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excited in early dealings to-day, an ther deveiopments, # Btock Exchange firm of Foster & ce oon did not have a further d was in difficulty «we ‘ ‘arou we day aha the break which the market -@ Ghtlcipation of the announcement .% to-day, - to-other unpleasant reports which = ‘Were believed to be entirely ground- @ eee. Banks who are in @ position ~ >» Street houses have never been In a 2 stronger position. They claim that @ thelr 1 » i pust five years av they Prevent time, and that the of Foster & Lounsbery to be an Isolated case, § iF a i railroad generally all phowed a firm Considering the oxtent of yes ‘a break recoveries wero small, at times \naide banking support to be needed to sustain values, However. no further pronounced weak ‘pots developed. Transactions were at the rate of more than 2,000,000 shares @ full five-hour session. Call money renewed at 7 per cent. agnert that money conditions i ft Sete e ene ‘ee ii tie decline, and that rates | Cote Cane Sugar. . bles, "1806, Denmark krone grcoport Toxs .. a Geston WU & Wie. paves demand, -TT0s, cables, 1723. Gener) whee» f. d, 1507; cables, 1613. Argen- the reguiar quarterly dividends | Aa preferred. The com- | i¢ Jan. %, to stock the regular quarterly nds of 13-4 percent. on com and 11-2 cent, on proferre: h payable Feb. 1, to stock of io- | Jan, 22. > 2 i ipiseing Mines Gompany, Limite: terly divi- payable Jan, Dec. gi. i “ ie Guarautes and Trust ; Company gn extra diyidend Ps 5 Y t es ‘per cent. the regular quor- ft Be tary ree Of & per cent, woth > Z ge n, 3 to stock! of rocurd } if ? ey ae Oe FRESIDEWT OF PI TronR, i D. Miller was elected Vi Of the Hotel Bit: te lurrhy Hill, Commodore, other hotels’ tn the Ba W Cor Lith St. and 8th Avenue Dividen@ Jan. tet. 1021, at the rate = FOUR PER CEN Bes ‘ail urs from 8h to $5, titled t under the By se | fe 3 2 iii PE BN at | SRENCE L BALAK EL Be nd fom 10 A, Me to ty > » bgt ize tromtd, AM 0h q fenm 10%. Mt is Sa ‘BA & MS BOWERY, Cor, 1%, New per vent, yer annuir, pagabte on ms, 17. 1021, vd Siro or netohe aa. co qedelaga tia ae a Wo COMPLETE SI | Lea While the stock market was highly ca) g Pttovs fluctuated in’ a nervous man- | Atsehe Japan . ‘ So: * ner, tho general tone was greatly im- “Proved. There were very few issues) sw. "Bhat went below the closing prices of ye jay. There was considerable | Am, sscation in eariy dealings, but when | 4” Dolders of stocks found that this Mquidation was being well absorbed they wthdrew a part of their seiling | Am. . Omiers and decided to wait for fur- | Ate, Cimimem S 8 Lee Tauber & 7 Lonle, de Neshville 97 {a Announcement of the failure of the Mioneap, & St. L Mimout Kan & T Mimouh Pacific ». pressing effect. Rumors that this frm | je, Milde Slates O1.. cireulated | Aan, nd the financial district yeater- | Nat, Knaepel & tp Ng # Piffered was believed to be partly In) ' ; New Otle'ne T & M NON Hat. Am. @ ‘The failure of this firm gave rise N. ¥, ont & W., Nova Beotin St. I ® = to know the facts claim that Wall’ Ouoma Py kt Htiew Have not been’ as low | Be Naltimore & Ohlo and miscallaneous Rep, [ron & 86 ender Motor. direct relation to the mar-|’ M.A St T Ry, of, be materially r after the turn) | Bouthan Hallway. . Palennetine Boat, Bt, Jonni Lead. 3% the Mini % fingneid! problem. oan COON 19% have o nulupiyiog ti Trae & William 5 Meaty & Imo General Motors Dv Humpiration Copper ‘HOME RULE BILL . FINALLY ADOPTED New Measure to Become Effective Within a Period of Three and a Half Years, TWO YOUTHS HELD FOR FORCING ENTRY) Both Regently Released on Burglary Said to-Have Policeman Kiet Sireet Station saw two y | the hallway LONDON, Dec, 22.