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mtnt, and when ha saw Flstcfcar leave, admitted himself and turned the place upside down.” \ ' "Thai It must have been Rjile Car- modj Instead of Spears,” growled KI1- day. "He (Its Into all our dues, Peter." "If,” declared Cardigan, “Cailis Ship- ley la the woman In blue, then Eylle is our man. , Somehow, I cart picture her In an Illicit relationship with Franklin, and having a key to his apartment Yet if Rylle Is guilty, he obtained the fourth key from some one. And what other woman l# he Interest ed in? Of course, that's tsking It for granted that the other key belonged to a woman. Who else would have key?"—He subsided Into the officer's promise. Dismissing the detective who escorted her, ha admit ted Urn girl "Rylle 1" Callls hurried across tha room, her arms outstretched, oblivious to the other men In the room. “Dar ling, 1 told you to be careful, that they—" \ Rylle silenced her with a hand across her Ups. "Don't say anything about Westport," he cautioned her la a whisper. The byplay had not escaped Cardl- gan'a attention.—"I’m glad you came. Miss Shipley." he said. ; "I was Just trying to get Rylle to tell me about his appointment to meet you at Westport -tlm.-other ahernoftn." : 1 L, Howe About: /** Religion Good Cooks H. L. Mencken A Ml Sr ad loot •.—WNU aorrtoo. N By ED HOWE O REASONABLY honest or Intel- hie respect to the Christian church. It has always taught morality with Its religious doctrine. In the home, in nation, , it haa been. In .a way, the iha. Time Worth Only ; What It Confers Those Moments of Leisure Not to Be Counted as Wasted. I” "la there 00 time you can reclaim m pleasure that really does not Ive you much pleasure, from empty talk at the dub,' from Inferior plays, from doubtfully enjoyable week-ends or not very profitable trips? Do you grOWTlt, ui for "B* t there la a time for 1 a time for play. And the preoccupation with inatchiog profit every leisure moment lag time gives to real leisure, 1% ts my mind, the source of many nerv ous and physical Ills. I have sets high-strung young people who had bsea Impressed with the Idea of ac counting for every minute, restlean and nervous at wholesome recrc* ationa. I have aeeo them unable In really rest, because their minds, al ways on the mlnntes,'could not tin * attuned to ‘relaxatlbn. They MT been taught that rest can he achieved merely by a change of occupation. The thing to be avoided as tha plague was to do nothing! - "Knowing full well the condemns tion I may be bringing upon my head, I must aay sincerely that oaa of tha I have learned from many which never lost sight of the value of a minute. Is that on# of tbs most wholesome, healthful and eos> •tractive things we can do with some latanre-mhmtesr to W doing nett- log!" * Ml SradlMM.—WNUI CHAPTER XIII—Continued "There's onq thing I never thought to ask," Peter continued. “Did you discover how Franklin's apartment was entered? Did the person who searched those rootpa have a key or were you ~ able to flfld where ini forced hia en» trance?" "He must have had a key. None of the windows had been forced and the locks showed no signs of having been tampered with." "Well, who had keys to Franklin’s apartment? We bad Franklin's, on his key-ring. Fletcher had one with him. We’d better talk to Choo Choo Train again. She had a key to that apart ment. Our burglar either used her key, or else—” "Or else what?" "Or else our woman in blue had a key, too." “I’ll soon find out," promised the de tective. He used the telephone to call Choo Choo Train, who promised to come to the hospital Immediately, bringing her key to the murdered man s apartment*with her. “flood hunch, Peter. Either the mur derer borrowed ChooOhoo’s key, or else there was a fourth one. There were fio'Tfiarkr anywhere ftr thdreate that the prowler broke Into the place." —eWhtle we're waiting^* Peter. gested. "tell me about Franklin's office. Were you able to determine how my assailant got In there?" The detective admitted he was pus- tied. “The reception room was a wreck," he said. “You must have staged quite a battle there. That’s about all we were able to find out however. There was no fire-escape from which any of the windows could have been entered. The main entrance was the only means of access to the suite. If that door was forced, we couldn't tell It. “Dunbar helped us, too. Aside from Ills key, and Franklin’s, which you had, there were three other keys to lhat door. Two of them belonged to clerks In the office and have been ac counted for. The third was the Jani tor’s. He, too, tells a straight story." "So It looks as though our visitor walked In through a locked door, eh?" Canttgan mused-.