The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1932, Page 4

{ { 3 COP WR HOON SPOOR emo a l P cit w wk Tr cit wr THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1932 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune ipany, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as Second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year. »$7.20 Daily by mail per year is ‘Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ...........sceseceseeee GL ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, three years ...... Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ............+. 1.50 Weekly by mail in Canada, per year ..... - 2.00 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or- not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Successful in Death Dr. W. F. Crewe's death took from jat the Nov. 8 clection it was the sin- | many Bismarck residents a well-loved friend and neighbor and deprived the state of a real benefactor. Unassuming, kindly and thoughtful of others, Dr. Crewe drew many men ‘and women into his circle of friends as often is the case with a quiet per- son of outstanding merit. To these his death comes as a real personal loss. But even as they mourn him they realize that it is given to few of us to see our dreams come true and that Dr. Crewe reached this pinnacle be- fore the Grim Reaper snatched him away. He dies almost at the same time that success crowned the efforts of a life-time. For Dr. Crewe was a practical man and it was through his own efforts and those of persons whom he en- listed in the cause that his dream of making North Dakota®a state free from bovine tuberculosis came true. Because he hewed to the line and temained steadfast in pursuit of his ambition, the state owes him a debt of gratitude. Both the health and the finances of its citizens have been enhanced by Dr. Crewe’s work. The fact that this state is free from bovine tuberculosis, or almost campletely so, enhances the value of both beef and dairy herds. This dis- ease is a costly thing. It was costly to eradicate it but the money was well spent and now, shortly before Doctor Crewe died, comes the word that the state has been placed on the accredited list by the federal govern- ment. Curiously enough, the value of our poultry and hogs has been enhanced also. There is a close relationship be- tween tuberculosis in cows and in other animals and packers pay slightly more for animals and fowls which have not been subject to this infection oecause their losses after killing are smaller. The financial fruits of Dr. Crewe's work, therefore, are evident. But more important still is his con- tribution to the public health by rea- son of his achievement. It may be) difficult or impossible to trace cases | of human tuberculosis to bovine tu-} berculosis, nevertheless there is noj| gainsaying the fact that milk from a/ diseased cow is not as good for the human being as milk from a healthy one. It may be true that germs in meat are killed by cooking but that is small comfort to the man who might not know if his steak were from a sound or a diseased steer. Because the world moves swiftly and many fine deeds go unrecognized, it is improbable that Dr. Crewe's fine record will receive the plaudits which it deserves. But that would not worry Dr. Crewe were he alive and his friends need not mourn the fact now that he is dead. It is given to few “— men to fulfill so completely life's destiny as’ was the case with him. It} may be that death was just a little, Jess bitter because of the knowledge that a thing for which he had la- bored, often under severe handicaps, had become a reality. The Open Path Definite abandonment of all propo- | sals to evacuate Fort Lincoln was no| surprise to Bismarck residents. It had been foreshadowed by cancella- tion of the order to move the troops immediately months ago. Nevertheless, the formal order an- nounced Monday was welcome in that it definitely eliminated one threat to diminish the status of this commu- 00; and those which Bismarck entered the fight and Pressed it to a successful conclusion. Rather it was in the knowledge that no battle is over until the last shot is fired that Bismarck persisted in its determination to keep the fort occu- Pied. i Now the effort is crowned with vic- | {tory and one more threat against the \best interests of this community has been repulsed, we shall be able to! turn our attention as a community to | constructive things because we will no} longer be compelled to use our ener- | gies in opposing