The Lucknow Sentinel, 1931-09-03, Page 6"Let ties' answer that question by'.
asking an they.," he countered`Pres
entity. `4Ae y a wholly ,satisfied in
yofirenind that he situation in regard
to Pardee is exactly aa, it appear s?"
"Yoi: mean the authenticity of his
;:suicide?".. . es • •
"That and his presumptive•culpa-
bility. , ,s-
112arktitim ettled back, contempla-.
beefy.
"Are' you; not wholly satisfied?"
asked.
"I can't answer that ,gtestion." Pro-
fessor Dillard ' spoke almost curtly,
"You uhave no ;tight to, ask me.1
merely wanted to, be sure that the
authorities, having 1l the 'data in
their hands; were convinced that this
-terrible ffair was a closed, book;'" .
look of deep •concern came over his
face "Tf' r ii rthati±'••to be .a fact,
it would help me to repulse the. vague
misgivings that have haunted me day
and eight -for the past week." -•
"And if I were to say thatf am not
satisfied?" t,
The .old professor's eyes took on
distant, distressed look. His head fell
slightlyaforward, ;asif soine liurden'of•
Borrow had ,suddenly ; weighed high'
..d'own. __After..several'-moments•fie lift
`ed•breathhim. shoulders and drew a deep .
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Pl °I1.io'� VAI Cjr ST
BY S. S. VAN DINE'
_ SYNOPSIS . '
A. man known as Coek Robin is 'found
Wi't]i""ar3 arrow through the heart. Then
chap. named ' Sprigg Is shot, through
the :"top .of .the hemi. The
writes mocking notes signed The BtshoP.'
Digtriet Attorney Markham aeks.the aid:
of Philp ,Vance.
• The. following people are associated
visit 6 the borne of a re�ative in, Al- "The most difficult thing in this
i any.: As-a4�rnessan-explanted;she"worlds"-ahe said; "is=to- naw -where
had begun, to show thp.>effects..:of WI. -ones.,duty-.lies;..for.,d ty..s,a' niec ,Pian
she had been, through., ,and'needed 'a • ism of the mind,,and'the heart is for -
change •of`:scene The •nran was plain -:ever, stepping in and •playing :havcc
.lie unhappy over . her absence; and With one's•.. resolutions° Perhaps ,1 did
• with the ca
se:, Prof, Dillard,: his fines confided Vance tgiat.they had•plan-' 'wrong ask you here; for; after all,
• hopes Belleos'marry Bel sur John elaardee,ha ned',to be ma • rried in June: Vince •I have' only •: misty '•suspicions . and
•aeighbee;, Mrs., Drpkker ,::and . her soh aIso learned-frontee• am that Mrs.•-Druk=-nebu1ous•-ideas-to goon: -But- there'' was'
Adolph.
Dr kker is cripple.
'ing' back •certain .in- ken's will bed left •'everything to Belle the possibility that my mental uneasi-
formation. Vance determines to 9ind•out Dillard and the professor. in the•event gess was::based on some'•de hidden,
what it is. but 'that flight Drukker. is of ;her son's'death•a fact which,ap foundation of whose existep nce •I was
Murdered. The ;shock kills Mrs. Drukker.
The
Thein. Pardee Cp malts suicide: Mark- 'pea_red to `interest Vance' unduly..• • -unaware.. . Do. you -see what •.I
• ham ,believes ••Pardee wail. the Bishop Had'if ,;known, or .even ,suspected, mean?" :Evasive as "were' his Words,,
-• area that file death clears..up the case:'
Vancie, however, believes differently::. what astounding and, terrible things 'there; was 'no. doubt as to the'disturb-
were hanging over us that week i ing mill of the .•shadowy image that
• 'CHAPTER X X V.-(Cont'd•:) doubt if.`I could' have stood the' strain: lurked' at the• back, of his mind:
• -Eight, days; wont lly.: The D.rukk'For or the Bishop ,murder ease was. not • Markham: nodded sympathetically.
