New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1929, Page 13

n E AIEN 'A i'fly{tlf o, THIS HAS HAF NED Ruth Lester, secretary, finds the body of “Handsome Harr Borden, ker employer, Monday morning #prawled beneath the airshaft win- dow of his private office. McMann, detective sergeant, con- ducting the investigation in the vic- tim's office, questions the following #uspects: Ruth, Mrs. Borden, Bor- den's estranged wife and mother of Lis two children; Rita Dubois, night club dancer, with whom Borden nfatuated; and Jack Hayward. fiance, whose office is acros row airshaft from Dorden’s. McMann's belief in ck's guilt is igthened by his discove that Jack’s Colt .38 is missing: by Jack's edmission that he returned to the scventh floor Saturday afternoon, and by the testimony clevator Toys Micky Moran Lill Cowan, Jack’s friend, unwilling- Iy tells McMann he heard Jac threaten Borden's life. McMann questions Benny Smith, Borden’s office boy; Ashe, his man- servant; Minnie Cassidy, and Letty Miller, seventh floor ubwomen, and Cleo Gilman, Borden's discard- «d mistress, who gives an ironclad alibi Martha Manning, mother of Bor- den's illcgitimate son, is involved by Rluth's own detective work. Mann questions her mercilessly of M ahout her relationship with Borden. | Khe tells McMann she called on Jiorden last on ¥riday night after following him and Jake Bailey, his bodyguard, into the building. She kays she climbed stairs to the sev- enth floor and v Borden Jake's departure. McMann tells her she is lying and calls in Jake Bailey, BLAGK ©I929 By NEA nd Otto Plluger. | Me- | after | , Inc. pugilist. “We-ell, Cap,” he admitted reluctantly, “I reckon that was me. Harry was payin' me a good sal'ry {to pertect him, wasn't he? T jist | done my duty—'at's all! But 1 i never hit her till she snatched open i her hundbag—ike she was reachin’ | for a gun—and Harry yelled at me | te help him." “And did she have one?" No," the dead man's efficient | bodyguard admitted. “Recken she i\\au after a picture of the kid she had in her bag. Had ‘Merry Christ- | man for my Dad' wrote on it—" It was not a laugh this time that told that Jake Bailey's words hai struck home. It was a long-drawn “Oh!" of infinite misery, so heart- rending that Ruth Lester involun. {tarily leaned forward and patted those tight-locked hands whose mes- sage she had not yet had time to read. “And after you knocked her out?” McMann prodded his witness. “Well, me and Harry fixed her up with some brandy, and I took her down and put her in a taxi. Paid for it, too,” the ex-pugilist added | virtuously. | “And did Borden Ilater intimate |to you that he feared this woman 1\\0\1[11 kill him?" | | | | Martha Manning raised her head | then and stared steadily at the man who lcaned nonchalantly against her | dead lover's desk. [ was Friday night she was here and “Sure!” came the emphatic an- in_a cracking falsetto. “He he'd a-swore she was gonna | croak him that time, and he bet | she'd do it yet—" | “So you offered to put her out of | the way for him, didn’t you?" M | | | them on the seventh floor until you NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, claim you were in it your story will be blown sky-high “I'm not afraid of anything that| Storms at sea have made Fried a the side of a wave at an angle that | this Letty Miller may say,” Martha | hero but he accepts them as phil- gives him the hupression the top Manning retorted scornfully, “for | osophically as he accepts crew trou- is some 100 fost above the deck | T am telling the truth. I was here | bles, eccentric passengers and oth- line. If this wave then strikes the —T did wait until — this man had | er complications in the job of a ship and perhaps damuges a life left. T did have a talk with Mr.