—The Irish Home Rale Hil, as modified by the House of Lords, has been adopted by the of Commons, Alen 166 Bast goth 5 be identified with , Street ourly to-day and arrested them on a charge of forcing the door. After they hud been locked up at Policg Headquarters the police an- to bedome a law, The gieasure will the discretion of the Government at time within three and one-half ‘The Government reserves the privilege of applying the law when opportune moment arrives, ‘The bill {s not fundamentally dit- ferent from the measure the Govern- ment first presented. ever, still maintain that it by South fretand, Arthur Grimith, Sinn Weim teager, has said there prob- not ten influential men in Ireland who had ever taken the trou- lw to read tt be effective at ; twenty, No. 103 West eused Noy. 4 on pro- lng avrested on a bur- bation after t 63 West 100th Street, out of the Catholic he was sent for bur- I's critica, how. ne palloe said they found on the youths « candle, a skeleton key and a . upd that they confessed to burglaries on wularly that of the sporting goods store of Budle Colunybus Avenue, FRANCE PREDICTS is Growing Opposition to Hig For- eign Policies is Expected to Force His Withdrawal. By Lincoin Eyre. CT ES Nou York Werkdh ee O * (SoC Cane Deapaich to Due Workd.) PAs, Veo, 21—hven money ls belng bet in the lobbies of the Cham- ber of Deputies that the Leygues Ministry will go out of office soon after the New Year, That {ts fall @% at best is only a matter of a few ism Weeks is generally recognized. Premior Leygues’s defeat will con- atitute a severe blow at the policy R* initiated by his predecéssor and pa- 3% ‘On, Alexander Millerand, now Presi- dent of tye republic. Many politicians, Indeed, soe .in It the Deguining of a demolition of that political editive known as the Bloc National, whose architect was Clemenceau, and whica wag carried to its compietion under Millerand's Premiership. The Bioc National ts @ group em- a bracing ali the parties in the Cham- ‘ber, save only the extreme Monarch- ists, the Left Radicals and the So- clalists, Since the election of a year hs | ‘ago, when its adherents’ platform was strongly anti-Bolshevik and Ni tionalist, tempered with an apprecia: 11% tion of the importance of conserving the entente with Britain, the Bloc has been all powerful In Parliament. Byt the Government's continued 11% fajure to exact the much advertised reparation, coupled with the rive in the fall of the franc depression, has allenated many vf tts original sup- porters. Thus in a recent by-election in the Garonne Department, the’ Socialist candidate for the Chamber won out “4 by a large plurality and grievousty et dented the armor of the loo National. Newspapers attribute the Socialist *% victory not to any popular tendency *% toward Bolshevism, for the Deputy- 10% elect belongs to the moderate wing of his party, but to dissatisfaction with ry's handling of France's Attacks un the present Premier , i. The par- Hamentary | opposttion’s —_ princtpai charge against Ley sues concerns his 6% alleged mismanagement of French % © affairs in the Near East. It is really based on his Inability to bring about the revision of the Turkish treaty when he conferred with Lioyd George in Tondon a fortnight ago, The Premler suffered a severe heckling at the hands of both’ the Senate Commission on Foreign Rela- stlons and the Chamber Budget Com- mission yesterday. His demand for immediate establishment of am em- bassy at the Vatican was rejected by the former body,. which postponed consideration of the question until next month, He also was obliged to ‘Promise modification tm a_ recent decree defining® administration of Syria and Lebanon after ex-President Poincare had declared that repre- ntatives of those countries had Svuipubued that “slavery was brought to them In the folds of the French ag. ¥ Questioned as to secret engagements fsupposed to have been entered into by the Ailles with Armenia, Leygues pleaded ignorance and sald be “would Inquire Into the matter” The Premier fla could occupy that land “'n tts en- tirety and forever,” q remark which Affords a striking insight tnto .the great Powers’ attitude toward the mandatory system. Under the cove- nant of the League of Natiuns Syr'a and other ex-Turkish provinces are provisionally recognized as .ndepend- ent nations “subject to the rendering of administrative advice aga assiat- ance by & mandatory until wuch time as they are able to stand alone,” + ‘The situation In Cilicia, the Premier observed, was different, “The day when we shall have a good peace with Turkey, and by Tur- kef we mean to include of course that [mportant patt over which Mus- tapha Kemal now exerciaes 80 gr at noe—a peace which will give urity to the Armenians and respecting our rights—on that d shall be glad to evacuate Cilicl affirmed. ‘The Budget Commission with some misgivings finally vpted to approve the Government's application for 1,200,000,000 francs for the adminis- trative and military expenses in Asia Minor. Its report, however, is sure to give rise to violent debate in the chamber, ‘which may result in the resignation of the Cabinet. 