The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1922, Page 4

peal PAGE FOUR TEE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE . Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D,, as Second Class Matter, GEORGE D, MANN Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. A/PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PS a The Associated Press is exclusive- ly entitled to the use or republi- cation, of all nows dispatches cre- dtted to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and also the local news published herein. All’ rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved, —<—<$<$<$<$ $< <—<— <_< << MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION x “PAYABLE IN ADVANCE rrier, per year... .$7.20 ail, per year (in Bis- S . per ‘year’ (in site outside Bismarck)... hy mail, outside of Nort! ota a h Dak 6.00 “THE STATE ST NEWS- PAPER (Established 1873) FOR EDUCATION, NOT REGULA- TION many years there has been a tendency to create state regula- tory and enforcement offices far re- moved from the jurisdiction of the officers elected by the people and constitutionally charged with the enforcement and administration of the laws of the state. By a nib- s not only has much responsibility been taken away from elective officers so that they reise little power in the state government, for which purpose we go through the expense and fuss of an “election every two years, but many departments and positions e been removed from the or- dained. seat of the state govern- ment. A court decision resulted in the rain. grading and Inspection de- tment of the state being trans- ferred from the Agricuftaral Col- lege to the capital of the state and put under the jurisdiction of the board of railroad commissioners, the members of which are elected For gr by and directly responsible to the | Petitions for! peoplescf the state. an initiated law to be voted on in Novétiber have been. filed, which provides that the grain grading and inspection department shall again! he docated at the Agricultural Col- lege in.Fargo and be virtually an autonomoug and powerful branch of.the government. Phere is no more necessity for the grain inspection work being deng, at the Agricultural College than there is for the establishment oi artificial ice plants.at the north, pole. ho Agr an educational institution, and the people of the state pay, taxes for its'support as such., It properly shal] serve the state by lending the technical knowledge of its~profes-' sorg. The short experienée of the grain igrading department “of” the! board of railroad: commissioners operating as a branch of*the rail- rozd commission here has demon- strated quite arly that the work can well be carried on here and that the Agricultural College is yaluable only as an agency to fur- nish technical information needed at times. Dr. John Lee Coulter, president of the’ Agricultural Col- ‘Jege, has very properly urged that the entire regulatory division of the college ba trarfsferred from there to Bismarck, the seat of the state government, The business of the Ag tural College is that of education and the business of the uls and departments in Bis- marck is that of enforcement and administration of the law. Mosquitoes bite us only as a last resort—when they are unable to find any other kind of prey. You may doubt this, but it comes from the man who is supposed to, know more about mosquitoes than anyone else’ in the worlds He is Dr. W. Rudolfs, scientist on the spayrott.of New.Jersey. Rudolfsinvestigattions show that a nyosquito will: pass Up a human any day for a horse, cow, dog, rab- bitgsany. kind of animal. life except chickens and ducks. Just why they steer clear of fowls is unknown. Wien once finds out, it may open thé door to immunization of the man-animal against the singing, stfhging demons. You have swatted a mosquito and fotnd it full of blood, About 9 out of 10 times, says Rudolfs, the blGod is from an animal. The mosquito the universal pést. It is found in all parts of the werld. Stefansson, sdys there are more of them in northern Greenland than in the eqiatorial jungles, Here's a riddle of nature. The mgsquito never feeds when the at~ mosphere’s humidity is under 40. It appetite goes up with the bar- onfeter. he mosquito is a biting fly. h&iches from eggs laid in stagnant water. Its life usually is only a fw months. Some kinds, however, live all summer. Others hibernate through the winter, in worm stage, aml cmerge in spring from ice in which they have been frozen solid. With vitality like that, no wonder they are so hard to exterminate. oi “The song of th man ear—is a sort of lung 0) aerial police. 