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Salada Green tea is a masterpiece in blending I! SALADA" ^V '^^ ^BHM ^^ i V 1 ^^^ ^ GREEN TEA 'Fresh from the gardens' m The Bishop Murder Case A PHILO VANCE STORY BY S. S. VAN DINE ma mac. S7MOP91S A man known & Cock Rotln iu found with an arrow lo hit) heart; another, Johnny Sprlgg, Is found with a bullet through the top of his head. District Attorney Markham calls In I'hllo Vance, who claims the murders are founded on ' rhymes and are tju work of a - associated with the case nr! Prof. Dlllard. his nelce Ileelle, and hit protege Sigurd Arnespon. also a profes- sor of mathematics. John Pardce, a neighbor with a passion for chess; Mrs. Drukker and her son Adolph. Mrs. DruK- kcr Is mentally unbalanced and Adolph 1m a cripple with a super-brain. Suspicion settles on Urukker, but the Might the police plan to cross-examine klm he Is murdered. The detective set to watch the Drukker house discuses that someone entered Drukker's room hortly after the latter's death and turn- ed on the light. I'pon going to the Pruk- ker nous* they find Mrs. Drukker lead from shock In Drukker's study t Is elear that the murderer had visited the Huily Immediately after killing DrukHer IH] that Mrs. Drukker found him there. CHAPTER XXVIII. When the doctor had straightened Mrs. Drukker's body on the bed and covered it with a sheet, we returned down-stairs. Barsteai took his de- parture at once after promising U> end the death certificate to the Ser- geant within an hour. "It's scientifically correct to talk of natural death from shock," said Vance, when we were alone; "but our immediate problem, d' ye see, is to ascertain the cause of that sudden hock. Obviously it's connected v/ith Drukker's death. Now, I wonder. . ." Turning impulsively, he entered the drawing room. Mrs. Menzel was sit- ting where we had left her, in an attitude of horrified expectancy. Vance went to her and said kindly: "Your mistress died of heart fail- ure during the night. And it's much better that she should not have out- lived her son." "(lott geb' ihr die ewiije Ruh'l" tho woman murmured piously. "Ja, It is best. " "The end came at about ten last night. Were you awake at that time, Mrs. Menzel?" "All night I was awake." She spoke In a low, awed voice. Vance contemplated her with eyes half shut. "Tell us what you heard?" "Somebody came here last night!" "Ye?, some on came at about ten 'clocl>-by the front door. Did you hear him enter?" "No; but after I had gone to bed I heard voices in Mr. Drukktr' room." 'Was it unusual to hear voices in opened and shut the door, very soft; and I heard steps moving down the hall in the dark. Then the stairs creaked, and pretty soon the front door shut" "What did you do after that?" "I HstenejJ a little while, and then I went back Fo bed. But I couldn't sleep. . . ." "It's all over now, Mrs. Menzel," Vance told her comfortingly. "There's nothing for you to fear. You'd oest go to your room and wait till we need you." Reluctantly the woman went up- stairs. "I think now," said Vance, "we can make pretty close guess as to what happened here last night. The mur- derer took Drukker's key and let him- self in by the front door. He knew Mrs. Drukker's quarters were at the rear, and he no doubt counted on ac- complishing his business in Drukker's room and departing as he had come. But Mrs. Drukker heard him. It mcy be she associated him with 'the little man' who had left the black bishop at her door, and feared that her son was in danger. At any rate, she went at once to Drukker's room. The door may have been slightly open, and I think she saw the intruder and recog- nized him. Startled and apprehen- sive, she stepped inside and asked him why he was there. He may have an- swered that he had come to inform her of Drukker's death which would ac- count for her moans and her hysteri- cal laughter. But that was only a preliminary on his part^-a play for time. He was devising some means o fmeeting the situation he was plan- ning how he would kill her! Oh, there can be no doubt of that. He couldn't afford to let her leave that room alive.' Maybe he told her so in as many words he spoke 'angry-like,' you recall. And then he laughed. He was tortur- ing her now perhaps telling her the whole truth in a burst of insane ego- ism; and she could only say 'Oh, God oh, God!' He explained how he had pushed Drukker over the wall. And did he mention Humpty Dumpty? I think he did; for what more apprecia- tive audience could he have had for his monstrous jest than the victim's