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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Posi Office as Second Class Matter I. H. Heller Presidenl A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y & Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller — Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $6; Six months, $3.25; 3 months, $1.75. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining counties: One Year, $7; » mouths. $3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies. 4 cents. My earnest belief in the important work and accomplishments of the American Red Cross impels me once again to endorse heartily its annual fund appeal.—General Omar Bradley. o—o Czecholsovaxrans not only live behind an iron curtain, but with a gun to their back. o o— —- Engineers of the state highway commission are making traffic survey in the city. Their findings will be interesting to read, along with recommendations for traffic control and parking in the up-town area. What about double parking and stopping in line of traffic during the rush hours? • o— —o Interesting exhibits from Purdue University will feature the dairy day program at the junior-senior high school next Thursday. County Agent Archbold expects a crowd of nearly a thousand dairymen, and talks of interest to those who engage in that important industry, will be given by speakers of national repute. ■ o o Those jewels which have been recovered for the widow of a former German General, should be sold and the money used to feed ■ the hungry in that country. The aristocrats and landed gentry over there, were responsible for a lot of the trouble which Hitler cook-up and if we had our way, we would Use their jewels to pay part of the bill. o —o Daniel W. Hoan must have liked his old job. He was mayor 'of Milwaukee from 1916 to 1940, which must be a record for the mayor . of a big city, and now he is running again. The interesting fact about Hoan is that he served this long term as a Socialist. This might sound alarming to conservatives, but actually Hoan's administration was distinguished as above the average. Milwaukee under Hoan rivaled Cincinnati in its boast of being the best-run big city in the United States. ——o o The selection of J. Ward Calland to head a crop improvement I program for the National Soybean |

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By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. TO the modern doctor, stuttering in children is but a symptom. Just as fever indicates an underlying and sometimes hidden infection, so stuttering usually gives evidence of an inner emotional tension which may be shown in no other way. It would appear that one of the most frequent factors leading to stuttering lies in the attitude of the mother toward the child. The mother of a stutterer is likely to be domineering, over-protective, and over-anxious about the child’s feeding and health. Such a mother may create an excessive amount of restlessness in the child, and. because of her concern about his health and safety, may cut down too much on the child's activities. The second factor is over-anxiety on the part of the parents about the normal occurrence of repetition in the child's speech. Little children often repeat -syllables several times. When this happens, the parents tell the child to speak more slowly and to think before he speaks. Thus,- the child's attention is focused on his faults of speech, and the more conscious he is of them the more likely he is to stutter. Today’s doctors find it very significant (hat stuttering is rare in primitive civilizations where no pressure is put on children to speak correctly or to behave in other ways according to a strict pattern laid down by the parents. Stuttering begins most often in children between the ages of two ind four. It is more common tn boys than The child under

J Processors Association, is the recognition of a man admirably equipped for the important post ). The appointment places him where * he belongs, a leader in the agricultural and soybean fields. D. W. r McMillen. Sr., board chairman of it Central Soya Company, which inh dustry is making a loan of Mr. x Calland's services to the national [. organization, very aptly expressed 1 our feeling, when he commented: I. “We feel that no one more appropriate to the new national as- - signment could have been chosen s than Ward Calland.” A trustee of 3 Purdue University, Mr. Calland r has served as agronomist for Cen--1 tral Soya Company, gaining a national reputation for his successful research and study in the de- • velopment of the soybean. Adding i to the happiness of local friends ever his promotion is the fact that Mr. Calland's new duties will not entirely take him away from the city. He plans to maintain Ills residence and office here while serving his organization in Chicago. o o Another State: A subcommittee of the House of Representatives has recommended statehood for Alaska. This first step, small though it may seem, brings Alaska nearer to statehood than it ever has been before. If the Public Lands Committee should approve the proposal, the House would be expected to pass it without much opposition. The House group was told that the people of Alaska favor the idea of becoming a state about two to one. Among arguments for the proposal are that Alaska is a strategic part Os the Uhited States and therefore should have a voice in Congress and in the election of the president. As a territory, Alaska elects its own legislature but is under a governor appointed by the president and is subject to the whim of Congress. There are arguments against statehood, also. The people of Alaska pay the same federal taxes as residents of the United States, but no territorial taxes. The costs of territorial government are borne by the United States. As a state Alaska would have to pay more of its own way. Hawaii, which already has House approval of statehood, is more likely to become the first noncontiguous state. Btlt Alaska would have other distinctions. Being twice the size of Texas, it would be the largest state. Having a population of only 90,000 including Eskimos and Indians, 20.000 less than the population of Nevada, it : would be the lowest ranking in | population.

