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A 2-IN-1 HOUSE
By EVELYN IRONS
New York.
The answer la that Locl took hla father's advice. He is not domiciled in
this country,
Ta price which is said Guinness
to be in the neigh bourhood of $225,000, yachtsman and skier Locl Guinness, son of the late Benjamin Guinness and former Tory MP for the city of Bath, has bought one of the most spectacular show houses in Aineries. Decora tors Bro HOW busy re. furnishing it.
The house cost its former
Listerine owner,
multi millionaire Gerald Lambert, a million dollars to build and equip eight years ago. It is at Palm Beach, Florida, and its name is Gemini. Behind the name lies a story.
Mr Lambert's second wife, Mrs Grace Lambert, wanted to live on the sea. Mr Lam. bert wanted to be on Lake Worth. So they chose a site down towards Delray, at Boynton Beach, where the area between ocean and lake was 80 Arrow as to over-
look both. There was, how. ever, in obstacle: the main ront to Miani ran through the middle..
The Twins
Although Who's Who gives like address is Lausanne, Switzer- hand, Loel Guinness has spent much of his life in America, and moves about from country to country. So aid his father, the late Benjamin Guinness, who went to America in the nineties, and became a prominent inter national banker and financier.
He was chainman
The NEW exploits of SHERLOCK HOLMES
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OUR conclusions are perfectly correct, my dear Watson," remarked my friend, Sherlock Holmes. "Squalor and poverty ars the natural matrix to crimes of violence," "Precisely so," I agreed. "Indeed, I was just think ing -----"”
1 broke off to stare at him in amazement. "Good heavens, Holmes," I cried, "this is too much. How could you possibly know my innermost thoughts!"
My friend leant back in his chair and, placing his fingertips together, surveyed me from under his heavy drooping eyelids.
"I would do better justice perhaps to my limited powers by of therofusing to answer your ques- rush and Foreign Trust, andton," he said, with many American chuckle. a director of empanies, but he retired from fair,
dry
"You have a certain Watson, fur concealing his Americas interests in 1920. your ilure to perceive the le contioued, however, to main- obvious by the cavalier manner bome in New York, and in which you invariably accept other In Switzerland, Frances the
expinuntion of a sequence and Londos.
simple but logical reasoning.
tandin
Before he died in 1947, he mado his son his sole heir.
Legal Battles
establish Swiss residence, or in his will, he advised hit try Parania, Auralla, or even to
Tumbuctoo, in any case, safe
uurd your freedom
12 at all times,""
was registered thuc hag
ever
in Switzerland, been made
The Lamberts' architect, Mr Marion Sims Weyth, of Palm Beach and New York,
bis son by a former marriage. got over the difficulty by The new chatelaine of Genni designing
remarkable 1 Mr Loel Guns's third "cottage" in two parts. wife, the former Princess Gloria
Faky,
On the ocean side is classical-style house
fluted pillars and a terrace overlooking private beach.
П
the
11
"[ do not new how logical reasoning con enable you to
| processes,
lost
year.
your mind
on
to
my
"The frown darkened on your face and uncon sclously you shook your head despondently. it was an association of ideas. Hugo's terrible sub- third stage, the winter cold of in the slums and, above the warm glow
Own modest fire, the
She and Guinness were may- with red in Antibes I 1051. His wide two yachts were anchored
the harbour,
Now they are preparing to ve into the house with two
of servants, poverty fronts, twu staffs two private beaches, und
On the other side of the
road is another house with a
handsome loggia and swim- swimming pool,
ming pool overlooking the
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by ADRIAN
CONAN DOYLE
week
The change from my bachelor existence as a half-pay ox-Army surgeon into the state of wedded bliss had not been accomplished without some uncalled for and of our tronic commezils from Sherlock bare Holmes but, as my wife and I
THE ADVENTURE OF THE RED WIDOW
telegrami from the
could thank him for the fact from the that we had found each other, local polies, It appears that we could afford to accept his Lord Jocelyn Cope, the Deputy- cynical attitude with wiernce Lieutenant of the County, has and even understanding.
