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MjJIN him TODAY . elderly rousin of LINDA A\ERHILL. fails to hi* desth ! r ,™ *' co ? d , fl ?° r balcony ol the Aterill* Long Island home *'“ d * *? ,che * him Just before he does. In time to hear him gasp, "He pushed me— r Linda realizing her cousin had tried to tell her he was murdered, rushes upu ?A T '\. l he balcony. Someone steps behind her, tries to strangle her and she falls In a faint. Her husband TOM. p *** her fall and rushes to her. There are four guests in the house _.appear. The guests are: MR STATLANDER business associate of Tom s; CAPTAIN DE VOS. handsome Belgian: MARVIN PRATT, former U'J.L'LU.'!* and LIaN BHAUGHNESSEY. jrlsh writer. Each of them has quarreled with cousin Amos. DR PARSONS takes charge It 1* assumed cousin Amos’ death was accidental and that Linda fainted from shock. When she is Anally able to tell Tom w_hat happened, she persuades him that they must keep the four guests with them until they discover who is the murderer. They are unexpectedly aided in thla plan when DR. BOYLE, official medical examiner, rends word that every one in the house must remain until he has questioned them Bovle is on a Ashing trip and can not return for several hours De Vos has an engagement for the afternoon with prettv ELEUR STONER. Tom Is to talk business with De Vos. Linda decides to see what she can And out, from Pratt, who was Arst to reach her after she fainted NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER NINETEEN (Continued; “I know.” Tom looked around the quiet lawn, up at the grave house. ‘ But now I want to sell White Haven more than ever.” “Yes. When this is all over.” "And it's barely started. What's the present status? Marvin seems to lye your first victim.’’ “By process of elimination. I couldn't actually make him promise to .join me here when he came back from taking Mr. De Vos to the Stoners. “But you'll be there with Mr. Statlander—isn't he a demon for graphs and averages?-and you can steer him out on the lawn. Marvin, I mean.” “Shaughnessey's been stifling yawns ever since he came over from the garage. I can guess how much writing he'll do.” Evidently Tom had much the same opinion as she of this guest’s good intentions. “So obviously Pratt’s elected.” a a a WITHOUT his being able to help it, Tom's voice was colored by annoyance. Linda chose to ignore it. “There’s something very much on his mind, Tom, I admit. He doesn't act exactly guilty, but he does act queer. First we thought I was the only one he wanted to talk to, but now he ducks me every chance he gets.” “I noticed that. He was reluctant as the devil even to make ordinary conversation with you. At half a chance he'd bolt the place.” “He'll bear watching—and yet I honestly don’t think—” “This is what you must find out, Linda.” Tom spoke quickly and seriously. ‘‘What happened between him and Cousin Amos when he stopped on his way downstairs last night? "Why was he so standoffish at the dance, even to you? Did he go to bed as soon as he went to his room this morning? How did he happen to hear you fall and not hear Cousin Amos and the ruction before that?” Tom looked at his watch. “Statlander will be down any moment, Binks. Stay here if you can till we are through. You’re in plain sight from the house and the kitchen and the bay. “No that I think anything will happen, but its’ just as well— I’ve locked Cousin Amos’ room—locked the casement from inside and then the door into the hall. No one could get in, either from the hall or from the balcony. “Later, w'e must look in there in case there’s any evidence, but don’t let any one else go in. And if any one asks to, on any excuse, be sure to tell me. But above all, don’t go off the place! That’s serious, Linda!” CHAPTER TWENTY a f l uick P rpssure of his W hand, Tom turned away. Linda watched him cross the brief stretch of lawn, heard his brisk step on the stone flags and saw him vanish through the casement window. She suddenly was glad that, though she could not see him, he would be there near the window and facing toward the lawn, apparently absorbed in solemn figures and reports. but constantly, she was sure, glancing out to where she sat in plain view and only a step away from help—if help were needed.