4 tor: cultural College is} the explorer,| It) ie mosquito—sad- agst music that ever reached hu- and ‘ana along’ the shores of fishing pools, by, millions. Tho mosquito, however, is not an | explorer, He might fly a few miles | in a season, but generally he} haunts the old homestead where he first tried out his wings. | Man never will be able to ex-/ terminate the mosquito. But we ! | ties and open places in the coun- \try. Al that's needed is to prevent | stagnant water, A rusty old tin can with a little stale water in it ill breed more mosquitoes. than | ny one person can swat in a life-| time. That's your cue. | | | CROOKS Flying smugglers bring strong) liquor. into Texas from Mexico Prohibition agents scowl but are! jhelpless as the rum-runners look; ‘down from their airplanes and give | ‘them the horse-laugh, | The day is not far off when the/ ying machine will be widely used | criminals, One thrill that is in| store for you will be watching gun | battles between flying. crooks and =a == — i CIGARS | The five-cent cigar is coming; back after Jong~ absence. Sales,/ naturally, are big. Most of them | are not as good as before the war, | but they indicate the national drift | toward lower cost of living. | The smoker whose income has! ibeen reduced will agree that the jsituation has not changed since | j Mark Twain said, “What the coun- jtry needs most is a good five-cent icigar.” Tt is as important to the) poor man as the steck market is to| |the rich gambler. in Charged with stealing a diamond lring, an. ice man is arrested in} ‘South Orange, N, J. -He breaks ‘down, admits the theft, but refuses {to tell what he did with the ring. The police take him to a hospital. ; A surgeon turns on the X-ray ma- chine and, in less time than it takes ; you to read this, says: ‘He swal-j {lowed it. I -see.a round metal ob- ject in his stomach.” | This process of making the liu-! man body transparent is one of/| ‘man’s greatest deeds of wizardry. |The novelty has worn off quickly land we consider it commonplace, for We live in an age of super-j imagic. | FORTUNES | Avery Hopwood’s earnings from | | the plays he has written are said to; jtotal over $1,000,000. Quite a step forward from the days when writers starved in gar-| | rets! Ancient Rome rewarded its tav-} orite actors fabulously, . The. tra-j }gedian, Aesopus, bequeathed to his son the equivalent of $750,000 in) |modern American money, all ‘be- | lieved to have been made as an ac-| Sounds like modern movies. | EDITORIAL REVIEW || Ee Comments reproduced in: this || column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They {[Sare presented here In order that || || our readers may have both sides || of important. issues which are being. discussed in the press of the day, SOUTH, BEND’S GUMDROPS South Bend ig the biggest hick town in the United States, assert manufacturers and sellers of gum- drops. More gumdrops are sold per capita than in any other place in America, and ag any place where gumdrops are sold in large quan- i tities is a hick town, say the candy jmen, this is the “hick village.” The demand for gumdrops is so great that there is not a candy shop, department store, grocery or 5 and 10-cent store in the city that jis not featuring the colorful candy. A canvass of stores that sell candy shows that the demand for gum- drops leads the requests for all other sweets by 100 per cent, In one store the average sale of gum-. drops is a barrel a day. Sales are not limited to any’ par-} ticular class or age, and it is not}: cheapness that’ brings about: the’ demand. {whether the price is 40 cents ‘a) pound in the 5\and:10-cent empori- ums or 80 cents in the high class confectionery. The professional | man, the laborer, woman and child, all have a mania for the vari-col- }ored “drops.”