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The Bishop Murder Case A PHILO VANCE STORY BY S. S. VAN DINK The Dillard lot was 135 feet deep, the depth of the Drukker lot therefore being sixty-five feet. A section of the tall ironwork fence that separated tho two rear yards had been removed where it had once transscted the spare now used for the archery range. At the further <*d of the range, bacVn* a day ,.. he ai!ke(J The man paused in his " 'Bout eight quarts, surr SYNOP8IS. A man known as Cock Robin is shot through the heart with an arrow. The body is found on the archery range beside the home of Professor Dillard, where !lobin was well known. The :rime seems to be the intentional dramatization of the old nursery rhyme, "Who killed Cock Robin?" District Attorney Markham is puzzled by the apparently senselesw circum- stances attending it and asks the ai<l of Philo Vanco, wealthy young bach- elor who dabble in the^olving of un- usual mysteries. The police get on the trail of Sperling the Vast man known to have been with Robin. CHAPTER III. "What have you done about Sperl- it g?" asktd Markham. "I pot his address ho lives in a country house up Westchc-ster way and sen^ a coupla n*n to bring him here as soon as they could lay hands on him. Then I talked to the two servants the old fellow that let you in, and his daughte., a middle-aged woman who does the cooking. But neither of "em seemed to know any- thing, or else they're acting dumb. After that I tried to question the young lady of the house." The SIT- JTI :i:i' raised his hands In a gesture of irritated despair. "But she was all broke up and crying; s I thought I'd let you have the pleasure of interview- ing her. Snitkin and Burke," he jerk- ed his thumb toward the two detectives by the front window, "went over the basement and the alley and back yard trying to pick up something; but drew fc blank. And that's all I know so far. A soon as Doremus and th? finger- print men get here, and after I'vo hari a heart to heart talk with Sperl- ing, then I'll get the ball to rolling and clean up the work? ." . Vance heaved an audible sigh. "You're so sanguine. Sergeant! Don't be disappointed if your ball turns out to be a parallelepiped that won't roll. There's fomething deuced oddish about this nursery extrava- ganza; and, unless all the omens de- cc:v<- me, you'll be playing blind man's buff for a long time to come." "Yen?" Heath gave Vance a look of despondent shr<-wil!ie-s. It was evl- di nt he was more or less of the same opinion. "Don't let Mr. Vance dishearten you, Sergeant," Markl.am rallied him. "He'- permitting his imagination to run away with 'iim." Then with an impatient gesture he turned toward the door. "I/et's Icxik over the groun i )>cf< > the others arrive. I/ater I'll have n talk with Professor Dillard an<l the other numben of the household. And, by the way, Sergeant, you didn't mention Mr. Arnesson. Isn't ho at home?" "lie's at the university; but he's -\l i-'ed to return soon." .Markham nodded and followed tho Sergeant into the main hall. As we p:.s--<l down the heavly-carpeted pas. p. - T<- to the rear, there was a sound on 1i ':iirr;'.M-, and n clear but some.- against 1'ic western line of the Druk- ker property, vas another tall apart- ment house occupying tho corner of i 7u'th Street and Riverside Drive. Be- tween these two gigantic buildings ran a narrow alleyway, the range end of what tremulous woman's voice spoke which was closed with a high board A Santa Fe Ticfcef fo California Will take you through IMiociiix on Santa Fe rails "all Ihe way" from Chicago and Kansas City. You leave on the Santa Fe and arrive on the Santa Fe. Warm days in the desert and along a sunny seashore. Golf and horseback rid- ing keep the pep up and the pounds down. Fred Harvey dining tervice another exclusive feature MaU< /ourPollmon reservation* oatly. If. 1' IIENDHY, On. Agent >\.VI A I'll I(V. r.ni TrantparUUan itidg.. DKTHU1T, MICH. I'll. n. UAUtlol|>l> -,iH Tier Chi,'f from the semi-darkness above. "Is that you, Mr. Markha'.n? ' fence in which had been set a small Uncle door with a lock. . thought he recognized your voice. He's j Tho body of Robin lay almost di- waiting for you in the library." I rectly outside of the orchery-room "I'M join your uncle in a very few door. It was on its back, the arms ex- minutes, Miss DillarJ." Markham's tended, the legs slightly drawn up, tone was paternal and sympathetic, j the head pointing toward the 76h "And please wait with him, for I want Street end of the range. Robin had to see you, too." been a man of perhaps thirty-five, of With a murmured acquiescence, the medium height, and with an incipient girl disappeared round the head of | corpulency. There was a rotund pufS- the stairs. We moved to the rear door of the lower hall. Beyond was a narrow pas- sageway, terminating in a flight of wooden sU-ps which led to the base- ment. At the foot of these steps we came into a large, low-ceilinged room with