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- t - J TU Barawil Bitliil, BarmwclL S. C. Tlug»dmy, Jmmary 28, 1937 Lacy Squares Form a Spread or Scarf f Vj* .v *>• ** ♦ * * v^r * ,, > * - ■>> v. -;i ' W-'V. « ■ '» -V- 'v * V« w. fe^/T' £3>* & *r~ 1 ^ «5T V J *?ir, i Pattern 5695 In this pattern filet crochet, that favorite of the modem needle woman, is adapted to two lovely squares—handsome used together —effective each used alone in cloth, bedspread or scarf. The lace stitch sets off the design in each square. String is the ma terial used and you’ll be delight ed with the result. You can also use mercerized cotton to mak^ the squares a smaller size. In pattern 6695 you will find instructions and charts for making the squares shown; an illustration of them and of the stitches needed; ma terial requirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. 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It was both a peculiar and im plausible affair, and one so cleverly planned that only by the merest accident—or perhaps, I should say a fortuitous intervention—was it dis covered at all. The Garden murder case involved a curious and anomalous mixture of passion, avarice, ambition and horse-racing. There was an admix ture of hate, also; but this potent and blinding element was, I imag ine, an understandable outgrowth of the other factors. The beginning of the case came on the night of April 13. It was one of those mild evenings that we often experience in early spring following a spell of harsh dampness, when all the remaining traces of winter finally capitulate to the inevitable seasonal changes. There was a mellow softness in the air, a sud den perfume from the burgeoning life of nature—the kind of atmos phere that makes one lackadaisical, and wistful and, at the same time, stimulates one’s imagination. I mention this seemingly irrele vant fact because I have good rea son to believe these meteorological conditions had much to do with the startling events that were imminent that night and which were to break forth, in all their horror, before an other 24 hours had passed. And I believe that the season, with all its subtle innuendoes, waa the real explanation of tha change that cams over Vance himself dur ing his investigation of the crime. Up to that time I had never con sidered Vance a man of any deep personal amotion, except in so far as children and animals and his in timate masculine friendships were concerned. He had always im pressed me as a man so highly mentalized, so cynical and imper sonal in his attitude toward life, that an irrational human weakness like romance would be alien to his nature. But in the course of his deft inquiry into the murders in Professor Garden's penthouse, I saw, for the first time, another and softer side of his character. Vance was never a happy man in the conventional sense; but after tha Garden murder case there were evi dences of an even deeper loneliness in his sensitive nature. As I have said, the case opened— so far as Vance was concerned with it—on the night of April 13. John K-X. Markham, then district attor ney of New York county, had dined with Vance at his apartment in East Thirty-eighth street. The din ner had been excellent—as all of Vance's dinners were—and at ten o'clock the three of us were sitting in the comfortable library. Vance and Markham had been discussing crime waves in a desul tory manner. There had been a mild disagreement, Vance discount ing the theory that crime waves are calculable, and holding that crime is entirely personal and there fore incompatible with generaliza tions or laws. It was in the midst of this dis cussion that Currie, Vance’s old English butler and majordomo^ ap peared at the library door. I no ticed that he seemed nervous and ill at ease as he waited for Vance to finish speaking; and I think Vance, too, sensed something un usual in the man’s attitude, for he stopped speaking rather abruptly and turned. “What is it, Currie? Have you seen a ghost, are there burglars in the house?” “I have just had a telephone call, sir,” tha old man answarad, endeav oring to restrain tha excitement in his voice. "Not bad news from abroad?" Vance asked sympathetically. "Oh, no, sir; it wasn't anything for me. There waa a gentleman on the phone—" Vance lifted his eyebrows and smiled faintly. "A gentleman, Currie?" — “He spoke like a gentleman, sir. He was certainly no ordinary per son. He had a cultured voice, sir, and—" "Since your instinct has gone so far,” yance. interrupted, "perhaps you can tall me the gentleman’s age?” "I should say he was middle-age or perhaps a little beyond,” Currie ventured. “His voice sounded ma ture and dignified and judicial." "Excellent!" Vance crushed out his cigarette. "And what waa the object of this dignified, middle-aged gentleman’s call? Did he ask to speak to me or give you his name?’’ A worried look came into Cur rie’s eyes as he shook his head. "No, sir. That’s the strange part of it. He said he did not wish to speak to you personally, and he would not tell me his name. But he asked me to give you a message. He was very precise about it and made me write it down word for word and then repeat it. And the moment I had done so he hung up the receiver." Currie stepped for ward. “Here’s the message, sir." Vanqe took ft and nodded a dis missal, Then he adjusted his mon ocle and held the slip of paper un der the light of the table lamp. Markham and I both watched him Markham Snorted, "That May Make Sense to Yoa." closely, for the incident was un usual, to say the least. After a hasty reading of the paper he gazed of? into space, and a clouded look came into his eyes. He read the message again, with more care, and sank back into his chair. "My word!” he murmured. "Most extr'ordin’ry. It’s quite intelligible, however, don’t y’ know. But I’m dashed if I can see the connec tion ..." Markham was annoyed. "Is it a secret?” he asked testily. "Or are you merely in one of your Delphio- oracle moods?” Vance glanced toward him con tritely. "Forgive me, Markham. My mind automatically went off on a train of thought. Sorry—really.” He held the paper again under the light. "This is the message that Currie so meticulously took down: ’There is a most disturbing psychological tension of Professor Ephraim Gar den’s apartment, which resists di agnosis. Read up on radioactive sodium. See Book XI of the Aeneid, line 875, Equanimity is essential’ . . . Curious—eh, what?” "It sounds a little crazy to me," Markham grunted. "Are you trou bled much with cranks?" "Oh, this is no crank,” Vance w — —— —— e groggiest nor nation concern* i, except that a oarod him. "It’s puzzlin’, I admit; but it’s quite lucid." Markham sniffed skeptically. "What, in tha noma of Heaven, have a professor and sodium and tha Aanaid to do with one another?" Vance was frowning as ha reached Into tha humidor for one of his beloved cigarettes with s delibera tion which indicated a mental ten sion. Slowly he lighted tha cigarette. After a deep inhalation ha an swered. "Ephraim Garden, of whom you surely must hsva heard from time to time, is one of the best-known men in chemical research in this country. Just now, I believe, he’s professor of chemistry at Stuy ve sant university—that could be veri fied in Who’s Who. But it doesn’t matter. His latest researches have been directed along the lines of radioactive sodium. An amazin’ dis covery, Markham. Made by Doctor Ernest O. Lawrence, of the Univer sity of California, and two of his colleagues there, Doctors Hendfer-" son and McMillan. This new radio active sodium has openec up new fields of research in cancer thera py—indeed, it may prove some day to be the long-looked-for cure for cancer. The new gamma radiation of this sodium is more penetrating than any ever before obtained. On the other hand, radium and radio active substances can be very dan gerous if diffused into the normal tissues of the body and through the blood stream. "That is all very fascinating," Markham commented, sarcastical ly. "But what has it to do with you, or with trouble in the Garden, home? And what could it possibly have to do with the Aeneid? They didn’t have radioactive sodium in the time of Aeneas.” "Markham, old dear, I’m no Chal dean. I haven’t the groggiest tion wherein the situation either me or Aeneas, happen to know the Garden family slightly. But I’ve a vague feeling about that particular book of the Aeneid. As I recall, it contains one of the greatest descriptions of a battle in all ancient literature. But let’s sea ..." Vance rose quickly and went to the section of his book-shelves de voted to the classics, and, after a few moments’ search, took down a small red volume and began to rif fle the pages. He ran his eye swift ly down a page near the end of the volume and after a minute’s perusal cams back to his chair with tha book, nodding his head compre hensively, as if in answer to some question ha had inwardly asked himself. "Tha passage referred to, Mark ham,” he said after a moment, "is not exactly what I had in mind. But it may be even more significant. It’s the famous onomatopoeic Quad- rupedumque putrem cursu quatit ungula campum—meanin*, more or less literally: "And in their gal loping course the horsehoof shakes the crumbling plain." Markham took the cigar from his mouth and looked at Vance with undisguised annoyance. "You’re merely working up a mystery. You’ll be telling me next that the Trojans had something to do with this professor of chemistry and his radioactive sodium.” "No, oh, no.” Vance was In an unusually serious mood. "Not the Trojans. But the galloping horses perhaps.” Markham snorted. "That may make sense to you.” "Not altogether,” returned Vance, critically contemplating the end of his cigarette. "There is, neverthe less, the vague outline of a pattern here. You see, young Floyd har den, the pepfessor’s only offspring, and his cousin a puny chap named Woods Swift—he’s quite an intimate member of the Garden household, I believe—are addicted to the ponies. Quite a prevalent disease, by the way, Markham. They’re both in terested in sports in general—prob ably the normal reaction to their professorial and ecclesiastical fore bears: young Swift’s father, who has now gone to his Maker, was a D.D. of sorts. I used to see both young Johnnies at Kinkaid’s Casino occa sionally. But the galloping horses are their passion now. And they’re the nucleus of a group of young aristocrats who spend their after noons mainly in the futile attempt to guess which horses are going to come in first at the various tracks." (TO BE CONTINUED) BEGINNING IN THIS ISSUE . . . -A •* ‘THE GARDEN MURDER CASE* I. fm VAN CINE*/ Neu>e»t Philo Vance Murder Mgeterg t* DCN’T MISS A SINGLE installment; OT only the sun, but the moon as well, will rise and set on these new styles created by Sew- Your-Own. This timely trio is one of the most wearable ever offered the members of The Sewing Cir cle. Yet, and you'll love this, there isn’t a complication or a single trick detail to bother with in the whole program. Pattern 1981—Pajamas so com fortable, restful and entirely satis fying that the alarm clock will have to ring twice—no foolin’— that’s the boast and even the promise of this newest two piece outfit. It goes through your sew ing machine like a dream, and really is one made up in satin or one of the vivid new prints. 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