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It gives more pleasure than you thought tea could give ii SALADA" TEA Fresh from the gardens' The Bishop Murder Case A PH1LO VANCE STORY BY S. S. VAN DINE SYNOPSIS A man known as Cock Robin is shol through the hear, with an arrow. The body is found on the archery range be- side the home of Professor Dillard, where Robin was well known. The crime seems to be the intentional dramatization of the old nursery rhyme "Who killed Cock Robi.i?" Dis- trict Attorney Markham is puzzled by the apparently senseless circum- utances attending it and asks the aid of Philo Vance, wealthy younp bach- elor who dabbles in the solving of unusual mysteries. CHAPTER II. (Cont'd.), "Wh^ts the domestic situation there?" "The professor, as you probably know, resigned his chair some ten years ago. Since then he's been liv- ing in West 75th Street, near the Drive. He took his brother's child a girl of fifteen to live with him. She's around twenty-five now. Then there's his protege, Sigurd Amcsson, who was a classmate of mine at col- lege. The professor adopted, him dur- ing his junior year. Arnesson is now about forty, an instructor in mathe- matics at Columbia. He came to this country from Norway when he was three and was left an orphan five year* later. He's something of a mathematical genius, and Dillard cvi- d ntly saw the makings of a great physicist in him and adopted him." "I've heard of Arnesfon," nodded V:ince. "He recently published some modification! of M <.'.-, theory on the electrodynamics of moving bodies. . . And do these three Dillard, Arnes- !on and the girl live alone?" "With two servants. Dillard ap- penrs to have a very comfortable in- come-. They're not very much alone, however. Th-> house is a kind of flhrine for mathematicians, and (jui'.e a n niirlr has developed. Moreover, the girl, who has always gone in for out- door r.ports, has her own littl?- social wt. I've been at the house several times, nnd there have always been visitors about eilher a serious stu- dent or two of the abstract sciences upsi-airs in the library, or some noisy young people in the drawing room be- Icw." "And Robin?" "He belonged to Belle Dillard's *( -an oldish youn-g society man who ) Id several archery records. . . ." "V.s. I know. I just looked up the name in this book on archery. A Mr. J. C. Robin seems to have mad-e the r.igh scores in .several recent cham- pi'-rvhip meeL. And I noted, too, thr.t a Mr. Sperling has been the runner-up in several large archery tournaments. I -Miss Dillard an archer as well?" "Ve. quite an enthusiast. In f .-!, Mi.- organized the Kiversido Archery the body was found he had disappear- ed. I imagine Heath will have news on that point." "And wherein lies the possible mo- tive of jealousy you referred to?" Vances eyelids had drooped lazily, and he smoked with leisurely but precise deliberation a sign of his intense in- terest in what was being told him. "Professor Dillard mentioned an at- tachment between his niece and Robin; and when I asked him who Sperling was and what his status was at the Dillard house, he intimated that Sperl- ing was also a suitor for the girl's hand. I didn't go into the situation over the phone, but the impression I got was that Robin and Sperling were rivals, and that Robin had the better of it." "And so the sparrow killed Cock Robin." Vance shook his head dubi- ously. "It wont do. Its too dashed simple; and it doesn't account for the fiendishly perfect reconstruction of the Cock Robin rhyme. There's some-thing deeper something darker and more horrible in this grotesque business. Who, by the by, found Robin'." "Dillard himself. He had stepped out on the little balcony at the rear of the house, and saw Robin lying be- low on the practice range, with an arrow through his heart. He went lown.-.tairs immediately with consid- erable difficulty, for the old man suf- fers abominably from gout and, see- ing that the man was dead, phone:! centre-table smoking, his thumbs hook- ud in the arm holes of his waistcoat, came forward and extended his ham! in a friendly greeting to Markham. "I'm glad you got here, sir," he said; and the worried look in his cold blue eyes seemed to relax a bit. "I'v been waiting for you. There's some- thing damn fishy about this cass." Markham sensed the Sergeant's mentaHnsecurity, and asked somewhat abruptly: "Just what Sfems to be th.> difficulty in the present case?" "I didn't say there was any diffi- culty, sir," Month replied. "It looks as though we had the bird who dij it dead to rights. Bui I ain't satis- fied, ami oh, hell! Mr. Markham . . . it ain't natural; it don't make sense." "I think I understand what you mean." Markham regarded the Ser- geant appraisingly. "You're inclined to think that Sperling's guilty?" "Sure, he's guilty," declared Heah with over-emphasli. "But that's not what's worrying me. To tell you the truth, I don't like the name of this guy who was croaked especially as he was croaked with a bow and ar- row. . . ." He hesitated, a bit shame- faced. "Don't it strike you as pecu- liar, sir?" Markham nodded perplexedly. "I see that you, too, remember your nursery rhymes," he said, nnd turned away. "You referred to Mr. Sperling just now as a 'bird,' Sergeant. The designa- tion was most apt. Sperling, d> ye see, means 'sparrow' in German. And t was a sparrow, you recall, who ;illed Cock Robin with an arrow. . . \ fascinatin' situation eh, what?" The Sergeant's eyes bulged slightly, nd his lips fell apart. He stared at Vance with almost ludicrous bewikler- nent. "I said this here business wa fishy!" "I'd say rather, it was avian, don' y' know.'' 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I put a man out in the alley to see that nobody touche the body till Doc Doremus arrives- - he'll be here when he finishes lunch. I phoned the finger-print men before I left the office, and they oughta b on the- job any minute now; though I tion I have." "Not what you'd call a blindin' illu- mination, but still a bit suggestive." Vance got up. "Markham, old dear, prepare for something rather bizarre -and damnable. We tan rule out acci- ne prooao.y dents and coincidence. While it's true mighta had " that ordinary target arrows which are made of soft wood and fitted with little bevelled piles could easily pen.-, tiate a person's clothing and chest wall, even when driven with a medium weight bow, the fact that a man nam- ed 'Sparrow' should kill a man nam-d Cochrane Robin, with a bow and ar- row, precludes any haphazard con- catenation of circumstances. Indeed ! Thy this incredible, set of events prove*! "What about the bow" that fired the arrow?" put in Vance. "That was our one best bet; but old Mr. Dillard said he picked it up from the alley and brought it in the house. He probably gummed up any prints it ad." (To be continued.) * A Man to His Old Airedale Mr*. K. A. Oehrke Alas! thou hast grown old. Old Shaggy Face, Thy golden sands have ran too fast apace. and graying head, hy som- - . ... v**rui.i |iruvc.s i bered eyes. Sf&SS ilrt b^he K " ret "" hy Wi * """" : ""' ""< whole affair." He moved toward the Thy mellowing goodness IK a, wine grow old, As autumn's frost bring, out the at Club. Its permanent ranges ar .Sperling* home in Scarsdale, but Mi^s Dillard has rigged up n practice ranee in the side yard ( ,f the professor's 7f.th Street house. It was on this range that Robin was killed." "Ah! And, as you way, the last |*TM>n known to have been with him was Sperling. Where is our sparrow BOW?" "I don't know. Id- was with Robin Shortly iK.for-. the tragedy; but wh.-i police officials xitnit friininis. e door. 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