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This finest Orange Pekoe tea costs less than others TEA 'Freeh from the gardens 9 The Bishop Murder Case A PHILO VANCE STORY BY S. S. VAN DINK sY.vrsis. is Allot :i l-li.iwn * I'n !, l; wnh an air.'W un the MH-II--I y raiiKr '- >l(l thf II..IIH- .if I 1 ]..'. I'ilUr.1 Tin * . . to I . H niiid * lUati.m ..r \\ |n. K'llnl <V. U K..I.IH. ' l>lltrict .vttmji.v AlHrkliain Is |>iuzl>-<l , - In I 1 ! li.. \ mi. v. wt.ii'lr, j 1.1:1. K lm !nliltli:l in I IIP s.ilvInK "f BPI K illlTMUlll !: Sparrow) w.m th* last wtri wlih Hlllll 111- Mill! lll'lllll Wl-!' in llIM' m!li Belli- PHIni'J. Hn- in i ---"i > ill'" 1 '' S'Kuvii VCIM"--.!.!! a pi "(<>:* "f tti** pi - -> .ill inrririnitiU.il .n tlif ..,-. .., he i ; t .| <iil\e It I mill mil. nil'. . .;:!..;. T'lil'ilii-. ihHV"! ill! IllHTMt ii. Hiv ..is. Mrv Hint-,. -. . iKlil'"i , M ,,ii uiiKililln "<! llliiul. I" In 1 .-' hi I ..n-;i|i 'mi to Itr Hill :i I'Hln 'I'm . - n'li- with abnormal Intellect. <l :i mat ht-niiitli-hiti. \':t I,, t- .! ti-i niln < < HAI'TKK IX. When we w-rv :ig:iin in the D.,'., ii iii awing mom an<' Miss l)ili:irri had ! rejoin her uncle : th,.- );lirary. Yawe. wi'.b"ut preliminaries, ceded to the 1 u^m-ss in hand. "1 didn't cart- to worry your niollwr, Mr. Itrukker, by i|uer>tining you :i: front i hi'i-, l"Jt iiia-much as you . ;,. ni here this morning shortly before Mr. Robin'' iie:i'i . -^'ii\ * a mere i-iritine pritcedurr that we on M.u en-; "Not so difficult as tricky.' 1 Druk- ktr was watching Vance shrewdly. "As voon as I discovf-ivi! that an ap- parently unless pawn move was the key to the impusxc, the solution was Mmplt-." "How long <li<l it take you?" "Half an hour or so. 1 ' "I'ntJl ab.ut half pnM twi, shall say?" "That woulil bo about right." Drulc- KHI- MttUii il; cper into hi? chair, but his covert nlcrtneas <li<! not relax. "Then you must have been in thy archery-room when Mr. Robin and Mr. Sperling came then'." Trip man ilid not answer at once, .ind Vanoc. pretending not to notice his hesitancy, added: "Professor Dil- lard said they called at the house about ten anil, after waiting a whil in the drawing room hern, went down to the basement." 'Where's Sperling now, by the way?" I>rukki-i's eyes ila.rt:-d suspi- i-ieusly from one to thf other of us. "We <-x]M-ct him here any minute," Vii-vi- replied. "Sergeant He.-.th ha- sent tw<. of ),is mon to fetch him." The hunohbeck'a eyebrows liftei 1 . "Ah! So Sperlir.g is (wing Srcibly himself ne:i j brought back.'' He pyramided his i patulate tingt-rs and inspected them f musiiiKly. Then he slowly lifted hi<; :> Vain--. "You asked r.e if I saw Robin and Sperling in the archery room. Ye.; they came down-tap juf-: as 1 wa>- going." Vance linn-.'d back ainl stretehe-l h; leg* l)i fore him. "l>id you g-t the impression. Mr. Drukkcr, that they had as we euphe- r Drukker ha'! '''. Thf fireplace. He nw drew in hi-. ii- :\, but maili' no answer. "You cnine her.." . , i : nue<l Vance. "about halt' pa^t nine, I Veve, to r. M- . .V "Ye." "H\ W.M '!' 'h. ji>chi ry i auge an i "1 ahMiy- ci.Mic !ha1 w;iy. \\'!iy wklk around the block?" "I'.'.t Mr. -^rnc^'-r. wa "Ut tbi- "g." hrul- Ii !. "At tht- nty." "Ami. li::(i:i)^r Mr. .\riii^-<>n awiiy, ;. ,1 Mil fur a while in tin- Ubrar; ' I' ! liilard, I understaivl. - ;ui astronomical expedit!< ;. T Si-utli Ainericn." i left tin- r.x.m alinust iiiiiin<diiit<'K "Thi- i.x]Ht>:tii'n "f thr Ki.yiil A^!r..