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m Thou- associated with the case are: hot Dillard, his nice. Belle, and his pro- toge, Sigurd Amazon, use a pruteromr of mathematics. John I'm-doe. . neigh- tor with a passion for (than: Mfg. Jruk- In und her Ion Adolph. Mrs Drnkker in mentally unbalanced and Adolph is a cripple with 3 super-brain. Vance leans that bunker lied u to his whereuboutl on the morning of Rob- in". death. While the can "ewtt, strong nghin-t Drukler, Vance believe. him in- nocent and decides to threaten him in order to learn tho (met: that tre has been hoidinq back. SYNOPSIS , A man known as Cock Robin is found with " arrow in his heart; another. Johnny Smut. is found with . bull“ through the top of his head. District Attorney lurkhnm can: in Philo Vance. who claims the murders are founded on ninety rhymes and are the work of a misc. _ - . _ . CHAPTER xxvI.--icont'd.) Markham at tapping indecisively on the desk, his head enveloped as he puffed nervously on his cigu. At hat _ - . - . l s_-_a .A he set his Heath. "Bring Drukker here at nine o‘clock tomorrow morning. You’d better take l a wagon and a John Doe warrant in case he offers any objection.” His face was grim and determined. "Then Ill find out what he knows-and act ac- covding‘y. The conference broke up immediate- l b. It was after five o'eloek, and Markham and Vance and I rode up- town together to the Stuyvesant Club. We dropped Arneuon at the subway, rnd he took have of us with acarcely‘ a word. His garruloun cynicism‘ seemed entirely to have deserted himw After dinner Markham pleaded fa- tigue, and Vance and I went to the Metropolitan and heard Geraldine Farrar in "Lruise." The next morning broke dark and misty. Currie called us at half past aeren. for Vance intended to be pree- ent " the interview with Drukker; and " eight o'eioek we had breakfast In the library before a light grate Are. We were held up in the trattle on our way down-town,- and though it van {Suit after nine when The Bishop Murder Cast NO INCREASE m THE PRICE OF DESPITE 5tllglilEl NEW DUTY a INCREASE m SALES TAX To the Public: Canada’n Largest Selling Tea Will Not Cost the Consume New Taxation. Do Not Pay More Than the Price Shown on the Package. Salada Tea Company of Canada, Limited WE PAY THE DUTY AND TAX I'O GROCERS: You Will Find No Sale. Tax or Duty Item Added to Our Invoices. We Will Pay These Ourselves in Order That You May Serve the Public Without Extra Charge and Keep the Same Profit " Before. chin. fiem'y an-d turned to SALADA TEA So economical A PHILO VANCE STORY BY S. S. VAN DINE l, reached the District Attorneg'ss office, Drukker and Heath had not yet ar- i. rived. Vance settled himself comfortably in a large leather-upholstered chair and lighted a cigarette. _ _ __ His words had seareely been uttered when Heath burst into the office and. facing Markham without a word of greeting, lifted both arms and let them fall in a gesture of hopeless resigna- tion. "l feel rather bucked this morning," he remarked. "If Drukker tells his story, and if the tale is what I think it is, we'll know the combination of the lock." "Well, sir, we ain’t going to ques- tion Drukker this morning-or no other time," he blurted "He fell offs that high wall in Riverside Park right near his house last night, and broke his neck. Wasn’t found till seven okloek this morning. His body’s down at the morgue now. . . . Fine breaks we get!” He sank disgustedly into a chair. Markham stared at him unbeliev- ':~.gly. “You’re sure?” he asked, with startled futility. "I was up there before they moved the body. One of the local men phon- ed me about it just " I was leaving the office. I stuck around and got all the dope I could.” "Wkat. did you learn?" Markham was fighting against an overwhelming sense of discouragement. "There wasn't much to find out! Some kids in the park found the body; Lbout seven o'eloek this Ptrniptr--1ott) of kids around it being Saturday; and the local men hopped over and called a police surgeon. The doe said Drak- ker musta fallen off the' wall about ten o'eloek last night-killed instantly. The wall 'at that spot-right opposite 76th Street-is