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| Yet she was, after all, alone. Alone and forced to wait, with apparent calm, for something impossible to imagine in advance. Yes, waiting was hardest of all. She could bear anything better. It must have been quite ten minutes | since Tom left her—longer since her guests scattered, after luncheon, to their different occupations. The house stood silent and calm. Thoughtful hands had straightened | the spindles or the balcony apd adl justed the top rail so that the effect was much as always. Cousin Amos was gone, oblit- ; crated, the very evidence of his death removed, and all that was left of the old man had been taken from her house, unobtrusively, almost furtively. j No, Cousin Amos was not forgotten. As Linda dropped her eyes from the balcony to which she had raised them in a mute pledge she saw Marvin Pratt come through the casement and look about him. She knew he could see her perfectly well in the decorative green wicker chair by the clump of bushes, and she waited, apparently indolent, but inwardly tense, for him ; to come toward her—for her first ordeal. tt an \ ND it proved an ordeal indeed. eV Marvin came, at last, but came as though under orders which he only obeyed reluctantly. Certainly he deliberately held her off, refusing to be led into any friendly, reminiscent chat. But finally, with a curious,

Contract Bridge

BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge league TO those interested in using the one over one system of contract bidding, I again want to emphasize the importance of the sound original first and second hand suit bids of one. There is a theory among some authorities that it pays to get a bid early, to get the jump upon your opponents. This theory might have worked out well in aution bridge, but it certainly is most unsound for contract. To start with, at contract you really are not interested in your opponents. Your most important thought is whether .you and your partner can make a game or a slam, and while defensive bidding plays its part in contract bridge, offensive bidding is by far the more important.' If you and your partner hold high cards and the opponents bid too much, you are bound to set them, and it is seldom that they will escape being doubled when it is possible to set them two or more tricks, due to the fact that you might have passed some defensive strength first or second hand. n a tt I CAN NOT impress upon you too strongly the importance of not opening first or second hand unless you have a definite re-bid. This is the true success of contract bridge—laying a sound foundation upon which you and your partner can build a game or a slam contract. Many of you have been accustomed to picking up your hand at contract, looking to see if you had the required number of high card tricks and a biddable suit and immediately making an opening bid. May I ask you to study your hand along an entirely different line after thus? Supposing you held the following hand: Spades—A-K-7 -2 Hearts—A-4-3-2 Diamonds—s-3 Clubs—4 3-2 The old procedure would be as follows. We would find— First—That the hand contained three high-card tricks. Second —That the hand contains a biddable spade suit. This, you might say, meets the requirement for an original suit bid of one. However, you are wrong—you must go further. ana REMEMBER that you are # bidding for your partner and not against your opponents, so analyze the hand further as follows: If I bid one spade and my partner

wrenching effort, he himself brought their desultory talk straight to the subject uppermost in her mind. ‘Linda, let me ask you—your cousin, Mr. Peabody—was he a very close connection?” ‘‘A very distant one,” she answered, inwardly alert, but speaking casually. “He was my mother’s second cousin. You know she died when I was a child and I lived with dad's family. “That New England branch of mother’s kept sort of a dusty-eye on me. Wrote at birthdays and sent presents (improving ones) and when any of them were in town, which wasn't often, came to see me. After dad died. Cousin Amos sister asked me to come live with her, but she was much relieved when I went to work and stayed in New York instead. “I visited her once or twice—she had a lovely old place at Marblehead—and met Cousin Arnos there.” ‘‘Then Mr. Peabody had no very intimate acquaintance with you?” “Indeed it was very slight!” Linda almost laughed. “Poor man! He violently disapproved of having his sacred routine interrupted. “The few times I did visit Marblehead he usually managed to be called back to town. And I had about as much fondness for his oldfashioned ways as he had for my disturbing influence.” “But he visited you here. After all, he felt free to come uninvited.”

bids one no trump, what shall I do? Well, to be frank, there isn’t much that you could do about it. You are not in position to allow him to play the hand at one no trump; you can not rebid spades, as that would show a fivecard suit; so, while your hand contains the necessary number of high cards and a biddable suit, it does not contain a definite rebid and therefore should be passed first or second hand. Os course, the hand should be opened in either third or fourth position, as here we are not required to have a rebid. I will continue this discussion of opening bids with you in the next article. (CoovriKht. 1932. NEA Service. Inc.) mi AW BY BRUCi CATTGN “T^ LOWERING WILDERNESSES,” .t 1 by John Galsworthy, is a book remarkable chiefly for its strange atmosphere of unreality. It is unreal, probably, because it gives* with painstaking minuteness, a picture of a society and a code which have vanished. It deals with values which no longer are current. Its people seem as out of place in the present age as the conquistadors of old Mexico. The novel concerns itself chiefly with Dinny Charwell, daughter of an incredibly aristocratic English family. Dinny falls in love with a man who just has returned from ten years in Arabia and its environs, a hectic young poet who, it develops, has sinned against the code. What the young man did, you see, was this: A fanatical Arab captured him and vowed to kill him unless he accepted Mohammedanism. Since the lad long since had given up the last vestiges of his faith in any religion. he quite sensibly complied and saved his life. But when news of it reached upperclass London, there was a terrible fuss. He had ‘let England down”; he had failed to be a “pukka sahib.” Hi- club forced him to resign. A horse-breeding country gentleman tried to horsewhip him. Dinny’s family almost died of shame. And in the end he found that he himself couldn’t live it down; so Dinny’s romance went to pot, but England’s honor, or something, was avenged. Published by Scribner’s, the book is priced at $2.50.

