New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1922, Page 9

on lhem\STAlRS | (Continued From Our Last Issuc), The girl's slender figure did not re- semble the splendld, sensuously full lines of the body of Mrs. Vane save in its height, and the face was an in- distinguishable blur, but on a sudden inspiration Barry rose, still carrylng , the picture, and going into the studio he turned on the brilllant light with- in the reflector. Then he drew from his pocket a small but powerful mi- croscope, It proved of little ald be- yond showing that the blurred ob- Ject by the girl's slde was indeed a « large dog, for the photograph was too worn and faded, but on the re- verse side of the distinction between the pencil marks and pen scratches was plainly visible, and three words written in a round, girlishly formed hand were unmistakably vealed: ““Mopus would move." Then, standing almost on the same spot which the body of Miriam Vane had occupied in front of the easel, Barry used his microscope to scan every inch of the portrait with metic- ulous care, Straightening at length with a very grave expression up on his Dboyish countenance, he switched off the glar- ing lights in the reflector, leaving only the side brackets in the wall glowing softly, and crossing behind the por- trait he passed the model throne and went to the row of windows. When he raised the shade of one of them the empty house beyond the farrow strip of garden stood out more distinctly than hefore and a graylsh effulgence was spreading over the cloudy sky. The suitry summer dawn was at hand. Dropping the shade once more, Barry turned and reflectively regard- ed the back of the portrait upon the easel. The huge square of canvas was blank except for some numbers scrawled in charcoal on the upper left hand corner and a small cross in red paint «w little beiow center. I%or some minutes thesc enlgmatic char- actors occupied the cloge attention of the sergeant, thien Le turned off the Jast of the lights and left the studio, going directly to the outer h with- OUCH! BACKACHE! RUB LUMBAGO OR STIFFNESS AWAY st. Jacob's Oil stops any pain, so when your back is sore and lame, or lumbago, sciatica or rheumatism has you stiffened up, don't suffer! Get a small trial bottle of old, honest St. Jacob's Oil at any drug store, pour a little in your hand, and rub it right on your aching back; and by the time re- you count fifty the soreness and lame- | ness is gone. Don't stay crippled! This soothing, penetrating oil needs to be used only once. It takes the pain right out and ends the misery. It is magical, ab- solutely harmless, and doesn’'t burn the skin. Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatica, backache or rheumatism so promptly. 1t never disappoints’ . 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This famous salls is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate clogged kidneys; also to neutralize the aecids in urine 80 it no longer is a source of irrita- tlon, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in- jure; makes a delightful efferve Mthia-water drink which ever should take now and then to keep thelr kidneys clean and active. Try this, also keep up the water drink- ing, and no doubt you will wonder what hecame of your kidney trouble end backache. T WEEK — NEX —FOX—| | ANNIVERSARY ADDED FEATURES NO ADVANCE uni- |48 Barry off his microscope, ““The penciled words beneath the ink serawl ure ‘Mopus WOULD remove.' Now, as 1 make it out, that refers to the blur beside the figure of the girl, which under the glang resolves itself into a large Jbg of some sort."” Barry lald the lttle packet of | sketches before the chief and took his leave, It was broad daylight when Ihl' reached the street, and on reach- {ing the antlque shop found that a crowd had collected before its doors, Boyle's temporary successor and the plainclothes men were sharply inter- rogating a surly individual who was in the act of unlocking the basement door, At Barry's approach they him and stepped aside, “Are you the janitor of this bulld- ing?" he asked. “I am, Jacoh Kedge by what business is it of yours other replied truculently, eyelng detective sergeant up and down, “Come inside.” Barry drew out a sceond glance towaurd gresied houdoir and bedroom. Big Doane, seated upon the lowest step of the stalrcase, rose hastily and saluted, “One of the boys came up, sir, to find out about the light in that studio, but 1 fixed it with him,” he remarked, “Did you find the answer to what was Jing you, sergeant?” f I've found the answer to what was puzzling me, Doane,” he replied. “I've stumbled on a bigger mystery vet, and a blacker one.” He found at headquarters that Craig had alread turned in his report, and the chief was awaiting his own appearance with ill-concealed impa- tience, the and the the e, him do you think?" the chief “As {0 the identity of the murderer, sir?" Barry asked, cautiously. *“I'm quite certain that several people who might conceivably have killed Mrs, Vane did not do it, and that lets me out for the moment. However, I took it upon myself to do a little unofiicial investigating—'" *Of course! That's what 1 expect- ed you to do!" the chief interrupted eagerly, “The medical examiner hasn't performed the autopsy yet, naturally but from his account of the affair as| well as the reports of the boys from | the local precinct, and