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Learning Our Lessons
During the first 10 months of 1932, approximate!.'
23,000 Americans were killed by automobiles. 1 his in
dicates a probable fatality list for the entire year of about
29,000, which will be nearly 15 per cent below the total
for 1931. -
Much of the reduction, of course, is due to the simple
fact that there are fewer automobiles on the highways
this year than last. But an analysis of the figures made
by the Travelers insurance Co. shows that the fatalities
decreased even more than did car registrations or gasoline
consumption; Rnd to a certain extent, at least, we are
justified in assuming that the long years of safety cam
paigning are beginning to bear fruit.
Having rejoiced over that, however, we can only ad
mit that the toll is still shockingly high. We may be be
ginning to get some rudimentary ideas of safety on the
highway, but we still have a long way to go.
A Needles* Sacrifice
A few’ days ago the French government paid honor
to the last three French soldiers to die in the war; three
men who were killed just one minute before the bugles
sounded the “cease firing” call at 11 a. m., on Nov. 11,
1918.
It is a melancholy sort of fame that those three
poilus won; and at this date, looking back and reflecting
that all the armies on the western front suffered losses on
that final morning of conflict, one wonders why any of
those deaths were necessary.
All the generals knew’, when Nov. 11 dawned, that
hostilities would cease in a few hours. What earthly
sense was there in firing another gun? What shadow of a
right did any general have to sacrifice one more life?
To all intents and purposes the war was over. It is a lit
tle hard to forgive the military obtuseness that called for
killing on the morning of Armistice Day.
The Cop From College
It was a little bit surprising to read that Kenneth A.
House, recently an honor student and athletic star at the
University of Chicago, has got himself a job as patrol
man on the Chicago police force. College graduates, es
pecially honor students, don’t often pick that field of use
fulness; one’s first impulse is to wonder what on earth
moved young Rouse to do it.
But a little reflection indicates that the young man
may be a good deal wiser than we suppose. Our police
departments aren’t exactly over-run by husky young men
who have highly-trained minds. Indeed, that is, in some
ways, the chief thing that is wrong with our police de
partments.
There are few fields of endeavor where educated
and conscientious men are more greatly needed. It would
be a fine thing for the nation if Mr. Rouse should set a
atyle that other collegians would like to follow. We can
use a lot of cops of his variety.
New York
Letter
Composer-Priest
NEW YORK—Quit# the moat
astonishing tale to drift my way
from Tin Pan Alley concerns a
priest In New Jersey who is
credited with a long list of popular
and jass song hits.
Who. for instance, would expect
• When I Take My Sugar to Tea'
or “You Brought a New Kind of
Love to Me” to emanate from a
priest? The outstanding success
o* this interesting career has beet
sung from one coast to the other:
"Love Brings a Little Gift of
Roses *
All these, and more recent work
have appeared—I am reliably to»d
—under the name of Pierre No:
man. Bui “on the inside they
will tell you that Pierre Norman
is none other than the Rev Father
O'Connor, of Orange. N. J., vhi
i« one of the best known priests n
this section of the state.
He has sought to avoid any pub
licity and has urged that his name
not be connected with his songs
Certain Tin Pan AUeyltes, aware
of the public Interest that would
attach to his songs were the facts
advertised, have found themselves
helpless. Approached by inquisi
tive pen wielders. Father O'Con
nor is said to have smilingly de
clined to talk or to comment that
perhaps there has been some mu
take. At any rate, he has managed
to keep out of the brighter spot*
light#.
Yet most of the song-writing
folk and scores of Broadway fig
ures appear to be his good Menas
arid often journey to Jersey for
get totethers, song fests and din
ners. He U a talented p.anut ana
most amusing tale spinner, they
say,
• • •
How Hard-boiled?
Reference to musical matters
brings to mind a tender little tale
about two famous banctrasters.
Just a few days aao you may I
have read, the mother of Ben I
Bernte died Beroie was leading a
band in Chicago. He rushed away
to be at her bedside, arriving sev
eral days before death came, in
those last days she wanted to hear
music—her boy s music.
But lje didn’t have his band The
story goes that he called upon his
old friend Olsen. To be sure, they
are rivals in a work-a-day world
but old friends out of working
hours. Perhaps Olsen would send
certain tunes to the bed-room, over
the air waves.
