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( ----— The Long Green Gaze ■» \ Cross Word Puzzle Mystery D\) Vincent Fuller _ <( ontiniM’d from Y>Aterday.) CHAPTER VI. In the Night Watches. In Minty l’ttkjn's room, the ghostly luminous hands of the little French i lock on the dressing table pointed almost to the hour of three when Miss Minty awoke with a stnrt, sat up In lied with both hands pressed to hnr mouth, and tried to suppress the shrieks of terror that threatened in Issue wildly at any moment. An instant before she had been sound asleep, but now something— she knew not what—had happened. A whispering something. Something that left her completely and trem blingly awake. Then, slowly, ns an Image darkens Into being, developing In a negative In a dark room, the Something became, In her apprehen sion, Somebody. Furthermore, that Somebody was very near. Perhaps in the room. Stilt, nothing showed between her and the almost Invisible wash of gray that was the night outside. Quietly, slow ly, noiselessly, her hand left her mouth and groped through the night above her for the chain of the read ing lamp on the head of her bed. The flood of brilliance that came with the slight click of the switch showed her the room—empty, save for her terrified self. She jumped as the little clock chimed three. Her glance went to the door. Some body, she was sure, stood without. She waited, rigid. Then a white sheet of paper ad vanced under her door. Miss Minty was paralyzed with terror as sho 0 watched it. and came to herself only as she heard soft, careful foot glid ing away down the hall. Waiting another minute, she slipped quietly out of bed, jumping as the springs gave a minute squeak, and SECOND CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. Slipped Under .Miss Mi lily's Drnr at N'i^fil. Horizontal. 1. A precious stone.* 5. To cower. !>. Mythological character tb t was changed into a spider. II. Senior (abhr.l. 1.1. peathly pale. 14. Tune in the scale. 15. bight brown. IT. Agricultural product._ r-' ' Europe --Day by Day V - Hy O. O. .M’INTYRK. Monte Carlo. M*rch 31.—Monte Carlo is irregular and capricious in its construction. It expresses coquei ry and grace. There is nothing about it to indicate permanency. You g"t the same impression that you do of ft crepe de chine lady. She has her hour and fades. It is the clearing house of despair. Nowhere else in the world have I seen men itnd women begin the day with a pint of champagne. Nerves seem to he on constant edge Men sit at the al fresco tables with their bottles of brandy, constantly figur ing. Kaeh has his own system. And each has the dream of being the man who broke the hank at Monte Carlo. Automobile drives are lovely. All along the Riviera are beautiful lit tin dining spots. For lunch today I stopped at a little place near the sea. w The proprietor was formerly a New York head waiter. Ho would serve us if we gave him time. Ameri cans, he said, always want to rush. He would not be rushed. That Is why he came hack here. It was much ado about nothing. An hour's wait brought no better meal than one on the fly In a Broadway quick lunch flopping is terrific. A room th«t could be duplicated in New Y’ork for \\ a day with Infinitely letter ser vice cost *13.50. Still you cannot h"lp but feel the glamour. Monts Carlo as a resort contributes not n Jot of Importance to the scheme of things. Yet It lifts Its head In a grand manner as the emblem of a frivo Inns experiment. Not once does pov erty peep through. I was politely waved away from a. casino this after, noon. My collar was the same hu« < f a colored shirt. White collars must he worn. T was tempted to say "You don't tell me!" or something snappy. But n 4 usual nil the caustic, things 1 might have said were thought tit several hours later In the quiet ol my room. The Rrlnre of Monaco's oceano I.