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Ay onthe STAIRS Pl BEGIN HEN Detective Bergeant John Hur Ing the evening with hia feiend Remyonoy, in the latter's 1ooms . TODA & spond Professer on e fifth floor of a New York apartment house, | wnd Thoy A revolver shot is heard from holow then hurrylng footsteps on the stalrs rush downstairs and in the studlo upart ment on the third floor cupnnt, & beautitul wor the floor | A bullet has just GO ON WITH Bergeant Barry made no but gently dropping the limp, n, Iving deud on front of wn unduished poitralt plerced her Lreast discovers tie oc- | | i NTORY comment | started a swift, comprehensive search, of the spartment, From just behind him over his shoulder a large reflector threw the powerful light whose re- fracted rays had penetrated even into' the outer hall; back of the easel and ot one side where the artist could obtain the best view of it stood na small, improvised model throne with three steps and a section of balus- | trade, and back of it again the drawn shades over a rew of half-opened windows flapped In- the ittle, hot breeze which had sprung up with the passing of the threatened storm. 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When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the Lidney region it generally means you have been cating foo much meat, says a well- known authorit Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they beeome gort of paralyzed and 1oggy. . When your kidneys get siug- glsh and clog you must reiieve them, like you relieve your bowels; remov- ing all the body's urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spell vour stomachs ours, tongue is coated, and when the weath- {opal-tinted ““'”"':nul revealed the sheer beauty of the other oceipa ). head back upon the rug he rose and |arrangements of the room, but Ser-|ny wheeled snddenly. ‘[ he turned to I TR ) I tubes | I p'ain | various sizes few orl of paint and hrushes, a chalrs and many canyases stucked againgt the alls completed the furnishings of | the workmanlike studio, the cefiing of | which was one huge skylght of g ag, and the deteetive turned back into the luxurious {iving rooms, his hand me- | chanleally searching for and Anding the light switeh in the wall, Instuntly the soft giow of many low lamps sprang into heing, keant Darry's eyes searched only for some aign of disorder that would In- dicate hurrled flight, and finding none he opened the door at the back. It led Into a boudoir uphelstered deli- cately In light blue and rose, and through that he passed into an ivory| and gold bedroom and to the tiled immaculate Kitchenettc beyond, but| nowhere was there a sign of alien presence. “The icebox contains only butter and cream, and that dress and hat upon the bed would indicate that Mrs. | Vane had dined out.”” the professor| observed, “Vane? Vane?"' Barry “Ia that who &ghe| is, the artist who has created such a stir with her new type of portraiture; among the celebrities?" Yes. Her portraits are dangerous- 1y near carlcatures, for some perverse Impulse has seemsed to guide her| brush althongh so subtly that her| clients themselves have rarely detect- ed that gardenically revealing touch! or two, but the critics have raved about her genius' The professor turned, Tt is evident that we ave too late here, for this Kkitcheneatte door leading into the outer hall | Mirlam | bolted from the inside; but someone | is coming.” Someone had indeed arrived. hastened hack to the living room to| find standing just within the door- way a young man in a dinner coni witl wildly rumpled hair, and a policeman in uniform. The latter advanced with Aggr sive anthority which suffered a sud- den change. “What's been going on here? heard a shot and I've been pounding below this young gentleman here let me in! Oh, you're here, Sergeant Barry! is is my regular beat, sir and thinking there was something, unusual “There is, Boyle.” Barry nodded grimly to the policeman. “In that studio yonder there's a woman lying shot through the heart!” A woman The young man the dinner coat repeated with a ga “Not Mividam Vane! It's impossibl He rushed past the group to the studio doerway, clung there for a mo- ment in wordless horror, then col- lapsed into the nearest chair, burying his face in his hands. Boyle was instantly all After a quick examination of the body sarrey. mind telling me, Ser- in- They | in “Would you geant?” he began but the other terrupted him “Not in the least, although we know very little. 