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U A man known as Cock Robin ts found with an arrew in his heart; another, Johnny Sprigg, is found with a bullet through the top of his head. District Attorney Markham calls in Philo Vance, who claims the murders are founded on nursery rhymes and are the work of a maniac. Those associated with the case ar®: Prof. Dillard, his neice Beelle, and his protege Sigurd Arnesson, also a profesâ€" sor of mathematics. John Pardee, a nelghbor with a passion for chess; Mrs. Drukker and her son Adoiph. Mrs. Drukâ€" ker is mentally unbalanced and Adoiph is a cripple with a superâ€"brain. Suspicion settles on Drukker, but the might the police plan to crossâ€"examing him he is murdered. The detective set t{.watoh the Drukker house discloses that someone entered Drukkers room shortly after the latter‘s death and turnâ€" ed on the light. Upon going to the Drukâ€" Ker house they find Mrs. Drukker 1ead from shock in Drukker‘s study It is ¢lear that the murderer had visited the study immediately after killing Drukker and that Mrs. Drukker found him there. When the doctor had straightened Mrs. Drukker‘s body on the bed and eovered it with a sheet, we returned downâ€"stairs. Barsteai took his deâ€" ;lrture at once after promising w« send the death certificate to the Serâ€" geant within an hour, ® Eid us o Nes Tois ol sane . us‘ uie _ "It‘s scientifically correct to of natural death from shock," "-l-v PP EeP PNTOCC 1 "It‘s scientifically correct to talk of natural death from shoek," said Lance when we were ylone; "but our muf‘mte problem, d‘ ye see, is to ascertain the cause of that sudden ghock, Obviously it‘s connected with Drukker‘s death. Now, 1 wonder. . ." Turning impulsively, he entered the drawing room. Mrs. Menzel was sitâ€" ting where we had left her, in an attitude of hborrified expectancy. Vance went to her and said kindly : svenstv o Premetap 9 °C h 412100 3k ca t anairotficntan h veks e "Your mistress died of heart failâ€" ure during the night. And it‘s much better that she should not have outâ€" lived her son." 2. . w usns an s RFVERE TR®T HCCC "Gott geb‘ ihr die ewige Ruk‘\‘ the woman murmured plously. "Ja, it is "The end came night. Were you Mrs. Menzel?" MECO EXECCCCCC "All night I was awake." She «poke in a low, awed voice. » Vance contemplated her with eyes his room at ten o‘clock at night." I "But it wasn‘t him! He had a high voice, and this one was low and gruff." The woman looked up in bevilderedl fright. "And the other voice was Mrs. Drukker‘s . .. and she never went in Mr. Drukker‘s room at night!" "How could you hear so plainly with your door shut?" * "My room is right over Mr, Drukâ€" ker‘s," she explained. "And 1 was worriedâ€"what with all these awful things going on; so 1 got up and lisâ€" tened at the top of the steps." "I can‘t blame you," said Vance. "What did you hear?" L.2 uts in whew "At first it was mistress was moan she began to lai The Bishop Murder Cast man spoke angryâ€"like. But pretty soon I heard him laugh, too. After that it sounded like the poor lady was prayingâ€"1I could hear her saying: ‘Oh, God! oh, God!‘ Then the man talked some moreâ€"very quiet â€" and tow. . . And in a little while it seemâ€" F LaH .+ e stt Fhane m ed like the mistress "Would you recognize the poem if ; you heard it again?. . . Was it Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall?" "Bei Gott, das ist‘s! It sounded just like that!" A new horror came into | the woman‘s expression. "And Mr. Drukker fell from the wall last night. . . . 1" "Did you hear anything else, Mrs. Menzel?" Vance‘s matterâ€"ofâ€"fact voice interrupted her confused correlation of Drukker‘s death to the verse she had heard. Slowly she shook her head. "No,. everything was quiet after "Was it unusual to hear volces ' . I e WE â€""Diq you hear any Prukker‘s room*" She masterpiece in biending CHAPTER XXVIII ISSUE No. 27â€"‘31. GREEN TEA ® #YNOPSIS ‘Fresh from the gardens‘ was like as though the moaning, but right away o laugh, and then the angryâ€"like. But pretty him laugh, too. After od like the poor lady was at about ten last awake at that time, ront A PHILO VANCE STORY a panieâ€"stricken was reciting a BY S. 8. VAN DINE one leave Mrs. Lk opened and shut the door, very soft; and I heard steps moving down the hall in the dark. Then the stairs creaked, and pretty soon the front door shut." "What did you do after that?" "I listened a little while, and then 1 went back to bed. But I couldn‘t sleep. . . ." "It‘s all over now, Mrs. Menzel," Vance told her comfortingly. "There‘s nothing for you to fear, You‘d nest go to your room and wait till we need you." "I think now," said Vance, "we can ‘1 make a pretty close guess as to what| ; happened here last night,. The murâ€" derer took Drukker‘s key and let himâ€"| self in by the front