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Sweden kro. cables, .1498, n@&, demand, .2488; cables, .2438, off Norway kronen, demand, +1578, up .0009. Den- deman: APRIL, 1921 RESOURCES Liability for Uncalled Subscriptions.........__. Cash on Hand and Due from Banks. Acceptances of Other Banks......... LIABILITIES Capital and Surplus Fully Subscribed _ DIRECTORS International Acceptance Bank r INCORPORATED 31 PINE STREET, NEW YORK Statement as of December 31, 192 £5,000,000.00 aw nw nw nn = 37501, 569.95 . 1,862,868.03 Customers’ Liability for Acceptances and Letters of Credit... 13,390,615.44 Accrued Interest, TOTAL. cccaveenecasecd Contingent Liability account of Endorved Acceptances and Foreign Bill Sold $7,405,515.23 Acceptance Credits in Dollars and Foreign Currencies. International Financial Transactions. Foreign Exchange. ¢|with heat in each one; in having Many failings of their comrades to the MAKE WIDE SWEEP IN CLEANING HOUSE Communists Expelled. Head of Foreign Office for Being a Sport. Bien By Herbert Pulitzer. EN ROUTE MOSCOW-LONDON, Dec. 27.—The final result of the Communist “party cleansing” in Petrograd shows that before the re- cent examination there were eighteen Communists out of a total personnel of 153. + Of these eighteen, eight were thrown out by the Communist Party owing to the decision of the local examining board. Livitsk, the head of the Petrograd Foreign Office, was expelled, as the written charges state, ‘‘for trying to live like a sportsman of the old re- gime."" This consisted in having an apartment of three or four rooms given one or two late parties during the previous winter, at which wine was served, and with trying to dress somewhat better than the other men in his department. One rather wonders if the informs- tion which led to these charges was given entirely in the spirit of the decree which called on all Commu- nists as their simple duty to report “party cleansing” board, or whether it was not given by some brother worker in @ spirit of annoyance at being left out of those same late par- ties at which wine was served. Zavinovitch, the head of the Ad- ministrative Branch of the Foreign Office there, and his wife were re- moved from the party for dishonest practices—namely, selling comman- deered supplies, Zalkind, the head of the Legislative Branch, was expelled because it was discovered that he had only joined the Communist Party in 1920, and also for excessive drinking. All these people were removed from their positions and were in process of being transferred to very inferior places in other departments, In the Petrograd Foreign Office there was a woman secretary, a girl twenty-five years old, who had just been married. She had always been a devoted Communist, and appeared betore the examining Judges without a single report against her. Every question the bourd put to her she answered satisfactorily, and proved that in theory and practice she had eves all the tenets of Commu- 8: im. Finally, one of the Judges said that the board was informed that she had recently married. She replied that that was so. “‘Were you married in a church?” he asked, and she answered that, sizce Communism forbade all relig- Jous ceremonies, she had only had a civil wedding. “If you should have a child, would you have it baptized in a church?” the Judge asked. The girl thought for a while, amd then answered: “I am willing to risk my soul for the sake of Communism, but if I should have a child { could not risk its soul for my ideals, so 1 would have it baptized.” That woman was suspended from the Communist Party for six months and was told that if she had not al- tered her opinion by that time she Would be permanentiy excluded. Pea TROTZKY DISCUSSES FRANCE MOSCOW, Jan. 18 (Associated Press).—Leon Trotzky, Soviet Min- ister of War, addressing a meeting in 5,364,437.98 2,042,463.15 8,531,170.00 2,119,078.88 $31,572.782.15 - 6,704,95549 - 11,089,291.94 3,412,678.83 the Moscow Opera House yesterday for the betterment of the Red Army, | Said the resignation of the Briand Mrs. Moneyiows, whose sop, Aug :. * bit of stationery bearing the name.” Hngh recognizes & man waa committed and he este in the neighborhood tewtifies that the mm ‘man recently searched CHAPTER Til. (Continued. ) 6 1D you thihk he was searching for some par- ticular entry? “{ certainty did think so.” “Did he seem to find it?” asked the coroner, with a shrewd glance. “If he did find such an entry,” re- plied Mr. Ridley slowly, “he gave no sign of it; he did not copy or make a note of it, and he did not ask any copy of it from me. My impression— whatever it 1s worth—is that he did not find what he wanted in our regis- ters.” ‘ The coroner looked at the solicitor who was representing the police. “I don't know if you want to ask this witness any questions?” he in- quired. “Yes,"’ said the solicitor. He turned to Mr. Ridley. ‘*You heard what the witness Hugh Moneylaws said—that Gilverthwaite mentioned on his com- ing to Berwick thet he had kinsfolk buried in the neighborhood? You did? Well, Mr. Ridley, do you know if there are people of that name buried in your churchyard?” “There are not," replied Mr. Rid- ley promptly. ‘What is more, the name Gilverthwaite does not occur in our parish registers. I have a com- plete index of the registers from 1580, when they began to be kept, and there is no such name in it.”