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I Thif finest Orange Pekoe tea costs less than others n 'Fresh from the gardens 9 < r t I Tic Bishop Murder Case A PHILO VANCE STORY BY S. 3. VAN DINE < * i t SYNOPSIS. A man known aa Cock Robin li found with an arrow In his heart; another, Johnny Sprtgg, U found with i bullet through the top of his head. District Attorney Markham calls in Phllo Vance, who claims tha murders are founded on nursery rhymes and are the work of a maniac. Those associated with the case ar~: Prof. Dillard. his niece Belle, and his, protege Sigurd Arnesson. alsij a profes- or of mathematics. John Pardee. a neighbor with a passion for chess; _r3. Drukker and her son Adolph. Mrs. Drulc- ker Is mentally unbalanced and Adolpli la a cripple, with a super-brain. Mrs. Urukker tells how the murdertr paid her a terrifying visit the previous night. Vance learns that Adolpli Druk- ker lied as to his whereabouts on tha morning of Robin's death; that Parde played a chess match the previous night and that he and Drukker had a heated argument. Belle Dillard jind Arnesson had gone to the theatre. questioned. Pardee Is also CHAPTER XXIV. (Cont'd.) An unusually soft note had crept into Pardee's voice, and for some rea son which I could not exactly explain I got the feeling that he was fond of Belle Dillard. Vance, too, must have received the same impression, for after a brief pause he said: "You will realize, I trust, that it is not our intention to pry unneces- sarily into any one's private affairs; but the question of motive in the two murders we are investigating still re mains obscure, and as Robin's death was at first superficially attributed to a rivalry for Miss Dillard's affec- tions, it might help us to know, in a general way, what the true situatioa is concerning the young lady's prefer- ence. ... As a friend of the family you probably know; and we'd appre- ciate your confidence in the matter." Pardee's gaze travelled out of the window, arui the suggestion of t sigh escaped him. as bitterly as his seemingly mild na- ture would permit. "How long did the game last? Vance asked casually. "It was over a little after ons o'clock. There were only fourteen moves in last night's session." "Were there many spectators?" "An unusually large number, con- sidering the late hour." Vance put out his cigarette and go up. When we were in the lower hal on our way out to the front door he halted suddenly and, fixing Pardee with a gaze of sardonic amusement said: "Y" know, the black bishop was at irognoaticated. Astonishin' mind, Drukker's. . . ." It was plain that even now he was not entirely satisfied with what he lad learned; and his next words voic- ed his dissatisfaction. I thought while I was at it I'd take a page from the Sergeant's book, o to speak, and indulge in a bit of routine thoroughness. So I borrowed the score sheet of last night's game and copied down the moves. I may run over the game som day when time -iangs heavy." And with what I thought unusual care, he folded the score and placed it in his wallet. The following day brought nothing but discouragement. The report from Captain Dubois stated that i.he re- volver given him by Heath contained no sign of a finger-print. Capta'n Hagedorn identified the weapon as the one used in the shooting of Sprigg; but this merely substantiated our al- ready positive belief. The man set to guard the rear of the Drukker resi dence spent an uneventful night. No one had entered or departed from the house, and by eleven o'clock every window had been dark. Nor had a sound of any kind come from thi house until the next morning when the cook set about her chores for the day. Mrs. Drukker had appeared in the garden a little after eight; and at half past nine Drukker went out the front door and sat for two hours in the park reading. Two days went by. A watch was kept on the Dillard house; Pardee was put under strict surveillance; and a man was stationed each night under the willow trees behind the Drukker house. But nothing unusual happer.