door. He knew| j Mrs. Drukker‘s quarters were at the rear, and he no doubt counted on a¢â€"; ] complishing his business in Drukkex’s' â€" room and departing as he had come. But Mrs. Drukker heard him. It may | be she associated him with ‘the little| man‘ who had left the black bishop at| her door, and feared that her son wass ' in danger. At any rate, she went at, , once to Prukker‘s room,. The door may have been slightly open, and Il. think she saw the intruder and recogâ€" nized him. Startled and apprehenâ€" sive, she steps:d inside and asked him why he was there. He may have anâ€" swered that he had come to inform her of Drukker‘s deathâ€"which would acâ€" count for her moans and her hysteriâ€" cal laughter. But that was only a preliminary on his partâ€"aA play for time,. He was devising some means o fmeeting the situationâ€"he was planâ€" lning hew he would kill her! Oh, there can be no doubt of that.. He couldn‘t afford to let her leave that room alive. Maybe he told her so in as many words â€"he spoke ‘angryâ€"like, you recall. And then he laughed, He was torturâ€" ing her now â€"perhaps telling her the whole truth in a burst of insane egoâ€" ism; and she could only say ‘Oh, God â€"oh, God He explained how he had pushed Drukker over the wall. And did he mention Humpty Dumpty? 1 think he did; for what more appreciaâ€" tive audience could he have had for his monstrous jest than the victim‘s ‘own mother? That last revelation | proved too much for her hypersensiâ€" ‘tive brain. She repeated the nursery 4 rhyme in a spell of horror; and then: ‘| the accumulated shock dilated her heart. She fell across the bed, and ‘| the murderer was saved the necessity | of sealing her lips with his own hands. \| He saw what had happened, and went .\ quietly away." o $ â€" Reluctantly the woman went upâ€" stairs. if Mpo ECE 29e CC Ma:khnm took a turn up and down the room. it "The least comprehensible part of last night‘s tragedy," he said, "is why this man should have come here after Drukker‘s death." Vance was smoking thoughtfully. "We‘d better ask Arnesson to help us explain that point. Maybe he can throw some light on it." "Yeh,v"r-r;a&g;he can," chimed in Heath. Then after rolling his cigar between his lips for a moment, he added sul;{ry :-â€"‘T'i‘hel;e’s several people around here, I‘m thinking, that could do some high class explaining." The above photozraph is of an i8â€"foot model of th6 new glant Cunarder now under construction at Clydeâ€" bank, Scotland, in the yards of John Brown & Co. The model is shown floating in a specially built experimental tank in which Atlantic ocean conditions were reproduced in miniature, Wind and waves were artificially proâ€" duced by mechanical devices to subject the model to severe tests. The new Cunarder will be the largest ship affoat, and will gross 73,000 tons. > She will be 1018 feet long, Details of her construction which it is said will embody principles entirely new to ship building, are being jealously guarded. â€" The picture above is the first to reach Canada of the model of the new Cunarder, e ies find out what your men know about the movements of the various persons hereabouts last night. Suppose you bring them here amd let me question them. How many were there, by the way?â€"â€"and what were their posts?" "-'f‘lie §¢;geant had risen, alert and energetic. o + "There were three, sir, besides Guilâ€" foyle. Emery was set to tail Pardee; Snitkin was stationed at the Drive and 75th Street to watch the Dillard house; and Hennessey was posted on 75th Street up near West Bnd Ave. They‘re all waiting down at the place where Drukker was found. 1‘ll get ‘en: up here pronto." He disappeared through the fron; door, and in less than five minutes reâ€" turned with the three detectives. I recognized them all, for each had worked on one or more of the cases in which Vance had figured. Markham questioned Snitkin first as the one most likely to have information bearâ€" ing directly on the vrevious night‘s3 affair. The following points were brought out by his testimony : _ Pardee had emerged from his house at 6.30 and gone straight to the Dilâ€" At 8.30 Belle Dillard, in an evening gown, had got into a taxi and been driven up West End ‘A\_renue. (Atn_es~ son had come out of the house with her and helped her into the taxieab, but had immediately returned inâ€" doors.) At 9.15 Professor Dillard and Drukâ€" ker had left the Dillard house and walked slowly toward Riverside Dr. They had crossed the Drive at 74th St., and turned up the bridle path. ~Atâ€" 5._3dfli’grdee-had come out of the Dillard house, walked down to the Drive, and turned upâ€"town. At a little after 10 Professor Dilâ€" lard had returned to his house alone, recrossing the Drive at 74th Street. At 10.20 Pardee returned home, coming from the same direction he had taken