|ship's skipper. He belicves there is Loat on the boat deck, the passen- Borden—" nothing to confirm the layman's ger is convine d that, if this deck “8ay!" Jake Railey burst out, re- | idea that storms come in cycles at is G0 foet from the water line, for gardless of McMann's injunction. | sea, but points out that some years exan the wave must be “Where was you? You wasn't in no | appear to be worse thun others. that or higher. As a mat- hall when I come out of here to | Casual.i ver few, he says, ter of fuct, the vessel rolled t6 an take the elevator—" | dering the conditions seamen that made it possible for ihe “No, T wasn't. T was behind the comber ta st it with stairway door, holding 1t slightty = torce and cause the dan ajar and watching you,” Miss Man- GEORGYE: FRIED ning assured him with cool tri- | (Copyright. 182, Associated Press) i umph. | CHAPTER XVIII the “Say!* Jake Bailey turned to Mc.| SOme folks consider an ocean vers Mann. “You got the goods on that | Y0282 bretty much of a failur: the dame, ain't you?—and she's tryin’ to lie out of it, ain't she? You got proof she was in Harry's office, and “My Thirty Years (1] During the actual rescues of the s of the Antinoe and cather conditions wer When my vessel reached le of the Dritish freighter she’s tryin’ ta make you believe it not Saturday? it That's right, ain’t McMann grinned wryly. “Sub- stantially correct, Jake We've got her fingerprints, left sometime be- tween Friday afternoon and Monday morning on the glass panel of that door between the two offices. Miss Manning insists that those finger- printa were made on Friday night, that she followed you and Jorden into the building, walked up the stairs, waited at the head of left Borden, and then immediately | knocked on Borden's door, counting n his thinking it was you, re- | turned for 4 last word.” d he can pick the tail end MARCH 16, 1929, Question and R QUESTIONS ANSW Britain Herald, | 2 ! tended research be undertake | sonal reply. not Le answered. All confidential.—Editor. Q. a chain dra, v ging on the gro friction electricity in the this generate tank, and Florida hurricane of 19 A by the American number who received surgical aid was 6.381. Over Red in the world Washington Bure, 2 New York avenue, Washingto 1. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital | advice cannot be given. nor can ex- | An other questious will receive a per- Uinsigned requests can- letters families were rendered tempors homeless. The total loss of lite wam | 8 S (1] n ‘Why do gasoline trucks have It is a safety device. Vibra- | u, —————— dried under the hot tropical sun for [tically every business concern has & about ten days or more, when the | pencil sharpener. distinetive form within the shell has | passed the cmbryonic stage and as sumes the form of a chick. The eggs are then gathered and boiled for | about thirty torty minutes. The |entire contents of the shell are | caten, Q. What percentage of the elce- | tricity in the United States is gen- | | erated by water powert? Onee women took their place in he homes and had little to do with politics. Now women vote and muny hold important offices. Women are also strving on juries, a situatign unthought of a few years back. | Umbrellas were always populae with the men but nowadays very few are being sold to the members of the stronger scx, according to stere In 1928 ‘orty per cent of the|ouners. Raincoats and waterproof electricity was generated by water garments are replacing umbrellas. power and sixty per cent by fuel | Men, both young and old, are sport | (mostly steam power). |ing slickers. * | Q. How many persons are M- High shoes with leather soles and o You can gst an answer to any "0V I United Stales prohibition | hacls was the common footwear of enforcement ? . e S g question of fact or information by R e B O the men 3 fow yeara Back. ‘:—“”"" | writing to the Question tditor, New ARproximuialy 0 |were enly wWorn om Aporial obage |sions. At present practically every man and boy wears Oxfords and most of them demand rubber haels. It is said that the sale of rubber heels last year was greater than ever | betore aloons, livery stables, grocery stores and drug stores were common places for loafers. Hardly a night How old is Funnic She was born in Brice? New York Where was stablished the in first the high United was 1t the English high school of Beston, Mauss., founded in are 1s2 | passed that these places were net Q. When was Joyce Kilmer crowded with the “take-it-easy” Killed class. Stores of the present day on na A, In the World War, August 1, whole do not encouraga loafers. 