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"Just heard the sad news. Got home from the university a little while ago, and the professor told me you‘d gone to rag Pardee. Learn anyâ€" thing?" Without waiting for an anâ€" swer he ran on: "Frightful mess. I understand the entire Drukker famâ€" ily is wiped out. Well, well. And more storyâ€"book mumboâ€"jumbo to boot. For nearly half an hour Markham and Vance interrogated Pardee, but nothing more could be learned from him. As we came out into the street Arnesson hailed us from the front porch of the Dillard house and stalkâ€" ed forward to meet us. . . . Any clews?" "Ariadne has not yet favored us," responded Vance. ‘Are you an amâ€" baszsador from Crete?" mood and made several sneering reâ€" marks. I turned and walked back to 4Oth Street, crossed the Drive, and came home." "I say; didn‘t you loiter a bit by the wayside?" it "I sat down near the 79th Street entrance and smoked a cigarette." "Drubkker was displeased for some reason to find me at the Dillards when he came over after dinner. He hadn‘t the good taste to hide his displeasure and created a somewhat embarrassing situation. But, nowing him as I did, I tried to pass the matter off. Soon, however, Professor Dillard took him out for a walk." "Noâ€"about a quarter of an hour. Arnesson was tired and wanted to turn in, so I went fos a walk myself. On my return I took the bridle path instead of the Drive, and came on Professor Dillard and Drukker standâ€" ing by the wall talking. Not wishing to appear rude, I stopped for a moâ€" ment. But Drukker was in a beastly _"You didn‘t remain long afterâ€" ward," observed Vance indolentl_y. "I heard of the acident this mornâ€" ing." The man‘s pallor became more noticeatle, and he toyed nervously with his watch chain. "It‘s very unâ€" fortunate." His eyes rested vacantly for a while on Markham. "Have you asked Professor Dillard about it? He was with Drukkerâ€"â€"" "Yes, yes; we‘ve just come from him," interrupted Vance. "He said there was a ruffied atmosphere beâ€" tween you and Mr. Drukker last night." Pardee slowly walked to the desk and sat down stiffly. "Do you know, Mr. Pardee," asked Markham, "that Mr. Drukker fell from the wall in the park at ten o‘clock last nightâ€"shortly after you stopped and spoke to him?" Mrs. Drukker is terrified by a visit from The Bishop. _ Vance learns that Drukker and Pardee had a heated arguâ€" ment the night of the mysterious visit. He also learns that Drukker lied as to his whereabouts on the morning of Robâ€" In‘s murder. It is decided to threaten Drukker, but on the same night he is murdered, and Mrs, Drukker is found dead from shock. The following people are associated with the case: Professor Dillard, his neice Belle, and his protege, Sigurd Arâ€" nesson, who hopes to marry Belle; John Fardee, w neighbor with a passion f'x chess, Mrs. Drukker and her son Ado! & cripple with a superâ€"intellect. Pt A man known as Cock Robin is found with an arrow tnrough his heart auea & young chap named Sprigg is shot through the top of the head. The murâ€" derer writes mocking notes to the newsâ€" papers, signed The Eishop. District Atâ€" torney Markham calls in Philo Vance. HEINTZMAN & CO., Upright, beautifully figured walnut case â€"elegant touchâ€"exquisite tone. Will grace any home and satisfy any musiclan. Although slightly used it carries our full fiveâ€"year guarantee. Regular $650, now â€" Please send me full information about the Helntzman plano menâ€" tioned above. SPECIAL HEINTZMAN & CO. Heintzman & Co., 195 Yonge St., Toronto. Ir Terms $25 cash and $8 monthly. Freight will be prepaid to your nearest Ontario station. Ye Olde Firme, _ _ _ Addres®........... 195 Yonge Street, Toronto CHAPTER XXIX.â€"(Cont‘d.) The Bishop Murder Case PIANO BARGAIN Salada Orange Pekoe has a most fascinating flavour sYNOPSIS ‘Fresh from the gardens‘ A=~AdDA" ‘ Dl;.ND ® m\Z A A PHILO VANCE STORY ‘31 BY S. 8. VAN DINE "I‘m somewhat foggy as to the deâ€" tcils. The professor was not exactly phosphorecent. _ Sketchy, in fact. Drukker fell from the wall, like Humpty Dumpty, round ten o‘clock, and was found this morningâ€"that‘s all plain. But under what conditions did Lady Mae succumb to shack? Who, or what, shocked her? And how?" "The murderer took Drukker‘s key and came here immediately after the Arnesson took an easy chair by the front window and drew out his pipe. "Last night, eh? . . . Well, Pardee came to dinnerâ€"it‘s a sert of habit with him on Fr.days. Then Drukker, in the throes of quantum speculation, dropped in to pump the professor; and Pardee‘s presence galled him. Showed his feelings, too. No control. The