4 os CANADA'S NAVY BORN, Dominion Ship: However, Meet Ac- cident Anchortn, HALIFAX, N. 8., Deo. 23.—Canad: LIMIT N. J. RENTALS TO 10 PER CENT. ts inaugural rendeavous in Halifax en $5,000 worth of goocs, were stolen eS pens aE HBR RELEASE, atiintar gourna!.) De Smyth-Jones—Now g & Diy Duck Savings Institution REO Phe Trustee bare svelared 4 dividend deta Gx months ending Dec, 31, 1020, om all drpcate | thermo usder the by-lewe at the ie at | conference of elect from Hudsan Coun- ty at the John Rotherham Club in Jer- Canadian ship Patrician, Although acy City last night, Assomblyman-olect Neluon of Jersey City an- nounced he would Introdue owers next week. My daughter Alice 10 will oe re thing. What- (rom house rentals to 10 would introduce valuations of residence properties und the submission by landlords to the assessors of rent pany to eave money for use in other GREENWICH SAVINGS BANK] 8. £ COR.GTH AVE AND ISTH STREET, NEW YORK me F OUR®PER: CENT pert annum, payable os, und after January 17, 1921, me $1. OPENS) AN. ACCOUNT pe pake areas Ona 3 WAIN—OLIVE, OAMPHELL FUNERAL CHURCH, Wednesday, § P. Mf. wee UNE BAL DIRECTORS, rm, accusina MAN BAYS At Your Service, Day or Wight PRANK CAMPRILL CHURCH” JANUARY 10 Yu a brand new fle two destroyers jand @ cruiser met with @ mishap at arbor yesterday. Juat as the warships twelve Were being berthed the flagship Au- rora wi fouled by His Majosty’ damage Was slight, the nt ed the official welcoming pro- gramme, SHOPMEN TO AID THE ERIE. MIDDLETOW order to a N, N. Yu Deo, 23.-—an jt the Brie Railroad Com- Ve ak ne i yy ue the anope * at Susquohanna have decided to take @ vacation from Friday of this weele until Abyudiny, Jaa. 2 “heads Sears ae We erate a as’ been‘ posted’ on oR in the shop. theatrical manager living at the Hotel Monterey, war arremted leat pias on 0 of No. SH GAVE. HIM 92,300. Ham Lemaire, who said he was « TEMPEST AS GREEK = PREMIER LEYQUES KIN HEARED HOME > WML RESIN SOON MARRED RECEP Elaborate Programme Arranged for Constantine Dropped When Ship is Forced Ashore. COT. A on eek Wert {peoial Cable Denpaie to The World.) ATHENS, Deo. 19 (delayed).—Kiny Constantine, fresh from hie thrilling sea voyage, during which the crulser carrying him and hie family was forced to seek shelter in the Gulf of Corinth, ts back once more in bis pal- ace to-night, while Athens and all Greece are shouting themselves wild with acclamations for “Our adored King." As he stepped on to the plat- form at the Athens station at 11 bearing the news were sent broad- cast over the country and to the Greek ships at sea, whereupon the re- turned monarch's bealth was drunk as far as Greek @ spoken in the East- ern Mediterranean, For a brief spell this morning the capital was thrown Into consternation by @ report that the cruiser Averoff, Dearing the royal family, which was expected in Phueron Harbor by noon, ‘was not coming. Some terrible ‘er was scented in the vague rumor which reached the masses which thropged the Phaleron docks awaiting their first glimpse of the warship onthe horizon. Athens for details, But it wasn’t until early Sunday morning tifat Premier ithallys himself knew of the returning King's adventure at sea which com- and her escort to dash for, shelter from the violent tempest off the litle town of Possedonio, on the western ¢x- sremity o: tie Corinth Canal, that the King was boarding a special train at that point and most of the elaborate programme prepared to welcome him would consequently awry. The initial triumpha: procession to the Metropolitan Cathedral for solemn |Te Deum and the subsequent march to the gates of the royal palace were preserved. Racing to Athens at breakneck speed, Constantine's train arrived at the matn station punctually at 11 o'clock. Amid the deafening shouts of thousands of Athenians who packed the stations and the adjoining streets, the King literally fell into the arms of Dowager Queen Olga as she ieft her carriage. The Queen Regent, who had not seen her son in three vears, held bia to her breast*for a full minute, After that there was joyful handshaking all around by the King and ace hom Prince Paul and Princesses Helen, irene