six who stutters, Often can be helped merely by treatment of the adults around him. The attitude of the parents toward the child must be corrected and the tension and excitement must be eliminated. Often such treatment alone permits the child to regain normal speech. Children over six require speech training but this should not be given in groups. Speech correction classes, which attempt to teach stutterers as a group, only focus the child's attention on his difficulty, and thus may make the condition worse. Treatment of the older child also requires that a study be made of his surroundings and the attitudes of his parents, so that those creating undue strain can be eliminated. Only when the underlying causes of the emotional disturbance at the root of his faulty speech is found and done away with, will the child be able to correct his stuttering. If the stuttering child is to be helped, his treatment must be individualized, that is, each child must be studied and a program, suited to his heeds alone, worked out and followed. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS D. M.: Is there any danger of titer W'l’tioti developing into cirrhosis of the liver? Answer: As a general rule, it is not believed that cirrhosis of the liver is due to liver infection. The exact cause of this condition has not been determined in all cases, but in some it is due to a diet lacking in certain essential foods notably vitamin B-complex,

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I Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LEE | 0 0 Q. When a new employee enters an office, is it necessary to introduce him to the other employees? A. While not exactly necessary, it still is a very courteous thing to do, particularly to the other employees with whom he will be associated regularly. Q. What is tne proper way to address a formal invitation to two sisters in a family ? A, Address the invitation to “The Misses Anne and Clara Brown.” Q. Is it necessary that ushers at a forma! evening wedding always wear full dross and white gloves? A. Yes, always. o The earliest alloy of metals was bronze —probably discovered when copper and tin were melted together accidentally and allowed to 1 harden.

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN ( STEPHEN'S disclosure stunned 1 Catherine. 1 Making her throat function was ’ an effort. "You took it from 1 Mike’s? You brought the leopard 1 down here, put it back ... ?” “And very nearly got nipped for 1 my pains,” Stephen said coolly. “How did you get in?” "Oh, easily. That window there,” he waved at the window to the I left of the door, “was open an inch ' or two. I came up the fire escape through the apartment below this, the one they’re doing over. I’ve been there waiting for the police and Nicky to go ever since.” Catherine sat down suddenly. The room was spinning. She raised her eyes. Stephen was looking at her with solicitude. "That’s right, you’re all in, aren’t you?” he said kindly. “I don’t feel exactly in ; the pink myself. I want to talk to you, but first—l think I’ll help myself to a drink. . . .” “Wait.” Catherine could just barely get the command out. "Yes? Go ahead. What is it?” "Were you,” her mouth was dry, “were you standing behind the curtains in Mike’s studio when I first went Into the living room and found him ? Did you turn out the lights? Did you ... ?” Stephen’s dark brows drew together. He pulled a chair forward, swung it around and sat down close to her. “What’s all this? I don’t get it. Was I where?” She told him then, in short cold sentences, exactly what had happened. "So that was it,” he said slowly at the end. "I figured there was something. .. . Listen. I was on my way in to see Nye when you arrived. I wasn’t more than ten feet from you when you got out of the cab and walked into the lobby. I wanted to see Nye alone, so I decided to wait until you left. It was rather late and I didn’t think you’d be long. I was standing there, leaning against a fireplug, when I looked up and saw Nye’s lights go out. That studio window of his is as big as a signboard. You couldn’t miss it. The lights going out while you were still there struck me as—funny. I decided t<- investigate. I went in, went up in the elevator.” He paused to light a cigaret, taking plenty of time over it, threw the match into the fireplace. "When I got out on the tenth floor, Mike Nye’s door was wide open. The hall was dark. You were nowhere in sight. I went into the 1 hall and then on into the living room. Things were getting queerer and queerer. I switched on the lights. The first thing I saw—besides poor Mike Nye—was that silver leopard of yours on the floor under Nye’s chair. I picked it up. There was blood on it. I was standing there holding the dfirn thing in my hands when I heard ! voices. Men were coming into the