professor broke up the contreâ€" temps by taking Drukker for an airâ€" ing. Pardee moped for fifteen minâ€" utes or so, while I tried to keep awake. Then he had the goodness to depart. I looked over a few test papers . . . . and so to bed." <He lighted his pipe. ‘"How does that thrilling recital exâ€" plain the end of poor Drukker?" "Offhand, what do you make of these new â€" developments?" asked Vance, after a short pause. "Gone! Disappeared! Most tragic. Some eccentric keyâ€"collector has eviâ€" dently been snooping around." When the girl had left us, he cocked an eye at Vance. "What in the name of all that‘s unholy, has a rusty key to do with the case?" "Perhaps nothing," said Vance careâ€" lessly. "Let‘s go down to the drawin‘ room. It‘s more comfortable there." He led the way down the hall. "We want you to tell us what you can about last night." "Hear him?" Arnesson chuckled. "When he hobbles about with his gouty foot, thumping his stick down and shaking the banisters, there‘s no mistaking his arrival on the scene. Fact is, he was unusually noisy last night." "It doesn‘t," said Vance. "But it‘s not without interest. Did you hear Professor Dillard when he returned home?" "Mr. Arnesson is right," he nodded. ‘We‘ll carry on for the present. But just one question before you go. Did you always keep the key to the alley door hanging in the archery room?" "Yesâ€"always. Why? Isn‘t it there It was Arnesson who answered, with burlesque irony. now "Hallo, sis," Arnesson greeted the girl. His cynical manner had been dropped. "Hard lines for a young ‘un like you. You‘d better run home now. I‘ll assume command." And taking her arm in a jocularly paterâ€" nal fashion, he led her to the door. She hesitated and looked back at Vance. "You mean the key to yon wooden door in the fence? . . . Haven‘t an idea on the subject. Never use the alley myselfâ€"much simpler geing out the front door. No one uses it, as far as I know. Belle locked it up years ago; thought some one might sneak in off the Drive and get an arrow in the eye. I told her, let ‘em get popped â€"serve ‘em right for being interested in archery." We entered the Drukker house by the rear door. Belle Dillard and Mrs. Menzel were busy in the kitchen. "The alley key isn‘t there. By the by, what do you know about it, Mr. Arnesson?" Vance halted by the Dillards‘ baseâ€" ment door and stepped into the archâ€" ery room. After glancing along the door‘s moulding he rejoined us on the range. "We‘ll repair to the Drukker house first," he said. "There‘ll be a number of things to settle. I suppose you‘ll look after Drukker‘s affairs and the funeral arrangements." Arnesson made a grimace. "Elected! I refuse, however, to atâ€" tend the funeral. Obscene spectacles, funerals, But Belie and I will see to everything. Lady Mae probably left a will. We‘ll have to find it. Now, where do women generally hide their wills? . . ." ‘ Vance had led the way toward the wall gate, and we now stepped down on the range. "One never knows. questionnaire," ?" all CtnB:â€"HGam i sateiats ce 70â€" Mibecondii hi C eege c it CHAPTER XXX Bring out your July 7, 1931.â€"When the giant Cunarder "Aquitania" versary of the Line, a deputation of prominent Nova Scotis of Halifax, and the Hon. John Doull, provincial secretary, master of the ship, officially in the name of the province. Gov. Stanfield, Commodore E. G. Diggle, R.D., RN.R., Eric Canada, J. Norman Duffus of Halifax, E. G. Ritchie, Mayo tary, Commodore Hose, director of Naval Services, Ottawa. end: ‘crhil.ea from New York to Halifax and brought nearly Nearly half the total amount of gold available, which is worth $4,685,000,â€" 000, is held by the United States. lingâ€" Feel it kiss our whiteâ€"haired darling, Leanbhain O, Leanbhain O! â€"Seumas MacManus, in "Ballads of a Country Boy." ing, Velvet sleep on all it falling, Lark and cow, and sheep and starâ€" The hens to roost wee Nora‘s shooâ€" ing, Brindley in the byre is mooing, The tiredâ€"out cricket‘s quit its callâ€" wearle, Here its soft feet pitâ€"aâ€"patting Quickly o‘er the flowery matting, See its brownâ€"black eyes aâ€"blinkingâ€" Of its bed it‘s surely thinking, Leanbhain O, Leanbhain O! Trotting home, my dearie, dearie, Wee black lamb _ comes, wearie, Softly now the burn is rushing, Every lark its song is hushing, On the moor thick rest is falling, Just one heatherâ€"blade is callingâ€" Calling, calling, lonely, lonely, For my darling, for my only, Leanbhain O, Leanbhain O! "One of two placesâ€"either in the drawer of his Jesk in the study or else in the escritoire in his bedroom. In the daytime, of course, he worked in the study; but he fussed