HBBBMMgWBsiBMM ML i'..; bit" en j .82 MOartaj, January t. PAGE FOUR 11IC DAILY NEWS ve EVEN v J2l'AL& YSTERY By Agatha Christie " Copyright by Public Ledger '4 riif: story mi s far TIxpo'b a houce party on at Chlm-iKjrs, aa catete outside London, occupied (or the present on lease toy Sir Oswald and Lady Coote. Queeta are late to breakfast; oapeclally Jimmy Theslger and Omy Wade, much to the annoy-ace of Lady Coote. Rupert Ba. tartan, secretary to Sir Oswald. suggest an alarm clock -toy way of assuring that Wade in particular geU up hest morning at a more reasonable hour. They plan to place eight clock in VVd's room once be is asleep. Biteman. known aj "Pongo," places the eleoka. and yet nexk day at noon Wa4e ia atUl In bed. At 12:20 he la found dead by a servant. Dr. Cart-wright declared death due to an overdose of leaping powder. Seven clocks, not eight are found lined up In Wade's room. Theslger and Ronny Oevereux motor to Gerry's home to Inform a Ister, Lorsine Wade, of her brother's death. Day elapse. Lord Cater ham, owner. Is back at Chimneys. Lady Eileen Brent, his daughter, known to her friends and aocVrty as "Bundle,'' finds, a letter written by Wade to his sister clearly indicating that bis death was not accidental and making reference to the Seven Dials. X01V CONTINUE TUB STOKY INSTALMENT VI. The Man in the Road "Father." said Bundle, opening! the door of Lord Caterham's spe- damned Ingenious which .couldn't hurt anybody's feelings and which knocked the idea on the head absolutely." "Being comfortable isn't enough for me," said Bundle. "I want ex citement." Lord Caterham shuddered. HI .IJ.tl 1 A I. A I Kl ment four years ago?" he demanded plaintlvely. . "I'm about ready for some more." said Bundle. "Not that I ex pect I shall find any in town. But at any rate I snan t dislocate my jaw with yawning." "In my experience." said Lord Caterham, "people who go about looking for trouble usually find It.' 'He' yawned. "All the same," he added, "I wouldn't mind running up to town myself." "Well, come on," said Bundle "But, be quick, because I'm in a hurry." Lord Caterham, who had begun to rise from his chair, paused. "Did you say you were In a hurry?" he asked suspiciously. "In the devil of a hurry," said Bundle. 'That settles it," said Lord Caterham. "I'm not coming. To be driven by .you in the Hisoano when you're in a hurry -no, it's not fair on any elderly man. I shall stay, here." "Please yourself," said Bundle, and withdrew. Tredwell took her place. "The vicar, my lord, is most anxious to see you. some unfortunate controversy having arisen about the status of the Boys Brigade.'' Lord Caterham groaned "I rather fancied, my Lord, that I had heard you mention at breakfast that you were strolling down to the villaee this morning to converge with the vicar on the subject." "Did you tell him so?" asked Lord Caterham eagerly. "I did, my Lord. He derjarted. 1 I may say so, hotfoot. I hope I did right, my Lcrd?" "Of course you did. Tredwell. You are always right. You couldn't go wrong if you tried." Tredwell smiled benignly and withdrew. Bundle, meanwhile, was sound ing her Klaxon Impatiently before the lodge gates, wnue a sman cniia earne hastening out with all SDeed from the lodge, admonisnment from her mother following her, "Make haste, Kate. That be Her Ladyship in a mortal hurry as always." Always in a Hurry It was indeed characteristic of Dundle to he in a hurry, especially when driving a car. She had skQl and nerve and was a good driver; had it been otherwise her reckless pace would have ended in disaster more than once. . . a blue sky and a dazzling sun. The She looked back and frit a sickening sensation. The car had not passed over the man, but must have struck him in passing. cial sanctum and putting her head in, "I'm going up to town in the Hiapano. I can't stand the monotony down here any longer." "We only got home yesterday," complained Lord Caterham . "I know. It seems like a hundred years. I'd forgotten how dull the, country could be." "I dont agree with you" said Lord Caterham. "It's peaceful, that's what it is peaceful. And