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As To Those Marble Boards
Showing Up Again
th«» boards sn#- iRBchinss snd they were
ordered out
Now we note they are coining back
in again.
At whose instance are they to be in-
troduced 7
Just what has transpired that they
are back with us?
What has taken place to change the
ideas of those in authority that they can
be allowed to again operate?
If there is anything wrong with the
boards being operated per se, then they
should go out at once.
If they can be wrong in Dallas and
right in Denison, then we have a large
number of people here who would like to
know just what is the basis of this reason-
ing.
To lei the boards operate is not a
sign of the town being classed as liberal.
If a thing is wrong there is no such thing
as being liberal with it in such fashion ns
to make the town more desirable place in
which to bring up youth.
There must be something wrong with
the whole thing or we should not have a
place like Dallas making such determined
stand against it.
Not that we are to pattern this town
after Dallas, but we certainly should have
for it a pattern that is in the interest of
youth and against anything that smacks
of leading it astray.
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We have about decided that if wo
take the element of love for publicity out
! of radio, there would not be much left
but a few wires and a mike.
took. un « rim;
PAC.£ FOR YOUR DAILY (WANTS
EXCHANGE
that
EXTRA
ROOM for
CASH
The “Rooms to Rent” and
“Board and Lodging” col-
umns will bring you desir-
able people—and rooms ad-
vertised generally rent with-
in 3 days.
THE DENISON PRESS
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2,—Voting privileges.
4.—Husbands of members.
6.— Kirg B. Fairbanks. .114 N.
Mirtck avenue.
6. —Texas.
7. —Five days.
8. —Mr. and Mrs. A. \V. Snol
grass.
it—Misg Mary Belle Wright.
10.—It was started by Wm.
Huffman who went to sleep while
smoking a . lgaret and awoke to
find Ids bed ablaze.
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Press stories tell that Dallas is to ban; _______
the marble boards and that back of the' „ , , ,.
move is the grand jurv and the city offi-j Speaking of those who are on the
i radio to “entertain us—if those who arc
cials.
The action is based on the ground
that the devices, along with slot machines,
bookmaking and the like are gambling
and must therefore, be driven from the
city.
What is puzzling some here in Deni-
son is why we should have the boards in
operation while a town like Dallas is bar-
ring them.
If a thing is classified by a grand juiy
in Dallas as being a gambling scheme,
then why should not the same rule be ap-
plied here? What has geography to do
with changing an act in one town some-
thing to be classified as gambling, to
something that is to be condoned in an-
other?
INTERESTING BITS ABOUT
OUR FRIENDS
placed there in order to get business oui
of some relative or near-kin, were left off
and put people on who are really compe-
tent, it might add something to the listen-
ers in the way of reducing their gnashing
of teeth.
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Denison needs to pass a law regard-
ing the loan business such as have been
passed by Dallas and Fort Worth. There
are numerous reports of abuses here and
a law with teeth in it might help the situ-
ation. Several towns of the state are
passing such laws. For the borrower to
be subjected to the deals which are hand-
ed out by these sharks which advertise
I tliir.k that the thing the boys
of the Katy are doing in the way
of preparing Christmas baskets of
food for the needy of the city H
one of tin finest things I have ev-
er heard,’ declared Rev. Floyd Aik-
in, pasor of the Nuzarene church
Saturday. The Denison pastoi
came to this city from Bonham.
He is a modest kind of fellow
but is a good scout as scouts
who are preachers and at the sanm
time men who have maintained the
common touch. Floyd is one of
t :<* boys who was brought, up in
ft Held and who still has that kir 1
of handshake you meet when
you go out in the country. He is
not like some of the rest of in
who have been trying to cover up
waht is underneath wiyt a skin of
polish we think the day calls for.
Restraint that l.fffds back what we
arc is hard for all of us. Floyd
does not hold back, that’s why he
is different.
Following
Air Routes
6-_ ,
G p. mi. ( Its—Hebert Foote’s
ensemble, WACO KNOW KWKItj
I KGKO. Little Orphan Annie. WB'
AP. Saddle Tramps, KRLD.