-j after they entered." . -jil S-iety tn Snbrji! to ti~t th" j "You went out. the has.-ment <loor iniiiii defl Drukker. "1I"W ''ing were you in rary?" "I.e-^ tliiin half an hour." 'And then?" "I i-it di'wn '" the archery room, ar.d gl.'iiiceil at otie of the niag;ix.'np. Thei-e was a cbi ^ problem in rt n Xiig'zwang er,d-gani- that canie up ricintly Ijetween Shapiro and Mar- :.r and I nat down and worked i! it. . . ." ".In'-: u moment, Mr. Drunker. " > !,>;< of ^'i|i|in-^'i-ii interest came ; Vanc'i-V voice. "Ynu're interM> ' "Ti> !> ct-rtiiin extent. I don't spend me at it. however. The gaim : ' not pinvly mathematical; ami it's insufficiently sp-culati\v to apjieal to i\ '.vho'ly 'cientific mind." 1 l-'il y. -i find '>> S v i:iiiii'i .Marsha!! ; mistically say In en having words?" The mail ...r-ii!, r< d this ijuestion for - veral mmnent. "Ni-w that you mention it," he ^aid at ,'t-ngth. "I do recall that ther.- "t-emed to he a ci; iln">s U-twc-en them. J wouldn't however, care to be to.) categorical on that point. You see, I . i-t.on," amplified i I think you said, and them-" through ' "That's right." "You '.--aw nothing, by the wry, that waj in the least extr'ordin'ry wh:;n you were here this morning?" "I saw nothing except what I've told you." "And you've quite .sure you hcarn your mother scream at about half past eleven?' 1 Vance did not move as he asked this question; but a slightly different note had crept into his voice, and it acte i on Drukker in a startling manner. HP heaved his squat body out in his chair and stood glaring down on Vance with menacing fury. His tiny round eyes flashed, and his lips worked convul- sively. His hand?, dangling before him, flexed and unflexed like those of a man in a paroxysm. "What are yau driving at?" he de- manded, his voice a shrill falsetto. "I tell you I heard her scream. 1 don't care a damn whether she admits it or not. Moreover. I heard her walkin in her room. She was in her room, understand, and I was in my room between eleven and twelve. And you oan't prove anything ditl'ereiit. Fur- thermore, I'm not going to be cross- examined by you or anyone else as to what I was doing or where I was. It's none of your damned business do you hear me?. . ." So insensate was his wrath that I expected any minute to see him huri himself on Vance. Heath had risen and stepped forward, sensing the po- tential danger of the man. Vane?, however, did not move. Hft continud to smoke languidly, and when the other's fury had been spent, he said quietly and without a trace of emo- tion : "There's- nothing more we have to ask you, Mr. Drukkcr. And really, y' kr.ow, there's no need to work your- self up. It merely occurred to me that your mother's scream might help to e-tall'i'-h the exact time, of the mur- der." "What ivuld her scream hav* to do with the time of Robin's death? Didn't she '.," you she saw nothing?" Druk- ker ap|<c:ed exhausted, and lean-'l heavily against ll.e table. At this n,.mcr.t Professor Dillard app- are/1 in th.' ir.-chway. Behind him stood Arnesson. "What seems to be the matter?" the professor asked. "I heard the noise here, and came down." He regarded Drukker coldly. "Hasn't Belle been through enough to-day without your frightening her this way?" Vance hail risen, but before he could Arnesson came forward and shook his linger in mock reprimand at Drukker. "You really should learn control, Adolph. You take life with purh aliomiiiable seriousness. You've work- ed in interstellar spatial magnitudes long enough to have some sense of pro- portion. Why attach so much import- ance to this pin-point of life on the the wall gate into 75th Street. that, correct?" I'or a moment Drukker . loath tn answer; but he replied with an effort of unconcern. "Quite. I thought I'd take a stvo'l 'long the river before going back t > work. I went to the Drive, then up the bridle path, ami turned ii>to the I Pf.rk at 7!