New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1927, Page 24

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1927. Love’s Embers “Revelations of a Wife” Adele Garrison”s Absorbing Sequel To Jeginning a New Serial | cays sha s golng riding if she can Iy who rides well to g0 s she can't stand it to iybody who can't take Dicky Vents His after 1 left me I Temper on Madge ompanted the remark ide glance at me which 00 busy to notice, but filed by that glance comprehension and pathy in it. She was the only horse- orhood who could she also knew rent rider, v rode the horse | Lo’! bor was sure. Dicky erfuge about his In addition to & clandestine, sness of the ; any call of his = = 1 be brought 5 His first words proved the truth As he heard my step he turned and his hion most of my theory on around the | “Have you ac- | to get 4 1k it would be too much ex- you to go out to the nd prod that pterodactyl got an engagement | s Lincoln at | nor Mrs s ¢ keeps me je I have to g0 z Newspaper Fea- ce, Inc.) By Thornton W. ER IS SORE damp places he found foot- prints In soft, smelled of them. He M ! the scent of little Mrs, s il 1 No, sir, he didn’t. The s v Wwas a new Cer- r that hand the scent of a rabbit, Now, he want rabbit. Peter was puz- | bt back to a little mud- looked at one of thoso A 5 prints closely. It certainly looks like Mrs. er's” said he to himself. “It ! ainiy looks like Mrs. Peter's 1 1 footy Tt the scent in it fsn't the scent of Mrs. Peter. Now, what o I to make of that?" I re Iu )l‘.’ no one to answer t that question, Peter finally moved « Ir on He would try to d the maker his of those footprints. After a time, of the Jie came to a | c-tangle. He Ted T re to approach it very cau- v He didn't want to be heard ) a ¥ > didn’t 1t to be scen. He t want to smelled. So, he of the Merry have a chance ) that bran the brambles, out some looked like looked s that he to her little Mr point e gr 1 and A i i oty ota STR & who this d the hand- Because She Took kam’s Vegetabic Compound ('0s 1927, by T. W. Burgess). Orego T next story Suspi- . \ ; ; c A 1 i alk. F was in 1 At 3 nd i | nd | ; \ 2 . e B olo REG. U. S. PAT OFF. - 7 BY NEA SERVICE.INC. ) smarter than men at They have to be! St., Ly all For sale matics BENSQ) by s. s. PHILO VANCE JOHN F.-X. MARKHAM ... ALVIN H. BENSON Well-known Wall Street broker and man-about-town, who was mystekiously murdered in his home MAJOR ANTHONY BENSON ...... .. Brother of the murdered man MRS. ANNA PLATZ MURIEL ST. CLAIR . LEANDER PFYFE . MRS. PAULA BANNI . ELSIE HOFFMAN ......... OLO\FL BIGSBY OSTRAN. \\ILL] AM H. MORIARTY GEORGE G. STITT ...... Of the firm of Stitt an MAURICE DINWIDDIE CHARACTERS OF THE STORY . District Atforney of New York County CAPTAIN PHILIP LEACOCK .... Miss St. Clair's fiance .. Secretary of the firm of Benson and Benson ouse!\eepet for Alvin Benson ..... A young singer Intimate of Alvin Benson’s +..... A friend of Pfyfe's DER A retired army officer ... An alderman d ’\IcCo\', pubhc ‘accountants Assistant District Attorney | night was filial affection. MURDER CASE VAN DINE © cuacues scpexe ses : —eh, what? And yet, even it she was there, her only crime that . On the other hand, there are several | alibis here which are, as one says, | cast-fron, — silly metaphor: cast iron's easily broken— and I hap- pen tosknow one of 'em !s spurious. So be a good fellow and have pa- tience; for it's most necessry that ely inspected.” Your Health How To Keep It— Causes of Illness BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Lditor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hy- gela, the Health Magazine The little discomforts of being |sick are sometimes hardest for the remain while the bottom and the u\o sldes are removed. A light cr:.L e or box such as is used for oranges or vegetables or canned | goods thus makes a cheap and | light-weight invalid's table. | Doctors Believe Man | A good suggestion has been made [to provide an inexpensive invalld's | | table for use with a bed-ridden pa- tient at home. It consists merely of a box about two or three feet long. The top and the two ends| Dynamited Life Aw Marlboro, Mass., Nov. 11 (UP)— Suieide by dynamite had been ad- D today by police as th of the death of an un whose mutilated body was found on | the shore of Lake Willlam a week ago. Exnmlnat(an of the hody by state detectives and Police Chief William O'Nell, and the discovery of a dyna- | mite wrapper near where the body vas found, led authorities to change their opinion that the man had been hit by a truck. An autopsy was te bas performed today. i URATED o 11 (UP)— ed here | res ul General | 1t and numerous Atbanian ofti- | Messages of fidelity were dis- olin. FASCIO INAU itari, Albania, cials, patched to Premler Maus ERNEST HEATH ..... Sergeant of the Homicide Bureau BURKE, SNITKIN, EMERY .........cccv0eenn.. G00L00s Detectives of the Homicide Bureau BEN HANLO Commanding Officer of Detectives assigned to District Attorney’s office