extremely comfortable. I appreciate getting back to, Tredwell more than I can tell you. That rril'n studies my Icomfort "in the most marvelous manner. Somebody came around only this morning to know If they could hold a tafijr . for girl guides here-" "A rally," interrupted Bundle. "Hairy or tally it's all the same. Some silly word meaning nothing whatever. But it would have put me in a very awkward position-having to muse in fact, I probably should not have refused: But Tredwell got - me out ' of it. I've forgotten what he said something I UMiiauatiiiuji i ' ' : wntvff-a fovu vrisviihra iin i The lurious- impression it had marii. h , o.n.hnf was somewhat . r .... ... dimned In the daylight, yet it still cniA hat- o e nAi.i'hff AvriVa no tlnn SfaTta ended o get" hoW of Bill 1 Ev.rsleirh some tfme and extract . ? . .... 1 from him fuller details of the house-party which had ended so tragically. In the meantime, it was a lovely morning and she felt particularly well an dthe Hlspano was running like a dream. Bundle pressed her foot down on the accelerator and the Hispano responded at once. Mile after mile vanished, traffic stops were few and far between and Bundle had a clear stretch of road in front of her. And then, without any warning whatever, a man reeled out of the hedge and on to the road right in front of the car. To stop in time was out of the question. With all her might Bundle wrenched at the steering wheel and swerved out to the right. The car was nearly in the? ditch nearly, but not quite. It was a dangerous maneuver, but it succeeded. Bundle was almost certain that she had missed the man. She looked back and felt a sickening sensation in the middle of her anatomy. The car had not passed over the man, but never' theless it must have struck him in passing. He was lying face downward on the road, and he lay ominously still. Man Seemed Drunk Bundle jumped out and ran baek. She had never yet run over anything more Important than a stray hen. The fact that the accent was hardly her fault did not weigh with her at the minute. The man had seemed drunk, but drunk or not. she had killed him. She was quite sure she had killed him. Her heart beat slckeningly in great pounding thumps, sounding right up iri her cars. She knelt down by the prone fi gure and turned him very gingerly over. He neither groaned nor moaned. He was young, she saw, rather a pleasant-faced young man. well-dressed and wearing a small toothbrush Mustache. There was no external mark of ' 'nlury that she could see, but sbi' was quite positive that he, was eltner dead or dying. His eyeu flickered -and the eyes' half open-i ea. Piteous eyes. Drown and fering, like a dog's. He seemed to be struggling to speak. Bundle bent over. "Yes," she said. "Yes?" There was something ne wanted to say, she could see that. Wanted to say badly. And she couldn't help him, couldn't do, anything. At last the words came, a mere sighing breath: ... ... "Seven Dials tell " "Yes." said Bundle again. It was a name he was drying to get out trying with an nis ianing strength. "Yes. Who am I to tell?" "Tdl Jimmy Theslger " He got it out at last, and then suddenly, his head fell back and his body went limp. Bundle sat back on her heels, shivering from head to foot. She could never have Imagined that anything so awful could nave nap pened to her. He was dead and sne nad kiued him. To a Doctor She tried to pull herself togeth er. What must she do now? A doc tor that was her first thought. It was possible lust possible mat me man migm omy ne un conscious, not dead. Her instinct cried out aaaJnst the DossibiUty but she forced herself to act upon it. Somehow or other she must get him Into the car and take him to the nearest doctor's. It was a deserted stretch of country road and there wo no one toiheiD her Bundle; for all her sllmness, ww strong, sne had muscles of whip cord. .She brought the Hlsjiarlo s ctqae anpsible, .and then, ta ertlnz airhetstrength. she drae- wed and pulled the inanimate fl A : Tnen she lumped into the drlv - er's seat and started off. A couple 1 1 sharp tang of the air brought