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Nearly all seek quality nearly all drink Salada n SALADA" TEA Fresh from the gardens* 111 IP The Bishop Murder Case A PH1LO VANCE STORY BY S. S. VAN DINE SYNOPSIS A man ki.nvn s (.'m-k Kcbln li found with un ui tow MI Ins Mean; another, Johnny throuifh the Alton. > .Mu , who claims trie inunl'-is a:** founded on riumry ilnm.-* .,,,cl ult . tin- work of a Is fuund vvlih a bullet top cf his head. District c-iills in I'hllo Vance, ihoi associated with the" Prof. l>illar<i. his niece Helle, _ protege Sigurd Arm-nson. iilno a pro ft 8- or uf niathcmutl' s. John I'arilto, a neighbor ulih a pasjtlun for chess; Mm. iJrukker and her *un. AOolph. Mrs. Dmkker In mentally unbalanced arid Adolph In a cripple, with a xuper-braln. Mm. l)riikker li-lln how the murderer paid her a terrifying visit the previous night. Vance learns that Adolph Druk- ker lied as to his whereabouts on the morning of Kobln's death. Vance ques- tion 1'rcif. riillard ugaln. lie learni I'ar- dee playril i:he*s (he previous nlffht and that he ami Drukker had a heated argu .ii.it Iielle Dlllard and Arnesson (one to the theatre. had At CHAPTER XXIV. that moment the front door opened and Arnesson came in. He tared at us in mock astonishment; then he caught sight of Belle Dillard. "Hallo, sis," he called to her pleas- antly. 'In the hands of the yend- rmenV, I see." He flashed u an mused look. "Why the conclave? This house is becoming a regular po- rir- station. Hunting for clewi of Spring's murderer? Ha! Bright youth done away with by his jealous professor, and that sort of thing, h? . . . Hope you chaps haven't been putting Diana the Huntrens through a third degree." "Nothing of the kind," the girl poke up. "They've been most con- siderate. And I've been telling them what ai. old fogy you are bringing DM home at half past twelve. HEADACHE? Why suffer when relief n prompt and harmlesc Million! 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"Well, what glad tidings do you brings? victim?' Any news about the latest I P'- onoun ^ (l | han usua1 .; nd wh.fn he He led the way back to the drawing room. "You know, I miss that lad. He'd gone far. Rotten shame he had to b named Johnny Sprigg. Even 'Peter Piper' wou'.d have been safer. Nothing hanpeneJ .o Peter Piper aside from the pepper episode; and you couldn't very well worlc that up into n murder. . . ." "We have nothing to report, Ames- drew up chairs for us in his study his manner was that of a man whose in- terest in life had died, and who was merely going through the mechanical motions of living. "We have come here, Mr Pardee," Vance, began, "to learn what we car. of Sprigg's murder in Riverside Park yesttrdpy morning. We have excel- lent reasons for every question we are son," Markham broke in, nettled by i nb " ut to apk you '" the mar's flippancy. "The situation! remain* unchanged." "Just dropped in for a social call, presume. Staying for lunch?" "We reserve the right," said Mark- ham coldly, "to investigate the case in whatever manner we deem advisable. Nor are we accountable to you for our actions." "So! Something /w... happened that irks you." Arnesion spoke with sar- casm. " thought I had been accepted a* a coadjutor; but I sec I am to be turned forth into the darkness." He Ighed elaborately ai.d took out his pipe. "Dropping the pilot! Bismarck and me. Alas!" Pardee nodded resignedly. "I shall not be offended at any line of interrogation you take. After read- ing the papers I realize just how un- usual a problem you are facing." "First, then, please inform us where you were yesterday morning between seven and eight." A faint flush overspread Pardee's face, but he answered in a low, even voice : "I was in bed. I did not rise until nearly nine." "Is it not your habit to take a walk in the park before breakfast?" (I knew this was sheer guess-work on Vance's part, for the subject of Par- (To be continued.) What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dmtsniukinf/ LCSHOII Fur- nixhed With f'vrrn I'altern "I'd like to cast an eye on this black in the sport, but I was not a very bishop. Where is it?" | promising acolyte. I've been to sev- Vance reached in his pocket ml eral tournaments with her, however." held out the chessman. Arnesson took ' it eagerly His eyes glittered for aj moment. He turned the piece oven in his hand, and then gave it back. "You seem to recognize this par- ticular bishop," said Vance dulcetly. "You're quite correct. It was bor- rowed from your chess set in the library." Arnesson nodded a slow affirmative. "I believe it was." Suddenly he turned to Markham and an ironic leer came over his lean fjatures. "Wns that why I was to be kept in the dark? Under suspicion am I? Shades of Pythagoras! What penalty attaches to the heinous crime of distributing ch<-.-smen among one's neighbors?" Markham pot up and walked toward the hall. "You are not under suspicion Arnesson," he answered, with no at- tempt to conceal his ill-humor. "The bishop was left at Mrs. Drukker's at exactly midnight." "And I was half an hour too late to qualify. Sorry to have disappoint- ed you." "I/ct us hear if your formula works out," said Vance, as we passed out of the front doorb "We've a little visit to pay to Mr. Pardee now." Pardee? Oho! Calling in a chess expert on the subject of bishops, eh? your reasoning it at least h^s the virtue of being simple and lirect." He .