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t "And what time did the lights go out in Drukker‘s room?" "They didn‘t go out. They stayed on all night. He was a queer bird. He didn‘t keep regular hours and twice before his lights were on till nearly morning." "Have a heart, Sergeant. My job wasn‘t to tail Drukker. You told me to watch the house and see who went in and out, and that if there was sny sign of trouble to bust in. Now, here‘s what happened. Drukker went to the Dillards‘ at eight o‘clock, and I kept my eye on the windows of the Drukker house. Along about nine o‘clock the eook goes upstairs and turns on the light in her room. Half an hour later the light goes out, and says I: ‘She‘s put to bed.‘ Then along about ten e‘clock the lights are turned on in Drukker‘s roomâ€"â€"" "What‘s this?" . **Yehâ€"you heard me. The lights go en in Drukker‘s room about ten eelock; and I can see a shadow of somebody moving about. Now, I as} you, Sergeant: wouldn‘t you yourself have took it for granted that the hunchback had come in by the front "That‘s _ quite _ understandable," eame Vance‘s lazy voice. "He has been at work on a difficult problem lately. But tell us, Guilfoyle, what about the light in Mrs. Drukker‘s Heath grunted. "Maybe so," he admitted. "You‘re sure it was ten o‘clock?" "I thought he musta come in by the front door." * "Thinking again, were you? Ain‘t your brain worn out this morning?" "I didn‘t look at my watch; but I‘m here to tell you it wasn‘t far off of the watch." "Well, if you didn‘t see him come back, why didn‘t you phone in that he was spending his weekâ€"end out of town or something?" "Say, listen!" Guilfoyle bristled. "I didn‘t take no nap. I was on the job all night. Just because I didn‘t hapâ€" pen to see this guy come back home "Oh, it don‘t?" Heath‘s retort was ponderous with sareasm. "I thought maybe after he‘d broke his neck he mighta come back and passed the time of day with you." "What I meant was, Sergeantâ€"â€"" "You meant that Drukkerâ€"the bird you were supposed to keep an eye onâ€" went to call on the Dillards at eight e‘clock, and then you set down in the arbor, most likely, and took a little beauty nap. . . . What time did you wake up?" Guilfoyle moved uneasily. "It don‘t look like he came back home, Sergeant." "What time did Drukker leave the house last night?" he bellowed. "About eight o‘cleeckâ€"right after he‘d had dinner." Guilfoyle was ill at ease, and his tonc had the wheedâ€" ling softness of one who had been easught in a dereliction of duty. "Which way did he go?" "He came out the back door, walked down the range, and went into the Dilâ€" lard house through the archeryâ€"room." "Paying a social visit?" "It looked that way, Sergeant. He spends a lot of time at the Dillards‘." "Huh! And what time did he come back home?" CHAPTER XXVIL Heath bawled an order over the telephone. Guilfoyle made the disâ€" tance between Police Headquarters and the Criminal Courts Building in less than ten minutes. The Sergcant almost pounced on him as he entered. v PpDp oE fiâ€"'"l)-.-i.l; ho u. 200 226 °C 22 TZ Ne aney way Lelween ance queltions rS. ru er, W 9n tells how the murderer paid her a terriâ€" the two apartment hou*s.' f fying visit. _ Susvicion settles on Drukâ€" The man paused to visualize the ker, but the night the police plan to seene crossâ€"examine him, he is murdered. The ym ve 4 detective set to watch the Drukker house Forty or fifty feet, say. Js summoned. "And between you and the alleyway were the iron fence a CHAPTER XXVIL ] were the nd some tree Those associated with the case are: Prof. Dillard, his niece Belle, and his protege, Sigurd Arnesson, also a profesâ€" sor of mathematics. John Pardee, a nelghbor with a passion for chess; Mrs. Prukker and her son Adoiph. Mrs. Drukâ€" ker is mentally unbalanced and Adoloh J# a cripple with a superâ€"bram. "Same as usual. ‘The old dame alâ€" A man known as Cock Robin is found with an arrow in his heart; another, Johnny Sprigg, is found with a bullet through the top of his nead. District Attorney Markham calls in Philo Vance, who claims the murders are founded on nursery rhymes and are the work of a maniac. r 99# ISSUE No. 26â€"‘31 The Bishop Murder Case 1ean Salada Orange Pekoe is a biend of fresh young leaves I was laying down on sYNOPSIS sAAA i ronl e on oi igee A PHILO VANCE STORY BY S. 8. VAN DINE Heath stepped to the telephone. and a moment later was talking to the desk sergeant of the 68th St. Precinet Station. Finally he hung up. "Not a key of any kind on him." "Ah!" Vance drew a deep puff on his cigarette. "I‘m beginning to think that the Bishop purloined