a <kx>r giving directly upon the areaway at the west s'de of the house. This door was slighly ajar and in the opening stood the man from the Homi- cide Bureau whom Heath had set to guard the body. The room had obviously once been a basement storage; but it had been altered and redecorated, and new serv- ed as a sort of club room. The cement loor was covered with fibre rugs, and one entire wall was painted with a panorama of archers throughout the age?. There were a piano and a phono- graph in the room; numerous Comfort- able wicker chairs; a varicolored di- van ; an enormous wicker cent re-table ittered with all manner of sports agazines ; and a small bookcase filled with works on archery. Several tar- gets rested in one corner, their gold discs and concentric chromatic rings naking brilliant splashes of color In .he sunlight which flooded in from the windows. One wall space door was hung with long x>ws of varying sizes and weights; ind near thorn was a .large old- ashioned tool-ch-s... Above it was sus- ISSUE No. 47 '30 two rear lear the ness to his face, which was smooth- shaven except for a narrow blond moustache. He was clothed in a two- piece sport suit of light gray flannel a pale-blue silk shirt, and tan Oxfords with thick rubber soles. His hat, a pearl-colored felt fedora, was lying near his feet. Beside the body was a large pool of coagulated blood which had formed in the shape of a huge pointing hand. But the thing which held us all in a spell of fascinated horror was the slender shaft that extended vertically from the left side of the dead man's breast. The arrow protruded perhaps twenty inches, and where it had en- tered the body there was the large dark stain of the hemorrhage. What made this strange murder seem even more incongruous were the beautifully fletched feathers on the arrow. They had been dyed a bright red; and about the shaftment were two stripes of tur- quoise blue, giving the arrow a gala appearance. I had a feeling of un- reality about the tragedy, as though I were witnessing a scene in a sylvan play for children. V'anct stood kx>king down at the body with half-closed eyes, his hands in his coat pockets. Despite the ap- parent indolence of his attitude I could tell that he was keenly alert, and that his mind was busy co-ordin- ating the factors of the scene before Something Added Smithson, the city man, was spend- ing his week-end on a friend's farm. During an inspection of the sheds he saw one of the farm laborers milking a cow. "How much milk does that cow give he "Really," said Smithson interested- ly. "And how much of that do you sell?" "Well, surr," said the labourer, with- out hesitation, "we sells something like twelve quarts." WhaT^eVYork Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WOR7HINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern into the vital spot, between the ribs and without the slightest deflection. Extrordin'ry ! . . I say, Markham; such marksmanship isn't human. A chance shot might have done it; but the slayer of this johnny wasn't leaving anything to chance. That power'ul hunting ar- row, which was obviously wrenched from the panel inside, shows Funded n small cu board or ascham, m ' trewn with vavbus odds and ends of I " Oaslle " <iueer, that arrow," he cora- Uwkle, puch as bracers., shooting mented - "Designed for big game; . . . k'loves, piles, points of aim, and bow h"**"** 8 ** belongs to that ethmv trings. A large oak panel between '"K'cal^ exhibit we just^saw.^ And a the door and the west window contain- ! ? . B *" ed a display of on,; of the most inter- sting and varied collections of ar- rows I had ever seen. This panel attracted Vance particu- ..rly, ami adjusting his monocle care- fully, he strolled over to it. "Hunting and war arrows," he re- ni'.licd. "Most inveiglin' . . . Ah! < >ne (if the trophies stems to have (appeared. Taken down with con- siderable haHe, too. The little bra.s trad that held it in place is shockingly >ont." On the Moor stood several qulv- rs tilled with targe', iirrows. He ican- d over and, withdrawing one, extend- ed it to Mnrkhatn. "This frail shaft does no; look as if l would penetrate the human breast; nit target arrows will drive entirely ough a deer ji. eighty yards. . . . Why, then, the missing hunting arrow from the panel? An intciv-tin' point." Markham frowned and compressed 262.Q No other Orange Pekoe can equal this in flavour TKA 'Fresh from the gardens* Diphtheria Can Be Wiped Out And Lives and Dollars Saved Simple Injection of Substance Called "Toxoid" Disease Kills 1200 Every Year Out of 13,500 Cases- Tremendous Waste This is one of a series of weekly articles on health topics, written by the Canadian Social Hygiene Council. Diphtheria Can Be Prevented If for ten years or less, Canada were to pay as much money towards pre- venting this disease as Canadians now pay for curing it and burying its ,vlc- tims, It could be virtually elminated. And yet at the present time 13.500 Canadians