PHELPS, TRACY, SPRINGER, HIGGINBOTEAM .... Detectives assigned to District Attorney’s office CAPTAIN CARL HAGEDORN ....... Fire-arms expert DR. DOREMUS .................... Medical Examiner FRANK S\\'ACKER «+... Secretary to District Attorney CURRIE tesessssssecssess Vance’s valet S.S. VAN'DINE ...ccecececnesessessss The Narrator THIS HAS HAPPENED Leacock confesses to the murder but Vance ses the confession as alletos St. Clalr. Vance | tells Markham to come to his apart- | ment and he will tell him who kill- ed Benson. When Markham comes a document on a strong cas-xi Markham set his jaw, and gave Vance a look of arctic ferocity. u expect me to go into court, T suppose, leading your victim by the arm, and say to the judg ‘Here's the man that shot Alvin Benson. I have no evidence against him, but I want you to sentence him to death, because my brilliant and sagacious friend, Mr. Philo| Vance, the inventor of stuffed perch, says this man has a wicked [ Vance hands him which is outlined «gainst Mrs. Platz. NOW BEG! . STORY + naturs 1 this p h several ti *hf'u\\l nr‘l:fl“ llS“;l‘:lf: ‘\ anceiEaeffan Balost L nere ! x S ceptible shrug. | 1l when he had | «t silent for ten min- en he rose and walked utes at the finished h utes more. “I sha'n't wither away with grief it you don't even arrest the guilty el L i |man. But I thought ft no more IR T ey St e [IRER SR G Sl e i remarkon Vance. . “put 3 | Mas it only to stop you from chiv : vying a se innocent people.” Tiiile. aver ot seand Fuser) feswia)|Yoins:all these innocent peoy “All right—tell me: and let me mderstand it o1, o e, ca 3 ”» ;"‘“_x““;y 'm‘“[ r“v“l.‘, of :;’“:’mi aM get on about my business. T : " | T don't believe there was any deck it with inum-rable meaning- | o oo "s" Clestion in Markham's phrases and recondite legal | ming that Vance actually knew {who had killed Benson. But it w; did not answer at once, by the French windows down into the street. inot until considerably later in the f | morning that he fully understood and looked | why Vance had kept him for day | et o | upon tenter-hooks. Tes, T think you ve made ouf | " wyen, at last, he did understand |case. . . . Extraordinary! I've won- |y, “y € B0 B5S 0 e dere from the first what you were | ‘o ont e was ange to the limit getting at; and your questioning | oo pi "ot of Platz yesterday impressed me as | @ . 0f T one or two things pointless. I'll admit it never oc- l¢pae must be done before T can re- curred to me to suspect her. Ben- [ o) the gentleman's name,” Vance | fon must have siven her goed fiini yoo FLpilSRT TR e & el peep at those alibi He turped —and came slOWIV|™ yjorppam took from his pocket {toward wus, his head down, his a sheaf of typewritten pages passed them over, Vance adjusted and hands behind him | “I don’t like the idea of arresting his monocle, and | her. . . . Funny I ncver thought|yeaq through them carefully. Then of her in connection with it.’ he stepped out of the room; and I He stopped in front of Vance. heard him telephoning. When he returned he re-read the | reports. One in particular he lin-; gered over, as if weighing its pos- | sibilities. “There's a chanee, ¥ know,” he murmured at length, gazing inde- | cisively into the fireplace 2 glanced at the report again. 2 e here,” he sald, onel Ostrander, accompa ¥ named Morlarty, | “And you yourself didn’t think of her at first, despite your boast that you knew who did it after you'd been in Benson's house five min- utes.” Vance smiled mirthfully, sprawled in his chair, Markham became indignant. Damn it! You told me the next day that no woman could have done and it, no matter what evidence Was prony glderman adduced, and harangued me about .iicndcd the Midnight Follies at | art and psychology and God Knows | 1o piccadilly theater in Forty- | what.” | seventh street on the night of the | “Quite right,”” murmured Vance, | thirreenth, arriving there a Hltl(" still smiling. “No woman did 1t.” !before 12 and remaining through | “No woman did it!" Markham's | tye performance, which was over | gorge was rising rapldly. st two a. m. . Are | about half “Oh, | He pointed to the sheet of paper in Markham's hand. Afakihas That's just a bit of spoofing, | the other's face don't y' know. Poor old Mrs. | «I've met Mr. Moriarty. What Platz!—she's as innocent as 2 |apout him?