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ats mysteries, The Green Murder Case BY 8. 8S. VAN DINE. i SYNOPSIS, Philo aVnce, with a hob! y for solving becomes interested in the Greene murders when istrist Attorney John Markham and Sgt. Heath are called in after the fatal shooting of Julia Gree..) and the wounding of her younger sister, Ada. Old Tobias Greene's widow, together with five children, Julia, Ches- ter, Sibella, Rex «nd Ada (adopted) live in the old Greene mansion. Police in- vestigat .ns reveal notling; then Ches- "And it was in connection with these drugs you wished to see me?" "Indirectly--yes." Von Blon paus- ec. momentarily to arrange his words. "Today it happened t.at I had in my cese a fresh tube of soluble quarter- grain morphine tablets, and a carton of four tubes of str, 'hnine-thirtieths." "And what abou: this supply of render valuable assistance to the mountaineers, So far, howevor, no attempt to fiy{ "An Old Tree In the parish churchyard of Fort- an and instesteny by so doing en- ler is found shot dead seated in a chalsi 4.00 "doctor?" over thy summit has succeeded. Two | Ingal in Perihshire there is a giant riches Un m's Treasury by more * A ind Trem (haa. trance. of the man-| "The fact is, the morphine and the American airmen tried it at the be-|Yew which has the repatation of be-' tnan $250,000 each year. A bird ! sion. Ada goes to Markham's office and | (oop coho 0h qeeonnaod 9 ginning of this year, bu: only got up| ing the oldest tree in Europe. | valued at $5 or lefs pays 50 cemts; ~~ = © informs him that Rex has - ot told all yehu ppe . | to 15,600 feet, and the attempt made This tree has been estimated to others contribute 20 per cent of their by Sir Alan Cobham in 1924 was ali, Markham bent forward, his eyes iid trom 2,500 to: 3,000 years old. Tn h> knows, Five mirutes later word comes that Rex has been shot. "HAPTER XXIV.--(Cont'd.) Vance beat a nervous tattoo on the table, his brows contracted. "And there's another thing, Mark- ham, that's incomprehensivle about Rex's death, His door into the hall was open; but nobody upstairs heard the shot--ncbody upstairs. And yet Sproot-- who was downstairs, in the | butler's pantry behind the dining room --heard it distinctly." "It probably just happened that way," Markham argued, almost auto- matically. "Sound acts fantastically sometimes." ? Vance shook his head. curioasly animated. "They were in my case this morn- ing when I left my office," Von Blon explained; "and I made only two brief call: before I went to the Greenes'. I missed the tubes when I returned to my office," Markham moment. "And you think it probable "hat the d:ugs were taken from your case dur- rng either of your other calls?" "That's just it. At neither place was the case out of my sight for a moment," "And at the Greenes'?" Markham's agitation was growing rapidly. "I went directly to Mrs, Greene's studied the doctor a better luck. | unsuccesstul, Ald by Autogyro : Perhaps, But whether it is successful the 1933 Everest expedition is certain to be u great alventure. And we nay 'well be proud of the fact that it is again British mountaineers who are to risk their lives struggle with Nature in the greatest and loneliest of her strongholds, -------- Ontario Woman, 104 as Sir George Macmunn has suggested, an autogyro might have It is certainly worth try- ing. Ald of this kind migh. make all the difference on the final lap. } in this supreme or not, 1769, at which time the trunk was intact, it is recorded that it had a girth of 56 feet and a diameter of nearly 18 feet. Today only two fragments . of thé once enormous trunk remain, and these are about fourteen feet apart. It is remark- 'able that the stems are still putiing for.h leaves and shoots, amass Semis Britain Regulales Sea Cooks Every British sea-going craft of 1,000 .ons or over must carry a certi- fied sea cook who has passed three sets of tests, iccording to a ruling of the British Board of Trade. value for a passport. "No other country does what we = = 0 on such a large scale," said Dr. Palmer the other day. "We re.' i quire a passport for all birds 'brought = in' by ship, land or air. However, our idea came from Western Aus- tralia about forty years ago, and is, motivated, of course, by a need to protect our 'respectable bird citizens from the undesirables--such as the ' starlings and sparrows, who were brought here by the shipload back in the 1880s and released over Brooklyn Harbor." "Canaries use the most passports," he continued, "About 75,000. come fa. every year, some from the Orient, : far the most from the Hartz "Nothing has just happened in this | room, taking the cuse with me. I re- Ignores Dieting Order Yat 8 1s ry. BY case. There's a terrible logic about| mained there for perhaps half an Win g 5 p : the way, choppers are the vogue just J everything--a carefu.iy planned rea- hour, When 1 came out-- : " -- -- ¢ dsor, Ont.