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Feb. 27 — Three men confers taki ing part in the $133,000 mail robbery at Chicago and implicate 25 others. Fire destroys barn on the Adam Gephart farm, loss $4,700. A horse and a truck and fifty tons of hay were lost. Zion Reformed church will hold mortage burning services March 25. Mr. and Mrs. William Longenberger, parents of J. J. Longenberger of Monroe observe their 73rd wedding anniversary at Newton Falls, Ohio. Mto. Henry Doehrman, 79, dies at home of daughter, Mrs. Charles Lumbert, in Fort Wayne. High school seniors present “The lottery man.” Enrollment of students at North Carolina State College's School of I Textiles, the largest textile school I in the world, is more than double what is was in any pre-war year.

apartment. 1 switched off the lights and, as the men came into the living room by one door, I went out, through the studio and bedroom. They didn’t see me. I took care of that. I used the stairs instead of the elevator going down.” He blew smoke in a small cloud, watched it float toward the ceiling. "A crowd was just beginning to gather on the pavement outside. I hung around for awhile trying to find out where you were, what had happened. Then it struck me that it was important to get the leopard back where it belonged. “So,” he shrugged, "I came down here. Over there by ’he steps was as far as I got when I heard you coming. I shoved the leopard onto the bookcase, made it out of the window and got the window closed, by a hair, as you walked in with Nicky. What I meant to do was to go away and come back when Nicky was gone and you were alone. I waited a little too long. By the time I got down to the apartment on the floor below this, the one they’re redecorating, a detective was parked at the door.

I’ve been cooling my heels there since . . . Now,” he got up, “I’m going to have that drink—and you're going to have one too, and then we can talk.” Catherine watched him walk away until she couldn’t see him any more. Her eyes were full of tears. She pressed her lids tightly together. Stephen Darrell had found her leopard at Mike’s and had brought it back here because he didn’t want her to be suspected of murder. Her heart swelled with an actual, a physical pain. “Here you are.” Stephen put a glass into her hand. "Drink up.” He raised his own glass, drained it. “What brought the police here after they talked to you at Nye’s ? Why did they come?” All the time he had been talking, his back had been to the bookcase. He didn’t know the leopard was gone. Catherine told him about the detached paw and the little soldering ring that had fallen from it to the carpet when Mike was struck. "The police took the leopard to have it tested. . . "My God! They—they think you brought the leopard back here, yourself. They . . ” Stephen was on his feet, Xhe glass he was holding smashed in his gripping fingers. He paid no attention. He dove for the couch, grabbed up his hat. “Where are you going?” He looked at her over his shoulder. “To the police, to tell them • about the leopard, that I brought i it back here.” "No.” Catherine Jumped up, threw her- ■ self into his path. “Get out of my way.” i “I won’t. Stephen, you mustn't.” i He took her by the arms to push I her aside, looking down at her. She i looked up at him, her head thrown

W , Household Scrapbook I i By ROBERTA LEE | »— n Holes in Belts If it is desired to make another hole in the leather belt, and you want it to be neat, heat a steel knitting needle red hot and bum in the necessary hole; this will make quite a professional looking job. Towel Holder A handy towel holder for your kitchen towels can be made by tacking a pinch-type clothespin to the wall near the sink. Or. a small spring mousetrap. Prevents Odor If milk or grease hae been spilled on a hot part of your stove and starts to burn, sprinkle some salt on it immediately to prevent that 1 unpleasant odor. °~~ ■ ■ -■ ’Cooks’ Corner’ BY MARY R. SMITH Bananas — Rich in Food Value Ripe bananas in addition to being delicious are one of the most easily digested foods. Bananas act as a protective food because they furnish the important vitamins and minerals needed to protect our health and to build strong bones and teeth. Banana.? may be served in any number of ways. You've all eaten banana cream pie and sliced bananas with cream, but have you eaten banana bread or banana fritters? Banana Bread 1"4 cups sifted, all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder. ’4 teaspoon soda V 2 teaspoon salt '4 cup shortening. 2/3 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 1 cup mashed bananas (3 bananas). iSift together flour, baking powder, soda, and salt. Cream .shortening. Add sugar gradually and continue mixing until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Add flour mixture alternately with bananas, a small amount at a time, beatingafter each addition until smooth. Turn into a well greased loaf pan.