— ~ 1 reverie. one thing you're overlook ing, Peter," said Kllday. “Why won't young.Carmody talk? He saya he had an appointment in Westport at nine o'clock.' tJut he won't say who he was supposed to meet there, and he won’t -Jell us why gave our detective the slip. Obviously, he never met anyone at Westport He claims It was on ac count of the accident Of course, I think otherwise. But If he were as Innocent as he pretends, wouldn't he at least tsll us these things ? I hellevehe would." y “Why not have him over here?" sug gested Peter. “You said before that you wished I could have questioned him. GfYe me a chance." The sergeant reached for the tele phone. “Now you're talking," he said. "Talk to him for five minutes and you’ll be as sure of his guilt as I am.” custodian of good behavior. Parents, especially mothers, are its slncerest advocates, and mainly for moral rea sons. — — But no intelligent man may honestly say as much of Communism. At least, the founder of Christianity Is called the Prince of Peace; In his book may he found the moral teaching found in every other book pf enduring fame. In It la found the simple admonition to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. The Bible advises us to do _ unto others as we would have others a way for him to explain his move* I do un ^° U8 > * n d the advice is found In He hesitated, waiting for an answer, >ut (he girl only faced him silently, her hand clutching Rylle’s desperately. ’You did hake an appointment with him, didn’t you?” prompted the nov elist gently. “I^eave her out of this," cried the M>y^__fghe had nothing to do with !L Leave her oat, I tell you." Peter Ignored the command. “‘Rylle seems to think It would Involve you In this unpleasant affair If he told ns about it, Min Shipley,” he continued. ‘He la making a mistake. If-thsrs In mente that afternoon, he should do It* by all means." ‘‘Don’t listen to him, Callls." The young man clutched her arm and shook It fiercely. "Don’T tell him anything." “Be quiet, you,” growled Kllday. “What Is It you want to know?" Callls asked Peter. “The same day that I was attacked In Franklin’s office," Peter explained, ‘Rylle Carmody gave the detective that was following him the slip. Late that evening he had a wreck about ten miles from Westport If Is Important that we know where he went and what he did, betwee- the time the detective last saw him and the hour of that wreck. The only explanation he has a much older book. Indicating that . In all times it has been found a depend able and necessary human regulation for the greatest good of the greatest number. ^ But It Is certainly true that Com munism to a doctrine of violence, of war; of defiance of morality. In my long life I have found nothing to substantiate the truth of the Chris tian dogma, but have never denied that millions of its followers are good peo ple. Most of them only know of their doctrine that It teaches morals; of the rest of it they know little. Their faith to faith In the necessity of good be havior, but I have never known a Com munist of whom it might be truthfully said he offered for his presence in that fielgh- borhood is that he had an engagement at Westport But he persistently re- Th® nex ^ ^ l,ne Y 011 sit d° wn to y our fuses to tell us whom he expected to newspaper, note the many mentions of meet there. Was It you?" ! policewomen, actresses, club women. The gtri glanced first at the novelist, j w ? r ^ ™ 4 * y . . W ° m „ en ’* then at Rylle Carmody. realize tlie value of minutes? A man had a wife who always kept him watting a few minutes before dinner. After a time It occurred to him that eight or ten lines could be written during this Interval and he had a pa per and Ink laid In a convenient place." . One of the most deeply appreci ated of our American women writ ers, to whose attention the foregoing was called, sees the matter from an other angle. She says: Thif deplnrer of »wted tirao^ goes on to tell all this man accom plished, over a period of years. In those few minutes a day. A reader sent me the quotation with the re mark that all youag people ought to reed It, that they would get so much more out of life If they did not waste §0 much time. "At the risk of being misunderstood, I am not going to agree. I think we have already beard so much about the value of time, the dangers of wasting It, the benefits of conserving tt, and what can he accomplished by salvaging those few minutes here and there—an much that we are In danger of forgetting