• ° :-•:: fatieral wals;,'l eld An; the little••house ended- The climatic horrdr''was'still Vance "had sat through • this;'unsat-
gn'w76tii ,•Sweet, attended only by the'" to armee but :eventhathorror,, terrificisfactory discussion smoking. placidly;
a, , Di1Iardsi and At'nesson and a few men and Staggering; es it proved; was only and now he spoke;
fromthe,'•universit :who came to' a� .a;shadow•of what it 'mi ght have been "Tell nie .ProfessorDi lard if there
f.o ,.) y Py g, ,
a Yast lribtiteo of respect' to a 'scientist r had. not Vance .reasned .the case out •las been anything- no . • matter ' how
ffor'whose serork they had a very genes to two separate conclusions, only one, indefinite -that may have given birth
Ins admiration. - . of .which 'had been disposed • of• • by to your uncertainty."
Vance and <1 were at the house of ,Pardee's death. It wase thisother' Markham 'rose •to. make his' adieu;
?lie. mozaiin of 'the:.:funerawTi
l en a ossibllityi'� as ,I• learned later,, that ..but.. Professor.:Dillard. urged ,him, • to•
• , : little girl brought a • •small cluster of • ' ad, kept him • in • New.York, • • vigilant remain a while. • • • '
,... epnngsflowers,sae' had picked herself, and'mentally. alert. 1 .4'r be: continued.). •-
▪ and asked Arnesson to 'give" them to Monday, 'April' 25,.' was the begin- _y_
' = nine
c
h n
. = I-almost••.ex a -a..c ,nis,- �eere�o ith, •
kker � � d-`�i.V_e
Dru I�ted- -, dine_.ve j a-- •--
ai rospons'eafrem him,-•andaveas sur-the--Bankers---Bazinkers-`elulyaand'-•-- --Sleep s=Prison
• prised' when• he took the Rowers grave•• go afterwards to: a performance of
' fly and said' in a tone •almost• tender: -"Die Meistersinger"; but :we 'did not
el 1 them to hire at once witness the'trium,hea 'i :It,. r h tete.
ver -�T
• , P y unipty night' I noticed . that when Was t I „ ofe-fait de make •Me -weep. .
- .Madeleine. And...•Hum t D
thanks' you for • remembering him.' .11darkhare in the rotundaof the Equit-
When 'the child had been led 'away -by- -able Building he seemed troubled; and 'I hold my breath and lean abobe
her governess, he turned to us. •She we were not Mere tl10 seated in the •• The careen brow sealed eyes,. •. •.
'
ori'te. , .Fun
was'- D•rtikker s fav '_club -,grill When,..h8-,told us..of a:p1one. The langhtn'g • mouth, .maw..PAL and
'fellow. Never Went •to,: the theatre..call he. had receifed• front Professor. 'close,-_ -.:• . ,
• 'Detested travel. His only recreation. Dillard that afternoon. The lips that know not esighs.
was entertaining youngsters." ' "He asked me particularly to come •
•• d me::tion this .:•epis de because,' its tosee him tonight," Markham,, ex- Ah; far aWay •,from me, and lost,. •
spite of its seeming unimportance, it pllained•; "and when I tried to get out And sad.; and small he seems;
was: to ,prove one', of the :roost vital: of ;it he became . urgent. He made a As all 'alone he wanders through
Iinks 'in the chain• of evidence that point of the fact that„Arnesson.would The country of his dreams.
eventually' • cleared up, ' • beyond all be away the entire . evening, and .said
question of doubt, the problem of the that a similar opportunity might" hot Small traveller; in that far land • '
'` • Bishop murder:----- - ----- -- -- - - ,present itself•until • t was too -later -IA , To which I cannot -come, - •
The death of Pardee had created a asked, him what he Meant by that; but 'May the dark ntglit be good to you'
• 5f-yatiom-aln4ost•-unique, iathe .annala .be xefused• .to explain; and insisted And morning bring you home.
of modern. crime. The statement given that I come' to his jionse after dinner. • -Mabel V. Irvft e, in the Glasgow
out by the District Attorney's office. I told him I'd let him know if i could Herald. ' ' -
had only intimated that there was 'a make, it." ` • '. . _
possibility of Pardee's being guilty of Vance • had listened, with j the in- LESSONS
the 'murders., Whatever . Markham tensest interest.