all of thirty feet above the playground. The top of it runs along the bridle path; and it’s n won- der more people Uven't broke their Will Not Cost the Consumer More Despite the necks there. Kids are all the time walking along the stone ledge." "Has Mrs. Drukker been notified P "No. I told 'em Pd attend to it. But I thought Pd come here first and see what you wanted done about it." Markham leaned back dejectedly. "I don't see that there's much of anything we can do." "It might be well," suggested Vance, "to inform Arnesson. He'il probably be the one who'll have to look after things. . . . My word, Markham! I'm beginning to think that this case is I nightmare, after all. Drukker was our principal hope, and at the very moment when there's a chance of our forcing him to speak, he tumbles off of a wall--" Abruptly he stopped. "oft a wall! .. /' As he repeated these words he leapt to his feet. "A hunchback falls of a wall'. . . . . . A hunchback! . . ." We siured at him as if he had gone out of his mind; and I admit that the look on his face sent a chill over me. His eyes were fixed, like those of a man gazing at a malignant ghost. Slowly he turned to Markham, and said in a voice that I hardly recog- “It’s another mad melodrama-an. other Mother Goose rhyme. . . . . . . 'Humpty Dumpty’ this time!” "hire' Gtonisied silence that followed wan broken by a strained harsh laugh from the Sergeant. - . _ .- -isiithiti, stretching things, ain't it, Mr. Vaneef" "rt's preposterous!" declared Mark- ham, studying Vance with genuine concern. "My dear fellow, you’ve lot this case prey on your mind too much. Nothing has happened except that a man with a hump has fallen from the coping of a wall in the park. It’s un- fortunate at just this time." He went '; Heath openedtheleueruthelut . of no looked on. At once I recognised ; the jasper and the faint blue chem. l tern of the elite type. The note read: I Humpty Dumpty at on s well, ', Humpty Dumpty had a great tel; . All the king’s horses and all the kintt's ttiiiiel aha put his hand on his shoulder. "Let the Sergeant and me run this show-we'" used to these things. Take a trip and get I good rest. Why not go to Europe as you generally do in the spring?” "0h, quit-quite." Vance sighed and smiled wearily. "The sea air would do me world of good, and all that. Bring me back to normal, what? .-baild up the wreck of this once noble brain. . . . I give upl The third wt in this terrible tragedy is played " most before your eyes, and you ser- enely ignore it." "Your imagination has got the bet. ter of you," Markham returned, with th, patience of a deep affection. "Don’t worry about it any more. Have din- ner with me tonight. We’ll tam it over then." V At this moment Swacker looked in, and spoke to ytrsertr, 9min _ - “Quinn of The World in here. Wants to see you.” Markham swung about. "Bring him in here.?" Quinn: "ttered, waved no a cheery mhtution, and handed the Sergeant a letter. "Another bt'aet.doter-reeFd this morning, What priyjypgu do I (at for being G big-haw?" Cannot put. Humpty Dumpty togethe: in capitals: THE BISHOP. mien Heath had got rid of Quinn with promises much " would hue MGM any mrrorter'ts hurt, there Then Lune that ominous signature, ONTARIO ARCHIVI were seven! minutes of tense meme in the ofiUe. "The Biehop" had been at his grisly work again; and the cue had now become a terrible tripli- cate aifnir, with the solution appar- ently further of than ever. - vane, who wu pacing sombrely up and down gave voice to his troubled emotions: _ - _ "Wa damnab a, Marhum--it's the essence of unuttcra1tlo evil. . . . Don't you no the wickedness of itt Those children found Humpty Dumpt;'-- their Humpty Dumpty, with whom they had played-lying dead at the foot of the famous wall-a Humpty Dumpty they could touch and weep aver, broken and twisted and never more to be put together. . . .” ‘He penned by the window and looked out. The mist had lifted and a faint diffusion of spring sunlight lay over the gray stones of the city. The gol- den eagle on the New York Life Building glistened in the distance. “I say; one mustn’t get sentimen- tal," he remarked with a forced