* I think that the folks who ‘tad crowded into that room, all agog to hear whatever could be told, went our of it more puzzled than when they came in, They split up into groups outside the inn and began to discuss matters mong themselves. I was thinking, wondering if T should te'l Mr. Lindsey about my meeting with Sir Gilbert Carstairs at the cross-roads, Mr. Lindsey was just the man you could and would tell anything to, ani’ it would maybe have been best if I had told him ot that matter there and then. 6u: there's a curious run of caution and reserve in our family. Nothing was heard by the police oc ine of Dundee.” Tora, Chat tals mat ety Ullber cat ta ‘tnd who had ‘not. been Hin those parts nce I oy cow ©1022 By Tar Ber. Synvicats -Ine- SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. tells the story, Jets furnished room to James Gilverthwaite, yeterious stranger. ake Hugh t cons a Be will meet ot found on "the murdered. man’ Getermine big to ‘be John Paulipe. Paul and in his rkete is @ Wa don a ant de ie oak wurder on the night thet the who has just (aertie wiale? ra early boyhood. the chi Tegisters. id ho; hey’re a slow, unoriginal lot, the police—there’s no imagina- tion in their brains and no ingenuity in their minds."’ “Maybe you'll be for taking a hand in this game yourself, Mr. Crone?’ said I, thinking to joke with him, “You seem to have the right instinct for it, anyway.” “Aye, well,” he answered, “and 1 might be doing as well as anybody else, and no worse. You haven't thought of following anything up yourself, Mr. Moneylaws, I suppose?” “Me!” I exclaimed, “What should I be following up, man? I know no more than the mere surface facts of the affair.” “Are you so sure of that, now?” he whispered cunningly. “Come now T'll put a question to yourself, Mr. Moneylaws. What for did you not let on in your evidence that you saw Sir Gilbert Carstairs at yon cross-roads just before you found the dead man? “rn Come!” You could have knocked me down with a feather, as the saying is, when he said that. And before I could re- cover from the surprise of it, he had a hand on my arm. “Come this way,” he said. have a word with you in private.” CHAPTER Iv. 6 OU didn’t answer my ques- tion,” he said. “I'll put it again, and you needn't be afraid that anybody'll overhear us in this place. it's safe: I say once more, what for did you not tell in your evidence at that inquest that you saw Sir Gilbert Carstairs at the crossroads on the night of the murder! Um?" ; “That's my business,” said 1. “Just so," saidshe. “And I'li agree | with you in that. It is your business. But if by that you mean that it's yours alone, and nobody else's, then I don't agree. Neither would the police.” We stared at each other across the table for a minute’ of silence, ana then I put the question directly to him that I had been wanting to put ever since he had first spoken. And I put it crudely enough. “How did you «now?" I asked. He laughed at that—sneeringly, of course, by ourselves for the next three or four days; and then—I think it was the fourth day after the inquest— looked up from my desk in Mr. Lind- sey's outer office one afternoon to sev Maisie Dunlop coming in at the door, followed by an elderly woman, pooriy but respectably dressed, a stranger. “Hugh,” 6aid Maisie, coming up to my side, “your mother asked me to bring this woman up to see Mr. Lind- sey, She's just come in from the South, and she says she’s yon James Gil- verthwaite's sister.” Mr. Lindsey was standing just within his own room when Maisie and the strange woman came into ‘the office, and-hearing what was said, he called us three to go In to him. “So you believe you're the sister of this man James Gilverthwaite, ma’am?” began Mr, Lindsey, motion- ing the visitor to sit down and beck- oning Maisie to stop with us. “What your name be, now?” uy believe this man that's talked about in the newspapers Is my broth- er, sir,” answered the woman. “Else I shouldn't have taken the trouble to come all this way. My name's Han- son——Mrs. Hanson. I come drom Gar- ston, near Liverpool.” 