The Secret
Adversary
By
AGATHA
CHRISTIE
(Copyright Dodd. Head ft Company)
(Continued From Last Saturday.)
It, because tie knows me, but he only
saw you for a minute or two in
Lyons’. He's not likely to recognize
you. My plan is this,” Tuppence went
on calmly: “I'll go alone tomorrow.
I’ll put him offi again like I (lid today.
It doesn’t matter it I don't get any
more money at once. Fifty pounds
ought to last us a few days. You’ll
hang about outside. When I come out
I shan't speak to you in case he's
watching. But I'll take up my stand
somewhere near, and when he comes
out of the building I'll drop a hand
kerchief or something, and off you go !”
“Off I go where?”
“Follow him, of course, silly! What
do you think of the idea?’*
“Sort of thing one reads about in
books. People will wonder what I'm
up to. Anyway, it will be rather a
lark.”
They met by arrangement the fol
lowing morning and proceeded city
ward. Tommy , remained on the oppo
site side of the road while Tuppence
plunged Into the building.
Tommy strolled slowly down to the
end of the street, then back again.
Just as he came abreast of the build
ings, Tuppence darted across the road.
“Tommy! The place is shut. I
can’t make anyone hear.”
"That’s odd.”
“Isn't it? Come up with me, and
let’s try again.”
Tommy followed her. As they
passed the third floor landing a young
clerk came out of an office. He hesi
tated a moment, then addressed him
self to Tuppence.
“Were you wanting the Esthonin
Glassware?”
“Tes, please.” '
“It’s closed down. Since yesterday
afternoon. Company being wound up,
they say. Not that I've ever heard of
it myself. But anyway the office Is
to let.”
(Continued on Next Page.)
Big Salaries Paid Movie Stors.
New York.—Well known picture
stars received from $100,000 to $350,
000 for each picture they worked in,
it was revealed by John D. Williams,
organizer of the First National Exhib
itors Circuit, Inc., who testified at the
Federal Trade Commission hearing as
to whether the Famous Players-Lasky
Corporation and its subsidaries con
stitute a trust.
Williams told of the salaries paid
the stars after his testimony that the
Famous Players controlled sixty per
cent of the leading film men and wo
men in 1916 was challenged.
Charlie Chaplin, he said, had receiv
ed $1,000,000 in 1917 to produce eight
pictures, while between 1917 and 1918
Mary Pickford had received $350,000
for each of three pictures. Norma
Talmadge, he said, first received $160,
ments cover a period of two years.
Sugar Trades Whit Denied.
New York.—Federal Judge Mayor
announced that the Government’s ap
plication for an injunction to restrain
the New York Coffee and Sugar Ex
change and the New York Coffee and
Sugar Association from dealing in
sugar futures had been denied.
The decision, reached by Judges
Rogers, Hough, Manton and Mayer,
has not yet been filed in writing. Judge
Mayer, who entered a denial of the
government’s application said the rea
son for the decision would be an
nounced later.
000 each with a share in the profits of
eight pictures, and later had been
engaged at $350,000 for each of twelve
more pictures.
Thousands of dollars. Williams said,
had been paid to the stars before work
on the pictures began, and In instances
in addition to their salaries they re
ceived a share of the profits and even
higher salaries for renewals of con
tracts. Some received as high as $50,
000 bonus for signing contracts, he
said.
Death For Officer in Raid on Still. '
Norfolk, Va.—One Princess Anne
county officer was killed and another
badly wounded in a raid on a still
near the state rifle range at Virginia
Beach. The dead man is Special
Agent Allen Gimbert of the Princess
Ann Purity league. County officer
Claud Fentress was shot in the leg.
A posse of more than 100 Princess
Anne county officers and citisens of
Virginia Beach is scouring the woods
near the rifle range at Virginia Beach,
searching for Luke Spillman, a negro,
. Who shot and killed Gimbert.
Life’s Surprises.
