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TRIBUNE
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SATURDAY, Ma/ 21, 1921.
THE SHRIEKING PIT
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and to get there I had to
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—Kansas City Star.
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VIEWS OF COL. HOUSE ON PEACE TREATY
—The Toreador.
erwise. Such conditions make for bad
But, oh, do tell me
thing you tell me.
going to
working in the dark.
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Penreath,
murdered
gan of “open covenants openly arrived
at”) left us in the attitude of reformers
"Although I had got the key I was
for some time afraid to use it. I could
Mexican redicals defied the* bullets
of policemen but fled before streams
of water directed by firemen. Radicals
and water do not mix.
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Here are the specimens:
“In order to temporize,: both France
and Great Britain had recourse to the
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conquer, and in how many rounds?
What is the deepest part of a well?
How come?
Where does cod liver oil come from?
And if so bound Cape Cod.
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The statement that a 300-million dollar bath tub trust exists in
this country is going to be a great impetus to that “Back to Saurday
Night" society.
tune.
For the world was made for love, in
June,
When the skies hang low and the
roses bloom.
Whether it has been the near proximity of Spain or not, Ireland
has recently taken to bull fighting; John Bull fighting;
The end of the British coal strike is in sight; several breweries
have closed down for lack of fuel.
The man who found himself didn’t think it worth while to ad-
vertise his find.
What are we going to do for sharpshooters if we call our marines
away from the Haitien target range? /
unless, indeed, the debtors choose oth- the change except through centuries of
kindly treatment and good govern-
Very Likely.
(Vaudeville a la Mode.)
“Who originated the shimmy?”
“A fat lady riding in a Ford.”
The one queer thing about Senator Smoot’s proposition to do
away with all useless jobs is that he did not suggest that the aboli-
tion of the senate be left until along about the last.
It may be gratifying news to a few people, but we are wondering
what interest the general public can have in the announcement that
there will be a bumper crop of parsnips.
He was right, dead right as he sped
along,
But he’s just as dead as if he’d been
wrong.”
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We are going to have all these momentous problems solved in a
few weeks! the college graduates will be turned loose.
Just as soon as it can be ascertained that Austria has enough
money left to pay his salary, the league of nations will appoint a
receiver for that country.
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When taking-the census of Poland, can it be said that the enu-
merator travels from Pole to Pole?
One can readily spot an orphan girl on the streets. If they had
any parents, the parents would see to it that they wore a few more
clothes. /
There will cease to be so much talk about wars' if it can be ar-
ranged for every generation to finance its own scraps.
before I go whether you are
save him.”
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Member of the Associated Press.
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper, and also the local news published herein.
CHAPTER XIX.
Colwyn formed his plans on his way
back to the hotel. He stopped at the
office as he went to lunch, and in
formed the lady clerk that he had
changed his mind about leaving, and
would keep his room, but expected to
be away in the country for twe or three
days. The lady clerk, who had mis-
chievous eyes and wore her hair fluffed,
asked the detective if he had been suc-
cessful in finding the young lady who
had called to see him. On Colwyn
gravely informing her that he had, she
smiled. It was obvious that she scented
a romance in the guest’s changed plans.
(To Be Continued.!
the thought of
A magazine advises its readers to cultivate their brain and not
their brayin! But suppose a fellow is mulish?
Climatically Speaking.
(Los Angeles having had a cyclone, the
lowans and Kansans down there must
but the people accepted it as an easy
way out of one of their many difficul-
ties.
“It would have been the part of wis-
dom to have named immediately a fix-
ed sum for Germany to pay, but not an
impossible sum. * * * A part of this
sum might have come to the United
States as we, in turn, cancelled a part
of the obligations those countries owed
us. As it is, we are owed a nominal
sum of 10 billions, the value of which.
not bear i
that room,
larations both startling and signifi- :
cant. They were bound to be, for Col- I
onel House says that this book is the
“first comprehensive and authoritative !
expression of the voice of the U. S. j
during the memorable conference at
Paris.”
self-determination,” Colonel House says
the conference was “confronted with
almost its most difficult problem,” that
“there was no good way out,” and that
“any decision was certain to displease
arid in many instances to do injustice.”
But worse, the colonel thinks, are
certain potentialities sitting in the lap
of the future. For example:
simplicity, beauty and gripping appeal
the most wonderful thing--of its kind
I have ever seen or heard.”—Rev. R.
