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o | settled upon hor hand and began to Morgan Man of Activity peck at the crumbs it held. “Now “Morgun is as tull of movement | e d bt as Young is still and silent.” com you've made me spill half of your bl ey g | dinner!” she added ruefully, as a | Poss this paper suggests, the 54 shower of crumba fell upon the pol- eda rately trivs 1o ©1929 By NEA Service, Inc. $/ ANNE AUSTIN ks o1 o et ot ot e e 'L 0 {window. “Just for that, Mr. £ | If. 50 tha | Nemesis, you'rs going to be pun- Ca] ds] o 0 Mt jer experts may forzet t « THIS HAS HAPPEN which one ‘did it it apprars, expectsd more 108 hee | ianed 1oy botmn e 1 worn e o FURLTNESS 200 dllence Upp Wil bt faee On Monday morning Ruth Lester.| “And what did Mr. McMann say | ing Borden out of jail on some of |one little hand closed firmly about = < ¢ their nations and | sccretary, finds body of her employ- [to that?" Luth asked, smiling cheer- | his fake stock schemes, everything | the gleaming body of the black JOVIal GOOd Nallll‘e : . e ¢ in his own er, *“Handsome Harry” Borden, | fully. {Boes to the wife and kids—" pigeon. |v sprawled beneath the airshaft win-| “Oh. this and that,” Birdwell told | — | “What are you golng e do now sibly, dow of his private office. herywearily, “but the gist of it was| “Nothing to Martha Manning's | MeMann asked indulgently, as swir | . B0 March 21 forcid to McMann, detective sergeant, ques- | that e gue your sweetic, Hay- | child " Ruth interrupted. fingers wrapped the narrow ribbon | 170U uip i cves. Ouen B | han ahe tions the following suspects: Mrs. | ward, would have to he the goat.| “Not a red:” McMann answered | of paper about ihe tiny red leg of | ) OUNE Picture | the sitent man” 1080 G Borden, Borden's estranged wife and [ Thought, I'd tip you off—" {“U've just told vou that a man's Will | the pigeon. fastening it sccurcly of the present parations confer- | SR - mother of his two children; Rita| “Thanks awfully, Mr. Rirdwell!” is a g0od index to his character. | ith the thread. ence, and J. Morgan, its “real heavy- o : weight.” preseut marked contrast of | American Marine [s Dubois, night club dancer, with | Ituth replicd. but to the detectiv:s | He makes no provision for the child | “Watch and el RRuth laughe whom Borden was infatu i and | obvious amazement her smile was| that Miss Manning claims s Bis. | Then, still holding the pigeon | POESONaNIY Killed in Nicaragua . 7 ot The two men who are playing so * s | {important @ role in German ceo- | Managua, Nicavagia, Mt Jack Hayward, Ruth’s fiance, whose [not a whit cheerful. “Is Com- Maybe he has cause (0 question his |against hen breast, she called out in | office is across the narrow airshaft | missioner Weeks still with Mr. Me- i\-u'vrml\. but T doubt it. T'd stuke a clear. blithe soprano: “Yoo hoo, from Borden's. Mann 7 my hope for promotion for solving | j,ck! * | nomic history are the subject of con- | —One Amcrican iy Jack's guilt scems emphasized by | “No. he's toddled on off ta this case on that woman's telling | slmost instantly the young insnr. | S14eTable study and conment amonz jand another wounded i < his admission that he returned to|lrighten up another dark corner. | the truth—so far as the Kid is €00~ | ance hroker's nead and tomo w the seventh floor Saturday after- | Birdwell grinned, “but Borden’s| corned. at least.” framed in the apposite window. noon, and by the testimony of Micky | lawyer — a lu-de-da chappic. with a| *1 with you” Ruth Got any crumbs, darling?” 