-tood on the little porch and watched us, like a japish gargoyle, as we c/ossed the street Pardee received us with his custom- ary quiet courtesy. The tragic, frus- '. rated look which was a part of his habitual expression was even more Q^gADVE-NTUKB-S of SOOTHE- Vane . had been smoking dreamily j <' ce ' s habits had not come up during near the archway, apparently obliv- i us of Arnesson's complaining. Now he stepped into the room. "Really, y' know, Markham, AT. Arnesson is quite right. We agreed to keep him posted; ..nd if he' to be of nny help to us he must know all the facts." 'It was you yourself," protested Markham, "who pointed out the pos- lible danger of mentioning last night's occurrence. . . ." "True, but I had forgotten at the time our promise to Mr. Arnesson. And I'm sure his discretion can be relied on." Then Vance related in detail Mrs. Drukker's experience of the night before. Arnesson listened with rapt atten- tion. I noticed that his sardonic ex- pression gradually disappeared, and that in its place came a look of cal- culating sombreness. He sut for sev- eral minutes in contemplative silence, his pipe in his hand. "That's certainly a vital factor in the problem," he commented at length. "It changes our constant. I can see that this thing has got to be calculat- ed from a new angle. The Bishop, it appears, is in our midst. Hut why should ho come u> haunt Lady Mae'.'" "She is reported to have screamed at almost the exact moment of Robin's death." "Aha!" Arnesson sat up. "I grasp your implication. She saw the Bishop from her window on the morning of Cock Robin's dissolution, and Inter he returned and perched on her door- knob as a warning for her to keep mum." "Something like that, perhaps. . Have you enough integers now to work out your formula?" the investigation.) "That is quite true," the man re- plied, without a moment's hesitation. "But yesterday 1 did not go I had worked rather late the night before." "When did you first hear of Sprigg's death?" "At breakfast. My cook related the gossip of the neighborhood. I read the official account of the tragedy in the early edition of the evening Sun." "And you saw the reproduction of the Bishop note, of course, in this morning's paper. What is your opin- io- of the affair, Mr. Pardee?" "I hardly know." For the first time ' his lack-lustre eyes showed signs of animation. "It's an incredible situa- tion. The mathematical chances are utterly opposed to such a series of inter-related events being coinci- dental." "Yes," Vance concurred. 'And SAVED IMPORTED DRESS IS'SUE Mo. 2231 "After a little wearing, a lovely green voile an Imported dress lost, color so completely that It was not wear- able. A friend who had admired It asked me why I wasn't wearing it any more. On hearing the reason, she advised dyeing It and recom- mended Diamond Dyes. To make a ' long story short, It turned out beautifully. I have a lovely new dress that really cost Just 15c the ! price of one package of Diamond Dyes. "I have since used Diamond Dye* for both tinting and dyeing. They | do either equally well. I am not an expert dyer but 1 never have a failure with Diamond Dyes. They seem to be made so tlit-y always go on smooth- ly and evenly. The.y never spot, streak or run; and friends never know the things I dye with Diamond Dyes are redyed at nil!" I Mrs. n. 1", Quebec. speaking of mathematics: are you at all familiar with the Riemann-Chris- toffel tensor?" "I know of it," the man ad nitted. "Drukker uses it in bis book of \vorM lines. My mathematics, however, ar> not of the physicist's type. Had I not become enamored 01 chess" he smi!- ed sadly "I would have been an astronomer. Next to manoeuvring the factors in a complicated cheis combination, the greatest mental sat- isfaction one can get, I think, is plot- ting the beavers and discovering new planets. 1 even keep a live-inch equa- torial telescope in a iwnt-house on my roof for amateur observations." "You were, 1 understand, at the Dillards' last Thursday when Mr. Arnesson was discussing this tens<,r with Drukker and Sprigg." "Yes, 1 recall that the subject came t.p then." "How well did you know Sprigg?" "Only casually. 1 had met him wi'h Arnesson once or twice." "Sprigg, also, it seems, was in the habit of walking in Riverside Park before breakfast," observed Vance, negligently. "Ever run into him ther?, Mr. Pardee?" The man's eyelids quivered slight- ly, and he hesitated before answering. "Never," he said finally. Vance appeared indifferent to the denial. He rose and, going to the front window, looked out. "I thought one might be able to see into the archery range from here. But I note that the angle cuts off the view entirely." "Yes, the range is quite private. There's even a \arant lot opposite the wall, so that no one can see over it. . . Were you thinking of a possible wit- ness to Rubin's death?" "That, and other things." Vance, returned to his chair. "You don't go in for archery, I take it." "It's a trifle too strenuous for me. Dlllard once tried to interest me A cute mother hubbard diT-> that will enhance your small daughter's loveliness. It has bloomers too that peep smartly beneath the hem of the dress. 