that time was made for living, not life to save time “Time, like money, I* only worth what we get out of it And I see so Point to Should Justice be really "bIlnd, <, site would miss half the evidence." like, and the few mentions of women “TWt rnr"anTthlnV. Callls " the lit- j who are good cooks. Eyen In^rlTatei They’ll Just try to drag Uf ® 11 l » aim08t e< l ual 10 8tart,n * • ‘I’m Sorry^" pert Said Hurt.” Sha Said. “Tha Pa- You Ware Sariously He reclined against his pillow and stared fixedly at the ceiling through the smoke of a constant procession of cigarettes. “But how about the outside of the building? ’ Was there any ledge by those windows? Every sensible ques tion has an equally logical answer, If It can only he found.” Before they could explore the ques tion further, the actress arrived. Choo Choo’s black-lashed eyes turned first to Peter. "I’m sorry," she said. "The papers said you were seriously hurt” The novelist smiled briefly. “The doctor says I’m to have a short leg that will make me limp a hit,” he said. “But I’m getting used to the Idea. After all. I’m fortunate to be alive, even If I must carry a permanent souvenir of the experience with me. How about It, Miss Train? Do you cuie for men who limp?” "I adore them," declared the actress swiftly. “I detest men who either walk, act or talk Just like every one else." But she was obviously at a loss as to how to continue the con versation and turned abruptly to Kil- tlay with the question. “Why did you send for me?" — “You have a key to Franklin’s apart ment. T want tor see tt." The actress searched In her purse and produced rite key. — WJthout saylng.a. wor4, KiMay cam- fully compared It with the other key in his possession, the one on Frank lin’s key-ring. It was Identical. “This is the only key he gave you, Isn’t It?" he asked. . "Yes." “Miss Train, ^has this key been In your possession _,all .the time since Franklin’s death?" “Why, yes, of course.” “How can you be so sure?" inquired Peter. "Where did you keep the key, Miss Train?" Choo Choo looked at him In be wilderment. “Of Course I’m sure,” she replied. “I always kept It In my purse. This morning, when Sergeant. Kllday telephoned, I looked Immediately. It was there where I had always kept It" Unless the murderer taken the key and then returned It oat her knowledge. It that It had never been out ion. Apparently this .of the many false, trails countered since the beginning investigation. •So there was a fourth key,' lie telephoned Instructions to bring Rylle Carmody to the hospital imme diately. But If Peter hoped to glean more In formation from the young man than had the detective, he was doomed to “I don’t see that It matters who I was going to meet." declared the young man impatiently. "My accident pre vented me from keeping the appoint ment' "Still atlcking to the accident story, eh?" Kllday commented derisively. “If you TravenT -anythin* fo rrae, why don’t you tell us who It was?" Rylle maintained a stubborn silence. “Perhaps," suggested the detective doubtfully, “you can explain why you were so anxious to give my man the slip. Was there anything about this mysterious meeting at Westport that you were afraid for the police to see?" “Of course not,” Indignantly. "Why were you going all the way out to Westport for the meeting? Why didn’t you meet this person In New York?" "You can save yourself a lot of trouble," declared Rylle slowly, “If you'll understand, once and for all, that I’m not going to tell you anything about that appointment at Westport. "Was It a woman you planned to meet there?" This question from Peter. - The young man laughed shortly. “1 Just said I wasn't going to answer any more of these questions." Kllday leaped at the suggestion. "A woman, eh? What If he did meet her. Peterf Had you thought of that? Per haps he doesn’t want to answer our questions because he did meet a wom- au at Westport What about tt. Car- mody? And she gave you a key, didn’t she—a key to Franklin's apartment. "You went to Westport, all right, but yon went there earlier in the after noon. You gave my man the slip, kept your appointment with that woman and got the key. Then you returned to Franklin’s apartment, searched It and, not finding what you were after, went on to his office. That’s where Cardigan surprised you and where the struggle took place. After that you re turned to Westport and returned the key to the woman who was still wait ing there. Then you drove out Into the country and turned your car over, In order to account for your battered-up appearance. How’s that. ter pleaded, you Into It" She hesitated a moment