B. Uhmy, D. D., Newark, N. J.
i hours for us during the war, and it is
the harvest j up to us now to do the same for him.”
Bear This in Mind.
That it doesn’t always pay to be too
bumptious in insisting upon our rights
is exemplified by the following epitaph
on a New England tombstone:
foreign relations and we shall awaken . ment.”
to this when we begin to press for in- | The sudden flowering of the self-de-
n
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in the outside of the door. She was
afraid something had hapened to him,
so she had sent for Constable Queens-
mead. I did not tell her what I had
seen in the night. I wanted to be alone
to think. I could not understand how
Mr. Glenthrope’s body had disappeared
from his room. I think I hoped that I
would presently wake up and find that
what I had seen during the night was
some terrible dream. But Ann came up
a little later and told me that Mr.
Glenthrope’s body had been discover-
ed in the pit on the rise, and that Mr.
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the bar parlor. During the evening I
kept downstairs at the back of the
passage waiting for an opportunity to
get it. You both stayed there so long
that I did not think I should get the
chance,
“After you went upstairs to bed Mr.
Galloway called Charles to get him
some brandy. Charles came out from
his room to get it. Mr. Galloway fol-
lowed him into the bar. While he was
there I slipped into the room and got
the key, and left the key of my own
room in its place I did not think the
police officer would notice the dif-
ference, but it was a risk I had to take.
me that Mr. Penreath had gone away | Then I ran up to my room.
bloom,
When the air is filled with a soft per-
fume, •
And the bees hum low their cheerful i
“Here lies the body of William Hay,
falls—
As the nuts, rich brown,
Come shattering down
About our feet—
For love is sweet
When the autumn haze
Broods o’er the days,
And all the world is set to rhyme.
Oh, it is true love’s trysting time,
When the autumn calls.
And the forest's rich brown harvest
falls.
calls,
With its face aglow as
Give a description of an ancient cus- •
tom, such as drinking lager beer. What
was lager beer made of? Have you a
recipe?
What is the neuter gender of the
saxophone?
What is the best way to bend an eel?
What’s the sense in doing it?
What fabric is used in making res-
taurant pie crust?
Who was Josephus Daniels? Whad-
daya mean “was”?
What was Eli Whitney’s idea in mix-
ing his gin with cotton?
Give an excuse for Congressman Vol-
stead.
Who was the first man to wear fawn
colored spats? Had he any defense?
Bound Galli-Curci.
Who wrote the Rubicon of Omar
Cheyenne?
He adds that, as the procedure of
these peoples at Paris, “in the endeavor
to be free everything else was over-
looked,” Glorious line! But, though
“nearly all had hearings, these were of
necessity of a perfunctory nature and
were given less to obtain real informa-
tion than to be courteous. * ♦ *
early, without having any breakfast. |
She told me that she had found Mr.
“I cannot say that,” he replied, in a
gentler voice. “But I am going to ti Y
to help him. Go at once, or you will
not catch the train.”
Would you call the liquor thief who
approaches your cellar in guise of a
porch climber, a modern wolf in sheep’s
clothing?
go past your door; I did not like that.
“Then I crept out along the passage
as quietly as. I could, carrying my
shoes for I had made up my mind that
after I got the knife I would take it
across the marshes to the breakwater
and throw it into the sea. That was one
place where I felt sure you would not
find it. I carried a candle in my hand,
but I dared not light it until I got past
your door, in case you were awake
and saw the light. When I reached Mr.
Glenthrope’s room I lit the candle and
mood.
“This is the anniversary of the death
of my poor, dear uncle,” she sighed.
“He was a sea captain, and went down
with ‘his ship this day five and thir-
ty years ago. I was only a child when
he went away, DuI 1 remember he gave
, me a pet lamb as a partin gift.”
The bqarder regarded his alleged
lamb cutlet with mournful interest.
“Poor dear lamb!” he murmured, re-
proachfully. “And you’ve killed it at
last!’’
called excitely. “Come back, every one
Oh, come with me when the Autumn ' of you! This man spent some rotten
You Should See the Pascoe’s Baby.
BBerrien County (Mich.) Record.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pascoe are the
After learning from the Assoeiated Press that Charlie Chaplin
was painfully burned, we are going to watch the papers to note if
an account is ever given of a person being unpainfully burned.