been found butchered at Arnsworth Castle. The Yard la of this nature, but in vlow of quite capable of solving crimes
tow
fodgings on this afternoon, to be I had dropped in to our old prečiso December 30, to pais a
the curious terms contained in hours with my "friend the police telegram, it occurred and Inquire whether ony new
"of
to me that you might wish to Interest had come his accompany
mo. WI way since my previous visit. I como?" had found him pale and 11stless,
case
you
his dressing-gown drawn around Holmes leared forward, his shoulders, and the room emptied the Persian allyper into recking with the smoke of his his tobacco pouch
and sprang favourite block shag, through to his feet. which the fire in the grate gleamed like a brazier in a fog. "Nothing, save a few routine Inquiries, Watson," he had re-
arc
J
blossom!
some
in
hallo,
"Give me a moment to pack a clean collar and toothbrush," he cried. "I have a spare one for you, Watson. No, my dear fellow, not a word. Where would I be without your assistance? Scribble a note to your wife, and Mrs
We should be back tomorrow, Now, Gregson, I'm your man end
Hudson will have it delivered.
empty
THE guard's flag
was already way-
ing as we rushed
up
the
at
Ex
and tore open the
A tall, stooping man held a candle at the door,
woman. It's como as a surprise to none of us that Captain Jasper should end by slaughtering his beneficior and the head of his house, Aye, hoad's a well-chosen word," he ended softly,
"If you've got a clear case, then what's this nonsense about a Guide book?"
Inspector Dawish leaned for- word while his voice mank almost to a whisper: "You've read it?" ho said. "Then it may interest you to know that Lord Jocelyn Cope was put to death in his own ancestral gulllotino.”
His words left us in a chilled silence.
"What motive can you suggest for the murder and for the bar- barous inethod employed?" naked Sherlock Hointes at Last "Probably a ferocious quarrel. Ilave
not told you already that Captain Jasper had a touch of the devil in him? But there's the Castle and a proper place it looks for doods of violence and darkness."
We had turned off the country road to enter
A gloomy avenue that climbed between banked snowdrifts up a barren moorland slope. On the crest loomed a great building its turrets stark and grey against the night door of the fest the landscape,
A few minutes Every material
sky had object has become vague and the arch of the outer balley and later, our carriage rumbled under smoker. Holmes
Way
vlsun!
us and
I shall be me. "Very poetical, am sure. the light shining on his weary
I
He
red
Kost
plied in a Voice shrill with complaint. "Creative ort crime seems to have became follow the curse of my mental knife-blade, Your expression atrophied since I disposed of the
a trifle deopened Into one of sadness, retorted,
inte-lamented Bert
Stevens. netled by his supertor manner.
the melancholy that comes with
Then, lapsing into silence, he "There was no great difficulty.
1111 understanding of cause and curled himself up morosely lu I have been watching you for effect in the unchanging human his armchair and not another you can fill in the detalle during the last few minutes.
The ex-
tragedy. 11 was then that I wor
word passed
our journey." between us until passed face pression on your
my was quite ventured to agree with you." vacant unil, as your eyes roved
thoughts were
suddenly must con
interrupted by the confess
observation of move-around the room,
ur eyes rived followed it unless that you that commenced this murrative. the bookense and came to rest traordinary accuracy. I nd- As I rose to go, he looked at on Hugo's 'Les Miserables mitted. "A remarkable pleve of me critically. Benjamin Guinness's will, which son upon you when you read 11
This in the only part of Mwhich made so deep an impres- reasoning, Holmes
perceive, Watson," said he, "that you Elementury, my dear Watson."
already paying The year of 1887 was moving the price. The slovenly state of public.
