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B iait foter 4o vent Geesarr tewces FARM " ) n X e it L o P McMann persisted. I A | Mai ed Martha Manaing moistened her \i Amm?l"zglll‘:'d“’;fil:mla:l? makes your toilet complete |dry lips. “I—don’t remember the 5 B lsland, BCAlic . Pl ; AT L[]WEST Pm T;Mmh 14 Up—Manager oo de. Cuticura “Then let me refresh your men Carthy and his ambiiious Cubs i @'929 &J NEA Serwce. Inc. Talcum Powder ’m‘y " the detective suggested, slow- packed their war clubs and prepar- |ly drawing « ‘arge, orchid-tinted | ed to leave today for their long ex- ke H hibition tour of the mainlund The finishing touch to the daintiest , [snvalope from = pockst Smallest in 20 Years Depl. Of| "X soeien " witn ot "Anevivs, win| | coter Cooling, rcireshing, snd de THIS HAS H |ately to strike from his mouth. ker?" McMann asked sarcastically. | The woman half started from her [ oA secice Swith on rosram tor| | Lighttully perfummed and medicated. it Ruth Lester, secretary, finds the | uppose we get down to brass|“Is he famous in his field?"” | ehair, secmed about to ask a star- | A ricunum Re 01‘[5 | "(;-r’:m 8 1mparts to the person a delicate and body of her employer, “Handsome | tacks, Miss Manning. Tl tell you| “I saw his nume and husiness tied question, then subsided. ber! D mw‘n e axinlionot Caloher e distin&ive fragrance and leaves the Harry” Borden, Monday morning, |2 few things, and then you tell me listed on the bulletin board of th aze fixed in terrible fascination | “‘m‘m‘“ en“d P H“W}“ i skin sweet and wholesome. sprawled beneath the airshaft win- |8 fow. Tit for tat. Fair exchange | Starbridge Building” Miss Man- (upon the closely written shet | A e e et U e B S s dow of his private offics | First: You have a son he said | ning answered defiantly. which McMann drew from the en- ! d 4 &g Gl R e Ointment 25¢ Sumple each free Address MeMann, detective sergeant, ques- | With awful casualness, then paused | “One of thos s when you velope and laid before her, cd Stutes is now the smallest in 20| outs, all of the Cubs appes Cuticura’ Dept 8D Malden, Mass. tions the following suspects: Ruth, {10 Wateh the blood slowly drain |were trailing Borden? By the wa You recognize this letter? You | years, reports the burcau of agri- Mrs. Borden, estranged wife of Bor- | from Martha Manning's thin face, [you were still iving with Harry admit you wrote it?" Borden and mother of his two,ltaving the rouge spots in ghastly | Borden when ne took these offices There was no need for an answer children: Rita Dubois, might club ! relief. “A son you have tried to | tl years veren't you? You and Martha A or, with whomn Borden was in- | force Harry Borden to cognize | were pretty f i with the lay-| “You will note,” McMann pointe 1 fatuated; and Jack Hayward, Ruth's| @and support as his illegitimate |out of this 1 suppose?” out obligingly, “that it was writen fiance, ins » broker with office | child—" | “When 1 t to consult Mr.| Priday afternoon — the day hefore good physical condition | cultural economies, U, 8. department | culture, which estimates the 1ning made none., ANOTHER CHAPTER IN FINE CAR HISTORY UPENED BY FPIeRCE-AKROW) spulation of \27.511,000 pre- . 