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#» M telephone erside D7 Cochrane D his "Occurred to me? It leaped to my brain the moment you mentioned the victim‘s mame." Vance puffed a momâ€" ent on his cigarette. _ "Who killed Cock Robin?" And with a bow and arrow! . . . Queer how the doggerel learned in childhood clings to the meâ€" mory. By the viiv. what was the unâ€" 1t named Mar looked the deceaseds told m« so fan utterest nonse Benerit ment ard tell me the tale coherently. The corpse won‘t rimn away And it‘s best to get our facts in some kind of erder before we view the remains. Who are the parties of the rfist part, for instance? And why the projecâ€" tion of the District Attorney‘s office It was not surprising, therefore, that Markham should have turned to Vance at the very beginning of the Bishop murder case. More and mere, I had noticed, he had come to rely on the other‘s help in his criminal investiâ€" gations; and in the present instance it was particularly fortunate that he appealed to Vance, for only through an intimate knowledge of the abmorâ€" mal psychological manifestations of the human mipd, such as Vance posâ€" $stsed. could that black. insensate plot have Philo Vance, wealthy New York Bachelor recluse and student of crimâ€" mlo(*l 1eceives a telephone call from John F. X. Markham, District Attorâ€" mney of New York and his friend of 18 years standing, regarding a startling, fantastic crime just perpetrated. Promotes good health when used eegularly after every meal, It cleanses teeth and throat, sweetens mouth and breath, and strengthens the gums. *W Th ) a murdé Oh Th The Bishop Murder Case |SSUE No. 45â€"‘3Q CHAPTER 1.â€"(Cont‘d.) on the District Attorney. 1," he said slowly, "there‘s Joseph Robin listed in the directory He lives on Rivâ€" ~e,. and his middle name is fix w eds passing All that you‘ve ) far resolves itself into the te Pru W gge No other sweet lasts so long, costs so little or does so much for you. Bel1 SYNXOPSIS ase W lous. _ Suppose rane; are you that the fact A PHILO VANCE STORY S1 TS M n M amentcamins ~<oduses ie Ne was the un Ma M Markhan m a mo start in attitude. kham‘ s unusoal BY 8. S. VAN DINB kh «cens hred he ght AS "Tut, tut!" Vance waved his hand airily. "That‘s plagiarism. I said it first." (He was striving to overcome his own sense of perplexity by a lightâ€" ness of attitude.) "And now there really should be an inamorata to beâ€" wail Mr. Robin‘s passing. You recall, perhaps, the stanza: "Who‘ll be chief mourner? ‘I,‘ said the love, ‘I mourn my lost love; 1‘ll be chief mourner‘." Markham‘s head jerked slightly, and his ngers beat a nervous tattoo on the table. "Good God, Vance! There is a girl in the case. And there‘s a possiiblity ,th.at ge;.loosy lies at the bottom of this thing." Slowly Markham brought his eyes back to Vance. & "It‘s mad," he remarked, like a man confronted with something at once inexplicable and terrifying. sh‘ne. "Since you pretend to be unâ€" familiar with that childhood classic, permit me to recite the first stanza." A chill, as of some unseen spectral prosence, passed over me as Vance reâ€" peated those old familiar lines: "Whe killed ock Robin? ‘I,‘ said the sparrow, ‘With my bow and arrow. I killed Cock Robin.‘" ‘"Fancy that, now! I‘m afraid the affair is going to develop into a kind of tableauâ€"vivant for grownâ€"up kindâ€" ergartners, what? But that‘ll make our task easier. All we‘ll have to do is to nd the fiy." hne fl!,?', » ‘"The Musca domestica, to speak peâ€" dantically.>. . ? My dear Markham, have you forgotten?*â€" "Who saw him doe? ‘I,‘ said the fiy, ‘ ‘With my little eye; ‘ 1 saw him die‘." _ "Come down to earth!" Markhm\' spoke with acerbity. "This isn‘t a° "I‘ve been to High School," retorted Markhem. _ Thon his eyes opened slightly, and his body became tense. Vance» pushed the German dictionâ€" «ry toward him. ‘"Well, anyway, look up the word. We might as well be thorough. I looked it up myself. I was afraid my imagin«.tion was playing tricks on me, and I had a yearnin‘ to see the word in black and white." Markham opened the book in m« ence, and let his eye run down the page. . After staring at the word for several moments he drew himself up resolutely, as if fighting off a spell. When he spoke his voice was defiantâ€" with Robin befo Sperling." "And what es in that fact?" "Perhaps you means in Germ such a supposition would lead us into spiritism and demonglogy and whatâ€" not. Do you, by any chance, believe in Eblises and Azazels and jinn who go about playing Satanic jokes on mankind ?" "Must I be a Mohammedan mythâ€" ologist to admit coincidences?" reâ€" turned Markham tartly. "My dear fellow! The proverbial long arm of eaincidence doesn‘t extend to infinity. There are, after all, laws of probability, based on quite definite math>â€"matical formulas. It would make me sad to think that such men as Laplace and Czuber and Von Kries had lived in va‘n. The present situaâ€" tion, however, is even more complicatâ€" ed than you suspect. For instance, you mentioned.over the phone that the last person known to have been "Sperling means ‘sparrow.‘ _ Any ichool boy knows that. What of it?" "Oh, to be sure." Vance lit another igarette languidly. "And any school oy knows the old nursery rhyme enâ€" itled ‘The Death and Burial of Cock Robin,‘ what?" He glanced tantalizâ€" ngly at Markham, who stood immoâ€" ile, staring out into the spring sunâ€" "Oh, my aunt!" Vance wagged his head reprovingly. "That fact, even were it true, wouldn‘t help the situaâ€" tion any. It would only make it queer. er. Of the thousands of archery enâ€" thusiasts in these fair states, the one with the name of Cock Robin should be accidentally killed with an arrow! "No!" aMrkham fairly spat the negative. "he name of the dead man is certainly common enough; and it‘s a wonder more people haven‘t been killed or injured with all this revival of archery throughout the country. Moreover, it‘s wholly possible that Robings death was the result of an accident." "‘Pon my word, old man, I‘m sugâ€" gestin gnothing." Vance shrugged his shoulders stightly. "Im merely jotâ€" ting down, so to speak, a few facts in connection with the case. As the mattr stands now, a Mr. Joseph Cochâ€" rane Robinâ€"to wit: Cock Robin has been killed with a bow and arrow. 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I had mathematics under him at Columbia, and later did som: legal work for him. When Robin‘s body was found he phoned me at onceâ€" about half past eleven. I called up Sergeant Heath at the Homicide Burâ€" eau and turned the case over to him â€"although I told him I‘d come along personally later on. ‘Then I phoned you. The Sergeant and his men are waiting for me now at the Dillard home." you "Not personally. I know him only as the world of science knows himâ€" as one of the greatest living matheâ€" matical physicists. I have most of his books. How did he happen to cail ‘"Yes. The tragedy took place at his house. You know him?" "Dillard? By any chance, Profes sor Bertrand Dillard*" me the details. Let‘s find out where we stand in this topsyâ€"turvy land." Markham again seatd himself. "I haven‘t many details. I told you practically everything I know of the case over the phone. 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