"You became thoughtful, your to its end. The iron grip of the your left jawbone bears re brought three travelling rugs indistinct and yot their sold halted in a courtyard. eyes narrowed, it was obvious grou blizzards that commenced grettable testimony that some with him, and Ds the train existence remains, though al- There have been legal battles { that
of December body has changed the position roared its was drifting the last
At Inspector Dawilsh's knock, through
hidden from our the most over his estate, esiuinates of again Info that
hnd tremendous,
closed on the land and of your shaving mirror. fading winter daylight we made senses. There is much to be a tall stooping man in butker's Wilich ave varied greatly. Į dreadful sagn of human suffer-
livery
opened the massive oaken Courts It France und Switzer-{ing; af length your gaze litet ond the windows of Holmes's Furthermore, you are indulging ourselves comfortable enough in learned from the twilight"
lodgings Baker Street lay a a in extravagances,"
our respective corners.
"Quibe So, Mr
holding Holmes," door and
租 candle land have beard claims and the window with its aspect of gloomy vista of grey lowering "You do me a grows injustice."
with a wink at Gregaon
above his head, peered out at us, counter-claime
grinned by his widow, snowflakes
sky and sky and grøy
Dru white-copped tiles
"Well, Gregson, "What, at the winter price of Princess Maria Nunziante bleak frozen
discernible through a fivepence roofs, and then, dimly
Your Interested to
hear the details," Well I'm for a short
rimmed eyes and 11- Mano, and Mr Loel Guinness, moving slowly on to the mantel- curtain of snowflakes.
buttonhole tells me that you remarked Holmes, fils thin, enger IT was some three hours later nourished beard. piece, suttled on the jack-knife Though it has been a memor- were sporting a flower not interface framed in the earflaps of that we alighted at a small way- "What, four of you!" he cried with which I skewer
abic year for my friend, it had then
his deerstalker and yesterday."
a spiral of sido station, The show
"It b'hint right her had querulously. unauswered correspondence.
brea of yet greater importance "This is the first time I have blue smoke rising from his pipe. ceased and beyond the roofs ladyship should bo bothered to me for it was but two months known you penarious, Holmes," "I know nothing beyond what of the hamlet the long desolate thisaways at such a time of grief since that Miss Mary Morsion I retorted with
I have already told you."
is all." bitterness.
slopes of the Derbyshire moors, to hud paid me the signal honour He broke into a hearty laugh.
white and glistening under the "That will də, Stephen, Where "And yet you used the word light of a full moon, rolled away is her ladyship?" of joining her destiny to mine. "My dear fellow, you must for singular and referred
to the to the skyline. A stocky bow- give me," he cried. "It is most telegram from the county police legged
The candle ☆
flame trembled, *
unfair that I should penalise you as curious, Kindly explain."
swathed in a and there was something like a because a Burfeit of unexpended
shepherd's plaid hurried towards sob in the old voice. "She ham't- mental
energy tends to play "I used both terms
us along the platform. for the
moved. upon my
Still sitting there in nerves. But
same reason. The wire from "You're from Scotland Yard, the big chair and staring at him, what's this!"
the local Inspector advised that
take it?"
us as though she had fallen greeted the officer from Scotland Yard brusquely. "I got your wire in asleep with them wonderful eyes A HEAVY step should
to mine and I have wide
է road
the Derbyshire reply
ODER." was mounting the County Guide and the Gazeteer, carriage waiting outside.
"You've touched nothing, of Yes, stairs. My friend A most extraordinary sugges- I'm Inspector Dawlish," he course?" waved me back tion1"
added in response to Gregson's "Nothing. It's all as it was." into my chair,
"I should say a wise one, question: "But who are theat "Stay a moment. What have you done about it?" gentlemen?" Watson," said he. "It is Grogsen, and the old game that Lord Jocelyn Cope is
The Gazeteer states merely "I considered that Mr Sherlock
Holmes's El may be afoot once more."
reputation...." began "Gregson?"
