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When Miss MacDonald came up, .
bringing me some dinner, which i
couldnt touch, I said to her: "It
seems true, but I know tnat it can't
be. It is too impossible. I mean?
too iar letched."
"Not a bit of it," she saia. mc
only impossible thing about it is
the length of time it has taken us
to discover it. Of course?forgive
me, Mrs. Ma gin. I was almost on
the trail once, I had at least started
in the right direction, and then
you threw me completely off."
"I! How?"
She smiled at me. "By seeing
something which you did not see.
But you are not in the least to
blame for that. The fault is ali
mine."
She went and shut my transom.
She looked through my clothes <
closet. She looked under my bed.
saying as she did so, "The proverbial
practice of old maids, you
know." She came and sat close
beside me, "Now then. . . she said. i
"Listen. Bit by bit it works into
the whole, like a picture puzzle?
each segment slipping right into
place. There is just one hole in
it all, and I think your Danny's
kindness and unselfishness will
supply that necessary bit."
She began then?to use her own j
way of saying it?to put together';
the pieces of the puzzle. She wasji
right. Bit by bit she fitted together. :
Almost at once she came to the <
place that she had called a hole, 1
"There is no hole there," I told 1
her "Under those circumstances, |
Danny would have been just sweet j
ana unselfish, and foolish enough (
to have done that very thing. She j,
did it. That was why she was j worried
and unhappy, all that 11
day."
"I'm sure of it. Now then . . ." ]
She went on: Danny's calling after (
Gaby that day?easy to understand
now, of course, and leading straight ?
to Chad's suicide and confessional i
note. Gaby's fear; Martha's mur- 1
der; Sam's ashes on the bag; ]
Gaby's note to Danny; each onejfltting
right into place, until |'
spread in front of me was one of,'
the most hideous pictures that any 1
human being has ever been forced
to look at. In all my experience I
have never investigated another
murder case where the thing was so
cruelly, vilely premeditated; so
wickedly, cunningly carried out.
If this is true, it will be also, the
first time that I have ever found a
really brilliant mind belonging to
a nena.
"If it is true!" I echoed. "But it
is proven. You have just proven
it all to me."
She shook her head. "We have
a seemingly perfect fabric made up.
wholly, of circumstantial evidence.
As yet, we have nothing else. Now
I have a question to ask you that
I should have asked you this at
least a week ago. I did not, because
I was certain that, unless I
sliared all of my suspicions with
ycu. your anwser would be exactly
the answer that you gave me before.
Now, thinking as you think,
I want a very careful answer to
this question."
When she had asked it, I refused
my first impulse to answer it, at
once, and sat thinking carefully
for several minutes. The answer
that I was forced to give, then,
made me sick with shame.
"No," I said, "I didn't. I thought
honestly that I did. But now I
know that I didn't. That?that,"
I knew I was chattering it, "puts
Canneziano's murder right at my
door?"
"Nonsense." she folded one of
my trembling hands into her
steady, capable hands. "We can't
go poking about like that, into the
machinery of fate, and stay sane.
The blame in this case is entirely
for me. But, if I had not allowed
myself to be misled then, but had
worked straight on, something
equally tragic might have happened.
We don't know. What we do
know is, that no more time must
be wasted.
"I have spent this past week in
trying to obtain the necessary
proof. I have failed. Now, I am
going to ask you to help me. Will
yc.u?"
"I will, and gladly. But you'll
have to tell me what you want me
to do. I haven't the faintest idea."
She told me.
I could see that she was annoyed.
"That's easy."
"I haven't found it so," she said.
"I have made three attempts, as
many as I darejJ make, this week,
and have failed. Do you realize
that it must come simply, and naturally?
You must realize that?"
"See here," I interrupted, "why
not do as Sam wants you to do?
Why not arrest the criminal now,
and force the proof, afterward?
This sort of evidence could be got4
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ten then, as well as now, and a lot !
safer, too, it seems to me."
"Mrs. Magin," she said, "until we
have evidence of guilt we have no
criminal to arrest. Incredible as itl
seems, we might still be wrong concerning
every bit of this. I once
made a horrible mistake. It was on
my third care?that is, after I began
to work for myself. I don't talk
about it. I can't think about it. But
I made myself a promise then, a
premise that I have never broken,
and which I never will break. Except
in extreme necessity, proof,
positive, and perfect, must come before
any accusation or arrest in a
case of mine. Twice, as I have said,
[ have had men arrested because of
circumstantial evidence. Each time
the evidence was far stronger than
anything we have in this case. The
first time, the man would have undoubtedly
escaped if he had not
Seen put in confinement. The secend
time was on my third case,
which I have mentioned. If you
force m.3 to make this the third
time?"
"I can't force you to do anything,"
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L reininaea xier, nupuig w twi uc*
down a bit.
"Yes, you can. If you go at this
;o clumsily that you give the thing
iway, and so endanger your own
life, I shall have to force matters.