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TARZAN THE UNTAMED

A week after the voyage’s disaster, Pat and her loved father were reunited in the marine hospital at Bombay. The dnfting raft had finally been sighted and. none the worse, men and girl landed safely in India, where

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LINDA looked at him in astonishment. "I suppose that would seem a sign of intimacy. But the important thing to Cousin Amos was that he was caught over a holiday week-end. “I might as well be honest. He probably invited himself here simply to save hotel bills. He was cannier than any Scotsman and would have gone anywhere to cadge a few days’ lodging. I happened to be the victim this time. “He may have tried other people he knew better and found them full up over the Fourth. So he calmly overlooked the fact that he never did like me very -well—nor I him.” Marvins mouth set in its hardest, narrowest lines. “I wish I had known that yesterday,” he muttered. “My God—why didn’t you tell me?” “Tell you what?” Linda forced herself to be natural, even humor -

OUR BOARDING HOUSE

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the presence of nis daughter helped quickly to restore Ronald Canby’s health. A fortnight later they started for Jodhpur. Along the way the teeming country's curious life and customs fascinated the English girl, and when

ous, though instantly she felt the surge of a strange, suppressed emotion—too strong, one would say, for the occasion which aroused it. Her question confused him no- ! ticeably. “Why—well—that you weren't very close to each other.” “What difference would it have made to you if I had?” Try as she would she could not make the words quite casual—suspense seemed :to quiver between them, on the quivering heat waves of the hot afternoon air. Marvin spoke as though under unbearable compulsion. “Difference—difference! I thought j you saw him often, talked to him ; intimately. He said—that he—he | was an older relative—your father wasn’t alive—that he could—would | advise you—• I “I thought that perhaps even last

night, after the dance, you'd slip into his room to say good-night—-perhaps to talk a little—” “Heavens, no, MarvinJ I'd never have thought of such a thing.” “You didn't see him then? You didn't go to his room—or he come to yours? You didn't talk—about—” a a a about,” Marvin?’ She * * spoke the moment he paused. This was vital. Never had she felt anything so important as what was coming. If she could wring it from him! “About—about—” Terrible to watch that conflict going on before her very eyes! Something to sup- • press, something fighting to be said! "Linda!” It was a cry from the depths. “I can’t tell you—but if ! I’d known—if I'd known—l needn't

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at last they reached the remote outpost which her father wa3 to command, she already loved this new home and, youth-like, had forgotten the almost tragic experience on the Indian ocean, in the joys of the present.

have—we wouldn't—when he said— ’’ A black surge (Was it anger or remorse?) seemed to wrench through his body and. beating down on the yielding turf, he struck his fist against the metal support, of a little iron table so violently that his knuckles showed raw and bleeding. Aghast, Linda sat silent. She dared not question. She held her breast lest any sound or movement distract him. If the threatened outburst came, she might learn so much! But Marvin gained a measure ol control and, though he muttered i sullenly, she caught a note of apology in words that only repeated what he had already said. “I thought he was very close to you. You seemed so fond of him. But you're friendly and —and good to every one. I should have seen—

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or asked you. If I had known 1? t night—” Again that black surge—it seemed pure anger—as he pounded the earth beside him. Suddenly, h-? was erect beside her, standing with one quick electrical contraction of his strong muscles. “But that was—last night." His strong jaw set in iron control. “I beg your pardon. Linda. This was ail very unnecessar} 7 .” a a a C® Me as ar.vf he found he could not avoid her. “He said—what, Marvin?” Her eyes met his steadily. It was not always easy to see deep into Mar- } vin’s eyes, but this time she felt she held him and could hold him. (To Be Continued)

—By Edgar Rice Burroughs w

For awhile, growing used to her strange, new surroundings occupied Pat’s time. A native woman and men servants made Jife easy in the comfortable house, and months passed serene and happily for her until one shocking iummer evening.

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