Deputy Lieutenant and county our companion, "There is no
magnate, married, childless and "I've never heard of him," mistaking that noted for his bequests to local interposed the local man, looking
He was moving régulation trend. Too heavy for
away towards a archacological societies. Lestrade's and
As for at us with a gleam of hostility yet known to the Guide, I have it here." He in his dark eyes.
cleared path that Mrs Hudson or she
"This is a would be.
ron астова the drew a pamphlet from his pocket serious affi
affair and there is. no company him. It is Gregson."
cobbestone when and thumbed over the pages. room for amateurs, But a 2
Holmes's hand As he finished speaking there
too cold to stand arguing here "HERE WO came a knock on the door and
closed upon his are," and, it London approves his arm. "How is this!" he cried. to the cars in a
continued. presence, who am I to gainsay Imperiously. The museum is "Arnsworth Cas him. This way, If you please. on the other side and yet you
Built city
reign natural voice. bowler on £5,000-a-year 36-year-
have allowed a carriage to drive Edward Chicago, American
passersby into He peremptorily bade Sankey the nearest chair and, unwinding
across the courtyard and people evangelist
Fifteenth century going inside and "stocking the give up all and join him. They the scarf wrapped around the of Billy Graham, son of
stained a pews with sinners." He would laboured
A closed carriage was standing to stampede over the ground Gemini has a large Hving-room, North Carolina farmer and rent and turn the largest house years,
Fla together for three lower part of his face, disclosed window to celebrate Battle of before the station, and a moment like a herd of buffalo," dining-room, big bedrooms with
converting thousands the flaxen hair and long pal Agincourt. Cope faimly penalised later we had swung out of the
"What then?" bathrooms, kitchen and servants' leader of the current surge in poverty-stricken American before invading Britain.
Holmes Blung for suspected
up his Catholic leaning yard and were bowling swiftly by Royal Visitation 1574
but silently up the village high appealingly to the moon...."The the United States, is hitting By 23 he was locally famous, ftly, they were soon addressing "Ab, Gregson,"
Museum open to pub
public once a There'l
Enow, man, the snow! You havə street. the
tion destroyed your best helpmate, headlines with
and when he had saved £3,000 crowds of Afteen to twenty Holmes, with a sly glance in my, or martial and other relics in for you at. the Queen's Head,"
Containa large collection for year.
"But I tell you the murder of servants, white on the ocean evangelistic tour of Britain from the orphan
ho built a church with it-this thousand people. Between them direction. "It must be urgent
son of they netted a million dollars for business that brings you out in cluding small guillotine built grunted Inspector Dawlish, "But Was committed in the museum.
the snow on the lake to which
thousands are Massachusetts former obliged to the "cause" from the world sales this
What has inclement weather. But originally in Nimen during first to the Castle." side, which is the larger of the flocking each day, but he
throw off your cape, man, and French Revolution for execution "I shall be glad to hear the with it? two houses. Guests usually has
facts of this case," stated Greg dismal groan and then we all nothing
Holmes gave vent to a most on those
of a maternal
ancestor of the stayed in the lakeside house. mighty
"and OWNICT religious
Never used owing present
gon,
for the
followed Me local detective of intended victim most irregular suggestion con- Both Mr and Mrs Lambert paigners Moody and Sankey,
across the yard to an arched are amateur artists, ant Gemini the first of tho soul-saving, housed their line art collection.sin-scorching American mis.
to lose," he replied, consulting & ad later purchased as relie by tained in your telegram"
after Napoleonic
The facts are simple enough," doorway. I have seen many a wars large silver turnip watch. The and brought to
grim grim spectacle during my a350- Amsworth, rented the other, with sionaries to invade the
train to Derbyshiro leaves in Pshow! That local
smile. "His Lordship has been clation with Sherlock Holmes, inspector murdered and we know who did but I can recall none to surpass hal an hour and United Kingdom.
I have a must be out of his purses, Mr Hansom waiting below, Though Holmes.
in horror the sight that met our. There is nothing to the case should pr
that eyes within present no dim- help us here."
grey Gothic cuttles for an ollicer of my ex-
chamber. perlence, nevertheless I shall be "Let glad of your company."
"Something of interest?" "Murder, Mr
lako.