and Catherine, and hastily }thanking those of the royal family, inguey Princes Andrew, Nicholas jand Christopher, the latter with a beautiful aerren wit eae ile come to greet them. ly touch- ing was the meeting’ between the King and War Minister Gounaris, leader of the Conservative Party, who more than any other had con- tributed to the defeat of Ventaelos Both the King and. the Queen stlil betrayed traces of the Illness they suffered during the three days of OVER Instalment No. 38. WO strange men coming home with Hugh. No meat or gro- certes in the house. The hour too lute to find out how my order for supplies had miscarried, also too late to lay in fresh ones, A ruffled cook. What-a prospect for a woman to con- template! “We must do something and do it quickly,” I moaned to the irate Mary. “Mr. Barrett will be here any moment with two géntiemen and he will be ex- pecting u good dinner. Oh, dear,” 1 evied, wringing my hands, “what shall we do?” ‘ “Can't say, mum,” replied the un- sympathetic Mary, ‘ If we should live to celebrate our golden honeymoon, I knew that Hugh never would forgive me for not being prepared to entertain the very men, of all men, Whom he hoped to interest in his new ofl enterprise, Some men might turn {t off as a joke, but not Hugh, the sticker for efficiency; Hugh who was unrelenting when it came to a wife performing her part of the marrluge contract; Hugh the eritical and fastidious, If we ever lived through this dreadful hour, 1 would not be surprised if Hugh informed me that he had gfounds for a divorce, though it was not my fault, I (oid myself, that my suppiles for the din- ner had gone astray. “Don't sit there like a stone image, Mary,” 1 said rather irritably. “Help mé out of this meas, for heaven's sake.” Going to the, pantry, I cast my eye along the shelves, Some months be- fore I had learned the wisdom of be- ing prepared for unexpected company by having a few canned things on my shelves. As ill-luck would have it. my reserve stock was unusually low. “Here's some canned tomato soup, Mary. Don't you think you could heat that and season it up a little?” “Yessum,” grunted my sullen helper “And here are’ some baked beans— do you suppose they would do?” “They don't ‘seem fitted for com- pany dinner, mum.” replied the by-no- meana consoling Mary, I was almost in tears. he “Oh, I know they're not,” I wailed isconsolately. “But, can't you help things out by making some hot bis- cults?” Just then 1 heard Hugh's key In the o'clock this morning, wireless flashes Anxious queries were despatched to| 1% ‘thelr dramatic yoya sroree inte va wanda of men, women BaP sthades aeTn ro briet the ing the process! from Cathedral to the palace paccine Sears carter v ‘ the cine CHAPTER XIY. (Continued. ) SANDEE im a Bill and went into . Grogan, the oid bartender “Growa legations from the various night of the Felderson murder?” and to each the King gave cordial acknowledgment, winging “Zito Basiteus' strewed mem! Dressed | “Only one or two of the gentlemen, the throngs to shower bouq a ere Was Mr. Farnsworth addresses of homage upon ihe voyet Mr. Brown and I think Mr. Wooda’ neeeee you sure Mr. Woods waa in Hundreds of little white robed girls =“ har no, sir, not exactly. I re- Cobynatt, 1020, by Booty Merrill & 5 n, do you remember who was in the bar between srrvice of thankegiving, as at every seven-thirty and eight-thirty on the Mr. ‘arnsworth and Mr. i " trance to the field and walked toward the hangars, Three acropianes were out being tuned up. They looked like birds, ready to take at the slight- ‘The Coroner walked man repeated with a puzzled frown, “I'don’t remember any such machine here. I know most of ‘em, but I don't think any Woods h @ machine here, Wait! Ill ask Bill, He'd know if any one did.” He walked over to a of mechaniclans and returned in a mo- flowers Sr King’s feet. Attired Brown. There were prob; ment. bly some in a Ge uniform, with his breast others, The reason I think Site, Woods covered with decorations, the King Was here was because he cailed my beamed smiles upon the tiny ones attention to the fact a few nights “It's the last one down. He ain't had a machine here only two weeks, That's the reason I-didn't know the holated up by their mothers to give after the murder them a vik t ler — Opposition to New Schedule px