Drukker‘s key and paid a visit to his room after the murder." "But what would have been his obâ€" ject?" protested Markham incredulâ€" We don‘t know yet. But 1 have an idea that when we learn the motive understand why that visit was paid." "I say, Sergeant; 1 don‘t suppose you know whether or not Drukker‘s frontâ€"door key was in his pocket when he was found." ‘‘The thing that bothers me most, however," continued Vance, "is that light in Drukker‘s room all night. It was turned on at about the time the poor chap was tumbling into eternity. And Guilfoyle says that he could see some one moving about there after the light went onâ€"â€"" He broke off, and stood for several seconds in an attitude of concentraâ€" tion. "No, sir; but I can find out in no time. The contents of his pockets are being held till after the autopsy." "That‘s just it The person who staged this faree may have walked boldly into the park under the eyes of an alert myrmidon, or he may have hied stealthily through the alley." Markham nodded an unhappy agreeâ€" ment. "With that possible route open to the murderer," Markham observed gloomily, "it wouldn‘t matter much who was seen going out with Drukâ€" "Oh, I say! 1 have no theory. I asked Guilfoyle about the alley riereâ€" ly in case we should learn that no one but Drukker was seen going to the park. In that event we could assume, as a tentative hypothesis, that the murderer had managed to avoid detecâ€" tion by taking the alleyway and crossâ€" ing to the park in the middle of the block." "I take it," said Markham, "your theory is that the murderer went and returned by the apartmentâ€"house alley." As you observed, the note that Quinâ€" an just showed us was postmarked 11 p.m.â€"which means that it was probâ€" ably typed before the crime. The Bishop therefore had planned his comâ€" edy in advance and prepared the note for the press. The audacity of it is amazin‘. But there‘s one assumption we can tie toâ€"namely, that the murâ€" derer was some one who knew of Drukker‘s exact whereabouts and proâ€" posed movements between eight and ten." "It‘s a dashed complicated situaâ€" tion. Drukker called on the Dillards at eight o‘clock, and at ten o‘clock he was shoved over the wall in the park. Wher. the Sergeant had sent Guilâ€" foyle back to the Bureau to await orders, Vace gave voice to his perâ€" plexity. ‘"Would it have been possible for any one, coming from the direction of the Dillard house, to have gone out asd returned by that door without your noticing him?" "It mighta been done," the detective admitted; "provided, of course, the guy didn‘t want me to see him. It was foggy and dark last night, and there‘s always a lot of traffic noises from the Drive that woulda drowned ovt his movements if he was being extra cautious." branches." e & ‘"Yes, sir. The view was more or less cut off, if that‘s what you mean." from the 4. or of the llle;fi;\i(â€"lâ€"i;{;:cn the two apartment houses?" night?" Markham asked Heath. ‘"Not after six o‘clock, sir. We‘ve had a man tailing Drukker during the day, but he goes off duty at six when Guilfoyle takes up his post in the "Was there any one on guard in lront‘__ot- _ the Drukker house last ways keeps a light burning in her room all night." How far away were you last night L 120 _ °, PCOR SOmIeal canoemen started on Saturday a 5000â€"mile La Saile in his historic jJourney from Montreal to New Orleans. They Canada canoe expedition last year; Jean Maison, R. Beaudry and M. F from Lachine, on historic Lake St. Louis when the mothers of Maison wife of Paul Paquin were on hand to wish them godspeed on their Jour months. The party. in two "Mamawaam» 222200 30. ETS The United States spends $5,000,000 on crime. And they certainly get value for their money. night; A hooting car takes revellers home, And echoing wheels, until daylight, Tell of balls ended, morning come. All night winged angels hover there; One they call Pain, with sad, dark eyes. 5 While Sleep. red poppios in hor hair, Drives Pain away with lullabies. The night drags past, and now one sees Figures, blueâ€"robed, with coiffes of whiteâ€" Just human women, all of these, Yet, surely, angels in God‘s sight. â€"Jean Lang, in Chamber‘s Journal. In A Nursing Home By day chill winds blow from the sea And beat upon the grey stone walls, While the Dean Waters monody Rises above their sough, and falls. A rushing train screams through the Caprice Is blueâ€" Soapâ€"bubbles blown by Pirrot, An errant dragonfly or two, Venetian lanterns hung arow,â€" Caprice Is you. â€"Katharine Morse, in "A Gate of Cedar." A bhurdyâ€"gurdy‘s tangled tune, The tassel from a jester‘s shoe, A