The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1932, Page 4

4 _,_ She Bismarck Tribune y a" (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune mpany, Bismarck, N. D., and en- ‘ed at the postoffice at Bismarck as rod class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. ~ * | Subscription Rates Payable in . A@vance ily by carrier, per yea ly by mail per year marck) eekly by mail in state, three by mail outside of North Dakota, per year .............. 1.50 eekly by mail in Canada, per Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation , Member of The Associated Press Vrne Associated Press is exclusively iititled to the use for republication ] all news dispatches credited to it not otherwise credited in this 2wspaper and also the local news of Tontaneous origin published herein. 41 rights of republication of all other atter herein are also reserved. 3 (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives MALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) NEW YORK BOSTON 1 ris 1 «HICAGO j., Bismarck Is Favored git Bismarck’s general taxpayers save cause for worry they also have Ruse for satisfaction when they ‘Ompare their lot with that of per- ms in some other localities. A little news item from Winnipeg, Tinted in this newspaper recently, brves for illustration. It said mere- 7 that Monsignor A. A. Sinnott, wehbishop of the Roman Catholic hurech in Winnipeg, had notified Mayor Ralph Webb that the Cath- Ne schools in Winnipeg would close n January 1. It was just a little item but one f vast significance to the taxpay- rs of Winnipeg. Under the situa- ion created by efforts of the Cath- Me church to provide its own chools, the general taxpayer has veneffted. Construction of parochial chools has reduced the size of the wblic school plant needed. Employ- nent of Nuns or other private teach- ws has reduced the public teaching yeyroll. At the same time, because ull of these activities are of a pri- ‘ate nature, members of this church “yave contributed to the support of he public schools on the same basis s$ persons whose children attend hem. On January 1, therefore, the city of Winnipeg must make provision for educating these children who neretofore have attended parochial schools at no cost to the city. It isa strain which it cannot easily with- stand in these troublous times. Win- nipeg taxpayers will groan under new burdens. In happy contrast, Bismarck’s fine parochial school continues in opera- tion, Under the able direction of the Very Rev. John A. H. Slag, rector of St. Mary's and school superinten- dent, it has taken great strides for- ‘ward in recent years and its scholas- tic standards meet the highest state requirements. It maintains the city's Jargest school building without ex- pense to the public and it educates ‘8 many cnildren as attend the pub- lic high school. To be sure, the reason for main- faining this school is to give the children of Catholic parents ade- quate religious training and instruc- tiom, but the effect is the same as h she deliberate intention were to relieve the taxpayer of an im- portant percentage of school taxes. Tt is apparent that members of the congregation of St. Mary's pro- cathedral have made real sacrifices to build up and maintain this insti- tution. They are to be congratulated for having done so. And Father Slag ts to be congratulated for pro- viding the initiative and business management which has made St. the parochial schools of the state. In the present state of the public fimances we can be especially glad that we will not have to confront \the situation which faces the school } administration in Winnipeg. Those ;in charge of Bismarck’s public schools, who have cooperated splen- | didly with the parochial school auth- , orities, are frank to voice this senti- ‘ment. Rearing a New Standard ‘Those who hold to the theory that Mary's school outstanding among] Poses. culture to a “self-respecting and pro- fitable basis”; stabilization of the value of the dollar with respect to the prices of commodities; reduction of governmental expenditures and! revision of tax laws. Harriman assertS that 3,000,000: men have been put to work on aj Part-time basis by the share-the-! | pork thovement but that 3,000,000! more would find jobs on the same| basis “if the banks, the transporta- }tion companies, the stores and other} retail concerns will face the problem! as squarely as have the manufac- turers.” { Harriman’s statement indicates recognition of a fact which has a Profound bearing on our present situation and will continue to grow; 50 | increasingly important as the years pass. That is the rapid development} of productive facilities without an attendant increase in the capacity to consume, the wherewithal to ob- tain the things to consume or the time to consume, Nearly anyone will agree that if all the men who would like to do pro- ductive work on our farms and in our factories would work six hours a} day, there would be more than enough of everything to mect the nation’s needs and permit everyone | to live in the utmost of comfort.