Much of the time of the conference was
wasted in this grotesque effort not to
cry of making Germany pay the entire ' offend. * * * The conference shunt-
cost of the war, and there were some 1 ed the question of the limitation of
financiers of international reputation armaments.”
Jazzing the Edison Test.
Give the boundaries of Gorgonzola. !
Whom did William the Conqueror
who gave credence to the statement ; Like Tardieu, Colonel House thinks
that this could be done. It was a mad 'that “one of the mistakes at Paris was
and wholly unwarranted assumption, j the lack of publicity, * * * The fail-
----- ure to do this, (carry through the slo-
nonard, as she called Mr.
was suspected of having
him.
Some thoughtless individual or some coterie of interested per-
sons has set in motion a movement' the full results of which could
not have been forseen, for while permanent harm has been partially
averted by the good sense of the American people, still the “Stop
Buying” propaganda has done incalculable injury to a patient and
deserving class of people who have endured the vicissitudes of re-
stricted trade and with the people, have shared in whatever hurt
has come to the nation as a result of the disturbed conditions brought
about by the war.
The retail merchant has become a very essential part of the na-
tion’s economy; he has been awarded his place through long years
of earnest daily service. Recently an investigation was made of
retail conditions, in answer to an anonymos cry to the effect that
the retailer was profiteering and the investigation indicated that
while here and there were found instances of commercial malprac-
tice, they were anything rather than general and an investigation of
the record showed that the retail merchant compared favorably with
the producer, the manufacturer, the carrier and the distributor in
levying his cost for handling his goods.
President Hosch of the Retail Clothiers’ and Furnishers’ associa-
tion of New York, in a recent issue of the Daily News Record, is
quoted in reference to the attitude of the retail merchants, especially
those dealing in clothing and furnishings. What he has to say
makes interesting reading and thinking for the public as it can be
made to apply to all lines of retail dealing. Excerpts from the state-
ment of this gentleman follow :
“I believe the time has come to call a halt to the activities of cer-
tain trade bodies and individuals engaged in the ‘glorious’ work of
sowing the seeds of discord and discontent in the minds of ‘the
American public.
“There has been a continuous and constant deluge of public state-
ments by prominent industrial representatives, research bureaus,
manufacturers, trade organizations, Federal trade bureaus and com-
missions, statistical experts, and a host of others, all seeking the
linelight of publicity, and each in turn contributing to the general
state of unsettled business conditions.
“The retailers’ business is that of buying and selling and carried
on under the keenest sort of competition, and this is particularly
true of the dealer in men’s wearing apparel. His business requires
him to take chances that no other branch of the industrial structure
f this country calls for. He must look far ahead in his buying, and
carry on his selling under all sorts of conditions, varying from day
to day. His market, the consumers, is at all times an unstable one,
and the sentiment of the public is his barometer for business.
“The facts are clear enough; it’s like the house that Jack built.
“If the consumer stops buying the retailer can’t sell.
“If the retailer can’t sell—the retailer stops buying.
“If the retailer stops buying the manufacturer can’t sell.
“If the manufacturer can’t sell, he stops operations.
“If the manufacturer stops operations, the wage-earner stops
work.
“If the wage-earner stops working, his income ceases, and he
cannot buy; the consumer is the wage-earner.”
The statement of the retailer’s case by President Hosch, closes
with this brief yet splendid admonition, applicable the country over
today:
“STOP HOWLING AND GO TO WORK.”
PARDONS AND THE GOVERNOR
The main difficulty about the single tax is that it never is; it
always is married and has a large family.
fact that she had revealed was that
she and Penreath had been acquainted
going- into before. She had also, perhaps uncon+
1 sciously, given away the fact that she
and Penreath were in love with each
other; at all events, her story proved
that she was so deeply in love with
Under the Romanoffs, those in Russia who dared to think were
put in prison; under Lenine, they are permitted to starve. Russia
runs to everything red excepting the little schoolhouses.
; asked to address a meeting.
The local mayor spoke first and at
The Audience’s Duty.
From the Pittsburg Chronicl-Tele-
graph.
A captain who received much com-
Oh, come with me when the wild flow-
ers spring
To greet the sun;
And the robins sing
Their first sweet love songs in the
trees,
And every breeze
Bears in its bosom soft and warm,
The age-old magic of its charm
That sets the world athrob with love;
Arid every cove.