experience expensive and dangerous attacks each year, with 1200 annual fatalities. So you see, a great national work is being left undone. How does diphtheria kill, and how can its ravages be averted? First of all It Is a germ disease. A healthy human child (children are diphtheria's victims for the most part) who hap- pens to be susceptible to this disease, is suddenly attacked by a tiny, invis- ible germ of it. These lodge in the youngster's throat and feed and multi- ply. They give off a waste product which is a deadly poison, and this poison spreads throughout the system. A victim of diphtheria dies of poison- ing, just as surely as though he had swallowed prusslc acid. However, death as we know does not always result, for the germs do not have things their own way. Certain formations and substances have been placed in the human blood by nature to fight against infection. Often, this defending army of the blood stream wins the ri.nlit against the invading 'army of diphtheria germs, and when that happens, the patient gets well. Xow once recovered, such an in- dividual rarely gets the disease again. The defending army in his blood- stream has learned how to repel the attacks of this particular germ. Comparatively recently doctors have discovered a substance called Toxoid which, when injected Into a human body, induces the blood to develop that same resistance to an attack of, diphtheria. In other words, the Im- munity to diphtheria which a patient painfully develops, it is now possible to give to a child by a simple, safe series of injections under the skin. Your own family doctor can admin- ister this treatment aud it is up to all parents to make sure that their family doctors do so. It is safe am', simple aud sane and practically painless. At one time the city of New York im- munized 10,000 infants with toxoid, without any ill effects whatever. How much simpler to hav your children undergo this simple treat- ment than to have your home quaran- tined and possibly lose a child or two through diphtheria! If only every public health department would see that this marvellcus substanc' be pul at the disposal of every parent, and il only all parents would insist upon pro- tecting their children with it. diph- theria could be wiped out of Canada within ten years, and hundreds ol lives and thousands of dollars saved every year. Is Cruelly Maligned A woodchiick is a fat thief, us dau- iis lips; and I realized that he had geroni to a farm garden as a host of locusts; yet even llm farmer's son has a sneaking affection for the 'chuck, and a sneaking respect for anything fat which can move so fast. All the squirrels red and gray and chip- munks alike --are skinny thieves; yet ieen clinging to the r < Hori: hope that the tragedy might have been an acci- k'nt. He tossed the arrow hopelessly n a chair, and walked toward tho >uter door. "Ix*t's take a look at the body and the lie of the land," he said gruffly. As we emerged into the warm spring sunlight a sense of isolation amc over ne. Tho narrow paved ireaway in which we stood seemed like ii canyon between :teep stone walls. It was four or five feet below the street level, which was reached by a short flight of steps leading to the gate in Lhe wall. The blank, window-less rear wall of the apartment house opposite extended upwards for 150 feet; an 1 the Dillnrd house itself, though only four storeys high, was the equivalent of six stories gauged by the architec- tural measurements of today. Though we were standing out of floors in the heart of New York, no one could see us except from the few side windows of the Dillnrd house and from a single bay window of the house on 7<>th St., | ,, , himsam |s of suburban whose rear yard adjoined thai of the Dillard grounds. This other house, we were soon to learn, was owned by a Mrs. Drukker; nnd it wan destined to play a vital and ' tragic part in the solution of Robin's murder. Several tall willow trees acted as a mask to its rear win- A darling bolero frock that is the pampered fashion of all the French couturiers. It is youthfully smart and prac- 1 tation and design" Suddenly he t-icnl in dark green crepy woolen, bent over the body. "Ah! Very in- 1 The skirt favors the new box-plaited terestin'. The nock of the arrow is | treatment. The tightened hip yoke in broken down I doubt if it would even ! pointed outline tends to lengthen the hold a taut string." He turned to figure. Heath. "Tell me, Sergeant ; where did i The bolero rolled in revers reveals Professor Dillard find the bow? mt \ a blouse of eggshell crepe that buttons down the front. The belt marks the normal waist- line. Style No. 2f><!u' may be had in stze 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 86) 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. The medium size requires 3T yards 1 of 311-inch material for bolero and skirt with IVi yards of 3!)-inch ma- terial for sleeveless waist. 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