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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1931-08-06, Page 6Y - • • 'u • f e} 7 i I" a �s isfrdVeallow. t® cool d�d len an �nrl Sugar ,our. into i lasses Kali dull of cracked ice 'Tresh from the Gardensp.-_, • • A'' .r • 7 SSLQ_ . BY IS. S. VAN DINE . • . • • "So•,far 1 fgllorirY0 i,' of ,course;" be OA, +But your, point Seems vague --not to say esoteric."- "is it surprising," asked • Vance,, "that a man dealing in such colossal;' it commensurable concepts,. Wherein' ,the _individuals of human society .are. infinitesimal,' ;night in tune lose ail sense of relative values on earth, and come to have an mormous 'contempt for ' human. life? The comparatively insignificant affairs of this world -•would• •then become -mere petty intro+= signs on the macrocosmas of hieenten tal consciousness. Inevitably Leh ;'a: man's attitude would become . cynical. In, his` heart he would scoff _at all hu- man' values, and sneer at the little ness;of the visual things about him. Perhaps etlrer.,e • -w'ould be :a sadistic-; element in leis •attitude; for cynicism is a form of ,sadism.. " ..,; "But delliberate, planned -obmur- derer ur- der;" jected Markham i"C'onsider the psyc:'nological aspects, of the;' case • .With the normal ,>erson;' who :takes :his', recreations dolebal- anee is maintained' -between, the tea - 'SOAK and the uneonusscro:acti'vities the emotions; Toeing constantly'•• dis persed, -are; not-allowe&to-aecun ulate. But with the' abnormal. person,. wvhe• spends. his !entire -time'. in intense men- tal 'concentration and 'w,o igorousiy suppresses :all his •emotions, the loos ening of the 'subconscious is apt tai, result in a''•violent'inanifestation. Thia. longi'nhibition and, protracted mental application; without recreation or ;Alt= let• of any kind, causes 'an'.explosion which.often assumes, the form of; deeds of unspeakable horror -- No -'human be- ing,"'howeyer intellectual; can . escape. the 'results;,' The mathematician who' iepudiates 'natures -laws is neverthe- less amenable to those laws. Indeed, his• rapt absorption in hyperphysical problems ,merely; inereases the es - Sere of hie, denied emotions.. And outraged nature, in order to maintain her balance, produc• a the :most. grog tesque fulnnination:►•=reactiOna which, in their, terrible humor and perverted 'gaiety, are the exact, reverse of the grin;' seriousness of abstruse tnathe= natical • theories. The fact that Sir William. Crookes arid Sir Oliver,Lodge both great mathematical physicists' s'YNopsZs • your' point about, the discrepancy. A Min know•;; as Cock 'Robin 'is;foui d I• !time -'.between.. Pardee's , and Rubin - with an arrgw through the heart. Then Sha named .sprigs i .het kteiu.'s..playing?, l3.ugpose Rubinstein -did; take- forty-five minutes or so to ;work dit his eornbination. ' The gapie' 'wasn't,over until '.after one.' ,;.1 don't n see that your . visit to: Areson 'put' us ahead in any way." • • 1' a• young' . p s .tbrou rh the top of the head:.. The mur-. derer writes ,mocking notes' to, the news-, papers signed The .Bishop. • ,District At turrey Maritham, Asks the ale.' of Philo; • 'Vance, who dabbles in the 'solving of . unusual : mysteries. ' • The ,following people are associate%. Iwiltii _the'•case: Prof., Dillard, his niece,. Belle; 'his protege, Sigurd Arneson who hopes' to marry Belle; John Pardee a neighbor with a,passion 'for chess,; lhirs' Drukker', and her son, Adolph,, a; cripple With a su.per•inteliect•; •• • . Vance learn.. that 'Drukker has lied';as 'to his whereabolits-•on the morning. of • coins murder. 