—Indianapolis News. LEARNING TO LIKE IT England is learning to, eat ice | cream. They’ve heard of this fro- zen dainty over there, of course, | but have never ‘been able to wean} themselves from tea long enough to; know just what they have been; missing. But the Englishman, with | |that same painful degree of slow- |ness which has marked his part in world history since time began, 13 “catching on,” and ice cream prom-j ises to become as popular over) there as it has been in America! since the introduction of artificial | ice. There are certain obstacles to be | overcome before England accepts ice cream in such quantitites a) to | make the industry financially suc- cessful. English markets are tra- | |ditionally conservative, and the} (sale of a new line of goods is apt to be more difficult than in the | | United States. Also, the habit of | jtaking afternoon tea has become | so firmly established over ther that it is certain to interfere. with | the introduction of new foods and | drinks that are usually served be- | tween the three chief meals of the | day. The summer climate, too, has | not the sweltering heat which de- | | ADVENTURE OF It makes no difference} © “In the Good Old Summer Time” was written in winter. Chicago man claims he has been to hell. Quit knocking Chicago. One might say the minister who eloped made a clerical error. Figures never lie in a bathing ‘it. Talk about starting in business on a shoestring, an Illinois robber escaped on a bicycle. Mexican children demanding schools be opened must be ignorant. Days are getting shorter. Right | after supper it is dark enough to go sce your best girl. . There isn’t any safety in num- bers in a canoe, Marine aviators remind us of Con- gress—up in the air one day and at | sea the next. A man who is never on time often buys things that way. Every dog wants his day at night. A friend in need is worth two in prosperity. ruil Many a man who thinks he be-/ longs’ to ‘thé! ‘upper Jelass only! 'be- longs to the uppish ‘class. People _ contemplating suicide ought to stick around. We will have some fun néxtiwinter: Man who’ /will *fly’ from” Gréat)| Britain to the U: S, ‘riust,” be in} a big hurry to bortow' mon Washington has 29,000 mote “un- married women than men. Go west, young man, go west. These nights are so warm.’ We would hate to be a_ professional wrestler or go to a dance. Worst thing about bad habits is they are so nice. Another college has given Hard- ing an honorary degree. He will soon resemble a thermometer. . The stingiest man we know has figured it is cheaper to marry than to buy a phonograph. Tariff makers have a high con- ception of tariff duties. | | THETWINS | By: OliveBarton Roberts Something‘dreadful,happened.. The Chocolate Rooster had fallen into; the lake on the Tinky-Winkle Star and was half felted before the Twins rescued him. s Suddenly Nancy, saw a fire on shore. 2 “We'll take you there and dry you, poor dear,” she said kindly, “and then we can go on. We simpiy must find Flap-Doodle, the wicked fairy who has caused all this trouble witn! the wand he stole from the Fairy) Queen.” ? The fire was high and hot, but no- body was around tending to it, Not a Tinky-Winkler was in sight. “Maybe it’s a magic fire,” said Nick. “Maybe Flap-Doodle is sorry | he changed you into chocolate and he’s caused this fire to dry you out.” The Twins were so busy looking around to see if Flap-Doodle was near that they had not noticed what had happened. » Suddenly their eyes -met a aa Fight. swThe Chogelite "Rooster had, disappeared completely sandy in ay place was nothing but a littl i eited_chocol rh fi] hes, i had _melte Eshim,) « ssHatuaeelee Just’ then phe fige,: ‘appeared, “ % ame Bb: a Hat's all ict. That awful Flap-Doodle is * He's" melted “He wasn’t. my bestfriend,” said a voice behind themstHe jtkéddied in ,evexythingw#:did.”4 "> + ae" Quick’as a flash they turned, just in time to catch a glimpse of Flap- Doodle, himself, holding tight to the coveted wand. But even as they looked, he flapped his ears and faded away from view. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) ATHOUGHT | o¢——_____—_——__——* Ask and it shall be given you: seek and ye shall find: knock and it shall be opened unto you.—Matthew 7 it is nothing but the circumstantials of life that cost so much.—Alexan- der Pope. | — elim Jere ODAY’S WORD i Today’s word is—ALTRUISM. It’s pronounced—al-troo-izm, with accent on the first syllable. It means—regard for or devotion to the interests of others. Ourselves are easily provided for; | throat rasp caused ‘by breathing. les are different, their hum is} cdused by fast whirring of their wWings—like an airplane propeller, No public problem is more press- ing and emphatic than the mosquito trfbe when they are present. The germs they carry kill thousands of people, usually by malaria, typhoid and other fevers. \You believe in swatting the mos- auito. But it seems like a hopeless;she seee it by mands iced dri ation if she inks and confectioneries and food shops are forced to close at 9:30 p,m. Yet with all these