| The productive capacity is clearly there and it will grow larger rather than diminish. The difficulty lies in making the! necessary adjustments. For organ- ized groups to demand shorter hoica| with no decrease in pay obviously cannot be the answer. That is mere- {ly selfishness. Whatever is done to bring about this adjustment must be on such a scale as to benefit all rather than just a few. The task involves the rearing of new social and economic standards, adjustments in business, finance and commerce and a rather concerted ef- fort on the part of the people of this nation as a whole under competent, just and enlightened leadership. It must not destroy competition or work injustices as between large and small concerns in the same line of business. Can it be done? The history of the past proves that it can be. If it is done it will only be carrying on the trend which, as Harriman says, “has been apparent since the begin- iing of the industrial era.” A. W. Robertson, chairman of the board of Westinghouse Electric com- pany, says: “In the last half-cen- tury science and engineering, inven- tion and design have occupied the center of the stage and carried for- ward material progress, through the Production of wealth beyond the dreams of any previous generation. But social invention, the development of methods for the application, dis- tribution and enjoyment of these new riches, these new powers, have not kept step with the mechanical.” It is remarkable how similar are the ways of thinking of the so-called “big shot” and the man in the street. Now if someone would only do some- thing about this social engineering problem. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies, Tax-Exempt State Lands (Emmons County Record) As a result of foreclosures by the Bank of North Dakota and the pub- lic lands department 8,140 acres of Emmons county improved farm land has been removed from the tax rolls. This total represents 7,340 acres taken over by the Bank of North Da- kota and 800 acres by the public land department. They represent an in- vestment by the state of $11.99 per acre on the average. These figures were compiled from records in August this year, and the acreage that has been foreclosed since and that will be removed even- tually as additional foreclosures take place, will be far in excess of that total. A township has 36 sections, and each time a section of land within a township comes into possession of the state, it no longer pays a tax for either township or local school pur- . The result is that those who still own their land, and pay taxes thereon, are obliged to take over the portion of the tax load that former- ly was carried by the land the state now owns. It is this shrinking of the tax base that has created havoc in many townships and school districts, with heavy additional tax loads shoulder- ed on‘ those who are overburdened with their own load. It is one of the reasons why many of the townships are unable to pay their school teach- ers’ salaries and to meet other ex- penses of their districts. It is estimated that there are ap- proximately 700,000 acres of land in the state that have been taken off the tax lists in this way. ation when the state first went in- farm loan business, but in the has been in operation the on foreclosed lands has until it is now one of the in the attempt to | many cases where farms foreclosed by the state have been rented or put in on sharing basis and the state s F FEL 4 i a Pit PRE-INAUGURAL_ THE OLD PACAYDERA AT THE CRossraans ! — 4 SERENADE! “THE LAME DUCK. MIGHT SING THIS i PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease | diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instruc- tions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. OBDURACY IS SOMETIMES RIGHT | glassful of water. If there is anything A lady writes that she is much in- terested and instructed and often ben- efited by what she reads in this col- umn, She thinks I amt right about the value of a little sweet or sugar in some form just before an athletic contest, judging from her son's suc- cess in swimming and other sports. The lady mentions some other things I have taught here, that she believes correct. But she says I am a little obdurate about the question of taking cold. It does not hurt her, so‘far as she knows, if she gets her feet wet on the way to the office and they remain wet till they dry gradually. But still I am unreasonable when I demand positive proof that ordinary exposure to cold or wet will cause illness. Now she goes with bare arms much of the time, yet sometimes if she feels cold upon the arms she begins to sneeze or cough right away, and then if she puts on a sweater or other cover to protect the exposed arms, she stops sneezing or coughing immediately. Again, she sometimes