1924 as compared 100,000 persons‘in annary eak of 32 Gireetly across the narrow airshaft | “Stop!” Martha Manning halt | Hayvward about ance, 1 had no Henry Borden was—murdered trom bord: rose from her chair, leaned toward |1dea that his office was wcross the | Now, if you will kindly read alonl rean's estimate also shows MeMann’ f in Jack’s guilt is | the detective with clenched, fremi- |4i™haft from IHarry was the | the last three sentences of this let. ion dur- pust year despite improved tural conditions and a slight in industrial employment L4, figure compar- farm population of sons on January 1, 1928 i population OU cannot look at a decrease in farm popul trongt by his discoy ry thit | bling hand, as f she were going to Imost calmly spoken 49 0s missing: by | strike him. Borden did not SW¢r. but Ruth Law a pair of t own admission that he re-|deny that he was the father of my | White hands (wisting, intertwinin 5 to the seventh floor Satur- son! He knew — oh, my God, how | —!'ands that would not lie, no mat-| One of those betrayinz, th and by the testimony | well he knew!™ |ter how well that beautiful con- | hands reached out, hovering over ovs Micky Moran and | into her ch and pressed her (1410 voice could be made to serve | the sheet. but did not touch it— ro Bill Cowan. Jack's|knuckles to her mouth to stifle the 1% 1er's hidden purposes. dropped instead to the green hlofter n- |t and he turned over the single n, | sheet of ore stationery. s nd she sank bac evator Otto P fricnd, tells MeMann he heard Jack | sobs that were shaking her whole, | Btuth waiched those hands with which the top of the desk was o T ) ; : A e g 20t an odd, suncenscious impression AlMost entirely covered—lay there, offset by an ex- the new Straight Eight and resist the Jake Bailey, Borden's bodvguard, | MeMann was apparently un. |Laf they had a me for Ler—a '*‘”‘-"'”2 e dcaths, the fig- s sent for. Meunwhile MeMann| NAn ot e elentlessle. | Message of vital importance—but | “You won't oblige me?" MeMann in the movement =4 ’ : senk o VI"‘“IX"' : MeMann fyoved. He went on relentlessly B e e et e A g et i the movemen conviction that such a car could on]y JuvanE BEHAY RN sorden’s office | wy gy joved this man, you bore him v Tk A £n ] g ion 3 boy; Ashe, his manscrvant; Minnie to, there was no tine for Ruth to | I em o from a very good mem- |« rsons left farms during the i have been built out of a rare set of a son, you lived with him for yeurs, A ¥ and 1,362 Cassidy and Letty Miller, seventh |ang vet for months before his death floor scrubwou n, and Cleo Gilman, hieed the mute story that the hands | OT¥: ‘But Harry, in all solemnity telling. 3 I warn you th.t you will be Borden's discarded mist cliolis Hiei BeGsten pneak Golvel onil By L il na h won it 17 vou i otk int et et | e e ideals—traditions that are peculiarly 1 ded mistress. €2 | the telephone. o left orc ¢ R on; 5 7 ives an ironclad alibl. MeMann ex- g 0oty and | with his man. | 101 Y0U Were in Mr Mavward’s | trlephone you Satunday morning e e e Pi A ults when he finds a fresh scar ”“wl\‘:m ”j It "m‘» \\m”:“ o ’m- office on two occasions you went to| If your answer s still no—hut I with immediately pre- 1erce-Arrow, the brick wall outside k'S Win- | contraito voice' called. Mr. Henpy M5 WIndow, which affords a view of won't (hink of that now:" " | ars but the movement v‘;om nd ened ! S 2 A, “UIY the interior of this office, and stood | That pitiful, quive ) tarms was also smaller. . . . dow and & dluttened bullet on U | b oraey was ‘nof in How do yay ¢ INerior of (his affice, and stoou | Tht pi il iaring I e e The car itself is freshly beautiful, coement seven flights below, He says tccount for thi Mi Manning there — each time for minutes, e 1 o hift itself from the own tha g 50, ! lorden fire o bullet self-de- | 1Coo0n RARTE CRIINE looking toward wr indoubtedly | 107 but with the quicknes: ns during the past year, Borden fired the bullet in self-d The woman raised her head e tonaty g WRETUHELT e t his murderer who stood in window ! a Manning, mother of Ror- Negitimate son, is hrought tigation by Ruth | into this wery room?” sleight ¢ 'd artist’s the “I did not ook this way, hecause | UVE'S big hand shot out and covered I did not realize that by <o doing i+ flattening it against the green 1 could sce into Mr. Borden's offien *”I'*'W; "lf the ‘blafier, With' hla My eyes idly foltowed a number of | Other har e seized a full ink ;;)4‘,I,',,.