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"I‘ll show you what 1 mean when we weach home," he said, as we rode east through Central Park. "It‘s unbeâ€" Bevable, but it‘s true. And I should have guessed it long ago; but the conâ€" motation of the signature on those motes was too clouded with other posâ€" gible meanings. . . ." "If it were midsummer instead of spring," commented Markham wrathâ€" fully, "I‘d suggest that the heat had affected you." "I knew from the first there were three possible guilty persons," conâ€" tinued Vance. "Each was psychoâ€" logically capable of the murders, proâ€" wided the impact of his emotions had upset his mental equilibrium. So there was nothing to do but to wait for some Markham regarded him as though he had suddenly gone out of his mind; but before he could speak Vance hailâ€" ed a taxicab. "Oh, my aunt! Oh my precious aunt! So that was why he asked me about lbsen! . . . My word! How anâ€" utterabsy dull I‘ve been! He stared at Markham, and the muscles of his jaw tightened. "The truth at last!" he said with impressive softness. "And it is neither you nor the police nor I who has solved this case: it is a Norâ€" wegian dramatist who has been dead for twenty years. In Tbsen is the key *to the mystery." "Oh, Markham,â€"my dear Markham! Weren‘t you listening closely to bis haiting, reluctant tale? It was as if he were trying to convey some suggesâ€" tion to us without actually putting it into words. We were supposed to guess. Yes. That was why he insistâ€" «d that you visit him when Arnesson was safely away at an Ibsen reviva‘l." Vance ceased ~peaking abruptly and stood stock still. A startled look came in hig eyes. "That‘s not the explanation. The old gentleman has fears. _ And he knows something which he will nct tell us." "I can‘t say that I got that impresâ€" .'”n‘vi "His suspicious state of mind is quite understandable," _ submitted Markham. _ "These murders have touched his house pretty closely." "You will please take note. Markâ€" ham, old dear," observed Vance, with a touch of waggishness, as we turned into 72nd Street and headed for the park, "that there are others than your modest collaborator who are hagâ€"ridâ€" den with doubts as to the volition of Pardee‘s tokingâ€"off. And I might add that the professor is not in the least satisfied with your assurances." Markham declined the invitation to stay longer, and a few minutes later we were walking down West Snd Avenue in the brisk April air. "1 can see that you and Signrd would have a permanent basis of disaâ€" greement." "I have read Ibsen a great deal; and there can be little doubt that he was a creative genius of a high order, although I‘ve failed to find in him either the aesthetic form or the phiioâ€" sophi¢c _ depth that â€" characterizes Goethe‘s ‘Faust,‘ for instance." "A slight shift of Vance‘s eyebrows told me that he was somewhat puzzled by this question, but when he answerâ€" ed there was no hint of perplexity in his voice. "Sigurd will be here before long. He‘d enjoy seeing you again. As 1 said, he‘s at ‘The Pretenders‘ but I‘m sure he will come straight home. . . . By the way, Mr. Vance," the professor went on, turning from. Markham, "Siâ€" gurd tells me you accompanied him to *Ghosts‘ last week. Do you share his enthusiasm for ibsen?" Vance is convinced Drukker is hoiding back certain information and determines to find out what it is. But (M&nlfilf; Drukker is murdered. The shock kNMIls Mis, Drukker. Then Pardee commits suicide. Markham believes Pardee was The Bishep, but Vance believes differently. Then Prof. Dillard asks them to come to his home District Attorney Markham calls in his friend, Philo Vance The following are associated with the case: Prof. Dillard, his niece, Bell, and his protege, Sigurd Arnesson, who hopes to marry Belle; John Pardee, a neighbor; Mrs. Drukker, .n:i her son, Adoiph, a cripple. A man known as Cock Robin is found with an arrow through the heart. Then & young chap named Sprigg is shot through the top of the head. ‘The murâ€" derer writes mocking notes signed The Bisho p. CHAPTER XXXV.