own mother? That last revelation proved too much for her hypersensi- tive brain. She repeated the nursery rhyme in a spell of horror; and then the accumulated shock dilated her heart. She fell across the bed, and Markham halted before th Ser- geant. "The first thing we'd better do is to fi nl out what your men know about the movements of the various persons hereabouts last night. Suppose you bring them here and let me question them. How many were there, by the way? and what were their posts?" The Sergeant had risen, alert and energetic. "There were three, sir, besides Guil- foyle. Emery was set to tail Pardee; Snitkin was stationed at the Drive and 75th Street to watch the Dillard house; and Hennessey was posted on 75th Street up near West End Ave. They're all waiting down at the place where Drukker was found. I'll get 'em up here pronto." He disappeared through the fron* door, and in less than five minutes re- turned with the three detectives. I recognized them all, for each had worked on one or more of the cases in which Vance had figured. Markham questioned Snitkin first as the one most likely to have information bear- ing directly on the orevious night's affair. The following points were brought out by his testimony: Pardee had emerged from his house at 6.30 and gone straight to the Dil- lanfs'. At 8.30 Belle Dillard, in an evening gown, had got into a taxi and been driven up West End Avenue. (Arnes- son had come out of the house with her and helped her into the taxicab, but had immediately returned in- doors.) At 9.15 Professor Dillard and Druk- ker had left the Dillard house and walked slowly toward Riverside Dr. They had crossed the Drive at 74th St., and turned up the bridle path. At 9.30 Pardee had come out of the Dillard house, walked down to the Drive, and turned up-town. At a little after 10 Professor Dil- lard had returned to his house alone, recrossing the Drive at 74th Street. At 10.20 Pardeo returned home, coming from the same direction he had taken when going out. Belle Dillard had been brought home at 12.30 in a limousine filled with young people. Hennessey was interrogated next; but his evidence merely substantiated Snitkin's. No one had approached the Dillard house from the direction of West End Avenue; and nothing of a suspicious nature had happened. Markham then tur.ied his attention to Emery, who reported that, accord- ing to Santos whom he had relieved at six, Pardee had spent the early part of the afternoon at the Man- hattan Chess Club and had returned home at about four o'clock. "Then, like Snitkin and Hennessey said," Emery continued, "he went to the Dillards' at half past six, and stayed till half past nine. When he came out I followed, keeping half a block or so behind him. He walked up the Drive to 79th Street, crossed to the upper park, and walked round the big grass bowl past the rocks and on up toward the Ya^ht Club. . . ." (To be continued.) his room at ten o'clock at night?" *<n * '*. V i BVI I II Via /I n 1 But it wssn t n, voice, and this one was low and gruff." The woman looked up in bewildered j fright. "And the other voice was Mrs. Drukker's . . . and she never went in Mr. Drukker's room at night!' "How could you hear so plainly with your door shut?" , "My room is right over Mr. Drnk- ker's," she explained. "And 1 was worried what with all these awful things going on; BO I got up and lis- tened at the top of the steps." Radio Letters Mean Quick Delivery London -Letters, written In mid- Atlantic on one day, will be deliver- ed to their destinations In Britain the next, with a new service just Inaugurated by the Tost Office here. The Post OflH-e refers to them as "let- ters" In making the announcement although really the correct name Is "ship-letter-telegrams" which. al- though lengthy, explains the trick of What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Drttmmaking Lefgon Fur- nished With Krrry Pattern the murderer was saved the necessity of sealing her lips with his own hands. He saw what had happened, and went, 1 There _. MarYhnm'took a turn up and down velo P e on<1 P Bte(1 a " rdlnnry the one day service. Messages will be accepted by the wireless opera- tors 1n the ships and sent to the nearest short-wave radio station. the room. 