day and night when wrapped up in a problem. Kept an escritoire in his bedroom where he put his current records when khe retired, in case he got an inspiraâ€" tion to monkey with ‘em during the night. Then, in the morning, back they‘d go to the study. Regular maâ€" chine for system. now : "In a looseâ€"leaf notebooiyâ€"all tabuâ€" lated and indexed. _ Methodical and neat about everything Even his ch:â€" rography was like copperplate." "Do you'happen to know where Drukker kept the records of these computations?" "Ha! Big thing!" Arnesson became animated. "He was on the path of reconciling the Einsteinâ€"Bohr theory of radiaton with the facts of interferâ€" ence, and of overcoming the inconsisâ€" tencies inherent in Einstein‘s hypoâ€" thesis. His research had already led him to an abandonment of casual spaceâ€"time coâ€"ordination of atomic phenomena, and to its replacement by a statistical description. . . . Would have â€" revolutionized â€" physicsâ€"made him famous. Shame he was told off before he‘d put his data in shape." _ ‘"Incomprehensible," he muttered at length. "Drukker had no valuables, or no compromising documents. Straightâ€" forwarcd sort of cussâ€"not the kind to mix in any dirty business. . .. No possible reason d; any one prowling about his room." Vance lay back and appeared to re lax. "What was this quantum theory Dru}fkeriwas working on ?" Arnesson pufled-thbughtfully on his pipe. crime. Mrs. Drukker caught him in her son‘s room. There was a scene, according to the cook, who listened from the head of the stairs; and durâ€" ing it Mrs. Drukker died from dilation of the heart." ‘‘Thereby relieving the gentleman of the bother of killing her." "That seems clear enough," agreed Vance. "But the reason for the murâ€" derer‘s visit here is not so lucid. Can you suggest an explanation?" 999 (To be continued.) Lullaby â€"When the giant Cunarder "Aquitania" called at H a deputation of prominent Nova Scotians headed Hon. John Doull, provincial secretary, welcomed C ax, E. G. Ritchie, Mayor of Halifax, Hon Naval Services, Ottawa. This was the f fax and brought nearly 1200 American tow Anking is a new port of call for airplanes operated by the China Naâ€" tional Aviation Corporation between Shanghai and Hankow. Anking is the capital of Anhwel Province. Planes operated on this air route are capable of carrying both passengers and mail. 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John Doull, provincial secre is was the first of the exp}eu liher weekâ€" American tourists to the Nova Scotian port. alifax last Sunday on the Q1st anui Before the end of the year we shall have outdistanced the United States in airâ€"route mileage, and we shall then possess airways covering almost douâ€" ble the mileage of any other European country. France has less than 20,000 miles of airways, whilst Holland, whose colonies are to be found in all parts of the world, has only just over 12,000 miles.â€"London "Titâ€"Bits." At the moment the United States is still a little ahead of us with air routes totalling 38,000 miles, but these are all services within the country. Britain‘s air routes are mainly external, No other country is extending its airways so quickly, and this wonderful expanâ€" sion is due mainly to the work of pionâ€" eers like Sir Alan Cobham and Kingsâ€" fordâ€"Smith . By the end of this year Great Briâ€" tain will possess air services covering routes totalling 40,000 miles. _ These will link up almost every part of the Empire. We already have airways to Egypt, Persia, India, and South Africa, and recently the Indian route has been extended a further 5,800 miles by the service between Karachi and Port Darâ€" win in Australia. Before the end of the year over 3,000 miles will have been added to the African air routes. World‘s Greatest Air Routes Scottie was sniffing at a heap of rags. Ho wouldn‘t budge away, and continued pawing at the rags and howling to himself. I turned my flashlight on the litter, and there at the very bottom more dead than alive, was Guy Stone. Flashlight in hand 1 searched. The tents were in the utmost confusion. Dirty cooking utensils, fragments of cooked food, were all strewn about helter ckelter fasbion. The air was close and hot. Scottie sniffed and sneezed, with disapproval. No sign of Guy Stonme in the first tent. We ducked under the back wall and made for the next Oone. _ As we ran across the open space, a rifle went, Crack! _A bullet whipped by my arm. Those bandits were better shots than most Chinese. From tent to tent we went, and each time we showed ourselves a sniper‘s bullets went, Spat! Still no sign of Guy Stone. I had searchâ€" ed the