begins to sneeze or cough while attending some concert or other gathering, but if she quickly holds her handkerchief to her throat, which seems to be @ little chilled, she stops coughing at once, whereas otherwise she would keep on a good deal. To clinch the argument, she knows a lady who says getting her feet wet invariably makes her take cold, This infallible person has some trouble with her throat... With all patience and equanimity let me interpose an obdurate No, no, to all the illustrations cited. Even the old time doctors or health officers who still mumble that expo- sure to cold “lowers resistance” hardly dare say that the illness they imply @ person contracts as @ consequence of such exposure develops immediately. There is always an ominous incul tion period, of hours or more fre- quently days after the exposure be- fore the illness develops, in pneu- monia, grip, or any serious illness you can name. Notwithstanding the teachings of quacks, no honest or intelligent physi- cian pretends that an instant or im- mediate cure Sis ges Simone el illness is possible, by any 5 Then how can the trouble the Iady ascribes to chillng of her bare arms be cured immediately by the covering of the arms? Our correspondent says her friend who invariably takes cold when her feet get wet has some trouble with the throat. ‘For instance we may assume the sensitive individual has simple chronic sore throat, or some low grade chronic rhinitis. Such @ condition is of course abnormal. As a rule per- sons with such chronic nose or throat trouble are oversensitive to any trif- ling variation in the air temperature, or the amount of clothing, or other factors which affect body comfort. They stuff up and run at the nose or begin sneezing or coughing or feeling increased discomfort in some part of the respiratory tract upon the slight- est change of environment, which is not at all disturbing to a healthy per- son. I dare say our correspondent herself has some such chronic trouble in nose or throat, as an examination would disclose. But, like thousands of others similarly disposed, she has not sought medical examination or advice as yet, because her trouble has not given suf- ficient annoyance to convince her she needs such advice. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Ben Is Back I am dieting faithfully and getting better, but I’d like to get away from, insulin just as soon as possible as I) like trench mouth (Vincent’s angina) @ solution of a teaspoonful of sodium perborate in a half pint of water is a good mouthwash. As a simple anti- septic mouthwash nothing is better than a solution of a heaping tea- spoonful of boric acid in the pint of water. For persons trying to break the toothbrushing habit and obsessed with @ feeling that the mouth is not clean, no mouthwash, but rather eat an orange, or an apple, or any other fresh fruit, preferably sour. Fistula Veteran, has tuberculosis, suffering for past three months from fistula. One doctor against operation which he claims will never heal. The other advises the operation. Patient has been under tuberculin treatment. His ‘tuberculosis is considered arrested at present. (Mrs. D. C. W.) Answer—I should think the opera- tion advisable. However, the patient's own physician can best judge whether it should be done now. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) eZ Just because you have lost one bat- tle, you haven't lost the war.—Sergt. Alvin C. York, World War hero, at pH neioon League national conven- tion. x * The farm is about as good as any- thing right now, I guess.—Marcel Zink, Verona, Wis., farm lad, former International Live Stock Exposition champion, wd * This is just the end of. the glacial |) era. , Unless there is a new eruption of mountain ridges, we can expect the polar ice caps to melt away.—Dr. R. E. Wilson, former Massachusetts In- jaaiate of Technology professor. * * * A man or woman who suddenly re- tires after having been in business for the greater part of his or her life, generally dies. And I don’t want to die—Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the vice president-elect, intimating she will continue to share her hus- band’s work. ' *# & # Yes, bull-fighting is commercial. After this coming season, I may have enough to retire, buy @ ranch, and settle down with a wife. I figure I might just as well be happy as the bulls.—Sidney Franklin, Brooklyn ma- tador who became the idol of Spain. ‘There are more ultra-violet rays in afternoon sunshine than in the morning sunshine, FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: } I'm glad there is no prohibition against the Demon Rhum-ba. HORIZONTAL’ 1 Narrative poem. 5 California produces most [FF of this crop in the U. S. A. 10 Rainbow. 14 Chestnut, 15 Maturer, 16 Organ of smell, 17 Kiln. (8 Music drama. 19 East Indian plant, 20 Walrus, 22 Pog. 24 Paradise. 26 Chancel part. 27To vend. 30 Oue who rows, 32 Den, 36 Ring of a bell. 37 Tanning tub. 38 Harp instru- ment. 39 Seaweed. 