'The. ease 1s strong against n d it i decided' t m.an s threaten' him ' "That's. because 011're unaequaint- ed' with the' habits, of chest players. a;clock game of that kind no'piayer. sits. at the `table. all the time . his 'op- ponent. is figuring : out moves.. He walks about,' •stretches'. his muscles,: . t tie hope of ,learning the facts.' he has take's'the.'air, ogles the' ladles, mbibes 1peen°keeping pack; but that same night ice -water, and even indulges' in food• Drukker is murdered,., and shortly after kker•s At the :Manhattan Square ;Masters', the 'murder' . someone "enters.. Dru 'room and ' turns' on the light. When Markham and Vance., visit. Drukker's house 'the dead morning• they And Mors.. Drukker dead in ietrukker's study— 'Shock HARTERC "Well,let's see The .pl'?y'began : . r : • the com- bination�-sta-rted,..=.;.9h,.-say-, some re' between half past eleven and half past twelve..-... es; just—Kb—out: 'rt moves before' the: adjournment,' Thirty' Sulo 'moves beginning at eleven -that maker. thirty-six, . then on the °forty fourth ,move. Rubinsteit moved. ,his pawn to Bishop7-cheek,• and Pardee resigned. Yes—the working : out of the con- 'nation•, was -between• Ts' lVea $X ANNEBELLE woitlWNGTON Ithestrated• .Dressmakilxp • Lesson Furnished with Ertierg, Pattern *eat galas before; After mans advert - tures flying ever China, Captain Jimmy ac: ees to AY General Lu to, Japan, Hing out of gasoline, ho is 'forced to land on a lonely island, , There we were on that 1pnely little. -Jaimed e- General -L: u, the -:Chinese -War Lord; Ching ;his. faithful servant; Cru the ' interpreter, Scottie and . myself. Rank and ;fortune suddenly count= ed' for • nothings.. • We *ere` 'four hungry ;nen ,and a dog. Even Gen 'eral ° Lu's huge 'ere way • old' not. buy - , ue " a s etier° meat. • The sea Stretch- ed? away on every side. like - a fiat mirror The., is, land "went back four or five . tulles • and ended • Above,"ilie sky..roee hi. -_..,i -a.-:huge,-emptvudome: .: Tournament ,lastyear there were four -tablet, and it was'a common sight to See ' As many', as three empty chairs at one . tine. Pardee's :'a' nervous .type: He wouldn't sit through Rubinsteircn's protraeted. mental- speculations.".� .� Vance lighted a'.cigarette slowly. . anesson' . • that game-reveals-=thelfact +.fiat:? dee had „hive -quarters of an hour te' hiinself ar mind midnight." • bi eleven thirty and' "twelve thirty." Varied `xgarded- the emen:one-the°Xe_rSmuch.tI merely conp_icates ,an , board, which were now in the position they, road, occupied at the time of Par- dee's resignation. • • •• - . "Out of, curiosity,"' he said quietly, *"1 played .the game through to the checkmate' the other night—I say; Mr. Arneskon; would. you mind doin' the sense.. I could.:ear to heal' your corn- 2tT-(si�st' n • •rAxnesson studied the position closer- • ly for -a. few,niinutes. • Then he tirn- ed,his head •slowly and lifted his eyes to . Vance. A . sardonic ,grin over- . spread his face. - • "I grasp the point: Gad! Whit a 'rablation! . 'Five' moves for Black to through. Andan almost unheardr of • finale in chess. Can't recall a sime ilar instance: The lastmove would be -Bishop to. Knight -7, mating. In other words, Pardee was beaten by the -S; 'black bishop! Incredible!" ' Professor Dillard put down his•book. • "Wh is this?" he exclaimed, join- Little was .said about:the 'case dur- ing, dinner, but when we, had settle' ourselves.__i'n._a se hided corner.' 41 the club •,lounge -room .Markham again •broached.the subject "I .can't see," ,lie said,' "that. finding loophole_; m. Pardee's alibi: •helpb' its • ,,:fortune„:.w.h bad, Stored' I in our plane The 'track•:faded ' Out after' a 'few hundred yards, but 80011 another .40 ;peered. Thls in • Lura faded out. . • We continued to folio.*'' In the direction the last track had pointed. -Some-large-.sand dunes• ratseei.[l. front —. of us. Climbing•to the top 'of•tlese. a .Very, small, green valley" appeared below. ,' H,uriying down,;' we' found a peetr. rocky dell, from which came. the di's i tin.et tinkle' of 'water. Gut from be/ tween'awo reeks poured,a clear, .cold spring!