1918 The histery of the bicyele has Q. Who is the King of France? been interesting. In the days before static | A+ France 9as no king. It is a the advent of the automobils, every unless | TePublic. The President is Gaston one, hoth man, woman and child, carried off and grounded, a spark is likely to discharge acros According to data assembled | the | medical and | Q. Is the longest railway tunnet | in the United States Doumergue who wa term of seven years s clected for a The lust mon- used to rport a bicycle. T were just as common and as largely used arch ot Vrance was the Emperor as the automobile is today. With the a of gas vapor and blow the as : s today. 3 84p b Napoleon 11T who reigned from coming of the autos, bicycles soon i n Satpie weie i 1852 to 1870, | faded into the background. A revival i W many pcop ere in- < 3 — of interest in bicyeles was reported | jured and rendered homeless in tie ) P by dealers recently, but it will never approach the figures reached in by- gone day In direct contrast, som: of the pastimes of olden days are proving EACH GENERATION HAS OWN STVLES Preferences Change as World popular at the present lim: The real sport of years gone by was roller polo. The younzer set af to- day Neard great tales of this sport but discounted them ror the must | 3 SR | o) | | TS part. Polo was revived three ycars Vaiting ouisids, 1o rove i [ iann asked casunlly, aftor & glange |, HolL" Balley spat contemntuous- | s, Mhe Coszado tunnct on v Kogps Whirling Around 1250 0 e e NOW GO ON WITH S STORY |at the notes he had made on the | ety wnd ipalite tanyoil nloaa ‘lg'““ i 0(; S '” ) S(-'i- “[‘ vears and the “sports” of the prese CHAL | story of Frank Ashe, Borden's man- | [ECY BUL PUAS A8 vou | please. et L e e ive grown cuthusiastic 1w~\u]r‘-m:'om’sfiiil IL‘:“”am.\’-’vlr:r"xm?: )b r\‘\l-x-'u‘ 1 didn’t, so it won't be mel"':fld“",'“' Held a5 000 lot @ Wil United States. 1t is 7.75 miles, it e styles come into creation and | Many tunes that were the favorito tered, unmatching featur on | 'atll sit in the chair,” Bailey re-| Ly L e & ‘»,1‘; n“v.!!h\ \:m;olsx (;“md-l i mnu:; the peopl: adopt new modes of 1iv- |yoies of the past age are stil Leing which a genial smile set oddly, , torted | Hita Abex wigs, Ihtnideg 1t whe you" s ‘Alps, 12 1o nilles, s tholTons: |biine oo oneteslu. o 00l8 sung: ey havs Thved on thieigl swuggered into the room, his su “And did you sce Miss Munning |yt 00T VN TURIRE L WAS YOu. the Alps, 12 1-4 miles. is the long- [many of the changes that have tak- |the ages. Hundreds of new songs DUIEIY o greoting accom. |ugain®” MeMann pursucd his aues | Sariet panswered | im © calmly. e [Lunnel in the world. en place in recent years. Modes our have been put on the market in the hsnying an senormious. hand) thoust) McMann that you kept a sharp e rv(]? Jo:::v l');'LLatsunxxdnli\ua ILn‘n I] T\’;’L::)’V‘X”\‘\’(“ L‘M {:;(.n:;'::)\ol):x:\vs Lasl lhrw e i s “1"" s :ham} out toward the detective in charge | w—guess she laid low and |, Y BSTR L ¥ rals ed thoug e here to stay have|jperiod of popularity have faded of the investigation info the murder | il T was out of town, 'I:::n t::dmtcv{mlmv;u'fili:;“v\;oi\“s}un::: “..Theee seems (o be just one storm after another. .” | \m 1':‘»: Setimated that rats s :'?ET:‘,g.:’:n;g:‘l rimx\l“ s e (..;"“N:xmem I; ©f Henry P. Borden: v answered. lneat “hri g R el At i jon ¢ ats de- | by g deas tunes of our grandmothers an “Hello, Cap! Seen in the papers didn't sce her on rrid..y’:fg:,ff"‘,(“'ils‘;f.ttll"f mas Eve. That's | ypjoss the vessel passes through a|fhere were heavy seas running but, stroy $200,000,000 worth of proper- ol e nese | Mewiiane: | xrund i ers wh my huddv, Harry Borden, got | night® AR eear ‘m'_m, al her. “Well— | Storm. Some of them have neverjafler se days, had modera '»\("‘ o r. : batlleships has the LN¢ custom of attending funcrals in| Countless styles fhat are intro- bumped off, and that you was anx-| “No, T 1eft town on Friday night, S hatig st n e 4 | been through a storm and arc he point where the trar was L”![v A °_‘“ many battieships has the |y vge numbers is rapidly changing. duced today are but modes that fous to have a chat with me. Any-{like 1 told you." "I Couln't have passed very |4030US for the experience. Others made with « 11 tho cage o, thee[H7)ted Bisten?. | People today gather at the church |were popular years ago, but they are thing I can do— Well, I guess you| “But you were with Borden Dol bea o Youlon ihe afrEatbwitioul desire to have the storm last from | Ilorida, 1'\-. 5 was fairly moder- | a “; een. s % ~ but very few except painted in new colors and adopted don’t need me afier all, Cap!” he ou left?" it seeing ane et ohatn el teg. |@bout three minutes to scveral ate when Chief Officer Harry Man.| Q- g pyenteditheicall Opg - immedia family and close by the present age as being the lat- hrok: to exclaim when, on <ure T was. 1 went with him to [ e e o .lol‘cnl?/‘”c!ov:‘lr}mo""0""‘ while T know of others who ' ring out with his boat | ]\1‘_' “1_‘J““S \,‘:‘;é‘(;’,”’l "\’\‘,""’_’f;':( 2 | friends take part in the funeral pro- st style reaching Borden's desk and shaking | the Crillon, a swell feed joint, and oIt 'Hhmm‘w“h tiumph, F | absolutely fear an upheaval of the ! crew, lowly and almost without \,,J: ¥ e m HELOT |° ) ;’\i cession. hands will McMann, ho got a view | waited outside while he ot with L R el . ! | sea. warning a hail squall struck us and | ‘<‘~S~’~“‘ '1 : 1nGonesc oue "0' ¥ Years ago every boy sct his heart of the fice of the woman whose |his new sweetie, that classy littie | \I0K o0 K YOl | o the sailor there scems to be | the Wind was whipped to gale force, | Was named for the Greek muse e e ¢ | ‘ i Mr. McMann that I watched yo o te e 2 T S e .t On owning a pocket knife. Boyhood | back bad been turned toward him | dancer he picked up at the Golden | oo "sphoad of the stairs on Fot. | iUst one storm after another, There | Making the return from the Florida el days were not complete without this | as he enterod the room. *Se—you Blipper. *Bout hai-past six it was| " L. {are times when the Amcrica and | [0 the America extremcly hazard- | “"(3" What is the term of office of Valuable piece of hardware. At pres- | got him, did you? Minute my back when he met Rita there, and around (TO BE CONTINUED) other ships which 1 have com- | OUS: W e diene mnn Tlicsot e e Was turned—" % o ;-:;m “I;wn'm:;‘. :u\d')wr foe out. Yy 4 {manded made the crossing with | ! m,;:.l. ring .’u;e |r1\1‘\“:v\7,:°;ld".' et ol ? e Aiaiading 62 » Frocription for ust 4 moment, Bailey!™ Me- | He put the frail in a taxi, and prom- sxt ol oten oora oo Lout s volllor plich and’ then dg ns we are irequently obliged to| A penn. T B e e el e Munninterrupted sharply. “You |ised to sce her at the Golden Slip- mll"' '“’“"‘j' Xt ‘“'_‘o"r:"'rl :\”“f",‘]‘ln BRI R e i face the wumber of marine casual-| G u:““on‘.»;\ z:.le I .»llx.u”iu:\[ nocks k'::\‘p(m““m} ".7,'.‘0,52" a ‘L(.)I.ds. Grippe, Flu, Dennge. identify this woman? | per about 10, before ber act went on | [ fencounter a succession of gule e B arohverviamal 8 diieslon ithe & ,“',\yn\‘a].:m' s e RS ildren is unknown. The tade 10| Bilious Fever and Malaria. “sure 1 know her! Harry pointed |at 11. She wouldn't let him drive 4 [ em e bl el 1 cfficient Lunaling of these | Lo e offices has fallen oft because prac- | It is tie wost apeedy reealy her out to me not a week after he|over to her hotel with her— s rveains | Siiirine n greyhounds in tumul- o Nl 1{'1. 