>th Street." Heath, with his habitual suspicion ol all statement- made to the police, |i'it the next question. "Did you im-et any one you knew?" Drukker turned angrily, but Vance quickly .stepped inU the breach. "It really doesn't matter, Sergeant. If it's necessary later on to ascertain that point, we can take the. matter up again." Then to Drukker: "You re- turned from your walk a little before eleven, I think you said, and entered your hou- by the front door." Pure, crisp, light, flaky and always FRESH earth'."' Drukker wa breathing stertorously. "Thv.-e swine " he began. "Oh, my dear Adolph!" Arnes>o'i cut him short. "The entire human race are swine. Why particularize? . . . ('< me along. I'll see you home." And he took Drukker's arm firmly and led him downstair:-. "We're very >rry we disturbed you, sir," Markluim apologized to Profes- sor Dillard. "The man flew off the handle for some unknown reason. The.se investigation are not the pltaf- antest things in the world; tut we hope to l>e through b-fore lon>R." "Well, make it ns brief as you can, Markiiam. And di> try to spare Bel'.e as much as possible. I/et me see you before you go." When Professor Dillard had return- ed upstair Markham asked Vance: "What do you make of Drukker?" "Decidedly not n pleasant character. Diseased physically and mentally. A congenital liar. But canny oh, deuc- ed canny. An abnormal braan yo'.i often find it in cripples of this type. Somi-times it runs to real constructive genius, as with Ste.inmet/.; but too often it tnkes to abstruse speculation along impractical line?, as with Druk- ker. Still, our little verbal givt-niut- take has not liee:i without fruit. He'.- hiding something that he'd lilce to tell but. doesn't dare." "He's touchy on the subject of that hour between eleven and noon," said Markham. "We're at least getting some lug- gage aboard," said Vnncc. "Our ex- j cilnble mathematical wizard has open- ed up >ome very interest in' lines ot speculation. And Mrs. Drukker is fairly leemin' with possibilities." I "I'm here to tell you, Mr. Markham, ' thai, we're waiting our time," put in i Hoath. What's the good of all the?3 ' parleys? Sperling's the boy we want, ( and when my men bring him in an'l j put him through a little sweating, j we'll have enough material for an ! indictment He was in love with the 1 Dillard girl and wu.i jealous of Robin not only on account of the girl, but I because Robin could shoot those red Clicks ,-traighter than he could. Ho had a scrap with Robin in this hero room the professor heard 'em at it." "And," added Vance ironically, "his rame means 'sparrow.' (Jiiml crat d*- iii<>iiHli'<nidni>i-Nc>, Sergwn! ; it's much too easy. It works out like a game of Canlield with the cards wtac),-- jed; whereaH this thirg was plaivnp/i i much too carefully lor suspicion to I fat! directly on the guilty person." (To hi 1 continued.) sinter's n loim time about making lir niipPBraiiro," Migjrrsied th pallor, "Well." said the little brother. "she,'d he a slxlit If she rame down without making It." 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