1iuth Moran and Otto Pluger, elevator |canc and spats and everything — |soberly. “Did Mr. Borden leave a | eatied gayiy. I you have, you may | 10 8 Nisue et oune, ARG S e hoys. Bill Cowan, Jack’s friend, [dropped in a few minutes ago to|karke ostafe? {tears sonicthing to your advap- |l PIID blue husness suic, and they 70 0C U0 S unwillingly tells of having heard [lend o helping hand. MeMani| “About a million and a quarter. | tuget nd she. scleased the biaes | MOT¢ TODUSt and “ovial™ Morgao, Ui R il | German observers and newspaper | Ouilaws March 17 | correspondents, who draw vivid g pan(E RiEnel on e tall, pale, |10 feland, commund Jack threaten Borden's life Satur-|Phoned him to bring in *Handsome: | #ccording to Walters, though the : wearing in his buttonhole the tiny | While Private day morning. Harry's' will. Tut if you want to | Will simiply says, *More than $10.- | “Savs What does ail this mean Bhon f (e frcash Leghos o84 L0 g Somaln of McMann questions Benny Smith, [ see the chief 1l call him out for 90 The usual thing. vou know.” . And T thought vou weren't lis. | 1O Rl fge Borden's office boy: Ashe, his man- | you.” MeMann answered. SO course | 3 the detective sputtered servant; Minnie Cassidy and Letty “No. T've got a job to do that'< |asked Walters if Mrs. Borden Knew {100k here, Miss Lester! 1've whose next of “When the 14 vaperts are il e s | condition wus not serious b The dispatch said the in the hall of the ‘Hotcl George L ¥ AL : ' o b Miller, seventh floor scrubwomen: |£9ing 1o heep me very husy indeed [ Cither the extent of her hushand’s | {riated you almost like on of (i """ Lirol routed the outluws cting | Cleo Gilman, Borden's discarded | for the nest few minutes” Ruth | wealth or the Jisposition made of | force—1ict you in on everything, but | 5 00S e Pars correspondent of i 5o (000 Yottt | mistrean, and Jake Bailey, his body- | arsw as she sat down o her (iU in his will and he answered 10" || warn you — if youwre Gipping ofr | GUTman. official organ of the | g g5 of their ammunitio guard. Martha Manning is brought | desk and took the cover from the to both questions She must have | faywurd that he's bl German Centrist party, “the contrast = t riter that had stood idl been pretty however that g0ing to be ar- | tween th two leaps t 5 % ; inte the case by Ruth's clever de-|!¥pewriter that had stood idle sinee | bee pretty howeve 1t rested, s0's he can beat it—" | betwee Hese ty caps to every- . £ 7 e J tonies eye General Pershing Mourns | | tective work She swears she last [the abrupt termination of hee| Shatever her hushand had would | Rutha fovely face wis sparkling saw Borden on Friday night but ad- [ Carcer s wnrivate séeretary to come to hier and her childeen, but | with laughter as she answered: | 2 Cablin and Silent At Dca(h of Mar hal Foch wiits phoning “im three times Sat. | “Handsome 1l Borden. since Borden was iving them $500 | wasu't sistening, And please don't | “The and most silent | poo o 91 urday afternoon. « monti, I'm afraid 11 heve te | scowl at me Nlke that A Cleo. G- | momber of the conference. s fia|, Faris Mas 2. G When McMann pointhlank accuses | IFor a few minutes, however, hop | 100K cliewhere for a motive that [ nan said. you'd be an aw fully hand fent, Owen . Young. anyone | 3o "y e her of the murder, she challenges | hands lay inert on the keys, and | M hold water, man it you cultivated a jolly | Who did not know would ake | Grta wan o i him to bring forward anyone Who|her brows were knit in a mighty Mrs. Borden did not kil her .+ Oh. look! Juck's caught | him for a nicy et Hal o] ] T ba maw her in the building Saturday. | frown of concontration. Then, wity | ISband” Ruth stated quietly. - black pigeon!” " [ holds himselt at a distance | “FLn00" 18 U While Ruth and Jack are out for |an excamation of excited frivmph | %0 Seem - pretly sure——oh. “I shouldn’t think Hayward | from the discussions. This American, I tunch, Ruth determines to check up [she quickly rolted a sheet of yellow | &I Birdwelll What s s his | would Want 10 see u pigeon | WHO ranks among the most success on Martha's story. The memory of | paper into the machine and hegan | SUPordinate appeared in the door- i again, after the trick one of them | Tul business men of his country, has Martha's nervous. twisting hands | to type with furious haste. P S e played on him—making those foot- | SUch reserve and such control, not stirs some deep-buricd impression | A5 page after page was filled wity | (AP Poster on the wire sir | prints n blood inside and outside | Oy of afiairs but of himsclf in Ruth's subconscions. e it wloss Tamibg.. 