last tent without surcess, and turned to go, heartâ€"broken. I searched hurriedly through the deserted tents for Guy. _A few hunâ€" dred feet away Lieut. Jed Stone stood guard with his terrible dragon plane gleamiug blue in the darkness. From the rim of the dark forests the bandâ€" its‘ rifles flashed and stray bullets "rained about the camp. _ Jed_re turned their ‘Bre pemrereaie with bursts from 4@@ his machine gun. t Tatâ€"tatâ€"tat. Tatâ€" CVA tattat â€" Anda tte / «J echoes â€"resounded x Qé a hundred times ( " F,¢@ from the black s mountain cliffs. a Adding to the terâ€" ror of the sitwation, the thunder which had rumbled in the distance now rolled up overhead with a muffled roar. What came before: Captain Jimmy and his friend Lieut. Jed Stone plan to rescue ~uy Stone, Jed‘s younger brother, from the cruel Chipese bandits, Disguisâ€" ing their plane as a dragon, they raid the bandits‘ camp. _ __ _ esd Cutting his bonds, I shook him 7 chll I PC im y and his Dog SCOTTE &4 4e The healthâ€"giving, delicious drink for children and grownâ€" ups. + + Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. BDoraten‘s Chocolate Maited Milk Washâ€"basins with hot and cold water, comfortable beds, table, seat, and _ hanging _ accommodation for clothes are provided in every cell in a new women‘s prison in New York. Rheumatism? Strive manfully; habit is overcome by habit.â€"Thomagâ€"aâ€"Kempis. I know not how this world began, Stars fixed and sun and tide, Nor why some powers were given to man Which were to beasts denied; Nor why all birds and blossoms stay Unchanged while men advance, But I feel sure enough to say It‘s not the work of chance. Edgar A. Guest in Titâ€"Bits. To relieve the worst rheundi'crb a very simple matter Aspirin do it every time‘ It‘s something that you can always take. Genuine Aspirin ta lets can always take. G.-iudz:nu" in ta‘ lets on each tablet. ASPIRILN If purposeless this life began And out of nothing grew, I think it strange that only man Should lofty goals pursue. For that same chance which gave us speech = And reason might have thrown These powers to creatures in its reach And not to man alone. If life is but an accident, It seems a curious fact That animals to all intent Their kingdoms kept intact, And that no other living thing By chance was ever made For weeping or for worshipping Or following a trade. Quick relief from rheumatic pains without harm; Unless ‘twas purposely designed, I think it very strange That birds and beasts of every kind Their habits never change, That flowers so large or so small may grow, The trees fixed heights may reach, And only man was given to know The fellowship of speech. Off the ground we went. Higher and higher. Soon we sailed far above the valley, and passed through the storm out Into bright, clear moonâ€" light. _ We were soaking wet, but happy. After midnight we landed in Shanghai. _ General Lu sent for us in haste. _ What had happened? (To be Continued) Note: Any of our young readers writing to "Captain Jimmy", 2010 Star Builling, Toronto, will receive signed photo of Captain Jimmy freq "Give her the gas", gaid Stone. And I did. _ Whirrâ€" bump â€" bumpâ€" bump. It wasn‘t the â€" smoothest place in the world to take off, bu t we; weren‘t spendâ€" 4,,- ing much time ///'/f/ Â¥ picking a n d j choosing that night. The storm which had hbeld in check, now broke. _ Amid the crash of thunder, the rain came down in sheets. _ Then Jed turned loose his machine gun. Stoppini in their tracks, the oandits turned and made for the woods as fast as they could run. ed Guy into the plane Boosting Scottie over into ne cockpit, 1 folâ€" lowed the two brothers, and in anâ€" other momert we were rushing down the field. A group of bandits, headed by the Chief, broke from the cover of the woods, firing ‘as they came. Realizâ€" ing that they had been duped by our dragorm, their rage knew no bounds. They _lacned to riddle our plane as we passed. well to bring back circulation into his numb arms and legs. _ Then I helped him from tent to tent. Zach time we showed ouiselves, we were greeted with a regular fusillade of shots. The bandits, enraged at l0sâ€" ing their captive were growing bolaâ€" er and creeping closer. Jed rushed to meet us, and in a moment we liftâ€" Prisonâ€"or Hote!l? «J "The simple fact that mankind has created a mechanical device which functions far more eficiently than does man himself, ‘The remedy apparâ€" ently is education and more education to convince man that he must live up to his car." "Not only in number but in percentâ€" age these defects in humanity run so far ahead of defects in the automobiles as to make it