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; 3 ' : 4 rhe sat down to this conference FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1 Qo0 ee By Bertha I PLAIN LOAF ». Shapleigh Of Columbia University “ t ‘ . ‘ any f a tw Wher Ito a w t " k 1 kew Add t f a a" 7" nm A c ' we naly f kr \ my v ver and * k Ta ard, shape into loaves 4 t ake 4 40 minut Triumphs of 4 M.Jonquelle \¥, ky MELVILLE Davisson Post @ 1000 NEA Servi THE TRIANGULAR HY EHGIN HERE TODAY 4 “ he ail of GO"ON WrrM THE stoORY CHAPTER I! The envoy’s eyes narrowed. He looked at Jong a pt as in & furtive Inquiry 14 t nat w . jon in Paris. You will be # learn it, continued the Pre of Police “Dernberg was undertaking to falst fy « work of art, It was a very re- markable work of art, and one of value. The yons who originall produced art expense & great an almost tn credible sum of me to perfect It If one couki falsify it successfully one could make @ fortune at the ven t Dernburg knew t He had a long time. He at number of ex ¢ Was satisfied be successfully ne here from Stam- thought about it fe had conducted & periments, Fin that the thing done, and he boul, took this abandoned house in the Faubourg St. Germain, brought with him | and prepared to the great thing which he had in mind Then. monsteur, before the thing could be accomplished, the mysterious vistter appeared: and this morning Dernburg tx dead It was evident that the Oriental was profoundly puzzled “{ do not umlerstand mon- sieur,” he anid. “You say that Dern- burg Pasha had perfected a method | by which he intended to falsify « work of art?” “Yes, monsteur.” “Then he was called upon by one who knew of this method and wished to rob him of tt? “No, monefeur,” “Then by those to whom the ortg- inal of the art belonged. and wished to prevent this falsification 7 “No, monsteur,” replied the Prefect of Police. “Dernburg Pasha’s death resulted from a sence of despair.” Jonquelle took his hand from his pocket, revealed the thing upon which his fingers had closed when He opened his hand so that the thing was visiblé It looked Ike a little square box of some white substance, ax of marble or chalk or alabaster It was not larger than two Inches IF STOMACH IS TROUBLING YOU, CHEW A FEW!! Instantly! End Indigestion, Gas,| Heartburn, Acid Stomach | undertak you. steur! 1 name them tn the order inj which they occur to me: first, mon-| | steur, that I killed the man; second, | that you killed him: and third, that |the agency that killed Dernbure [Pasha is no longer living in this } world.” | The Oriental turned suddenly, his lface contracted and tense, but his| Taste pleasant! Work wonders! firm. | The moment you chew a few tablets ery well, monsteur.” he said; | of Pape’s Diapepsin all the misery of |“whither do these euggestions lead] indigestion and disordered stomach | you?” ends. Tonauetle continued in an even Your stomach needs this harmiess | votce help. Get relief for a few cents. Mil “To arrive at that.” he sald, “we lions of dywpeptics and stomach suf-| must firet consider the evidences ferers never bothered any more. which bave ted you to believe that | Any drug store Dernburg was killed by the man ECZEMA TORTURE |with whom be qnarreted last night | ie one of the curses of modern nie| of which none escape, rich or poor. It can always be told by the thickened, cracked or SCALY SKIN OR WEEPING SORES from which oozes a« clear liquid which causes an intolerable itch ing and makes life an itching mis STOPS THE ITCHING INSTANTLY Tt% “WA Gvie method of treating the ditm, with greasy, stick salves und soaps, simply covere over the skin, thereby giving the parasites a better chance to live underneath. The treatment of eczen has of late undergone a comp and rad feal change, and so, instead of treating the surface only, a clean. cooling and penetrating lotion may now be applied, which gets to the} bottom of the sores and kills the germs Such 4 lotion ts the newly discovered specific for Kezema an old by wir and good drugg per bottle Joyner Drug Co., Advertisement ywhere, $1.00 tpald by the Spokane, Wash. Jopportunity, the quarrel, ice. Inc POTHESIS M ur Jonque =» hand that the a ¢ this ma A ! we ‘ » a of wi ht In the German Emptre u thing His desig wa red. and he fied to Tur key © took his obsession with himself { France, H ame t this house. He we into ef: fect w tely, for him. the myw of last night appeared, Dernbure was shrewd lous and farsighted. Etut } hrewd enough, and he was not fur ighted enoug The stranger, who ame to see him last night, knew all t him, knew every detail of his} ivities, knew the big ph hat he 1 in mind. He had watehed him, had followed his career knew the very day that he came to Parta | He knew his object in taking this| empty house In the Faubourg St jermain. He knew every step of| the secret arrangements which Dern. | burg had perfected for the carrying | his scheme; and at the oppor tune he entered this These are the facts, monateur, which I haye accurately