smile, turning back to the room. Nt de- composes the intelligence and stu1tifies the dialectic processes. Now that we know Drukker was not the capricious victim of the law of gravity, but was given a helpin' hand in his departure from this world, the sooner we be. come energetic, the better, what?" ' ( Bis change of mood roused the rest‘ of us from our gloomy apathy. Mark/ ham reached for the telephone and} made arrangements with Inspector Moran for Heath to handle the Druk- her case. Then he called the Medical Examiner', offiee and asked for an immediate postmortem report. Markham moved restlessly. "Several men from your depart- ment, Sergeant, were supposed to be keeping an eye on the Drukker and "tiilard houses. Did you talk to any psf them this morning?" i "I didn't have time, sir." i "What did the Medical Examiner ihave to say'."' "Only that it looked like an acci- dent; and that Drukker had been dead about ten hours. . . ." Vance interpolated a question. "Did he mention a fractured skull in addition to the broken neck?” "Well, sir, he didn’t exactly say the skull was fractured, but he did state that Drukker had landed on the back of his head. I guess it'll prove to be a fracture all right-same like Robin and Sprimr." "Undoutbedly. The technique of our murderer seems to be simple and efficacious. He strUes his victims on the vault, either stunning them or killing them outright, and then pro- ceeds to cast them in the roles he has chosen for them in his puppet-plays. Drukker was no doubt leaning over the wall, perfectly exposed for such an attack. It was misty, and the setting was somewhat obscured. Then came the blow, a slight heave, and Drukker fell noiselessly over the Parapet-the third sacrificial offering on the altar of old Mother Goose." (To be continued.) 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He dis. l 'l mounted, threw T tho bridle relne ' over the horse's head and probably _ hoped the animal would be there when he got back. Together, Scottie and , he crawled close to where a lone soldier was walking his post. “a can. - After may adven- tun , tVintr over China. Captain Jimmy and his friend Jed Stone neck to recover tho plane which (Dwain Jimmy I" forced to land in enemy territory. They plan 3 night raid on the army camp " secure food 1nd gasoline. A ‘5 sf 1 'ea' , Jed Stone and Scottie edged up. bit by bit. until they were right in back ot a hammock and not over titty feet from him. He was a nerv- ous sort ot soldier. Every now and then he'd turn quickly and peer out into the darkness: then he'd step along quickly as though he wanted to get away tram there in a hurry. Many a good Chinese soldier is afraid ot dragons in the dark. This China boy must have been sure there was a big. bad dragon on his trail tor he was surely nervous. At the end ot his post he turned and started back. Scottie stood tens- ed, scarcely breathing. He sensed the excitement and he strained against his collar which Lieutenant Stone held tightly gripped. The sentry was just in front ot them when Jed Stone let go of Scot- tie‘s collar. "Go get him," he whispered, and Scottie was on like Wumpclcu. nun "r%r_rrVF.'rr V...~ -- a rifle bullet. At the tirtrt jump. that sentry stopped dead in his tracks. the hair standing up on his Breath of the seas, of the tour-way 39,13 Balm of the tropic Mes Watture of ease, ot the month-long days Soft and silken and rare Curling the crests of the blue-white Roll of the magic miles,--- The trade-wind blows from the end of sprays Playing my sleeve: and hair. Blow, ye trade-winds, blow, The ship is swinging low; Blow, ye trade-winds blow, Around the world we so. Dreams of the mains, of the blue-thin mains Sighted from tar-patched sails Call ot the lanes, or the long “it inne- Flavor of old trea-tales,-- Down the tropic and far on the Line 8an part the'doidmm calms The trade- bring word of the rover Blow, ye trade-wind, blow, With music Bott and low; Blow, ye tradtrwind, blow, Over the earth we so. Diagnosis yuan: brine And roots thin-ringed with palm. Athwurt the linen the world-winds Tho hemmed ships no mun; homo. -L. H. Bailey, In "Wind and Weath- flhretri'irtrf mreettteart," he begged tenderly. Shot.