the forces of destruc- | tion. Two different thrusts have been | turned back within the last two years fights against adversity | have left Bismarck a stronger and | more united community than ever be- | fore in its modern history. i There are things Bismarck needs to further enhance its commercial and industrial importance and to improve | the service which it must render to) the surrounding farming community | if it is to meet its obligations to the | full. With our fights against d ‘uc tion out of the way, the path is open; to renewed efforts toward construc- | tion, cee Editorial Comment prials printed below show the e of thought by editors, They are published without r with The Trib: polici t A Game of Reprisal! (Minot Daily News) With the counting of the ballots! cere hope of the peovic of North Da-| kota that politics would take a va tion; that the state and nation would settle down behind the elected officers | lems that confront the country. | But in the case of Mr. Langer, gov- || ernor-elect, it would appear that he || will not permit any such course. It} is hardly conceivable that a man hon- | ored by the peonle of his home state could give expression to statements made by Mr. Langer at Dickinson last| week. Referring to Dickinson business and strive for a solution of the prob- | Say It With Christmas Seals minutes, it will be one of the shortest arguments on record on the question, in or out of congress. * * ® The National Grange wants congress to inflate the currency to raise commodity values. Re-- membering 1929's stock market explosion, maybe one blowup de- serves another. eases Portland, Ore., city officials are go- ing to quit paying insurance on the city’s fire stations. Vigilance, like charity, begins at home, they figure. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) New York, Dec. 2—The rule of “here today and gone tomorrow” finds its most elaborate illustration in the catacombs of Madison Square Gar- den. Here a clown hurrying to catch a train meets a queen of wealth hur- rying to register a prize dog or horse. Here, too, on one night a United States president is smuggled through a disorderly sea of crowding humans, and before dawn a broken down pa- looka of the prize ring is haunting the scene of one-time victory. On one night a horse show brings the gay and colorful costumes of the} Long Island riding set into the half) gloom of smelly cement and packed earth; on the next, the rubbers and trainers of a six-day bike race set up shop. The circus menagerie and the freaks of the greatest show on earth are fast followed by crated cats ar- jriving for a show of the feline aris- tocracy.. The cats, in turn, have scarcely had time to preen themselves when the corrals of the rodeo are un- Signed letters pertainim% to personal diagnosis, or treatmen will be ans’ self-addressed envelope “8 enclosed. in ink. No reply can be made to tions. ‘PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE | By William Brady, M. D. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. health and hygiene, not to disease wered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, Letters should be brief and written | queries not conforming to instruc- men who selected James Cain to serve as state senator over Adam Lefor,; who had Mr. Langer’s support, the governor-elect said: | “They have made their bed andj will have to sleep in it. Oh my, how! they will be crawling around for fa-| vors and when they do I'll tell them; to see Jim Cain. After they come} back I'm going to tell them to sce| Mr. Lefor. | “Anything they want for their nor- mal school or their city they'll have to see him.” Is it possible that politics with Mr. Langer is a game of reprisal? as governor of one faction only and that their normal school is liable to suffer because a group of electors fa- vored Mr. Cain for senator, and also committed the unpardonable sin of Mr. Langer openly resented? In all the history of North Dakota of Mr. Langer's attitude expressed at Dickinson, an attitude which the rank who may have voted for Mr. Cain. election in the ballot boxes. When a victor at the polls derides a part of his constituency for failing to elect his men, as well as failure to vote for him; when he intimates that state institutions located in their districts are liable to suffer, then it is time for a whole state to arise in resent: ment. Should Mr. Langer see fit to os- racize every community that vote the Democratic ticket Nov. 8, he assuming a man-sized tasx. If Mr. Cain truly represents the people of