• may have personally believed, he ,was "We must go there;'Mhrkham. , I've All the lessons I~(e shall send
far too, ,honorable and jest to cast been • ratifier expecting a 'call of this Are the , sweetest: t•
,any* direct ;doubt on another's dhar= 'kind. It'spossible.we may at•last find And His training, its the end;
atter, without overwhelming 'proofs- the- key to the truth:" Ia completest°.
But the „Wave .of terror arising from •"The truth .about what?" ; y, • _ -Frances R. Havergaa
• these strange • murders • had reached "Pardee's guilt." '— `�
such p.roportians that he• oald 'rot;-ir M'a:kham•-said--1to more; and -we ate ----The-,iise prove, and the -foolish -cone,
view of the duty he owed to the come our 'dinner in silence. .fess, by their conduct, that •a life of
' •. $nunity, refrain from saying that he At half past eight we rang the bell employment is the only •life _worth -
believed the case to be close& Thus, of the Dilard house, and were taken leading. -Paley.
, while no _peen .accusation of guilt was by Pyne direct to the library. ,
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When late at night I steal to 1obit ••:
At my small son asleep,
made against Pardee, the Bishop mur- The old professor greeted us with
dere were no longer regarded as a nervous reserve. -
source of menace to the 'iii ,, and a . "It's good of you to come, Mark-
( sigh of relief, went up fro all qu4r•- ham," he- said, without 'rising. "Take
ters. a chair and light a cigar. 1 want to
' Markham's first officia act -on the -talk to you -and I want to take my
.day after Pardee's death was to se- time about it. It's very diffic?ilt.' .."
u_4icyrithe • - Police The 'same His- voicetrailed off as he began fill -
afternoon
D err rifeexit ing his pipe. ' ' - - f
moved all its -records of, the Bishop We settled ourselves and waited. A
murders to the file' marked "shelved sense ofexpectancy invaded me tor.
• cases," and withdrew the guards from no apparent reason, eiteept perhaps -
the Dillard house. Vance •protested that 1.caught same of the radiations
mildly against this latter step; but,.in of the p,rofessor'sobviously distraught)
• -vie* of the fact. that the Medical Ea-; 'hood.•
aminer's poet-tnorfein report had stib- "I datl't know' -just' how to broach.
stantiated in • 'every particular the the subject," he began; "for it has to
theory of suicide, there was little that do, not witls physical, facts, but with, •
Markham could:do in the matter. Fur- the,inyisible human consciousness; I've 1
thermore, he: Was thorot5•gh'ly co, F' • "; -., 'thecertain-vague•a '
• ed that the death of Pardee had termi- „ideas that hasp been forcing then -
rated the case; and he scoffed at selves ripen Tee ;' and 1 see no Way to
Vanee's wavering debts. rid` myself of ti , i but by talking with '
you: r .."
CHAPTERXCV. Ile looked' up hesitantly.'