40 To procreate. 42 Recompense, 43 Chinese LLIAINGIMIUIT | IDEM ADIL MATT [OR 45 Pike, 47 Starvation, 50 Minority. 54 Money chang- ing. 55 Tendency. 59 Hod. 60 To curse. 61 Beer. 62 Single. 63 Before. 64 Like a nephew. 65 Little mass, VERTICAL. 1God of love. have been told a person who takes it can live only (a number of) years. . (B, J.) Answer—Many diabetes A 5 f E Kindly a formula for an ef- fective Ki deablyes be used in aa ‘traffic accidents luring months of 1932. shows that an average of 39,814 were flown for each accident 1g this period. Miles flown per accident were 357,752. EERE clearing a furred tongue btown taste, a mixture of equal parts | of water, lemon juice and glycerin is good. If you lave pyorrhea I sugges! as a mouthwash a solution of five a drops of tincture of iodin in a nait| cr Be Answer to Previous Pazzle (pl). es 11 Part of plant, 2 12 Small island, 13 Part of gun- 2 lock, 21 Natural power, 23 Type measure, 25 Romance tale, 26 Pepper nut, 27 Spring. 28 Snaky fish. 29 To loiter. 31 Joker, 33 Yes. 34 Wrath. RLS AITILIEIDE ISICIOIS} IIe Lise 2To lay a 36 Scarlet. street. 40 Insect 3 Virginia wil- (Coleoptera) low. 41 Level treeless 4 One plan to plains, settle war 44 Av debts. 46 Company. 5 Farmer. 47To grow dim. SLaceration. 48 Ceylon moss. 7 Monkey. 49 Buffon. 8 By. 51 In a line. 9 Rather pencil 52 Festive array. end. 53 Stared. 56 Knock. 57 Self. 58 Fishing bag. 10A modern method of baying bills Pow CONT :Gilbert Swan SHOPPE TALK New York, Dec. 16.—Manhattan’s odds and ends, but chiefly odds: Di- vision Street, down by the Brooklyn bridge and the old “Five Corners,” witnesses a return of the old-fashioned milliner. . . Way, way back, when New York was younger and gayer, this was the very heart of the fash- jonable hat and dressmaking belt. . . Paris styles, which now blossom in Fifth Avenue or in 57th Street, were then copied in little lofts by hand- workers. . . But they went when the swanky uptown shoppes flourished. . . Now that a long lull has thrown doz- ens out of work, they are back, com- Peting with the shops that still try to collar sailors as they pass and sell @ cheap suit—willy-nilly. . . J Incidentally, several of the smartest places in the uptown zone were started by graduates of the East Side. . . Only the other day, I noted that Hat- tie Carnegie’s exclusive place was su- ing the wife of the recent mayor, Jimmy Walker, for a large bill... . This place, I am told, was one of the ‘ansplanted shops which now boasts @ swank trade. * * * | BEWILDERED ‘CELEB’ The most active visiting author to arrive in Manhattan for many a month is Leon Feuchtwanger, author of “Power,” and—more recently— “Josephus.” One of Germany's most brilliant and thorough penmen,, he can't get! used to the indiscriminate manner in which strangers call him on the phone, asking to come up and see him or to get his autograph or to invite him to ;® tea. Nor has he learned yet how to dodge them. With the result that he has made an astounding number ae be filled with leather pants and yodelers. .. He even ponste @ zither. * * ‘JAMBOREE’ An actress now attracting more than a bit of attention was, until a few weeks ago, a Bronx housewife. . . She is Mrs. Marie Kenney, cast in a Mae Western sort of role in “Jamboree,” old-fashioned melodrama. .. She made her first stage appearance on Broad- way—right off the bat, like that!... Which‘has almost never happened be- fore. . . Last summer she spent @ va- cation at a near-by resort... A little theater had been established there and the Bronx matron became inter- ested. . . Now she has a star role. .. Incidentally one of the authors of the Play is Jack Black, a reformed convict who attracted the attention some years Ago of Fremont Older, San Francisco editor, and who has writ- ten many prison stories in the years between... He says the play is based on a real experience in a wild-western jail where he was doing @ few months. . . One of the gold town’s hot mammas managed to get him out and helped him to catch a train out of the place. ————__—_———_+ Barbs -—S | ‘Washington's famous cherry trees won't blossom until spring, but Dem- ocrats expect plums to be ready for picking thereabouts as early as March 4, | o * * * Under Premier Mussolini's am- nesty proposal, Italy's political prisoners will be freed on their promise to accept the Fascist regime “as an accomplished fact.” Prisoners, after all, could hardly argue with that conclusion. xe * In 500 years population will be so large, says a doctor, that there hardly will be standing room for mankind. What a chance for street car con- ductors! se * Odd, isn’t it, that traffic lights so often show green in both directions, according to the testimony after two! Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity, was announced Thursday. They are Harvey Gunderson of Grand Forks, Caroline Moore of Beu- lah, Hugh Moore of Carrington, Merle Janice Schroeder of New England and Carl W. Solenberger of Douglas. The $25 Beta Gamma Sigma cash prize was awarded to Donald L. Peter- son of Harvey for the highest two- year scholarship record of students entering the school of commerce this year. EDMORE WOMAN DIES Edmore, N. D., Dec. 16.—(?)—Mrs, Ole Stevens, 70, died from heart dis- ease at her home here, As & young woman she came to North Dakota from Iowa, where she was bors. MOORHEAD MAN DIES Fargo, N. D., Dec. 16.—(?)—Jack Bryce, 60, died Thursday in a Fargo hosital after a week's illness with pneumonia. During the last seven years he had been a clerk in a con- fectionery store in Moorhead. ‘The Statue of Liberty is construct- | ed of bronze, ‘HIZHO | Trade Mark Ret. U.S. Pat. Of, CangYou Make This — | With These t Pieces? ‘The Number 1 of public appearances. Asked the this?” * % € BIRTH OF AN IDEA Ellery Queen, mystery tale writer, T am told, now carries a mask around as @ gag, donning it at public func- tions. .. Whereas Jerome Kern’s idea for an operetta laid in Bavaria grew out of a week-end place in the Con- necticut hills. . . This scrivener often dons leather breeches, Alpine hat and high boots when certain guests are cofning. . . Usually the disguise gets a other day how he kept it up he re-/0n both pet ae Plied: “Didn't I go through a war i and a revolution? .. . So what is} Putting friendly advice together, | laugh. . . This time, it inspired an|Election of five University of North idea. . . Kern ran right home gnd|Dakota seniors in the liberal arts col- went to work on a piece which would}lege to membership in Phi Beta crashes, but never seem to signal stop | the cheapest way to cure a cold | Sn eenae * * Most things bought at a high price last longer—but not so with New Year's resolutions. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) | i Slope Students Named HI-HO PUZZLE NO. 17—Did i (~] 5 l—] you By Scholarship Group now that the seven mystic HI-HO —— | pieces will form numbers, too? Here Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 16—()—|is No. 1. You can form it by cutting out the seven pieces and arranging them in the proper positions to make this silhouette. On Christmas Eve young and pretty Geraldine Foster disap- peared from the office of Dr. Humphrey Maskell, where she was employed. Mrs. Morgan, Mas- kell’s neighbor, corroborates his statement that he distributed gifts with her daughter that afternoon. Geraldine had broken her engage- ment with Harry Armstrong. It is also learned that the mysterious Ephraim Foster, who had written Geraldine, is a woman. A black- mail note, presumably written by the missing girl, leads Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt to a | deserted house on Peddler’s Road. Outside a window, he finds seven dead, blood-stained pigeons. The interior of the house is topsy- turvy. Colt comes upon a bloody axe and a strand of blond hair. Betty Canfield, Geraldine’s room- mate, identifies the body of a nude woman, found buried a short dis- girl. A pillow case covers the head. Although the surrounding ground is dry, the grave contains @ pine-scented fluid. The medical examiner states she was dead not more than 36 hours. Two bottles, similar to those seen carried away from the doctor's office by two women the day of the disappear- ance, are found near the grave. CHAPTER XVI. “S in trouble, then lured her up here and killed her. There’s too much of this sort of thing going on—too any crimes of passion.” said Dougherty promptly. cate in as face,” declared Dougherty. “All we have to do is to find who owns this house and have a talk with | some of her boy friends.” Thatcher Colt lit his pipe. “Yes,” he said. “And by the way, Hogan, I know you think you have a clue in that package you have there. Is that a Christmas Present you have found?” “Yes, it is—it’s a silk muffler,” said Hogan. “I found it under the sofa. 1 would like to hang on to it for a while, if you don't mind.” N A Step Ahead. | “Not at all—lI've already had a look at it,” answered Colt agree- ably. “Also, I have telephoned downtown and found that this house is owned by a Mrs. Haber- horn, who rents it out. It will be as you say, simple to find out the her tenant—if the tenant her his real name. And, by way, I am temporarily remov- some evidence from the scerie.” lifted the pany, case and over his shoul der. it’s insid ES in, pigeons,” answered ‘About midnight ad me at Headquarters, will you, ug » and we will go over what we have. Mind?” “Okay,” said Dougherty, and added after a moment’s thoughtful haven’t arrested the “You won't!” chuckled the Com- missioner, and with a nod to me, he led the way down to the street. Ean el the ambush of a squad newspaper reporters, waiting to obtain itcher Colt’s version of the Peddler’s affair, we hurried on toward the Commissioner’s office. As we entered the octagonal reception room, with its old fashioned wood- work its transoms of