â€"(Cont‘d.) The Bishop Murder Case "CALADA" CHAPTER XXXVI masterpiece in blending SYNOPSIS GREEN TEA ® ‘Fresh from the gardens‘ A PHILO VANCE STORY BY 8. S. VAN DINE Vance and I arrived at his office & few minutes after nine the next mornâ€" ing. Swacker intereepted us and askâ€" ed us to wait in the reception rmom for a little while. Markham, he exâ€" plained, was engaged for the moment. We had no more than seated ourselves "I don‘t know what can be done," he said hopelessly. "There‘s no legal evidence against the man. But we may be able to devise some course of action that will give us the upper hand. . . . I never believed in torture, but I almost wish we had access today to the thumbscrew and the rack." With this astounding revelation the Bishop murder case entered its final and most terrible phase. Heath had been informed of Vance‘s discovery; and it was arranged that we should meet in the District Attorney‘s office early the following day for a counsel of war. Markham, when he took leave of us that night, was more troubled and deâ€" spondent that I had ever seen him. But I doubt if either of us read beâ€" yond the line: Nicholas Artnesson, Bishop of Osio. My eyes became riveted on that name with a set and horrified fascinaâ€" tion. And theh I remembered. . . . . Bishop Arnesson was one of the most diabolical villains in all literatureâ€"â€" a cynical, sneering monster who twistâ€" ed all the sane values of life into kideous buffooneries. Ivar Bodde, his chaplain. Vegard Vaeradal, one of his guard, Gregorius Jonsson a nobleman. Paul Flida a nobleman. Ingeborg, Andres Skialdarband‘s ‘ife. Peter, her son, a young priest. Sira Viliam, Bishop Nicholas‘s chaplain. Master Sigard of Brabant, a phyâ€" sician. Jatgeir Skald, an Icelander,. Bard Bratte, a chieftain from tbe Trondheim district. shal Hakon Hakonsson, the King elected by the Birchlegs. Inga of Varteig, his mother. Earl Skule. Lady Ragnhild, his wife. Sigrid, his sister. Margrete, his daughter, Guthorm Ingesson. Sigurd Ribbung. Nicholas Arnesson, Bishop of Oslo. Dagfinn the Peasart, Hakon‘s msr-‘ ‘"Read the cast of characters of Arnesson‘s favorite play," he directea, Markham, silent and puzzled, drew the volume toward him; and I looked over his shoulder. This is what we saw : 'indication that would focus suspicion. 1/ Drukker was one of my three susâ€" :l pects, but he was murdered; and that | left two. Then Pardee to all appearâ€" :I ances committed suicide, and J‘ll adâ€" : mit that his death made reasonable | the assumption that he had been the | guilty one. But there was an eroding | doubt in my mind. Hig death was | not conclusive; and that house of | cards troubled me. We were staleâ€" | mated. So again 1 waited, and watchâ€" | ed my third possibility, Now I know that Pardee was innocent, and that he did not shoot himself. He was. murâ€" deredâ€"just as were Robin and Sprigge and Drukker. His death was another grim jokeâ€"he was a victim thrown to | tke police in the spirit of diabolical ! jest. And the murderer has becni | chuck.ing | at ur gullibility | ever)| | since." | He went to the shelves where he kept his dramas, and took down Volâ€" ume II of the collected works of Henâ€" rik Ibsen. The book contained "The Vikings at Helgeland" and "The Pre. tenders"; but with the first of these plays Vance was not concerned. Turnâ€" ing to "The Pretenders" he found the page where the dramatis personue were given, and laid the book on !he‘ table before Markham. "The evidence has been here within arm‘s reach all the time." A few minutes later we reached his apartment, and he led us straight to the library. "It‘s no longer a question of reasonâ€" ing. At last I have the explanation tor the crimes; and I know the meanâ€" ing of the ‘Bishop‘ signature to the notes. I‘ll show you a piece of amazâ€" ing an" incontrovertible evidence very soon." "By what reasoning do you arrive at so fantastic a conclusion?" ® A good name makes an excellent passport. He tells of a man affiicted with eye trouble every summer for a number of years. Finally it was found he was supersensitive to certain pollens, and actually was suffering from a form of hay fever. Treatment with polien exâ€" tracts greatly relieved his symptoms. TWO CLASSES "I know only two _ classesâ€"the ‘worker‘ and the ‘loafer," and we will find those in every walk and in every sphere of life untll the world ends."