' Life la a series of surprise*. We
do not guess today the mood, the
pleasure, the power of tomorrow,
when we are building up our being.—
AMERICAN
LEGION
(Copy for This Deportment Supplied by
the American Lesion News Service.)
SAD WELCOME AWAITS THEM
Mother, Brother, Sweetheart, En Route
From Europe Will Find Young
Soldier Dead.
Louis Kosmen is dead in a St. Paul,
Minn., hospital.
From somewhere in Central Europe
an aged widowed mother, a dark
haired lass of nineteen and a lad of
fourteen irecently started on a long
awaited journey to far-ott America to
rejoin the son, sweetheart and big
brother, believed to be ready to greet
them after years af separation.
For eighteen long years Louis Kos
men had pursued the blue bird of hap
piness. Through prosperity and pov
erty, on battlefields and in hospitals
he had followed, always with the
dream that some day he would be able
to send for the loved ones to come to
him in the promised land of America.
At last Kosmen believed he could
see the fulfillment of his dreams.
Through the aid of his American Le
gion pals with whom he had served in
the World war, the red tape of gov
ernment immigration regulations had
been cut and he had cabled word to
the waiting loved ones that they
should come to him in his American
home. The lines of fatigue faded from
his toil-worn face and the discouraged
droop disappeared from his shoulders
as he thought of seeing once more his
mother and little brother and his prom
ised bride.
Then came illness. The doctor told
him that disease contracted while serv
ing in the American army during the
war would necessitate an operation.
Recently he went onto the operating
table. The next day he was dead.
When but a lad of fifteen, Kosmen,
heir of a once wealthy and Influential
Albanian family, had been sent to
Greece to escape the Turks. His father
was killed by them. Before he left he
was betrothed, according to the cus
tom of his country, to baby Aspasla
Gerdan. In following years he fought
the Turks, served in their prisons, was
wounded, escaped and finally came to
the United States where he set to work
to build up a comfortable home for his
remaining loved ones. Ill fortune pur
sued him. After accumulating consid
erable money he lost it in a business
venture. Then America, the land of
his adoption, entered the war and he
followed the flag to th'e front.
In spite of broken health from the
military service he had set at work
once more to build up a fortune for his
family and believed his ambition was
attained when death claimed him.
TO CO-OPERATE WITH BUREAU
Legion Will Assist Veterans’ Branch In
Aiding Former Warriors Serving
Time in Institutions.
The American Legion will co-operate
with the United States veterans’ bu
reau in the extension of vocational
training and medical rehabilitation to
the 18,000 veterans of the World war
serving sentences In federal and state
penal institutions, Joe Sparks, chair
man of the Legion’s national rehabili
tation committee, has announced.
Veterans’ bureau officials believe
that there are many men now serving
sentences who may be unaware that
the bureau is interested In their well
being, and possibly others whose im
prisonment may be due to conditions
resulting from war service. Of the 18,
000 Imprisoned, only about 2,000 are
receiving benefits from the bureau.
Legion officials may be named by
courts as guardians for mentally dis
abled veterans under the proposed
plan. Many mentally incompetent ex
service men are said to be suffering
from lack of proper guardianship, and
their condition renders them incapable
of Instituting court action In their
favoV.
It Is probable that the new plan will
first be tried out In the federal prisons
at Atlanta, Leavenworth and McNeil
Island, Seattle. Veterans’ bureau phy
sicians, mental specialists and voca
tional educators would bjs permitted
to survey the institutions to determine
the nature of rehabilitation measures
to be taken. The plan may later in
clude parole of prisoners under care
of the American Legion or welfare or
ganizations, while they could be sent
to vocational schools elsewhere If fa
cilities for such education were not
available at the penal institutions.
"The Canada of Vimy Ridge."
“The Canada of Vlmy Ridge,” as it
Is described, Is soon to become a real
ity on that historical spot where the
Canadians stemmed the tide of Ger
man Invaders of France. Where now
is but the barren, war-torn field, is soon
to blossom with the trees and flowers
of Canada, transplanted with loving
care from their native land to France.