1 ‘He motioned me to his side, and to- gether we looked through two or three foouments which the woman pro-/ Cabinet might result in another at- tempt on the part of France to defeat Soviet Russia, but on the other hand, France might lend herself to an agreement for rebuilding Russia in order to prevent England from get- ting supremacy. Representatives of the Mongolian Republic presented Trotzky with a banner in recognition of the assist- ance of the Soviet Army. Many Chi- nese, apenas and Mongolian and other delegates to the Congress of Oppressed Far Eastern Nations, which opens here to-day, were present, Foreign Minister Chitcherin, in a note despatched to Finland to-day, declared Soviet Russia would not con. sider any attempt to appeal to a third party for a settlement of the Finnish-Russian dispute over Karelia, —_— FRENCH WATCH U.S. ON GENOA PARLEY Reply to Italy’s Invitation Awaits Cabinet's Appearance in Chamber, PARI®, Jan. 18 (Associated Press), —An official invitation to France to attend the coming Genoa Economie Conference has been recetved from Premier Bonomi of Italy, who was charged by the Supreme Council with the task of issuing the invitatiens For the moment the invitation has been placed on the table to await the first appearance of the Poincare Cab- inet before the Chamber of Deputies. Men in political life close to the new Government say that France will not reply until the United st: Government has informed Signor Bonomi whether the United Sti will be represented and that France will be guided by the action of Amer- ica. Premier Poincare cable message to Secretary Hughes expressing his “sincere desire to co- operate in the work of peace being carried on by the Washington Cot ferenoe,”” The message was not mag public. has sent a duced. ost important was a certified of James Gilverthwaite's birth er Racate, which went to prove that, this man had been born in Liverpool about sixty-two years previously; that, as Mr. Lindsey was quick to point out, fitted in with what Gilver- thwaite had told my mother and my- self about his age. “You say you've never seen your brother for thirty years or more? But have you never heard of him?” asked disey. er her head with decision uestion, at thet athe repiled, “I have heard of him—just once. There was a man, a neighbor of ours, came home from Central America, maybe five years ago, and he told us he'd seen our James out there, and that he was Working as @ sub-cpntractor or some- thing of that sort, on that Panama Canal there was so much talk about days. aT indsey and I looked at each other. Panama!—that was the pass- word which James Gilverthwaite had given mre. So—here, at any rate, was something, however little, that had the makings of a clue in it. ‘Mr. Lindsey twisted round on her with a sharp look. Do you know aught of that man, John Phillips, whose name's in the papers, too?” he asked. “No, sir, nothin she replied promptly. ‘Never heard tell of him!"* In spite of Mrs. Hanson's coming and her revelations as to some, at any rate, of James Gilverthwaite's history, we were just as wise as ever at the end of the first week after the faurder of Jobn Phillips. And it was just the eighth night after my find- ing of the body that I got into the hands of Abel Crone. ‘Tom Dunlop, Maisie’s young broth- er, was for keeping tame rabbits just then, and I was helping him to build putches for the beasts in his father's back-yard, and we were wanting some bits of stuff, iron and wire and the like, and knowing I would pick fr up for a few pence at Crone’s rhop, I went round there alone, Be- fore I knew how it came about Crone was deep into the murder business, ‘They'll not have found much out by this time, yon police fellows, no doubt, Mr. Moneylaws?” he said, eyging me inquisitively in the light ofrathe one naphtha lamp that was spurting and jumping in his untidy that’s plain enough,” “No fencing about that! How did I know? Because when you saw Sir Gilbert I wasn’t five feet away from you, and what you saw I saw. I saw you both! : “Then iil ask you a question, Mr. Crone,’ I said. ‘Why haven't you told yourself?” “Aye!” he said. “You may well ask me that. But I wasn’t cailed us a witness at your inquest.” “You could have come forward," J suggested. “I didn’t choose,’’ he retorted. We both looked at each other aguin, and while we looked he swigged off his drink and helped himself just as generously to more. “It's a queer business, Money- laws,"" he said at last. ‘Look at it y you like, it’s a queer busi- said Do you know that until yon Sir Gilbert Carstairs came here, not so long since, to take up his title and his house and the estate he'd never set foot in the place, never been near the place, this thirty year? Man! his own father, old Sir Alec, and his own sister, Mrs, Ralston of Craig, had never clapped eyes on him since he went away from Hatheccleugh, a youngster of one-and-twenty! “Do you tell me, Mr, Crone?” T exclaimed, much surprised at his words. ‘I didn’t know so much, ‘Where had he been, then?’ “God knows!" said he. “And him- self, It was said he was a doctor in London, and in foreign parts. Him and his brother—elder brother, you're aware, Mr. Michael—they both quar- relled with the old Baronet when they were little more than lads, and out they cleared, going their own ways. And news of Michael's death, and the proofs of it, came home not so long before old Sir Alec died, and as Michael had never married, of course the younger brother succeeded when his father came to his end last win- ter. And, as I say, who knows any- thing about his past doings when he was away more than thirty years, nor what company he kept, nor what secrets he has? Do you follow me?"’ “Ay I'm following you, Mr. I answered. ‘It comes to this—you suspect Sir Gilbert?’’ He had another period of reflection before he replied, and when he spoke it was to the accompaniment of a warning look. “It's an ill-advised thing to talk about rich men," said he. “Yon man not only has money of his own, in what you might call considerable quantity, but his wife he brought with him is a woman of vast wealth, they tell me. It would be no very wise action on your part to set rumors going, Moneylaws, unless you could substantiate them. “What about yourself?” ‘ou know as much as I di “Aye, and there's one sums all up,” said he. I asked. 4 oP Se Bois | | i | | to have anything to do with it. But before noon of the next day there was another development in this affair, In the course of the morn- ing Mr. Lindsey bade me go with him down to my mother’s house, where Mrs. Hanson had been lodged for the night—we would go through Gilverthwaite’s effects with her, he said, with a view to doing what we could to put her in possession, Mr. Lindsey opened the heavy box for the second time, in Mrs. Hanson's presence, and I. began to make a list of its contents. At the sight of the money it contained, the woman began to tremble. “Bh, mister!" she exclaimed, almost tearfully, “but that’s a sight of money to be lying there, doing naught! I hope there'll be some way of bring- ing it to me and mine—we could do with it, I promise you!" A notion suddenly occurred to me. “Mr. Lindsey,” said I, “you never turnéd out the contents of any of these smaller boxes the other night. There might be papers in one or other of them.” “Good notion, Hugh, my lad!” he exclaimed. “True—there might. Here goes then—we'll look through them systematically.” In addition to the half-dozen boxes full of prime Havana cigars, which |lay at the top of the chest, there were quite a dozen of similar boxes, emptied of clgars and literally packed full of the curiosities of which Mr Lindsey had just spoken. He had turned out, and carefully replaced, the contents of three or four of these, | when at the bottom of one, filled with jold coins, which he said were Mexi- !can and Peruvian and probably of great interest to collectors, he came across a paper, folded and indorsed in bold letters. And he let out an exclamation as he took this paper out and pointed us to the indorse- ment. . “Do you see that?” said he. “It's the man’s will!” The indorsement was plain enoush ~-My will: James Gilverthwaite. And beneath it was a date, 27-8-1904. There was.a dead silence among the four of us—my mother had been with ‘us all the time—as Mr. Lindsey un- of foolscap, and read what was wiit- ten on it. “This is the last will and testa- ment of me, James Gilverthwaite, ® British subject, born at Liver- pool, and formeriy of Garston, in Lancashire, England, now resid- ing temporarily at Colon, in the Republiz of Panama. I devise and bequeath all of my estate and ef- fects, real and personal, which I may be possessed of or entitled to, unto my sister, Sarah Ellen Han- son, the wife of Matthew Hanson, of Preston Street, Garston, Lancashire, England, absolutely, and failing her to any children she may have had by her mar- riage with Matthew Hanson, {a equal shares. And I appoint the sald Sarah Ellen Hanson, or in the case of her death, her eldest child, the executor of this my and I revoke all former . Dated this twenty-seventh day of August, 1904. James Gil- verthwalte. Signed by the tes- tator In the presence of us— Mr. Lindsey suddenly broke off. And I, looking at him, saw his eyes Screw themselves up with sheer won- der at something he saw. Without another word he folded up the paper, put it in his pocket, and turning to Mrs. Hanson, clapped her on the shoulder, “That's all right, ma'am!" he sald heartily. “That's a good will, duly signed and attested, and there'll be no difficulty about getting it admit- ted to probate; leave it to me, and I'll see to it, and get it through for you as soon as ever I can. And we must do what's possible to find out if this brother of yours has left any other property; and meanwhile we'll Just lock everything up again that short one, Wait! There'll be more coming out. Keep your counsel a bit. And when the moment comes, and if the moment comes—why you know there's me behind you to cor- roborate, And—that's all!” I was 80 knocked out of the usual run of things by this conversation with Crone that I went away forget- ting the bits of stuff I had bought for Tom Durtlop’s rabbit hutches and ‘Tom himself, and, for that matter, Maisie as weil; and, instead of going back to Dunlop's, I turned down tht riverside, thinking. I saw all the theory of it at last, clear enough, and {t was just what I would have expected of Abel Crone, knowing him even as little as I did. Wait unéi we were sure—and then strike! That was his game. And I was not going we've taken out of this chest.” It was close on my dinner hour when we had finished, but Mr, Lind- sey, at his going, motioned me out into the street with him. In a quiet corner he turned to me and pulled the will from his pocket. “Hugh!” he said. “Do you know who's one of the witnesses to this will?” Aye, who are the two wit- nesses? Man!