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THE METAL BOX

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"Miss" Croom," he explained, "must have been sitting in the room below this, and heard footsteps overhead. There's a card on the telephone bracket, with the nunt- ber of the station and a doctor, and one or two tradepeople. What she meant to do, guessing there was a burglar in the house, was to ring up the police, but before she could get a grip of the receiver, be camo running downstairs and gave her a blow that bashed her skull in."

"Surely," suggested Foster, "it was early in the evening for burglary."

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TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1928.

AMERICA AND THE

· PHILIPPINES.

(Continued from Pago-7.)

CINEMA NOTES.

MAE MURRAY AT STAR THEATRE.

Mad Murray, dainty heroine "of} thods of industry and the relations of capital and labour are more en-The Merry Widow" and dozens of lightened and fruitful than in any other country under the sun. Is it screen romances; has turned to not the part of wisdom and of gra- comedy in her latest picture, "AL dence for his people to absorb to

the uttermost the lessons and tars of Desire," in which Conway benefits which can be derived Tearle plays opposite her in the from the tenching of such a suc-male lead. "Altars of Desire" is cessful practioner?

A New Standard,

"The abuses of capital which exciled criticism a generation ago have been curbed. The Américan captains of industry of to-day have

"Altars of Desire" will be screened at the Star Theatre to- day and to-morrow. Pola Negri Picture at The World. From A drab boarding house to

a very different standard of duty glittering palace abroad and toward the public from their pre-back again in a rose covered cot- decessors of the nineteenth cen- tuge this is the journey, replete | tury. It should be an easy matter with incidents of hazard, anxiety for wise statesmanship to gain for and happiness, that Pola Negri these stands the inestimable bene- takes in "The Crown of Lies," of the guidance of American which is being shown at the World upon terms which would not only The direction is excellent, giving industrial experience and capital, Theatre to-day and to-morrow. share present profits with the evidence of the subtle idens und also adroit effects for which Dimitri Filipino people but would leave their rights and resources Buchowetzki 'is known. Credit it unimpaired for the generations to also due to Noah Beery, villian man who goes into the business of "selling a queen" to his country, the real queen having disappeared following a revolution.

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Time wasn't made for thieves," said Pow. "The house had most

"Hare not the people of the Unit- the type of comedy that has Intely SYNOPSIS:

Crescent, he was admitted by likely been watched. It was known Martha Keene in a condition birder- that the maid went out on Thurs.ed States suheiently demonstrated found favour with film fans, the POSTER MARKWELL, who ing on hysteria..

days. Miss Croom's purso had the unselfishness of their attitude comedy flavoured with romance. travels periodically no ship's doctor,

It was the first time he had seen been emptied," he added, picking toward theso Islands in the mat-"Altars of Desire" was directed)

for of political development to meets and admires THERESA her without her cap and apron, but it up from the dressing-table, "and FEVERSHAM-niece of ELIAS this morning she looked as if she if you notice, there's not a single make them worthy of confidence by Christy Cabanne, who directed in the matter of economic deve- "The Masked Bride" and other FEVERSHAM,

American had not taken off her clothes all thing left with gold on it.". millionaire newspaper proprietor sight. A woman of thirty, tail, Inspector Pow asked Galloway Jopment? I believe that nowhore successes. Maude George, Robert who has taken a fint in London for raw-boned, with black hair, over to fetch Martha, who trembled to in the world are the relations of Edeson and Andro Beranger are three months. Foster's aunt, MISS hanging brows, and a long upper suels an extent that he told her to capital to the public watched with included in the cast. CROOM, asks him to take care of lip.

sit down, while he made a list of a more jealous eye than today in a small metal deed box, with in-

Foster had never regarded her Miss Croom's small stock of the United States. structions to surrender it to none with much favour. He had more jewellery: a gold watch which she than once laughingly criticised her had seldom worn, and generally left this aunt, but Miss Croom in her bedrooms, a camee brooch, protested that she

only pair of old-fashioned car-rings. too thankful for મ mald "And her scent-bottle," suggest

would stay 119 longed Foster. "I gave it to her On the way home in the Under- who ground, Faster Markwell asked as eighteen months. Martha, she year age-cut glass with a gold Id himself what in the world the box insisted, was an admirable servant over the stopper. Not much of a could contain. He felt certain it and possessed the advantage of clue, is there, Inspector?" he added. "Any number of finger-prints," was a box. And why had his nut being a member of the same chapel been so eager to get it out of her as her mistress. She had only one said Galloway, shutting his rote house? No doubt she had been fault. It was true she had the most busk with a snap.