� General Lu drank so much I, real- ly feared, he would drown:' Then wo . :tilled our water can ,and walked baelk -to the' plane,. `where' Chung and, the ` igterpreter anxiously, welted: for ' •u9. Meanwhile Scottie had gone on up the • beach; and was, 'bustle • digging,. the. sand:: . • ' end 'hall' graveling ,.o him • The feminineinfluence is appar-• ent in a cool printed chiffon cotton. voile withfiaied.sleeves impressive • -of cape, eho-ildcre. and •bow -tied s i it"s 's consti- tutes neckline. e _ -biecamee .confirmed,,,,. Built tYr i- W . ar. ': mouldedMS thou= tutee similarh '1 1 phenom It lap the sm t .already intolerable situation" ' "Yes' •sighed, Vance. • "A . sad end depressin'' •world.. Each step appears 'moo tang;e us a little. more. And the aintizin' part ---of . it ' is- the truth - is - staring us iii the face;'.only, we can't see it." ' „• - • • "There's •no evidence .pointing to any ,one.. -There's not even a suspect against whose possible cuip'abil'i son doesn't' -revolt." -"I wouldn't say that, !theft y' know. It's a. mathematician's crime; and the landscape has been fairly cluttered with mathematicians." Throughout the entire investigation 'iso one had been indicated 'by name ;as the possible murderer. Yet each of us realized in his 'own heart that. one of the. persons with whom we had talked was -guilty •,--and--so ,hideous , was, this knowledge that, we iris:tinctively, shrank from . admit''ir-g it. From .the first we had cloaked'our'true thoughts iiius .at the chess,tabble.. "Pardee, and fears with generalities. e�" re- g Lai;'defeated by the bishop?" Be gave "A mathematician's, cr m - Van'ce•a shrewd, admiring look.' "You peated Ms � hsaof .senseless acts cokeease s evidently. had good reason, sir, for me as investigating that chess game. .Prays mitted. by a ,mania;; running amuck." . overlook an old •man's temper." • He Van : shook his head. • . , stood gazing down at the board with • "Our criminal is supersane, Mark- ham. And his acts are not senseless; • a sad, puzzled expression. • • ' Markham was frowning with deep they're hideously„log cal and precise. perplexity: • • • • True, they have been conceived with a '"You say it's unusual for a bishop grim and terrible -humor, with a 're• slope to mate?" he' asked Arneson. mendousl cynical attitude; but within ""Never happens -almost unique themsel•es they are . exact and ra- situa i :: d that it should happen tional. to P race of "all people'i" "'Incompre- Markham regarded Vance ,thought- heiisiblel" He• gave a short ironic fully. laugh.' • "Inclines. one to believe in Goose crin es with thcan ou e mathematical and e these IVIother Hooked • anxiouslyagain: at ••his friend. nemesis You know, the bishop t rye. he asked ni what way can "It isn't. that you're afraid, is it?" he a psyc o ogica . , - 'ette.with belted natural waistline. The back is slim and. straight• Circnlar flared front of', ,skirt' provides interesting. fulness. O Style No: 82173 : co es in izes ; 16, 18 yeaes, • 36 .38F 40 aiid• 42 inches, bust:. . It's an; excellent model• for the at- • tractive summer cottons. as prink- ed dim%ty, ;pique prints, embroider- ed batiste•and. printed ,handker- ' (:Tdebe•cuntnnue+. a ' e urned Tr (From The.• Spectator), Wise. with your -wanderings, you ' thought -to 'find, • �Ua somehow altered, too; but, in ,amaze Found, us contented ' with the very -ways,.. _ • ' T e thoughts, the project that .you sena -Th°e--sand tiew.. In, A,lleediredtio es _ "Look here. General," !: said, :"You. Then he `came rads back to me. Wed 1 are goingerebbitehunting '---: • eaa e-lerli deeeend=a n_estept. ;After that we, tramped and heated -eggs hurled in .the'sand His rough -for •hours -but-never iou'nd -a rabbit.. \In fact, we never even saw, a mousd. or a squirrel.. The .island' rose to a ,pea'k near -the 'spot where • we had landed. . „The '• remainder'; was• cover-,. •ed with stunted •brush, often burned' brown • from• he sun's heat. ' The rocks ;were . dazing ,.'hot. - ' More .serious • than.' the 'lack, '. 