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WJKUNE5UAY, AUGUST 17, 1935. NINE TMC MAX SALTMARSHj The Characters Stem, keadsome author, OA the French Arekle Lmmiitn. myself, friend. Kene a sirtytlerly tiit- 1 ecrtoonut. Cms it alibied for the nttrder of the Kosneqtcts.

Monet, cad Ac An ericas detective, ODooceU. by a ct hit home. Chapter Seven Jean-Francois 4 HE next rsorehsg as I was eat- J- ing breakfast on the terrace, Hugo came towards me. an unlit pipe between bis teeth, his face somber. The police chief wants us down at the town hall at noon." he went on.

"I've just been talking to him on the phone. The examining magistrate arrived from Grasse at some unearthly hour this morning. Now he proposes to put us all through the hoop." He broke off to pack some tobacco into his pipe. "I don't think we need worry about the inquiry," he added rather dubiously, "so long as we stick to the truth and nothing but the truth, but not quite the whole truth--which means that I'm still not mentioning the message O'Donnell left for me. I know the French police.

devilish sharp, but they're suspicious by nature and still more suspicious by cultivated habit of i thought, as witness their Code Napoleon, which considers a man guilty until he can prove himself innocent If I mentioned Pat's message, I should have to tell them the contents of it, and the 'desperately urgent--counting on you' bit would at once make them smell something fishy." He paused to apply a match to his pipe. "Fve warned Penelope to keep her mouth shut about the message," he, "and there the matter ends until I've discovered what poor Pat meant by it" I stared at him. "Am I to take it from that, that you're proposing to carry out an independent investigation into O'Donnell's death?" "Just he agreed grimly. "As far as the local authorities are aware, O'Donnell was a bond- salesman, presumably on a vacation, but I'm taking a run in the car this afternoon across the Italian frontier. I know a fellow in New York who was a close friend of Pat's and I'll send him a cable from Ventimiglia, reporting his death.

He'll know what to do about it If Pat was over here on business, ifs probable his firm will send someone over to investigate and finish off the job. but if 11 be a matlzr of ten days before he can arrive, and meanwhile the scent'll be cold. I intend to carry on myself in the meantime, though I'll be working pretty much in the dark. Archie--" He swung round on me suddenly. ''Are you dead set on finishing yur yachting trip? t'd be uncommonly glad if you'd sray on here to give me a hand, iifter all, you took that girl's death to heart and I've a strong feeling the two crimes are connected." I hesitated.

Mark Lumsden would, I knew, be more than annoyed if I did as Hugo asked, for we had planned this trip on his little ketch for over a year. But on the other hand, there were two other fellows on board, so that I should in no sense be leaving him in the lurch, and even as the last excusing thought came to me, I knew that I had decided. "All right" I said, 'Til stay," and felt as I spoke the words a queer, premonitory tingle, half a half excitement run through me. "Good man!" said he, and held out a muscular hand. "Shake on it!" He broke off sharply, gave a sudden, inarticulate howl of rage, and swung has legs over the balustrade.

Next instant from the lower came sounds closely resembling a dog-fight I disentangled myself from my breakfast table and.in two strides was at the marble rail, peering over. For a moment all I could see were two struggling bodies, one in red and black, the other in dingy gray, rolling over and over at the foot of a gnarled and -cient olive tree: but as I looked they disentangled themselves and Hugo got to his feet dragging with him by the coat-collar a crumo 1 ed figure. 'A Little Investigating' kTT WAS a young lad, hardly more than a boy, with a sallow, hand- fsome face, long, sloe-like eyes, and a mop of ruffled black hair, and to my surprise he made no effort to struggle against the rough-house he was going through, but hung limp" in Hugo's hands, making what appeared to be deprecating and conciliatory noises. 'Tardon, monsieur," he gasped. "I beg of you to let me go! I apologize for the intrusion." Hugo snorted with disgust "Another of these French reporters," he observed to me.