when going out. Belle Dillard had been brought home at 12.30 in a limousine filled with young people. Hennessey was interrogated next; but his evidence merely substantiated Snitkin‘s. No one had approached the Dillard house from the direction of West End Avenue; and nothing of a suspicious nature had happened. Markham then turaed his attention to Emery, who reported that, accord-t ing to Sgntqs whom he had relieved at six, Pardee had spent the arly‘ part of the afternoon at the hun-‘ hattan Chess Club and had returncd] home at about four o‘clock. "Then, like Snitkin and Hennessey‘ said," Emery continued, "he went to the Dillards‘ at half past six, and stayed till half oast nine, When he came out I followed, keeping half a block or so behind him. He walked up the Drive to 79th Street, crossed to the upper park, and walked round the big grass bowl past the rocks and on up toward the Yacht Club, . . ." P (To be continued.) "The first thing we‘d better do is to Markham balted before the Radio Letters Mean Londonâ€"Letters, written in midâ€" Atlantic on one day, will be deliverâ€" ed to their destinations in Britain the next, with a new service just inaugurated by the Post Office here. The Post Office refers to them as "letâ€" ters‘ in making the announcement although really the correct name is "shipâ€"letterâ€"telegrams" which, _ Alâ€" though lengthy, explains the trick of the one day service. Messages will be accepted by the wireless operaâ€" tors in the ships and sent to the nearest â€" shortâ€"wave radio station,. There the message will be put into an envelope and posted as ordinary ‘mail. Although still rather expenâ€" sive the new method is decidedly cheaper than sending straight wireâ€" less messages. _ Fee will be threeâ€" pence a word, as compared . with eleven pence a word. There will be a minimum of 25 words. I Tomorrow hath a rare, alluring gound; today is very prose. And ' yet the twain are but one vision seen !through altered eyes. _ Our dreams iinhablt one; our . stress and pain ‘ surge through the other.â€"Richard | Burton. 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Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wran» it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto, Market Last Outpost of Rio‘s Traditional Color Rio De Janeiroâ€"Rio de Janeiro‘s last vestige of local colbr is to be found in its huge market plgce. Although tourists are usually amazâ€" ed at the sharp contrast of Rio‘s skyâ€" scrapers and Moorishâ€"style buildings, the landscaped parks and small tropiâ€" cal overgrown gardens, they are asâ€" tonished when they enter the market place and leave behind one of the most modern cities in the world. The market, located by the sea, 0¢â€" cupies six blocks and is a copy of the "marche St. Honore" in Paris. Fishing boats of every description are tied up alongside the narket wharf, presenting a picturesque scene, Tropical and â€" European vegetables and fruits are found in many varie ties. "Russta is from fifty to a hundred years behind the rest of the world in knowledge. It is our job as Bolsheviki to make up arrears in these ten years, because laggards always suffer,"â€" Joseph Stalin, dictator of Russia, What New York Is Wearing nished With Every Pattern hat came before: Captain Jimmy and his dog Scottie have many strange adâ€" ventures while nyinf over China. After escaping from bandits and enemy solâ€" diers they finally Jand their plane at the military base from which they started, and are greeted with an unexpected surâ€" prise. Atexe acotmnine from the oneny‘s After esciping from the eneny $ woldiers, we pushed the plane to an altitude of several thousand . feet, and headed straight for Shanghai. It was still early in the morning when we sighted the familiar fying field, spread out like a small green handkerchief in the early sumlight. * Heading the plane mz down in a wide M;‘ spiral, we rolled 1 to a stop outside h @ the airdrome. s t 'We were dumfounded. "By who‘s orders are we under arrest?" I askâ€" ed. and told usfiwe were under arrest. We were more surprised than ever. General L1 had been our friend and helper from the beginning of our trip. Now he had placed us under arrest. i3 ;'6n what charge are we arrestâ€" ed?" I asked. "Kidnapping Colonel Fong," reâ€" sponded the little officer. We were bundled into an army truck and rushed through the streets with the siren screaming. . In no time we arrived at the palace of General Lu. General Lu welcomed me gravely, shaking â€" hands with hbimself â€" in Chinese fashion, and then dismissed the orderly. Then be unfolded a plan so amazing that I pinched myâ€" self to see if I were really awake. He had SOLD OUTâ€"car you beat that? SOLD OUTâ€"his office as aA General. â€" Someone had paid him a great stack of money to quitâ€"and being a business man first, he