back. His hand stopped moving. So did Catherine’s breathing. Everything in the room stopped. The night went, and the darkness. The terrible hours she had been through ceased to exist, The sun shone and the world was wide, illimitable, and airy and free , . A wild singing sweetness filled her . < . But not for long. It was there, a perfect moment of happiness snatched out of time, and then it was gone, crushed under the weight of facts, of the past and Hat La Mott, of the present and Nicky . . t Stephen Darrell saw the change in her. His hands dropped to his sides. He took a step backwards. “All right,” he said in a hard voice. "Say what you want to say . . . Why shouldn’t I gc to the police?” Catherine’s nerves were raw. Her involuntary and instinctive response to Stephen Darrell, to his touch, his nearness, angered her. Reaction set in. She was in danger, so was Nicky, so were all of them, and

they would continue to be—until Mike’s murderer was found. Stephen said he had entered Mike’s apartment aftex Mike was dead—but what proof was there of that? If he was telling the truth, he wouldn’t be in any real danger. ... If he was telling the truth ... If he had returned the leopard simply and solely out of consideration for her. . . . Insidious little tongues of doubt began to strike at her venomously. She dropped down on the edge of the couch and lit a clgaret, and her doubt deepened and spread. Stephen Darrell did an about face. He did it easily, with nd sign of struggle, “t’erhaps you’re right,” he said musingly. "If I go to the police., the only thing I’ll probably accomplish will be to get thrown Into clink for meddling—and I can't say I fancy a sojourn behind bars—not just now." As there had been closeness between them a moment before, now there was distance, miles of it, cold and gray and obscure with fog. Catherine didn’t, couldn’t, believe that Stephen had killed Mike, yet his actions were peculiar. Everything circled around the leopard. He had looked at it, asked about it, during his visit the night before. Having established a mode of entry through the apartment below arid tap the fire escape, had he come back this afternoon and taken the leopard away? His waiting to see her tonight, his coming in when the police had gone, might be a deliberate attempt to seal her lips in case she should have become suspicious of him. ... Let him do as he pleased. She Wasn’t going to force a decision. She got up. ‘Tm tired," she said bluntly. “I want to go to bed.” 6 “Oh ... Yes, yes, of course. You must be Ured.” He was abiWAtted, occupied with other things. <To Be Continued)

I Bake in a moderate oven (350 F-) I for about 1 hout- and 10 minutes. Recipe makes 1 loaf of bread. Banana Fritters Melted fat 4 bananas • H cup sifted flour i Fritter batter I Have a deet> kettle about 2/3 still of melted fat. Heat until the I fat reaches a temperature of 375 degrees F. Peel the bananas and cut each one into 4 diagonal pieces. Roll in flour. Dip ih fritter batter and coat banana completely. Fry ih hot fat. this will take about 5 minutes. Turn frequently to ihsure even browning. Drain on paper toweling or on a rafck. Recipe serves 8. (Fritter Batter) 1 cup sifted, all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder I>4 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons melted shortening 14 cup sugar # 1 egg, well beaten % cup milk Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and Sugar. Combine egg, milk, and shortening. Add to dry ingredients and mix until the batter is smooth. (Note: this batter will be stiff.) You itiight like to know — 1. Banana.? can be kept from turning brown by dippiiig the slices in lemon, orange, pineapple, or grapefruit juice. 2. to flute bananas — run the prongs of a fork lengthwise down a pdeied banana, then cUt crosswise for scalloped-edgcd slices. 3. If yoU don’t want yOUr mashed bananas to darken, mash just before using. 4. Thete ate about three bananas to a pound. 3. If you want to ripen bananas, keep them in a fruit bowl at room temperature. The sohg is right — “never put banaieao in the refrigerator.” — o — Briefs From County Extension Office the PUrdUe Periscope, a house organ going to agricultural extension Workers, states agents should “enedurage dairymen to Use artificial breeding.” Tljis is the heavy breeding period for dairy cows. Every artificial breeding association should be encouraged to build up their membership. Results now are very encouraging. The latest reports show that for October, on a 30 to 60 day nonreturn. 54 percent of cows are not ■■ ■ ——, - _ —■■■■ A-