Boyle and Craig, It apears that the Vane woman' was ghot by some visitor, someone she| F knew well, and that she had no pre- [SE monition of the attack. There's one|™ e - queer point about the murder that the | Within the entrance door, closing it yress Is hound to pounce on and piay UPON the gaping knot of curlous up big, and yet I can't see any ex-|sightseers. “I'm from headquarters, planation; 1 thought perhaps you|in charge here with Sergeant Craig. might have some idea.” |1 suppose you know that one of your “What is that, sir?” Barry's tone |tenants has been murdered?” was guileless. ; “I ought to!" Iedge ejaculated. "here wore no powder marks on|'Your men have been badgering me the woman's smock, and the medical [ever since I got back. It's hard to sxaminer says that the shot must have | belleve hier cold in death! Why, it's [been fired from a distance of several [scarcely twelve hours since T was ‘cet at least.” king te her!" The chief paused. “Now, accord “Mrs. Vane knew tie other tenants ing to Boyle's report, Professor Sem-|in the house.” Barry remarked. vonov stated that when you and he! “Not that crazy Russian with heard the sound of the shot and whiskers, but she opened his door he heard foosteps on |the tep-tloor te © the stairs.” |she pa 1 her on the st Sergeant Barry smiled. ¢ young gentieman above was “The professor and 1 have a slight|crazy about her, as vou could difterence of opinion about the dirce-| With half an eye, and Mvs. Vane tion of the sound of those footsteps; | Mr. Griswold seenied to be old fr he believes that they were coming up, | from even before she came he while I am quite as certain that they| “Indeed!” Barry smiled engaging’ were descending,” he said. ‘“However, | “It seems to me now t he that’s not the main point. You are|Ss night wrong, I think, sir, though not in the ! way you mean. That ‘step on the stairs’ had everything to do witi tic murder!" “What-t!" his chair. “Has anyene given you a descrip- tion vet of the portrait which Miriam Vane was painting when,she met her death, sir?” asked Barry. “Only that it is a picture of Theodore Vansittart—" “Cloniing down a staircase,” Barry finished. “The THIRD STEP OF THE |, ¢ STAIRS is just on a level with the art- |~ —— = ist's breast as she sat on a stool be-| fore the casel, and there is a bullet hole in the canvas. Miriam Vane was shot through the heart by someone on the other side of the portrait!” Vi1, IFfor a moment the chief about to explode with the mingled emotions which consumed him. The fext he sank back in his chair and raised his powerful hands, to let them fall with a slam upon his desk. “A bullet hole through the por- trait!”” he exclalmed. *“And none of those no-nccount flatfoot dicks, not even the medical examiner himself, had eyes to see it! The reporters would have smoked it out and had a fine laugh on the department if it hadn’t been for you, John!" “No woman deliberately all signs of her former identity un- less she has a secret to hide, id Barry, “and I am not certain that a previous tragedy was not linked in some fashion with her life. The shot which killed her was not the first to be involved in her destiny. “The ribbon, dried flowers, and the halr and the locket- suppose every woman treasures just such things the world over,” com- mented the chief. ‘That empty cart- sidge, though. It must have meant something mighty serious to her, and we've got to find out what that some- thing is. The photograph is too fad- ed to be of any use as evidence, and whatever was written on the back has been scratched out long ago- “Look at it through thi OR A MOMENT MED ABOUT TO THE CHIER PLODE. the to i, M and nds, wher him Vane's covered. Didn't from the same city how anything ab. Vane come ori |1 dou't [All T know is that Mrs. { American, for ail she landed from J'rance like that young |Ladd, and she'd no more thax | | The chief sprang from was Mr you please. “Yes, he Mrs. must have been pleased seemed cathartic-laxative to bowels when you have Biliousness Indigestion Dizziness Sour Stomach {s candy-like Cascarets. One or two tonight will empty vour bowels com- The nicest physic your Headaches Colds THE AFFAI destroys | lace, QA iy WEYD Fay US OF F- ONCE| W AWHILE What Are You Doing || ‘SATURDAY NIGHT’ Cecil B. DeMille CROWALEY BROS. INt PAINTERS AND i DECORATORS 267 Chapman Street TEL, 765-12 tistimates cheerfu ziven on all iohs AND HIDE MY HAT AND TONIGHT, DIDN'T You P, WELL 'M GOING OUT [~ AND | DON'T KNOW WHEH 1L BE HOMZ! = —r RN XS S IR K D BRING HOME THE OYSTERS FROM HONISS’S ALWAYS FRESH 20-30 State Street Hartford Telephone 3374—3375 ut that. | here | the Lick got settlod thanshe sent me upstalrs with a2 note for Mr. Griswold, as formal as| had occurred at or about the time of | Surprised, he was, t0o.” to find that so charming a nelghbor| ton region. For Constipated Bowels— Bilious Liver RS Of DOINGS OF THE DUF: You THOUGHT You'D BE SMaRY SO THAT | COULDN'T & |F YOUL CHOOSE makes chapped hands smooth & comfy was an old friend."” Bar; guileless. “I'Il warrant tone Rave wis e you The janitor's repetition was an expressive as an onth, “Well, when [ gave him that note and he saw the writing on the envelope e jumped and got a littl t more green and then rubbed his ehin and smiled fn that siow way of his. At last he opened the not® and read it, and then he told me, still smiling, to tell Mrs Vane he would