had TORONTO More Laughter Needed Says New Zealand Daily ADVENTURES %‘A.N -f The habitual optimist, the person with an ineradicable cheerâ€"germ, the confirmed funâ€"maker, is worth more to us than gold these days, says The New Zealand Free Lance. The merry joker in the army in the dark years of the war was a treasure that inspired his comrades on many a weary march and through many a fearful test of spirit and courage. The people who in a similar spirit of cheerfulness _ proposed _ community singing in the townsâ€" devastated by the earthquake are doing their felâ€" lowâ€"citizens a real service. Anyâ€" thing in that way that will help to relax now and again the mental strain of the moment is to be enâ€" couraged. Some sanguine spirit has offered to help institute old English pageâ€" ants and floral dances and that sort of thing in Wellington, The noâ€" tion is not to be despised. It all makes for the brighter life, a colorâ€" ful bit of reliet against the tooâ€"drab background of working life. . Many people happily are coming to realize the great worth of such color, such relaxation, a lightsome change from the prosaic and the sordid, The enormous psychological value of a new, bright and pretty dress to a woman is something all men should appreciate â€" though unfortunately they don‘t always recognize the fact. This principle can be carried into a wider sphere. The house, the garden, the town, the streets, all can be made pleasanter to the senses, and unconsciously all this would be reâ€" flected in the general attitude toâ€" ward life. . pge it My W@nd his Do SCOTTE By the way, some one tells us that in Stockholim even the dustmen wear bright uniforms. Heaven knows we all have enough to worry about, but we need not parade our troubles. Even a cheerful, happy face in a tramcar of people, one has noticed, helps to leaven the whole lot with a little of its ownâ€" pleasantâ€"seoming outlook on life "Why are you always rubbing it in on rich people?" "They deserve it." e ‘"Yes, but we can‘t all be poor, you know." ‘Boraten‘s Chocolate Maited Milk The healthâ€"giving, delicious drink for children and grownâ€" ups. + + Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. Then to _ Our a m a z e ment, & Lieutenant and a d e t a c hmeni _ of soldiers drove up accepted. To you and I this would be trouonâ€"lnexcuuble-â€"but to Genâ€" eral Lu war was simply a business proposition. Why shouldn‘t one take a job as General,â€"â€"and after making a success of it, sell out? I must have looked shocked, which seemed to hurt his feelings, but he stifled his pride and continued with his plan. He wanted to leave China promptly, go to Japan,â€"and 1 was to fy over with him. He offered ‘ Ferarnry® ; Onpe. "ol ) Eoo We ote Oe d accepted at onceâ€"with the underâ€" standing that Guy Stone would first be found. _ From that moment, there wasn‘t a thing we could ask for that we didn‘t get immediatelyâ€"from exâ€" tra heavy canvas to phosphorous paint. Working secretly in a special guardâ€" ed hangar, we fashioned our plane into the weirdest looking dragon you ever saw. Trailâ€" ing â€" out back was a long Canâ€" vas tail, thati floated straight out when . we were in the Air, In the day $%4," time it was &A %v) wild _ looking plane, but at night it was positively EETTRT ESE TT SHCC, terrifying. So much #so, that when Fu Hsu, the interpreter entered the hanger after dark one night, he nearâ€" ly passed out entirely. Actually be fainted, and I thought we would never bring him around. Note: Any of our young readers writing to "Captain Jimmy", 2010 Star Bldg., Toronto, will receive his signed photo free Japan Plans to Eradicate Leprosy in Twenty Years Dr. Adachi, Minister of the Interâ€" ior, soon after his appointment to the _ post, visited Kusatsu Hot Springs, Gumma, where there are about 200 leprous families with 900 members living around the town, says the Japanese correspondent of The Journal of the American Mediâ€" cal Association. "It is reported that he intends to establish a selfâ€"governing â€" leprosy village at Kusatsu, granting a large sum of money every year," he conâ€" tinues. "He also proposes to Organâ€" ize and antileprosy association with the aid of Viscount Shibuzawa and other influential men in Tokyo, with whom he held a. conference in his official residence. The projects of the proposed association have been published. "The general plan is to eradicate the disease in this dountry in the next twenty years, though there are now some thousands of cases accordâ€" ing to the investigation made seyâ€" eral months ago. "Dr. Aoki reports that there have been an average of 2033 cases of leprosy among each 551,667 young men of conscription age every year during the six years 1924â€"1929. The government has established a lepâ€" rosy asylum at Nagashima Island, Okayama Prefecture; the opening ceremony was attended by governâ€" ment officials and noted sanitarian«. "Dr. K. Mitsuta, former chief of the Zensei Asylum, has been appointâ€" ed new chief, and the hospital has been named the Aisel Asylum, The total capacity is 500." 