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN STEPHEN took his elbow off the desk, stood erect and looked at Catherine thoughtfully. "We'll have to decide something ... Suppose we leave it at this—if the police annoy you, seriously, [i’ll tell them about the leopard land how it got back here. If they don’t, we’U let it ride for the time being. That al) right with you?” Catherine tucked in a strand of hair, brushed ash from a fold of her skirt. Anything was all right that relieved her of this man’s presence, from the drive and press of the terrible questions that kept reiterating themselves in spite of the plausiblfe Story he had told. She said that that was perfectly all fight as far as she was concerned, and then Stephen went, as he had come, up the steps and through the glass door leading to the terraee and the fire escape, saying good night absently, and admonishing her to lock both door and windows after him. Catherifie did, and went wearily into her bedroom. Outside on the landing, the detective. who had been standing with an ear pressed to ohe of the panels of the crooked white door, straightened and stretched and made for the stairs. Half an hour later in his long narrow office on the fourth floor of the 11th Pfecihct, McKee listened to a detailed account of what had taken place in Catherine Lister’s living room after his own departure, with thoughtful attention. He hadh’t so much foreseen what had occurred as predicated its possibility. Fire escapes as a means of entry and exit to and from New York domiciles were too usual to be overlooked, which whs why he had placed men in the dark garden in the rear of the little on Lorilard Place as weM as at the front. When Stephen Darrell, after letting himself down cautiously by his hands from the first-floor fire escape onto a pocket handkerchief of withered grass, left the premises via a fence, another back yard and the adjoining street, two shadows moved unobtrusively in his wake. Darfeil went directly home to his rooms on East Tenth Street. One of the shadows, first-grade Detective Neubert, said over the phone to McKee, “He's there now —grab him, Inspector?’’ The Scotsman deliberated, his gaze somber oh a handful of scattered reports that told remarkably little. The entire case had a queer feel to it, was elliptical, ffagmen- ! tary, incomplete, as though it were | part of a larger story, torn from 1 its context. They had to have the [ whole thing. Action, by one or more of the participajits, might give them a lead, it Was worth a try. He said into the receiver, “No, leave Darrell alone, but don’t lose him, on your life,” and dropped the Instrument into its cradle. He had already detected the hole in Horace Findlater’s statement. Michael Nye’s apartment had been unguarded for perhaps three of four minutes after Catherine Lister fled it and while FindlAtei wfe at his own telephone calling the

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returning for Service. With first and second services combined, it shows that 78 out of every 100 cows afe not returning for service. The preliminary report for November shows 61 percen' non-return. This is about equal to natural service. As of January 1, 1&48. thete were 4,798 members in cbOpCi-ative artificial breeding associations, with 35,140 cows enrolled and have bted 17,101 ddws. This has been accomplished in about eight months of operation. Present results are gOod enough that there should be no hesitency in building up your membership now. —o Report Boost In Cigaret Smoking Washington. Feb. 27 — (UP) — Cigaret smoking among Americans increased about 100 percent during World War 11, the treasury estimated today. The increase was about the same in Worldf'War I, the treasury said in a study of tobacco tax?es. The report said Americans in 1946 .smoked 350,038,100,000 cigarets —about 2,324 for each man. woman and child. In 1915 before World