â€"Mrs. Stanley Baldwin. When this woman got rid of her canaries and was treated with extracts of canary feathers and of the poliens to which she was sensitive, Dr. Bubert reports, she was relieved of both the asthma and hay fever symptoms. She raised canaries and kept about fifty of them at home. It was found she was sensitive to canary feathers and certain plant pollens, Another woman treated at Bubert‘s clinic at the University of Maryland Hospital suffered from asthma during the entire year and hay fever during the regular spring and fall seasons. She changed her face powder to one made of rice powder. Within twentyâ€" four bours ber hay fever symptoms disappeared, says Dr. Bubert. She used a face powder made from orris root and Dr. Rubert discovered that she was superâ€"sensitive to orris root. A girl came to Dr. Bubert for treatâ€" ment, he reports, and said she suffered hay fever symptoms the year round instead of only during the usual seaâ€" son. Hay fever usually is caused by irriâ€" tation of the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose and throat by infinitesâ€" imal grains of plant polien that float in the air. Not all persons are sensiâ€" tive. Baltimore.â€"Hay Fever, which anâ€" nually brings sneezes and watery eyes to thousands, may be caused by such unusual substances as face powder and canary feathers, reports Dr. Howâ€" ard M. Bubert, of the University of Maryland. Man vies with the odd denizens of the oceans oddâ€"looking machine of steel and glass which wil on an under water search for sunken treasure. Trace Hay Fever to Birds and Powder Baltimore â€" Physician Finds Small Plant Pollen Grains Cause Membrane Irritations Markham shot him a questioning glance through lowered lids. (To be continued.) "Oh, but it isn‘t,"‘ persisted Vanse. "I simply must hear the details. That section of the park fascinates me strangely." "A child disappeared from the playâ€" ground yesterday after talking with an unknown man. Her father came Lere to solicit my help. But it‘s a job for the Bureaw of Missing Persons; and I told him so. Now, if your curiâ€" osity is appeasedâ€"" P Markham drew a deep breath of imâ€" patience. "I1 detest reading the papers," Vance spoke blandly, but with an inâ€" sistence that puzzled me. "What hapâ€" pened?" ‘"What‘s the new trouble in Riverâ€" side Park?" asked Vance casually. Markham frowned. "Nothing that need bother us now. A kidnapping, in all likelihood. There‘s a brief account of it in the morning papers, in *ase you‘re interâ€" ested. . . ." "Sorry to have kept you waiting," Markham apologized. "I had an unâ€" expected visitor." His voice had a deâ€" spairing ring. "More trouble. And, curiously enough, it‘s connected with the very section of Riverside Park where Drukker was killed. However, there‘s nothing I can do about it. . ." He drew some papers before him. "Now to business." "We may be able to force th» ssuc some way," Vance rejoined, "In any event, we know where we stand." Ten minutes later Swacker beckonâ€" to us and indicated that Markham was free. when Heath apreared, grim, pugnaâ€" cious and sullen. "I gotta hand it to you, Mr. Vance," he proclaimed. "You sure got a line on the situation. But what good it‘s going to do us I don‘t see. We can‘t arrest a guy because his name‘s in a Not a Sea Monster If the elms in affected regions are to survive it can only be through some saving process of nature or the discovery of a new remedy, At a reâ€" cent session of the German Botanical Association it was gaid that remedies hitherto tried had proved wholly useâ€" less. Not only Berlin but all of central Europe is in danger of losing its elms from the disease which began its ravâ€" ages in Holland ten years ago and spread rapidly eastward, completely baffiing all efforts to arrest it. The elms are being killed by a minâ€" ute fungus carried by a small beetle that deposits its eggs on the bark. A method of treating the elms by inâ€" noculation, worked out at the Dahlem Institute of Plant Biology, proved as fruitless as previous remedies. Berlinâ€"Elims in the parks and streets of Berlin appear to be doomed to extinction, the plant pathologists of the park department apparently having abandoned as hopeless their long fiight to check the disease that is destroying the trees. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin oreâ€" erred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide Stâ€" Toronto. The redingote takes 3% yards of 89â€"inch material; the dress 16â€" quires 2% yards of 89â€"inch maâ€" terial for the miss of 16 years. Another equally chic idea is vivid red crepe silk coat with the dress of navy blue crepe silk. This attractive outfit Style No. 879 may be had in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 86 and 88 inches bust. The bolero jacket chooses the printed‘ crepe for its turnâ€"back cuffs. _ The separate redingote skirt is in boxâ€"plait effect at the front. 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"I know," pleaded the girl, "but you might give me a hint of what it was â€"just a word." *"You must not ask questions," said the old man. "Mr. Clarke wished to see about a matter which for the preâ€" sent must remain a secret." The girl assvred him that he would, and the young man took his departure, "Oh, papa!" began the girl, when they were alone, "did heeâ€"â€"" "It is getting late,‘ ‘said Mr. Clarke, whose face was radiant, "and, as I have a long ride before me, I think I will say ‘Good night.‘ Shall I find you at home on Wednesday evening, Miss Johnson ?" Presently her father came in, and after a short conversation with the young man he stepped to the door and summoned his daughter. "Erâ€"Miss Johnson,‘ he said, feverâ€" ishly, "could Jâ€"erâ€"see your father for a moment?" "Certainly, Mr. Clarke!"â€"and, ex cusing herself, she left the room. When her young man visitor beâ€" came very plainly embarrassed, she thought she knew the cause. If 1 hbave made one weary life the brighter, If 1 have eased another‘s toil and pain, If I have made some comrade‘s burâ€" den lighterâ€" I have not lived in vain. â€"â€"Norman Cole. If 1 have sown the seeds of peace and gladness, If 1 have caused sad lips to smile again. s If 1 have eased some other‘s ache and sadnessâ€" I have not lived in vain. If 1 have heiped some struggling man to master His baser seilf. _A nobler life atâ€" tain, + If by my love, some heart has beatâ€" en fasterâ€" I have not lived in vain. â€"Jewell Bothwell Tull, in Poetry. We swept past the boats at about one hundred and ten miles an hour. _ The Chinose Junk was our target and how we longed for a few nice hand grenades or a machine gun! Still, we had the shot gun and plenty of buckshot shells. _ We could make it hot for those pirates. As we passed overhead, the pirâ€" ates greeted us with a volley but they were not used to fring at a speeding plane and their shots went wide. § A little ship lay over with a heavy list to starboard, evidently leaking from a shot below the water line. A large Chinese junk was tied jehind and a boarding party of pirates swarmed all over the captured vesâ€" sel. _ The passengers ran here and there, ooking for shelter. Then as we came near we could see a numâ€" ber of figures bound to the railâ€" evidently white men and ship officers. Sudden!zy the firing seemed to case, A lucky shot must have cripâ€" pled the ship they were pursuing. Quarte, of a mile away and we nosed down to get a better view of what was taking place. guns of the Pirate Juns., 1 gave our plane every bit of gas 1 could and she roared down t>oward the scene of battle at a tremendous rate. After some difficulty we lowered the »l«ne into the sea and heading into the wind, took off,. The motor sputtered and missed at firstâ€"then it opened out into a deep, satisfying roar and drove the plane at ~ terâ€" rife speed toâ€" wards the ecene of battle. _ There was not a momâ€" % ent to lose. What came before: Late one afternoon, while on board the freighter Madrigal in the Chinese Sea, Captain Jimmy and his friends sight a bandit ship fring on a little vessel. hey take off to the rescue in their plane. ‘ The healthâ€"giving, delicious drink for children and grownâ€" ups, + + Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. BDeoraten‘s Chocolate Maited Milk Ohe abvextunes of pocftamy and his Dog SCOTTEâ€" Helping Hand LIFE As we _ drew nearer, through the twilight, we could plainly see the fash from the more?" The profile turned and haughtily replied, "No, I am MISTER John Barrymore." "That‘s fins," came the crashing reply, "I was afraid you might be Miss Ethel!" John Barrymore delights in putting