faun‘s dream in midâ€"afternoon Caprice Is greenâ€" Caprice e Is gold; 4 An orangeâ€"colored toy balloon, The tinkle of a tambourine, Polien that makes the brown bold,â€" "No signs of violence?" asked Vance. ‘"None; she died from dilation of the heart brought on by shock." night." Barstead sfirané fo;'wa;;d and Ean- ed over. Then he straightened up and shook his head slowly. "She‘s gone. Te PS I rptadhid aell hok c Eooo ns . ATs en ie Without a word Vance retraced his steps down the hall to Drukker‘s study and opened the door without knocking. On the foot of the nar;o'wbve}lla} Mrs. Druk_ker,fully clothed. . Vance turned back to the hall and led the way upstairs. When we came to Mrs. Drukker‘s room he knocked softly and, rcueiving no answer, openâ€" ed the door. The room was empty. ’ "Not yet," she answered, in a quayâ€" ering voice. "Miss Dillagd came over an hour ago, but I told her the misâ€" tress had gone out. I was afraid to let her upstairs. Something‘s wrong." She began to tremble violently. "She hasn‘t made a sound all morning. She didn‘t come down for breakfast. . I‘m afraid to go and call her." i "Has Mrs. Drukker heard news?" asked Vance. We drove upâ€"town, called for Barâ€" swead, and proceeded at once to the Drukker house. Our ring was answerâ€" ed by Mrs. Menzel, whose face showed plainly that she knew of Drukker‘s of some kind is sure to leak through to her before long. I fear the result of the shock when she hears the news. In fact, I‘d feel better if we got hold of Barstead right away and took him with us. What do you say to my phonâ€" ing him?" Markham, he said, "it occurs to me that we should see Mrs. Drukker first. There was tragedy in that house last night, Something strange took place there that needs explaining; and now perlmps‘ she‘ll tell us the secret that has been locked up in her brain. 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He embodied in it the expression he had so often heard: "I wish I were in Dixie." This song was later re. written by General Albert Pike, whoI gave it the battle fhrill that makes "Dixie" immortal > and stamps the name "Dixie upon the South. | Money gave to the South its pet name of "Dixie," says Fred W. Thompson, of the American Bankâ€" ers‘ _ Association. The _ principal bills issued by a bank in New Orâ€" leans before the war between the States were in $10 denominations. They were engraved in English on one side and in French on the other, On the French side the word "dlx"‘ was very prominent; it means "ten". metropolis. i National Railways How "Dixie I scowled as fiercely as 1 could. The poor Chinese locked so funny in his night clothes and blanket, yet "General say he no can do", said Fu Hsu, "He say you sullender now and he‘ll be very easy with you". "Tell him" I said, "that as soon as it becomes light, he‘ll write me an order for 150 gallons of gasoline, twenty gallons of oil and a supply of food, and if he doesn‘t write the order pronto, I‘ll take him apart by hand to see what makes him tick". The interpreter â€" translated message. Once we had put some distanct beâ€" tween ourselves and the camp, we questioned our prisoner. To our amazement, we discovered that we had secured no less a personage than General Fong as a hostage. Under his pilow I discovered no less than two pistols and a knife. The knife I threw away. One pistol I pocketed; with the other 1 induced him to follow me. Wrapped in a blanket, I shoved my captive under the tent wall, and marched him along to where the horses woere held by Fu Hsu. While Lieutenant Stone threw the military camp into an uproar, I whistled softly to Scottie and gropâ€" ed my way through the darkness toâ€" ward the big, imposing tent. Quietly I slipped under the canâ€" vas, and felt my way around the sides. As my eyes grew more used to the darkness, I is could see the outâ€" wjz‘ line of a large cot 1 on which someone a> % lay sleeping soundâ€" [ A ly. Scarcely darâ€" is ;@v ing to breathe 1 : * AF§Qcrept slowly forâ€" t ward. _ Then beâ€" h fore the surprised Chinese could offer any resistance, I grabbed him and secured hbis arms behind his back. 1 3 6 r‘l w hk : PV $ .'ht came before: After many adven. tures flying over China, Captain Jimmy is forced to iard behind the enemy‘s lines. He pleus a raid on the military camp to secure gasoline and oil. The healthâ€"giving, delicious drink for children and grownâ€" ups. +. «_ Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. Boreten‘s Chocolate Maited Milk the Dixie"" Came To Signify the South e them 10 , and padâ€" | _ Normwal is one of England‘s favor. | ite holiday counties, and most of those , who