And every forest nook and glen
Beckons unto the sons of men
And calls in love .tones soft but clear
That love’s own time, the Spring, is
here.
Oh, love is sweet in the early spring,
When the wild flowers bloom and the
robins sing. ( —------
—Esther L. Williams. 1 be supremely happy. “Just like the
_____ 1 old home.”—S. F. Bulletin.)
The attitude of Governor Neff in announcing that while he oc-
cupied the chair of chief executive of Texas there would be few
pardons issued to convicted criminals, is given a new slant by the
reply of Mr. W. G. Pryor, state prison commissioner, whose resig-
nation has been requested by the governor and who, in the course
of his reply to that request, calls attention to the fact that this
statement by the governor has disheartened many inmates of the
penitentiary who were endeavoring to earn a curtailment of their
sentence by their exemplary behavior.
But probably the worst feature of the attitude assumed by the
governor is the fact that there is no process of law by which a per-
son, convicted on circumstantial evidence, afterwards found to be
innocent, can be restored to his former legal standing among his
fellows, other than the pardon of the governor. This being denied,
the state has made itself a party to a palpable injustice.
Then there are those instances of crime committed upon the spur
of the moment where repentence and reparation, so far as repara-
tion is possible, follow close upon the heels of the crime and ever
after walks as an admonishing spirit at the side of the criminal.
Must it hereafter be written with each commitment writ, “All hope
abandon ye who enter here?” or is mankind being asked to forget that
mercy is twin sister to justice?
Well might we remember the lines of Oscar Wilde’s “Reading
Gaol,” which run:
“This too I know—and wise it were
if each should know the same—
That every prison that men build
is built with bricks of shame,
And bound with bars lest Christ should see
How men their brothers maim.”
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A scientist lias discovered that total abstainers are from one to
three inches higher than those who drink. This discovery has
doubtless given rise to the statement that total abstainers live longer
than those who drink.
rope owes the United States) cannot i "Two hundred-odd thousand Tyrol-
be collected except by process of war, ese * * * will not be reconciled .to
is exceedingly doubtful, and upon it
no interest has yet been paid.”
In his remarks on "boundaries and
Eastern Offices.
New York Office, 341 Fifth Ave.
D. J. Randall,
Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit Offices,
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WHERE LOVE IS SWEET. mendation for his wonderful courage
come with me when the roses and endurance during the war was
Some times, far down the redwood
state,
Grim Boreas’ cohorts roar,
In simple phrase let me relate
What ne’er befell before—
What never befell (the records show)
Uptopia the blest:
Imperial Vale lay white snow.
Swept o’er Antonio’s crest.
Incredible? And yesterweek
A cyclone black, terrific,
I threw into the sea. That secret was W
safe as long as I kept silence; and I
you couldn’t make me speak against |
my will.” I
Peggy, as she concluded, glanced up V
wistfully to see how her companion
received her story, but she could learn a
nothing from' the detective’s inscruta- '
able face. Colwyn, on his part, was
thinking rapidly. He believed that the a
innkeeper’s daughter, yielding to the "$
strain of a secret too heavy to be borne 4
alone, had this time told him the truth, )
but, as he ran over the main points .
of her narrative in his mind, he could
not see that it shed any additional 4 |
light on the murder. The only new “
clearly to our advantage as well as
our obligation to carry it through.”
Colonel House severely chides the
United States for "refusal to accept the
treaty in good faith, and says that if
the good points of it fail it will be our
fault, that our aloofness “is a melan-
choly reflection upon our right to
exist,” and that we made a volte face
“for which we have dearly paid in the
world’s esteem.”
when I was with him, and one day I
asked him to show it to me. He did so,
and I asked him what the initials were
for, and he told me they stood for his
own name—James Ronald Penreath.
And then he told me much about him-
self and his family, and—and he said
he cared for me, but he was not free.”
She gave out the last few words in
a low tone, and stood looking at him
like a girl who had exposed the most
sacred secret of her heart in order to
help the lover. But Colwyn was not
looking at her. He had opened the
match-box, and was shaking out the
few matches which remained in the in-
terior. They fell, half a dozen of them,
into the palm of his hand. They were
wax matches, with blue heads. A sud-
den light leapt into the detective’s eyes
as he saw them—a look so strange and
angry that the girl, who was watching
him, recoiled a little.
“What is it? What have you found?”
she cried.