interviewers in their place by making them "Mister" him. A certain New York feature writer had been warned about "Jawn" and his pet method go when he got to him (Mr. Barrymore having finished his 10 o‘clock breakâ€" fast) he asked, "Are you John Barry~l The new substance has shown posâ€" sibilities as an insulating material for electric power lines and as containers for powerful acids. Dr. Schuitze believes his process alâ€" so has other potentialities. During experiments using certain gases be obtained a yellow compound resemâ€" bling amber. Gasoline has been obtained from methane before, but only by using rgdioâ€"active substances and other comâ€" plicated chemical processes which cost more. Dr. Schultze obtained gasoline by bombarding a quantity of methane gas with electrons from an electric curâ€" rent of between 17,000 and 20,000 volts, Methane has a low carbon content, accounting in part for the excessive cost of the process, It and similar gases, common in oil fields, now are mostly waste products. a gallon. But Dr. Schultze believes continued research. with other gases higher in carbon content, such as proâ€" pane, ethylene and butane will prove the method economically feasible. The cost of his process now is comâ€" mercially prohibitiveâ€"about $3 or $4 Results of his work, under direction of Dr. 8. C. Lind, director of the uniâ€" versity‘s #chool of chemistry, may point the way to new means of obâ€" taining the fuel, if and when the source of America‘s petroleum supply is exhausted. In research for the American Peâ€" troleum Institute this German scienâ€" tist has extracted gasoline, petroleum oils and other petroleum products from methane gas, which now is mostâ€" ly wasted. Minneapolis.â€"A new source of gasoâ€" line that holds promise of economical commercial production has been dieâ€" covered in the laboratory of Dr. G. R Schultze at the University of Minne sota. Scientist Extracts Gasoline and Other Oils from Methane Gas Makes Gasoline From Waste Oil Then, looking up, he caught sight of us hovering above him like a great bird of prey, just as a charge of bucksbhot rattled around him or the decks. _ With a yell, he let go the wheel and fled and the next momâ€" ent a strong gust of wind keeled the junk over on her side (To be continued.) Note: Any of our young readers: writing to "Captain Jimmy", 2010 Star Building, Toronto, will receive‘ his signed photo free. | A few stray shots screeched by, fired by the more couragu( us of the pirates who dared show themselves above decks Meanwhile, my EuD ner loaded up his beavy artillery ’ready for his next attack,. Again we 1swooped and raked the decks with buckshot but this time the pirates bad seen enough of us,. _ Someone cut the junk loose and the pirates rushed back and crowded on full sail. Now was our chance. Circling around to gain altitude, we suddenly dived straight for the pirate‘s _ wheel deck, banging away with our old â€" shotguns. f The helmsman %f of the junk had all he could% do, at best, to 4/ f hold the ship //?], in her course, for a brisk wind had suddenly sprung up and she leaned bheavily to one #ide. About half a mile away, 1 turned to the attack again. _ Suddenly 1 swooped until it seemed as if we would scrape the decks at we passâ€" ed. Every bit ofâ€" engine power forced us out of the sky. Our speed was tremendous. It must bave been a fearful sight to see a plane making such speed straight at one. _ In the bow of the Junk stood a group of pirates â€" pelrified. Then, â€" Bang! Bang! roared the beavy shot gun, and the pirates raced for cover, but several seemed to stumble and lay quite still. ISSUE No. 36â€"‘31 oo en ie Bpue An e abserved srom Dr. Olivier, professor of astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, | said the number of meteors seen ani ) mapped from Aug=st 4 to 16, when | the stream was visible, had not yet | been tabulated dully, but indicatins were that it would tcral approximateâ€" 1 ly 10,000, most of which were obseryvâ€" | ed on August 11 and 12. He added: l "Ancther opportun.ty for voluntsor ; observers to study a meteor showâ€"r will be presented from about Novemâ€" | ber 14 to 18, when we ‘save good hotes , uf an excellent Lenoid display which ) will be even better than the Perseid. Philadelphia. â€"Dr. Charles