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Ml 8ET RELIEF FROM WATERY REM COLIS Because of their “Lalanced medication/' just two drops of Penetro Nose Drops help to open up your nose, soothe inflammation, let fresh air break through the watery mucus. Contain ephedrine and other approved medication. 25c, 50c and $1 bottles. Ttial size, 10c. For free sample of Penetro Nose Drops, write Penetro, Dept. D-41, Memphis, Tenn. To rtliovo chest colds, rub with stainless, snow-white Penetro. SYNOPSIS Philo Vance, famous detective and John T. X. Markham, district attorney for New York county are dining In Vance’s apart ment when. Vance receives an anonymous telephone message Informing him of a "dis turbing psychological tension at Professor Ephrlam Garden's apartment" advising that he read up on radlo-acUve sodium, consult a passage In the Aeneid and coun seling that "Equanimity la essential." Pro fessor Garden la famous In chemical re search. The message, decoded by Vance, reminds him that Professor Garden's son Floyd and hts puny cousin, Woode Swift, are addicted to horse-racing. Vance says that "Equanimity” is a horse running next day in the Rivermont handicap. Vance is convinced that the message was sent by Dr. Siefert, the Gardens' family physician. He arranges to have lunch next day at the Gardens’ penthouse. Vance Is greeted by Floyd Garden and meets Lowe Hammle, an elderly follower of horse racing. Floyd ex presses concern over Swift's queer actions. PENETRO 0 Evil of Self-Pity No aubtler habit of evil is there in the world than that of aelf-pity. —Bright. Don't Sleep When Gas Presses Heart oA rf ^ to do it by Just doctoring your stomach with harsh, irritating alkalies and "gas tablets." Most GAS Is lodged In the stomach and upper Intestine and is due to old poisonous matter In the constipated bowels that are loaded with ill-causing bacteria. 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Other sign* ot kidney or bladder di» order may be burning, scanty or toe Ireqvent urination. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment 1a wiser than neglect. Use Dean’s Fills. Dem’e have been winning new Mends (or more than (orty yean. “ have a nation-wide reputation. ‘ ' by grateful people the » yog? nftpAforl UK country over. A$k Doans Pills CHAPTER II—Continued At this moment we heard the Bound of light footsteps coming up the hall, and in the archway, which constituted the entrance from the hall into the drawing-room, ap peared a slight, pallid young man of perhaps thirty, his head drawn into his slightly hunched shoulders, and a melancholy, resentful look on his sensitive, sallow face. Thick- lensed pince-nez glasses emphasized the impression he gave of physical weakness. Garden waved his hand cheerily to the newcomer. “Greetings, Woody. Just in time for a spot before lunch. You know Vance, the eminent sleuth; and this is Mr. Van Dine, his patient and retiring chronicler." Woode Swift acknowledged our presence in a strained but pleas ant manner, and listlessly shook hands with his cousin. Then he picked up a bottle of Bourbon and poured himself a double portion, which he drank at one gulp. “Good Heavens I" Garden ex claimed good-humoredly. “How you have changed. Woody I . . . Who's the lady now?" The muscles of Swift’s fact twitched. “Oh, pipe down, Floyd," he plead ed irritably. Garden shrugged indifferently. “Sorry- What’s worrying you to day besides Equanimity?" “That’s enough worry for one day." Swift managed a sheepish g.ru^; then he acfcled aggressively; “fcan’t ' possibly lose." Ana ne" poured himself another drink. “How’s Aunt Martha?" Garden narrowed his eyes. “She’s pretty fair. Nervous as the devil this morning, and smok ing one cigarette after another. But she’s sitting up. She’ll probably be in later to take a crack or two at the prancing steeds ..." At this point Lowe Hammle ar rived. He was a heavy-set, short man of fifty or thereabouts. He was wearing a black-and-white checked suit, a gray shirt, a brilliant green four-in-hald, a chocolate-colored waistcoat with leather buttons, and tan blucher shoes the soles of which were inordinately thick. “The Marster of ’Ounds, b’Gad!" Garden greeted him jovially. “Here’s your scotch-and-soda; and here also are Mr. Philo Vance and Mr. Van Dine." “Delighted—delighted!" Hammle exclaimed heartily, coming for ward. In a few minutes the butler an nounced lunch. The conversation was almost entirely devoted to horses, the history of racing, the Grand National, and the possibilities of the various entrants in the after noon’s Rivermont Handicap. Vance contented himself mainly with listening and studying the oth ers at the table. We were nearing the end of the luncheon when a tall, well-built and apparently vigorous woman, who looked no more than forty (though I later learned that she was well past fifty), entered the room. She wore a tailored suit, a silver-fox scarf and a black felt toque. “Why, mater!" exclaimed Gar den. “I thought you were an invalid. Why this spurt of health and en ergy?” He then presented me to his moth er: both Vance and Hammle had met her on previous occasions. “I’m tired of being kept in bed,” she told her son querulously, after nodding graciously to the others. “Now you boys sit right down—I’m going shopping, and just