Olsen listened to the story.
‘Me send music to your mother!
No, old fellow, she wants you—ahe
doesnt want me ...Here, now—go
on and take my band—direct the
bovs yourself...."
Just a hard-boded town— New
York—full of mugs and selfish
folk—eh, what?
• # »
Charitable Elsa
Whenever the amaiing EUa
Maxwell drift* into town from
Europe, New York aoeietv sit* uo
and ask* what will happen next
For Elaa ha* become known as
one of the world* mo*t ortgijai
party thrower*.
This time, however, she comes
m the interest of charity. Having
lived in London and Paris anu
having known everyone who wx*
someone." she managed to get
prominent modern artist* to do a
picture for her. These she has
collected and braught back, the
receipt* of an exhibition to go to
some society charity.
Ah—So That's It!
It s in Burton Rauoe's "Titan*
x.Lil,fr?turthat 1 'kAnied foi
™®, flrSt tlm® thal Paragraphic
&nd gagsom® columnlng dates back
to Daniel Defoe. Small wonder
then, that he sent his ■'Robinson
Crusoe to a desert island.
ASLEEP IN THE DEEP
playln* hcwkey. so his
parents. Mr and Mrs Lowe, couldn t
understand it when the school prin
cipal notified them that Glen had
not reported to his classes The po
lice were called and told to be on
the lookout for Glen, but they had
no luck. That evening Glen* fath
er called the police station and said
'It’s all right; we’ve found him I
He’s been asleep in the basement all
1 day.- ;
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The
Once Over 1
It K. L PHILLIPS
THAT HOOVER-ROOttEVELT
conference
Mr. Hoover:
Goon mwiimg, Mi. Roosevelt; U Is
good to see you here—
(Why should I say a thing like
that? You know ite lalae, I fear)
Mr. Roosevelt:
Good morning, air; and you are
Herbert Hoover, are you not?
The name is quite familiar, but I
don't recall the plot.
Mr. Hoover:
There* really nothing up mj
sleeve; I merely thought that
you
Might like a practice huddle just
to see what there’s to do.
Those foreign debts are up again
and aa I’m soon to quit,
The big responsibility with you
Id gladly split.
Mr. Roosevelt:
Twaa nice of your to think of me
in such a crisis hot.
But I’d have been as satisfied.
dear Herbert, had you not.
You ought to do the pitching to
the BriUah and the French
Till March I shouldn’t do a thing
but sit upon the bench.
Mr. Hoover:
Of course I realise that I have
four more months to sene;
I simply thought I’d like to see
your fast ball and your curve.
You got so many votes I rather
figured that you should
Come in and start to worry while
the worrying is good
Th# voter* they have chonen you
their Home Run King, and how !
You should be glad to help a man
with two strikes on him now !
Mr. Roosevelt:
My schedule doesn't call, my
friend, for any game till spring,
But Just the same I do not mind a
little practice swing;
Just shoot the problem to me, as
you see it, and I’ll try
To help you out a little, though
I cannot tell you why.
Mr. Hoover:
Let us huddle and seem thought
ful; let us concentrate, dear
Frank.
Art? the movie men all ready? j
Good, Then let ’em turn the
crank!
(They go Into a huddle behind the
line while 85 camera men take pic
ture* for the news reel*. It takes
some time. During the ceremony,
both men forget what they were to
discuss, but a secretary reminds
them. They then go over the debt
situation »
Mr Hoover:
You have seen the facts and fig
ures and each solemn I. O. U —
C*m you tell a weary gentleman ,
the proper thing to do?
Mr Roosevelt:
It’s a very simple problem: read
my speeches and you'll see
That they cover quite completely ,
•very known emergency.
I would quote them for you, Her
bert. If I kn w just what I
said—
But it's very hard to carry all
ones speeches In one's head.
Briefly. Herbert, here's the
thought that at this time I
would implant:
Just collect what they can pay
ua and not one cent that they
can't!
Mr. Hoover:
In a nutshell you have seen the
light and opened wide the door,
What a funny thing I never, nev
er thought of that before!
Mr. Roosevelt:
It is nothing. With a problem I
go quickly to the mat—
You will find that nearly all T.
R.'s fifth cousins are like that.