- ed; and, despite the Sergeant's tire- less activities, all promising lines of inv> -Ration seemed to be automatic- ally closed. Both Heath and Mark- ham were deeply worried. The news- papers were outdoing themselves in rhetoric; and the inability of What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTOM Jlhtstrated Fur Lesson. ""ry Pattern large again last night around mid- night." j the Police Department and the Dis- His words produced an astonishing ! tr . ict Attorney's office to make the effect. Pardee drew himself up aa if he had been struck in the face; and his cheeks went chalky white. For slightest headway against the mys- tery of the two spectacular murders was rapidly growing into a political full half -minute he stared at Vance, I scandal. his eyes like live coals. His lips mov-| V ance called on Professor illard ed with a slight tremor, but no word cam* from them. Then, as if with superhuman effort, he turned stiffly away and went to the door. Jerking it open he held it for us to pass out. CHAPTER XXV. As wa walked up Riverside Drirc to the District Attorney's car, which had been left in front of the Druk- ker house in 76th Street, Markham and discussed the case along general lines. He also spent over an hour on Thursday afternoon with Arnesson in the hope that the working out of the proposed formula had brought to light some detail that could be used as a starting point for speculation. But he was dissatisfied with the inter- view, and complained to me that Arnesjon had not been wholly frank with him.' Twice he dropped in at the Manhattan Chess Club and at- questioned Vance sharply in regard I tempted to lead Pardee into conversa- the final remark he had mad to ! tion ' but each time ne was mot witt Pardee. I the reticence of cold courtesy. I no- "I was in hopes," explained Vance, l ' ce d tnat ne made no effort to com "of surprising some look of recogni-i municate with either Drukker or Mrs. tlon or understanding from him. But.i Drukker; and when I asked him his 'pon my soul, Markham, I didn't ex- : reason for ignoring them, he an- pect any effect like the one I produced. ; wred : Astonishin' how he reacted. I don't j " The truth cannot oe learned from "I've always had the feeling that | grasp it I don't at all grasp it. . ."j them now - Each ; - Paying a game; he and Arnesson would some day be | He Became engrossed in his and both are thoroughly frightened. What came before After nany Ad- ventures flying over China, Captain Jim- my is captured by bandits. He escapes In a freight train and meets an "Id friend. Lieut. Stone, on board, seeking a brother who has also been captured by bandits. After we had cut the freight en- gine free from the cars, wa roared along the tracks at a ?reat rate. Now and then we mshed by little groups of soldiers in the field.). Soon quarters. "We're close up to the lines." I yelled above the infer- nal racket and clattering our en- great speed but I could see that w were going to hit with a sound thump. Suddenly we Jammed ra thi brakes, palled the whistle Talr wide open and sk-'ed into iheir midst like a shrieking, fire-eating dragon. "Jump:" And jump we ail did. Scottie went we would be near! into action with :be rest of us, and, the enemy's head- ' having the advantage of being on '. top of the tender, he quite naturally getting jumped higher and went further. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him sail thru 1 the air. A Chinese officer was striving to quiet a fran- tic horse. Straight as a bullet sail- ed Scottie landing right on the back Sine was making. o f that Chinaman's neck. &073 "Before long we must abandon ship and set out on foot. Otherwise some stupid Chinese General may have tiea put on the track and stop us. And it's going to be just the least bit difficult to make him believe sailing on we didn't steal this old wagon. So T I think we'd better swap this thing while we still own It." "Too late. Here he ia," Stone re- plied. There, on the track, not .ial* a mile away was piled an immense num- ber of wooden ties. Around about wera perhaps a hundred soldiers with eight or ten officers on horse- back. "Jump before we're hit, Jed." I hollered. "Get a aorse somehow and ride for those woods. There and palaver and argue about metlods. will be plenty of vacant ponies when I had to get a horse and get out they hear us go into action with our and so I did. It was a regular bedlam Off the horse they both went, and of all the blood curdling yells whew: that officer Just knew ta old dragon had got him at last Meanwhile I was doing a bit of my own account. I jumped for a man in horseback but I miscalculated my speed and missed him entirely Just behind him. however, was a second mounted China- man and I eloa- ed in on him like a football r and ofl he went. There was no time to brakes and whistle. You under- stand. Fu?" I added. "Uh Huh ma savvy," Fu answer- ed. Here. - withstand wear. It is extremely moderate in cost. Yellow linen with brown dots made ths original. The belt was brown patent leather. The group of soidlers stood near O ld horse, tha obstruction on the track and waited for us to arrive. Quite ap- parently they expected us to set the brakes sad coma to a stop. But let loose. Our old locomotive had slid Into t'-iose ties, kicked a few ofl the track and then rolled over on her back, wheels ia the air. '.ike a tired (To be continued i Chocolate Malted Milk The health-giving, delicious drink for children and grown- ups. Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. * married. But that is only conjecture, j thoughts. But as the car swung into * She once told me quite positively that | Broadway at 72nd Street he roused she was not going to consider matri- himself and directed the chauffeur to mony until she was thirty." (One the Sherman Square Hotel. . could easily guess in what connection j "I have a gaspin' desire to know Belle DiHard had made this pro- more of that chess game between nouncement to Pardee. His emotional i Pardee and Rubinstein. No veason as well as his intellectual life had ap- for it sheer vagary on my part. But parently met with failure.) the idea has been workin' in me ever t "You do not believe then," pursued : since the processor mentioned it. ... Vance, "that her heart is seriously j From eleven until past one that's a ' concerned with young Sperling?" | deuced long time to play off an uti-j Pardee shook his head. "However," j finished * game of only forty-four, ' he qualified, "martyrdom such as he ] moves." is undergoing at present has a tre- j We had drawn up to the curb at * mendous sentimental appeal for wo- | the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and r men." I "* s ' Street, and Vance disappeared "Miss Dillard tells me you called on . into the Manhattan Chess Club. It . her this morning." ' was fully five minutes before he re- "I generally drop over during the ; turned. In his hand he carried a day." He was obviously uncomfort- ' sheet of paper filled with notations, able and, I thought, a little embar There was, however, no sign of jubil- Until we have some definite evidence, more harm tha.i good will result from any attempt to cross-examine them." (To be continued.) 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Toronto, will receive his When Poets Were a Race Apart Occasion took me Uie other day to the British Museum Reading Room and to while away the rather long interval of waiting for books to be brought to me, I took down an old colume of the Annual Register out of an Idle curiosity to see what was hap- pening in the. world of letters In the year of my nativity. ... In poetry, until now :iia iutiueuca .. i .11* aam4 merely warms the system of the gen- eral reader to a respectable ardour. Probably th* Victorious were more emotional, more generously impulsive, leas than . ' .. - V rassed. "Do you know Mrs. Drukker well'.'" Pardee gave Vance a quick, inqui- sitive look. "Not particularly," he said. ' I've naturally met her several times." ance in his expression. "My far-fetched but charm in' theory," he said with a grimace, "hasj run aground on base prosaic facts. I just talked to the secretary of the jclub; and last night's session consum "You've called at her house?" j ed two hours and nineteen minutes. "On many occasions, but always to It seems to have been a coruscatm' . t t J H i see Drukker. I've been interested f >r ' battle, full of esoteric quirks anj stra- years in the relation of mathematics j Ugical soul-searchin's. Along about to chess. ..." i half Past eleven the onlooking genii Vance nodded. I had Pardee picked for the winner; "How did your game with Rubin- 1 but Rubinstein then staged a masterly stein come out last night, by the by" , piece of sustained analysis, and pro I didn't see the papers this morning-" ceeded to tear Pardee's tactics to "I resigned on the forty-fourth ' sivithcrevr.s just as Drukker had move." The man spoke hopelessly.' ... I "Rubinstein found a weakness in my attack which I had entirely overlooked j ' when I sealed my move at the ad- * journment." , "Drukker, Professor Dillard WBl ^ us, foresaw the outcome when you : * and he were discussing the situation > last night." I (.ould not understand why Vane,' referred so pointedly to this episode. knowing as he did how sow a point it wa with Pardee. Markham, also. frowned at what appeared to be an unforgivably tactless remark on * Vance's part. Pnrdee colored, and shifted in his chair. "Drukker talked too much la.