1Ind welltlpoka | VANS ita Al wih wou thisaindow i MoMann raningcn: tilcusts aUoulibio Ainiosiia & e FOE NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY {on with growing interest. wh o While McMann was arguing and|her. “If it hadn't been fop {lose |ton of unreulity. His silcnce is 8o oo oiond 8nd comrads Rt bl By, wis not engeged in answering (ole. | CPOSIURIINE Wit - his immediate | pigeon Tootprints, inside and ot | marked. it mign almost seem uneer | e ;“1,”\’: e “Ycs—old subconscious working | phone calls from police headquar- | S2PeHON who had evidently just iside a closed window. 1 doubt i a | tainty il it were not for the steady, | "o -Cr#! 10 At last. darling!” Ruth answered. licen heckled by his own superior |grand jury would have indicted | dircct look of his cyes, when the elevator had discharged | are you writing—a seria) | COMMissioncr Weeks, Ruth sat star- | pjm— “He appears to work for the los | them at the seventh floor. Her cyes [+ he asked at last, unable to |8 At the airshart window. smiling But again he was amazed to dis- | of it, «nd any distraction is for him l were shining like blue diamonds, but | in his curios strangglyeseherschintmestinggon N tinover {INGE the fgirl iwas' notilistans |onty dil s r Untich: 1k ascretacy even it she had wanted to confids [ “I'm afruid it docs sound a loi | Merlocked hands. MeMann. glanc- |ing to him. She was smiling and | s o room st o one he. o ’ in her sweetheart, the inev like fiction of tiie old-fushioned, | '8 4t her once or twice for ap | nodding, with carefree gayety, * sl e O for hinself at the Ritz, overlooking group of reporters clustered about | penny-dreadful kind.” RRuth laughed | Proval of the way he was “stand- | the young man across the airshaft | the silent, snow-shrovuded garden of | L A Jlorden's door would have prevented |without halting her flying fingers. ing up” to the police captain. saw [ who, after reading the brief mes the Pulace of Justice, and it is atdi| r he | She had just drawn the last sheeq ' 10 Dis amazement that she was not | sage, gave her a puzzled smile and | Lo often dictates oron Tl Throwing Jack flayward a bril- | from her typewriter with an ex. | ©V¢0 listening! nod in return. and then tore the | pighi. He takes very CUNOR lant smile by way af farewell—a |cited, triumphant “Theret” when | Something did rouse her out of | ribhon of paper fo bits. The pigeons (he activities of the other experis i smile destined to grace the front [the door between the two offices 107 Smiling abstraction ¥ fluticred after them greedily, | | i e RO outside the 1meetings most. ons page of an extra a few hours later [opened and the detective sergeant “HM' uy Ao e v L — Ruth slipp-d into her office, or | followed closely b aapper: dithe | S 08 & LACKERISROILSWILCH Ve “What was *hat message bl 7 e e PR 4 7 o i > strutting up and down the broud | novi | curtains of the ; Salts 5 rather the office which had been | man, who had evidently used a cep. | SUHHNE up and - down the broad | Nann deman led sternly. Begin Taking Salts if Yoo hers until her employer had been | tain famous mayor as his sartoriul | 4! guiside U e Oh tith laughted. 15/ his pookel his iight holdiis Feel Backachy or Have window. With an exclam fturncd away et ad Gl murdered {guide, cmerged, exchanging Tare 2 from the a cigar or stubby little pipe | Bladder Weakness She found Detective Birdwell [well courtesios, {dismay at lier own thoughtlessness | “just a novel way of making a dat: = : e W his fect on Benny Smith’s| “Whew! That guy's so polite he | &irl jumped up and run to the | with my young man! Please don't VALCHS T T desk. his black derby tilted low | makes me want 1o kick him in the |OU/©T office. to get the envelope | scold. Mr. MeMann! 