6:30. NBC—Goose Creek Par-
son, KRLD KTSA KMOX KTUL'
KTRH KOMA KWKH. Listen to!
this, WFAA. |
7. NBC—Helen Kaye , WLSl
WREN; Fibber McGee and Molly,I
KVOO WDAFWOAI WFAA KPU
9. NBC—Contented Hour, W
| HO WDAF WFAA WKY WSM k'
OA WOAI WMAQ KPRC. CBS—
Wayne King’s orchestra, WWL K
i MOX KSL. Musical program, KR
LD.
9:30. CBS—What do you
think? KOMA KGKO KRLD KWK!
II KTSA KNOW. King’s Jesters, i
WFAA.
10. NBC—Amos 'n Andy, WO
AI WFAA KPRC WDAF WMAQ
WKR KOA WSM. CBS—Poetic!
Melodies, WWL KRLD KSL KTU!
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SELLS
Auto Paint Shop
309 W. Woodard St.
It KMOX KTSA KOMA.
10.30. NBC—Ray Noble's or-j
ehestra, WDAF WSM WOAI. Or-1
chestras, WFAA; KRLD. |
11. NBC—Gus Arnheim’s or-,
chestra, KPRC WFAA WOAI WR
Magnolia Blossoms, WHO W:
SM WDAF. CBS—Abe Lyman’s!
orchestra, KWKH KOMA KNOW j
WA/JO KTSA. Orchestra, KRLD.,
SPECIAL
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STAR
TIRE STORE
LouU J. Rochat
307 W. Woodard Pho. 676
Rev liar: y Lee Virden tells s
good one oi Ms college days. The
conversation was about some of
I the ways in which peopi'e are un-
wise in the practice of their re- jC 110 VVSAl WKY WMAQ. CBsj
ligious belieT?. He said a group —Horace lloidt’- orchestra, KRL
of hoys nt ti .- college numberin'! |D WWL KTKli KSLKMOX KTSA
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sonic twenty vv'HV ^Lopping at a
l.onrdlng house where the boy?
found t.iu ii rooms ad torn tops'
un-vy on Sundays. The boys at
tended church and later would re
ti o for their rooifls for needed
rest. They found the landlady
would beat the rugs, hang out the
bed clothing, and otherwise keep
thoir rooms in an uproar. The
prop’ t of the hoys availed nothing
and alter throe Sundays of it they
moved out on masse. The presi-
dent of the school was appealed
to by the landlady. The boys told
the prexy why they moved. I
don’t blame you, we don’t care
what people want to believe as
their religion, but we do care how
they practice it on the student
body’ commented the school head.
OTHER EDITORS’ THOUGHTS
high sounding promises is something tint
Here in Denison and Grayson county, no city can afford to stand.
DENISON DAM
A Denison dispatch this week
says that the Core Drilling Com-
pany of Houston lias been awarded
malic good leading but are not
wholly convincing, lib conclusion
Diat unless something is done to
bring to a close the sniggle bc-
tho contract, for the final founda j tween the communist and fascist
DROUGHT ADC/S TO PERILS
OF TRAIL IN ‘TRAIL DUST
The ominous threat of drought
and the villalry of unscrupulous
beef dealers who plan to use it to
enrich themselves by forcing up
the price of beef Is the story by
'Trail Dust,’ the latest addition to
the 'Hopalong
which begins on
Cassidy
Friday
Star theatre.
"William Boyd as floppy,’ Jimmy
Ellison as Johnny, and Geor,.c-
Hayes as Windy’ make up the
threesome who are assigned to get
a cattle herd through the drought
belt to the railroad.
They do but not without tbe
exercise of considerable gun-play,
serial1 "hard-riding and plenty of action
at ths j of the type that has made this
I series of Clarence E. Mut'ford wes-
terns so popular.
! This is the second Chritmas that
the Cassidy series has been shown ^
in Denison. Because these series
"have been so popular., the man- j
agement brought back another of
the latest-for its Chrismas dav I
showing.
Drive SAFELY—Not Reckleo.lt
MIKE YOUR ADVERTISING TALK
What's the use of digging down and paying the printer
unless your advertising pays you?