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The market, located by the sea, oc- cupies six blocks and is a copy of the "marche St. Honore" in Paris. Pishing boats of every description Fe>e will be three- are tied up alongside the .narket as compared with wharf, presenting a picturesque scene. Tropical nnd European vegetables and fruits are found In many varie- ties. will Tomorrow hath a rare, alluring Hound; today Is very prose-. And ned at the top of the st ps. Yeh, maybe he cnn," chimed i "'. ' I can't blame you," said Vance. Heath- Thfn nftcr rn iii n g his cigar yet the twain are but one vision seen . ._ it.i.m,irh tr.ri.il Pvi-K Our ( reams "What did you hear?" 1 1 caui. j m' 1 1 **** *"pt between his lips for a moment, lie through altered eyes. Our dreams MVVTT *- , _i.i* i.tciiciu niwl ntitn n rial OKI you n oeiwee "At first it was like as though the j n( | ( | e(l sl ,iuily: "There's several people inh istress was moaning, but right away nroun d here, I'm thinking, that could sur ablt one; our stress and pnln ; "Russia Is from fifty to a hundred years behind the rest of the world In knowledge. It Is our Job as Bolshevik! to make up arrears In theso ten years, mistress .-. ------ . , he began to laugh, and then the man spoke angry-like. But pretty toon 1 hoard him laugh, too. After that it sounded like the poor lady wns praying I could hear her saying: Oh, God! oh, God!' Then the man talked some more very quiet and low. . . And in a little while it seem- ed like the mistress was reciting a poem. . . ." "Would you recognize the ixx-m i you hoiml it again?. . . Was it Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Uumpty had a great fall? "ISti Colt, dot if'! It sounded Just like that!" A new horror came into the woman's expression. "And Mr. Drukker fell from the wall last "Did you hear anything else, Mrs. Menzel?" Vance's matter-of-fact voice interrupted her confused correlation of Drukker'a death to the verse she had heard. Slowly she shook her MM "No. everything was quiet after that." "Did you h ear any one leave Mr. Drukker's room" do gome hi(th class explaining." surge through Hurton. the other. Richard because laggards always suffer."- j Joseph Stalin, dictator of Russia. and 'M) Dog SCOTTIE- bat cam* before: Captain Jimmy and hl dog Scot tie have many strange ad- ventures while flying over China. After ewcaping from bandits and enemy sol- diers they finally land their plane at the military base from which they started. and are greeted with an unexpected sur- prise. After escaping from the ene.ny's soldiers, we pushed the plane to an altitude of several thousand feet, and headed straight for Shanghai. It was still early In the morning when we sighted the familiar flying field, spread out like a small green handkerchief in the early sunlight. Heading the plane down in a wide spiral, we rolled to a stop outside the airdrome. Then to our amaze ment, a Lieutenant and a d e t ac hin i-ii of soldiers drove up and told us we were under arrest. We were dumfounded. "By who's orders are we under arrest?" I ask- ed. "General Lu's orderf," replied the dapper little Chinese officer. We were more surprised than ever. General Lu had been our friend and helper from the beginning of our trip. Now he bad placed us under arrest. "On what charge are we arrest- ed?" I asked. "Kidnapping Colonel Fong," re- sponded the little officer. We were bundled Into an army truck and rushed through the streets with the siren screaming. In no time we arrived at the palace of General Lu. General Lu welcomed me gravely, shaking hands with himself in Chinese fashion, and then dismissed the orderly. Then he unfolded a plan so amazing that I pinched my- self to see if I were really awake. He had SOLD OUT car, you beat that? SOLD OUT his office as a General. Someone had paid him a great stack of money to quit and being a business man first, he had accepted. To you and I this would be treason Inexcusable but to Gen- eral Lu war wag simply a business proposition. Why shouldn't one take a Job as General, and after making a success of it, sell out? I must have looked shocked, which seemed to hurt his feelings, but he stifled his pride and continued with his plan. He wanted to leave China promptly, go to Japan, and I was to fly over with him. He offered me a round sum of money, or practi- cally anything I could ask within reason for the trip. The arrest \vas simply a bluff. If I said "Yes" all would be well. In a flash it occurred to me that here was all the equipment and help we needed to try to find Lieuten- ant Stone's brother, now held cap- tive by the mountain bandit tribe. I accepted at once with the under- standing that Guy Stone would first be found. From that moment, ther wasn't a thing we could ask for that we didn't get Immediately from ex- tra heavy canvas to phosphorous