"Couldn't get in at the front and comes snooping round over the wall to see what he could eavesdrop." He swung back on the lad, raising a menacing fist "Be off with you now," he said warningly. "And make it snappy if you want to keep a whole seat to your 1 The lad looked from one to the other of us appealingly. "But monsieur." he implored, "one little is an I ask--one small photograph," and he stooped, agile as a monkey, but with a cautious eye on Hugo's foot and retrieved from the long grass something that I saw to be a bulky press-camera. "Just a minute," I said quickly. "Let me handle this, will you?" Hugo stared at nie.

"As you like." he agreed grudgingly, and added 02 a warning "bat watch your step. Archie. Don't give anything away." "Xoi on your life," reassured him. and I motioned to the lad to follow me along the terrace to the boundary wall. "Now then." I said.

"let's get this straightened out. What paper do you represent?" "The Marseille Sotr, icoesieur. 1 he answered nervously. "The Marseille Sotr?" I repeated. "Not a big paper.

I take it and this. I wouldn't wonder, is your first job?" He nodded. "I see." said "Your first big chance, and you would risk anything to make good. Well, now, just what did you want--a photograph or two?" "And a story, he said eagerly. "A small, little word! It would mean--" he drew himself up.

throwing out his puny chest-- my future--my career!" "Oho." said I. reflecting that the paper must indeed be a small one if it combined cameraman and reporter in one persoh, "well, see here, I've a proposition to make to you. I can't give you a story, but I might come to an arrangement with you. How much does your paper pay you?" He flushed at that "There is no regular emolument." he admitted. "It is a matter of commission." "Better and better," said 'Then you're a free-lance and your time is your own? I take it you would be able, if funds were available, to stay on here in Cannes-provided, of course, there was a storv to be written up at the end of the time?" He nodded vigorously.

His face was puzzled, but his eyes were brightly intelligent. "Well," I said, "the position is this. I may want certain information that I'm not in a position to obtain myself, and if, in the mean- tune, I allow you to take a photograph of me, and if, say for the next fortnight, I pay you a certain sum per day to enable you to stay on here. I take it that you'd be willing to do a little investigating for me in your spare tune?" The Red Delage HE boy stared at me, and for a moment I fancied there were tears in his eyes. "Monsieur." he said very solemnly, "I am your man, I.

Jean-Frangois Lubec! Though I am Marseillais, my grandmother lives in Cannes, and I know the town as I know this," and he kissed the back of his hand. "I can stay with her without comment and what you wish to know I can discover for "May it be so!" I assented piously. I presented him with a couple of hundred-franc notes. "That's for the first two days," I said. "You can meet me by the wall here every evening at, say, ten o'clock and report progress, and now take your blooming photograph and be -off with you--" He posed me with artistic care'- against the wall and 'did his stuff: and then, as he unslung his big instrument he looked up at me curiously.

"And the information, monsieur?" he asked. "What is the first inquiry to be?" "Just this," I told him. "I want you to find out whatever you can about Monsieur Rene Geiss: his habits of life, his domestic staff and arrangements, and his friends; and particularly I want to hear something about the party he was giving last night" He gave me another sharp upward look, full of comprehension. "Monsieur," he said softly, '1 will find out what I can, and especially I will try to find out where Monsieur Geiss was from the time he left his villa at ten-thirty last night until he returned to it at midnight" It was very still there on the sun-filled terrace among the olive trees. For an instant I stared at the lad; then I took a swift step forward and gripped him by the shoulder.

"And what the devil do you mean by that?" I demanded. He disengaged himself, grimacing with pain. "Nothing more than I said, but you understand that Monsieur Geiss is always news, and in the course of talk this morning with my confreres--" Again he threw out his chest proudly. "One mentioned that at half past ten last night he had seen Monsieur Geiss slip out on foot from the small garden door that leads into the l.jie at the side of his house. Then another colleague spoke up and said that he had seen Monsieur Geiss return in his car at midnight and leave it in the garage at the corner of the rue du Dragon, where he is accustomed to keep it I was sufficiently impressed by the discrepancy in the stories to offer a cigarette to the mechanic at the garage and heard from him that it wai so.