Im- teratate Travel Is Temporarily Restrained. Federal Judge Knox yesterday granted here ge nd they were talk- crime was committed.” | the two Public Service Commiasions, their counsel, and Attorney General TADW his atid! in edad, ot i 8 “of course, be- caiise he was around club all that ‘Newton, from “harassing and threaten- evening. i guess he Was here and I don’ ” ing to harass” the railroad company, remem! or in any way interfering with it in I shook hands with him and lett. collecting the passenger rates ordered Fer out on the golf links the cor- Into effect by the Interstate Commerce Onér was bending over examininj Ste state! pelled the distressed cruiser Avéroff| me, First District, their counsel, Attorney General. Copsright, 1920, by the Press Publishing Ce. Praltive New You ereming Wend QUESTIONS. 1—What is the largest o:ty in Ten- Nesece? 2—\9 asbestos mineral or vege’ ‘What strait connects Lake sMehignn and Lake Huron? 4—What ia t (eg of a brake ieee Presses against the wheel calle 5—From the [ears and dried podé of what plant do we obtain caye no pepper? “SESBy what name is the North American reindeer more commonly known? 7—What twd great. arteri one on either side the neck, convey the Blood to the head? From what shrub are the ber- ries obtaine. that are used in flavors in? wh a ow lon@ is a metre? IN DANGER OF HUGH’S WRATH. |», latch, In gnother moment he was 4a in-hia queste, 10—How many jag decagon? n ANSWERS. 1—Memplva, 2—Mineral, 3—Meck- inac. ~ rake-shor 5—Capsicum. 6—Caribou. 7—Caroud. &—Juniper. 2-89.87 inches. 10—Ten, , AGAIN I had a perfectly prepared six-course dinner in the kitchen just waiting to 6 served. The ‘ordeal of those next few min- utes was frightful. Canned tomatoes, baked. beans, canned pineapple and corm relish—what a meal to set bi fore two men of the world like George amar and Milton Harris, Probably they would go away #0 disgusted that 4, Hugh would not be able to make any. upon them, I recalled all the stories we 66 "VEX got it! Were on something on the ground. When reached him he grabbed me by the sleeve and pointed to two barely Ai cernible tracks parsijeling each oth for almost a hundred y: Between shallow, Jagged rut, where an aeroplane had dug up CHAPTER XY. the trail at lasti" 1 exclaimed. “I just found out at the club that Woods left his dinner burriedly and was not seen again until §.25 that evening.” “We've got to go slow,” cautioned the coroner. “A man who Is ingon!- ous enough to devise this means of murdering a man won't be‘tripped up Yor lack of a perfect alibi.” “rye found what that is too, He has the bartender at the club bait believing that he was in the bar at the time the murder was com- mitted." + I told him briefly wha: f had discovered. * ; “See! the* coroner pointed out, “if they bring him into cou.t, the bar- tender won't be able to swear | he wasn't in the bar and the short Ome * that he was abseus will convince the Jury that Woods is telling the truth and that our theory is ali. bunk." “But we're not going to leave things a& they stand, just when we are hot on the trail, What do we do now?" “I'm of the opinion that there is @ short-cut to the solution of the whole affair. Woods must have had 4 mecnanictan with hia vu che night of he uurder.” iotwhae takes you think that?” I ‘ked rather impatiently. There were a few N.Y. C, GETS ORDER HALTING So°%s said viet tho fact tha INTERFERENCE WITH FARES, 0! a2¥.one mightte accured. some one asked him was worried—we all knew, sir, that Mr. Felderson ant Mr. Woods were’ not very friendly— and Mr. Woods laughed and said that fortunately he had @ perfect alibi and called my attention to the fact that he was in here at about the time the name. We thanked him and tor the other end of the ile, oe climbed Into one of ines. Two mechaniciang spun the propeller and the engine sputtered arid The plane .wabbled 4nd ew drunkenly out on to the field, theg as the roar increased, It gathered wy and was off, At the door of the Woods hanghr, a reashpires” mechani of poweitul build was cleaning and oiling some delicate-looking piece of mech . He looked up With a questioning frown as We approached, then be- came engrossed again in his work. is this where Mr. Woods keeps hi aeroplane?” the coroner asked. “Ub-bu,” grinted the mechaniéfan, continuing with his work, : “Mr, Woods isn’t