paint. Working secretly in a special guard- ed hangar, we fashioned our plan* into the weirdest looking dragon yoi ever saw. Trail- ing out baoK was a long can- vas tail, that< floated straight out when we were In the air. In the day- time It was a wild looking plane, but at night it was positively terrifying. So much so, that when Fu Hsu, the Interpreter entered the hanger after dark one night, Ue near- ly passed out entirely. Actually h fainted, and I thought we would never bring him around. (To be continued.) Note: Any of our young readers writing to "Captain Jimmy", ,2018 Star Bldg., Toronto, will receive his signed photo free. Chocolate Malted Milk The health-giving, delicious drink for children and grown- ups. Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocer*. More Laughter Needed Says New Zealand Daily The habitual optimist, the person with an Ineradicable cheer-germ, the confirmed fun-maker, Is worth more to us than gold these days, says The New Zealand Free Lance. The merry joker In the army In the dark years of the war was a treasure that Inspired his comrades on many a weary march and through many a (earful test of spirit and courage. The people who In a similar spirit ot cheerfulness proposed community singing In the towns devastated by the earthquake are doing their fel- low-citizens a real service. Any- thing In that way that will help to relax now and again the mental strain of the moment is to be en- couraged. Some sanguine spirit has offered to help Institute old English page- ants and floral dances and that sort of thing In Wellington. The no- tion Is not to be despised. It all makes for the. brighter life, a color- ful bit of relief against the too-drab background of working life. Many people happily are coming to realize the great worth jf such color, such relaxation, a lightsome change from the prosaic and the sordid. The enormous psychological value of a new, bright and pretty dress to a woman Is something all men should appreciate though unfortunately they don't always recognize the fact. Thin principle can be carrleii Into a wider sphere. Tho house, the garden, the town, the streets, all can bo made plrasanter to the senses, and unconsciously all this would be re- flected In the general attitude to- ward life. By the way, some one tells us that In Stockholm even the dustmen wear bright uniforms. Heaven knows we all have enough to worry about, but j we need not parade our troubles. Even a cheerful, happy face in a irnmcar of people, one has noticed, helps to leaven the whole lot with a little of Its own pleasant-spuming outlook on life. Japan Plans to Eradicate Leprosy in Twenty Years Dr. Adacht, Minister of the Inter- ior, soon after his appointment to the post, visited Kusatsu Hot Springs, Gumma, where there are about 200 leprous families with 900 members living around the town, says the Japanese correspondent ot The Journal of the American Medi- cal Association. "It Is reported that he Intends to. establish a self-governing leprosy village at Kusatsu, granting a large sum of money every year," he con- tinues. "He also proposes to organ- ize and anti-leprosy association with the aid of Viscount Shibuzawa and other Influential men In Tokyo, with whom he held a conference in his official residence. The projects ot the proposed association have been published. "The general plan is to eradicate the disease in this country In the next twenty years, though there are now some thousands of cases accord- Ing to the Investigation made sev- eral months ago. "Dr. Aokl reports that there have been an average of 203-3 cases of leprosy among each 551,667 young men of conscription ase every year during the six years 1924-1929. The government has established a lep- rosy asylum at Nagashima Island, Okayama Prefecture; the opening ceremony was attended by govern- ment officials and noted sanitarians. "Dr. K. MItsuta, former chief ot the Zense>l Asylum, has been appoint- ed new chief, and the hospital has been named the Aisel Asylum. The total capacity is 500." I believe freedom to be the first condition of moral life. It needs, however, to be accompanied by much instruction. It is like money in this, that in order to profit by It one must know how to use it properly. Julia Ward Howe. She gave Vance "A few minutes a panic-stricken later some one ISSUE No. 27-31 'I in; nhok" |,!M' ',-iaph Is of an 18-foot model of the new giant Cunarder now under construction at Clyile- bank, Scotland, In Hie yards of John Brown A Co. 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