the gure into it. It was a horrid busi-blood-to Bundle's cheeks and fil-ioess. and one that made her set led her with the zeet of living. I ner teeth, but at last she managed one iiau Liiab liiUiAAuiK oviiv uii- aid Wade's unfinished letter toi Loralne Wade at Deane Priory, In- j IT una lGtTf?r rrHl? aksu m tnuniA i of miles brought her intcua small I town and on Inquiry she was quickly directed to the doctor's house. Dr. Cassell, a kindly, middle- aged man, was startled to come into his surgery and find a girl there who was evidently on the verge of collanse. Bundle spoke abruptly. "I I think I've killed a man. I ran over him. I brought hinvt ?longJ" thc."; ?"e now' I I was driving too fast, I sup- nnea TMta a 1 to Hrlirmi sr foet " The doctor cast a practiced 8lac? over her. He stepped over to shelf and poured something nto o tt-ima TTa VrtMfyhT it rwror tr ha Drink this down," he said, "and you'll feel better. You've had a shock." Bundle drank obediently and a tinge of color came into her pallid face. The doctor nodded approvingly. "That's right. Now I want you to sit quietly here. I'll go out and attend to things. After I've made sure there's nothing to be done for the poor fellow, I'll come back and we'll talk it over." The Doctor Reports He was away some time. Bundle watched the clock on the mantelpiece. Five minutes, ten minutes. a quarter of an hour, twenty minutes would he never come? Then the door opened and Dr. Cassell reappeared. He looked differentBundle noticed that at once grimmer and at the same time more, alert. There was something else in his manner that she did not quite understand, a suggestion of repressed excitement. "Now then, young iaay," he said, "let's have this out. You ran over this man. you say. Tell me Just how the accident happened?" Bundle explained to the best of her ability. The doctor followed her naratfve with keen attention. "Just so: the car didn't pass over his body?" "No. In fact. I thought I'd missed him altogether." "He was reeling, you say?" "Yes, I thought he was drunk." "And he came from the hedge?" 'There was a gate Just there. I think. He must have come through the gate.' The doctor nodded, then he leaned back In his taiair and removed his pince-nez. ' "I've no doubt at all,"he said, "that you're a very reckless driver, and that you'll probably run over some poor fellow and do for him pne-of these days but you have not done it this time." "Buwii" s ' ' 'Ther' never touched him. The Heard ho Shots .Bundle scared, at him. And very the worm, which for the last three quarters of an hour had been upside down, shifted till it Utood once.hiore the right way up. it was quite two minutes before Bundle spoke, but-when she did it was no -longer the panic-stricken airl but the real Bundle, cool. efficient and logical. How could he be shot? . she said.a. iiii.nl i -Mil .rt- 'n IiidonV 1 know how he ooukj," said the doctor dryly. "Bft he -was lies got a riue buUet in him all right. He bled internally, that' why you dJdnt notiee anything.? , tiunaie noaaea. 'The question is,' 'the doctor continued, "who shot him? You .saw nobody about?" Bundle snook her head. "It's odd." said the doctor. "It it was an accident, you'd expect the i enow wno aid it would oorae run ning to the rescue unless Just possibly he, didn't know what he'd done. "There was no one about." said Bundle. "On the road, that is U MTf CAami in ma" laM iha Anj v dvvuh w asav. oaiu hic uut" tor. "that the poof' lad must have been running the bullet got him lust as he passed through the gate and be came reelinc onto the road in consequence. You didn't hear a not7" Bundle iftook her head "But I probably shouldn't anyway.' 'she said, "with the noise of the car." jusi so. ue cuani say any- uung oeiore se aira? "He muttered a 'few words." "Nothings to throw light on th irageay? "No. He wanted something I don't know what told to a friend of his. Oh! Yes. and he mentioned seven Dials." "H'm." said Doctor Csaaell "Not a likely neighborhood for one of ihls class Perhaps his assailant came from there. Well, we needn't Embarassing Moments Vflifn riiw&M Attfcfi m'0 ' l f-w-- AMUTfLV m amnion Lightning accutv '"- ' twM "WW mr4 fin's0 slum settlement has even worse! ! worry about that now. You can j leave It in my hands. 