01 game, was. the absence of water. Hour :after hour, ;'we' searched; for - fresh' water; but not a drop could .we ; find. ' As we walked home over a flat. sandy , place,;, General L u :sud- denly gripped 'my arm.' • Irl the sand was a 'lent, streaky. track, as, if you'' had 'draven. a stick Along . 'At first I could make nothing - of it, then it suddenly', occured to me that the mark was .made--bY the• tail-� ease•catbhee, ;tri?"` • methods "h'ad• • reined some -of them, 'but there were almost a doien left•- I net the goad 'ones in ,my helmet and b k ter the boys 1 Went, • The , ,Chin'ese seemed • delighted, and. sat, about . baking • . thein by the -fire: -.-Neill, per, haps ' I am not a very• good Judge, but' ,t3 :me' those eggs OA . surely . seeted terrible: '' "'(! {i The interpre- ' ter looked .alt me questio'ningl'y\ ."No :likee 'eiggs?',' ' • th Then he pointed ,,meaningly 't, e sea.. '`"Flish,he ge mightee fiinee of some animal,,while .the, sand, was wet during the rain, of the night be- foie. 'A lizard,: of a' turtle'' might! have made it, . but because 'the track' a eared so far n (To . be continued:) • • Note:,;me; of. our young seems writing'', to' ."Captain ".Jimmy,"'. 2010 • p inland, it Toronto, • will receive �r b �y robable that•"the"c, eatu're—was head-• 5•tar.�_$.uilding ••- ••� 'Jiinnhy.; free. '• ' p it g --for some known, water .hale. signed photo: of.Captain left behind. Arid in our littleness we were so blind. Unshaken by: the splen'dor' of your days tacked -of -t lie as of ..a finished phase, •And then forgot; nor knew we were unkind. en, nn e ' grip of Swift '•i ea'etioii” held, You' kept . yourself apart; , • We: • thought you strange, Unconscious'ef the vv�orlds dividing. 6 We did not. gu•iss how fiercely you re- belled - To 'think that you must take in -poor- exchange • Our hobby horses .,or your Pegasus '—Diana Carroll. • One SinokedY The two .tourists had' spent six hours climbing the' great :volcano. At last, weary of limb, the reached the tee and, approached as near as they dared to the crater. It was smoking ominously. - One of them sat down to admire the view, but' the other `tunnel .his back on it. • '"Loos here,", he said suddenly,.`tlet's go down and'' get .back to the hotel., I can't stand. watching that .thing' any .longer." • •' • "What!" ejaculated his friend. "We've climbed right.up here, and as soon as we each oar 'objective you been 3'ar�c Se's frzic sir for t -wen y mils Y-. "...___ • t. life. Por bee(- the be regarded• as logical'' To me added. lam fire other tourist, u • 'The black bishop is the'gymbri t e re ,nig mar s, r +'It's ol,ly that I can't endure wa,ch- of. h is sorrow. Fate, by gad!• It's the sty" t after T've found h dee gambit. u qualified his pet theory.—made a hiss- ing and a mocking of his life's work°, And now, with a chance to break even q with the great Rubinstein, the bishop the characters into a uniform focus. was recently salvaged and •placed in crops up agein and drivet him ' The accuracy. of this analysis "was :the north transept of Salisbury Catlie- brought° home to us with tragic and drat.. It dates ba;ek to 1386, and was overwhelmiig force before many rays originally in a. bell. tower in the Close, had passed. ` built around •1253•. This ancient time- • "In order . to understand theca piece, matte of ha�ildwro fight iron, with- crimes," he"began, "we millet cori,?ider out a dial, proclaimed only the hours, ed Markham, as we rode down -town, the stock. -in -trade of the• matheniat` In 190 ,the clock was reproved to "`that Pardee went white the 'other I clan, for all his speculations and eorrr the central tower 'Of , the eathedral,'I - pntaligns tend to emphasi he re-iwhere-iit larllidden, neglected