here, is he? “Ars you Mri Woods's inbeian “Are you Py vi ‘s Sal folgng® A ; , ine of ‘em,” the Ted one Fespdrided. “How many has he?” “Three.” “Are the other the coroner, about? continued said the mechanic, st loves to answer foul * ‘The coroner laughed. “Excuse me, my friend, but I am in need of som: urportant information. Wil! you tell me which one of the mechamciana was with Mr: Wooda when he visited the country club two weeks ago laa Thursday night?" The mechanic scrambled to his feet and advanced toward the coronef, hid face twisted with pass'on. For a mo- | ment I thought he was going to at- tack us, but he stopped a foot in fro of the coroner and snarled: “I do: know who you are, nor what you are, nor what vou want, but I ain't no in- formation bureau—see? So git t' hell out o' here if you know what's good for you!” With thet he turned and disappeared inelde the hangar, We looked at one another, Tho sine seemed pronitiona, " “Would it do any good to try to bribe him?" I aeked ‘You can trv it if yor fon't care for the smited, “No" the coroner internesed, “He was with Wdods that night and he won't talk” “Shonldn’t we get the police?” sug- gested Simpson. i “That wouldn't do any good,” the coroner replied. “Wait a minute! . — think I've got it” And with that he went inside. Above us we heard the hum of a Plane. We turned to watch It dip and glide and loop in the afternoon sunlight. The sun, catching Its wings, made it stand ont arsine? *ho blue sky lke some flery dragon-fiy, Tt flew up. turned a somersault ard nose-ved for a thousand feet, “Because we know Woods rame tack to the “club immedately arter the murder ana played casds tor the reat of the evel ‘He returned to Swing Around in a wide circle, few across the field at about 400 feet, circled again d sid downward, the city in another man’s car; ob- Closer and cloner it came to the then, some one else must hve vaken the aeroplane back to Its hangar, since it would have caused too much comment had it been on tne links next morning. Our(pan, then, is to fiid that mechanioan and Nag or threaten bim into telling the truth. Tf Wooas hasn't got rid of him he ought to be around the aviation grounds. We must wait until we are cortain Woods is not there before try our man.’ Echen there ig no better time than right now, for I ye oe eh ‘@ certain you - ine this itternoon.* the coron! mbed into the car and sped avers. the city. Since Bastprook 1s on the aenal postal route, we have a thing like a favorable impression well-equipped aviation fel@ just out- ai lo the,city. Several of our younger T ever had heard about wives doing gor with special sporting provilvities foolish thingy and wrecking their husbands’ prospects, and all the mag- azine artivles L lever, had read on that subject. With a mighty effort Pgath- ered my forces together and went in to meet Hugh's guests. I was fust in the act of telling them how delighted T was to have them with us when the telephone bell rang. ah 2 aerial joy-riding s.nce group of mechaniclans and oa | yund ‘the feld. is ‘Sroposed to the coroner thgt we stop for Simpson, and he agreed. When Simpson heard who it was he came down at once? As we sped to- ward the aerodrome I told him of our It was Mildred Benson, my next findings of the afternoon, He was door neighbor, caliing—the only astounded. young woman in Oklahoma with “S9U0° know, I'll hand it to the man whom I felt really weil acquainted, We had visited back and forth a good dea! since I had come into the neigh- borhood, and we borrowed from each ‘other in emergencies, “Nicky's just phoned that he has t leave this evening for Kansas City," she said, “and he can't come home to dinner. Won't you and Mr. Barret come over and share dinner with'me —I have lots of good things. In my excitement I aimost dropped who SoOnenE . A clever feared ice. it yous ae are correct really angina makes you think Woods “t do it?” I questioned. ann ‘ot a thing,” Simpson answered, ‘only 1 didn't know Woods kept @ plane In Bustbrook, “Of course, it Would be easy enough for him to get one. Lord! Think of the possibili- 5 ‘airly takes your the telephone receiver, for I hi ties tt opens up. Tt fa happy thought, With all cnamibe breath away, Automobile bandits speed I ran to Mildred Benson and poured out my fillemma to her, * n’t in it, Imagine. trying to