“ Intohiaamtaandhenr" very buy tor I tow momenta. But the turn 1|on on. “Will nothing stop them?" he uk- " breathless”. "No," In. murmured. “lt'l My fever, but so on with the Mutant." ---Nom Scott; Medical Bulletin. "Bo Edith hu caught that young fellow who rescued her while "at. ing. He seemed awfully shy.” “You; Ike had to brat the lee." 40 inches bust. 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(I'll bet that you. yourself, hove before now ind {Just such a frightful ulshtnnre.) , From out of the unknown inky ‘hlnckness it came. Not till Scottie sank " teeth into his leg did thst soldier cry out. He oemtdn't--tti' :vocal cords were parslysed. I But then he yelled sudden murder, pulled the trigger of his gun sud was bowled over, all in the suns Instant. Sentries from all over come were irnnnint--firitut as they came. Be Inch. Sentrles trom all over cum Harv running-firing us they came. Be tween shots I sue a shrill whistle and Scottie came up. slugging " way Pell mell tor Sands: serous the amp, spreading destruction at every leap. ___-c'.-.-. “n in Excitement was wo fever heat when out rode an under officer on horseback. He had jumped on a horse and with only a t halter to guide (fs.i' him bad up. W46” den out Into t the melee with got what idea in " head. Willy luv. u- -_.. -__-e An enthusiastic soldier ttred and. with better luck than ueuni. Ihot nwey the oncer'l hat. Pendemonium broke loose. Then while it we: get- ting too hot around that corner tor Lieutenant Stone, he slipped on into the darkness to and hie horse. The horse had deserted " the tirgt shot, however, no he walked on, carefully avoiding soldiers. back to our plane. The shabby visitor placed his hat upon a chair, and, drawing a. booklet trom his pocket, approached the busi- Note..--;,;; young readers writing to "Captain Jimmy". 2010 Star Bldg., Toronto. will receive his aigned photo tree DEBS man "I can tell you," he said, "how to become a great tuteeetrts--how to win independence for life." "Three seconds gone from the min- ute I'm giving you," said the business “I have here,' 'the visitor went on, "an Intellible memory system. In- ter it, and you will mute]- the world. You will not forget to post. the letter your wife gave you this morning, and you can do without that worsted on your tlager." “My trouble," said the business man, “is that I can't tind a reliable ”sum tor forgetting things I want to. Your minute’s up." Lindsay, Cttlif.-Mattea Bruno, 3 mm grower, . has auned- Whit he hopes will become the silk industry of Calltomh. Bruno sent to Italy and obtained eggs of the silkworm which he fed and ninco has attended diligently. A native of a part ot Italy where silk- worma have been grown tor centuries. Bruno is familiar with the work and has been successful with hie tint "In" crop of cocoons. Sadly the visitor departed, but two minutes later he returned to the once breathless and excited. "I forgot my hat!" he and. He can weather in the San Joaquin anloy In very summ- to that of " native country when the Illkworml no calcium, had points out that nul- berry trees, the lone. of which tom the food for the silk worm, no - grown here. Silkworm, Imported ASPIRIN [llEIEIiIllg Whr-lriermrheareiiefk mandhmlac ISSUE No. 25--'31 Something Wrong (To be continued.) mu I‘ll to. undo tn Canada F or _with goodness knows was work]!!! up to 0-0 of tho “also featured mb mt- II the blue - During um we! - mu It in 0 temporary flutter to the III-tum»! Delta it Human. m duh body, white head ABirdPuzle SolvedatLut EVW -__ ___. and luck and the - on each' win: In. it Wu. But with the can!