And what’s the use of stopping your ads, and saying,
“Oh, advertising doesn’t pay,” when you CAN make it
fairly drag folks into your store?
The service your product gives overlaps the interest
the public may have in it, and this, not its history
or manufacture, is the POINT OF SELLING CON-
TACT.
Therefore . . . employ “atmosphere” to convey the
sense of joy or service, convenience, comfort; rather
than technicalities to impress details on advertising
tired minds. But not all pictures and smart talk am
“atmosphere.” Suggestion should never be over-
reaching or insincere. The science of advertising,
if there be such, lies in this; Make the reader see
FOR HIMSELF that which you are eager to have
him see and doing it WITHOUT eagerness.
Our Advertising Staff is well qualified to assist you in
in making your advertising more effective and remun-
erative. This staff is maintained for your service. Just
Phone 300.
-THE DENISON PRESS
tion explanation boring of the pr
posed Red River Dam at Denison
■ it was announced Monday by Oapt.
Lester F. Rhodes, army engine'
j in charge of the current invest!* i
• tion. Bids were opened at the
Vicksburg (Mississippi) head-
quarters in charge of the project
Work will begin in twenty days.
I Tills is another development in
! the progress of the great Ke l
j liiver Dam project, ii Denison,
J eventually coming to fruition It
l is a project that means flood con-
trol conservation of moisture an I
soil in the richer agricultural re-
gion for fncreasing population of
the territory contiguous to the r,>
per Red River reaches—vast area
in both Texas and Oklahoma
Our readers will remember that
several months ago, President
Roosevelt allocated a half-million
dollars with which to bring
a final survey and testing that ;*
cither prove or disprove the feasi-
bility of tlie dam. According \ >
all preliminary surveys and techni-
cal information, the dam will bo
approved as feasible ami worth the
price of a little more than $HU,-
000,000, which it will cost. This is
an integral part of the vusr govern-
ment Mississippi River flood con-
trot system. Congressman Ham
Rayburn of this district is given
credit for leading lr: the Denison
Red River Dam project that now
bids fai to materialize within the
next few years.—McKinney Couri-
er-Mfizotte.
INTERVENTION INVITES
DANGER
R*.(soils given by Walter Lipp-
nmnn, commentator on world ai
fuh?, u hy United States should
inter ene and offer its good office*
to tlie waning factions in Spain
forces, other nations will inevifi
I lu’y be drawn into tlie struggle, is
j uirdly enough reason for thi.-
I counti y to fake a hand even .»
peacemaker, for if we take official
notice of the affair we must in tlw
course of events continue to do sc.
I and that will he another repetition
<>i mu sitnatioi in 1917. It will mean
take part in the actual fighting oi
furnish t: 1 • - money for others to
tV
KOMA.
7:30. NBC--Margaret Speaks,
WOAI WDAF KPRC WHO WLW;
WFAA WSM WMAQ KVOO; Mel-’
odiaim, WHEN WLS. CBS—Pick
and Pat, KMOX KWKH KOMA K
RLD KTUL WACO KGKO.
8. NBC—Greater Minstrel?, W
LS WKY WSM WLW WOAI KV
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HOSTETTEKS
STOMACHIC BITTERS
The only way your body can clean out
Acids and polaonoua vrastea from jroui
iduod in thru 9 million tiny, delicate lCid-
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;rustic, Irritating dru*». If functions!
Kidmy or Bladder disorders make you
uffer from Getting Up Nights, Nervoua-
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Wyes, I.MzzIm-ss, Rheumatic Pains, Acid-
ly, Burning, Smarting or Itching, doh't
lake chances. Get the Doctor’s guaran-
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vitality,
ke uimvc,
te*-d preBcrlptlon c
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p‘ ire It $nu«t l ring new vitality, and 1«
r,v.. ranteed to iix you up In one week or
mon°y back on return of empty package.