, The'project is in the hands of a com
mission named from Canada. France
has granted 250 acres of land for me
morial purposes. Walter Allward, To
ronto sculptor, now In France, was de
signed the monuments which mark the
' spot. He was able to |>lace the princi
pal memorial at a point from which
may be semi the desolated lands,
tramped over by . .Canadian soldiers,
many to die there. The land win be
created into a park.
LEGION WORKER HAS NO LEOS
State Adjutant uf the Department at
Idaha Doaa Nat Allow Handicap
to Intarfarai
Handicapped! Lester F. Albert,
state adjutant of the Department of
Idaho of the American Legion, consid
ers no physical disability an insur
mountable obstacle. For this intrepid
veteran of the World war, who at the
battle of Cantigny lost both legs and
suffered other serious wounds, has not
faltered in performance 'of his work
since his return to civilian life.
Albert, who was a liebtenant with
Company C. 66th' Engineers, was in
actiou. with the First French army at
Cantigny in May, 1018. TWo platoons
of the company were under his com
mand, as he was in charge of the
Searchlight section. Their position
was under'the direct and heavy shell
lire of the Germans during the night
of May 27.
One of the German shells ended
active service for Lieutenant Albert
Lester F. Albert.
It shattered both his legs, tore off a
finger of his right hand, and inflicted
many severe body wounds. Only im
mediate surgical aid, followed by blood
transfusion, was responsible for sav
ing Albert’s life.
After a long period in a government
hospital at Fort Snelling, Minn., he
returned to his home in Idaho, and
took up his chosen work as an elec
trical engineer.
His activity In the organization of
the American Legion in Idaho
brought hlras recognition from hun
dreds of ex-service men of the state
and at the first annual convention he
was named to the post of department
adjutant. He has held this position
since that time, and at the last con
vention was elected for a three-year
period.
Mr. Albert’s- determination for re
habilitation in spite of the injury he
suffered has won the admiration of
Legionnaires all over the country. In
noting the enthusiasm with which he
carries on his work, the extent of the
injury is never thought of. He con
siders that physical handicap will not
thwart progress if determination is a
factor In the fight against it.
DISABLED FELLOWS SHOW PEP
Legion Rehabilitation Officials Find
Afflicted Men Make Good if Given
Fair Chance.
It has always been the contention of
America® Legion rehabilitation offi
cials that If the disabled man is given
an equal start with those about him,
the “vet” will come through with flying
colors. This is borne out in many in
stances, but in perhaps none more ^
clearly than at the North Dakota Agri- j
cultural college, where 106 Veterans’
Bureau trainees are in attendance.
Names of five of these ex-soldlere
were on the honor roll of the school
when it was announced, a proportion
of approximately 20 per cent of the
total number of trainees enrolled as
against 1 per cent of the other students
who succeeded in making the honor
grades. The average grade of these
five veteran-students was 92.6 per c$nt
for the quarter.
The veterans are also active in cam
pus affairs. Every officer elected at a
meeting of the Draftsmen and Build
ers’ club at the college was a trainee.
Burton Odekirk, a trainee, won out
standing honors as a Judge of live
stock when he was a member yf the
college team at the National Live
Stock show at Chicago In competition
with teams representing the other
schools,
Harry Eckman, an ex-service stu
dent at the School of Agriculture at
Minnesota, has won a medal for cat
tle judging in competition with a large
class of other live stock students.
A Market Overlooked.
Excitedly the manufacturer of the
World’s Greatest Insect Exterminating
Powder burst into the export mana
ger’s office.
“Hey!” he bellowed. “Have we got
an agency m Egypt?”
“Why-er-no, sir.”
“Well, why ain’t we? I see a movie
of them pyramids last night and it says
they were covered with millions of
hieroglyphics.” — American Legion
Weekly.