--Ignoring the orders How Mrs. Brown now: a few years ago it was rollers. eon behind each detail. Nothing has You did not leave the room during No wheel of fortune this, but a machine which welts thirly shoes o doctors about the diet she should In fact, the lot of the bird importer been left to chance. Still, this very that half-hour? at a time at the rate of eight to ten thousand a week. It was exhibit- Jhsekve and proud of the fact that made old blouse is almost as uncertain as that of the systematization of the crime will ay, ois mio. doctor Vance's| 64 at & recent shoe and leather fair in England. day enioys eas three times a : ladies' dress buyers." eventually prove the murderer's down- Waning co ren m-- er -- celebrated her Ie raed, Tecently look new After (lie canaries come the par- fall. When we can find a key to any. hat vou cal > her to bring| 4°¢ has put her wise to her new du- 9 ae rihday al the rots; .about 50,000 of them and their one of the antersoms, we'll know our tioned that you called to her to bring Is Everest Doomed? e of her son in Lasalce, thé parrakeets, come in ties, she gets into her uniform and goes in to Mrs. Greene. The old lady tell: the doc she didn't like this Miss Craven anyway, and hopcs the new nurse will show her more considera- brothers, during the season. The parrot im. migration 1s. heaviest around Christ- mas time. The third From where Born in 1828 in the French settle. ment where she ctill resides on the banks of the Detroit River not far from Windsor, she was. the daugh- way intc the main chamber of hor- Mrs. Greene's bouillon, » ud you call? Von Blon nodded. "Ah, yes. I did speak to Miss Craven. I stepped to the door and called up the servants' "When I, was planning my summer wardrobe I got out all 'my old clothes," writes an enthusiastic lady from Tor- onto. "Way back in the closet hung British Climbers Plan a New that moment Markham was A : Assault on the World's summoned to the telephone. When 4¢ largest users of pass 1 } ! : dg a ter of a cap'ain in the British returned his expression was puzzled o. , tion. Things couldn't have gone Highest = Summit He served in the British ean a ebiffcn blouse--pertectly good but Jos are Jleuisen sal me . and ur easy. smoother. I hung around until I got "The mountain must in the end fall the War of 1812. In 1848 she was|UNW¥earable because it had lost all its| in throug "It vas Swacker. - Von Blon is at my office now---he has something to Rio Grande between Feb, 156 and April a chance to tip our woman off about Last year almost 40,000 Bob original color. I asked the druggist the golushes; then I came :.way." to man, It cannot escape its doom." ? : he one day what I could use to color my | 1. So writes Sir Francis Younghusband married to Wiliam Girard and they lived in a log house which is now CHAPTER XXV. tell me." (Tues., Nov. 30, 8 p.m.) "Which of our --omen did you give blouse that didn't require boiling. 1, Whites and other varieties were. im- ra o" ot oy 3g y of the new assault on Everest, the, occupied by the son and his famil onse i | "Ah! Very iiterestin'," commented | Eight o'clock that night found In- | the case to, Sergeant?" Moran asked. rae oe OT vores is to| with whom she' lives. a aully knew boiling would ruin the delicate ported for restocking rail in the Vance. spector Moran, Sergt. Heath, Mark-| ¢"0'B.ien--the one who handled the : fabric. He showed me Diamond Tints; | Easiern and Southern States, been modernized t¢ a marked extent but the old log house is there cov | ered with clapboards and linel in- side with modern carpenter work. Having lived during the reigns of be made next year, The new expedition will be led by Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, who acquired much experience of climbing in the Himalayas .while in the Indian Civil We drove to the