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STORY FROM THE START
Dr. Ronald McAlister, psychol-
ogist, undertakes to solve the
mystery of the murder of a re-
cluse, Henry Morgan. The dead
man’s papers reveal that he had
been in New Zealand, where Mc-
Alister had lived in his youth.
Will Harvey testifies to seeing a
woman in a green cloak at the
Morgan home tire night of the
murder. Doctor McAlister Is
asked to see a young woman pa-
tient In a hospital. In her de-
lirium she mutters In a strange
language which only McAlister
understands. He suspects she
may know something of the mur-
der. A carefully hidden map is
discovered by McAlister and As-
sistant District Attorney Ashton
In Morgan’s home. While they
are searching a young woman
enters the house In the darkness
and escapes, leaving behind a
green cloak. The name of Jane
Perkins, a housemaid, is brought
into the case and McAlister be-
lieves he has a clue. In response
to an advertisement of the find-
ing of a green cloak, a young
woman, giving her name as Jane
Perkins, housemaid at The Mere-
dith, claims it. McAlister takes
two laboratory instruments to
The Meredith for an undisclosed
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Mr. Ashton and otherwise, to shield
her.”
“That’s very good of you, sir,” said
Wilkins. “I’ll see that she’s sent up
to your room the moment you have
finished dinner.”
There was another little silence;
still Wilkins kept his place beside our
table. Presently, after a little apolo-
getic cough, he spoke again.
“It strikes me, sir, that It might,
perhaps, be as well if the young wom-
an were not to know that'she was to
be questioned. If she is innocent, it
would only fluster her, and if she Is
guilty, it would give her time to pre-
pare herself. If you wish, I will ar-
range to have her sent to your apart-
ments, Instead of the regular cham-
bermaid who works upon that floor, to
prepare your bedrooms for the night
In that way she’ll suspect nothing.”
The, doctor glanced at him shrewdly.
“That was a very able suggestion, Wil-
kins. Thank you for making it.”
“Not at all, sir,” said Wilkins.
“For the present,” the doctor con-
cluded. “you will remember that you
CHAPTER VI—Continued
—9—
And yet his manner when he took
the chair that Wilkins placed for him.
and glanced over the menu card sud-
denly became leisurely and deliberate.
He had a little chat with Wilkins, tak-
ing the advice of that gastronomic
expert as seriously as if a good dinner
were the only subject that he felt the
slightest interest in just then.
The waiter got our order at last
and went away with it to the kitchen,
and Wilkins himself, with a grave in-
clination of the head, started to move
away, but the doctor called him back.
“I wonder, Wilkins,” he said,
“whether you can find out for me if
there is a chambermaid named Jane
Perkins employed in the hotel.”
The man shot a quick look of sur-
prise into the doctor’s face, a look
quite at variance with his ordinary
stiff immobility.
“Yes, sir, there is such a young
woman working here,” he said. “It
happens that I am acquainted with
her personally.”
“Ah,” shid the doctor in a tone of
satisfaction, “that simplifies matters.
I might have known that you would
be able to help me. Wilkins, it hap-
pens that I very much wish to have a
little conversation with that young
woman.”
Wilkins inclined his head gravely,
without a word.
“You’ll arrange It for me, won’t
you?” said the doctor. “I’d like to
have her sent to my room Immediately
after dinner.”
There was a momentary silence
after that. Both of us looked up in
some surprise that the man did not
answer. His face was unusually grave.
“I beg your pardon, sir,” he said
with a little hesitation; “I hope you’ll
forgive the liberty, but I have, as I
was saying, something of a personal
Interest in that young woman. I hope
she’s not in any difficulty, sir. I
hope that she has not been doing any-
thing that she shouldn’t have done.”
“I’m Inclined to think not,” said the
doctor, “but unless I am mistaken,
she’s in a difficulty.”
Wilkins said nothing, but his \ si-
lence was expectant. He was too well
trained to ask any questions, but it
was Very evident that he wanted te
know more.
“I think I may venture to be frank
with you, Wilkins,” the doctor re-
sumed. “Of course what I say is be-
tween ourselves, and I want your
promise to say nothing of it to the
young woman in question.”