ascertained, which | are true beyond doubt “And so,” said the Orlental, “this mysterious stranger finally ran Dern- | burg Pasha to carth here and killed | him.” | The Prefect of Police arrested the man's discourse with a gesture “You travel, monsteur,” he said, “a point beyond my conctusions. Do wo know that this midnight visttor ts the assassin? We must consider the evidences as they are presented to ux” “The evidences are conctustve of this fact,” replied the envoy, “If ctr- cumstantial evidences can ever be conclusive of a murder. Here ta the the dead man remaining in the library, blood- drops falling from the weapon on this drawing-room floor as he hastily cronmed it, and the escape over the wall of the garden.” “Fut, monateur.” said the Prefect of Polies, “where ts the motive? The writers on the value of indicatory evidences, in the Investigation of a criminal case, tell us that there should be time, opportunity and mo- tive. The time. monsteur, and the opportunity are here, plainly Indi- cated: but the motive? Where shall we look for thatT” The Oriental turned. ingptration, In his chair. “Why. monsteur,” he said. “you spoke at considerable length upon the motive. You seemed to know It quite well, You conceal, as you have indicated, the somewhat myste- | rious evidence of it In your hand.” “Quite true, monsteur,” replied the Prefect of Police! “but you will ob- He out « hour house os with an serve that it ts I who am familiar! with this motive. It te I who have what you are pleased to call ‘this | concrete evidence’ in my hand, And | that brings me to an Interesting hy- | with three phases to be con- Let us consider them, mon- “You cannot mean that Dernburg Pasha was murdered by a dead man!” in the brary, Now, if you please, monsteur, we will look # Httle at the | indicatory signs.” fh mused The next person who came to call upon 8pri He thru the sky until he came above the had ‘Then opening his umbrella, he hung onto the handle and dropped down, as | cireus said righ T ttle eatherman soup would t is ‘That's just vat this visitor was Dernburg’s as- asin, and consequently, to you, the “You indicatory. evidence supports that theory. But, monsieur, I have the|a whit theory that the visitor was not the assassin, and I bid you observe how the themselves about in order to support |the theory for s NY THE SEATTLE STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN 7 MRS. HOOPLE, TH’ MAJOR ASKED\— 7 AWA LiGten | 7 tH MASOR ME“ “TELL You WHY HE “To THAT STEAM 19TH’ “HouD! COULDN'T “TAKE “THAT JOB “A ‘TH’ MAJOR FOR GETTING AS GANTA CLAUS IN “TH’ BOILED UPl. OUT oF WORK« YOU WERE LAST NIGHT HE LOOKING FOR HIM WAS AT "TH! SO BAD HE CAT GPEAK! YSEE IF HE “TooK “H’ WOULDN'T BE ABLE “To TALK “OW UL tots! DOINGS OF THE DUFFS with a Green Wizard was Mr. | came the Weatherman. umbrella the inkle- Blow, rode his magical actly r place where the Green Wizard his workshop in the tree-tops the parachute man does at the 1 just thought I'd drop in,” he 1 as he landed with a thump nt In the middle of the room he Green Wizard laughed. “You rly dropped into the soupt he lared, nodding towards his bie nearby. “1 wonder how! ter" man hangar, planes in, right boside my house there would be no trouble at al) “An hen everybody laughed, for soy and Nick were there, too. it,” announced Mr. inkle-Blow, jumping to his feet closing his magical umbrella pen.” (Cop DEPARTMENT STORE + WHEN DOCTOR'S “To SEE ABOUT HIS “TONGILS » THEY GWELLED UP PART OF SANTA CLAUS HE FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS magical Wizard. would you keep it?” p in Bluster Gust Land where I * answered the bulla the Green remember, umbrella. you never can tell what may hap- A “TOO, PAT AG NARROW ESCAPE “I just thought I'd drop in,” he ‘That's exactly what I This um anap “dame! SPEECH BUSTER! « 1 SUPPOSE WIS WRIGTS ARE SPRAINED , 90 HE COULDNT UtTTLe NICE HE —- @ said to see you about brella you made for but you see 1 just car ‘ight “ra right never Take (To Be Continued) by Seattle Star) yright, 19 might then, But fairy a garage or whatever they throw it with \ keop I'l do it,” Wizard obligingly aw you, SMART ?* GAN, WE COULD BE IN aN EXPLOSION wit A BASKET OF EGGS AN’ = n® in a dandy, guide it ex-| I was wondering if you | knew how to make such a thing as @/ airplane.” “Well, now! answered the Green| where Weather. or @ alr. dh, said “Rut y your for circumstantial evidence supports | theory You have @ theory, monaleur, marble indicatory evidences will turn whieh T maintain. example, these bloc Now, © square floor. blood on a black square. stour, should these drops appear only on the white squares? 