- phlo exhibit lures thousands. Al 1 . slimy monsters of the sea are or display. The "poor fish" exhibit may he seen along the terraces and In the gambling rooms. Tommy hawk. WIs., Is known to m« only because It is the birthplace ol mv friend H. T. Webster, the ear ' * t-mnlst. At an adjoining table to tnln* ft a morning a lady Joined the group She was rather easy on the eyes, 1 h- ltd her remark that she had liver 1r Tommy hawk all her life Zlegfeh should send one of his scouts o-il ti.ers tf she happened to he a sample ... was shout the most heaullfn lady- I have seen In Kurope Wherever I go i generally rud picked up the folded paper. Then, is If the lied were a fortress In which she would not be harmed, she climbed Quickly Into It, snuggling be neath the covers, ft was a full min ute before she dared, with trembling hands, to open the folded paper, though she knew, even as she opened it, that it would he what she had dimly expected, another cross word puzzle. The tight of something ns familiar as a puzzle gave her a confidence she had lacked. In a moment she had marched bravely across the whole ten feet of space that separated her from the dressing table, had secured a pen cil, and had lugged the huge diction ary from the window sill to her bed. "They can't scare me with one of these things,” she affirmed to herself, hut her voice shook, and her knees were weak. “I'm loo old a hand al ’em, and I'd like to see any one of 'em I couldn't work. No sir, they can’t scare Minty Pitkin with a cross word puzzle. I can mind my em's and en's as well as 1 can mind my p's and q's, and if there are any abbreviations left that I don't know. I'll have them in three minutes, if there's something In this house that can make this puz zle, then there's somebody that can solve it, and as Teddy would say. 'I'm the hoy.’" At the sound of one of the noises that ordinarily would have been only the undisturbing mur mur of the night, she shook like a leaf, and the fare she turned to her mirror was small and drawn and ashen. But as she derided that the cause of the noise was only the wind, a look of a narrow, fanatical shrewd ness returned. With unsteady, trem bling hands she tried the door to make sure It was looked. Then, gatli ering her implements of attack about her, she set to work, propped up in bed beneath her reading lamp. 18. A boy. 19. Character In Peter Pan. 21. To be foolishly fond 22. Directly onward (obs.). 23. Donkey (Ger.). 24. Pace. 2(1. Sea (Fr.l. 27. An antelope. 29. Crude metal. 30. Form of to he. across someone from Plattshurg, Mo. but this trip the usual good fortune has not been mine. However. I did meet a fellow who many years ago roomed with me In the same board ing house In Dayton O. At that time lie was a soap salesman. Now he runs a fashionable little jewelry shop at Nice. The dinner hour shows fashion si lt.s best. From a lounge chair I watched them sweep Into the pond [frilled dining room. There are birds of paradise and aigrets shot with diamonds. Cloths of gold and silver. Men with correct evening dress and correct small black mustaches. The cool, detached women In severe black to reveal ropes of pearls. White haired men limping along with gout. Princes in turhans. Chinchilla wraps. Peacock mandarin coats lined with marabou. Jeweled slippers. Rubies and jade. And s former telephone girl from New York with a frock trimmed with fresh red rosea. (Copyright. 1925). _ 31. Bishop s headdress. 33. To such an extent, 34. Returning e\il for evil.* 36. Declare 37. Vocal music. Vert leal. 1. Joke?. 2 Member of an Indo-Chinese tribe of upper Burma. 3. A period of time. _ 4. Whip. B. liquid sour milk, s. A hostel. T. Point of the compass, s. To avoid by dexterity. 10. Person In the house .* 12. An Egyptian ruler. 14. Belonging to a relative.* 15. A negation. IS. A game. 20. A variety of fish. 21. Physicians (abbr.). 21. Gives off. 23. Serfs. 27. Grant. 2li. Vases. 11. Encountered. 32. The Inner self, 34. Egyptian Rod. 35. Half a type space. She worked carefully, stumbling about for some time over vertical R. catching the horizontals easily, but spending fifteen minutes over hori zontal 22, turning to the e's In the dictionary only by accident, where she found the obsolete form she was looking for. It was with a gnsp of astonish ment that she tilled In the last spume. and looked hack at the starred words, horizontal* 1 and 34 and verticals Hi and 14. But quickly she told hot self; "I’ve suspected that all the time " Then, for several minutes she sat quietly thinking. At last a I ok of determination set her face In fra g1le gray lines. Kitting nervously on the edge of her bed, she put on her slippers and in old fashioned kimono of flowered dlk. opening her d*>or. she peered nquintkcly into the dimly lighted hall Its emptiness reassured her. and she Hilled her door softly to behind her. <T • lie t ontlnueri Inmnmis.) Clerk—Here’s a man complains that he stock we sold him is full of water. Office Manager—Send him a blotter. 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