Mr. Hoover:
Thank you very, very deeply; you
are very, very kind—
This just demonstrates how hud
dles take a load right off my
mind.
Mr. Roosevelt:
You are welcome, theres no
charge, air. and I wouldn't „ake
a dime:
If you meet with other problems, j
ring me up most any time!
France and England:
Three long cheera for Herbert
Hoover! Three long cheers for
Franklin, too!
Three long cheers for all the RED
that's in the old Red. white and
blue!
Let them hold their little huddles
for the news reel weekly show;
That they'll never get those war
debts Is a fact that both bo vs
know!
Inside Dupe
Hi—I'll be the first to let the fans
in on the truth about that Yale
Harv&rd football game with its
amasing outcome. Here goes: the
Yale team wasn’t the Yale team at!
all; it was really an Army eleven in '
disguise.
—Sherlock.
• • •
You're mistaken. Sherlock. It was
the Yale team ail right, but the
Harvard squad was really the Bates
second eleven.
Add S.miles: so smart he could
follow a football ga...e as shown in
tii* news reels.
An electric fruit taster is one of
the latest inventions It's practically
Infallible In the matt I of clients.
From Madrid comes a cable that
bull fighting may soon disappear.
Nonsense! Mr. Hemingway wouldn't
stand for it.
Daily Health
_ Talk _
The question I* constantly raised
as to whether or not motion pic
tures are bad for the eyes. Par
ents wonder how often children
should be permuted to attend,
whether or not they ahould ait
in the front or rear in tha house,
whether or not it is dangerous to
view the pictures from the s:de
and how much, if at all, eyes may
be harmed by attending motion
picture performances.
In 1930, the Bureau of the
League of Nations made public a
ieport which had been developed
by a special committee in Italy or
this subject. The report wa* based
on a questionnaire which had been
lent to almost 13.000 children and
young people In Italy.
About one-fourth of these staled *
NEW MASCOTS FOR OLD?
MOW AB&JT
4oMT1TUTim«
TV*C BOOST**
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NOW, VUAAY
voe weeo is to &ET
RiO OP THAT WMcrt.
ttIPHAWT AMO <&CT >
.something L,
SPCfcCwEE^ r
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VUOKlDEA. IF *Jfc
?CAmV t*G HIM UP
A*D »KIHG HIM FAC*
JL *TD UP* ?
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that the eye* Lr-id alter Matching
turn*. About twu;« a* many saici
that their eye* did not feel tired
or strained in the least, and the
others teemed to be doubtful.
• • •
According to a statement issued
by one oi ihe leading authorities
of the Society for the Prevention
oi Blindness in Urn country, mo
tion picturea do not cause as
much strain to the eye as reading
a book. Dr. Park Lewis lias said:
“Under normal phys-ological
conditions, moving pictures do not
cause serious eye fatigue. Since
viewing moving pictures is distant
vision, it does not demana so great
an ocular effort a* near vi*iau—
such a* readn.g for a cone.-pun cl
ing length of time.
“When eyestram is caused bv
moving picture! it 1* due to one
or another preventable condition,
such as too prolonged fum; oi the
attention on a single point, or
defective visual function, to a bad
posit.on of the observer in rela
tion to the screen, to poor films,
Improper manipulation of thi ap
paratus. to faulty projection or to
improper illumination
“With these reservations there
la no more harm to the eye* in
viewing the moving pictures with
modern improved methods than
there is in any other normal use
o! the eyes "
Apparently therefore It may be
said that the motion pictures, as I
such, do not have a harmful in
fluence on the eyesight of normal,
healthy people. Neither should
they be injurious to the nervous
system of normal, healthy people.
However, people who are in
clined to have trouble with vision
and those who are easily disturbed
emotionally may suffer some in ;
effects from attendance on motion
pictures for several reasons. In the
first place, there are startling
changes of light that tire the
eyes; in the second place, the
films are sometime* Jerky because
the apparatus for projection is
weak or the speed Is not properly
regulated.
The Investigators have worked
out a sort of motion picture hy
giene which is useful. They sa>
that It is desirable in the case of
children and young people to have
daylight or subdued light screens
Programs should be arranged so |
lhat longer or shorter scenes are .
alternated.
Projection of any part of a film
should not be longer than ten or
fifteen mmuies, followed by In
tervals of from two to three min
utes and then the light may u«
gradually brought on.