The car of Monsieur Geiss, a red Delage, was taken out by another gentleman, a dark gentleman of medium height--" here he eyed me oddly-- nine in the evening." "Jean-Francois," I said spleran- fyr "you're worth your weight in more than cigarettes. Get on with tne job. I feel, somehow, mat you don't need any more instructions from me." (Copyright. 15SS, Stcx Scltrr.cnh} Tomorrow: The Inquiry. In Hollywood THINGS HE SAW.

In his Good Morning Column in the Sun. the Bentztown Bard under the caption '-Things Noted In Passing Along The Maryland Ways" comments as follows. The large number of women you see the towns, many of them tourists from far-away States, wearing the babushka on their heads instead of hats. The largest iron weed blossom I have seen so far this season was in a ditch by the side the road just beyond West ship The fact that in the iotm of Brunswick, where there te much smoke rising over the llopes on which the town is built, 'rom the engines in the great railroad below, many homes are, surrounded by beautiful gardens, with flowers and shrubbery and evergreens in quiet settings. Lawns are green and tended and the shade trees are of great beauty iand symmetry and great variety.

One of the cleanest and quietest and jn many ways sweetest of the Western Maryland towns is the little village of Jefferson, just about halfway between Frederick and the Potomac on the road to Harpers Ferry. The loveliness western side of Howard county, across the wide sweep of rolling. BY PAL'L HAKR1SOX. XEA Service Staff Correspondent Hollywood. Aug.

16. the death of Fraachot movie career seem to have been greatly exaggerated. His present Metro contract expires Xov 4, but it's likely that be will siga another. Indeed, st's a pretty good bet that by Nov. 1 he will have begun another picture, "Dramatic School" vkith Luise Racier, The colony his been full of talk about Tone's with Hollywood and determination to desert it forever, having a fling at the Xew York stage oa the way to of his unhappy here True, he has beea rather badly and cist sa xoone poor and he has had unpleasant experiences trying camouflage h-s domestic cuities.

But Tone admits that he may continue to work in Hollywood The main difference be that his new comrae: must allow hi 1 tune for one play a year on Broadway. The first one. about the middle of the approaching season, has not been selected, but it probably will be for the Theater Guild. There's Critics Lurking In Them Woods. Miss Rainer, another whose marriage is in the process of dissolution.

expects to reach the stage this winter. She says she's reading scripts almost night and- day. Her vehicle must be chosen with special care, because the actress knows and admits that she's in a tough spot. When a two-time winner of the movies' Academy Award dares to pop up behind the foollight in Manhattan, she has GOT to be good. Theater critics with whetted Hollywood phobias will be lying in ambush behind every slick device of their trade.

Ramember what hapaeoed to Katharine Hepburn. In spite of the attention she has received here. Luise Rainer always has confessed a preference for the stage. She w.iil, of course, return here from Broadway. About all she is sure of concerning the eastern venture is that it must offer a leading role in a dramatic production--and not with the Group Theater, in which her estranged husband, Clifford Odets.

is a prominent figure. Incidentally, Miss Rainer has gained 10 pounds, looks fine, and says she's happier than she ever has been in her life. Always an adventurous motorist, she's taking flying lessons now. On Nov. 18 she will take her oath of citizenship.

"And then," she said, grinning, "I shall call all my friends and say. 'I am now American. You cannot any longer call me a foreigner'!" MOVIE SCRAPBOOK M. BEG. U.