“Yes, sir; certainly, sir.”
“In the investigation of the Oak
Ridge murder the other night a cer-
tain green cloak was found, which in
the state attorney’s office, Is believed
to have been worn by an unknown
woman who committed that crime.
That cloak was advertised as found,
In the afternoon papers, and was al-
most immediately claimed and identi-
fied beyond a doubt by this Jane Per-
kins, who gave The Meredith as her
address—”
“She didn’t do it, sir,” Wilkins inter-
rupted quickly. “I’m sure she can’t
be guilty of the crime of murder. She’s
a very quiet girl, sir—a good girl.”
“I have made a little investigation
of that mystery on my own account,”
said the doctor, “and I’m inclined to
think you’re right. I should, however,
be glad to have some better founded
reason for that opinion. There are
certain circumstances which point at
her directly enough to bring her under
serious suspicion and to make her a
good deal of trouble. If Mr. Phelps
and I can convince ourselves, in ad-
rance, of her innocence, we will gladly
do all that is within our’ power, both
In representations we will make to
Sur-
The Man Shot a Quick Look of
prise Into the Doctor's Face.
are to say nothing of this conversa-
tion to anyone, either to the other
people in the hotel, or to—Mr. Ash-
ton.”
“Certainly not, sir.”
The arrival of some other people in
the dining- room called him away just
then, and we did not see him again
until we were half through our meal.
Then, looking up, we found him stand-
ing, silently, ip his old place.
“The matter is arranged, sir,” he
said to the doctor. “The young per-
son Is at her own dinner just now,
but she’ll go up to attend to your
rooms in about half an hour.”
“Very good,” said the doctor. “We
can have our instruments ready by
1 can wait until I can leave the dining
room. That will be about eight-thirty,
sir. I’d be sorry to keep you waiting,
but she might be alarmed at any sort
of test, and she has a good deal of
confidence in me, sir.”
“Very good,” said the doctor, “only
don’t come up to the room with her.
Follow along later, on some errand or
other, and we’ll call you in. Perhaps
we’ll make a little demonstration on
you in advance, just to give her confi-
dence.”
A look of decorous amusement ap-
peared on Wilkins’ face.
“That will be very interesting, I’m
sure, sir,” he said. As he bowed him-
self away I could see that he was still
smiling.
“It’s curious,” I observed to the doc-
tor. “We’ve seen that man daily
since we came here to The Meredith
to live, but I got an absolutely new
impression of him this evening. It
never occurred to me before that
when he laid aside his professional
manner he might be a thoroughly hu-
man, kindly old chap, with as many
affections and concerns as any of us,
and with, perhaps, about the same
opinion of our reality as we have al-
ways had of his.”
“We’d better get on,” said the doc-
tor, suiting the action to the word.
“We haven’t any time to waste.”
As we walked over toward the ele-
vator Wilkins preceded us and rang
the bell for us, just as he always did.
I had it my tongue’s end to make
some reference to our- engagement
with him for a little later in the eve-
ning, not that it was necessary,, but
simply because it was more natural
to say, “In half, an hqur, then,” or
something of that sort, than merely
to nod and answer his good night. I
think he must have perceived that in-
tention, certainly he checked it by
looking, just then, a little more wood-
en and professional than ever. I un-
derstood when I glanced over t his
shoulder and saw that Ashton had just
come in. He was not looking our way.
Whether he had made a point, of not
looking, I do not know; but I was
glad that I had not blurted out, in
his hearing, any reference to the un-
usual and highly unprofessional sort
of engagement that the doctor and i
had with Wilkins.
“A rather remarkable man,” said I,
as we stepped into the elevator.
The doctor nodded.
A few minutes later, in the doctor’s
spacious sitting room where we had
set up our instruments and now sat
waiting for the arrival of the subject
we meant to test by them, we heard
a rap at the door.
“No timidity about that,” observed
the doctor in a whisper; “and no ef-
frontery, either. A plain, common-
sense, professional knock. Let her in,
will you, Phelps?”