de _himselt the honor of calling on her In a few minutes, I remembered it because It was such a queer, old-fashloned way of putting {5 “And did he call?" A trace of eager- ness had crept into the ergeant’s volce, and Kedge became suddenly wary. “How should I know, sir? T deliv- ered his message to Mrs. Vane, and then went about my busines: Barry rose, left him and ascended | to the fifth floor. Professor Semyonoy door. “DId you succeed, sir?"” the detee- tive demanded cagerly. (Continued in Our Neat Issue). (Copyright, 1022, NEA Scrvice). opened the | EARTHOUAKES GAN NOW BE PREDICTED Movements and Changes Give Warnings of Approach Rerkeley, Cal, Jan. 24—Earth- qualkes can be predicted just as| weather conditions are now prediet- | ed, the University of California here | has announced, as a result of a recent | discovery by Professor A. €. jawson of the geology department that carth | movements are antecedent to, well | as consequences of earthquakes. i By making observations of the reep” of the earth, or the gradual | changes in latitudes, it can be told | when earthquakes are expected, the | iversity has announced. To study | the earth's movements, a photograph- | ic latitude telescope is to be installed | Lick Observatory. which is con- by the university on Mount car San Jose, Cai. | vements on a generai > big earthqoakes of 1 1906, it is Lelieved by the un -, The authorities also pointed t on the occasion of the 1908 juake, earth In the Boiinas re- Calitorita moved as much fee | that the acticeaiie over a big incted scatel ! prec Land of las twenty-four morement wis area Professcr f Lawson's tacuiaticas | rperidian circle obsceriations made at Obgervatory led to a sus- .| piclon, it was arnounced, that a change in the !atitude of Mount Ham- ilton, of small but appreciable amount a severe earthiquake of August 8. 100 which was local to the Count Hamil- e \pletely by morning and you wili feei taplendid. while stir Culome!, or work you tsleep.” arets never you up o gripe like Solts, Pill Oil and thoy cost oniy ten cents a hnx.i Chilidren tove Caseurets too, i ca of | BECOMING CHANGED Inhabitants and Once Hated Poles | on Friendly Terms Danzig, Jan. 24 This old Germun port on the Baltic, created u free city | by the treaty of Versailles in order to give the Poles nccess to the sea, It becoming internationalized and a cen ter of conflicting Interests, One of Danzig's largest stores ad vertises that nine languages are spok en by its cierks, and the colors ¢ ngland, Jrance, Poland, Italy Sweden, Lithuanta, Spain, Norway anc Denmark greet visitors ot the mair entrance, 1t 18 seldom that the Poles and the Danzigers agree on anything, and or ount the ieagne of nations hu 1 hlgh commissioner, General Haking an English army officer, on the ground to seltle disputes when pos sible, The Danzigers always contend the Poles want too much and th les say the Danzigers continually trying to give them the worst ol i cneral Haking says relations ween the two are really improving nd thai in the long run the l'ole wiil have al!! thet is due them by in ter-aliled agrecment, that the busi ess and life of some 300,000 Danzig will go on about as usual, ang that Danzig will prosper in tuture as a frec city just as the framers of the treaty of Versaiiles intended, But the great change in the Jifc of Danzig during the 'ast year and & hall has not been without recentment Recently the Danzigers have been openly opposing the influx of the I'olex on (he contention that unles cestrictions are enforced PPollsh work- men will soon foree thousands o, an laborers out of their posi this ac he tions. Thonsends of Poles have entercd Danzig for bhusiness purposes or in connection with government affairs by terms of convention and agree ments between Poland and the free g has its own postage stamps, mark continue city's currencey In many con nections where the Danzigers have the upper hand the name of the city spelled “Danzig”’ which is German, bat 'rever the Poics have the say it is called "Gdansk" which i o'ish. Danzig's news) tow cosmopolitan 1hout as an outeowie of the war. A touch of night iife and galety ha been given the city by introdyction o wbarcts and at Zoppot, subur!, gambling reeorts by the sea have be come quite famous throughout cen tral Kurope. of the aspect brought ers hoast FERENCIE ( GRAIN Gathering Of Eaporting Countries vo uscuss Markets wda. Montrea', Jan. 24.—Dlans are on foot confercnce of repregentati the grain ex- porting count r a general dis- cussion of grain marketing problems a 3, | of the worid J. D. Hyndman., chairman of the {fanadian federal grain inquiry board, | is the author of the plans and has re cently conclided a long correspond- ence with the governments of the United States, Australia and other na- tions. The proposal for this internationa conference, N Hyndman says, has heen favorebiy received and steps are being taken carry the plans intc efiect. The idea us proposed by the Canadian grain board is to create an tnternationa! organization to elimin- ate violent fluctuations in prices, to regulote the movement of crops more evenly, and to insure farmers steadier md more profitable prices, Ifirst mention of natural gas was made in 1667 in a letter to the Royal Society of England, city of Danzig under the ned arrange-! | ¢ For Infants and Children. 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