—you could have knocked me down with a feather when I saw the names! Look for yourself!" He handed me the paper and pointed to the attestation clause with which it ended, And I saw the two names at once—John Phillips, Mich- ael Carstatrs—and I let out a ery of astonishment. “Aye, you may well exclaim! said ef Buried Treasure J.S.PLETCHER. YOU COULD HAYE KNOCKED ME DOWN WITH A FEATHER. he, taking the will back. “John Phil- lips!—that’s the man was murdered the other night! Michael Carstaire— that’s the elder brother of Sir Gilbert yonder at Hathercleugh, the man that would have succeeded to the title and estates if he hadn't predeceased old Sir Alexander. what woud he le doing now, a frignd of Gilver- thwait's?” “I've heard that this Mr. Michael Carstairs went abroad as a young man, Mr, Lindsey, and never came home again,” I remarked. “Likely he foregathered with Gilverthwaite out yonder. “Just that," he agreed. would be the way of it, no doubt. be sure! He's set down in this attes- tation clause as Michael Carstairs, engineer, American Quarter, Colon and John Phillips is described as sub- contractor, of the same address, I'he three of ‘em'll have been working in connection with the Panama Canal. But—God bless us!—there's some queer facts coming out, my lad; Michael Carstairs knows Gilver- thwait and Phillips in yon corner of (he world—Phillips and Gilverthwait, when Michael Carstairs is dead, come home from the corner of the’ world that Michael Carstairs sprang from. And Phillips is murdered as soon as he gets here—and Gilverthwaite dies that suddenly that he can’t tell us a ‘vord of what it's all about! What is it all about—and who's going to piece it all together? Man; there's more than murder at the ‘bottom of all “That To foided the paper—a thick, half-sheet | this!" & He strode off up the street, and I 1e- solved that Crone and I should speak out. I was hurrying away to. his place, when, as I turned Into the back jane that led to it, I ran up against Sergt. Chisholm. “Here's another fine to-do, MoneyTaws!” said he. “You'll know yon Abel Crone, the marine-store dealer? Aye, well, he’s been found drowned, not an hour ago, and by this and that, there's queer marks, that looks like violence on him I gave such a jump on hearing this that Chisholm himself started, and he stared at me with a question in his eyes. But I was quick enough to lect him know that ho was giving me news that I hadn't heard until he opened his lips. “You don't tell me that!” I ex- claimed. “What!—more of it? “Aye!” he said. “You'll be thinking that this is all of a piece with the other affair. And to be sure, they found Crone’s body close by where you found yon other man—Phillips.” Mr. “Where, then?” [ asked. “And when?" “T tell you, not an hour ago,"* he replied. “The news just came in, 1 was going down here to see if anz of the neighbors at the shop sat Crone in any strange company law night.’* T hesitated for a second or two, arg then spoke out. “I saw him myself last night," soid I, “I went to his shop—maybe it was 9 o'clock—to buy some bits of stuff to make Tom Dunlop a door to his rabbit-hutch, and I was there talking to him ten minutes or so. He was all right then—and I saw nobody else with him.” “Aye, well, he never went home to his house last night,"” observed Chis- & holm. “What are you going to do, now?" I inquired. “I was just going, as I sald, to ask a question or two down here—did anybody hear Crone say anything last night about going out that way?” he answered. ‘‘But there, I don't see the good of it. Between you and me, Crone was a bit of a nightbird—I've suspected him of poaching, time and again. Well, he'll do no more of thut! You'll be on your way to the office, likely?"* “Straight there,” said I, “Iii tell Mr. Lindsey of this,’* But when I reached the office M-. Lindsey, who had been out to get nis lunch, knew all about it. He looked at me, and I at him: there were question: in the eyes of. both of us. But between parting from the Police-Sergeant and meeting Mr. Lindsey J had made up my mind, by a bit of sharp thinking and reflection. on what my own plan of action was going to be about all this, once and for all, and I spoke before he could ask anything. “Chisholm,” said I, ‘‘was down that way, wondering could he hear wori of Crone's being scen with anyboay last night. I saw Crone last night. I went to his shop, by; some bit.: of old stuff. He was ot ht then» I saw nothing. Chisholm—he say Crone was a poacher. 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