District Attorney's office, and Von Blon was sho n in at once. "TI may be stirring up a mare's ham, Vance and me seated about a small conference table in one of the Stuyvesant Club's private rooms. The evening papers had created a furor As to pheasants, the World War changed our importing habit, 'ac- cording to Dr. Palmer. Now, instead if importing most of our pheasants Sitwell affair. Nothing in that house will get by O'Brien; and she's as strong as a man." "There's another thing you'd bet- told me they were made by the makers of Diamond Dyes, which in- stantly made me feel safe about them because 1 know the quality of Diamond nest," he began apologetically, after |in the city with their melodramatic| to sheik to her about as soon as pos-| Service, five British sovereigns, she recalls|Dyes--have used them often in dyeing | from the *ackyara | Dheasaptriesiof he had seated hims:If on the edge of | accounts of Rex Greene's murder; and| Gihje » And Markham related in de- Preparations for the expedition the activities of early days, the trips [dark colors. He told me Diamond Canada, we produce them In 0 a chair. , back yards and many States have gone into the business on a most ex- tensive scale. these early stories were, as we all knev:, hut the mild forerunners of what the morning journals would pub- Tints are the new way to get light shades just by rinsing or dipping. He had all the popular shades, but I chose tail the facts of Von Blon's visit to the office after lunch. "If those drugs were stolen in the Greene mansion, across the river i» a canoe laden with vegetables which' were sold in Detroit, the war cries of the Irojuols started a week or so ago, as soon as it was known that the Dalai Lama had consented to annother effort being "But I felt I ought to inform you of a curious thing that happened to me this morning. At first I thought I would tell the police, but it occurred to me they might misunderstand; and I decided to place the matter before you to act upon as yon saw fit." Plainly he was uncertain as to-how t' @ subject should be broached, and Markham waited patiently with an air of polite indulgence. "I phoned the Greene house as soon as I made the--ah--discovery," Von Blon went on hes antly, "But I was informed you had left for the office; 80, as soon as i had lunched, I came in the habit of carrying a rather full supply of emergency medicire CABG: « +s drugs in my ACHES ursue, don't get us anywhere." if the doctor's satchel had been|230 feet, and may have gone id = ET ==1"To don, his neighbour, and himself "Where were the prints?" searched a score of times before. Per-|aply higher. They may even have most true; an d P a 1 ns "Everywhere--on the doorknobs, the | haps there's been a patient accumula-|reached the summit, and lost their Whom neither force nor fawning centre table, the window-panes; some| tion of the drugs, This morning's|lives on the way down, can ; . were even found on the woodwork | theft may have been the final raid." In any case, these four men got high| _ Unpin, or wrench from giving all their easily above the mantel." (To be continued.) enough to show that the remaning 800 due, "That last fact may prove inter- feet or so--Eve.2st is just over 29,000 - relieved esting some day, though it doesn't rrr. feet high--should not be impossible. 'Whose honesty is not 3 FLX seem to mean much just now. Any- Deeds That is not to overlook or underes- So loose or easy, that a 'ruffling wind > thing more about the footprints?" Here must thy deed be done, timate the difficulties. Every step of Can blow away, or glittering look it 2 wl L "Nope. I got Jerym's report late "were an undreamed-of thing that 800 feet will be desperately hard: blind; Aspirin will relieve your barmlessly and in a hurry. a tablet in a little water, gone! suffering Swallow The pain is : right--Ada's, and Rex's and Sproot's, 1and a couple of the doctor's.' But that lish. The situation itself, without the in- evitable impending strictures of the press, was sufficient to harry and de- press those in charge of the official investigation; and, as I locked round the little circle of worried faces that might, I realized the tremendous im- portance that attached to the oucome of our conference. Markham was the first to speak. "I have brought copies of the wills; but before we discuss them I'd like to know if there have been any