to draw the threads on linen
Foreign Words
for hemstitching, wet a small
and Phrases
brush, rub it over a bar of soap
until a lather is produced, scrub
Filius nulhus. (L.) The son of the threads of linen that you wish
nobody illegitimate.
to draw, and they will pull out
Rus in urbe. (L.) The country easily.
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in town.
Sub judice. (L.) Under consid­
eration.
Sturm und drang. (Ger.) Storm
and stress.
Villegiatura. (It.) A summer
vacation.
Belles-lettres. (F.) Refined lit­
erature.
through A n Anle of Isles, tha Land-lotIced
Cause celebre. (F.) A court
InaiJa Passage, with calls i t Ketchikan, Peter>
trial of wide popular interest.
burg, W ra n g e ll, Juneau and S itka. M o d e rn ,
Creme de la creme. (F.) The
yaeht-lik* enure stupa witli «very comfort and
pink of perfection.
convenient», Sailing» from Seattle 10 a m. every
Dies infaustus. (L.) An unlucky
Friday, M a y to September inclusive. W r ite
day.
»
today foe illustrated, fu lly descriptive folders.
Pioupiou. (F.) A private sol­
It ’» a vacation you’ll never re g re t-o r foegrtl
dier; the French "Tommy At­
kins.”
RTHIAMD TRANSPORTATION CQ
Pro forma. (L.) For the sake of
form.
Sui juris. (L.) In one’s own
right.
VACATION
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EVERYWHERE
1 LOOK I SEE
JOY AND
; happiness !
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1 WORK HARD V 'W E L L -— IF YOU’D DO
ALL CAY— LIE
AS THE DOCTOR SAID,
A W AK E A L L
TbU’D NOT ONLY SLEEP
N IG H T --A N D A L L
SETTER, BUT YOU'D
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BE A WHOLE LOT
UP MORE WORK A
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FO R M E'
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SEEN SLEEPING W ELL-- BUT
's.W H A T DO YOU CARE?
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