1 must, of course, risk a reputation
?I'm not speaking of my own, ycu
onderstand?in preference to risking
i life?again I am not speaking of
my own. But, if we are wrong in
ill!
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Vol. II, No. 3 Viq
Bait for Boll Weevil
The Department of Agriculture
thinks the boll weevil smells her
way to the cotton field?and therefore
it is planning ways to trick her.
"The odorous principle of the
cotton plant has been studied,"
says the Secretary of Agrieultuie.
"This principle has been isolated,
and'the compound can probably be
made synthetically. Here is a possible
means of furnishing bait for
boll weevils which may have considerable
importance."
Sounds like a joke, but it is far
from being that. Maybe two or
three years from now we'll be
spreading empty V-0 sacks on
frames, with a little of this "principle"
in the bottom, and when a
sack gets full of weevils all we'll
have to do will be to haul it away
and get rid of them.
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"Have sold V-0 for 30 years, and
have used V-0 on our own crops,
with excellent results. V-C's quality
and other merits are proved?our
customers always come back for
more."?The P. B. Halligan Co.,
Dealer, Carson, Va.
V-0
Millions from a Weed!
In all countries where tobacco is
nmHiu'Ar! nn anv considerable scale.
It "provides an important source of
state revenues," says Encyclopaedia
Britannica?which is another way of
saying it pays a lot of taxes. Think
of the billions of dollars' worth of
public works that have been paid
for with taxes on the descendants of
the plant that even the Indians
first thought was a weed!
V-0
"Have Just closed our 14th season
selling V-O. We have always guaranteed
every bag of V-0 and have
not had one dissatisfied customer."
?Seed & Fertilizer Co., Ohristiansburg,
Va.
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ares It Works
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it Hoover at a pre-New Year conr
of the Volstead Law, was interomo??H
frnm the White House.
ith the way the law is working.
this, and remember we may be?
circumstantial evidence is the trickiest
thing in the world?it would be
bitterly cruel and wrong. Will you
remember that, when you make
your first attempt?"
"But?how shall I do it?"
"I am going to leave that to you,
and to your natural wit. You can do
it much more spontaneously if you
are not attempting to follow set directions.
But do, do be careful.
Don't make a mistake."
With that she left me. I am |
ashamed to say that excitement had
made me forget my sorrow. I sat
there saying my prayers, planning,
and shaking in my shoes, for a good
half hour before I could get up
enough courage to go downstairs.
In all probability, the next hour
would bring me face to face with
the murderous fiend; and not by
the blink of an eye, not by the ghost
of a shiver, must I betray my horrible
knowledge.
When I finally did get myself
downstairs, I found Sam, seemingly
alone in the living room, playing
solitaire. I judged, from the look he
gave me, and from the way he had
his shoulders hunched, that he was
still in a rieht uelv humor.
"Where's everybody?" I asked.
"Out committing murders, somewhere,
likely. Do you know how
much I trust that MacDonald
woman?"
"No, I don't know. I don't care,
either."
"Ahk!" Sam barked. "She is head
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FULL ToWS
ginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation
The Consumer Pays It All
The United States is one country
that does not tax or control the i
growing of tobacco. But after the !
leaf is marketed, what a harvest it i
gathers! Internal revenue taxes for 1
manufacturing, license taxes for ]
selling?and finally the consumer 1
rofunrlc hunruthinP PVP.rvhnflv 1
has paid up to that minute. i
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"Change is inevitable in a progressive 1
country. Change is constant."?Dis- (
raeli, at Edinburgh, 1807.
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Seeding from the Air
A tract of 1,000 acres In Oregon
was seeded from an airplane travellng
70 miles an hour, 500 feet above
ground, says an exchange. A fine
stand of grass was obtained and the
cost was about one-third that of
hand seeding.
V-C
Strong and vigorous young tobacco
plants stand best the
shock of transplanting and
leave you less re-planting to
do. Then your tobacco crop
comes on in uniform size,
matures evenly, cures better.
If you haven't tried V-0 ,
Bi.ooMAiDforfertilizingyour 5
plant bed, you haven't seen 1
what vigor and strength (
young plants can have. 1
BloomAid makes them beg s
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Close Spacing, High Yield 1
"Probably the most valuable les- 3
son that the cotton contest has
taught Is the effect of close spacing
on yield," writes A. B. Bryan In
Manufacturers Record, describing results
of the Olemson College 5-Acre
contest which recently completed <
Its fourth year. t
"Clearly and positively, close t
spacing of row and In drill Increase t
the yield per acre." The best width t
of row is 35 to 37 Inches, he con- c
tinues. s
A decrease throughout South t
Carolina to thl3 width of row would 1
add about $16,000,000 to the value of s
the state's crop, at 18 cents a pound, i
he says. t
And by actual count of stalks It I
has been found that the highest t
yields are made with an average of 1
about three stalks per foot of row. 1
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: WARREN RECORD
over heels in love with John, that's
a part of what is the matter with
her."
I said, "I wish I thought so."