4 i i . took me on to look after him. |always acled pretty ritzy with him S R e e . What diffrence is there in | “Jake,! he says, ‘take a good look at | —that dame did. So him and me (a2 P \F- e Sy the meaning of “capital” and “capi- | that woman and don't let her get |hopped into another cab and came cycles, bub there s no evidence 101 (onday: Antince Ticscue, Part 1) |tol? iy ncarer to me than she is now, [on over to his offi Said he was [ ] ‘f’;:" ,‘""“ el x-:‘u'v Sty - — e A, “Capitol” 1s the building in OHIBITION RO AND CON youll lose your job Jake, he|dopin’ eut a new scheme and I B0 LTS ke which legislature bodies hold their R e RS AT : J& ot . | periods of heat during the summer I Sesdions, “Caitalin s the Eify: Whiah ot PROIIBIIT = success or failure; its continuance or o Janied (e worc aphiiihetore woly Y |and there regularity to thes B , . or fujust s peiliaps the most talked about sube “When and where was this?” Mc- | to the Golden Shipper.'” - .‘|‘( i ’.l\? So it is not v is the seat of government of a na- aud will nue o Le so. It dominated the Presi- Mann interrupted impatiently | “And did you come up with him? " :{:‘x:t‘:;“ "(‘)*“‘."’_“ s -;;\‘r et .llr:v: m-”. A |v.nu s : ‘Ik, o Caliel ,",\,“. ,,,‘er," ,‘N”'l,,‘,‘i,m_g ,:e::‘,.|:;?|;‘h: L;;,,:' Now—lemme see!” Jake Bailey [ “Sure! Harry wouldn't go |n'o‘A d T" M y A Why b e M ). a e s s aight Senate that lins een held for yoars: President THoover Is appo - uid his pearl-gray derby on his|his own office at night alone, I he 0d Tel§ Mary Ann m|0f>‘_'lh"1 -\‘:j"r“"i‘( gl i e il thesalnitrom ansordinary nlec [NIEHIE G SUR7 IR NINESS RIS OIS sy v n Srse. Defmini s iaaty dead cmployer's desk and scratched | could help it. Scared some sucker a u"fl. Sl S tol or rifle would it have fore G ington Bureau arranged & Jaint Debate on PROMIBITION be. Jlis head: “Must asbecn long about| wiio Wastsora at. hin because he'd RATIenaIIG Byl el S LE N —_— cnough on its downward flight to || tween (o Anti-Saloon Le e and he Ascciation Azainst the Prohibition Ui middle of November, for 1 had [lost his money might be layin' for i I Too Much Fighti for § B e i iment of Education, Ant g iekes the ‘amirmative, my | hout with Battlin' Demon | him, or this dame here,” and Jake (Conbitntien) o |n'.l‘|m sl ‘:n” S v xg Illg 01‘ Cl‘apper 3 B i e and v H. Curran, Presic ation Against the Pro- on November tent’ — a frame-up it | jerked his head toward Martha| o (CeRD | U e e A ik . 9. How many asteroids ars| on Amendrient, takes the negative Pipers prepared by these worthy was, too, Cap, T1l take my Bible|Manning. *I come up all right, ang| 1’ar Mary Ann. A RecT s cd. The newspapers B {0 Leflve ser"ce here? Where are most of them sonisia were iged. and rebuttals and eurrebuttals to the main oath! Al right. Cap! Keep your |we sct here awhile, chewin’ the rag| 9" 5 "“""'(."“ s s ity Seeter LI LI S scen? 2 =S i Tdb ar AbRaTHIRE o ERH oan e e shirt on!” e admonished the de-[—told me about this dancin’ lvahy‘lp:x;,' o I."mg'm e r"“f"'i(”l“”,”“'."‘“ ol 2t y ST A. The U. §. Naval Observatory (| tained fn the bulletin which resulted. Fill out the coupan below and send tective genfwly, “But you ast,|he was gonna take to Winter Haven | ¥ FUTR V8 CAGE RV 1 COUIGRL jare accustomed to warm i/ Pa, March 13 says that the asteroids or minor || or i, il o Vel i diupt s loth it iy Sattoaay 0 boicontdNest ek peno e iontnt Aiisaat vinees | e e VE G Thirly years of active service on the [Planets now known, number nearly | about the middle of November, then, | her hoss to let her off.” o LSl b e vour ates sl other hand, e AR nation’s fur-lung battle-line or in | 1100 move, as seen Hon} vh_‘,‘ - e e = = (CLIP COUPON HERB=— == == o= o= o nieand Harry was walkin'| - “How long were you with Bor- | {0 0 s i | been comparatively il 1B the whirlpool of Philadelphia poli- ©rt. principally through the Zodi- e e i E 5 ] il % ng it “Kid" Williams of our home |4 .11y no snow while Chi o | > acal constollations. Some of thesc HIBITION DEBATE EDITOR, Washington Bureau, New Brital 1 Avenso when Harry pipes team 18 as good as he's cracked UD | (ne middle west hive endurcd ex- lisd 10 0im the dynamio] Bo DS e o ereat Herald 