new de- us a liné of inquiry, If it wasn't for the fact that no gun was found in the room, I'd turn in a report of suicide tkis afternoon; but it don't say any- thing new. The goloshes you found made the tracks," "That reminds me, Sergeant. did you do with the goloshes?" What ter. implied. inspector, your woman may be able to find some trace of them." Markham's account of the missing poisons had produced a profound effect on both Heath and the Inspector, "Good heavens!" exclaimed the lat- "Is this affair going "o develop into a poisoning case? the finishing touch." sion went much deeper than his tone Heath sat staring at the polished table top with futile consternation. ~# any attempt to use it." "What astounds me," "ig is back of these murders--and calcula- tion no end. I wouldn't be surprised That he who wins no Kingdom here Should there become a King. made to reach the summit, The mountain is in Tibet, and after the 1924 expedition the Tibetan authori- ties were reluctant to consent to an: other. Their attitude was understancable enough. Those two very gallant gén- tiecmen, Mallory and Irvine, had dis- appeared in the mist in a final attempt on the summit--and had never come back. Two years before, seven porters bad been killed by an avalanche. In all, the mountain had claimed thirteen lives. It was ro wcnder that It would be His apprehen- to a new effort being made, it will be successful, no one can pre dict; but one day, beyond a doubt, a man will stand on the summit of Ever- remarked the the security felt by the ing without oxygen, And Mallory and Irvne are known to have reached 28, and Huron Indiaus, the howls of the timber wolves and the other trials of the pioneers. She also recalls vividly the Fenian raids and tells with gusto of the fight which prevented their getting to the mainland from Fight- ing Island, then known by che In- dian name of Des-Chree-Shoska. ota rien Men resemble the gods in 80 much as in doing go«1 to their fel low-creatures.--Cicero. nothing a delicate shell pink. [It came out beautifully and was so easy. It was just like finding a brand new. blouse!" 'CORN 5 RUP directly here," velopments." "There's no use looking for the|the Tibetans thought the gods of Ever- at the docks, i "Very good of you, doctor," mur-| "Developments!" Heath snorted con-| stuff, There's a hundred places in the | est were angry, es! should not again cow ARDS B Une Custoniss Tuapettons, on the alert E mured Markham. temptuoasly. "We've been going|house where it could be hid; and we|pe disturbed. against smugglers. . Not long ago : Again Von B.on hesitated, cand his | round in a circle all afternoon, and| might search a month and not find it. It May Have Been Conquered! an importer tried to bring in a 5 manner became exaggerated]: ingra-|the faster we went the quicker we| Anyway, I'll go out there tonight and Now, after eight years, they- have "black list? bird by placing it in the : tiating. gol to where we started. Mr. Mark-| tell O'Erien to watch for it. If she's| oq onsidered their decision, and agreed centre of a large bale of canary : "The fact is, Mr. Markham, I am | iam, not one thing turned up to give| on the lookout she maybe can spot : Whether its name & "Emergency drugs?" and then resign from the force." |thief. Within an hour of the time|est tne highest point in the whole E--=4 == the sharp eye of an inspector found ® "A viriety of hypnotics and stimu- "Fie on you, Sergeant!" Vance|Rex Greene is shot the poison _dis- world. % the bird hidden away among hun lants, I find it often convenient. , .,"| made a half-hearted attempt at levity.| appears from the upper hall. That's| when the last assault on Everest At trifling cost ; A "the most dreds of canaries, and the intruder 'It's a bit too early to give way to|cold-bloodedness for you! And nerve,|wag launched, we knew very much fet was barred.