longer. “There’s nothing for us to conceal, la .there, Rylle? I think I’d better tell them." Peter wondered If the girl were pre paring to deceive him again. “He was coming to meet me," she said. "What time did he get there?” Peter asked sharply. “He had an accident," declared the girl “He never got there." “Don’t tell me that," Kllday ex claimed truculently. “He met you there, all right And you gave him the key to Franklin's apartment." Rylle Carmody made a lunge at the detective. “What do you mean?" he snarled. His face was white and drawn with Impotent fury as the officer grasped his wrist. , The young man struggled Ineffectual ly. “You had no tight to ask her that It’s absurd. Callls scarcely knew Franklin." ■ “Rylle Is right," declared the gtri gravely. “1 scarcely knew Mr. Frank lin. 1 met him for the first time only A ffr»W Ue-t+kL a A UA rt V In Si w — — w — w o n ^ w % y * ▼ V ■ ■ v i# honor of Doris." “And yon didn’t have such a key?" “Never. I’ve never been to ths apartment I don’t even know where It is." "Mtu Shipley," Peter took up the questioning, "suppose you tell us why you planned to meet this young man al Westport the other evening?" “There Is very little to tell I was going to meet him there at nine o’clock. But on account of the accident of course he couldn’t get there." "Why didn’t he meet you at your home? Why Westport?" Cailis frowned. “He had another appointment," she replied hesitantly. “He knew It was going to take him some time, and we thought we’d save time by meeting there." “He didn’t tell you what this other appointment was, did he?" Peter pur sued the point, and when she did not answer promptly he repeated the ques tion. Still she hesitated. • .. "Perhaps,” the novelist suggested, “you would feel more free to telling os why you planned to go to Martin's cover — Thts tlme the girl answered prompt- stosy” on a woman to say she is a good cook. One of the best things to be raid about a woman is that she is a good cook; the real scandal la the meals that are prepared by the ordinary hired girl • • • H. L. Mencken has expressed regret that no one since Huxley has capably defended himself against the sneers of religious sentimentalists. Why does not Mencken himself do It? Why did he twice make the at tempt, and then drift off into the usual timidity? Mencken to a better writer than Huxley; not a greater man or thlpker, but he to 1>etter able to pre sent a case In simple words easier un derstood by the ordinary reader. Mencken’s best book is least known, and possibly out of print; "The Phi losophy of Frelderlck Neltzsche.’’ No other man, living or dead, has more simply, powerfully or Intelligently pre sented a summary of truth, hidden away in important books written by a great Intellectual It Is the misfor tune of the world today that H. L. Mencken baa jurt dun* as much for Huxley and a dozen others of equal note. It ti a weary task for an av erage reader to wade through all of Neitzsche’s books. Important as they are: a Joy to read one such book as Mencken’s “Neitxsche." But In summarizing his own re ligious opinions, Mencken Is cowardly; he seems to be as much under the con trol of his mother as Mark Twain was under the control of bis wife. When he attempted to speak for himself about religion, Mencken even expressed the belief there "might be a good deal in it," to satisfy his moth er, but Huxley didn’t talk that way in his controversy with Gladstone. What I miss in Mencken’s own re ligious books to not his wit or wisdom, but hto great ability as a writer to present the case truthfully, fairly ^nd candidly for the benefit of con tused and hurried readers. Nothing is so awkwardly, % so confusingly or dis honestly written, talked, sutig or shout ed about as religion. Everybody to afraid-of the subject, although there to nothing whatever to he afraid of la discussing It* except Ignorance and cowardice. many people In this hectic day so preoccupied with the matter of get ting the most out of their time that they are not living at all l “It to right that young people 'should .be taught the pKy of waits In time as In anything else—the folly -of wot-tahinir-advantage of the op portunities open to them In their for mative years for mental and bodily Japanese Nation Guided by Aristocrats Japan today, says Current History, present the phenomenon of a staunchly monarchist country with Its leadership-drawn from the ranks of the humble. Of the six or mors men who now dominate the scene, only one—Prince Klfnmochl Salonjl, the elder statesman—was born an aristocrat Premier Makoto Salto, son of a retainer of a