Gy*! -x • w* only 9c g day at druggists
%nd
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SYNOPSIS was attracted immediately by some
Hercule Poirot, world-famous Chinese curios on a larte in the
detective, is expending every effort r;'rncr» rf}m* u<‘n{ nV,,,‘ 10 oxaimno
to track down a baud of inter-.)- Oiom. ' seemed to lake no ml ;r-
tional criminals known as “Tlie •’:n I o’rot « doings. 1.
Big Four " Secret Service Agent1 "Hicr hand, watched him v :th
Maverling. who hud not been h.-. rd . Hi. :>thlc- s mtcrcs! 1 no I, r w -
from since going to Ku hve cov, ,1 with a dark-groon l.m,;, um
y « 1 f 11
viously suffering front shoe!: ho ,nt" s'*'a11 ,kl ' "’7
veals Li Chang Yen. a pc cful ‘'n"' ‘here another door led ...to
mandarin is the brains of the Big 4, !l"' ^ullery (where the hack door
“«■ > '• k»- sssrawttnsrrsi
“Rotat'd, I pray you. this mutton.
But regatd it closely!”
I regarded it as closely as 1 could,
but could see nothin*? unusual about,
it. It seemed to me a very ordinary
leg of mutton. I said ns much.
Poirot threw me a withering glance.
“But do you not see this—and
which was ideal for showing up thi and this—"
lie illustrated each “this” with a
j tb at the unoffending joint, dis-
lodging small icicles as lie did so.
3 a French woman, and No. 4 the
Destroyer.” Mayerling is mur-
dered with prussic acid while Poi-
rot and his Assistant. Hastings, are
out. Shortly afterwards, a man
claiming to b a keeper at the Han-
well Asylum arrives and identifies
the victim as an escaped inmate.
Under the pretext of making funer-
al arrangements, the keeper”
leaves. A telephone call to the
asylum discredits his story. Poi-
rot believes he was the “Destroy-
er” returning to make sure Mayer-
ling was dead. John Ingles, an au-
thority on sinister Chinese affairs,
believes Li Chang Yen responsible
for world-wide unrest and labor
troubles. Ingles shows Poirot a
by Robert Grant. Having explored
the ground, Poirot commented upon
it in a low running monologue.
“Here is where the body lay ; that
big dark stain and the splashes all
around the spot. Traces of carpet
slippers and ‘number nine’ boots,
you observe, but all very confused.
Then two sets of tracks leading to
and from the kitchen; whoever the
murderer was, he came in that way.
You have the boot, Hastings? Give
it to me.” He compared it carefully
with the prints. “Yes, both made
by the same man, Robert Grant,
lie came in that way, killed the old
man, and went back to the kitchen.
He had stepped in the blood; see the
stains he left as he went out ? Noth-
Hnnn.ton™Dartmoor “Thim ! in* to be seen in the kitchen-all the
, ' _ he cin pet out of! village has been walking about in it.
her no l-.» "opeatt nation «t this to send money so hecan |et outoh Ug we|U i)|t„ hjg QW« room_n0(
time hag money enough t‘> can\\
on a war. As to other nations be-
ing ‘drawn In. If the Spanish dis
turhance i- not brought, to an end.
there i n<> drawing about it^-- na-
tions that go into war except de-
fense of tuelr own soil, not
diavvn ini > it lji.it .:”t. into
it |:iirj)«»:-if-Iy. Or they may tv- sal.I
to be drawn in when tiiey ]K)ke
their nose itno a quarrel even u«
a )M*aceinaker, and then have t<
t- ! sides with one nr thr* other
of tlie combatants.
Tie sterns to be great fee
that tbe l 11!t.t States would
suffer in case of another Kuropean
war but most people believe that
rib suffering could be so great .i>
what vve hod tw undergo in the
war in which we participated.