Legion Band and Drum Corps.
American Legion bands and, drum
corps are getting to be the common
thing in Minnesota cities. Recently
Northfield, Hutchinson and Red Wing
Legionnaires formed the corps, and re
cently the Pine City post took over the
home town band. Legion musical or
ganizations already existed at Dntatfc,
Rochester, St. Paul, Minneapolis, 80*
vsr Inks and a number of other place*
ITSE FINE SCOURING FOWDER TO
GIVE KITCHEN SINK RIGHT CARE
_
Kitchen Sink Sometime* Need* Strong Cleaneer.
(Prepared by the United Statee Department
ot Agriculture.)
Stoppage In pipes Is often due to
hardened grease or to an accumula
tion of hnir and lint. The waste pipes
should be flushed thoroughly after
using, so that the v^uste is carried out
of the house pipes and the trap left
full of clean water. A trap in a waste
pipe is a curved section so arranged
that water remains in it and prevents
the passage of sewer gas into the
house. If the water left in th» trap
is not clean, decomposition may take
place and odors and gases may come
from the impurities in the water itself.
Precautions should be taken to pre
vent oil and grease from going down
the waste pipe from the kitchen sink,
because being fighter than water they
tend to remain floating on the surface
of the water in the trap.
Use of Cleansing Mixtures.
Occasionally more than cold, or
even hot, water Is necessary to clear
out the accumulated grease, lint, mis
cellaneous dirt, and bits of refuse.
Washing soda Is ordinarily strong
enough for bathroom pipes, and may
be used in the proportion of 1 part
"liquid” soda (made by boiling 1
pound of washing soda and 1 quart
of water in an old kettle) to 12 parts
hot water, or 1 pound of dry soda
thoroughly dissolved in 3 gallons of
boiling water. The drain pipe from
the kitchen sink may sometimes need
a stronger cleanser, even if It Is thor
oughly cleaned and flushed after each
dishwashing, and for this purpose
caustic potash Is efficacious, but must
be used carefully—the hands must be
protected and the potash must not be
allowed to touch porcelain or porce
lain-lined sinks, because It may de
stroy the glaze. One pound of crys
tals dissolved In 2 quarts of water
should be poured down the drain.
About half an hour later the pipe
should be flushed with clear water.
Caustic soda, although sometimes rec
ommended, Is not desirable, because It
is likely to unite with the grease and
form a hard soap, that is difficult to
remove from the pipes. Fine scour
ers may be used on all fixtures, says
the United States Department of Agri
culture. For porcelain and enameled
lron fixtures kerosene and whiting are
especially good; the kerosene cuts the
grease and the whiting supplies the
abrasion. Some of the commercial
cleaning preparations used for enam
eled and porcelain fixtures contain
scourers so gritty that they scratch
the surface, and thus make the work
of cleaning gradually harder. Nothing
coarser than whiting should be al
lowed.
PROTEIN IN EGOS OF
PARTICULAR BENEFIT
Can Be Served in Many Forms
* and With Other Foods; Na
Need to Tire of Them.
(Prepared br the United State* Department
of Agriculture.)
When the price of eggs drops during
the spring months housekeepers gen
erally feel that the time has come to
abandon eggless muffins, one-egg cakes
and other dishes In which eggs were
sparingly used, and to give the family
a good deal of the needed protein is
the form of eggs. For the protein of
eggs, like that of meat, milk and
cheese, Is of such kind that the body
can use It to particular advantage.
Moreover, egg yolks are a rich source
of Iron and vitamin A.