visit it Jook in at Falmouth durâ€" | ing their stay, i Just now Faimouth should be espeâ€" cially irteresting, for the grain ships lfrom South Australia have begun to | arrive, and those windjammers are perhaps the most picturesque and inâ€" teresting of all the ships afloat today, Also, there are very few of them left â€"and Falmouth is one of the few ports where they can still be seen. It is interesting to note that the champion windjammer, the fourâ€" masted Herzogin Cecile, which arrized at Falmouth recently, has been known to sail 17% miles in an hour, which is considerably faster than the uerm' steamer. In one twentyâ€"four I:oun'l period she has sailed 360 miles, beatâ€" ing the Cutty Sark‘s best run, which was 353 miles in twuty-fonrmj The Cutty Sark, by the way, in Falmouth Harbor. r my Cornwall is one o ite holiday counties, who visit it Jook in ing their stay, _\ j3 ° o. Entle colum of water high in the air at a rate of more than 2,000,000 galions daily. ; The Rhume River rises in a small valley not far from Poshlde. Hun \ dreds of springs in a small pond Zorm | the source of the river. The water always rises at a temperature of 50 ’degrees Fanrenheit. The water furâ€" rishes power for factories and mills, _ The vast apring lures Sunday exâ€" _cursionists from Duderstadt, Nordâ€" hausen and cther points in the Hartz Mountains. Lectures are occasionalâ€" ly held to cxprain the origin of the spring, which has been found to rs sult from secpage from the Sieber and Oder Rivers, anout seven miles away. Coloring matter placed in the rivers appears in the water of the Rhumel Spring about thirty hours later, The second largest spring in Gerâ€" many, which is much better known to travelers from abroad is the arteâ€" sian spring at Ocynhausen, which | throws a single colum of water hilh' ; °3 " **, **AR 1. is said to have become Emperor of the Holy Rcoman Empire inâ€" 919. Henry presented the Edelhof palase with its surrounding lands to Queen Mathilde for the creation of a cloister, Relics of the history of the ancient town are preserved in the Guilph Muâ€" seun. in Hanover. ‘ ‘The Rhuma River wtees Fao sc onl The spring is not far from the 1,000â€"yearâ€"old community of Poehlde, formerly Palathi, where King Henry uc sn Ni i ia 6 - & Germany‘s biggest spring, which is seldom visited by tourists, pours forth about 100,000,000 gallons of water a day, according to the tourist information office of the German Naâ€" tional Railways. The huge volume of water comes from the Rhumeâ€" sprung near Rhumspringe on the railâ€" 1 road from Herzberg to Bleichrode in the Harb Mountains. l When Sail Beats Steam Note: Any of our young readers writing to "Captain Jimmy", 2010 Star Bldg., Toronto, will receive his signed photo free. Then we took off on a level spot in back of the trees and our last sight of General Fong was seeing him walking wearily wack to his camp. (To be continued) For us, the W tinned food was a real feast and % even the Genâ€" //,g‘ eral seemed to /4/%/ enjoy it. Breakâ€" fast over, we put him to work emptyâ€" ing cans of gasoline into the plane and he proved to be about average Chinese labor at that job. The camp was astir and immediâ€" ately we were sighted, a group Of mounted men galloped out and surâ€" rounded us. In a loud and comâ€" manding tone I insisted that we be taken at once to the commanding ofâ€" ficer. To him I showed the ring and made the demands for gas, oil and food. We got plenty of immediate action. Burros were loaded with gas, oll and food and we set out for camp. Leading off in a roundabout way, it was over four hours before we shook off the last spyâ€" ing soldier and finally reached the plane. At daybreak I rode out to the camp with the General‘s written order in my pocket, and his gold signet ring on my finger, as proof of my authorâ€" ity. vr?‘fie'siyi ‘_Yes'. can do," translated Fu Hsu; "Velly glad to do such litâ€" tle favor for fiine gentlemen." * Bélng a sensible man, and a Genâ€" eral, he decided to yield handsomely since yield he must. f y3 he just could not forget his rank of General. â€" Pulling outâ€"my pistols I made a number of horrible faces, exâ€" pressing the dozens of doleful things that would certainly happen to him if he continued to refuse our request. Germany‘s Great Spring hign __ The weather bureau here checks the daily forecasts made by five disâ€" tricts and 150 local stations against the actual conditions which followed and only forecasters whose accuracy is proved and maintained are kept. Bome leeway is given. It little or no change in temperature is preâ€" dicted, the forecast is considered