police. Stephen Darrell could have entered Nye’s apartment for the first time after Nye had been killed. He could also have been behind the studio curtains when Catherine Lister went in, could have turned off the lights, taking the leopard with him when he went then, instead of later . . . If the first was true, McKee reflected, if Darrell had had no hand in Nye’s elimination, he was an altruistic as well as a daring and resourceful gentleman to have run the risk of becoming an accessory after the fact of murder for the sake of a girl who was engaged to another man. The Scotsman drummed restless flhgers on the desk top, looked at a dark slice of low night sky. There was more to Stephen Darrell’s maneuverings than that, more than he had been told, to the activities of the other people so far involved. He took the problem home With him, Slept on it restlessly without enlightenment, and then, on the following afternooh, through nn effort of his own, he was presented with what had so far been missing —the real McCoy, a cold, hard, practical, concrete motive for murder. Twenty thousand dollars in bearer bonds had been stolen from Michael Nye’s apartment after 9:35 p. m. the night before. “As I say, Inspector,” lying back 12 an Immense green-leather chair, Mr. Jonathan Leigh Harris, senior partner of Harns, Fanshaw, Greyson. Skillfull and Harris, went on gently swinging his pince nez in the study of his apartrhent on upper Park Avenue, “that’s about all I can tell you. I don’t know where the bonds were originally; 1 dot! t krioW what subsequently happened to therh. I simply know that Michael Nye recovered possession of thetn some time late yesterday and that he intended to turn them over this morning.” It was enough. It was by no means as good as a feast because they had to have a great deal more. But still it was no famine of information. Harris was coexecutOr with Michael Nye of the late John Wardwell’s estate. McKee said, "Let me get it straight, Mr. Harris, Five days ago, the income-tax people called your attention to the fact that there was a discrepancy in the return on John Wardwell’s tax payment statement for the year nineteen forty-three.” The lawyer said, “That’s right. Keep in mind that John was dead that he died in December and that we, Mike Nye and myself as his executors, gave what we thought was a true rendition of his assets. We declared everything we found. The tax people contend that John was ih possession of a hundred thousand dollars worth of timse Particular bonds at the beginning of that year, and that his record! showed no sale, assignment or gift of two of the bonds, In the total amount of twenty thousand dollars, to any other person or person©. “A* sooh as these meat, M? JeL Mr ' Bmit * »- jternal Revenue, came to me, I got

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ih touch with Mike Nye. It Imliß doing. He was in New Mexico. l|B finally got him on the phone. Htß was going on to Washington di-B rect. Instead he stopped over itß New York. He came to my officeß yesterday afternoon. We talkeiß the matter over. Nye was faiß closer to John than I was, morelH familiar with his routine, his as-B fairs. He said he’d look into Itß and let me know what he found'B Harris polished his glasses witlilß the fold of a white handkercWetlß “That was at about five o'clock.® At—l believe it was around nine-B thirty-five last night, Nye callee 1 me. I wasn’t in. My wife took the I message. Nye asked her to tell'l me that he had recovered the miss-1 ing bonds and that he'd see meil this morning. And this morning I »» The gray-faced lawyer shook his head sadly. “Shocking thing, shock-1 ing. Don’t know what the world's coming to. Disorder everywhere. You han’t pick up a news’papet without coming on a halt dozen I horrible crimes. . . . Someone, some I thief, who knew Nye had the bonds got into his apartment and killed B him for them. They're practically | McKee said, “Yes, I'm convinced ] the bonds were in the envelope ] Miss Lister Saw on his desk when ] she first entered the living room | and found him. I don’t think there I can be any doubt of that.” | Harris agreed. He hemmed and I hawed. “You—eh—think the thief I and—eh—murderer—was in the I apartment when the girl went in" I You don’t—eh—suspect her per-; I sonaliy I Suspect? McKee groaned in- I wardly. Catherine Lister « s I hanging onto her freedom by her I eyelashes. Before Harris called I him, before he had come here, he I had been subjected to a heavy I barrage. Eveh the Commissioner. I and Carey was naturally a can- I tidus man, had opened up. " I; I looks like the girl, McKee. I’m I afraid it does.” I McKee said, "No, I don’t agree I —or at least I’m not convinced, I and asked for time. A small I amount of it had been conceded W I him grudgingly. I The bonds put another face on things. They at once widened and narrowed the field. Everyone who had been in Nye’s apartment the evening before—and so could have | had access to Nye’s key —was under suspicion. Any one of them cohld have entered silently to killThere had been no quarrel, no disturbance. Michael Nye was seated peacefully at his desk when those blows were struck from behind As far as means was concerned. Angela Wardwell could have done* it. The idea was far fetched. You dldn'2 kill a man you were about to take as a husband without ap-> parent reason. Nevertheless, there it was. Now, if the bonds webimportant, if Nye had been killed to gain possession of them, she couldn’t possibly be the perpetra-' tor. The recovered bonds were her property. John Wardwell had left her his entire estate with the excaption of a hundred thousand apiece to his niece and nephew, Hat and Tom La Mott. . (To Be Continued) _