“It is a pity you did not tell me the
truth in the first instance instead of
deceiving me,” he retorted harshly.
“Listen to me. Does any one at the
inn know of your visit to me today?
I do not suppose they do, but I want
to make sure. ”
“Nobody. I told them I was going
to Leyland to see the dressmaker.”
“So much the better.” Colwyn looked
at his watch. "You have just time co
catch the half-past one train back. You
had better go at once. I will go to che
inn some time this evening, but you
must not let any one know that I am
coming, or that you have seen me to-
day. Do you understand? Can I depend
on you?”
"Yes,” she replied. "I will do any-
come with me when the north
winds blow,
When the storm god howls and the
drifting snow
Shuts out the world, while the fire’s
red glow
On the hearth sends out its cheerful
beams,
As together we dream love’s old, sweet
dreams.
For the world was made for love, you
know,
When winter comes and the north
winds blow.
There was nobody in, the passage
and I gained my own room and locked
the door. I think I must have fainted,
or become unconscious, for I remember
nothing more after throwing myself on
my bed, and when I came to my senses
the dawn was creeping in through my
bedroom window. I was very cold and
dazed. I crept into bed without taking
off my clothes, and fell asleep. When
I awoke it was broad daylight, and as
I lay in bed I heard the kitchen clock
chime seven.
I got up, and went into grandmoth-
ers room. A little while afterwards Ann
came up with some tea, and she told
Who died maintaining his right of
way,
happy parents of a fine baby boy, born Glenthrope’s room empty,withihe key
at the Clark hospital Saturday. "In
Penreath that she had displayed un-
usual force of character in her efforts
to shield him. But that konwledge did
not carry them any further towards a I
solution of the mystery. It was with
but a faint hope of eliciting anything
of real value that he turned to her and
said:
“There is one point your story on
which I am not quite clear. You said ‛
that in the morning/ when you heard
of the recovery of Mr. Glenthorpe’s
After a fellow has completed a course with the income tax col-
lector, those questions of Edison should not be such a difficult
proposition.
An Ancient Lamb.
The landlady was in a sentimental
peak
And struck the blue Pacific.
It wretched Los Onglaze roofs
domes, N
While orange blossoms rained.
The gale they say (page Burton
= Holmes)
A scout plane’s speed attained.,
And thunder peals (unwonted there)
Set Moviehurst aquiver,
The downpour from the upper air
Revived its rod-wide river,
From Eagle Rock to Signal Hill
“New I-o-way” was smitten.
With crayon, camera, and quill
The story will be written.
Here where the sea and matchless
Bay
And Golden Gate are blended
They keep the even tenor of their
way—•
The weather gods, attended
By Flora and her regal train,
A fairer realm I’d seek in vain.
And I’m a restless rover.
—Charles Wesley Anderson, in Chicago
Tribune.
considerable length.
When he had finished the audfence
almost to a man began to leave the
building.
The mayor sprang to his feet again
and rushed to the edge of the platform.
“Come back and take your seats!” he
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though my blood turned to ice. I knew
it was true—I knew that he had kill-
ed Mr. Glenthrope because he wanted
money—but I knew that in spite of all
I wanted to shield and help him. I kept
in my grandmother’s room all day,
determined to keep silence, and tell no-
body about what I had seen during the
night. The one thing that worried me
was the knife which I had put behind
the picture on the wall. I tried once
to go into the room and get it, but
the door was locked, and I dared not
ask for the key.
“Then in the afternoon the police
came from Durrington. I did not know
who you were when you came with
them into my grandmother’s room, but
as soon as I saw you I was afraid,
though I tried hard not to let you see
it. I knew you were cleverer than the
others. But your eyes seemed to go
right into mine, and search my soul.
I asked my father afterwards who you
were, and he said your name was Mr.
Colwyn, and that you were a London
detective. I had read about you; I knew
that you were famous and clever, and
after seeing you I felt that you would
be sure to discover my secret, and put
Mr Penreath in prison.
“That night when I was downstairs,
I heard you and the police officer talk-
ing in the room where you had dined,
and I listened at the door. When I
heard you say that you were not cer-
tain who committed the murder, I was
very much surprised, because up till
then I felt quite certain that you would
think Mr. Penreath was guilty. I be-
lieved if you found the knife you would
alter your opinion, Ann having told me
that the police knew that Mr. Glen-
thrope had been murdered with a knife
which Mr. Penreath had used at din-
ner. The idea came into my head that
if I could get .the knife before you
found it, you might go on thinking
that somebody else had committed the
crime and perhaps persuaded the police
to think so as well.