111. notify! the police. You must, of course. leave your name and auaress, as the police are sure to want to question you. In fact, perhaps vnn'd better come round to the police station with me now. They; might Say I cugm to nave ue-tained yo'.!." (To Be Continued Tomorrow) SLUMLAND IN LONDON Canadian Press Staff Correspondent Tells of Conditions in England DIFFICULT PROBLEM Labor Government Will Have to Deal With Congestion in World Metropolis LONDON, Jan. 6: (By George Hambleton. Canadian Press Staff Correspondent Two million children said to be living in Slum-land; a million and j quarter houses buljt in England and Wales since the war; yet still a million houses below a satisfactory standard, still two million houses overcrowded Housing and town- planning schemes innumerable. The London County Council aloni with and without state assistancehas built 45,000 dwellings. It "is one of the world's greatest landlords. Its dwellings house 189.-000 people, a pooulation greater man an mat mat or or Ottawa wiLawa. NEW ALICE IN mm ffl Yet Lhe LCC. has alwrtvi a ioriffT? C0UiO lurn mi P,cl?.re?! r - : 1 . . . . . . . waiting list of applicants. Within the last 12 months, it has received 1C0.000 new inquiries for accomodation. And Slumland remains. These are the hard facts of a DTOblem which knocks at the door of the Labor Government for solution. Slumland present? congestion in its worst and most demoralizing form. The over-crowded house in the mean street is a oroblem second only to the problem of a million unemployed. Nor is Slumland confined to london of wealth and poverty. It eats like some cancerous growth 'nto the heart of the great industrial districts. . Quaint old elites nd towns have their overcrowded areas within a short stone's throw of those mediaeval byways which so delight the Canadian -tourist. But let us cross the Thames from the City of great banks to me soutnwark or slums, it is a 'Wlft transition. Crowds of chll- 1ren in the streets. Overcrowded. miserable places of wretchedness. Hsre, a woman slaves from morn- rig till night. plcMnc every old oennv she can at an everlasting vatbtUD yet still managing by -ome 'miracle of industry .to keep Uie few "sticks" .together, stUl managing to maintain the little home. There, dirt and untidiness, 'ttbmerged, shiftless, careless U&k under the weight of their en-Ifanment. Ill Southward the Salvation Army has a slum settlement. Here a letter which the officer In "barge received a few days ago. n viU-soelt words it ells in its wti pathetic way of the grinding "I am writing a few lines ask-ng if vou could find better accomodation as there is 10 of us ivlng and sleeping in two rooms. " have eight children, two boys ind six girls. As thev are arowinc ip, it is a way to find proper ac- wpooauon lor mem. i nave been mhg for some time to get a wage. I have written to the Coun- fl 'The London County Council) 'Cf get my name down bat they ion t know when I shall hear anv mre. So I am asking if you could help me. fThe ages of the children are S.17. la, 13. 10, 8, i. 2." mhl children, three of tham of 5 and over, a mother and father M living, eating, sfpd sleeping In the officer in 'charase nf the tea .to tell. She dserlbes art- . -nome- in seuuiwirK a nd. wife and three children ik ui vwo iurnuntn rooms, an all they could both go into a ma-room or quite ordinary inev nav nt (S4.37i rnt a week. "There was a little baby ytne in a push chair. It had nothing 1 else to sleep on day. or I (r6. Dt-fiPZ-V ItStf) TH& bAbt - - w " tH6 M0t)BS. &. VWAjAfePS 0(s A New Alice in Wonderland by Willy Pogany Every artist has a favorite) u,v.i we ; to decorate In exactly his own way. Willy Pogany has made an "Alice in Wonderland" that is the preMl?n , J utnls wrgepusly him. Alice herself It modern, even to i DoDOednair, and most ojuie otner cnaraciers nave Dean wnen out i of their traditional costumes, Nothing like this has ever been Jnnn VAnMt nA MMUj-ular kni tl.'allt : .:,t t z : - 11 arc r ru nnii annnmnanvirur mar old nvoriie "f-atner wuiani. 