Isolation Is not the worst thing j
that cohid happen to us. The Am-
erican colonies vrere entirely iso-
lated in their way for independence
jet the greatest accomplishments
* In our history were made in those
days. Isolation, \vhhe n<*t to bo
J sought, should not be rejected
' should it. beconio necessary in or
dor fo keep u from becoming en
tan with Huny an fights, it
( wo!'. I bo iiy long odds the lesser
| of two evils both in a financial
J and hulnan life computation. Par-
is News
the country before “Tlie Big Four”
get him. Poirot, Hastings and In-
gles leave for Hoppaton. They
hnd Whalley slain. A local in-
spector informs them Robert
Grant, alias Abraham Bi^gs. an ex -,
iSScttdno£ the*crirne. ^Hisma” | !,lJ.tl^0ml Ume he "'cnt in?” 1
ter’s jade was found in his posses-
sion and the footprints of tiw mur-
derer coincide with his Poirot
visits the scene of the crime. Hast
mgs relate* what happens:
first he went hack again to the scene
of tlie crime—was that to get the
little jade figures? Or had he for-
gotten something that might in
eliminate him?”
Perhaps ho killed the old man
CHAPTER VIII
We set out forthwith. Mr. Ingles
and the Inspector forged ahead. I
drew Poirot back a little so as to be
able to speak to him out of the In-
r | * pee tor’s hearing.
, 1 "Whiit do yon i fully think, Poirot.
N there mm" in this than rivets
tiie eye?" r
-That is inst the question, mini
■ ■„n. Whalley says plainly enough
in his letter that the Big Four are
,,ii his track, and we know, you ami
|, |hilt the Bit; Four is mi bo«ey fur
■he children. Yet everything seems
* r> say that this man Grant com-
| mitted the crime. Why did lie do
1 For the sake of the little jade
diR'urca? Or is he an uRent of the
Dig Four? I confess that this last
vents more likely. However valu-
able the jade, a man of that class
was not likely to realise the fact —
at any rate, not to the point of com-
mittlng murder for then). (That,
tor instance, ought to have struck
Poirot had just accused me of
being imaginative, but I now fell,
that he was far more wildly so than.
1 had ever been. Did ho seriously
think these slivers of ice wero
crystals of a deadly poison? That'
was the only construction I could,
put upon his extraordinary agita-
tion.
•‘It’s frozen meat,” I explained
gently. “Imported, you know. New \
Zealand.”
He stored at me for a moment or
two and then broke into a strange
laugh. '
“How marvelous is my friend
Hastings! He knows everything —
b,it cvmjtlihig! How do they say—
Inquire Within About Everything.
That is my friend Hastings.”
He lltmg down the leg of mutton '
onto its dish again and left the
larder. Then he looked through the
window.
“Here cun s our friend the In-
spector. It is well. I have seen all
I want (o sec here.” lie drummed ;
on the table absent-mindedly, as
ilnis no,i, you do not observe.
Or mie of the outgoing footmarks
lined with blood there is super-
imposed an ingoing one. I wonder
what he went hack for—the little
jade figures ns an afterthought?
It. is nil ridiculous—stupid.’’
“Well, lie’s given himself away
pretty hopelessly.”
‘‘Is that so? I tell you, Hast-
ings, it goes against reason. It
ofi'emls my little gray cells
go into his bedroom ah, yes; there t
0 the smear of blood on the lint,.]
and inst a traco of footmarks Llv
bloou-sisined. Robert Grant's foot-
marks, and his only, near the body
(tola i t Grant the only man who
went tie,'ii- the house. Yes, it must
be so."
"What about tlie old woman?” I
said suddenly. “She was in the
house alone after Grant hnd gone
for the milk. She might have killed
him and then gone out, Her feet
would leave no prints if site hadn’t
been outside.”
“Very good, Hastings. I won-
dered whether that hypothesis would
occur to you. I had already thought,
of it and rejected it Betsy Andrews
tor instance, ougiiv iu ..n-c cwuv-n , is a local woman, well known hcre-
t lie Inspector.) He could have stolen ahouts. She can have no connection
the j*de snd made olT with it instead ”
d" committing a brutal and quite
though absorbed in calculation, and [
tlien naked suddenly, “What is the
day of the week, vwn amiV’
"Monday,” I snid, rather aston-
ished. “What-?”
“All! Mnnduy, is it? A bad day '
of the week. To commit a murder
on a Monday is a mistake.”
Passing hack to the living-room,
he tapped the glass on the wall und
glamed at the thermometer.
"Set fair, and seventy degrees
Fahrenheit. An orthodox English
summer's day.”