feudal lord, was once a page In a government office. Gen. Sadao ArakI, the war minister, be gan at a little soybean sauce factory. The finance minister, Viscount Kore- klyo Takahashl, horn of a poor court artist and a parlor maid, first worked as a cupbearer at a Buddhist temple and then as an Indentured farm la borer In California. A poor stonecut ter was the father of Kold HirotAt foreign minister, while Mltsuru Toya ma, the leader of the most notorious of the reactionary ronln bands, was it HI rUUlTAF raws ii jrvrve • No less remarkable to the fact that most of these active leaders of a youthfully vigorous people are ad vanced In age. Only Araki and Hl- rota are younger than three-score and ten. LOST 57 POINDS OF FAT—IIDI’T COT POWI01 F00I *T lost S7 lbs. by taking Krasehra Salts sad it had no fll affect on ma. 1 didn’t rat down 00 a oingio food—I ' it- F It to aag 00a who isovanreight. Mra. A. Ropiak, So. Milwaukee, Wise. To win a slender, figure take a youthful half tai Kruachen Salta in a ^ 0! hot water find t ovary morning. While fat la leaving yon gain la strength, health and physi cal diarm—look younger. Many phyto- dans presetobo it and thousands of fat folks all over the world have achieved slenderness. A Jar lasts 4 weeks and costs but a trifle at aay drugstore. But protect your health—make eure you get Krueehen—it’s the 8AFE way to re> dnec and monar satisfied. pool COMPLEXIOIS ■ wwm WRIT raraftWraw Opued pore^pimidra impitive ijn g few days by Reafaaot Soap ana tarn Resinol Don’t give up! Peter?" H% turned to hto Wnnd, Wptod harahly In, with obvious her pos- Peter smiling grlmly,- x "That accounts for the only flaw In our case against him. That’s how he got possession of. that fourth key." i .“From whom?" askbd Peter. "I don't know jet Bnt m find nut Maybe It was this woman In blue, fnd maybe she to Callls Shipley.' PD sodn know. 1 told them to bring her here. mused aloud, after the actress hsd-dfe _ _ At tost I’ve got A few facte to go on. parted. “The woman Id bine had it. It wob’t take long to shake her story Sergeant, and passed it on to tho mur derer. Evidently he was Just await- TYm timely arrival of .tike girl they lag hto •banco to search tho apart- ly. “We wanted to get away for g few days, where we’d have a chance to forget about the murder." “Perhaps the fact that Rylle was be ing followed by a detective had some- thlqg to do with your decision," Kll day put In. “Did you know that he was being followed?” Peter asked In n kindlier tone. ^ “We couldn’t help knowing tt," re plied the girl “The man followed him everywhere he went" , “That was his Job," the novelist ex plained “But of course you both found that rather Irksome, didn't yon?" "I wasn’t used to being treated like a common criminal," the boy Inter- ,“And so"—this time Peter addressed the boy—“you decided to give the de tective the slip and meet Mira Shipley at Westport so you wouldn’t be fol lowed to Martin’s Cove.. la that Itr (TO an oowronnBn.) -u Streets mm OU Plan That huts and dwelling places were distributed la parallel streets eg far hack as the middle ef the Neolithic age la one of the meg covsrlea made In Egyptian leal week. All my life 1 have heard men say, as a sort of apology: “I am not a money maker." Everyone of any ac count at all to a money maker; the rare thing la a money saver. Tho maxim I have most solemn regard for to that declaring it la easier to make money than it to to save It. ' e • •' So many Impose on me unreasonably I am especially anxious not to impose on others. 1 always want what to Just ly my due; I do not object to this In anyone—to insist on your plain rights Is a virtue. I refer only to unneces sary annoyances and Impositions. • • • One of the reasons given by Jean Jacques Rousseau for abandoning hto children war that tB< f«antta~Y»gBiSl" him of the means of supporting them. ... Not one man in a hundred thousand abandons hto children for that reason, or any other. Rotuaean was avldently an eloquent Uar. - • I- \ I lately met a man sad wife* and both had sxceltont sense, manners sad ability. ... I aoted that thooo who mat thorn arid: Tt .Is remarkable; onaally oat or tho etimr dossati tO anything." I DO NOT want in rive up...but why do I tire so easily...why can't I ‘carry oaf... and how is it that I do aot fed like myself!" It may be that as the result of colds ...In door or over work...worry mod the like... the strength of your blood has been weakened —that is, the red-blopd-cells and reduced...and Spring finds you with that "worn-out" and Tet-aown-feding." 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