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At a meetln., here of re- presentatives of Canadian letters and the drama, as well as the sister arts of music, painting and sculpture, the Canadian Authors' Foundation has been established. The object Is to provide a perpetual fund for the benefit of any man or wo- man of distinction in Canadian letters, or their dependents." This was the Intention of a small group who orig- inated the scheme, who sought to commemorate the debt Canadian let- ters owe to Dr. Charles 0. D. Roberts, whose literary jubilee since he pub- lished "Orion" 50 years ago has Just been celebrated. The lHnyd of governors will i-ousist of the presidents of the Hoyal Society What came before: As Captain Jimmy and his new found friend Jed Stone race awny from the Chinese bandits In an old railway locomotive. Jed tells how his brother had been captured by outlaws, and of his vain search. As Jed told .ne the story of how his brother had soundly Uhrashed the bandit chief and how they had carried him away Into the hills in revenge, it suddenly occurred to me that these outlaws were the same band from which I had recently escaped. We were so interested in our plans for getting him free, that I failed to notice another train rounding the curve until its whistle shrieked a warning. To make matters worse, we were hacking up, Instead of . un- nlng forward and our string of freight cars would soon be reduced to matchv.'ood between the heavy locomotives. The brakes would never slop In time I switched to full speed ahead, In hope that I could lessen the im- pact. The wheels spun and biased, and it seemed that our locomotive must Jump the track. Too late! There was an ear-split- ting crash and it just felt as If some big giant had kicked the locomotive right out from under us. It seem- ed as if she were going to turn right over, but somehow It held to the rails. Looking back we saw a wreck In- deed. The engine had plowed into the rear of our train of ten freight cars. The first three were a mass of splinters, the next two were cross ways on the track. The engine It- self, after causing all that trouble had jumped the track, and now lay on Its side in the ditch steaming and fussing at a great rate. The tracks looked as If a cyclone had just passed by. . Rails were torn up, and tics scattered around. The crew had luckily jumped, and taking no further chances, promptly fled. "I guess we had better get out ef here before someone blames us for all this", chuckled Je Stone. "First thing you'll know som > one or other will want their old engine hack" let's go." It seemed best to leave the freight cars right there. As quickly as I could, I uncoupled the engine, climb- ed Into the cab and opened the throt- tle. After roaring along for a few miles an idea occurred to Jed Stone. "How about cutting the telegraph wires?" True enough, In a few minutes the crew might decide to return and tele- graph ahead, and then there'll be a whole parcel of Chinese troops wait- ing for us, asking where we found the engine. We slowed down to a stop. In a moment I climbed out and cut the wires. We were still In enemy territory, many, many, miles from Shanghai." Somehow we must get to our air- plane and get going. Every mom- ent's delay meant Just that much less chance of rescuing Jed Stone's brother, Guy, alive. On and on I pushed the old engine.* as fast as 1 dar- ed. The country was flat and u n 1 n teresting. Most of the timber had been cut away years be- fore, and the ground almost barren of vegetation. Mile after mile pass- ed by, and after a time we began to see an occasional soldier walking along the tracks. Then a .large wood began to appear on our left, stretch- ing away to the horizon. (To be continued.) Any of our young readers writ- ing to "Capt. Jimmy", 2010 Star Bldg., will receive his slzned ihoto free. 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Curle-Sklodowska in Paris, her most promising pupil, the dis- coverer of radium said; again that she'd done some notable work in mathematics; It was only because it came up in another connection that she casually referred to her transla- tion of Shakespeare's sonnets (into Polish!). If you had such records and a foreign guest, would you keep abso- lutely still about your achievements? N'or was she an exception to the rule. I arrived in Warsaw to find that a friend had arranged for me to live In a Polish household. Pan! L.'s (Panl means .Mrs. and Pan Mr. as nearly as run put it In England.) I had a speaks to all the children and all . pleasant talk with her and answered nurses when he leaves a group In the her questions about my writing and park. And along with their courtesy ' they're hospitable to the nth degree. The slightest excuse and they Invite my plans for Poland; of herself not a word. Rut when later in the day I Kave this address at the bank and the you to dinner or tea, or to stay at j American Kmbas.sy and to half a dozen their homes. 1 could have spent an- j pel . gons> they asked, "Is it Suzanna other fifteen months in Poland, If I'd . u? A re you living in the house of the accepted all my invitations. In one| Panl L , vho wHteg ^^ as well a , And I was, though I had to point-blank to coi.flrm it. little town I expected to stay three or ' novel four hours, just between trains, but . as i l i, er found my hostess had made plans for . Grace n,, m pnrey77n "Poiand'the four days. When I spoke, of leaving; a explored of Canada, the Canadian Authors' As- 1 country house on Thursday, the niece Delation, the National Council of Wo- exclaimed. "Thursday! But you've just men, the Association of Canadian Clubs, the secretary, and also Sir Andrew MacPhail, Justice Edouard Fabre Surveyer, Duncan Campbell Scott, Dr. George Wrong and Judge Kmlly Murphy. 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