Eggs can be served in so many forms
and with so many other foods that no
one need tire of them. In addition to
the common ways of boiling, coddling,
frying and poaching, eggs can be used
in a great variety of custards and
sauces, both sweet and sour. There
are also as many kinds of omelets as
there are tasty Ingredients to put in
them. Peppers, cheese, tomatoes,
minced ham, chopped chicken, jelly
and parsley are all good additions to
omelets. v
The uses for hard-boiled eggs are in
numerable. They may be cut up and
combined with cream sauce, or the
yolks may be put through a rlcer and
sprinkled over the mixture of chopped
whites and sauce, to ihake “goldenrod
egga." They may be made into deviled
eggs for picnics or supper by mixing
the yolks with salad dressing and sea
sonings, and refilling the whites. Dev
iled-egg salad on a bdi of lettuce is ap
petizing, or a plain egg salad may be
m*de by slicing up the hard-boiled
eggs and fWrving them with other
wlad Ingredients. A hard-boiled egg
seems to taste particularly good with
spinach, and Is often used as a garnish
for that vegetable. Egg sandwiches are
usually satisfactory and least dry If
the yolks are first mixed with salad
dressing and are then mixed with the
chopped ^ bites.
Many dishes calling for a number of
eggs, such as souffles, fondues, tim
bales, and combinations of meat and
eggs or cheese and eggs, may be served
when they are plentiful. Farmers’
Bulletin 487, “Cheese and Its Economi
cal Uses In the Home,” which may be
obtained free from the United States
Department of Agriculture, gives the
following recipes, all of which require
several eggs: Cheese fondue, rice fon
due, com and cheese souffle, creamed
cheese and eggs, baked eggs with
cheese, scrambled eggs with cheese,
Swiss eggs, cheese souffle, omelets and
cheese croquettes.
Eggs may be put Into various types
of rolls or -loaves, containing meat and
bread crumbs, or meat and potatoes.
Improving both their texture and their
food value. An entire chapter In a
cookbook could be written on cake
making, when the number of eggs
called for may be disregarded. As the
great problem ordinarily for the bouse
ls to discover recipes for das
serts that are economical In respect to
eggs, she has no difficulty at the season
of plenty In choosing puddings and des
serts which require eggs.
Flavored egg-and-milk drinks should
not be forgotten. Occasionally It Is a
good thing to get children to take raw
egg In the form of * vanilla, chocolate
or orange "egg-nog," while such drinks
are usually refreshing and acceptable
to those on a light diet or needing
nourishment In easily digested form.
GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR SOAP
Soapbark, Starch or Bran Water May
Be Used Without Fear of Injury
to Delicate Color.
When the action of soap is likely to
Injure a delicate color, one may use,
Instead, soapbark, starch water or
bran water, suggests the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Soapbark, although not a soap, whfen
heated In water will form suds. To
prepare It for use, boll for ten minutes
a cupful of the bark with one quart of
water, and cool and strain the liquid.
The “soapy” water ma(y be used full
strength for sponging or diluted wash
ing; half of this amount Is enough for
one-half tubful of water. Since the
liquid Is brownish, It should be used
only on dark-colored goods.
Starch water is especially good for
Cleaning delicate cotton fabrics. This
is usually made by adding thin starch
paste to the wash water. Water In
which rice has been boiled, If It is not
discolored, may be used Instead. If
It is not desirable to have the material
starched slightly, It must be rinsed
In salt water.
Bran water, made In the same way
as soapbark solution, Is useful with
colors that are likely to fade. It does
not give suds, but cleans like starch
water.
>411 Aound
ibe House
Eggs may be poached and served on
rice.
• • • *>
Most Ink-stains on linen can be re
moved by rubbing with a slice of juicy
tomato.
• • •
A teaspoonful of salt put in starch
when cooking prevents it from stick
dig when ironing.
* * •
A pinch of salt put into the whites
of eggs will lessen the time for whip
ping. \ *
• • •
A good salad is made of- canned
peaches, chopped nuts, cottage cheese
and mayonnaise.
• • •
Greens are Improved if a piece oi
dripping is added to the water whet
they are hi most boiling.
* • •
To keep peeled apples from turning
brown while standing, cover them with
salt water.,
• • • j,
When silverware becomes tarnished,
place It UP potato water and yon will
And afterwards that 4 looks like new
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