"They would only identify a man terrified by the burglaries and ex- violent temper, though she did not peeted that her own turn would often break out, and was always whe had already been in gaol,"

answered Foster. come next. The most plausible ex-very sorry afterwards.

Oh, Dr. Markwell, the poor mis-

"Most likely the one we want has planation seemed to be that by way

tween," said Pow significantly of anticipation, she had gathered tress," she exclaimed, clinging to together some of her must cherish the door. "Xover till my dying dayThen he explained that the post ed possessions and transferred them shall I forget the sight that metrtem would be made during the my eyes when that young policeman to his mifer kéoping.

"Moreover, I believe that the es- two o'clock to-morrow, Saturday. Having let himself into the house let me in las night, and and freshing, the inquest being held at in Upper Baker Street, where he from the pictures."

Dr. Markwell would no doubt ar-tablishment of such industrial had stayed during previonis spells While she continued to lament range with an undertaker in the relations with the United States -ashore, he lost no time going Miss Croom's fate in the most in meanwhile, The Inspector present would greatly benefit the social stairs to his bedroom on the second re excitement, à man of middley accompanied him to the front relations of the two peoples. floor, where, having put Missage and middle height, or an inchd, afterwards entering the sit Business relations between worth Crom's precious parcel on his chest taller, came forth from the sitting thing-room, where he was joined by ly, partnera tend to produce mutual

confidence.

of her remarkable, resemblance to Capell's three dancing displays thraft for $40, and is also making of drawers, he thought very little rom, a somewhat heavily built man the sergeant. more about it. His mind during in a dark eyereoal, with a round,

the missing queen she gains a given at the Queen's Theatre and some donations to local charities. "I picked this up just inside the New Opportunities.

throne. Ernest Vajda, noted the Star Theatre on February 22, Some of Miss Capell's pupils hayo these days was occupied almost ex-benevolent looking Tace, and a

In fact he had

scullery window," said Galloway,

"Three centuries ago, under the Hungarian

wrote 27 and 29, amounted to $2,000. kindly presented her with playwright. clusively by Theresa Feversham, fatherly manner. concerning whom no shadow of a wife at home at Camden Town, and taking from his pocket a yellow

is forwarding to Viscount Knuts she wishes to return thanks. doubt had as yet cccurred to him. four children af promising to do chamos leather glove, size seven leadership of Spain, you turned The Crown of Lies" specially for Miss Capell informs us that shie embroidered kimono, for which

On learning and three-quarters, made in France, your faces from the Orient to Miss Negri.

"It's ward the Western World. You ne Je telephoned to Treadwell Ma-well in the world. sion the next morning, when the Foster's relationship to Miss Croom, and obviously, almost new.

not been worn more than once orcepted a civilization and a religion promised to let him take her out he introduced.

people from those who surround to dinner to-morrow. For to-day Detective-Inspector Pow, of the twice," Galloway continued. "Not which marked you as a separate she had an engagement.

Criminal investigation Depart-quite the ordinary thing, either."