M Ingles was still examining vari-
I et us I nlls l1'61'1”1 °f Ghlneae pottery.
"You do not take much interest
in tilts inquiry, monsieur?” said
Poirot. ,
A-THOUGHT -A-LINE
.'l.'i', Stuart was only a week
old at tlie death o£ her father
James V, of Scotland, and she Im-
mediately was proclaimed queon
Negotiations wero opened to pledge
the infant to Edward heir of Hen-
ry VIII ,but tlie Scots, suspecting
tills to be an Engllnh plot to sub-
join Scotland stopped the move.
The song. 'Yankee Doodlt,’ was
inspired |,y Hi. motley apponranr-
of American > oluutt-era at Fort Ti
coederoga, doling ttie Froneii and
Indian w.'ir
The North Polar region is an
ocenn surrounded hy continents,
while the South Polar region is a
continent, surrounded by an ocean.
Both regions are covered by a per-
petual nark of tee and snow.
purposeless murder. Ah, yes; I fear
aur Devonshire friend has not used
his little gray cells. He has mea-
sured footprints, and has omitted to
reflect and arrange his ideas with
the necessary order and method.”
The Inspector drew a key from
•his pocket and unlocked the door of
Granite Bungalow. Tho day had
, been fine and dry, so our feet were
! not likely to leave any prints;
nevertheless, wo wiped them care-
fully on the mat before entering,
i. A woman canto up out of the
gloom and apoke to the Inspector,
i nnd he turned aside. Then he spoke
over his shoulder.
I “Have a good look round, Mr.
Poirot, and see ell there is to be
I seen. I’ll be back in about ten
t minutes. By the way, here’s Grant’s
| boot. I brought it along with me
for you to compare the impres-
| sions." '
We went Into the living-room, and
ths sound of ths Inspector’s foot-
steps died away outside, Ingles^ gone mad?”
with tho Big Four; nnd, betides, old
Whalley was a powerful fellow, by
all accounts. This is a man’s work
—not a woman’s."
“I suppose tho Big Four couldn’t
have had some diabolical con-
trivance concealed in the ceiling—
something which descended auto-
matically and cut tho old man’s
throat and was afterwards drawn
up again?”
“Like Jacob's ladder? 1 know,
Hastings, that you have an imag-
ination of the most fertile—but. I
Implore of you to keep it within
bounds."
I subsided, abashed. Poirot con-
tinued to wunder about, poking into
rooms and cupboards with a pro-
foundly dissatisfied expression on
his face. Suddenly he uttered an
excited yelp, reminiscent of a Pom-
eranian dog. I rushed to join him.
He was standing in the larder in a
dramatic attitude. In his hand he
was brandishing a leg of mutton I
“My dear Poirot!” feried. "What
i* the matter? Have you suddenly
Tlie other gave a slow smile.
"It's not my job, you see. I’m a’
commi, (iir of some things, but not
of tin-. So i just stand hack and
keep ouf of tin- way. I've learnt'
patience in the East."
The Inspector came bustling in.
apologising for having been so long
away. He insisted on taking us
over most of the ground again, hut
finally we got away.
“I must appreciate your thousand
politenesses. Inspector,” said Poirot,'
as we were walking down the village
Btrcet again. “There is just one
more request I should like to put'
to you," j
"You want to see the body, per-
haps, sir?” " |
"Oh, dear me, no! I have not;
the leust interest in the body. I:
want to see Robert Grant.”
“You’ll have to drive back with^
me to Moreton to see him, sir." I
“Very well, I will do so. But I'
must see him and be able to speak'
to him alone."
Tho Inspector caressed his upper1
lip. /
"Well, I don’t know about that,
sir.” it
“I assure you that if you can get'
through to Scotland Yard you will,
receive full authority.”
"I've heard of you, of course, sir.
and I know you’ve done us a good,
turn now and again. But It’s very
Irregular.”
“Nevertheless, it is necessary,”
said Poirot calmly. "It is necessary
for this reason—Grant is not ths.
murderer."
"What? Who is, then?”-
(To Be Continued) j
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