the Dickinson district he certainly, is entitled to a seat in the state senate, whether it pleases Mr. Langer or not. With his faction in control of the governorship and every other office in the state capitol, and both branches of the legislature it would appear to the average person that Mr. Langer would have ample reason to rejoice even when speaking in a district that had refused to subscribe to all his views. The Mailed Fist Appears (Valley City Times Record) | ‘We very much doubt the wisdom of | Mr. Langer and Mr. Vogel telling the | people of Dickinson—if the report is | true—that unless the people of that city get under the league banner and subscribe to the political doctrines ot Mr. Langer and Mr. Vogel they arc | to be boycotted in a business way. ‘We admit that Mr. Langer as gov- ernor will have great power and can use that power in a most despotic manner, but he should remember that | this is not Russia and that the people are not governed at this time with a} Soviet government nor with a Mus- | solini. We had thought that Mr. Langer} was going to use common sense and make the state a good governor, but if his remarks at Dickinson are truly reported we have our misgivings. He} has a great opportunity to be a big} man in the state and at the recent election the people gave him that op- portunity. Now they are commencing | to wonder if it is not a question of | misplaced confidence. Gov, Wm. Langer has a fine oppor- tunity ahead of him. He needs the People back of him and he can get them if he so desires. The election is over. Instead of carrying out that spirit of revenge that seems to be rampant in the victorious wing of the Republican party, we need toleration where freedom of thought, freedom of political choice is our right and so long as we have our constitution with to enjoy those privileges. way for Mr. Langer and his ad- is to come down and visit tion towns, find out just QB ae lend with, appropriation ques- tion for all of them in a friendly and fair manner, create good feeling on FATE OF THE PULPLESS TOOTH Is the newly elected governor tak- | ing this means to tell the people of | Dickinson that he preposes to serve | dary voting the Democratic ticket, which politics there can be found no parallel | and file of the Nonpartisan league} will resent just as strongly as those | In North Dakota it has always been | the rule to bury the bitterness of | In a recent issue of the Illinois Dental Journal, official organ of the;|the question of the possible bearing Illinois Dental society Dr. J. P. Buck-jof the pulpless tooth up to your phy- ley, Hollywood dentist, points out that it is incorrect to consider a tooth from which the pulp has been re- | moved “dead” or “nonvital” or “Gevit- alized.” would not be tolerated by nature and would soon be exfoliated. The author ‘A dead tooth in the jaw goes on to explain, in technical lan- guage, that the dental pulp (which I believe the laity calls the “nerve”) is the tissue from which the dentin or main bone-like part of the tooth is formed, and that the pulp disappears in old age and the space it formerly occupied becomes filled with secon- dentin. Yet the tooth is still alive, being nourished from the tis- sues surrounding it and not from the pulp. All as clear as mud, isn’t it? Never mind. The essential idea is that the pulpless tooth, the tooth in which the! “nerve” has been “killed” or destroyed | by injury or by infection, the tooth with root canal filling, is not neces- sarily a foreign body, a dead thing, a menace to health. In many instances it is not only inoffensive but useful, Perhaps for the support of some bridge or other denture or for the maintenance of good position or oc- clusion of the rest of the teeth, or for mastication. Dr. Buckley asserts that root canal work, good work, requires no more skill than is required for almost every i To that I say Amen—I mean, boo-oo to the idea that one must go to a specialist for root canal filling or treatment. Dr. Buckley further asserts that the tooth with infection of the pulp (gan- grene or abscess) seldom requires more than three treatments over a period of a week, for complete healing and finished filling. He goes further and ays that prolonged treatments are absolutely contraindicated and rather increase irritation and do harm. If the case can't be finished in a week or so, it is better to extract the tooth and be done with it. On the other hand, many leading Gentists believe pulpless teeth are quite commonly a potential source of chronic ill health. They maintain