instantaneously obvious that we have only ourselves to blame," said Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Erskine bureau. One of the most interesting findings in safety research was the recent anâ€" nouncement that the automobile itâ€" self is least responsible for trafiic acâ€" cidents. This statement was made by the Albert Russell Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research, Harvard Uniâ€" versity, It was declared that the modâ€" ern vehicle is such that human nature has not as yet adjusted itself to take advantage of its full efficioncy. Of one final point the world may be very certiin: That the house of the future will avoid the necessity for aormal physical effort, and that people who live in those days of inâ€" telligent development will regard us with the same mixture of pity and contempt which we reserve for the dirty untutored savages . who were loath to part with the mudâ€"hut dreams of their animal minds. Man, Not Auto, Is Cause of Most of Car Accidents Street noises are already prohibitâ€" ed in many areas, while the opening of a window on to a main thoroughâ€" fare can even now render speeca im« possible in a number of dwellings, Windows will not open on to main streets but into ventilating appliances fed with fresh air, while the emâ€" brasure of a window will always be covered by materials or reflectors which absorb sound instead of throw» ing it into the room as is at pre sent permitted. Our houses will probably be double walled, and in the intervening space will be such materials as not only conserve heat but which preven. the ingress of noise over every frequâ€" ency likely to be encountered, and which, in conjunction with absorbâ€" ent plasters, will prevent the reverâ€" beration of unwanted sounds in our own rooms The importance of reasonable si lence cannot be exaggerated. Noise is indicative of waste, while the whole body is sensitive to oscillaâ€" tions of the air, which may even by outside the band of audio frequency, The science of acoustics is new, Radio has taught us that sensitive hearing is an important faculty, while talking pictures are each day being so improved that a degree of mechanical reproduction is likely to be achieved which will prove indisâ€" tinguishable to the original in the minds of the average listener, Each room wi#ll be built in a not too severe style, for the alcove beâ€" loved of our parents will be replaced by the music, reading and writing departments and the television cabiâ€" net, all communicating with the main room but separately lit. Protection From Noise One of the great essentials of such houses built in the midst of a city full of highâ€"speed transport vehicles, airplanes and underground tubes will be that they must prove free from vibration and noise. . We cannot absorb worldâ€"wide informaâ€" tion and lose our parochial attitude of mind if we are constantly remindâ€" ed of immediate surroundings by unâ€" wanted noise. Human noises noed scarcely be included, for education will have prevented the emission of unnecessary speech and may take our children‘s children into departâ€" mental nurseries. The outer portion of each dwelling will be so arranged that external light can properly be admitted, but with the cramped space avallable for construction much of this illuminaâ€" tion must necessarily be artificial. Surrounding the bathing room will be a department used solely for food and this will b> supplied from a communal restaurant by means of lifts and tubes, while automatic reâ€" frigerators and warming appliances will be used to keep the food in a proper state of nourishment to suit the latest hiological conditions. In the centre of each block will be the "room of preparation" into which the inhabitants will go for their bathing, their sun treatment and their exercise. A series of ducts will introduce fresh air which will be warmed and cleaned by drying and electrical heating apparatus «itâ€" uated in the centre of each group of dwellings, while extracting fane on the flat roofs will take away all vitlated air. The house of the future can easily be visualized declares Prof, A. M. Low in "The New York Times." it will be situated in an arcadeâ€"like street, its sides and roof will be largely constructed of permeable glass, while from a central well in each block will extend a number of interconnecting rooms lit via roof and ceiling reflectors from the wall itself and by small individual lights for purposes of working or reading. House of the Future As Science Sees It Constant Sunshine and Puriâ€" fied Air Will be Two Main Factors internal Windows t by mil Bavaria Pa U H t First wents 0t