"Why do you wish that, Mary?"
It was Danny's voice. Her white
face, with the big, sorrowful eyes,
peeked around the high back of a
chair near the fireplace.
I was too taken aback to answer
her.
"How long have you been sitting;
there, eavesdropping, young lady?"
Sam asked.
"I didn't mean to eavesdrop," she
answered, quietly. "I am sorry. I
was reading."
Sam, with his usual helpfulness in
embarrassing situations, pushed
back his chair and went walking
fast out of the room.
"Mary," Danny questioned, "why
aren't you my friend any more?"
"Lands, child," I said, "if you
mean that because I was wishing
Miss MacDonald was in love with
John, it was only because I've always
reckoned that the more women
in love with a man the better lor
him. John loves you. wnat ao you
care how many women love him?"
"John doesn't love me any more."
"Nothing like that," I scoffed, and
went into the kitchen.
She followed me. I went straight
to the stove and picked up the lid
lifter, which, as usual, when I'm not
there to watch, some one had left
sticking up in a stovelid to get red
hot, instead of hanging it on the
hook where it belonged. I dropped
it with a howl; and, wrapping my
hand in my apron, told her to nan
and get the linseed oil and limewater,
up in the hall bathroom, for
me.
I am not saying that I was not
to blame. I do say that, if that fool
child Zinnia had not jumped
around shouting, "Sody! Sody! Wet
scdy's the best for burns?" and
that, if Mrs. Ricker hadn't heard
her screeching, and come in, too,
and began asking questions, I certainly
would not have overlooked
the fact that, before she went to
minister to my needs, Danny had
picked up that lid lifter, from where
I had dropped it on the floor, and,
barehanded, had hung it upon its
hook.
She made a quick trip upstairs
and down again, with the bandages,
and the lotion. She offered, sweet
and sympathetic, to do up my hand
for me. I had noticed, by that time,
that my hand was not smarting
much, but I was too excited to account
for it reasonably. I asked
Mrs. Ricker to attend to the banT
or^r\fVior ir\h fnr Fiannv
uag^o. A liau C*1?\SVAAVA JW *v* ^ .
"I just came out here," I said, "to
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Copyright 1930
Heavy Fertilizing Pays
Tests in growing bright tobacco,
made by the Virginia experiment
station through a period of nine
successive years, show clearly that
tieavy applications of fertilizer pay
oetter than light applications. The
record of the tests shows that 1,400
pounds of 3-8-3 per acre brought an
average yield of 1,038 pounds that
sold for an average of $180 per acre?
whereas only 700 pounds per acre, of
the same analysis, brought a yield
5f 648 pounds that sold for $91 per
acre. The difference in favor of
tieavy applications was 320 pounds
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"V-0 goods are OK?none bet;er."
? E. S. Hyder & Son, Dealer,
Stonypoint, Tenn.
V-O
Cotton, Oldest of Crops
"Cotton is one of the oldest of all
mltivated plants, and is the most
raluable fiber plant in the world. It
vas grown in China three thousand
rears before Christ. Europeans did
lot know of the plant until a few
:enturies ago. It was first cultivated
n the United States by the early
lettlers in Virginia." ? William S.
Myers.
' V-0
"I furnish what my trade speclies?V-O."?W.
D. Joyner, Dealer,
iocky Mount, N. O.
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The Way Is Open
"Most American mills reauire
otton better than the average of
he grades and staples produced In
he United States. Growers have
heref ore an opportunity to increase
heir income by producing cotton
>f higher spinning value. The
itrongest demand Is for middling
o strict middling cotton from
5^8 to lVfjj inch in length of
ttaple. Foreign competition in the
production of these lengths is pracically
non-existent. Clearly the
American cotton industry has here
tn opportunity which ought not to
>e neglected."? W. M. Jardine,
ormer Secretary of Agriculture.
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make my weekly list to send to zi
Telko for supplies. I can't write w
with t lis wadded up hand. Will you w
make ;he list for me, Danny? Zin- 0i
nia, pease hand her the pad and
pencil from the shelf." gi
Zinr ia brought it. Danny sat
down by the table and picked up
the pencil. My heart thumped in my
throat
"On.;.' crate of Fallon melons," I
., m
said. 7(
Danny pushed the pad and pencil '
across the table to Mrs. Ricker.
"Perhaps you'd as soon make the ~
list for Mary? I have something to &
attenc to upstairs." g
"Go on, now you've started it, |
Danny," I said. "You write such a
neat, pretty hand."
"I ] (resume my writing can be
read," Mrs. Ricker replied, as she
picked up the pencil. "A crate of
Fallor melons, did you say?" She
wrote it down. I heard Danny running
ip the back stairway.
I fdt flat as rolled dough from
mn H canrvMnt.ment Tn the next ! I!
minute I had something more than
disap] ointment to bother me.
"I don't see," Ziannia said, "how
you riade out to burn yourself on
that s tove, Mrs. Magin. Miss CannePAIM
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