1 pro yon | “lu works tremendously, but over his perpetually weary eyes. Al|scat of his pearl-gray pants to see | WPICH she bad filled with | bread that won't run away—that if, Works without haste. He has not u the girl's entrance, down came ”,nt‘l, Hadta Thank you, my dear My, | CTUIDS from her own luncheon. But | #t five o'clock today. you still wan: | siugle hasty sture Yet he is fect and off came the derby, but the | McMann! Thank you:" the detec. | I NUNETY blick pigeon had to Wait [to arrest him for the murder of *verywh st. Mor after expression of bored gloom on the | tive ant growled when the | Tinute longer, for Ruth stopped i Henry P. Borden, he'll b here and (| MOring, lic 1s the first of the mem detective's face deepened. |lawyer had bowed and smiled him. |10 t¥Pe one fine and tear it. a nar- | shan't urter a word of protest: bers of the coaference 10 appear i yugte and pois “Has anvthing happened?” Ruth |self out of his dead client's office, | 19% Tibbon. from the sheet of yel- | “You're pretiy sure o yoursolr, s the hall of the *Hotel Gigrge V. 2 dull asked, as she hung up hat and coat, [“But I'm glad he came, anyway |1°% Paper. With her message. | MeMann told her. eyeing her with In general, the ""“q sion NS L gharp pains and fluffed her golden curls before | Come on in, Misy Lester, and 1y | Dread crmubs and alength of Dlack § frowning curiosty, “Holding ot | 'tn reached by German writers the washstand mirror. L tell you all about it.” thread, s hurried back —into the lon e, arent yon that only the most detached weigh “Oh, nothing much” Birdwell| Before obeying, Ruth Lester gath. |Private office, where McMann was| “Why of course not. Mr. Me. |Ing of their country's case may b drawled wear “Nothing except | cred up the four typed shects or Ut replacing the receiver. his|aannt™ Ruth disclaimed, with | expecied of Yo “without any that Commissioner Weeks has been | what Birdwell had called a “serial | 200 flushed with righteous indizni- f wide-eyed innocence. “You know | Sprciul sympathy, yvet without an here handing out nice, hot little [story™ and folded them into a smail | 100 far more than I do—and all that 1 't samples of hell. You'd think, to!square which she tucked away | e owe were tking of My Mr. g n the other hand hear that guy falk, that nobody |safely in the pocket of the brown| “Expect a man to solve a mystery rden’s will. 't was rather disap mch more col 2 3 F o s aani o )nmhlng Bt tHa01E elvalosn tretk ahe wasl e |/lne (I (W enE e orEadlam bS] Holnti e wasn it I I e st rcids and flu Forty-three years in New Britain, 23 of which have their thumbs or play tiddly-winks| “A mun’s will is a pretty good in- | tail!” he grumbled to the g *n | had more originulity than that— 2 ons wasts been speut in hi Jresent location, is the record since you stumbled over Borden's|dex to his eharacter.” MeMann be- |abandoned his self-defense 1o ask | MeMann returned to the desk, got abont ! 1 Dody yesterday morning. As the | gan, after he and Ruth had seated |curiously: “What are 3o doing [down and sclcted a memo fron from any | 1 o tal of CHARLES G. MILLER, one of the owners chief says to Lim” — and Birdwell | themselves opposite each other at tack of notis. I wouldn't s spoonful in i < of water lwfo - jerked his head toward Borden's|the dead man's desk. “And more | t fecding the onsi Ruth Harry Borden was lacking in oris breakfast for a few d of Miller & Olson, Inc., 61 Arch St. | TELEPHONE: 2790 —Generan ills all our will' be mour French nation, hut by whose arnn leadership i only secs his tall figure silontly Too m the system casionally relieve misery wehe, dizz tongur private office, where McMann was | times than not, when a rich man's | a1 . “Poor things! I'te neg- [inality,” he said, with an odd smil Kidneys may t presumably hard at work—"he say sen murdered, his will is the po- | lected them shamefully. 