handicaps, ice} cream is pushin its way into Eng-| land. And England isn’t going to.) elevate herself in Amet reaching c cooling foods, as in many parts of America, ; and under the laws of that country | us admir- | doesn’t demonstrate | that she knows a good thing when| a i out her} job..when you go on vacation and|hand in welcome. — Springfield ; find’ them swarming in the woods | News, f | | It was first used by the philos- opher Comte, who perhaps borrowed it from the Italian, “altrui,” meaning “of” or “to others,” or from the Latin, “after,” meaning another. It’s use like this—“Many Amer- icans-feel that, while it is all very well for them to discuss among themselves the desirability of can- celing Europe's indebtedness to them, the suggestion comes with’ a very bad grace from the Europeans who seek to profit by this hoped for ° | altruism.” RED TAPE FORCES WIFE TO TRAVEL {Again red tape has clashed with huntith kindness in the administration of the “quota” immigration laws. And red tape has triumphed—with a triple result: ONE: The young wife of a Belgian resident of Chicago, who has filed his declaration to become an Ameri can citizen, is being forced to make an extra 6,000-mile cound trip\to Buz- ope in order to gain admittance to the United States for her cight-year- old son, The woman herself is ad= missable, having lived for some timy at Chicago with her hushand before she returned to’ Europe for the boy, ; But the child cannot be admitied unt til another month's quota “Tolls around. tes TWO: The husband, already crushed by the ruin of war in, Bel- gium and struggling for a new, start in America, is forced to bear the jex- | pense of the extra 6,000-mile tripand to postpone the reunion with wif and child on'which his heart was set, THREE: Official, Washingtonicis. aroused.’ Whatever their attitude on the merits of the quota” immigyation laws may be; legislutors ‘are prebat= ing to demand that iheir enforcement be tempered by reason and kindness and that more emphasis be laid.on the spirit of the regulations than, on their letter. BY AXELANDER HERMAN. : New York, Aug. 9—-To cover, the hundred yards from the detention room here to the New York ferry, a young Belgien woman and her cight- year-old son have: been, forced to take an extra 6,000-mile trip toBur- | ope and back. All because they arrived three and a half hours ahead of, schedule! And ‘the immigration authorities could find no way of cutting the red tape which barred them! So another chapter of, sorrow was ! added to the tragedy of a young fam- ily which had boen rent apart in the aftermath of ,the war. With his business wiped out by war Remi Carton left Belgium, came. to thib qqyytry and settled in Chicago. Hef declared his“ihtention: of becom- ing a citizen of the United States. 'Tlis wife came with him: But they had to leave their boy behind with | relatives. They worked hard and prospered. When they had $2,000 in the family bank account, they decided to get their boy. i Goes for Son. |; Més!*Catton went, for him. res! ene this country, she knew Eheicould Bd readmitted here without trouble. Being But she didn’t know about the restrictions governing the admit- tance of her son. She started to re- The Bel immigration quota for the fiseal year ending June 30 had been filled. Mrs. Carton was ‘advised to post- pone her return until the next sail- ing. This ship was not due in New York until July 1. But the boat was fast and the weather good so the mother and boy reached port several hours before they expected. ‘tae authorities de- cided that the youngster could nov be admitted for the quota had been filled. But couldn't they forget that he az-} rived three and one-half hours too ‘soon and consider him as a July ar- rival? The mother ‘argued with of- ficials. Case Goes to Washington. They took up with the immi tion inspectors. The ease was en ried to a board of review in Wash- {ingten. A month vent. b, The boy had to go back. He could return on the same boat and apply for admission under the new quo but he had ¢o go back. “It's hard to be so near-—and yet so far,” sighed Mrs. Carton when she heard the final decision. “I can’t un- derstand a law that makes us traves |thousands of miles to come beck to the same place a little later. i “But T suppose that it can’t be helped. I'm going with my son. won't let him travel alone, ‘The soon- er we go, the quicker we return.” Back to Europe. y EXTRA 6000 MILES TO ENTER UNITED MRS, REMI CARTON AND HER SON, F. Rw But if the return trip is delayed}, Yet the and Belgium’s quota of 313 a month is filled before they reach port again they may have to make the trip across ‘a third time “On the 28th or last month,” ‘says Harry BR. Landis, assistant: commis- sioner of immigration here, “there were onl fore the allotment was filled. “So Mrs. Carton and her son would better hurgy back.” BY ROY GIBBONS. Chicago, Aug. 9.