S. PAT. OFf A IS NOW AM 'By Bill Porter and George Scarbo From football hero to movie hero has been the career of Allan I Lane real name is Harry Al- jbershait quit college to play professional football with the Cini tinnati Red.s went into stock 1 Cincinnati subbed for the leading man of a road company of Hit the Deck" finished the season with the show and wound I up in New York became inter- ested in commercial photography and formed a company of his own dissolved the company and came to Hollywood when discovered by a talent scout 6 feet tall. weighs IBS light brown curly hair and blue eyes. Flash! Actress Doesn't Want The Lead! Joan Crawford also is reading plays, and her new contract allows her three seven-month leaves of absence on Broadway during tne next five years.

Never having been identified with the stage, though, she doesn't feel that she should insist upon a leading role In fact, she'd prefer a second lead, or any substantial part, in a first-class production. That should impress the critics with her sincerity. Tracy Seems To Admire Miss Hayes There has been a good deal of speculation about Spencer Tracy's part-time return to the stage Broadway producers have been making him offers for five years. Tracy is willing enough, except that his Hollywood schedule simply makes the trek seem impossible. "Right now," he said, "I've got six definite assignments ahead of me here at Metro.

And only this morning I read in the trade papers that I'm going to be loaned out to 20th-Fox. "I don't know what leading lady they've got in mind for that Fox picture, but it had better be Shirley Temple. Anybody else would be an old character actress by the time I goU over to that studio Tracy says there's only one circumstance under which he'd battle for time off to work on Broadway. And that's a chance to work with Helen Hayes. "I her that when she was he recalled.

"I said that if she ever finds a part for me in one of her plays--even a butler's part, or anything I'll come a- Landing in Pago-Pago, which is American soil, an American must surrender his passport, just as entering a foreign country, and must also put up $100 as a guarantee of good behavior. "MODES of the MOMENT- rich farmland you way to Carroll. cross on the! Bolirar Bolivar, W. Va, Aug. Dean Gaver is quite sick at her i bom? on Camp Hill.

--Mr John has been quite sick his home oa Camp Hill. --Mrs Kreunandahl and Mus Laura Sloan, left re- osntsy for Hartford. Conn, where they will make their future home. Mrs Kreiautidtvat recently void her property in Bolivar --Mss Frances Zombro a week relatives in Washington --Mrs L. Mills and children, of spent several day the home of Mr.

and Mrs. C. Webb --Mrs. Charles Marlatte is Upending some lime on the Eastern Shore. i Dorothy Jones is con- valescing at her home on Camp Htll after quite sick.

i --Miss Burleith. of Har- pers Ferry, recently visited friends I in Baltimore. --Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nausser and little daughter, of Htgerstown.

recently visited at the home of Mrs. Nausser's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garland Delawter. on Camp HilL --Miss Janet Burkitt, of Harpers Ferry, spent a week with Mrs.

Mary Pagan in Washington. D. C. --Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Kedict-. Mrs. Ella Mae Mackley and Mrs. Myrtle Naille. of Harpers Ferry, spent a week-end with Mrs.

Naille's son. J. G. Naille. at Niagara Falls, N.

Y. They also spent several days in Buffalo and Canada --Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dill- mann. of Washington, were visi- I tors in town on Sunday afternoon.

--Mr. Charles Lane, who has been spending some time in China, is visiting his aunt. Miss Bessie Lane, who is spending some time at the Chambers property, in Bolivar. --Harry Barker spending sxjme time with relatives in Hagerstown. --Mrs.

James Elliott and two daughters, of Philadelphia, is vis- I itinR her parents. Mr. and Mrs John Sponsler. --Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Robertson, of Chevy Chase, visited at the home of Mrs. J. C. Newcomer recently. They were enroute to their home from Cleveland.

where they attended the American Bar Association meeting. --Mr. and Mrs. Martin R. Kelley.

of Spokane, have returned to their home after visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Longbrake in Brunswick, and Mr. and Mrs. J.

D. Grimes, in Bolivar. --Jimmy Littleton, of Washington, is visiting his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. Ramsdill. --Mrs. Florence Niskimmon and daughter.