--M. McO. ; such gloomy pessimism--1I take it that| too!" less about the Himalayas and about pfu : Nour ishing and eens niin Captain Dubois found no finger-| "There's plenty of cold-bloodedness|nigh altitude climbing than we do to- The p \ Deltrioustood ! & prints." and nerve in this case," answered |gay, Yet Colonel Norton and Dr. CANADA STARCH CO., Limited, The Honest Man "Oh, h: found finger-prints, allj Vance, "A relentless determination |somervell reached 28,130 feet, climb- MONTREAL b At these great altitudes it is an effort even to turn the head, and to lift one foot past the other involves immense strain. Choosing the Best Route The day I talked with Dr. Palmer he had just signed a permit allow- ing 241 birds of forty-one varieties and forty-seven mammals of eight kinds to enter in one shipment from Hamburg, Germany. For example, there were eight flamingoes from Cuba, which had. traveled from Cuba to Gérmany and back again to New York, crown pigeons from New Guinea, shama thrushes from India, cockatoos from Australia, francolins from Afrida, Emperor starlings from Abyssinia and robins from India, Dr. Palmer and his assistants, the cages and by inserting among 3,000 items on his permit ap- plication. Even though Dr. Palmer's staff missed it and issued a permit, Who is the honest man? He that doth still. and strongly good in the © Country Give the Old Folks the best possible Who rides his sure and even trot, While the world now. rides by, now lags behind. = 4 ; Who, when great trials come, It's as easy as that to be rid of: the Heath gave him a sly, exultant grin. Yet not only must the distance be Sirigmas present by by § 10 see them Nor seeks nor shuns them; but doth pain fiom an aching tooth; of head- pe Sxapnr hat you'd Rave done, covered, but every foothold must be Christmas shopping in hidoing Your calmly stay, ache from any cause. Muscular aches i h 'em, Mr. once, niy--- cut out with the ice-axe. Oxygen ap- or Paris. Low oceanr Sondat; G force. Till he the thing and the example due to rheumatism, lumbagp; to colds ught of it first. paratus is therefore an essential for 'Ocean Rates. One Retu weigh; or strains, are easily overcome, Those Vance smiled back. + : at least the top lap, even though carry- i from 3 smi All things.being brought into a sum, unexplained pains of women are Salve! Yes, the i ea entirely slip- ing it must add to the burden of the Le Trom te ne : 'What place or person calls for, he doth soothed away in an instant. ped XY sind this HOE In fact, U ANSWER climbers. N Third 7, 1 pay. The modern way to relieve pain is | it o y Just Seruns to me. : 3 N Then there is the risk of snowblind- Nearly a century of a : back To : ' with Aspirin. That is the way that 3.1 know v at was done with STIONS ABOUT BABY? ness, caused by the glare of the sun famou. eAmeiiol Sse Whom none can work or woo modern medical men approve. They | the goloshes?" interjected Markham Why does a baby cry at night? on the'snow, aud of "high altitude service, accommodation i Som ; To se in anything a trick or sleight; know Aspirin is safe--can do no harm. impatiently. much should 'he ? throat," a parched condition of the Weekly sailings throughout ib For above all things heabhors deceit; It does ndt depress the heart. Why, the Sergeant returned them should he Sroepwilk ait} throat which is very dangerous. Dr. His words, and works, and fashion, You will always find Aspirin-in any | surreptitiously to the linen-closet and How muds food ve p> Somervell suffered from it in 1924. - 100, : drugstore, and if you read the proven | Placed them under the drugget whence al thin--fat? Then, it is not certain that the All of a plece, and all aro clear and th »" You will find helpful answers to ute. frst: attempted: willbe to directions and follow them you will al-| they came. > many s about baby in route first attemrie 1"be pract: ways get relief. You will avoid lots Right!" Heath ncdded with satis- "Baby Welfare" Write today for able, The summit may be difficult of sufferins if you just remember about Aspirin tablets. Be sure you get Aspirin and not . substitute, faction. "And I've got our new nurse keeping an eye on 'em. they disappear she's to phone the "A cinch. Everything went like from the ISSUE. No. 4--32 Central Office. The minute clockwork. At a quarter to 6 the doc | shows In then at 6 comes the woman After the BE 6 from a mountaineering point of view, apart from the strain of the high alti- tude. Route after route, indeed, may | suggested airmen should co-oper- ate with a An orlal ror onnaissanc is & trade-mark registered | bureau." be chosen--and the way be barred just, Siroush_ you Soest pol B Hngemark resistors "You had no rouble installing your! Wiis 8 ow CUNARD TE woman?" asked Markham, That is one reason why it has een Street, (Elgin 3471) of thy gift, lest in vecking. ie thou lose thy reward, Noth- ne pleasing |