1 ame gittin' off a bus. 8hel “Oh, ‘bout half an hour, T guess.” | o"\o “lior your benefit, Mary, along | "¢ "”1 e i ! ne dlev: DARufler, | OISt 0N EYEn (N Acdount ol groa | 1322 Avenue. Washington, I. C. e e e R ae TR e, s to] answered rcadily. "1 4idn't | Wi shons who mst walt fur thely | tremely low cis o i = Toror inclinations. positions or nodes, or | 1w : debate PRONICITION PRO AND COX, him or bust, and then he says to have nothin’ to do but kill time be- | ho .y until the old gent finishes with SRELA O RIN0 Sot It -cock” of the Marines, PrOXimity to the earth at opposition. AR, ] R Apu s oomy Mhoandslled. D ‘ ; / train left — at was. | a tremendous arca, it Tus it R : are occasionally to be found in || | vosase sum over e handiing coste. e, Harry say forc my train left — 9:24, that was. | 0" gnorting page, 1Nl say that this e 1 a rest after thre ce - “Yes, you've already told that!” | Must a-been ‘round nine when I|j,q ain't as good as he's cracked up | [CPIPCTate and AR cars o commanding the | horthern or southern constellations NAME ‘) McManninterrapted impatiently. | heat ft—sure, that's when it wast |5 T B8 FRFC EouEE I eania BN B T AThBTToan S in China, says em. | beyond the ecliptic zone, el SERE et “Did she speak (o him? light fifty-five! I remember ask- |~ what applesauce fs to the park EfCAt time plaving across (e vaet e, i ends to keep| Q. How does one prepare the STREET A N sy, Ca Jake Bailey grinned ¢ the clevator man what time it {yonch lover and what the Babe ig|XPaRse of water sweeping wi he remains with | Philippine dish known as Balut | ety ‘ broadly “Harey hopped into a when he shoved his book at | (o haseball, this lad is o rolicr hoc. | LerTific force in ¥ ik understood the| A« Balut is a Tagalog term, ap- SR e i tayl %0 quick 1 almost ot Ieft™” | me fo sign out. They make 30u |y, I'm spreading no gossip over | from the North Polc to the Sou the offer of com. | Plicd o cg2s ready to hatch that L r f the > ' el on avory son er again Y b | wrlte nown thellime and your nums |anyiody's clptheniinei i aylng his |1-olo 8114 oibradk oo A &I el G il Gn e Tl ol S0 ouri ol o R RTINS e e e e B ey Surc! Christmas Eve. That and the office you've been in.” bimbo is 80 fast he can cateh a fal. | JUSt castward of the Grand Danis isolated yost is offercd him, | Around Manila, the natives prepare | bird that putters around Harry's | - llen arch without exerting himselt or | the winds hecomie violent, driving ral Butler has gained an in.| them as follows: Fresh eggs are |, epartinent went to the hootlegger's | “Please, Mr. McMann, may T a8k | burning out any bearings on his rol- | the seas before them in mion ternational reputation as . soldier. s e el downstairs and left the door un-a question®” Ruth spoke for the |jer skates If spced was talk he'd |OU8 numbers. This is the area re- |y b s i ost militars Picliod andilitehiiiiiv hp Cend st 1IE intefaakil Blicy o 6n. | hay o polltioall spshibinfertiogy i (execil ol by Lueeliby Se i oty BT IGT trc oamera s . Harry knew — in the bedroom we | tered the room. “I've just been won- [like & tongue-tied farmer boy in u | ROarin! cs. 1e mext thne g0k (roops were used during the F ll S fi B F tai; F was — there she was, no shame at | dering how Mr. Borden got into his | room full of compuny. Besides being | You hear that expression you will [/ A8 (FP0HE T s, hon- am y tu y Fontaine rox all — husting in on a man what's | office, since he'd given his key to|able to make a Nurmi on the home |know that it refers to the region | ;o5 P U8 H changin' his clothes!” | Rita Dubois Friday afternoon and stretch seem tied fo a couple of fire Of the Atlantic that marks the con- 50 b0y Yequlred n o —— Inever did get it back.” hydrants he can manipulate a curved | ter of Davy Jone's locker rather|y. .oue \hich permits retires . At that expression of Jake's out- hat's right!” McMann agreed. !stick that hands a goalie more exer- | than the white light district alonz HIS WIFE'S MoTHER FIRES THE OPENING GUN THE VERY DAY (¢] raged modesty, Martha Manning | rather ungraciously. He did not cise than a darkey in a watermelon | Broadway. However, this thought is farthest liughed—a queer, startling blend of | enjoy having been caught napping. | patch. | The winter of 1 was severe | PN0SE S (S oiE 1 s SHE ARRIVED To HELP NURSE THE SICK. scorn and ironic amusement | “How did Borden gct in, Jake?" The “Kid" has a terrific onc-way |on the North Atlantic and January yL 5 (L0 MU oung for s Yeah! You can luugh, can't| “Check. kid!” and Jake touched | traffic drive that travels about two of that season was one of the | T80 00 RN SR @id with vou?” Jake Bailey’s little greenish- [his forehead in a salute o Ituth. |seconds slower than a flash of light- | worst. Tt whs during this monti j 00 i > even glared at hier with hatred. | “Harry didn't remember thl he got | ning and all the goal-tender meeds | that the Antinoe foundered, as woil |G 10 Cafting about, for o post ou zot him—jist like he thought |to his door that he didnt have a [to stop it is the help of his relations j#s numerous other smaller s i S S yon would, and now you laugh!™ | key, and since I never had one my- and shinguards upholstered with |Several trans-Atlantic 1essels ," - The St TS Rt Martha Manning's great, tragic | self, he had to hunt up one of the |battleship armor, even then they'd | ported passing through four to f T e P hroswn eyes swept him scornfully, |old jancs that cleans the offices to | tremble like flivver fenders in a|distinct storms on their vovu nicipal go mnént — ditector of as it I were an obnoxious insect, |1t him in with herppasskey. He | vind storm. He'll collect u puss from | Prior fo —this time. sailors cxperi- BBl Boveruime “Philadelphia i then dropped to the hands in her [ couldn’t find the old lady that took |any angle, and in less time than it |cnced a rough winter in 1611- 08 Seler il o lin: re of his office reg’lar, and had to |{akes u fella to wish his steady janc | Thirteen years clapsed hetweon [ ey lilic. (his is @ serions charge | prove who he was hy showin’ a hadn't seen him with the other guy's | these severe scasons wherens there | "¢ 1 centiy. pagtned £ 00 youwre makivg against Miss Man-|letter with his name on it to the |blonde on his lap, will manouver the |ig a repetition this year of only P i e ning” the detective began. “What | woman 1 scouted around and found (PHl into position, drive, and if the | three winters ago. Sifety hkatn IE e shonid deie i foundation have you for this|for him goalie is lucky enough to stop it he'll | During the winter months of e el ¢ should desire to charge? Have you personal knowl-| “Hmm! Letty Miller, T suppose. [Know it was no rolling stone covered | forceful winds there is 1ot so much Al TS ; edge of Miss Manning's guilt” | She's the only other cleaning | With moss. 2 fog menacing navigation. Howeves| W ,“,,,.l,',w- e £0) i Personal knosledge — hell” the | woman on the floor,” McMann com- | What he does with & pill that there is plenty of rain, snow and Ko e et ;‘ ex-pugilist retorted. “It you mean | mented, as he made a note. “Where | POUNds off the hoards is something | hail squalls which the sailor usu- © i military-civic experiment, BT o lerda i bl N 1o s il et that makes the fans in the covered |41y places in the same category as which held — municipal _in town Mriday night and jist got | Down the hall,” Bailey answereq | Pleachers, not to mention those who | roe A heavy snowfall is as bad VIY\\ln‘lL wr‘\ it the n(\u‘y\H_\ But fark promptly. id she wasn't. a ;mu out into 'l!fl.ulnllu chortle with | i 10t worse, than a dense fog. | © <.\ there |'~‘ i »qwg‘wnl in police “Before we go Into your own |quainted with the tenants on this | &lee and remark that it the cage | with this type of weather skies | Work. There are worthwhile things whereabouts on Saturday. when | corridor, bLut was jist helpin® out ’“": full ""’ ““’:"l"';"" than a new | .o ynvariably overcast, prever o - done in Imilding up a police Porden was killed,” McMann inter- [the old lady who belongs on mm‘;‘!'""’; ‘):‘Fm"'l"!:"i"! ;‘"m']"’"n‘“"'”"‘:";‘:"'; observations. Perlods of fhese ;‘::f‘:,',:”',”’ to the right pitch of ef- rupted uppose you tell me ex- [ part of the floor.” . a playful 10 ton truck, In his mitt | FI°atost foks o the _\.