dropped in to see if everything was going all right ... I think I’ll have a creme de men the frappe while I’m here." The butler drew up a chair for her beside Swift, and went to the pantry. Mrs. Garden put her hand lightly on her nephew’s arm. “How goes it with you. Woody?” she asked in a spirit of cam araderie. Without waiting for his answer, she turned to Garden again. “Floyd. I want you to place a bet tor me on the big raca today, in case I’m not back in time." “Name your poison," smiled Gar den. ‘Tm playing Grand Scora to win and place—the usual hundred." "Right - o, mater." Garden glanced sardonically at his cousin. “Less intelligent bets have been made in these diggin’s full many a time and oft . . . Sure you don’t want Equanimity, mater?" “Odds are too unfavorable," re turned Mrs. Garden, with a canny smile. “He’s quoted in the over-night line at five to two." “He won’t stay there." There was authority and assurance in the wom an’s tone and manner. “And I’ll get eight or ten to one on Grand Score." “Right you are,” grinned Garden. "You’re on the dog for a century win and place." ^ . The butler brought the creme de menthe, and Mrs. Garden sipped it and stood up. “And now I’m going,” she an nounced pleasantly. She patted her nephew on the shoulder. “Take care of yourself, Woody . . . Good afternoon, gentlemen." And she went from the room with, a firm masculine stride. “Sneed,” Garden ordered, "fix the set-up as usual." I glanced at the electric clock on the mantel: It was exactly ten min utes after one. “Fixing the set-up" waji a com paratively simple procedure, but a more or less mysterious operation for anyone unfamiliar with the pur pose it was to serve. From a small closet in the hall Sneed first wheeled out a sturdy wooden stand about two feet square • On this he placed a telephone connected to a loud speaker which resembled a midget radio set. As I learned later, it was a specially constructed amplifier to enable every one in the room to hear distinctly whatever came over the telephone. On one side of the amplifier was attached a black metal switch box with a two-way key. In its upright position this key would cut off the A Slight, Pallid Young Man. voice at the other end of the line without interfering with the connec tion; and throwing the key forward would bring the voice on again. The butler then brought in a well- built folding card-table and opened it beside the stand. On this table he placed another telephone of the conventional French, or hand, type. This telephone, which was gray, was plugged into an additional jack in the baseboard. The gray telephone was not connected with the one equipped with the amplifier, but was on an independent line. When the two instrumen’s and the amplifier had been stationed and tested, Sneed brought in four more card-tables and placed them about the drawing-room. At each table he opened up two folding chairs. Then, from a small drawer in the stand, he took out a long manila envelope which had evidently come through the mail, and, slitting the top, drew forth a number of large printed sheets approximately nine by sixteen inches. There were 15 of these sheets—called “cards" in racing parlance—and after sorting them he spread out three on each of the card-tables. When the butler had gone Gar den lifted the receiver from the hook of the telephone and dialed a num ber^ After a pause he spoke into the transmitter: a “Hello, Lex. B : 2-9-8. Waiting for the dope." And, laying the receiver down on the stand, he threw the switch key forward. A clear-cut, staccato voice canhe through the amplifier: “O. K., B-2- 9-8.” Then there was a click, fol lowed by several minutes of silence. Finally the same voice began speak ing: “Everybody get ready. The ex act time now is one-thirty and a quarter.—Three tracks today. . The order will be Rivermont, Texas, and Cold Springs. Just as you have them on the cards. Here we go. Rivermont: weather clear and track fast. Clear and fast. First post, 2:30. And now down the line—” Garden leaned over and threw the amplifier switch up, and there was silence in the room. He turned to his cousin. “Why don’t you take Vance and Mr. Van Dine upstairs, and show them around the garden? ... They might," he added with good-natured sarcasm, “be interest ed in your lonely retreat on the roof, where you listen in to your late. Sneed has probably got it arranged for you." Swift rose with alacrity. ‘Damned glad of the chance," he returned surlily. "Your manner to day rather annoys me, Floyd." And he led the way down the hall and up the stairs to the roof-garden, Vance and I following. The stairway was narrow and semicircular, and led upward from the hallway near the front entrance. In glancing back up the hall, to ward the drawing-room, I noticed that no section of that room was visible from the stair end of the hall. I made this mental note idly at the time, but I mention it here because the fact played a very defi nite part in the tragic events which were to follow. At the head of this narrow stair way we turned left i ito a corridor, barely four feet wide, at the end of which was a door leading into a large room—the only room on the roof. This spacious and beautiful ly appointed study, with high win dows, on all four sides, was used by Professor Garden, Swift