1 Take, ' that fact monstour also as confirmatory of mine. will observe these seven blood-drops has of with my I would cite them | that this each fallen on checkered | vening There Is no drop of Why, mon- of consider theory In mind, drops on the and I conclude that they so appear ‘hore is always thiv disturbing | marble floor of the drawing room. In| because the one who placed them feature it circumstantial evt-| support of your theory, they have|there wished them to be seen, We dence, the trick of pointing in the |falien by hazard from the assassin’s| cannot conceive that he would un ‘irection that one is going. If one knife in his flight, and you would |dertake to create evidence against has # conclusion, one will find that cite them as confirmatory of your himself. COME OUT Wh ‘EM HATCHED $f 1} of his fully as with thy who-wor' “He minister nor thru Ruden begin th do it an ian’t as minister. was a fine birds, and bit timid about going up against all those unknown things. “But he asked for work on the dyke, and I gave ft to him, 1 took him down to a stretch along the #, and told him he could Showed him how to needs to dykes, or he'll get into trouble. would work all day, dyke three to five leave his ditch dry, <A YOU COULD LOCK aN EMPLOYMENT OFFICE, “THEN .GO HOME AN! =) HIM UP IN S FIND HIM BED! v HORRIBLE THINGS! chair and held Mr. © story of themin ‘ked-In-work days. fellow, but he didn’t kne he was fust a beaver marsh, ere nd left him. know about easy as It looks who-worked-on-work orning nN 1 Rare Vag David came forward to the edge himself down firmly with a hand on each knee, and Peggy twinkled bites. Calhoun started on inter that ww great deal about building dykes bout salt marshes; nor about woods and wilds and animals, and little near ‘ow there is much that one | building | It And this | days throw up his feet high and | and when he his THE OLD) HOME TOWN < Guess 3 THEY ke ~ = —\ Fae CLOSING A How OUT SALE be 8 RIGHTY USED , Ci@ ARG £4 Ae Straw WATS Fo.pinG bog COLLARS AND AbRLOR TED Pitch Torks Am ORE: THE COW (You SAY WES | So FAT HE pz) Pr CANT S Too! Bit fe S04 ditch would be full of water “This happened a then one day 1 of him number days; naw come stumbling. the flelds to me “‘T ean't work on that job any running across longer,’ he cried, his voice shak ing with exc! my ditch this usual it was filled with and that was bad enough ment, ‘I went to morning and as water, But, mark you, I cannot work there any more, the water was full of animals—big furry animals, with and them they eyes, when 1 approached opened their mouths and showed their sharp teeth at me. It was horrible!’ “He quit," Mr. Calhoun laugh- ed at the fellow, to be afraid of the beavers! If he had only he might have given ‘horrible animals’ a re & little stick and taken his ‘furry’ hide and sold it for a good price | But was afraid he didn't know. It was all strange and wild.” “Did the dykes hold?” “All but the one the muskrat spoiled.” (To Be Continued) memory oor had courage h of the over the head with he because ception of they came the details at a farthe me sin, after room into excaped by coincidence lood-drop: by design.” of a formula r point fl the walled climbing over garden, that each of should, by | Now, monsteur, I caused this wall to accident, have fallen precisely on abe examined. white square of black squares inter- Therefore, monsieur, evidences did not come by chance; these He continued like one who recites “I find my theory also confirmed |in that You explained to|the coating of dust when I inquired, that the assas- i thru the drawing had the wall, | sively to establich my own.” And it is beyond our con- since the gate was nailed up and had He made a vague gesture as “The man is dead!’ MAYOR SIMON DOOLITTLE HELPED CONVINCE THE TWO TRAMPS THAT OTEY WALKER WAS THE REGULAR MARSHAL EVEN IF HE HAD LOST HIS BADGE OF AUTHORITY. —— Alidw ME TO WHOLE THING, MoR& THAN YOUR HALE OF THE PAGE 15 BY STANLEY HOLD ER Le news ee snes Si0n AREARINI YY Lock THE \ Door @Quic’< \ »/ OTEY- Guess \ STHATLL Convince’ M YOU ARE THE MARSHAL! A Mes eee Oresce HS IC@S Of PGEACEMAKER., I SQW WHEN ou WANT any ReaD been so nailed up for a long time, The whole of the top of It is coated over with dust, At no/ point has any of this dust been re- moved; consequently the assassin did not escape by climbing over the wall, for if he had undertaken to labor, would have removed | You see, mon- steur, I do not find your indicatory evidences designed to support your theory. They seem rather conclus ‘ tho to dismiss the matter, “And so, monsieur, we find |selves before the thesia! Pasha, or did you, or was he, in fact,|fatal wound ts no longer alive murdered at ail?” The Oriental looked at the man In climb the wall at any point, his body, |® sort of wonder, “He said. The one in son “It 1s by no means certain,” “Not certain?” echoed the Envoy, 'adventure of M. Jonquelle | “One may be dead without hay our-|been murdered,” replied the ect triangular hypo-|of Police. “It is possible that the murder Dernburg} hand that gave Dernburg Pasha Did I this world.” The Turkish Envoy made an @x+ clamation of surprise. was surely murdered,” he| “You cannot mean that Dernbui | Pasha was murdered by a@ Prefect of Poltce spoke like | man!" reflection, The concluding installment of pear in our next issue,