—Three teddy bears anda stuffed rocking hors stand,in an empty room here as, if in a mute protest against scemingly heartless immigration, laws. powerful enough : to separate families and break the hearts uf parents. Remi-Carton: put them there to welcome, the arrival of his cight-y old)ison, Frank, from Belgium. He had: garlanded. his janitor’s basement ‘quarters with flowers making the tiny place averitable underground fairy- ldndaex: tots as ae "Butyall this expenditure, of love ‘and, thoughtfulness was, in, vain. For Carton’s son and wife were sent, back to Europ: vy the Ellis Is- lands officials—they must travel,to a European port, turn around and. come buck; to, America’ again before, they eanihe) admitted. Cayton is heartbroken. /; Toiled for .Son’s Future. iEver:since he cume to this country with his,, wife, he hod saved and scimped to.send her back for little Frank to bring the boy to this coun- try \“Where he could grow up with enough to eat and become educated.” Working as a janitor here the father and husband spared no effort to earn money enough to give his son the opportunities which he had never had. 3 Where one apartment - building would have been @ heavy drain, on his time and energy Carton, by work> ing night and day for the 1 has been caring for seven so that 24 Belgians admissable be-| “The rocking horse and st fear | added, income might “make it ¢ for my boy.” [EVERETT TRUE STATES r Na youngster now, is; barred! “Those laws that do. this I cannot understand,” Carton ‘said in a tone that was dumb and listless. “They let my wife come to this country wit me and live in £hicago two years. Yet now that she goes to bring our! boy, they will not let her back with | him. ; “Why is it so? Loves U, S. Anywa: “My heart is very sick. "I think 1 would like to die. But this country is good. I will not say evil things about it. “But I love. my wife and my boy so much! “{ have prayed and spent alm all the money I have saved to bri them here. But‘it is no use. 1h none left to go back with them. niust live Here all alone. “Thero-is no one I know here who could help me. “What shall I do?” st ve 1 | the' teddy bears are still ‘waiting. But the flowers have faded in the basement— * Like the hopes ‘of the man who put them there. *" f THEFT CHARGE INVOLVES ‘N. D., ILLINOIS VALUES Beach, N. D., Aug. 9.—-Release of a Beach, N. D., woman from a charge of shoplifting brought by a store at Rockford, Ill., where the defendant and another woman had been visiting and shopping, has brought up an in- teresting question of relative retail values of women’s appare} in Illinois and North Dakota. The specific charge was that the Beach woman was wearing a dress claimed stolen} from fhe store and valued at $90.) ‘The accused was able to prove that she-had bought the dress for $45 at Beach, N.' D., and was released. ‘A local style shop has verified the purchase, and proves to ave been in- strumental in gaining the release of the young woman, who. is understood to be suing the Rockford store for false arrest. Pekingese’ dogs have a history ting’ back ‘more than/'3,000 years. “BY CONDO Note: — Tue Cast Por: TION OF THE SENTENCE IN THE ABOVE BALLOON! MAY BE et So she packed’ wp, took the fastest boat out and expects soon to come (uses Today she 1s at sea. THE WORD "HOT? WOULD SEEM THAT To BE THE SENSG INTENDED TO BE BFCONVGYGD. -|me rather.” Y AAMILNE @ G22 R Dutton company BEGIN HERE TODAY A revolver shot was heard two minutes after i ROBERT ABLETT, the ne’er-do- well brother of MARK ABLETT, the bachelor pro— prietor of The Red House, had re- turned from his 15 years’ absence in Australia and been ushered into Mark’s office. f ANTONY GILLINGHAM, a gentle- man adventurer and friend of ‘\BILL BEVERLEY, one of Mark’s guests, arrived at that moment to find MATT CAYLEY, Mark's com- panion, pounding on the locked coor of the office and demanding admittance. The two men ent- ered the office through a window and on the floor found the body of Robert with a bullet through the head. Mark wag not to ‘be found. i Police Inspector Birch ‘believes that Mark has murdered his broth- er, whose visit he anticipated with annoyance, but.there are several points which arouse Antony’s sus- jpicions, Cayley invites him to re- main over the inquest and Antony informs Bill Beverley that “things are going to happen here soon.” GO ON WITH THE STORY Cayley was walking across the lawn toward them, a big, heavy- shouldered man, with one of those strong, clean-shaven, ugly faces which can ‘never quite be called plain, Cayley nodded as he came to them, and stood there for a mo- ment. 4 “We can make room for you,” said Bill, getting up. “Oh, don’t bother, thanks.’ I just came to say,” he went on to An- tony, “that naturally they’ve rather lost their heads in the kitchen, and ‘dinner won't be till half past eight. Do just as you like about dressing. of course.” Having said what he wanted to say, Cayléy remained there a little awkwardly, as if not sure whether to go or to stay. Antony wondered whether he wanted to talk about the afternoon’s happenings, or whether it, was the one subject he wished to avoid. To break the si- lence he asked carelessly if the in- stor had gone. ayley nodded. Then he said ab- He’s getting a warrant for 's arrest. Bill made.a suitably sympathetic noise, and Antony said with a shrug of the shoulders, “Well, he was bound to do that, wasn’t he? It doesn’t mean anything, They naturally want to get hold ot your cousin, innocent or guilty.” “Which do--you. think. he is, Mr. Gillingham?” said Cayley, looking at him steadily. hide “Mark? impetuously. “Bill's loyal, you see, Mr. Cayley.” “And you owe no loyalty to any- one concerned?” “Exactly. So perhaps I might be too frank.” Bill had dropped down on the grass, and Cayley took his place on the seat and sat there heavily, his elbows on his knees, his chin on his hands, gazing at the ground. “I want you to be quite frank,” he said at last. “Naturally I am prejudiced where Mark is con- cerned, So I want to know how my suggestion strikes you—who have no prejudice: either way.” “Your suggestion?” “My theory that, if Mark killed his brother, it was purely acciden— tal—as I told the inspector.” Bill looked up with interest. “You mean that Robert did the hold-up business,” he said, “and there was a bit of a struggle, and the revolver went off, and then Mark lost his head and bolted? Tpat sort of idea?” “Exactly.’ “Well, that seems all right.” He turned to Antony. “There’s noth— ing wrong with that, is there? It’s the ‘most natural explanation to anyone Who knows Mark.” Antony pulled at his pipe. “I suppose it is,” he said slowly. “But there's one thing that.worries “what's that?” Bill and Cayley asked the question simultaneously. e key.” “The key?” said Bill. Cayley lifted his head and looked at Antony. “What about the key?” he asked, “Well,/there may be nothing in it; I just wonderéd. Suppose Rob- ert was killed as you say, and sup- pose Mark lost his head and thought of nothing but getting away before anyone could see him, Well, very likely he’d lock the door and put the key in his pocket. He’d-do it without thinking, just to gain a mo- ment’s time.” “Yeo, that’s what I/suggest.” |. “Yes, that’s all right if the key is jthere. But suppose it isn’t there?” The. suggestion, made as if it were already ‘an established fact, startled them both. “What do you mean?” said Cay- | ley. H | “Well, it’s just a question ‘of. where, people happen to keep their keys. You go up to your bedroom, and perhaps you like to lock your door in case anybody comes wan- dering in when you've only got one sock ayd a pair of braces on. Well, that’s natural enough, But down- stairs people don’t lock themselves in, It’s really never done at all. Il, for instance, has never locked {himself into the dining-room in jorder to be alone with the sherry. /On the other hand, all women, and | particularly servants, have a hor- ror of burglars, And if a burglar gets in by the window, they like to |limit his activities to that particu- \lar room. So they. keep the keys jon the outside of the doors and lock jthe doors when they go to bed.” |He knocked the ashes out-of his | | { " WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1922 Iv’s absurd,” said Bill}, ‘of Bill’s arm and walked off with pipe, and added, “At least, my mother always used to.” / “You mean,” said Bill excitedly, “that the key was on the outside of . « the door when Mark went into the “4 room?” “Well, I was just wondering.” “Have you noticed the other rooms—the. billiard-room, and li- brary, and so on?” said Cayley. “ve only. just thought about it while I’ve been sitting out here. You live here —haven't you ever noticed them?” Cayley sat considering, with his head on one side, “It seems rather absurd, you know, but I cant say that I have.” He turned to Bill. “Have you?” “Good Lord, no, I should never worry about a thing like that.’ “[’m sure you wouldn't,” laughed Antony. “Well, we can have a look when we go in. If the other keys are outside, then this one was prob- ably outside, too, and in that case- —well, it /makes it more interest— ing.” Cayley said nothing. Bill chewed a piece of grass, and then said, “Does it make much difference?” “1t makes it more hard to under- stand what happened in there. Take your accidental theory and see where you get to. No instinct- ive turning of the key now, is there? He’s got to open the door to get it, and opening the door means showing his; head to anybody in the hall—his cousin, for in- stance, whom he left there two min- utes ago, Is a man in Mark’s state of mind, frightened to death lest he should ‘be, found with ‘the body, go- ing to do anything so foolhardy as that?” { “He needn't have been afraid of me,” said Cayley. “Then why didn’t he call for you? He knew you were about. You could have advised him; heaven knows he wanted advice. But the whole theory of Mark’s escape is that he was afraid of you and of everybody else.” “Yes, I expect you're right,” said + , Bill thoughtfully. “Unless he took the key in with him, and locked the door at once “Exactly. ‘But in that case you have to build up a new theory en- tirely.” “You mean that it makes it seem more deliberate?” “Yes; that, certainly. But it also seems to make Mark out an abso- lute idiot. Just suppose for a mo- ment that, for urgent reagons which neither of you know anything about, he had wished to get rid of his brother, Would he have done it like that?, Why, that’s practi- cally, suicide. No. If you really wanted to remove an undesirable brother, you would do it a little bit ‘nore cleverly than tiat.’”” Cayley had been silent, apparent- ly thinking over this new idea. With his eyes still on the ground, he said now: “I hold to my opinion that it was purely accidental, and that Mark lost his head and ran away.” H “But what about the key?” asked in. “We don’t know yet that the keys were outside.” ‘ “Oh, well, of course, if they are inside, then your original theory is probably the correct one. .Having often seen them outside, I just won- dered—that’s all.” 4 “Even if the key was outside,” went on Cayley stubbornly, “I still! think it might have been acci- dental. He might have taken it in with him, knowing that the inter— view would be ‘an unpleasant one, and not wishing to be interrupted.” “But he had just told you to stand by in case he wanted you; so why should he lock you out? Besides, 1 should think that if a man were g9- ing to have an unpleasant inter- view with a threatening relation, the last thing he would do would | be to barricade himself in with him. He would want to open all the doors, and say, ‘Get out of it!’” | Cayley was silent, but his mouth 5 looked obstinate. Antony gave a | little apologetic laugh and stood u ay ie, DP. “Well, come on, Bill,” he said, “we ought to be stepping.” He held out a hand and pulled his friend up. Then, turning to Cayley, he went on. “You must forgive me if! { have Ict my thoughts run on rather.” “That's all right, Mr, Gilling- ham,” said Cayley, standing up too. “You say that you're going up to the inn now about your bag?” ; Cayley nodded and turned to 60 ¥ into the hoyse. Antony took hold , him in the opposite direction. CHAPTER VII. They walked in silence for a lit- tle, until they had left the house and gardens well behind them. “Tell me something about Mark,’ said Antony suddenly. _ “What sort of things?” “Well, never mind about his be- ing your host, or about your being a* perfect gentleman, or anything like that,” Cut out the Manners for Men, and tell me what you think of _ Mark, and how you like staying with him, and how many rows your little house-party has had this week, and how you get on with Cayley, and all the rest of it.” Bill looked at him eagerly. § “IT say, are you being the com- plete detective?” “Well, I wanted a new profes- sion,” smiled the other. “What.fun! I mean,” he cor- rected himself apologetically, “one oughtn’t to say that, when there's a man dead in the house, and one’s host—” He broke off a little un- certainly, | “Well?” said Antony. “Carry on: Mark.” - (Continued in our next issue.) Looks as if prices need shaving every morning.