"There's something inside this you. Now with the passage of Scotland Yard. He The evening marked an epoch be-Įment,

finger answered Pow, taking the these three centuries, your con- he had been

nexion with the West has itself cause it was the first on which she explained that had consented to dance since she in charge of the case and ar- glove in his hand,

Galloway, receiving It back, turn- become transformed into a pro- The landed, and probably the thoughtsrived on the spot an hour ago, ac- of both went back to pleasant ex-companied by Detective-Sergeant at the second finger inside out, as mise of new opportunities.

connected represent not only perience on that 8.8. Egeria. It was Galloway, at present going over the he had already done once for his nation with which you are.now

private satisfaction, later n xual when he parted premises in quest of fingerprints

political freedom but the highest from her outside the door of her flat or anything else that was likely to

average standard of social and that Thursday night, and nine had furnish a clue. struck before he came down tof All had been left as the constable

material walfare which has yet been developed in this world. breakfast on Friday morning. and Martha Keene saw it the pre- A good fire was burning, and vious night, with the exception of there was an agreeable savour of the body, which had been recently eggs and bacon," Mrs. Hutchings, carried upstairs and laid on the who waited on her favourite lodgers heti. in person, being on the stairs with the tray.

"Good morning Dr. Markwell," she evied, pushing open the door with her fool. "It's still foggy, though not so bad as last night."

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"Perhaps," suggested Inspectori Pow, you'd like to come up, Dr. Markwoll,"

Ile led the way, to Miss Croom's room, so meticulously tidy during her lifetime, but now in dire dis- As he answered her salu-forder. To the right stood a large, .tation Ite Book the folded old-fashioned mahogany wardrobe, from the table, both doors being wide open, and the and the next instant was gazing at contents, consisting mainly of wear the landlady in horror.

ing apparel, strpwn about the "Law Is anything the matter? carpet. The dressing-table by the she asked, but he was quite incap-window had also been ransacked, able of replying. He was staring the insprefor walking towards it, again at the lended headlines; remaining with his back to Poster, Murder of a Lady at Haverstock who was quite unmanned as he H. *

stood beside the bed, drawing asidé He seemed to know for a certain-[the sheet and gazing at the white ty, before reading the particulars, face and matted hair. that Miss Croot must be the victim.

CHAPTER IV.

According to the report, the THE YELLOW GLOVE.

"Cotton wool!" said Pow, as the sergeant displayed a wad of that material, about threequarters of an

inch in length.

"Looks as if he'd cut his finger:" suggested Pow

"I cannot believe that this oppor-. tunity will not be grasped by the Gallaway shook his hend.

Filipino people. On the contrary, "No sign of blood," he insisted, believe that it will, and through "Suppose he'd lost a finger-tip-hadi that they will paeus forward off at the first joint and, being into new steges of political free, particular about appearances put om, individual comfort and sociai in the bit of wool so it mightn't be welfar twirged."

"Something in that, perhaps. We'll have another, word with the maid, Galloway!"

Passengers departing' by ́s.5. President Jefferson last night In- cluded Mr. F. P. Small, President of the American Express Company, and My C, H. · Bunson ́general manager in the Far East for the American Express Company. Both are bound for Manila

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Martha trembled more than ever when she was brought to the room, the Inspector having put the glove in his pocket.

"suppose," he said, "Miss Creom didn't have many visitors?" "No," she answered, #only, the minister, Mr. Oliphant, who came business. to ten every 1wo < three weeks, and Dr. Markwell, who Wax often #way months together, and then there WRS Miss Railton, a young lady as does typing. She stayed three or four crime had been committed before As Pokter replaced the sheet re-month, though that was before I half-past ten the previous night.erently over Miss Croom's face, came, and often dropped in on Martha Keene, the maid, with whom Detective-Sergeant Galloway Sunday afternoons.” the murdered woman had lived tered the rount. He was several "No one else, lately?" suggested alone in the house, went oul, as usnai on Thursdays, at half-past years younger than Pow, and main- the inspector.

Lained that his natural acomien four in the afternoon, and on her more than made amends for lack of return at half-past Len, had seen experience. An inch or two taller nothing to cause the least alarm than Inspector Pow, he was sparety, The front door was shut and the almost weedily built, with closely light visible above it.

cropped, dark hair, and pointed "But after ringing three times features. He had a peculiarly long and failing to

obtain an answer, chin, and cold though the January Martha grew anxious, and going to the gate waited there in fear and turning was, he wore no overront trembling until a police constable ver his blue rérge suit.