Beatrice, spent a weekend in Cumberland. --Mr. and Mrs. Walter Crowl and daughter, of Brunswick, and Mrs. Jack Nodgrass.

of Caliz. were recent visitors at the home of Mrs. Fannie B. Loman. --Mr.

and Mrs. J. Mills and children, of Brunswick, accompanied by Mrs. G. E.

Webb, of Bolivar, spent a day at the home of Mr and Mrs. Douglas Thompson, near Hillsboro. Va. --Charles Noland is very much indisposed at his parent's home, suffering with a fractured ankle, sustained while he was playing baseball. --Mr.

John Haeffer and sister. Miss Hallie Haeffer, and Mrs Edith Boninni. of Washington, spent the week-end with their mother. Mrs. Belle Haeffer.

--Little Jackie Barker spent a week with relatives in Martinsburg. --Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Newcomer, of Hershey. Pa, spent a week at the home of the former's mother, Mrs.

J. Newcomer. --A special committee of the Woman's Club is sponsoring a parcel post sale to be held at the Club House on August 25. beginning at 7:30 o'clock p. m.

--Mr. and Mrs. Castleman. of Leesburg. who recently purchased "Brooklyn." known as "the Krepps property," have moved into it, after remodeling it both inside and out and greatly adding to its appearance Messrs.

M. R. Martin and George Farguhar, of New York ten days at the Newcomer home on Camp Hill. --Mr. and Mrs.

H. C. Stoutsen- berger Washington, spent a day What Is Your fNews I. Copperville Copperville. Aug Mr.

and Mrs Cnas. Bowers aci Misses Betty Bowers and Betty Forney ipeni a day Baltimore, --Mr. jifxi George Martel and Mary, near Taaey- tovin. are some time with Mrs. MarteS' relatives THJE FISH HAD FEATHEES Beaton.

HI. Aug. 17 cast for bass in Lake Moses and caught a loon. Toe bird took the hook while swimming under water after fish. Twelve years ago it required Garrett 6.666,666,666,667 German marks to i purdise one United Slates dol- Grace Spjagier aid son ar rnard, of Baltimore, ipen: a day Mrs 20.

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Who s. Dixie" 4 Wna: jute Sopator Barkley What state Senator Bulkley? 5. From what post-World War trt-aty does Hungary wish to be freed? Ansurrs on Last Pace --Mrs Vsrgse speat a day daughter Mrs. William Foreman, this place --Mr. William Schroeder and Marion Taylor and son.

of York, the Taneytown fair and pent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs Albert Smith, this place. --Mrs ROJJ spent a week; end with his family, this place, --Donald Weddle. of Thurnaont, ipent a day with Harold this Mr and Mrs I spent a day with Franklin Baker Mr. and Mrs.

Charle.s Deberry, this place. --Pine Mar Services closed Sunday evening with relatives in Harpers Ferry. --Mr Donald Eackles spent a week-end with friends in Washington. --Mr. and Mr H.

Shewbridge and Mr am! Ralph Harper of Germantown, Mel, spent a day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hackles. --Mrs Georgia McCanti has returned to her home in Baltimore, after visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs Herbert Benjamin --Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Kirby, of Silver Spring, visited relatives in Bolivar recently --Mrs. George L. Martin, of Charles Town, gave a farewell party at the home of Mrs. Gertrude and Mrs Arys Green recently.

In 'ionor of Mr 0 Rose Kreimnndahl and Miss Laura Sloan, who have gone to Hartford. Conn. Quite a number of friends were present. Refreshments wcic served. --Mr.

George Green visited friend 1 in Washington and Silver Spring recently. --The Friendship Fire company was called out recently to extinguish a fire in a chicken house at the home of a colored family, on Camp Hill. The building was destroyed, but other buildings were saved due to the timely arrival of the Fire company. --Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Reeves and daughter. Dorothy, of Washington, were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Eackles.

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