that infection of such pulpless teeth is not definitely shown by X-ray pic- tures, but is insidious and may take years to become evident. They think not a few cases of heart, artery, joint and other chronic troubles at 40 or 50 are result of prolonged mild toxemia or poisoning of the system from in- fected pulpless teeth that have been allowed to remain in the jaw since the age of 20 or 25. It is notable, however, that the den- | tists who share this latter pessimistic view—and pessimism may be right— refer to these pulpless teeth as “dead” teeth. One such dentist who is also a physician, is accustomed to advise patients that he himself has not, and would not have a dead tooth in his mouth. What is one to do about a pulpless tooth when the dentists disagree? The sensible plan, it seems to me, is to keep the tooth or teeth as long as it serves a useful purpose or causes FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: R FANN) no trouble. If ever your health be- comes impaired in any way, why, put sician, who, if he deserves your con- fidence, will come to a decision only after consultation with your dentist. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Quaint Rheumatiz Complex Would life on the sea affect one who has had rheumatism but has had the cause removed? (R. McC.) | Answer—Only beneficially. Expo-j| sure to weather or dampness has| nothing to do with any known joint disease. Invalids may be more sen- sitive, but that does not mean that cold or dampness causes disease. t der way and the catacombs echo with |cowboy oaths and the stomping of mustang feet. a * * * BENEATH IT ALL a y/ Here, too, one gets that back stage eo show-off once the nether sections are left and the upper arena is reached— fast rule not to accept any social|and shouting throngs. invitations. We prefer carrying on} gDown in the damp _undercrust, to rise” we began years ago.—Vice} may be found trembling as nervously President-elect John N. Garner. as any tyro performers; a liveried Japan always has been and still is|the last‘decision of the horse show | one of the most loyal supporters of/ judges and a $15,000 piece of horse- suoka, Japanese representative of the|there are better horses in the world. Council of the League of Nations. * OR OK Our difficulties are sometimes} In the midst of such side-lights, the | caused by the superpatriots, who have | program routine runs through with a} reality which changes to glamorous Mrs. Garner and I have made it &| with its blaring band, its harsh lights the practice of “early to bed and early | young women of the blue blood world ee OK stable flunky may stand bemoaning the League of Nations.—Yosuka Mat-|flesh may learn the sad news that * * * GOING, GOING—GONE! such a mistaken idea of patriotism|mechanical snap and dash. None is “moved” to the brusque shout of “two | more teams in this event—come along ithere! .. . Hurry!” Yes, this is the land of “here to- day and gone tomorrow’—the very | symbol of transition and uncertainty. * * * WHAT'S IN A NAME? There was a play in Broadway re- cently titled “Keeping Down Ex- penses.” Two days before it closed, only $25 had been taken in. ‘They had to keep expenses down. But the odd part of this happens to be that the two leading characters were our 'old friends, “Potash and Perlmutter, ‘pearing new names. Just a few sea- sons ago the Potash-Perlmutter com- bination could pack the theaters, But the names were sold to a movie con- cern by the creator, who now has learned that when the same fellows come back under new names, the pub- lic doesn’t know them. x # HOOSIER HOMESICKNESS ! Tin Pan Alley researchers have many popular ballads have been writ- |ten about Indiana. It would seem |that the moon beams only on the Wabash and that every third song- | writer intends to go back to Indiana jsome day. : it with “The Banks of the Wabash, Tennessee, Vir- was one of the few. home. Similar threats have been made to California. But why, asks jthe music lane, does the so seldom in song over Dubuque and way poirfts? * TIE THIS! Broadway's street urchin crowd has) been joined within a week by a wist-' ful faced lad who stands in the Times; Square area selling ties at 15 cents, each from a box-cover. Because he, is such a little fellow and looks so: pathetic, his wares are soon gone.’ But he’s back again in no time with! more, and if you were to follow him, ! you'd learn that the lad’s father has quite a sizeable place nearby and that the urchin is one of his best sales- men, 1 Pittsburgh, | Lyman | By S. GYLDEN Severt Gylden called on William} Harjus Monday. | The combined program and shoe social of Trygg schools No. 1 and No. 4 was held Tuesday. Gust Eckholm called at John Gyl- den’s Wednesday. Mrs. Gust Eckholm and daughter Lydia spent Thursday at John Gyl- den’s. Edwin Olson and Miss ginia and Georgia have had their} share of lads threatening to come} moon risad daughter Melidah and Eli Lieuska were callers at the Roudolph Harju and Reckmann homes Thursday. Florence Waiste, Raymond Juhola |and Saima Pihlaja were supper ‘guests of Oscar Magnuson Wednes- | day. Misses Florence Waiste and Saima Pihlaja, Roymond Juhola rode out from Bimarck with George Magnu- son and sister Myrtle Wednesday to spend the Thanksgiving vacation at | their homes here. Andrew Liuska was a town caller Saturday evening. Miss Martha Kaski spent the week-end yith Florence Waiste. Mrs, Raymond Tolliver, sons Richard and Willard and daughters Hazel and Ruth, Sally and Selina Gylden spent Sunday afternoon at L. C. Holmes’. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Josephson, son Clifford. Halph Harju and Andrew | Lieuska spent Sunday at John Gyl- den's. Eino Hoikala was an overnight | never been able to figure out why 50| guest of Arvo Koski Wednesday. Miss Florence Waiste and cousin Eino Hoikola visited at Henry Pih-- laja’s and Victor Koski’s Sunday. i ! “This would be all very well if the! % writers were Hoosiers, but few of; them are. Paul Dresser, who started — care Can You Make This ‘Wabbling . Duck HI-HO PUZZLE NO. 5—Cut out the seven pieces and fit them to- gether in a manner that will form the silhouetted figure shown above. Blacken the backs of the seven pieces dia | With ink or crayon, since solution of that they think it conflicts with in-|too great to deny the voice of the ternationalism.—Dean Virginia C. Gil-|clocker and many a grand dame has‘ dersleeve of Barnard College. * * Contrary to popular belief, a prepo- sition isn’t a bad word to end a sen- tence with.—Charles A. Lloyd, Ashe- ville, N. C., addressing National Coun- cil of Teacher's of English at Mem- Paralysis Not Hereditary At the age of 5 years I had infantile) Paralysis. It left one leg a flail. If I should marry a normal woman would our children be likely to inherit the Paralysis or cther defect. So far as I know I am perfectly well aside from! my weak leg. (H. W. G.) Answer—The permanent maiming| left by poliomyelitis is not a trans-! missible condition. Your children should be as sound as the children of any healthy man. Doesn't It Jar Me? Is it injurious to the kidneys riding @ motorcycle? (Mrs. R. C.) Answer—No. A Case of Pica Is there anything harmful in ashes? | I have a craving for either black or operation the dentist is called upon to |8@y cigaret or cigar ashes, although | | perform. I do not smoke. I just burn one to get a taste of the ashes. I have had! this craving for two years, since I was an expectant mother, when I began | by chewing burnt matches .. . (Mrs.) P. R. D.) barley, that is, the unmilled grain, or | some bran. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) * | Why not try birth control?—Marshal __Answer—No harm in it. Try chew-| must have done his Christmas shop- ; ing some kernels of wheat, oats or | ping early. { phis, Tenn. * * # If your three little islands are not large enough to accommodate the Japanese population, then Japan should devise other means of solution, | Wu Pei-fu, Japanese scholar and re- tired war lord, in message to Em-| peror of Japan, ——_——+ Barbs | —_—+} Capital debutantes don’t care who gets the cabinet posts so long as they get their inaugural ball. i With toys more realistic than ever, we needn’t be surprised if | Junior grows more skeptical of the way Santa’s whisker's fit. i} * *# # H The philosophic soul who started! this “better late than never” business o eee If the house of representatives lim- its debate on prohibition repeal to 40 1Premier of City Question | —______—_—_—.e_e_earrrrerereeeeeeee HORIZONTAL * Answer to Previous Puzzle 12Simeon ——, 19To degrade. |New iran senator from Cudgel. SNGE rental 14 Pertaining to ag net resteictam oe 24 Peak, 15 Wise man, 23 Astronomical 16One who instrument, Daves. 