‘,"’,‘Jlini“"w::.K,‘r”hr;‘“xf‘v;\;l\‘ e, 4o about the window, | Well and tipped it, so that the fluid at on Ehtihean s theas o i h s whie oG o, lian dn gl duris A s in pressed-down fingers of the woman, | death rate of 8 ¢ 000 in 1 without an ounce of excess i;veight, without the least bulk. It has flectness and power beyond possible need—and with tighe-clasned hands, fought o !moment for self-control. *I something of Mr. Borden whi would not—or could not—do. 1- om cities to farms v persons last year, and 1 )00 in farm birthr 2 r 1,000 persons and small aths per 1,000 nn mercilessly questions it her relationship with 1en B tires at her: “When pigeons circling name “What do you mean—could not?" proves that big cars need never be and how to provide for him in case did you last see Harry Borden? e my death.” How dare Sl Man otaeeles e e e el stodgy and unwieldy. And there was » x by = Ax L # 1 Nt 1 11 “ ning gas gling fo release | Sefting the farm o cit o NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | “}o told 1 that Mrs. lord Youpsdlurl Sovalliseniliyiovy |80 that 1 ot loss of farm popula- : ) 8L Mes Bordenill et ndi ric: ali i fissl M et her hand t are you doing?” (S0 that the 1 e 0 R CHAITEI XNXVIH Nould notiglve hini wutvorcerEne | 21 ELS SIS eheitt atestant sue SR pRUT RN B uaY dOIERE i T e et (381000 persons never an automobile—not even s I have seen Borden a Knew—about iy haby. and was de- g il our fingerprin r 5 compared with 193,000 in 1927, and . . a B ¥ prints myself, Mms Man- N ber of. ifint thadilane s fed (Svilied Mnal S tianieoin eitld el S R i e C A e i B 000 (0 1 ¢35, Pierce-Arrow —so rich in measures months—at o © o Martha | should never knew of their fathoer Sl N Nad U e G e : Tiie bureau's figures show that in Conlrtilofinaicos seonnbal (o aiakalh ed her ink-gtained hand and | 4 = Minning answered (e dotective | =S When 1 insisted, Harey—3tr, | 2010 voie: | sconn s Ui e on e ] ety land states 65,000 per- for s;fegy and luxurious comfort., B rzeant’s question | Borden—Ieft®n & s )y i Uit | isted (e sons loft the farms last year and 60, Yor vou sHowed hin Secanse AT 7 S 5 i went 1o farms; Stz Chieng D e L faion in o o 1 u t well, but 1 (TO BE CONTINUED) 115,000 persons from farm Itarrivesat the psychological moment, e Wit Cleo Gilan, Tt (ataiior 1 <A passable insur- | - Martha Manning tells of VISIINg | g 45000 persons o farms: Bast ) R G e Pk "“ AL ‘H”,‘,””l, < But when 1 saw him the [4larey Borden in his office. Jtead the | Nopth Central 299.000 from farms 5 5 ¢ i e TRt 1 went with the knowi- | next chapter. and 15,000 to farms; West North ] ’ f } ) > 4 i ¥ her W, torments it Hsilisy e v Central 0 from farms and Pierce-Arrow mechanical detail embraces in the us HMI\ ich stood on i OWn eyes answered, with v physician | | CARDS SIC HANLY 100 to farms; South Atlantic nd dropped Der hatds pitital apcal that Ruth's own « R TG | Avon Park, Fla., March 14 (P 36,000 from farms and 190,000 to every device of proved character known to © A% 01 she could ot | <tung with suddon fears was with 1his The management of the St. Louis + South Central 253.000 / 4 s oo under the piere- | “And so.” McMann went on, “you | pated 10 M Cardinals announced the signir ns and 167,000 to farms the engineering of fine motor cars. he detective, followed him about, telephoned him | iive for heip | lred Haney, third sacker obtaine puth Central 327,000 from | fkam, Miea Munning | here at Iia office and al his homs from Indianapolis and formerly with | g 204,000 to farms; Moun- e s et sawiii iota nin lal(ers wiifenine (afdimot the Boston and Detroit Americans. | tuin 135,000 from farms and 95,000 2 Mcdann asked [answer. made un cxcuse to enter Haney's si ire leaves only Lrnic : Pacific 124,000 from farms ) | impatione nother office in this building so Liands seen UMy Jast — interview with Mr. | that you could observe your in- s jum w2 L THE NEW STRAIGHT ETGHT BE : : her — with s on Christmas Eve, I'm (tended victim, then, by a Iucky Kknowledge or consent aliid Titook uthon an unfain adsichance fdiscovered Wiowl you Coull it ot eulia, . fat MoMAn tate | vantage of his nanservant’s care. [use that oth .45 the scene | rupted, demanded (he girl's whole he lus probably told of your erime-- atfantion: Tiiis noxtt won ; InSspeaking o SN 9,0 moite INEnt S Manning |y Miss Manning,” Me- er ect end r ) sereamed, springing to her fect, h Mann hegan siowly, "that your 2 I his bushy { cyes blazing. but her face reed hecame <o desperate that )ml\ B RS e Nu‘]]»"“ “:\l '(-'\”(,vr‘n-w;.:l“ ’;h \)1 [ determined fo stop at nothing. nor | SA DA l I th fe tion for a char ‘I haven't n = like that—" son. Isn't that true?” er. Its result ] o n as many as a dozen different nad pushed buck his | that vou have te any o0 threatened e tig rolay ind the detective seized one of the| ] gor ¢ course I deny it!” The ) chied, 1 found. Woman's wrists and drew hor by | heautitul voice. (hrobbed. with an . @ all righ - [force 10 the window looking onut | g, . [ ¢ has told us that upon the airshiaft. “Lool ind hel| AeMann mited hat cynical you and | 1, in the presence of |pointed . o the opposite window. | (wisting of the lins vhich always dule Builey, Borden's bodyguard. | “Whose office is that Pt S S ! . den il o o S pulsion. “But vou won't deny (1 | Bodies and engime by Pierce-Arrom which you were almost knocked our he woman snatehed ) " Ve Wit 3 | e v i s L " . { soman s or i su have written (o My denta —and Pierce-Arrow in every part! ¢ L your lip ius healed. |oned hand from fhe detective’s bold | number of {imss in the lact for 2 You tricd (o kill your fover |and rubbed her reddened wrist. 1| montne o 5 | then, didw't you—and didn't guite | —don't know! How shonld 12 woman's eyes dilated, then | From ‘2775 to #8200 make a job ot 2 | MThea et remind you,” Me- for a moment, hefore she an- | | o ; s t ‘]i eves | Mann rotorted. “That is the swered in a voice so low it was al- 5 | EEaT Jaz scorn. “May remind office of Mr. Johr Hay most a whisper 0. 't deny g den, who was ‘njured in that cn- and handsome young man vou con- i e dens” ey o o B 3 could reach Lim in no other wa o om ierce - Arve g Connter? sulted, oL #0 iong ago, oo the swh- | “And when did you . weite oo — Fresh from the Gar cedsre by the Piercs-drrow Fi / ; 1 MeMar ‘\” I <vvl‘1 forward | ject of ;,I policy in favor of you ? | The most famons featare Carporation. The sverege allowance e oward her acro dexk, his eyes | son o emembe 3 ; srnally mare ey him and planted revenge ¢ since 1o get control of her tortured [ender lamps of Pirce-drrow. the initial Pierve- 1 1at’s true, isw't i7" (perves. 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