“I nade up my mind I would go
into the room that night and get the
knife. I knew that the ldoor was lock-
ed, and that the police officer had i
placed the key on the mantelpiece in [
unlocked the door, turning the key
as gently as I could. But it made a
. noise, and, as I stood listening. I
thought. I heard a movement in your
room. I blew out the candle, stepped
inside the room, took the key out, and
locked the door on the inside.
“I do not know how long I stood
there listening in the dark, but I know
that I was not as frightened as I had
expected to be—at first. I kept tell-
ing myself that Mr. Glenthorpe had al-
ways been kind to me while he was
alive, and that he would not harm me
now that he was dead. I did not look
towards the bed, but kept close to the
door, straining my ears to catch any
sound in the passage outside. But after
a while I began to get frightened in
that dark room with the. door locked,
and dreadful thoughts came into my
mind. I remembered a story I had
read about a man who was locked up
all night in a room with a dead body,
and was found mad in the morning,
and the position of the corpse had
changed. It seemed to me as though
Mr. Glenthorpe was sitting up in bed
looking at me, but I dared not turn
round to see. I knew that I must get
out of the room or scream. I lit the
candle, felt for the knife behind the
picture, arid opened the door. As soon
as the candle was alight I felt braver,
and I looked out of the door before
going into the passage. I could see
nothing—all seemed quiet—so I came
out of the room and locked the door
behind me and went downstairs.
"Once I was outside the house and
could see the friendly stars all my
fears vanished. I know the marshes
so well that I can find my way across
them at any time. And in my heart
I had the feeling that I had been brave
and helped him. When I had thrown
the knife into the sea from the break-
water I felt almost light-hearted, and
when I reached my room again I fell
asleep as soon as I got nto bed.
“Until you spoke to me the next day
I had no idea that you had seen and
followed me. But I knew it the mo-
ment you stopped me and said you
wanted to speak to me. Then I re-
alized you had watched me, and the
story I told you to account for my visit
to the room came into my head. I did
not know whether you believed me or
not, but I did not care much, because
I knew you could not have seen what
* * It was
, Whirled over Lowe’s pine-manteled
terest payments.”
That is at once the outstanding de-
claration Colonel House makes in re-
lation to the future.
There are handfuls of other dec-
body frm the pit, you knew that Mr.
Penreath was the murderer. Why
were you so sure of that? Was it be-
cause you picked up the knife with
which the murder was committed? The
knife was a clue—the police theory of
course is that Penreath secreted the
knife at the dinner table for the pur-
pose of committing the murder—but,
by itself, it was hardly a convincing
clue. Was there something else that
made you feel sure he was guilty of
this crime?”
"Yes, there was something else,” she
repeated slowly.
"I thought as much. And that some-
thing else was the match-box—is that
not so?”
“Yes, it was the match-box,” she re-
peated again, this time almost in a
whisper.
“What was there about the match-
box that made you feel so certain?”
“Must I tell you that?” she said, look-
ing at him helplessly.
“Of course you must tell me.” Col-
wyn’s face was stern. “As I told you
before, nothing you can do or say can
hurt now, and the only hope of helping
him is by telling the whole truth.”
"It was his match-box. It had his
monogram on it.”
“You have brought it with you?”
For answer she took something from
the bosom of her dress and laid it,
with a heart-broken look, in Colwyn’s
hand. The article was a small match-
box, with a regimental badge in en-
amel on one side and on the other some
initials in monogram. Colwyn exam-
ined it closely.
“I see the initials are J. R. P.,” he
said. “How did you know they were
his initials? You knew his name?”
“Yes. He used to light cigarettes
with matches from that match-box
, termination ideal among small and
I long subjugated peoples, the American
j commissioner plenipotentiary calls
j “the gladdest and yet in some ways the
। maddest movement in history.”
In the book, “What Really Happened
at Paris: The Story of the Peace Con- !
ference," preparation of which he su- j
l perintended and to which he contrl- |
butes, Col. Edward Mandell House
makes this stateemnt:
“Even now they (Americans) should
understand that these debts (sums Eu-
Trotzky is reported dead again. The
cat tribe must envy Trotzky his
many lives. «
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