and fo`r-i latve insignificance of thi's planet.aancPgotten, its days of usefulness apgar= gar!years--its ruined his h ' • ht a unrelated to Lan- o, Carne Par+^Voneeesettled.,hunselfeelee, +e in his ing thatcrater smoke one Seemanm tehacco ail the -=n el-" several min- t 'a r Bishop to -Knight -5 • al- I chair, and smoked for ways broke p his calculations -die -1 etas., Then he began an analysis of the case, which not only clarified the ,An Old. British Clock seeming madness of the crimes them- selves, but brought all the eVepts and ve e Saved for Salisbury On of the oldest clocks in England into obscurity: . A few•; minutes later We took our ' 'departure and walked to West •End , Avenue, where we'hailed a taxicab. "It's no Wonder; Vance," comment= Flat' silk crepe in "skylark blue; dusty -'pink . , shantung,. coral-rec • linen And candy striped silk shirt ing are attractive• selections° ° The • medium -size' requires 3'rs . . yards of 39=inch material with• sla yard of 39=inch contrasting. BOW TO. ORDER PATTERNS • Write your name and ' address, , .plainly, giving, number and size of such patterns as you' want,.. En- • close 20e in stamps or coin (coir. ' •pteferred;..ve!rap. it carefully) • rot each number, and address • ' your • • order to ,Wilson Pattern, 'Service, .73 West Adelaide St:, Toronto. : Too Much Weight They, were talking earnestly in the. club room. ' "Jove," said Higgs,'"it was a weight off my mind when my' wife told me he could•cook." • - "That's- a change these days," said his friend.,' "Ana I suppose she really can c••rok?" ' Higgs grimaced. ' "No; the weight 'is on my stomach. flow,"rhe replied. • Ndw Chapeau afternoon when you .meritione'd the blac11 bishop's being at large at mid- night. Ile probably thought you were deliberately insulting him••-•throw'ing his life's failure in his face." "lyerbafes.. •." Vance gazed dream- ily out into the gatherini 'shadows ' ""Dashed queer alrotit the bishop boin! his incubus all these years. Such.re-. curring discouragemelits affect the strangest minds sometimes; create •a, deer cerise of Ole s failure' exalte' 1 e on the wor d e t i titles, rn =w ther. gr- high t}l:s earth and its peg- has mole than , an Astraean symbol." �. 4' j ple sink almost to the vanishing; censes of shed in ]Vf e ' aantl ah lit tets that flee . "Its difficult to' picture' Par dee :n point. a vindictive role," objected M'ttklieind , Vance looked up, and Markham t to rpo ul 2mon t the beginning of 7 hr.n,� after- a moment: I"What wast nodded dubiously. e . the unimportance of humsn life. e` eptly at an end. lin 1884 a nevi clock sand,\first, the ipere scope of\the ma- took it,s plate. The recent dfseovery i heatteic an'.s field. On the ono h'ai d of the old•clock fend its reconstruction, I he' attempts fo measure infinite space' however, bas given it a prthid place • in terms of par ccs and light-years:, once mare: and, on the other, to measure the elec f, - - trop which is so infinitely small that he has to invent 'the Rtrtherfor'd •unit • Gain- Recorded in • Population —a millionth of a millicron.-His vis- Thle population of Stoekho'ln bes i-tt is one'of..transeendental.perspe,t' increased iib -much treat the city now' •500 000 fnhabitaii'te 'file n .J� O 1111UYtl1alY aIted MNk The heaith-giwinig, delicious drink. for chiildren and ,grown- ups. ' - Pound and Half Pound tins' at your grocers. " '' ' • I exaggerated enotibns-; ,�: fear;: z<nger,• Good Nerves' Result pain, jealousy, sorrow, 'resentment'', • and emotion of ,a sexual, nature which f. the Good' Life in tern brings about' damage to the �.