Under road conneet.
in the the THEY SOLD SALVATION
twin "cottages,"
runs a long room with three
feet of insulation between its ceiling and the highway.
So silent is this room
aneler
the roug that Noel Cowarıj, a friend of the Lamberts, sug- Rested they should make it their muske room: they installed an organ and a plane there. Lan- bert plays null Instruments well. He also enjoys playing the harmonien,
Each of the Twin sidies
rooms.
TO
BRITAIN
By J. W. Taylor
London. world. His Arst move was to Then In 1870 he ran into Ira figure muffled
HANDSOME 6 ft 2 in the then Missolute arch of of posting and venus to our Visitor tossed his how to m
old
talk
Every servant's room of spiritual awakening in district into a Sunday school. From first night audiences of
has a private bath.
The Lamberts had two sluffs
site and coloured
News Spread
his
cam-
Dwight L. Moody, whose name in Britain is still a household
without
any
in the warld of advertising, word, gave up $5,000 a year to Lambert is known as the man envangelise who gave a word to everyday | guaranteed salary and hack
On it he nothing language: halitosis,
like the Graham based what was then a revolu- | £700,000-a-yoar unganisation tionary compalga for popularis-and 200 staff to back lim up. ing mouthwasi.
But publicity he did not relish
was the news that soun spread
Few Coppers
of his house with two fronts, Indeed be personally had but ulthough both are concealed
a few coppers In his pocket
from the roud, Plagued by when he started out "to save streams of tourists hoping to see Bagiand" on June 17, 1873, but over it, the Lamberts decided to the ultimate phenomenal success sell.
of this great Christian left an indelible mark on our Isles.
How does it happen that the buyer he has found, able to lay his hands on 225,000 dollars, is a British subject?
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
16The lay subita mun be knady, in realise, one, IS And-place withesh / taking
It
also found him handling millions spontaneous gifts of dollars in from enraptured followers, not
features of the Scotland detective.
Yard
greeted
come over to the fire."
The police agent shook lis to escape head. "There is not a moment and
fla
be accommodation
the reason
"Ah!" "Captain Jasper Lothian, the us reserve judgment, murdered man's cousin, has dia The man would not have made appeared in a hurry. It's con- such 窳 suggestion without mon knowledge hereabouts that Holmes," reason. In the meantime. I the man's got a louch of the would recommend to your atten- devil la hlm, a hard hand with snapped Gregson curtly, "and a singular one at that to judge thon the dusk now falling over a bottle, a horse or the nearest
G
Then
let us go first to the museum where the crime was committed," said Dawlish. "It is on the other side of the court- yard.
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The Adventure of "The Red Widow". will be continuod on Monday
SOLVE THIS-AND IT'S PEACE
ERMANY is the prob- lem of Europe. Solve
By Charles Wintour
do
They might reasonably bellove that while the talks were going on there was some hope of pre- Billy Graham as he appears to an estimated 3,000,000 it then Europe, with
British TV viewers. (Express)
serving the status quò in Ĝer- Russia too, will at last bo West Inbours unremittingly to unwise to prophesy with as- burance, but it seems probablé at peace. And many other arm the Germans. matters will fall into line, quo. Indoed, the breakdown of shals stand in
Berlin did not help thỏ status that unless the Russlin mar- And thus the Russians would
the way tho gain a year or two. Of course, there has been the talks on Germany hastened Kremlin would be ready 10
But there is an alternativo German problem for a ita break-up. For Monsieur give up large tracts of Russian course of action they might take, century or more. Germany to gain French acceptance
Bidault went home determined occupied territory.
a course, which some experienced Alternatively the Kremlin observers believe is still the might be ready to sacrifice much most likely. to France in return for a French acceptance of an accómmodation with Rusala.
one cent of which went into his pasture livestock for a mere of their book of original hymns own pocket. A favourite halfpenny a day at the tender selected by Moody, for which comedian was boord and biased age of six.