It was with a mounting excitement
that I crossed the room and laid my
hand on the knob, for there, on the
other side of this door, was one ol
the elements of our mystery. What
would she prove to be? Another in-
nocent person, tangled by pure chance
in the spider’s web of circumstance
which surrounded our mystery; or
would she turn out to, be, herself, one
of the spinners of the web?
When I opened the door I got, In-
stantaneously, a very good view ol
the girl, for the sitting-room was
brightly lighted and the little en-
trance hallway where she stood com-
paratively dark. And that first look
of mine brought a. disappointment,
there was no doubt of that. I had
not known exactly what I had expect-
ed Jane Perkins to be like, but some-
thing different from this, certainly.
The whole look of her as she stood
there, an appearance so pervasive that
it baffled analysis, was of stolid stu-
pidity.
Her eyes were dull, her, cheeks a
very dark red, so that as I looked at
her first I suspected a perfectly reck-
less use of cosmetic. Of cohrse the
standard I compared her by was the
FORECASTS SMOKE
ALONG WITH FROST
th w . „ { wild girl in tlie hospital, for, upon the
At the word -‘instruments'- the man ^ do?tor,s ,heory of Harvey’s testimony,
started, and, looking up, I found him
regarding the doctor with a queer,
half-frightened expression.
“Speaking of instruments, sir,” he
said, stammering a little, “there isn’t
going to be any mesmerism, or—”
The doctor interrupted him with a
full-voiced laugh. “No hocus-pocus
whatever, Wilkins; no black art, no
clairvoyance, or anything of that sort.
The instruments I speak of simply
serve the purpose of a stop-watch,
and the test is a perfectly simple,
straightforward one.” -1
Then, seeing that the man was still
not entirely convinced, he added, “You
can be present yourself, if you care
to be.”
“That’s very good of you, sir,” said
the man. “On the young woman’s ac-
count I will be glad to come, if you
that wild girl’s profile had reminded
him forcibly of this English house-
maid. There was a crude sort of re-
semblance between the two faces—
the heavy brows and lashes, the black
hair and general contour of the fea-
tures. Indeed, the thing that occurred
to me as I stood there was the ridicu-
lous futility of written descriptions
of faces, when the same description
would include two people whose gen-
eral air and appearance were so dia-
metrically different.
I found it impossible to describe the
wildness and curious unearthly dis-
tinction of that other face; I found
it as difficult to analyze the tameness,
the commonplace banality of this one.
And yet, seen in silhouette, they
might look a good deal alike.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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Birds to Be Classed as Master Builders
Birds are the most perfect builders,
and—strange as it may sound—there
is scarcely a trade that you will not
find represented among these feath-
ered craftsmen.
Many of the nests of American birds
are marvels of ingenuity, but their
greatest efforts pale beside the won-
ders of the tropics. Weavers, carpen-
ters, tailors, plasterers, tunnelers—
these are but a few of the many
trades that we find practiced when
the nesting season arrives.
The sand-martin and the kingfisher,
both belong to the guild of tunnelers,
and are content with a burrowed hole.
Ducks, gulls, water hens, and corn-
crakes are all primitive builders, with
no ideas beyond a rough and scanty
collection of materials loosely thrown
together on the ground.
. The house swallow is a plasterer,
employing as his building materials
nothing more than mud, but out of
this he contrives to erect a nest that
is wonderfully strong, and put togeth-
er with neatness and care.
The singing thrush uses more varied
materials, a mixture of clay, cow ma-
nure, and moss, but well and truly
laid, and forming a splendid home for
the young birds.
That’s Philosophy
A pinlosopher' is a fellow who sits
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Synthetic Philosophy
The synthetic philosophy is the
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Lighting of Orchard Stoves
Is Announced.
Washington.—The weather bureau’s
frost forecasting service in the Pa-
cific coast fruit belt, which enables
orchardists to light their oil heaters
and save their crops, is being extend-
ed to “smoke” forecasting for the
benefit of near by. cities.