“ of and“ it migrates north‘ “on: the Innis-ml Vulloy, over the Great but“ and on to Hudson Ban beyond wMett It alumna. Until B' short time no It: datstirtation remain- ed a mystery. “one of the most allur. ing at the unsolved problems in Ameri- cn omltholoxy." Recently. however. the exploration. ot J. Dewey - reveeled the fact that the Summer breeding ground or the blue goose In on the western tun- dn plain ot Damn mend, north " Hudson Bey. Each year the bin. some (revels 8,000 mile- from Baffin Island to the Ill-alumni Delta and back use“). Eleven weeks are re- qulred tor the journey. according to one eetlmte, though. it it chotw, mo blue goose could probably acoompH-h the trip in two weeks. The tut of (uncovering the mun game's breeding ground was a long and dilicuit one. From the general route which the birds [allow on their Journey north the inference was drawn thnt they noted “somewhere in tlie outer-n pert of the Canadian Ami. Archipelago.” but exactly in what por- tion of that "It expense ot snow. covered land could be determined on)" by explorntion. That exploration Mr. Boner begin in 1028. but it wen not um til 1929 thlt he Btsaur discovered tistir neatn. 'her Int sign on the long trail, which was followed there than 30,000 miles before its end wee reached, was obtdhed from - Eskimos on Cum- berland Sound. They reported that the birds had been seen on a lake in the interior at Benn island. but a dit- hcult journey there in the Summer or 1925 proved irultless. No trace ot the blue goose could be found, though roll- ditions indicated thst the birds umb- ably had visited the lake in the part. in the Spring ot 1926 a camp was made at a strategic point on Hudson Strait and a sharp lookout was kept for the birds as they migrated north. This method met with success; blue geese were seen and, in addition. the Eskimos ot the region reported that the birds were known to bred on the tundra beside Fore Basin. The Eski- mos also prepared a rough map or the region where the birds were said to nest and did everything else they could to assist "Kia-te-ttto man in search of the blue goose." in 1929 a trip was made to that spot and [Imu- sands ot blue geese were diacovt red nesting there. The nesting ground was found to be a desolate marsh land bounded by "the everlasting ice" ot the Fore Basin. There the young blue game is bortt end railed until by the following Fall it is able to join in the long flight to tantalum. Etch Spring end Autumn they may be seen lying along their regular route. not, no a rule, in the orderly V-tonnetion ot the Canadian goose. but at random or perhaps in lingle hie. " they come close enough, 3 smell am of blue plumge on each wing will Identity them. At greater alumnae. they my easily be rot-og- nized " their dark bodice end white heme and necks, since the blue 8005. in the only one in North America with such plumes-The N.Y. Times Mapa- zine. ' World’s Housing Problem Ottmm.--rmt prominent resident- of thin district. Notary P. A. nun. of Bull, On... and Auttriee _loriaset, Growing " Cities Beckon The world'. housing problem, acute in may countries bounse ot the Vin tun! autumn ot dwelling construe;- tion during the vsr yesrs. 1914-1918. bu been further nccentuated by tho union nniverssl shift in population from run! to nrbnn centrers. Out- side ot Crest Britain. says "Un.ted States Commerce Reports." France hes mile the largest expenditures tor dwelling construction ot sny coun- try in Europe; but en overwhelm. ing proportion of the work is limit. ed to reconstruction in the wsr-de- vaunted sress. In addition, the French government hss granted loans, nuances, and subsidies to builders ot low-cost dwellints. ment-Col. Thom” Wen, now of Mon. treal, ham mind word from Paris of and: mm at officers of the My d France. This signal honor was beat-d by the Govern- In 1928 the walled Lourheur law ambushed I tive-rear dwelling-ron- uruction pun calling tor 260.000 lodging! in tho entire country nt tho rm at 47.800 each you. The I'll!!! “on in Pnrio all: tor the chain» tion ot overcrowded slam; in tho comm emu. tor providing tor in. crencod populations; in the northern citico. (or reconstruction. Tho honing problem " acute in m in- mom centers. Ciao. no loun- ing mm to construction complain " tho cal-mt nu. ot inure-t. In- dividnnl largo companion ciao no providing housing Mimic. for. em- plow. The total nuanced coat [or tho - in $8,000.000.000. Ottawa, moth-once. iaever, the explorat inn. Hound!” France covering the blue round vu I long From the generat tt d Ill pen Ila." Cunt Emu chum "en IIHII - “In In on In: d and and time .atd thou mu l In on on Al " ets u Ittt my In M I. a bl ht