1 was here unofficially, \visiting this old friend of mine, Mr. Semyonov, who lives on the fifth floor—two above this-——when we heard the shot and rushed down to investi- gate. There seems to be no one in the apartment directly above this 8ne, and 1 took the responsibility of break- ing in the door here because we could et no reply to repeated knocking and the light from the studie there i t a0 | | one 1or | “Well,” Boyle squa | tope T can. "| He busingss. NEW BRITAIN Le embrolied in any sueh You're here, and you'll Il we hear from headquarters raplied sgnificantiy the slay, sir ' Boyle | you're d tils gentieman | here on the 07t He Indicated the | with marked courtesy in the goant, and then young man in the chair You have the apartmont on the 4 floor, fust over the shop “he youpg man nodded without lift ng his head and replied with mufiled tones Yes, My na I heard you know, and went and let rou in *“*And that's all that live Jouset” Bayle looked 7 one to an- ther of thom but hin gaze foally astened 'pon the prafessor and letter coplie ' | YA wdy llves on the top foor, the | ahove mive, 1 do not know her. | the shop I can tell you nothing, | but there ie a or or snparintend. ent wlo geciples the bazenie /l- thongi i have never fo n there when vated for repairs other cergencl e M of ¢ flo on foupt aor ar professor de ference 1o ned to the n sir, fa Gosdon Ladd, | ing tant racket, you down to the entrance i in this the ne lo " no ding | Knowivd hanks tured agaln ¢ | | “YOULL, STAY TILL. WE HEAR FROM HEADQARTERS" BOYLE 1 2LLIED, | to the telephone and the municipal| nachinery of investigation into the leath of Miriam Vane was set in mo- tion, red his shoulders get what I'll ask you, sergeant, to e that these three gentlemen stay in this room. Don’t let one of them {put a finger on the corpse, either!” added the last in a hoarse whisper that must have been plainly audible to the entire group for even ithe young man in the chair, over- come with horror as he appeared, shuddered and as the policeman start- {ed up the stairway with a heavy tread (he raised a haggard face. “It can't ho!™ he muttered as if to| Ihimself. *“Not Miriam! 1 must be| gotng mad: { “So it's Mirlam Vane, the woman painter. that's been murdered, as that police officer said ?'" Griswold drew his dressing gown closer about his lean form, “I should like to know, sir, why vou banged on my door and dragged me into it?" He turned irascibly to the professor, who shook back his mane of bushy white hair and smiled with suave yrbanity. “My dear sir, the sound of the shot came from below my rooms some- where and my friend and I could not tell whether it came from your apart- ment or this one.” “I can tell when playing at ungodly hours over my head whether it comes from above or the top floor!” the other retorted. “] move down here, away from my club, and my office, and my bankers in order to get peace and quiet and 1 land in this sort of thing!"” A scream, shrill but subdued by distance floated down to them at this juncture and the professor murmured in an aside to Barry: | with a satisfied air, T hear a fiddle DAILY CAPE VERDE NEFDS HISKALLD, IUKSDAY, 1922 JANUARY 17, Another Anglo-Jap Alliance to] One of the most interesting of recent weddings in London as that of Gonuoski Komai, Japanese, poet, and Mary Nora How- ard Morgan, an English dancer. INHEDIATE RELIEF Faming - Conditions Cause 200, to Die Daily . Jan. 17.—Many residents of Islands are advocat ing an appeal to foreign countries for | retief from the famine conditions which have prevailed there for many months, says Jonquim de Macedo, an engineer, who has just returned from the islands. oThe Cape Verdes are controlled by Portn but the peo- ple declare that the mother country appears to have forgotten its colony ind to have left thousands of Portn- Verde bed conditions ibie. He said died gach day in the town of Prain in the summer & . nen the lamine was at its worst and that the bodies were left unburied to be devoured by dogs, ravens and hyenas. The people, like living skeletons, staggered about the streets until they feil® y population of one island, heen reduced by one-third and the si- lent, deserted streets “resemble a gi- gantic necropolis.” The chief cause of the famine was drought for the last three yeur Senor Macedo said the Cape Verdians had appealed to Portugal for aid hut had received only corn which could I dot be eaten by the weak and famine stricken people and that many of them were unable to buy it. Senor Macedo and others are ing to induce the Portugiese go ment to arrange a method by which the islanders can raise sufficient funds from the use of their cables to pay for an irrigation system and this plan has been approved by the Por tuguese president. This gives promise that the situaMon in the islands will be improved. 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