‘.‘.yu, oy N netly pened on Christmas | For (he first thme in many min- |0 QUi S 0 08 "GR8 IS tic are during the months of No-| e o : ; fee, between Miss Manning and | utes McMann addressed a question | ¢, Lt ST £ UREE SV 90 fvember and April 1t is impossible POkt of 8 comrattic ot wester Harry Borden.” |to Martha Manning: “Did you see an expert looking as foolish as fhe | '° select any time of the year to ‘v““h'_ ;’rv \mn- 1 m‘ \].\v,“m" Well, like T said—me and Harry |this scrubwoman yourself, Miss | gr, cfFPR OO0 08 (OOTE W8 LA | make a voyaze without storm or fog O aker stock. Strangely, throughout was in Harry's bedroom, when in | Nianning?” cranium grease at the girl friend's|PUt the summer months are prety icate period of the past three the walks, bold as brass. ‘Harry, | The contralto voice was quite | omins®o e Dur ™ {#00d gamble although they, foo,|¥ars in China marking the ascen- she says, ‘it's Christma Aren't | steady. 0. As I told you before,| “ho average player trying to take | Can Stage a good show for the in- f ';'\ of the Nllonalmlw"nw\"mfnv you zoing to give me—and the boy |1 saw no one. 1 was alone while I|¢he pill from him would look better | CxPericnced ) and the hitterness against foreign in- — Christmas present? she says, | waited for—this man"—and she | taking a seat. When it comes fo stop- | 1 have often read accounts in the vasion, General Butler's forces did and by that time Harry was at her, |rodded scornfully toward Jake |ping a high one he's there like the |NeWspapers telling of waves at sea DOt 108e & man in combat nor was a tryin' to walk her right back out : Bailey—"to leave, and no one but | who | from 75 to 100 feet in height. You shot fired at them. The general of his room. But she hung back— like wildeat she was—and she keeps whinin® somethimg about not wantin' nothin' for Christmas but | his promise to git a divorce and miar her — oh. no! She didn't want nothin® :uch!” he laughed | earcastically. | And then? Borden struck her on the mouth?” McMann prompted | jmpatiently. | Something like a blush ran over | the scrambled features of the ex | scrubwoman who admitted Mr. Bor- mysel{ was in the hall when I Icft. |jog on a kitchen table and the guy after seeing Mr. Borden. Th den must have up the stairs.” | hasn’t tranied his hockey stick to do |tive waves that have at times been| In McMann peremptorily com- i3 to bend pretzels, tic his shoe laces, | reported as hign as feet. While | ture manded the amazed ex-pugilist to |or fall down on the job. a passenger liner is going through silence. “You realize, Miss Man- Andy Dale. |heavy seas a passenger gets a dis- ning.” he said to the now calm. — torted idea of the height duc to but burning-eyed woman, “that if{ The Union Trust building, Cleve- |the fact that the ship is rolling Letty Miller tells me the was work- |1and. contains 20,000,000 cubic fect | As the side of the ship dips slow- ng on this corridor while you|of space. |of finished her work s in this corridor before 1 had walked | ders. About the only thing the * | will find that such statements are combers e so-called cumula- speaks with The gene Salvation Army has control of funds ly, the passenger looks straight uj ,@nd assets in excess of §100,000,000. pride of the good-will a long drawn wail outa the air | credited to passengers and never to Cxpressed by both factions in pre- and tame it down to a whisper ¢ the master of the vessel for cvery Senting goodwill trophies to the ainly wasn't missing on any |scaman k it the highest | American troops as they embarked for the United States. commenting upon G erage American does not realize the fibre and the destiny of the race.” China's fu- neral Butler said, “the av- al in command of the l