P. Olivier, president of the American Meteor Society, said reports raceived from volunteer observers have proâ€" vided the s.ciety with valuable inâ€" formation concerning the Perscid stream of meteors which reached its height on August 11 and 12. Amateur There is no anachronism in this rustic factory, but rather a s#cene that contrasts sadly with the great temples reared to the god of maâ€" chinery, full of roar and speed and subordinate human automaton; for out here is but the wind and the curious woodpecker. . . There is a little bool in circulation upon the subject of this charming retrogresâ€" sion, giving the details of a craft which is most fitting in Hampden woods, but tragically, absurdly inapâ€" plicable to the world at large.â€"From "Green Fields of England," by Clare Cameron. There are other woods lying thick ,uround Great Hampden that have this touch of dream â€" atmosphere, though _ perhaps the chairâ€"makers who have worked there for so long drove the fairies away long ago, For ‘when Sir Philip Sidney was writing his Arcadia, these same woods knew the light, rough, strawâ€"woven tents, cast about with old sacks in Arab fashion in the same manner that one sees today, the same primitive method of the lathe worked by the foot, that turns, with astonishing ease, rapidity and smoothness, the legs for the chairs of the Wycombe workshops,. Neat piles of them stand by the tent openings, while the forest clearing is scattered with chips and shavings and the raw material of the prepared timber, with the pots and pans of the workâ€" ers‘ dinners. | Glass, we are told, absorbs iltraâ€" ,| violet light. This teing true, how | does it happen that the under side of a | bottle becomes colored? Most botties are found uniformly colored, *the under side equally with the upper side. Dr. Petit‘s explanation is that | ultraâ€"violet rays of a particular wave length do the coloring and are not absorbed. Passing through the upper wall of | a bottle, lying half buried in sand, , tuese penetrating rays act on the _ manganeseâ€"oxygen molecules in the buried wall, as if the whole bottle , were exposed to the direct rays. It is not true, he said, that only foreign glass "blushes" deep blue in the desâ€" <rt; all glass respondsâ€"more or iess , conspicuously, deperding upon the | amount of manganese in the glass. ‘The bluing effect car be produced by | soaking glass in Xâ€"rays. A Los Anâ€" | geles company, responding to the «deâ€" mand for heliotrope glass, is now manu‘acturing itâ€"beating the desert, | we are told, at its own job. Dr. Petit lighted an orygen lamp and held a piece of beautifully colored glass over the flame. Within two or three minutes, the heat restored the desertâ€"colored glass to its original colorâ€"by rearranging the atoms in the molecules as they were before the influence of the desert sun. Desert light in the ultraâ€"violet reâ€" gion, said Dr. Petit, affects the man« ganese dioxide molecules, possibly by removing one or mure of the oxygen atoms trow the combination, the. the changed molecute refracts or resects light differently, producing the ultra« pink or heliotrope cclor. It is a slow process, pecause the color deepons gradually. for aboct eleven years Thereafter, the color stays fixed, unâ€" less changed by rert ‘How Glass Gets nox manganese oxiceâ€"a black dustâ€" with the imolten glass to whiten it, Without the manganese, glass would not be clear. An extra amourt of manganese gives it a pinkish color, The change of color, according to 1)r. Edison Petit of Mount Wilson Observetory, who has for years been working with ultraâ€"violet light, oeâ€" curs in the makeâ€"up of the manganâ€" ese dioxide molecules, which are inter= mixed with the giass. Manufacturers Interest in desertâ€"colored glass con« tinues to increase, writes Ransome Sutton in "The Los Angeles Times." "I know several prospectors who have stopped hbunting for gold," a friend writes me, "and are devoting all their time searching for violetâ€"colored botâ€" tlesâ€"which have acquired considerâ€" able value. I wish you would explain how the son‘s rays give Puss a rich heliotrope eclor." Scientists Says Change of Tint Occurs Due to Sun‘s ; Ultraâ€"Violet Rays | A Rustic Factory Spot 10,000 Meteors P in while #h tee+»