1 hope the [ “There's one clause 1 haven't fof iive us time, commissioner. W [ lice's best bet in looking for a mo- | Next tenant . this suite has a [ you about — the gest clay can#e ain’t been on this job 30 hours!|tive. 1 tricd to get hold of Attorney | more hunanitarian seer lever writtsn into a last will an gicll lly r disords yer” he says. and the Big Noise | Walters yesterday, of course, hut he | “Say! That's a pretty sight!™ Me- | testament. o e e We grocers are likely to overlook one person comes back at vith this kinda | wa Ut of town—didn’t get back | Mann commented, as he strolled to (TO CONTINUED) ' : . 71 is 1 > 9 Nl e e ey B e SRl Ll e .h,'i 2 adding | 2 ¥idtn el who is pretty important. That’s the Bond arrest by five o'clock today, Me “And did vou find a motive? | girl stocd. laughing and cooing 10| What was the clause in Hir 9, ; 5 Bread salesman. Mann,' he says, ‘I'll assign the case | Ruth asked cagerly. the flock of pigeons, which fought | Borden's wili? It's told in the n . $ s . . . n to Licutenant Pryor” Huh! 1 ‘Not 1njess we want to believe | greedily for “he crumbs she was | vhapter S e i I've never met representatives of a blg know Pryort He'll clap everybody |that Mrs. Borden got impatient, ! upon the lede n Sight i jail. and then eMann said. slowly. “Outside of o | - you grecdy thing: ~:I~ | CLASSLEIED ADS Mustard . . R : C?ml{)any WhO SII;O\YEd Fhe mtte_relst mn Lhell' Ecnie mecnie winey mo' to see thou s 10 his lawyer, who, as the black pizeon huhlv\‘ R YOURR WANTS, ous kidney and Jer disord work and in my business these fellows show. ~ T used to be wary of them. When a salesman APRIL SERIES 2+ ELITE SHOES | | i READY ...... FOR HER JOIN NOW! Who Seeks Smart Shoes at a Price ST e §\1]/2”7QH,,[ That All Can Afford comes into your store and suggests that per- haps he knows more about your bread de- partment than you do, naturally you won- der. You think he's just trying to boost his own business. I didn't see the other side of it at first. The other side of it is that by keeping a careful record of my Bond sales the Bond salesman makes sure that customers get only fresh-from-the-oven bread. He leaves just enough to carry me through until he comes around on his next trip. Customers compliment me on the fact that they always seem to come into the store just after I receive my delivery of Bond. Naturally so. As the salesman’s deliveries are prompt and regular, I get the credit for We take this opportunity to inform our thousands of patrons and Just arrived an assortment of snappy styles in all lzathers includine heen tested over a period of 42 years. o * having my Bond just right. | ! 3 would be patrons that we are ready t» serve them with our latest Easter styles in footwell’, as we have done ia the past two yea I'his co-operative saving plan has blondes, grays, water snakes, lizarls, taupes browns satins, patent~, § Move than a million dollars has been Really the credit should go to the Bond i Bread salesman, for his perfect service. CHARLES G. MILLER {Signed} trimmed-combinations, crepe soles, and many more at the low price of shared among the members. A small amount payable monthly—one 050 dollar to 50 dollars. e LONG TERM PLAN SHORT TERM PLAN Thetmed e (12 Years) (7 Years) Worth More - i £ shar $1 per month § 00 @ $2 per month § After all— there is no bread like Bond sh or month 440 ares $4 per month 3 shares $3 per month 600 ares $6 per month shares $4 per month Su0 shares $5 per month 1.000 shares $10 per month 2,900 sharcs $10 per mont Etc. up to 50 shares 10 shares $20 per month 2.0 shares $8 per mont} IT WILL PAY YOU TO VISIT THE EW BRITAIN CO OPER ATIVE NATION AL BANK BUILDING — ROOM 210 New Britain’s Original Women’s One Price—$3.50—Shoe Store Where J TELEPHONE 73 You Buy Two Pair for the Price of One. — RESOURCES OVER $500,000.00 ==~ ELITE SHOE STOR somigoiouocnon | - Bread

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