cope with a gang of thieves who add an * Su ‘Do give me your dinner, Mildred, a.soplane to their kit of tools.” § and come over and eat with'ua. ‘There pose they decide to rob the Guar are two awfully attractive looking untee Company of New York or Tit- men there, and whatever you do don’t fany’s. The robbery \tself would be betmy me to Hugh.” pe simplest part of the thing, It ts With the assisiance of Mary and ting the swag away that worries Mildred’s cook we soon transported the criminals. Suppose they pull the dinner, consisting of soup, roast” this robbery off and the police put a lamb, vexetables, 4 beautiful salad net around the city to guard against | and dessert. Mary, her equilib- rium restored by the SpE AES ofa bountiful and ready cooked meal, re gained ber good humor, I introduced Hugh's guests to Mil. their escape. Mr. Thief and his gung fall away calmly over the heads of the police, Think of your diamond | q, smugglers! Why, tit big British dirigible could have flooded the Amer~ dred, and we had the gayest kindof ican market with diamonds and Mr. Harris and Mr. Lamar paid ail sorts of compliments on the dinner, and Hugh beamed his sat. \sfaction. The evening went off per- fectly, and while Hi laughed in the face, of the authorities. I say it gets you. “Yes, but*in the mean time we get Mr, Woods,” I said grimly. T'could see that he __“Don't bé too sure of that!” Simpson about his projecte to warned, “The man who thinks up such a pclentific way of murdering people inj ” | Exet's go quickiy, then,” exclaimed | they” walked across the field toward ground until the horizon was lost and it seemed to be gliding along the earth itself at terrific speed Finally it nosed up, touched the earth, bounced away as though !t werd a rubber ball, touched again, and at Jast came to # stop Within « bund: yards of where we were standing. A girl climbed from ft. and with a sickening clutch at my heart 1 rec- ognized who St was, Mary had been aeroplaning with Woods instead of automobiling as I had supposed. An the sight of her, lauching gayly at some witticism that Woods made ax us, my head spun with hatred and Jealou of the man. T had no time to observe more. for there were angry shouts within the hangar and the coroner came bonnd- ing out, with the red-haired mechan- felan clese behind him, The coron had in his hand what looked Ilke an iron crowbar, and as the mechanictan caught him this bar become the centre of the struggle. We hurried to the coroner's aid, but before we could reach him the mechanician gave him a vicious kick in the stomach that sent him sprawling and helpless, With a curse the mechanic picked up the toot they had been strugeting for and dashed back into the hangar. ‘The coroner lay writhing where he had fallen and could not speak. His breath was completely ,.knocknd out. We pumped his arms until at inst he Tt looks as though you hat a lity disagreement here.” A laughing volte sounded behind’ us. “This iro‘t at all my {dea of a hospitable reception for my guests.” We all turned to look inte th» smit~ ing face of Woods. As we h'ped the coroner te his feet and baer brig. ing him’off Woods continued: “Gentles men, {f you are going to present me with the key to the city, please maka it. as unostentatious as possible.” His smile atil! continued. Dnt there was an ‘odd glint in his ey Mary had left the side and wes walking away, She had evidently seen me and did not want to speak to me, "The coroner cleared his throat, “My, Woods, I'm not here to make any . T am here to urder of James of the a Not for an inatanut did the smil leave Frank Woods's face nor did his expression change, He looked us over calmty and slowly and then he sald: “Why, that Is very Interesting, but you neem to forget that T have al. Teady been accused of that murder once. | "You were accused: on mere suavl. e’clook to-night I was gure isn't going to be an easy man to cjon before, but now we have the ‘ou were going*to bring suit for one from me tg-morrow morning, ortes of big whole-hearted Jim 1 said to fim when our came to my mind and I swore I would ie, guests had gone: “For hea’ Woods if I tad to hang for it. Sfoode-murderer of ie after ateal- Pr | “The red-haired mechanic sauntered out of the doorway and walked ovew#™ toward the aeroplane. Rehind followed another Tee. with Een and,