-', t night." The statement was not with- > out venom. "Though he's not a tour- nament player, he should know that uch discussions are taboo during un- finished games. Frankly, though, 1 put little stock in bis prophecy. I thought my sealed move had taken care of the situation, but Drukker saw The Lilac-Bush O see that lilac bush! The North wind blows She shivers and she turns herself I away And. to his wooing, answers "Nay" and "Nay, Too rough thou art, and clumsy In thy play!" Then gentle- South-West Wind comes courting, soft. With hint of tears behind his laugh- ter gay. The lilac bush waves graceful arms aloft And decks with te-ndar green each tiny spray. Swaying now this, now that, now every way. But when the golden sun dries .up the showers, Pterdnff the mists with bright and Veranda Serenaders In the sultry stillness of evening a -rio of \v:;:- settles stealthily on the lawn. Tlio Tennyson reigned in kingly loneliness. with "Browning greatly respected but j^d'iierent'ly' with ! quite a small star to the moon c ! Tennyson's glory. It was mentioned i that "Enoch Arden" had been received that year with immense enthusiasm. and. the> recorder added, such was its vogue that it was not easy to go Into a drawing-room where you would not Life is a hypercritical and sophisticated wa are; they still believed poet* were Inspired, but we have been so over-fed with all manner of wonders in these latter years that our poets oave lost that halo, and w< rank them practitioners of other ingeniously mechanical, unseusa- tional crafts. St. John Adcock. ia "The Glory That Was Grub Street." The Chemist leader mops his flushed brow, waves flnd a copy of .. Enoch Arden" lying on the bow of his 'cello, then begins care- tQ9 tal)le> and lf you went oa a ra ii- lessly to weave the rich tone of his way j 0unley you were almost sure to instrument in with the gentle strum- notjce . hat ' a t least one passenger In ming o: his companions. Softly at your carriage wouM Vring tha book And when you pass his amber door first, and then the strains of "Old ,i a nn.-k WnnHor * hernia: who - The auMs of tha bruin; His rarest Ecstasy is n..i i.' From < of Pa::;. out of nis Black Joe" smother the steady droning (n rea ding it. of the locusts. One by one figures glide from the old house into the lace patterned moonlight on the veranda* 1 . A slight pause, and the lively notes of "Money Musk'' start grandfather's Tennyson, in fact, shared the popu- Wonder awhile on H <w many agonies compose One molecule of b larity of Dickens; he was as supreme - 31iot Bl:ss. i:i the Obst- in one art as Dickens was In another: but we have no poet nowadays who so towers above- his fellows, none who A woman entered a asked for 'Kegs and library Xaila." and it lowers iwuvo uis Lcuuvta, u a .-sans. it 2?j *.?*"L n f ..." _*!l ,l rS bas so subdued the public with his turned out thai the book she wanted magic that the reading world, roused was "Cakes a:ij A'.-'." The other to excitement by the news that he case is historical ar i i aow a memories of her first Virginia reel. A wilted straw hat is passed from hand to hand; and glorious ray. With pyramids of scented purple flowers She crowns herself, her beauty to display. Home" before they steal away. in thousands to spend money in buy- ing It as soon as it is printed. This Lost" was sent to Mrs. Thra'.e, Dr. Johnson's friend. The best th does not happen now; none of our lady could :r. >'.; -f was Milton's poets has been able to take such mi- "Paradise Lust," which -. -'.-i-ne she H!gh-flyi:u records -Mnd at 43.166 culous hold on a vast multitude sent, feet for men. held bv Lieut. Soucek. ellher by th<? power And turns her face to him. and whls- of tha American Navy and 32500 Ptatn*"W charm ot hls P*am I never met a judi ,, did Thera are several reasons for this. not> ;j ne could. son^>w!i.u incline to- pers "Stay!" (about six miles) for women, held by Janet Reade, (Miss Eleanor S:i!i:!i. another Ameri- For one thing a11 our po<?u now L ' ut '- v;lrii ' :1 " '<"' Sir H " nr ? In John O'London'a Weekly can aviator. farther ahead than I did. His analy- THE GIANT ANO THE PSGMY It has tne advantage of the height of the platform above rail-level, when lined 119 He their hair short, are clean shaven, dress like stockbrokers or city clerks, and mix with the crowd as If there were no difference be' ween them ami the next man. They are no longer wrapped In mystery as a race apart. like the Levites; they look common- place and ordinary, and this discour- ages the public from believing they or their works are otherwise; anj th..' ;rtraits of them scattered freely through the press give them away even to people who have not seen them. I suppose- it is difficult to go hero-worshipping unless the hero either looks the part or holds impres- -ively aloof and keeps out of sight. Another reason for the apathy of '19 general reader is, perhaps, tha: the poetry written to-day is not so 4reat, or does not seem so great to him as the poetry of Tennyson seemed M our grandfathers. 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