26Sea near 17 Shower, _ Denmark, 18 Fodder vat. 28 And, Almost all relatives are lettered persons this month, | PCCP RC Pr é “GER ge eke NL ES err LN Eckholm’s Thursday. Mrs. William Harju, son Benn and Lehto were dinner guests of Gust|Some of the puzzles requires that cer- {tain pieces be turned over. All seven Pieces must be used in each puzzle. Geraldine Foster, a very at- tractive young reception clerk in the Washington Square office of Dr. Humphrey Maskell, vanished from her Morningside Heights apartment on the night before Christmas. Her room mate, Betty Canfield, reported her disappear- ance to the police three days after Christmas and appealed directly Colt for aid. Betty held a phone conversation with Geraldine on Saturday, Christmas Eve, during which the latter said she wished she was dead. Betty tele- phoned Geraldine’s mother and learned she had not arrived for the holiday. The missing girl’s fiance, Hatry Armstrong, had not seen her since Friday. Dr. Maskell says. he returned to his office Saturday afternoon to find Ger- aldine gone. Colt goes at once to the Foster apartment. CHAPTER Iv. HE apartment was a pleasant | and homelike place with its two bedrooms, living room, kitchenette and bath. I noticed the gay chintzes, the nice prints, the good-humored touches of novelty and color in odd and unexpected nooks and corners. Then I remem- bered that 1 was a stranger in- truding here, where one had waked and slept and dreamed of her wed- ding day had gone out and had now mysteriously disappeared. Returning to the living room, after roaming from front to back, Thatcher Colt sat down on the edge of the couch and, leaning en ea 30 Male sheep. . H fs ‘ 20 Characteristic. 31 Wine vessel. BB, ies eee with 22 Wool fiber 3 thoughful eyes as if seeking the knots. truth about Geraldine Foster 24 Otherwise. . through clairvoyance. Then he be- 25 Sea gull. ie 4 pie Next U. S, gan to question Betty Canfield. 27 Icy rain. SLA false God. occupied the Congress. Gnce more I admired the quiet 29Constellation, 5470 sct site of 39To make a and adroit method which he ém- 32 Soft food. 56 Council, modern Tunis? — slave of. jloyed with such consummate skill; 34 Oral AD PAera, 2 Back 43 Exclamation, fe was leading this girl to talk # G1God of love. 5 yea ay © Debit A. about her friend confidingly, so DASE 63 Knife, ——- SBEEBIC. CAP that she was almost unaware that 40 Slightest. ian 4Metrical foot. 48 Law. | She was being interrogated by 41 Measures teen 5 Onager. 50 Typist. | a master of inquisition, dreaded added to the (3 Sarch. 6 Conceited. 51 Forehead, | throughout the underworld. For end of a 87 aint F 7 Leers. 52 Hall. half an hour they chatted on, and composition, 67 Walked in 8 What is any 53Dry. at the close Thatcher Colt said: 42 To originate. Malet. morbid growth 55 Ascetic. “[ think I have what I want 44 Crowd, 68 Destruction of caited? 57 Back of neck, now, Betty—a_ psychological por- 46 Male cat. a boat. 9 Spring. 58 Auditory. trait of Geraldine Foster, A re- 47 Blouse. VERTICAL 10 Wasting away. 60 Guéded. ception sleek Ih (8. doeior sores 49 Wagon track. 1 What city 11Grandparental. 62 To soak up. | 4 in e big eity, instead of the little town where her parents lived. An ambitious girl who was taking night. courses in Columbia Univer- sity. A good-natured creature— you roomed with her for three years and never had a serious disagreement?” bes "s true,” said Betty. Loyal and Generous. | “Loyal to the man she intended to marry,” resumed Thatcher Colt, checking off the points of charac- terization he had drawn forth by his questions. ‘Sends ‘little pres- ents home to the family every week, although her salary is small and her father is worth perhaps fit thousand dollars. A girl who is “tind to her mother, father, brother. Within three days of her and poof! she disappears, after that curious conversation you had with her over the telephone.” “Oh, there must be some way of tracing her!” exclaimed Betty, with a quiver of her lovely eyes, | “Easy does it, Betty. I’ve only just started—and I. want to go right on. Mind? Now, this after- | noon you referred to your friend's Miverepy by ANTHONY Copyricitr BY COVIC!, FRIEDE,INC., —* DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. (NG to Police Commissioner Thatcher |P) employers Doctor Humphrey Mas- kell.” “They call him ‘the laughing doctor of Washington Square,’” said Betty, with a toss of her head. “Who calls him that?” “His patients and his friends. Geraldine told me.” hee Thatcher Colt was refilling his ipe. "So you think Doctor Maskell has any idea where Geraldine is?” he asked amiably. , 4 “She was quarrelling with him before I called up. And I wouldn't put anything past him. I think T told you his own family won't speak to him.” A Fine Family. | “Sometimes that is a compli- ment,” said Thatcher Colt, “but not in this instance. There is not a better trial lawyer in New Yor! City than George