During the week following the fin;, "I preferred to discuss•, these ideas
ing of Par'dee's body Vance was re with you when Sigurd was not pres-
tive and `n•iore distrait than usual He est, and he Vee gone tonight to .see
att-mp•..6d to inaarest,himself in var. Ibsen's 'Pretenders' -his favorite
roue meters, but without any marital play, by the way -1 took the oppor-
succer•s. He showed signs of irritea tunity to ask you here." • `
' bility; and his almost miraculous¢ "What do these idea's concern?"
equanimity seemed• to have, deserted asked Markham. ' ••
hi.m I. got the impression that he "Nothing sp'ecificaily: As I have'
was for something to happen. 'said, they're very vague; bet they
His manner was not eitactly • expect- have nevertheless grown fairly insis-
ant, but ther'e was a watchfulness in tent.... So insiatent, iri fact," he
his attitude arnounting at times al- added, "that I .thought, it best to send
most 'to' apprehension. Belle away for a while. It's true that
On the dao following the Drukker she was in a tortured state of mind
f»'neral Vance called on Athesson, as a result of all these tragedies; but .
aid nn Friday night ac4ompaiiied..hiiti: my real rea's'on for shipping her north
tea per'forrnariee of Ibsen's "Ghosts" was • that I was keret by intang'ibl'e •
-a play which, 1 happened to know. doubts." • ` •• • 1
he disliked. He learned that Belie "Dou'bt's?" Markham leaned for-
- • . Dillard .had- ,gone away, far a month`s . Ward. ``.What_ sort of doubts'!" . , of
Professor Dillard did net reply at
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craft firing at another•beat."Chung takes
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The telescope suddenly collapsed
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When you squeeze them. Chung;
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fore he was delighted with the ',re
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"Lookee ',Stiokee
• allee • gone", b e
waited.
• . I showed, him:
:how it , stretched
out find Boort, .hie
had •it•work; g
had IT overboard..uAlashed and; sway
tug at the side of the derrick.
":'Pilates". repeated Chung.; savage-
ly, and, before I could stop him be
climbed, out on the derrick boom
and• slid down the pulley ropes to the
plane •
"Come back, Chung" I 'yelied but'
I might as well, have renialned 'quiet
for Chung, sat with clenched fists in
-fust ceekatt; ssv-esreng teeribie._things.
in Chinese. •
-Tomas amazed..Chum of a1d-poo --as
pie, • was thesdast man on earth t•
•._
I would have e.spected to turn' ' r
tier. Itwas not untilest, longp.tiine
latter that i • learned (hat: the Pirates
•
had'' broken,, up Chung's bo37hood
•home on '`the tryst, and laic, the dls
i94 'tract' waste•and ever since then h
fi>ie; in, • slte or bad hoped• for chance `to `dlean; np '.
the laugli<t'erYof the sailprss ;Care on the. -Chinese bands, '
Cully•;. he , • surveyed• the:, ship: which
fired the...cannon,: then as eve ...Watch:
ed 'him he seemed 'to turn three
shades paler., and dropped the - glass
•.with -ass den. -cry.
"What fie it Chung", I asked bur--
• rledly
But :Chung was • so upset that he
:lapsed into • a curious •. chatter of
Chinese and ' English • and goodness•
knows what. • I • could .not under-
.stand_.a...word._of at:- _Everyone,- stops
Ped .• tense. and excited.4. Evidently
Chung knew something was going on
out there iii the 'China Sea,
I shook, .him roughly., "What is It"
a said
"Rilates said. Chung and his teeth
shattered.
Pirates! do that was it. Those.
dreaded villians that Infest. th'e
Chinese waters and prey on weak
yeesels. There was not much time
to waste, it we wanted to save the
little ship, .• at which 'they were fir-
ing- •'
•The decks .: of the "Madrigal" be-'•
came a scene of the wildest excite-
ment, as .we worked feverishly ' get-
ting ready :to take .• off. 'n our plane,
toward the scene or battle. • • Soon we
•
''s;!.,Really; his was:a case. of. splond'ic'_
courage; for -She '.ry'a's• nctiially -eared •
,white— or rather 'scared" lesion yei•
low -w th' fear, yet ho .wanted'= to
take-revenge.for'.thes-m.ucrier et, his
family,. •h2y respect for Chung grew.
,
immensely, • • y.