� . "--• i nervous time. -This Would you'` live happily 'and useful- ly? Then cultivate a. •healthy, •normal nervous system. Do not spoil. a good one if you-kave-it-naturally'~- endeavor- to' soothe and. make normal a poor one, rf .that is your misfortune. ' In an' article published le. Medical damage, no:doubt,. is due Ito insufficient nourishment .'of the enerve cells as a result of the ef- fect of the emotions upon. the sympa- : thetic nervous system and the, result- ing effect upoil the s%cretions. "There -is_ a .1311.''sical basis _Tor . all !nervousness, and' that basis: consists of minute changes in the structure of the nerve cells. The extent of • the Insurance (Reno, Nev.), Dr: D. L. Ker -''physical change is in direct, propos . lin, • of• Shreveport, Louisiana, explains how one with healthy nerves' may rent tion the severity be the cause,' -*nether . it be emotional or otherwise. them,, and how sick nerves may be „often patients come into my hands . -toned-up and -made .to.flirtation. *illi nervous systems physiologf ally--- • Writes Dr. Kerlin:" •. exhausted. The reserve energy ofthe . "I p.m not euro that those with good nerve cells has long . beed . used up. ' nervous systems'fully realize this fact. The more their reserve is exhausted, "The lack of understanding or the the more nervous and restless they milder mental and nervous conditions b• ecome, and exaggerated mental and resulting 1 has been pais to geileratio,,,and even at this'enlight profound state of. exheustton." ' ened agethe general ignorance con- • � A weakened nervous system, cerning the prevention and tratinent through any .of these causes, 'snakes it of such conditions, is astonishing. •.difficult, Ur. Kerlin 'tells us,: to adjust "Most all of this ignorance can not oneself to a cpnip!ex environment. A be,placed at the door of the laity, for large part of the misery and unhappi- the medical profession as a whole has 'Hess in many individuals'' lives' is due been rather backward in diagnosing to the constant fight to. make life's ad - these conditions and supplying the pro/ justnients• with "poor,nervous systems. per treatment. . .• ' • Meet' cases of suicide,, If not all of "Often people who are badly in need thertr, are simply failures of adjust of treatfnent fol some fnental or tier-'ment. The doctor proceeds: - .vows° condition "are deprived of rthis"Unless the physician le continually • help through the lack of understand• i on tit© leoltout, neurotic. distprbances frig of-their•xelativesw_ .Then, too,_very are often not di'agirosed-fit+-- uch, for often an Individual suffering• from thby may -simulate organic disease of some neurotic condition, that any organ of the hotly; his condition may be,much worse than i a it actually-is,..faijs.-to..go o a phy'Jician . isTOW geStilre in millinery that made iticirefit`lippettralree. French rates, SlutilOW) cleave: ale st tantalising' angle. Sick nervous systems •physical activity is the result. This . - n from generation condition in turn brings about a more for help. The Modern, Wolf "Another •attitude- 'taken by many ,• ' neurotic peoples is that nervousness read -- Have you hard of the unemployed • m n who put a sign on hitt gate read- _;..weaimess••-of character,_.and•theyr Snt .. . ' "jig -guts, af.. ra+,n K-eep •• fer in 'silence:- -This attitude often 'Lewis seribus mental •aed nervous ' ()lit ',Beware of the Wolf . on the conditions, for the factors which aria- Pr'ireb..'" 1,1 counteracted early, littre damage would.have been done."' The fehetional unit of the• nervous system, Dr. -Kerlin reminds us, Is the _neurone, or nerve cell, millions pf , Which ere t3ptilltirtnd te network of tissue,. thet ma' beeonee sick just as •the lung! tissue, the liver tissue, or any other 'Mule, of the body when there la sufficient eause. 4 -le goes on: "One may' inherit weakened nervous. •ItpOii the nerVe Cella of imthediate an- cestors.* In the game Way these con- ditions mai dlitiage One's nerveUS she during ilfe,And various forms of "There is always a cause. fOr tier- entimerated• above; gradually darnagiug' Made in Canada. 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