OT course, a film of fifteen- |
minute length is probably best
suited to educational purposes.
However, It u difficult to say how
f.ie ordinary drama could be con
densed *nu> fifteen-minute lengths.
QUICKER THAN A WINK
BOSTON—"Quick as a wink’* is
pretty fast, but not too fast for the
new high-speed camera that was
described by the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology' recently.
Members of the institution, by
means of the camera, calculated the
wink of an eye to be one-fortieth of
a second.
AIR RACES LOSt
CLEVELAND—According to offi
cials, the 1932 National Air Races
recently held here operated at a
loss of more than 117.000 This loss
makes it problematical whether the
races will be held here again In
1933. It is thought that possibly
Chicago, with Its World's Pair at
traction, will sponsor the races next
year.
Mancnurta can never be an out
let for our population. Within the
past year not more than 1000
Japanese have emigrated to Man
churia. Birth control la the one
big thing that can emancipate our
people from the burdens that
weigh upon them.
—Baroness Ketch Ishlmoto. leader
of femlnlat movement In Japan.
• • •
It gives me a feeling of relief
to be off the tax rolla
—Edouard Herrlot. Premier of
Prance, on selling a house
It is clear, of course, that Japan
would be forced to withdrew from
the League, or any other body,
were it to become clear that vo
continue therein would jeoparduxu
Japans vital interests and ojA
country! program to mair.tjui
peace in the Far East.
—Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese dele
gate to the League of Nations.
• • •
This problem of unrest is a worm
problem. Its now your problem
as well as ours, and we must feea
the hungry. Its labor that feat
the Communists, not the capital
ists. We think that the best wav
to defeat the Communists is to let
them get it off their ehests
—Lady Astor, on visit to V a
• • •
What the world, business in
dustry and labor ned above all is
tranquility, quiet, relief from poli
tical excitement.
—Frans von Papen. Chancellor or
Oermanv.
Barbs _J
And then there's the cat wm> re
marked that her rival wasn t much
of an artist, because she didn’t have
good design* on her boy friend.
• • •
A Boston flrl flung custard pies
at two holdup men. $he should
have waited—maybe all they want
ed was the pies.
• s e
"America turns out the be*:
Jass musicians;’ a dance orchestra
leader opines. Yep. and It seems
that the worst still remain.
• • •
And, figures an English writer,
’women probably talk more be
cause men are too polite to inter
rupt them.'* Let’s get rude. boys.
• • •
That campaign saying about
' grass growing In the streets'* might
have been worse. It could be gTou
mg in the cornfields, you know.
• • •
An Insurance company suggests.
"The nest fire may be yours." Try
ing to cheer up everybody?
• • •
Sympathy for the ousted Repub
licans might be aaved until it is
learned whether they really were
unlucky in that election or not.
• • •
Stuart Chase, Chicago economist,
sees a 30-hour work week and m
$3000 a year Income for every fsfk.
lly in the United States. Where, oh.
where, Mr. Chase, did you see It!
We'll move any day now.
Wa*pnH MVJ RDEffcass8
BEGIN HERE TODAY
A MO A PEABODY, elderly ectasia
•f LINDA A V Ell ILL, falls to bis
death (roar the second door hnl
rosy «f thr Avertlla' Long Island
heme. Linda reaches him last be
fore he dies. In time to bear him
gasp. “He |tu*bed me—!”
I.lada. realising her enusta had
fried la tell her he was murdered
rashes upstairs to the bnleouy
Someone steps behind her, tries to
strangle hrr aod she falle In a
falat. Her hosbaad. TOM eeee
ber fall and rnsbee to her There
are four gursle la Ike bouse and
they nil appear. The guests am
MR. hTATLANUER, business MM*
elats of Tom'si CAPTAIN DP. Mis.
handsome Itelstani MARVIN
PRATT, former sailor of Liat*a‘s|
and LIAN * IIA UGH N Eh SPY. Irish
writer. Kaeh of them has guar
reled with ( ousla Amos.