Maskell. The father is a retired architect, de- signed the Tablature Building and three or four others—made mil- lions—why, Betty, it’s a very fine family.” ‘ ; “All fine families have their dark mutton,” declared Betty. “Often Geraldine has sat in that very chair you occupy now and told me about Doctor Maskell and his family. His own other, George, the lawyer, has not visited him in ‘twenty long years. I think that the doctor did sometimes see his father, but not often. There was a very strange situation in that family. I think Geraldine al- ways had the suspicion that the doctor was a little mad. He was given to unexpected and unex- plained absences and he had a mad passion for chopping down trees— he laughs about it and says he is imitating the exiled Kaiser in Doorn and that he loves the swing of the axe.” “But you still haven’t told me why the family doesn’t like Doctor Maskell?” urged Thatcher Colt. “I don’t know—but I do know] fi that I have always found the per-| las! sonality of the man repelling and I wanted Geraldine to leave him long ago. I believe he could tell us about Geraldine this minute if he chose.” “But that’s just a hunch?” “Of course.” “Maybe it is the doctor who won't have anything to do with the rest of the family—the boot may be on the other foot,” sug- gested Colt. “Anyway, there's nothing so far to confirm your hunch, Betty, or to connect Doctor| ti: Maskell with the matter in any ig ” he admitted there was not, and he sat back tho ull) “Betty,” he rematiea. “nave b is opal fotinn So 2p not being ,ent ra ith me about Doctor Maskell.” She flushed slightly. : “I am trying to tell you every- thing. All’ that I know is what Geraldine told me. She was very anxious about him. She always said he wasn’t as wild as he liked to make out. But she found out tall, last Spring that detecti followin ¥ Be ga and she. ‘aie ys believed his il = oiyed then” : family had efn "Geo laskell, you mean?” “Or Mes. George, the gorgeous Portia, who made such a hit in the Welkes bad check case. Or even the doctor’s father. They are en Hp, he ie of their iberalism, ht death that the doctor will rey Ras that you are| back this thing to disgrace them. He is a fighter when he drinks, you know —but he has been a total abstainer now for several years.” 2 Thatcher Colt smiled with a kind of mild amusement. “How much our employes know about our private affairs,” he re- marked. viel Betty Canfield flushed with in- dignation. “Mr. Colt—” “Easy, easy,” interrupted the Commissioner, “I meant no offense.” “But Geraldine talked to me about her employer because I did not like her working for the doc- tor—I distrusted him.” “Again—why ?”” “Instinetively, as I told you. That feeling led us to talk a good deal about him. Geraldine would come home and tell me how he ¢| raved against his own family, be- cause they shut him out—calling his sister-in-law a money-grabbing banshee, making fun of her draw- ing and singing, and calling his own father a deceived old man. Geraldine used to feel badly about it. And when Mrs. Maskell—the doctor's sister-in-law—went to Eu- rope last Summer, I think the doc- tor tried to make it up with George. But it didn’t work and the doctor cursed around the office so that again I tried to make Geraldine resign.” anne ae momidnter jo—she lil im as I cielived him? ae MUS ‘olt nodded thoughtfully. “Betty,” he said suddenly, “You menitoned sat vane Toom-mate etimes stayer = ends and holidays." EE “Occasionally,” ce ene nee Royal Blood. | “Did she al abgut her personal matters?" 7° e used to, but not 1; H often talked with me abet’ ane jealousy of Harry Armstrong, her fiance, for instance, but for the st few months she has grown gulte fecistive. pier since she be- re f lood in her veing” sates rare anther Colt leaned forward. Betty?" made her say that, “Some one had wri pepct her family ie wed see, H her ar hey! then? PPet falling - “I don’t mean th fonnection. But she did ns her ing to herself—most oF the €thaps you may save hi you know, by telling enue you know—or suspect.” ‘I don’t know an: » And esides—suppose she were to cme ing you” tute and find me tell- rotesquely enough there a ring at the doo then, Beer sditied ide & wel sed who seemed surprised Gee any pl there. Old Ei hag father of the ieee i 2 eyes aaa ed an which dangied “et? tides gave him a helpl it was almost as tall as he, but ped deed round face was 7 ir eyes ay r hind double-leneed peo ded ‘a Atter the introduction Thatcher for their daughter, = wires (To Be Continued Tomerrow.) o Bhs ro Sei ant ce Shas vo » $ *