informed us, as a library and private experi mental laboratory. Near the door to this room, on the left wall of the corridor, was another door, of calamine, which, I learned later, led into a small storeroom built to hold the professor’s valuable papers and data. Half-way down the corridor, on the right, was another large cala mine weather door which led out to the roof. This door had been propped open, for the sun was bright and the day mild. Swift preceded us into one of the loveliest skyscraper gardens I have ever seen. We walked leisurely about the garden, smoking. Swift was a dif ficult man to talk to, and as the minutes went by he became more and more distrait. After a while he glanced apprehensively at his wrist- watch. We’d better be going down,” he said. “They’ll be coming out for the first race before long." Vance gave him an appraising look and rose. “What about that sanctum sanc torum of yours which your cousin mentioned?" he asked lightly. “Oh, that ..." Swift forced an embarrassed smile. “It’s that red chair over there against the wall, next to the small table . . . But I don’t see why Floyd should spoof about it. The crowd down stairs always rags me when I lose, and it irritates me. I’d much rath er be alone when I get the results." “Quite understandable," nodded Vance with sympathy. .“You see," the man went on rath er pathetically, "I frankly play the ponies for the money—the others downstairs can afford to take heavy losses, but I happen to need the cash just now. Vance had stepped over to the little table on which stood a desk telephone which had, instead of the ordinary receiver, what is known as a head receiver—that is, a flat disk ear-phone attached to a curved met al band to go over the head. “Your retreat is well equipped," commented Vance. . “Oh, ye*. This is an extension of the news-service phone down stairs; and there’s also a plug-in for a radio, and another for an electric plate." He took the ear-phone from the hook and, adjusting the band over his head, listened for a moment. . “Nothing new yet at Rivermont,” he mumbled. He removed the ear phone with nervous impatience and tossed it to the table. “Anyway we’d better get down." Anil he walked toward the door by which we had come out in the garden. When we reached the drawing room we found two newcomers—a man and a woman—seated at one of the tables, poring over the rac ing cards and making notations. Vance and 1 were casually intro duced to them by Carden. The man was Cecil Kroon, about thirty-five, immaculately attired and sleek, with smooth, regular fea tures and a very narrow waxed mustache. He was quite blond, and his eyes were a cold steely blue. The woman, whose name was Madge Weatherby; was about the same age as Kroon, tail and slen der, and with a marked tendency toward theatricalism in both her at tire and her make-up. Her cheeks were heavily rouged and her lips crimson. Her eyelids were shaded with green, and her eyebrows had been plucked and replaced with fine penciled lines. Garden looked up and motioned to us—he was holding the receiver of the black telephone to his ear. Kroon went to the small bar and mixed two drinks which he took back to his table, setting one down before Miss Weatherby. “I say, Floyd," he called out to Garden, “Zalia coming today?f’ “Absolutely," Garden told him. “She was all stirred up when she phoned this morning. Full of sure things." “Well, what about it?" came a vivacious feminine voice from down the hall; and the next moment a swaggering, pretty girl was stand ing in the archway, her hands on her muscular boyish hips. “I’ve concluded I can’t pick any winners myself, so why not let the other guy pick ’em for me? . . Hello, everybody,” she threw in parenthet ically . . “But Floyd, old thing, I really have a humdinger in the first at Rivermont today. This tip didn’t come from a stable-boy, ei ther. It came from one of the stew ards—a friend of dad’s. And am I going to smear that hay-burnert* (TO BE CONTINUUM '"PHIS is the problem: Sister * wants to entertain the Girl Scouts, it’s Jule’s turn to have the Bid-or-Bi club and Rose insists she can’t put off the Laff-a-Lots a minute longer. And each of them has just finished a new dress and is anxious to wear it for the occasion. Sister’s Choice. Sister’s bit of intrigue is, as you can see, a dress worth want ing to show off (Pattern 1223). Jt is made fil yeivgtgea. T.he smart- collar, flattering flared skirt and puff sleeves are good reasons for this frock’s popularity. It comes in sizes 6 to 14 years. Size 8 re quires 2ft yards of 39 inch ma terial. Jnle’s Entertaining Dress. Jule knows a neat trick when she sees one whether on the table or in a page of fashions, and she didn’t miscue in choosing Pattern 1998. It will look more trig and lovely after each washing. The diagram shows why a few hours is all that’s needed to seiv this grand number. You may have it in sizes 34 to 46. Size 36 requires 4% yards of 35 inch material. With long sleeves 4% yards. It Was Easy, Says Rose. They didn’t believe Rose when she said she made this startlingly pretty dress (Pattern 1224). She did though, even the buttonholes! However, the same stunning effect can be had by sewing the buttons on for trimming only. 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