DR. PARSONS tabes rbargr. It
Is assumed Cousin Amos death
was accidental aad that Linda
fainted front sborh. W bra she Is
Anally able to tell Tom what hap
pened «he persuades him that they
mast been the four guests with
*hem until they dlseaver who Is
the murderer. They are unes
prctedly aided la this plna when
DR. IIOYLK, olArlitl mrdieal e»
amlner. sends word that every
one la the house must remain un
til he has questioned them Hoyle
Is oa a Ashing trip and eaa not
return for several hoars.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XVII
FN the "Hence after the little car
k shot out of the stone gateway
LI*!',!* heard Tom emerging from
one upi'Airs room and caught the
word", ••very good of you—“ Aa
he etopp£d ** another door she
•uddenly remembered that only
three of t|cir guests were here In
the house. Tom still had one of
them to nftHy a" well as the one
whom aht bad quartered In the
garage.
‘Til riitf ever myself and tell
Mr. Sha'if-nessey,” she thought
impulsively and had pushed the
screen dooi open before something
checked h* r like the touch of s
cold band.
She st04>d on the threshold of
their hm|% and looked across the
road and Httle lawn toward the
garage. A alienee ao profound
that it sefuied to have weigh! and
depth lay pver the peaceful Uttl*
scene, so alear was the day and
so hot the air that clothed the
world. E#ch P«bble In the road
way stood out distinctly from its
fellow. eaf'b blade of grass held
itself erect and alone, unswept by
the slighte.1** current of air.
The garage—that was where
she bad ati*r*«d *» *o. And Hi the
garage wae a «nau. Just an ordi
nary. pleasant, well-dressed, well
mannered c^an. Or rather perhaps
not quite or’d,Qary, for genius—ir
he was a p*euius—never is that
Certainly L*‘tn Shaughneesey. tn
both appearance and behavior, was
rather unust'al, though on the side
of distinct**”*- What was there
then about *be thought of him
that bad stopped her as though
by an invisible hand? 8be did not
know, but e*b® knew aha wae phyal-»
cally incapable of forcing berself
to step into the roadway, walk
across the lawn and go ap that
short flight of steps. In fact she
could not even face the idea of It.
• • •
rrOM, swinging downstairs with
* the satisfied air of one who
hat accomplished what he set out
! to do, found her sitting on the
little hall bench and be did not
guess the effort it took her to
smile n at him as he stopped be
fore her.
“How did they take it?" she en
quired.
“All right—I’ll tell you later—
upstairs." She nodded as his
voice dropped warningly.
“I’ll Just run over to the ga
rage now and tell Sbaugbnessey.”
he went on and the words, so ex
actly her own thourbt of the mo
ment before, brought her in*
j stantly to bet feet.
I ll—I’ll walk over with yon.”
It was unbearable that Tom
should g1' off so cheerfully, alone.
Into the little building that bad
once seemed so commonplace and
now had grown so strangely alien.
Disregarding bis surprise, she
walked primly beside him. If she
talked her teeth would chatter and
that would hurt her pride! But
she was entirely willing to re
main downstairs while he ran up
and knocked on the door and.
standing on the first step of the
little flight, she had no need to
strain her ears to catch Tom’s
part, at least, of tha conversation.
**II e I lo. ShaughnesseyI Oh.
sorry—didn’t mean to waka you
up!” (He could sleep, exhausted,
whatever had happened this morn
ing!) "1 won’t be a moment. Just
wanted to ask you If you would
mind staying on tbe rest of the
day. Thera's been a little misun
derstanding about tbe accident
this morning. Our doctor's a bit
apt to go his own way regardless
of tbe regulations and he shouldn’t
have permitted tbe body to be
moved so quickly. He okayed our
taking it to Port and now that's
got us all in dutch. The county
medical examiner is away but ha s
coming hack and. Just to abow
he's boss, he’s ordered us ail to
stay until he can go over tbe
ground and go through the prop
er formalities He'a due around
dinner time eo if you don’t
mind—"
Then a sleepy murmur and
when Tom spoke again his voice
sounded decidedly relieved.
"Tbet’s fine. Luncheon won’t
be for an bour or ao. Will you
feel like coming over or would
you rather—?” Again tbe mur
mur and again Tom sounded re
lieved. "Good! Well look for
you at 1 than.” i
f IN DA was strolling toward the
1 house when Toro caught up
with her.