A few moments after his en-

"Only the young gentlemain last Monday just before four. He wouldn't give his name, saying Miss Croum wouldn't know it, and she refused to see him-",

"Did she seem excited when she heard he was here?" asked Pow.

"Not more than usual, Sir. It never took much to luster her, so

to speak. When I went back to the door, and told him what Miss Croom said, he took a letter from

Ixassed on his beat. He inquired trance, the three men were standing whether she had tried the side together by the dressing table, his pocket, tore a bit off the top door, but she declared she had been which had two small drawers on and wrote something on it with a too terrified to do anything; by her- each side of the looking-gluss, all | fend_pencil."

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Galloway, As she hesitated, he added, "You would have noticed while he was writing, you know." "Well, air, I can't say I did, and that's the truth," she answered, whereupon Inspector Pow told her

she could go.

"That hasn't carried us much farther," he said.

"Still," urged the sergeant, "we know Miss Croom bad an unexpect ed visitor on Monday. She

being drawn out of their nests and "Of course, you read what he The constable, however, lost a emptied. Their contents lay scat-wrote ?" time in making his way along the tored about the dressing-table, a Martha looked resentful. path beside the house to the trades-clinical thermometer. some odd "Whereby couldn't help it," she men's entrance, and there he found buttons, pieces of black lace, a cried. "There was only one the suullery window open at the leather handbag, and a smaller word—”. bottom. Getting in, he groped his purse turned inside out.

"What was it?" demanded low. way through the kitchen by thei Amongst the other things, a tall, "Hillyard-just the name, and as light of his lantern, going upstairs narrow bottle of thin glass had soon as Miss Croom sat eyes on it, with the intention of letting the evidently been overturned, its taper- she told me to show him in maid in at the front door,

ing neck being broken off an fuck "Well, what happened after But on reaching the fall, where below the cork, so that some of the that?" the ulectric liglit was on, he stop clear white fluid had run out. Tak- "Nothing," said Martha, "till: ped in horror. Miss Croom was ing the bottle in his hand, Sergeant maybe a quarter of an hour later, lying on her back beneath the tele-Galloway held it to his nose and the bell rang for me to show him phone bracket which projected from snlled." the wall between the sitting-room "I don't seem to know the scent," "You heard nothing to suggest wouldn't see him till he sent in the and dining-room doors. On the he said. "Pretty pangent, any-a quarrel?" black and white chequered linoleum how."

"Nothing at all," she insisted. name of Hillyard on a scrap was a pool of blood which had evi- "You wouldn't" answered Foster. "And he didn't look as if he'd been paper. Not his own, or he'd have dently flowed from a wound on her "I don't imagine you've ever come quarrelling quite the gentleman, given the maid his card. And we temple, Inflicted, apparently, by across it before. I brought and smiled pleasant-like as I let know, too," continued Galloway. "that someone got in at the window somo, blunt instrument, fracturing couple of bottles from Colombo six him out,"

these the skull, and causing in all proba- or seven months ago.. Miss Croom "Wag he fair or dark?" asked last night with one of bility instant death.

fashionable gloves in his pocket. had a fancy for it, and "always the Inspector. Having read every word of the carried some in a glass bottle I gave Martha looked as though she We know he'd lost the top joint of newspaper report; Foster swallowed her.

the second finger of his right hand. I have never met with It in could not make up her mind. some coffee and nibbled some toust England."

"Betwixt the two," she said. An odd thing, though, Inspector! without sitting down, and within] Taking out his handkerchief, Red, his hair was--fair carrotty The finger prints, as far as I can ten minutes was on his way to Sergeant Galloway coolly helped if you ask me, but the nicest look-se, don't show un usual space bes Haverstock Hill in a taxi. On himself, whereupon Inspector Powing young gentleman, all the same."tween the first and third.” (To be continued.) reaching Number 5. Baynton turned to Foster..

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