corâ€" rect if the change is not more than six degrees in summer or eight in winter. Every time it rains when sunshine was promised, or vice versa, a minus mark goes down opposite some foreâ€" caster‘s name. When the prophecy is accurate, a plus mark is made. During 1930 the plus marks for the entire weather service were in the majority by 89.6 per cent.; in 1929 by 88.2 per cent., and in 1928 by 89.1 per cent. Washingtonâ€"When â€" the weather man "misses" it hurts him woree than it does you. _ It might mean his job â€"and that is why the foreâ€" casts during the first quarter of this year were 91.6 per cent. accurate. Every time it rains when sunshine was promised, or vice versa, a minus Weather Man Has car, and they have ht;â€"n;o;t'e‘):â€"‘:lpndon "Answers." A colony almost equally strange came to light in 1928 in the Riversâ€" dale district of South Africa, where, owing to the absence of roads, 590 people of European descent live with little communication with the outside world. Their ‘ood is the produce of their gardens, ana the hunt, while rye is burnt to serve for coffee. Few can read or write, none has seen a motor» If you read the story of Dr. Thomas Gann‘s explorations in Central Amerâ€" ica you will realize that the jungles of Yucatan, Horduras, and Nicaragna hide a maze of ancient cities which, owing to strange change of climate, were destered by their people hunâ€" dreds of years ago. One of these cities, which Dr. Gann explored, must have held a population of at least a quarter f a million. Mr. Hansforé, a Melbourne man who has explored largely in Northern Queensland, brought back a story of a hitherto unknown colony of: Chinamen : the littleâ€"kno n country on the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, They form, he said, a considerable set. tlement, and cultivate the flat lands along the banks of a river. How they got there is not known. Oddly enough, a crater exists in J.aâ€" pan. No fewer than 2,000 people live and prosper in the interior of the oxâ€" tinct crater called Aso San. Vertical walls 800 feet high surround this curious colony, QUEENSLAND‘S MYSTERY MEN. The Indians declare that this place still has people living in it. There is talk of exploring this country by aeroâ€" plane, but the distances are so vast and landing places so rare, that it will be a long time sefore anything of the sort can be attempted. There is said to be another lost city in the same district. This, according to the Indians, lies in a deep hollowâ€" probably an old volcanic craterâ€"surâ€" rounded by lofty cliffs, and can be apâ€" proached by a secret tunnel. THE SECRET TUNNEL Many attempts have been made to revisit this strange relic of a Jong. forgotten civilization, but all without effect, Scores of lives have been lo:t in these vain efforts. _ It stands on a tableland surrounded on all sides by scrub so thick that the only way of crossing it is to creep along the old dry river beds, which swarm with snakes. The city is built round a great central square, in the middle of which is the statue of a man of giant size, standing on a rock pedâ€" estal with one arm outstretched, the hand pointing due north. In the Rio Museum is stored a manuscript in Portuguese concerniag a vast ruined city which lies in the high country of the great province of Bahia and which the writer of the acâ€" count visited about 160 years ago. It is of great size and built of massive masonry, but hLas been ruined by a terrific earthquake. People will tell you that we know all about the surface of our planetâ€"that there is nothing left to explore. Don‘t believe them. In Brazil alone there are patches as big as France which are still utterly unknown. Now comes news that another ruinâ€" ~d city has been discovered amid che sands of the waterless Kalahari Desâ€" ert and that Mr. Piet Grobler, Minâ€" ister of Lands of the Union of South Africa, is organizing an expedition to explore this place of mystery. From accounts given by Bushmen to ‘he Minister, this city is actually larger than Zimbabwe, and the stones of which it is composed are of colossal size. Great was the «stonishment of pioâ€" rsers trekking chrough the thick bush of Mashonaland when they came sudâ€" denly «pon a mass of huge stone buildings whose ruinad walls were forty feet high and sixteen feet thick, This was Zambabwe, which many pcoâ€" ple believe to have been the capital of that Ophir from which King Solomon drew his vast suppiics of gold and ivory. Hidden City Found In Volcanic Crater World Still Has Many Unexâ€" plored Areas Waiting GUARDED BY SNAKES. Exacting Position [ R ¢] D rune Apple A DT Barl MVU *â€"