"So that’s all right, Binki. nay
child.” he aaid cheerfully. “The
beggar was still half asleep when
I left but be knows he's to stay
and since h« hadn’t made a move
toward going so far as I could
see—"
•’Well," Linda tried to be jo«t.
“He was up early this morning—
as you remember!"
”Yes—I remember.**
Instinctively tbey lowered their
voices.
“I told the others to come
down whenever they were reedy."
said Tom. “That you would he
down to luncheon but would reat
until then in your room."
"Where you will join me—for
our first conference,” Linda an
swered grimly.
"That’s the Idea."
i ll go tmo me aucnen, sne
said. **I have to break the news
to Rosie and Annie that the
house party is still on their bande.
I'll go up the back stairs and meet
you in our room in five minutes."
“Ye-es.’* said Tom. stopping
w-itb bis hand on tbs latch of the
door. "Hut Uinks—be careful!"
"What could possibly happen In
five minutes--T" She stopped
What had happened In live min
utes. early that still, hot morn
ing? Not trusting herself to
speak, she nodded and hurried
over the grass toward the service
entrance.
She presumed she gave intelli
gent directions, for after their
first expression o' concern neither
Rosie nor Anuie seemed to regard
her with any degree of alarm. But
untl* she got upstairs again—’
safely and without meeting any-i
one—she moved with abstracted
haste, her mind concentrated on
that fierce desire to see Tom again,
alone, to begin with him their se
cret. urgent, dangerous hunt for
her cousin’s murderer, still with
in her house
• • •
4 T her husband’s step in the hall
** Linda flung open the door
eagerly and be was hardly inside
end the door closed before she
spoke.
"Tom—do any of them seem
alarmed by this business about
Dr. Boyle? Did you get anything
from the way they took lit"
"No. Lech one took it differ
ently but al) took It well. 1
blamed poor old Parsons pretty
heavily end emphasised the tact
that it was only a formality. At
first Statlander was distinctly die
agreeable but that could be laid to
his dislike of having his plana up
set twice in rapid succession. He
was all ready to leave and hie
room was neat aa a pin. If there,
was any evidence there against
him it’s gone now. 1 reminded
him we still had a lot ot Vaiesha
business to discuss and that ap
peared to reconcile him. Cither
he really doea want to flnlah what
we’re supposed to clean np this
week-end or be decided he’d bet
ter seem „o want to. Marvin—
I’m afrnld I waa pretty abort with
Marvin. Just told him the facts
and let it go at that"
• How did he act?"
“Just the same. He’d be a good
one to coneeal a guilty secret be
cause be always acts aa if be bad
one. and so gradually you get
used to it. When I knocked he
opened the door aud blocked It
completely. I couldn’t aee into
the room, and somehow I bad the
idea ha didn't want me to. It
might have been Just my Imagina
tion. I—well, it wasn't any too
easy for me to be elvll and I can’t
honestly say 1 noticed much eboai^
him. He was stiff and had thdM
air of holding something back, as
1 remem bar. In other words,
quite himself. Then 1 went next
door to DeVos. He waa also quite
himself, which meant that he was
very pleasant and courteous, as
sured me he quite understood and
that anything that made It easier
for us was agreeable to him. He
did ask about going off the
grounds and I found ba had a date
with Fleur Stoner early this
afternoon—”
"You might know she'd hs?«
bar hooka Is him!"
"And ha'd thought ha might
limply chock his bag at tbs sta
tion and go up to town later. He’d
noticed the tuu across tbs rosd
there and had meant to stop there
for luneh without bothering us."
"Thoughtful! And Mr. Shsugh
nesaey we know about—so that's
that! And now we muit think of
each one separately, Tom—what
he's said and done, ever since he
arrived. We'll start—"
"Well start with Pratt." said
Tom grimly. "Attar all. ha was
there and that stems fairly Im
portant."
"It la Indeed.** agreed Linda.
"Don’t think I entirely bar bu|#
out. But remember, too. bis re- M„
is nearest Cousin Amos' end It**
perfectly poeaible be beard me
fall. And anyone who really bad
tried to strangle me wouldn't have
watted while you swam In. ran
acro»« the lawn and came up
dalrs."
"He might stay from bravado,
just because no one would tbtnk
be would. Anybow, we bave that
on him definitely end we have
nothing on any other."
"Oh, yes. we bave. On one
other mao."
(To Be Continued)