Sankey wrote the tumes.
off the stage for his libe that
_I
ho falt "rather Moody and Moody's methods made strong Bankeymonious,"
Moody was not averse to men ashamed, of their sins, and tricks, believing that the ends has always kept Europe in the German army. Moody, however, may have hle personality was so vital that justined the mere, and often a state of disturbance. And been low la personal funds to he numbered his converts by he paid start with, but he had ensured the hundred
in the work.”
meti
you
brother" and,
Ho
SUITE
of
ONE CONDITION.
thousand
be in twice in the past 50 years
NO MYSTERY He the ball and pretend that they have the Germans invaded the wolf being kept from the literally
Bold salvation
to were ready for conversions evangelistic door by insisting on.
during millions
his long, soul-
But mich dh alliance would There is no mystery about not be enough for the Kremlin's a large fund being avaliable saving career in
would fit one of them with his their neighbours. which he eye. That rod-haired man in before he would tackle London travelled a million miles, often
Yet no solution has been the reason for the Ruins de purpose. Germany might well be
termination, to avoid en the back row-are
The Russians might be ready hearly interested made 200 calls on people a day, Christian?! Yes, prniso "trom mon
the prmed in dedance of French to go a long way. They might found
rearmament of Germany. Xe is addressed
A hundred
It may be said that the re- clear enough: the status
polley, million people and personally ted to be one. "Come for-cent conference of Four Powers preserves the Russion quo
offer a peace treaty for Austria, wand,
domina. Two possible solutions for peace in Korea and peace, In And his technique was in re pinyad and plandal with 750,000 Duch, another "convert" wer in Berlin was : An markable contrast to the quiet, saved sinners, making
attempt to tion of Europe. The arming of Russia may be édopted,
Indo-Chino, . · Théy" might, biter. persuasive, wroomlined spall verta
can- made.
grapple with Gerhiány. But Germany would, bring Rumian.. Malenkov, in association with other concessions as well, even binding Graham method. Moody gaticasnipes, thieves and other out of old socks,
the conditions there were right domination to an end within Hid Communist Government of Including e United Germany, died in the belief in a real
Ohe famous Christian in-neither for any real discusios three to five years.
Chitin, could arrange for an But in that would be on one degenerates. Heaven and an awful Hell, but
of probleth' nor for an ex- fluenced by Moody was Charles ploration of the possible polu- much to escape the dulauan war for Indo-China.
Plainly" Ramada would farlice atmiletics with Frabes in the fixed condition, No Arms fok he burned the sanctimonious and Ho went to the American T. Studd, nous Cambridge | Lands
Germany. And then the Roriana could Whether Russia adopts this and member
where Germany was the mill repen Hamby-pamby standards to
"It" the result, the conterence A soldier _of_the_Lord," braving of the first
tary mistero
urope. The repeat the plan they carried out policy or not, the chief and code of life even ho-men could flying, bullets to maccour
lan the be boufort by
before the whin favourable to the Westin vasion of their country still They could drag on the peace world statesman romalas the accept.
wounded and the dying, Already a successful sulckman finally folded for him that the use, Ca We may taken the cont
This the teen Ashe
fire came into Pow though many aurelivid in the minds of Ruanda's talke for months
williament, of the ✨ Clersbazı Moody found conversion, Devil must really be stamped in many parts of the world, i
Their negointors are expect problem is the tret to hilerast Chrbuch the influence of him out though the median of the douth Koricon gender is Kovotten: Inin gibtis
Bied by But what thing bém vete Bus what mortices would in all the ariz et skidled her care Sunday school Leacher /? and graat Tüvival fondlingar
Malenkov behind a WALK-OUSE turidsen back to a miston Churchill the anos They among whom he hund laboured Truthso Banan 13 KEWAYS BET Decide
the Habby, raising religion from Clvil Wor's hottest spots as a Uniwasily go sakām glavan to wiM GHALIENT LA RAMBLA guid: memöre of the Chertaan in- with ́ such" suecales, In: Koren, paramount.
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