1 believe freedom to be the first condition of moral life. It needs, however, to be accompanied by much instruction. It is like money in this, that in order to profit by it one must know how to use it properly. â€"Julia Ward Howe. 1d PAINS . It dom ooitann ap id shtecte." Hevnioss Edn trbarraict io m * | ASPIRILN: (To be continued.) }ouâ€"&nalwm have immediate relief: [ IN CASE OF poUSsT ;Pl RINI Itf he still has his appendix and his TRADE mMaARX RZG. tonsils, the chances are that he is 4 Made in Canada. doctor.â€"Life. "Picking Your Job" Timely Subject PPBR ECCCE PEWOCTUP P noi _ overcrowded nowadays, . but "there are a lot of people practicing law who, based on their mentality perâ€" centage, ought to be longshoremen," according to James W. Gerard, warâ€" time ambassador of the United States to Germany and former associate juse tice of the Supreme Court of New York, who was asked for an opinion of how young people can pick their right job. His references to the study of law are based on United States require» ments, they being much more strict in U.S. Warâ€"time Ambassac Gives Some _§ound Adâ€" le Eo Ee CC "There are a number of men who have su eeded at the Bar who have not been college graduates, but you must remember that, i the first place, a college education gives a certain grounding, which not only makes for confidence but which brings the habit of study. a miniature world where the undere graduate is educated not only in the curriculum but in worldly wisdom, and where the mistakes he may make deo not count as beavily against him as i# made in the great outside world. "And then a partner has been dos fined as one who brings in business and the contacts and friendships made "If you intend to be a lawyer do not hurry your education, legal or othere wise, and above all do not neglect th6 physical side. A lawyer who goes 10 court, who engages in a case which takes weeks to try, with preparation each night for the next day‘s battle, must have a superstrong constitution, The physical weakling soon falls by the wayside. at c;s_ll'egv;oMn prove invaluable in the bitter competition of the outsidq world. "If you are living in a lively town with stirring business and growing population, and if you have fair cone nections in that town, stay there, e# pecially if you contemplate matrimony, "If you are to practice °i a country district you may practice alone, but it possible have an office with or some conpection with an older practitioner whose advice at critical periods will be invaluable. "If, however, you seek your lTortun® in a big city, then endeavor to gain admission to one of the large oMfices, If you.start to practice alone in the city you :ry succeed but it will bo heartbreaking work. "And I say confidently that any young man who get into a large cliy office, who is not devoid of talent, who always does a little more than is exâ€" pected of him, eventually will becomg New York. â€"The a partner Kind autumn rains, fall gently down Upon this little tree! Sun, cherish it with friendly warmth, That nourished it shall be! Wild winds, be merciful and spare Its young and tender shoots! Snows, with protecting coveriets Enfold these fragile roots! God of all living things! In time, A guardian tall and brave Grant for dear memory‘s sake, ‘twill watch Over this welldoved grave! Aund when I, too, come home to rest With all my family, May this same willow stretch long arms In requiem over me! â€"Maizie V. Caruthers in the Prové dence Journal. 8 "In Golden Age of Elizabeth Revived By Festivals Winnipeg.â€"England is regaining the gift of song which marked the golden age of Queen Elizabeth, de clared H. Plunket Greene, one 0; the four British judges in the Manitoba musical festival. With more than 200 song and folÂ¥% dance festivals held in England every year, the British are discovering the traditions of the madrigal and the round which made them a singing people years ago, he said. Despite the depression, the festivals are grow» ing in importance and appeal year after year, In Elizabethan days, he recalled one of the qualifications of a cool was her ability to take part in the singing of a madrigal. _ He belioves this again will become one of the in« dispensable qualities of the modern cook. ‘The festivals have created A singing England, he sald. "I Iioneltly believe that the Eng lish are the most musica) people in Europe today," Mr,. Greene said. On Planting a Willow second place the college 18 legal profession is seek your fortun® ¢1 tin B w ¢1 4) 11 ®] «1 Ba Some On a #} In in &9 Not mg )DorA b lng