Taking. him along with me in- the!-
plane was Impossible, however, I
needed the room for., an- experienced .
gunners T h..e
ate-- -of the
"Madrigal" had
s'o me naval
training. on
board a warship,
so I •took him.
Our' artillery, //�n
e o n•s,lsted . of yfe e
two heavy*shot- i
guns and plenty of shells, also long
range automatic 'pistol, iVe would' have
given a fortune for some really good
bombs -big ones with ' plenty of pep
=but we had to take •suci weapons
as happened to be' on board.
(To he bontinued) .
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How the, keen sportsworii n ,should dress f,r .rrg,_t pen Ai'
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Quick .and 'Easy Way for' Disease -Carrying. Fats Easily
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• Cooking in the modern way is An improved 'method of. fianigating
practfcal.-scl_ene�e ,that aa - the..e ay. sh1P9 when they . arrive.,iti pprt.itas._Se- .:
Mrs. A. Mason �centiv•
„'ot Toronto, winner of been announced by the Federal
32 cooking prizes -in, 1930, regards Pula:, ; Health Service. The old meth -
her art. Among these awards, bars. od was to fumigate ships the dock
Mason received four prizes'for jams
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Markham Fair for _ the- best ' Jam`
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Although•'she has won many prizes
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ing off the awards for Janis and from a suspected port, rats which have
jellies that • are difficult to make- come aboard from a plague -infested
-'particularly raspberry ' and straw area Being:.killed. Also the method
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•fruits used to be regarded as impos- laboratory evidence of the freedom of
rials tis jell,_ yet year after year, Mrs. a given shop from .disease; for if the
Masoi has won. several prizes for rats examined are disease free, it is
bctli:' `" • ' p:•esumptive-evidence that all. which
Housewives .are busy these days, escape fumigation .tire: disease .free.
stocking the 'jam cupboard for next 'fife •frtinigation method is said to be•
winter and so Mrs. Mason• gives a ihnly R0 .per cent. effective In the case
recipe that is seasonable do•v and i of loaded ships, though 100 per 'cent.
which she declares is easy and 'quick i effr'C ivrh( ss Is possible in ein ty.,ves-
• Raspberry Jameels-. Mighty per cent+• effectiveness,
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Use only fully ripened troll„ ten day.; five days to unload and five
d
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into large kettle, mix, and bring to aboard. If 30 are killed before the
ship rr
a full rolling boil .over. aottest fire.
-•hes'locir, the port is -subject -
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,bot jam with a •film ofhot paraffin. rnala,ly; can now bo treated ,off tive-
toil'glass to spread paraffin on b'. In fact., It is• said, there aro few
'ides. For a soft, very slow sot. use
casette which do not respond to treat-
;!, gull leas sugar. This recipe re" mint and stili fewer which relap:.,,
s•rires 2 quarts berries and stakes 9 . when ttre treatment ds continued. r,>
`gttlarly• Tho treatment, now welt
known, lies in 1 administering. • fresh
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recently, It Odd ,• the steinach of ter-
.
The shadows of virtue. -Sydney thin anlr'tiala,• particularly that of the
fllh.. d + ` pig, is sal effective as liver, and dried
Sttrmach has been found to• be fully
the happy ways of 'doing things, art etfer•tive ns fresh, Desiccated
7`n ,itryo•e nm.irror in which the,, pan suspended hi '.
. storiia('h forme a ' ma :Mall fat. free,
e ` ' cxdkait palet, mixture ,
orlesatasteless a.nd•is a smooth and
rti
shown. - •Goethe. • a ,silk,
a 4 r
The, visite carriage •or' anion - of , '
2 10 eight ounce jars of jelly.
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Mee agin'r that i'hr:y conirnunic-*•e • .
•air virtue err vice only by overt ,'r•
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A Vnari.,
ir•nq�, �•t•niit a t,rcnth t••inry rnem nt 1crsp rl"ar'
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was the life of the party?"
Ile was •the only tem who
loader than the radio." -e -
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