110 cnnu uuKiii ij lk aiuiwcu w 1 mias mis dook, ior rogany naj done a most exquisite set of draw - ; ings for Lewis Carroll's master iiecc. The book is published by E P. Dutton Si Co., New York. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN STORY BOOK LATEST Rhyme. About, the Teddv Hear Wba TrerTubbv For Lack of Exercise Among the new stories pubushec U.JifJW.toJi:. P Dutton & Co o New "art Is The Cbristonhe Robin Story Book" by A. A. Mlliv beautifully decorated by E H Shepand It contains a number o the best stories by this well knowr author and is particularly we) waited for a Christmas gift fo children, It k written in a rollick Ing huaorous way and has ? nuBroer 'f Rhymes that help tc hrJttt 'IT The StocieS are mostly about r. boy called Christopher Robin, r hoy between four and eight vearr pf age There's a rhyme in the boo) about a teddy bear that m!rh have been written about older peoDle. poaslblv some of tbos.-tolks on the shady aide of forty The first verse runs like this: "A bear, however bard he tries, Orows tubby without exercise. Our Teddy Bear is short and fat Which is not to be wondered at. He gets what exercise he can By falling off the ottoman. But generally seems to lack The energy to clamber back ;tow tubbmess is lust the thin -Which gets a fellow wondering. And Teddv worries lots sbout The fact that he is rather stout night. My first tnought wax that n woura get curvature of the spine I got a folding eot for it At first the landlady obteeled The bedroom was so small that wlJJi one bed and a cot already lr Hf mtte was seareetor room' to turn WWSd But in the end the landlady "WSFTlted. The lighting war; so bad the poor woman had to keep an ofl Ifriap burning all day or she wild aot have been able to see. She did all her cooking on an oil :tove." Daljjr News "classified adver-I tally News classified columns. . 'II 4Alf ' 4TfC iaV00jAC?l OP TUB tX.V&OH.HIHQ-s our WBSq , n.-eavCE-SggSMBngsM WONDERLAND 't a-li. 1 Jt Win Officer Fired As Prisoner Made Getawa Jack Irwin was charged it, J ponce court inis momm Magistrate Mcuiymom wm ,ancy. the case being adj.u, el(jnt days iwin o;a takn ntn m,. Saturday night by Constub, the rtrppt ti the station n made a bolt for freedom nr.ir comer of Third Avenue street. The officer fired a i his pistol with a view to h i! man. bu Irwin kept on k 11 It.. i. Jlt 1 I- rmMJ i ri corporal Barter, wno alfo h M1 . . tr ua naafittr tnnir a a m j lor the railway tracks ai tii' ,ri lor. waikuir along uif 11. ik t warn town, uaroer inieic i 1 win and again placed htm tody. This time the prison ed himself to be taken ( i jail. Mrs. Joseph Greer Honored by Girt Receives Presentation as ftrcnrnl lion oi tier bliorts as C.U.I.T. Leader Members of the Silver Oroup, Canadian Girls m I; n First Presbyterian dim d at (ho home of their u-uuf-.-loseph Oreer Fourth Avei.n-n Friday evening and. u 1 their appreciation fm : -rship. presented her witl. me volume of the bodk ! f fit. Siephen's.'' hv the t; ' . f which there wa a su crlption. The present : aade by Miss Adelia Ttvuoi During the eveninR refrrv If ?ere served and musir e?i" French Talkie to Be Tried In Quebec Famous Players Exoeriiurnt hi neunecd by Head, Adolphc Zukor MONTREAL, Jan 6 -Quebf (' be the testing ground for u f language talkie, Adolphe 1 head of the Famous Players st oany. announced in the con. ' an interview here recent). It iukor anticipated for it a, which will lead to the pr of talkies in other languor ' ish pictures being tried ou' : co and South America Hollywood. Mr. Zukor sa. become even more tin eer.i i ecture Industry throuRii t iv e admitted that talkies r.r: make foreign lands more r produce their own films stated that no organtsatini1 v eloped anywhere thai r pete with that of Hollywo enormously technical ma" i making talkies, and he po:i : i-Jl that one able technical m ' .Mt produce taikies In any M simply by changing the cast playwright. "All charming oeoDle I f x spoiled. It is the secret of tn :r- raeuon." Oscar Wllde.