stained glass, a curious sight met our eyes. + Most of the people concerned in the mystery of Geraldine Foster were gathered before us, their hag- i Copyriettr BY COVICI, FRIEDE, INC, — DISTRIBUTED BY KIN® FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC rd eyes staring up inte our;der if those blundering fellows up ave found tance away, as that of the missing |T OME lover of hers did it,” “He probably got the girl “Perhaps,” murmured Thatcher the nose on your ‘aces. For the moment, I wasjon Peddler’s Road startled Ae ae sight of such an organized and appropriate convo- cation, Then I realized that by the telephoned orders of Thatcher Colt all these people had been quickly. brought to Headquarters. See the Commissioner, the father an mother of the murdered girl stood up with pathetic ess, They guessed the truth without having been told. Thatcher Colt spoke to them briefly and in low tones, while my glance leaped around the room. Among the others gathered in the waiting room were two |bef< young men whom I judged to be ruce Foster and - strong. Neither resembled Geral- dine, so I could not tell which was the brother and which the lover. Aloof from these others and look- ing pee and worn sat Betty Can- ie The Last Detail. | With another reassuring word to the parents, Thatcher Colt hast- ened on into his private office and I followed him. On the desk he laid the pillow case with the dead pigeons. Then he dashed on into a small retiring room—a partition affair built for his personal use—and al- ‘most instantly I heard the sound of rushing water. Mr. Colt was taking a shower. In an amazii short time, he came out completely redressed, as immacu- late and fashionable as if the hour were morning and he were just reporting for work. leanwhile, I had been busy. I laid out on the desk the various objects I had carried—among them the envelopes of hair, the face cloth with the crimson stains, the watch and the axe, which I had wrapped in a newspaper. ‘or the next few minutes I was busy on the telephone, calling vari- ous officers for the Commissioner. Presently the Devaty Chief Inspec- tor arrived, followed by Doctor Clesleek, one of the most scholarly ly the Medical Examiner, Without parley, Thatcher Colt issued a series of » orders. He wanted the owner of the house on Peddler’s Road found at once and brought downtown. A detective must also be sent to Wis- ner’s, a chemist’s shop on Madison ree, to find out what was con- in three large tain Me x 4 sent upon the w Doctor Maskell on Christmas Eve, “Funny Colt. “ ight add that those bottle: i Te the bark of Ne , eee ine trees.” - Without pau: he then gave instructio: amit the refuse under municated ‘tions, not a Also something from the hand of the dptecti the hand of the moat a 0! loth four “What ye sible,” will do my Colt next made a dinary request of Dr. Clesleek. “In the rig case on ay ded ik are some dead pigeon: he said. “Can you exam ine deaa peeae and a ef one they have been dead? i fn sstepay on pigeons? “No,” sighed Dr. Clesleek, “I'll Following the officers, Clesleek officers, > his arms full of dead birds, lefé the room. ‘ony,” Colt eried, “I won- do A, chemists attached to the office of}, thi amned funny thing. You|She Geraldine’s clothes yet. I assigned three of them just for that job. Now let me see. The Deputy Chief Inspector took the envelope with the parings from her nails. They yeu show us something, too, I c. lis eyes were gleaming with the zest of the hunter, as he sat at his desk and lit his pipe. “Ask that poor old couple to come in, Tony.” Mr. and Mrs. Foster trudged into the office and sat in chairs lore the Commissioner’s desk. Fagg were making a great effort fe old ea ae see paepaia ery gently er Colt gave them a part of the story. Then he began urging upon them the im- portance of their remaining calm in the face of the tragedy and giv- ing what help they could to the Department. “Mr. Colt,” rumbled old Ed- mund L. Foster, raising his red need over ae seed vimanas my daughter was a got gins and don’t forget that!” . voice was ing with great feeling. His wife not look at him. With her two hands laid against her breasts, she stared fixedly through her glasses. But there were no tears on the strained face of the mother. “I am sure that Geraldine was a good girl,” returned Thatcher Colt earnestly. “But, Mr. Foster, you remember the key that we found in her pocket. Are you sure that you know nothing of that key?” “Nothing,” avouched Mr. Foster in his impassioned bass, ] A Possible Motive. | ————_—_ Thatcher Colt then explained that the key fitted the house on Peddler’s Road. He questioned the father about the friends and acquaintances of his shter, Mr. Foster liked them all. He thought sweet little les, the chauffeur, for whom Ger- aldine had manifested a. pityi kindness. dpeaeoeies was, Geraldine in any financial “Bosh and bunk!” father. “I am no Sees ht have one hundred thousand dollars wrote that —