* 1 thought T detected | !ot this or of tha | the value of similar | timely end | lis | and shaking them, rubbing the back inted with this particular | eyes litted sharply to | patient to bear. Children and curfous | neighbors who run in and out of the sick-room, rocking- chal loose win that rattle, conversations ju door, sq 10es bed springs are only a few of the things t! are likely to he &0 an- re with the pa- Stockade Bracelet and sagging a as another perso the room as irritable as hi Worst of all is the too so relative who fs always wanting to Modes of the SWoment The cut of this example of the “blues” reflects sev- eral tendencies of the winter. The ful- ness at the left side, which hangs longer than the rest of the dress and the raised waistlines and diag onal arrangement of the blouse. The buckles, which are the only trim on the dress, are of white strass. Lucian Le mr: calls the blue of this dress LE. change the pillow, to fetch a drink . to take the tem- perature, to feel the pulse, to smooth the bed clothes, to bring a book, to read aloud, and what not! Usually each of these little atten- tions is prefaced by a question and by & free-running comment as to solicitous at- tentions in the case of some one else, who by some strange circum- stance passed promptly to an un- sitting on the Bed One of the worst possible prac- | tices 1s for visitors, nurses or | others at the bedside to sit on the | patient's bed. Any jolting of the The latest bracelet antique-looking It has round, fa the wide, “stockade-bracelet.” de links resembling inflamed or swollen parts of the |the old-f; ed tree stockades. body adds to their tenderness. { This one is set with a single, big The handling of a patient {in bed | matrix. one of the first things to be| learned by those who propose to | nurse him. In giving the patient something to drink his head should be raised by putting a hand under the pillow on which he lies rather than directly under his neck or his head. | FARRELL'S UPSTAIRS Plano Store, Q. R. S. IMPERIAL PLAYER ROLLS Saturday Special 49 CENTS Sheet Musio Laura P. Farrell | Services for the Sick ! Among the procedures particular- | ly recommended for the patlent’s | comfort before he goes to sleep are the following: Turning the pillows | the | and limbs gen! keeping shades adjusted to prevent anno ance from light, straightening the | 25 Arch St, New Britain. | 8 heets, keeping the fect warm, and | | usave Tem Dollars A Step.” giving a warm drink, lamb. la note of suppressed excitement in Mar m threw the paper on the e i table and sat down. 1 had never Where do Bronx alderman loll 1 him so furious; but he €on- jahout in forenoons?” asked olled himself admirably. Vance. “Y' see, my dear old bean,” ex- At home, T should say. Or pos- plained in his unemotional | gibly at the Samoset Club | Irawl an irresistible long- | Sometimes they have husiness at| Some very interesting questions NSWER TO YESTERDAY'S ing to der rate to you how ut- | City Hall” Jare included in this puzzle. See if terly Iy your cirgumst'ntial “My word!—sucl eml _lyou can solve it in less than 3 material evidence is. I'm 17 ‘-",':‘,(r n‘pnll'vm‘u. 4 \\\w:npd LTS B!L AIDIEISERISITIAITIEID prou know, ot my case ind ascertaining it Mr. Mori- > § Horlzontal e RIEIMIOIVIEEMTI|T[RIAID[E] | Mrs, Platz. I'm sure you could con- at home or i{shclube It | ,‘,“hm s L\x ’,;M“'l 1[xll x)l ‘::i EMUBBENIR[O[L BB Tu]G; jark, Sweden, Finland vict e on the strength “?»‘on oc {168 mot too, much hotder, I like to i N PPEE - NEN . MNEE B k € of | have a brief word with hin oo o > s e e e e R \\lm o rned ]ln‘ll;\.xill}n,ler BN EJAIRIDIE [PIOISIEIR ciotls and erroneous. Circum- | trating Coulagbonapenieisbdionts: T S[A STA[P M| F . anc d tvpe sure. 1 it W nen: Markham, is the | he went to i} el el e AIRISIEINJA[LIBILIE[S[S | EErEs oivtok simaginabie 815 et orirty sidered collectively? RETISHP[O D{| v 1s not unlike that of our |to leave for City Second note in scale. | T AlPlO R r.ouy on returning, To knock. A | him to drop by lher What i a dried plim? A E S-F: E down town.” . Arabian sleeveless outer gar- b “I do ho doesn’ \apoint of circur us,” sighed Vance, it's wortl trying.” number of "Are yon composing a charade?” a strong | asked Markham: ! there was r Lumor nor good-nature in ¢ here this morn- i Markham coldly, 1, ol wtion on legal nin “Exert a li blithely assured t simple faith with which you prepare are <o gen'rously supplicd —it’s more desirable than Norman blood, s or circums ve you the guilty man be- inst the guilty fore t morn da’ ye Markham, I know I must make sur vou'll vell as I kuow you're s in nim. These alibis are, T that chair planuing how you can ®oing to prove most prof'table torturc and kill me without being |in paving the way for my coup de jshed.” houtoi bi-as T recent- “If you ha no evidence, how ly confided to 3 is o tricky nd 1id you (t vour conclusion?” dang'rous thing, and open to grave arkh a suspicion And the at ce of an “Solely alibi means nothing at all hid L > r instance, T s by these re- ce of parsonal )”u,.vu A yports that Mise Hoffman has no man's psy Jrical natu libl for the night of the. thirteenth clear 2 brand to one who She says she went to o motion-pie- it as was Hester Prynne’s scarlet ture theater and then home. Rut lettor T never read H no one saw her at any time. She thorne, by the bye, T can't was prob’bly at Benson's visiting ,the New England temp'rament.” ,mamma until late. Look suspicious rient. ’ 19. What deposits form an immense source of wealth in the state of | 7. Before. Minnesota? 8. Near. | 21. Self. 5 9. What Viennese artist has con- 22. 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