With the demonstration in recent
years of the amazing accuracy of the
frost forecasting service, which is
maintained jointly by the weather
bureau and the orchardists, confidence
in the artificial heating of orchards
has grown until now it is utilized on
a tremendous scale.
In the citrus industries aldne, which
brings California $100,000,000 a year,
2,500,000 oil heaters are. used to pro-
tect about 50,000 acres of orange and
lemon trees. Although these heaters
have been greatly improved in the last
few years, they give off clouds of soot
which, drifting into cities, cause , an-
guish to housewives and financial loss
to merchants.
Makes Best of Smoke.
Although thousands of suggestions
have been made and numerous pat-
ents obtained, the records in the of-
fice of J. B. Kincer, chief of the di-
vision -of agricultural meteorology of
the weather bureau, show no satis-
factory substitute for the oil heaters.
So the new smoke forecasting service
has been undertaken to make the best
of what appears to be a necessary
evil. _
The frost and smoke forecasts are
issued late in the day whenever dan-
gerous temperatures are indicated
and are distributed by telephone and
radio in ample time to permit the or-
chardists to light their heaters.
Eight experts are employed in this
forecasting, under the direction of F.
D. Young, the meteorologist who be-
gan if single handed. They base their
calculations on study of the regular
daily weather map in conjunction
with a hygrometric formula which
takes into consideration local humid-
ity and temperature conditions.
Proves Highly Accurate.
In one season, during which he is-
sued 96 forecasts, Young has been
within two degrees of accuracy 94 per
cent of the time. Many of his warn-
ings predicted low temperatures in
terms of fractions—27y2 degrees, for
instance—and 68 of the 96 were pre-
cisely accurate, while 15 others were
less than one degree away from the
actual point at which the mercury
stopped descending in the thermome-
ter. His largest error in that ypar
was five degrees, and that is one inci-
dent in his life which he finds it hard
to forget.
Most of the cold snaps which
threaten the California fruit crop de-
velop when an area of low pressure
moves out of Arizona or southern
California and an era of high pres-
sure from Nevada swings in. The
frost forecasters remain in this re-
gion until the danger passes in Feb-
ruary, and then they move north into
the deciduous fruit section of Wash-
ington and Oregon.
Sand Turned Into .Gems
Before Spectators’ Eyes
Paris.—With nothing of the faker
characteristics about his demonstra-
tions, George Claude, eminent French
scientist, recently amazed an audience
at Fountainebleau by turning a hand-
ful of sand, into precious stones, turn-
ing iron into a state resembling melt-
ed chocolate, and after depriving flow-
ers of their tints turning them into
the consistency of glass.
M. Claude used no trickery to per-
form his wonderful transformations.
Oxygen was the vehicle, and it bub-
bled in a tube on a table near him.
M. Claude explained many things
to his audience; how the sea could be
turned into many millions of pounds
of horse-power; that water which
boils is not necessarily burning; that
little mounds of sand, by a single whiff
of the blowpipe, could be changed
into sapphires, rubies and topazes,
and he predicted the time when it will
be possible for men to walk on the
bottom of the ocean minus the diver's
equipment.
Finally, the scientist amazed his on-
lookers by turning their faces black
by taking the red out of the sun’s
rays.
Man Without Country
Wants Status Changed
Greensboro, N. C.—J. G. Scherf, for-
mer Concord business man, now resid-
ing in Andalusia, Ala., is a man with-
out a country and is seeking naturali-
zation in the Federal court here to un-
ravel the tangle. His parents were
native-born Americans, residents of
California, but when Scherf was born
they were residing in Germany. Scherf
later came to this country, but sup-
posed he was not a citizen, due to
his foreign birth.
Some time ago he applied to the
Federal court and asked for natural-
ization papers. When the facts were
presented the papers were denied him
on the ground that he was a child of
American citizens and was a citizen
himself in spite of his foreign birth.
Last summer, however, Scherf wanted
to attend the meeting of the Rotary
International at Ostend. Belgium, and
applied to Washington for a passport.
It was refused him on tlie ground that
he was not an American citizen. Now
lie is wondering just who he is and
is again before the Federal court in
an effort to establish his citizenry.
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