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N4urder Case
"I eau tell ya that right now, oa
ficer;" came the ehauffeur's re-
spectful answer. ''I was standin'
talkin' to Abe, when the fares came
Over from the park. I opened the
door for 'em myself. An' they told
Abe to drive like hell to the up-
town station pf the Lexington Ave.
subway at 86th Street."
"Ah!" It was Vance who spoke.
"That's very interestin'. Uptown
eh, what?"
The Body Found
"Anyway, I wanta see this buddy
of yours." Heath went on to the
chauffeur, ignoring Vance's interpo-
lated comment. "Get me, fella?"
"Sure I getcha, officer," the
chaiuffeur returned subserviently.
"Abe ought to be back on the stand
in half an hour."
'"That's 0. K.," growled Heath.
As we drove rapidly down Cen-
tral Park W., Markham nervously
lighted a cigar and asked Heath,
who was sitting on the seat in front
of him:
Synopsis
Kaspar Kenting disappears. Philo
Vance, District Attorney Markham
and Sergeant Heath of the Homi-
cide Bureau question Kenyon Kent -
Ing and Mrs. Kenting, Kasper's
brother and wife, in the presence of
Eldridge Fleel, Kenting family at-
torney, Vance doubts the kidnap-
ping story and further questions
Weems the butler, Mrs. Kenting's
mother, Mrs. Fallowai' and son,
Fraim, and Porter Quaggy, racon-
teur friend of Kenting's and the
last person to be seen with him on
the fatal night. All seem hostile
to Kaspar. At this time a ransom
note arrives demanding $50,000 and
freedom from the police. A dummy
package is secreted in a tree in
Central Park. The police capture
Mrs. Falloway who admits private-
ly to Vance, she is really trying to
forsestall an attempt by her son,
Fraim, to take the money. She is
not held. Immediately afterward,
Madelaine Kenting, wife of Kaspar'
also disappears suddenly. That
night, while walking home, Eld-
ridge Fleel is machine-gunned at
close range from a passing autmo-
bile, but not hurt. Vance suspects
a ruse:
CHAPTER XII
Markham silently followed Vance
toward the park.
Quaggy turned too and walked
with us the short distance to the
entrance of his apartment -hotel,
where he took leave of us. At the
great iron -grilled door he turned
"and said tauntingly: "Many thanks
for not arresting me."
"Oh, that's quite all right, Mr.
Quaggy," Vance returned, halting
momentarily and smiling. "The
ease isn't over yet, don't y' know.
Cheerio."
At the corner Vance very deliber-
ately lighted a cigarette and seated
himself indolently on the wide
stone balustrade.
"I'm not bloodthirsty at all,
Markham;" he said, looking quiz-
zicalIy at the District Attorney;
"but I rather wish the gentleman
with the machine-gun had potted
Mr. Fleel. And he was at such a
short range. I've never wielded a
machine-gun myself,' but I'm quite
sure that I could have done better
than that."
'TR warrant the, Sergeant and
McLaughlin overhaul that car
somewhere." Markham was appar-
ently following his own trend of
i!ldught.
"Oh, I dare say," sighed Vance.
"But I doubt if it will get us for-
rader. One can't send a green coupe
to the electric chair. Silly notion—
what?"
he Mysterious Coupe
There were several moments of
pence, and then a taxicab drew up
directly in front of us.
The door swung open, and Heath
and McLaughlin stepped down.
"We got the car all right," an-
nounced. Heath triumphantly. "The
same dirty -green coupe McLaughlin
here saw outside the Kenting house
on Wednesday morning."
"Where did you find it, Serg-
eant?" asked Markham.
"Right up there in the transverse
leading through the park. It was
half-waftw'.p on the curb. Abandon-
ed. After the guys in it ditched the
car they musta come out and hop-
ped a taxicab up the street, because
shortly after the green coupe turn-
ed into the transverse two guys
walked out and, according to the
driver here, took the cab in front
of his."
Without waiting for a reply from
either Markham or Vance, Heath
swung about and beckoned imperi-
ously to the chauffeur of the cab
from which he had just alighted. A
short rotund man of perhaps thirty,
struggled out of the front seat and
joined us.
"Look here, you," bawled Heath,
"do you know the name of the man
who was running the cab ahead of
you on the stand tonight who took
the two guys what come out of the
transverse?"
"Sure I know him."
"Know where he lives?"
"Sure I know where he lives. lJp
on Kelly Street, in the Bronx."
"Get hold. of that baby as soon
as you can, and tell him to beat it
down to the Homicide Bureau pron-
to. I wanta know where he took
those two guys that came out of
the transverse."
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"Well, what about that telephone
call you got at the Kenting house,
Sergeant?"
Heath turned his head and spoke
out of the corner of his mouth.
"Kaspar Kenting's body has
been found in the East River, and
around 150 Street, The report came
in right after Snitkin got back to
headquarters. He's got all the de-
tails:"
"The East River — eh?" Vance
spoke quietly and without emotion
-- "ah, yes, it could easily be. Very
distressin' . . . He said no more;
nor was there any further talk un-
til we reached Vance's apartment.
Snitkin was already waiting in
the upper hallway, just outside the
library.
"Go ahead,
Heath.
Snitkin began: "There's a small
inlet up there in the river, which is
not over three feet deep, and the
fellow on the beat—Nelson, think
it was—saw this baby lying ou the
bank, with his legs out of the wa-
ter, along about nine o'clock to-
night. So he called in and reported
it right away, and they sent over a
buggy from the local station. The
Medical Examiner of the Bronx
gave the body the once-over and it
seems the fellow didn't even die
from drowning. He was already
dead when he was dumped into the
water. His head was bashed in.
Well, the doc guessed the guy
had been dead twelve hours maybe.
There's no telling how long he'd
been lying there in the inlet."
"What about identification?" ask-
ed Heath officiously.
Plenty of Identification
"Oh, there was plently of identi-
fication, Sorge," Snitkin answered.
"The guy not only fit the, descrip-
tion like a glove, but his clothes'
and his pockets was full of identi-
fication. And there avas a fanny
pocket -comb with his initials on
it--"
"A pocket comb — eh?" Vance
nodded with satisfaction. "Very in-
terestin', Markham. When a gentle-
man carries a pocket comb he
would certainly not add a toilet
comb to his equipment : : : For-
give the interruption, Suttkin. Go
ahead."
"Well, there was monograms 011
damn -near everything else he had
in his pockets. According to the
boys at the local station, he was
either the Kaspar Kenting, we're
looking for, or he wasn't nobody."
Snitkin was dimissed and ten
minutes later Heath followed. And
when we were alone, Markham ask-
ed:
"How dill you know Kaspar
Kenting was dead when I spoke to
you on the stairway yesterday
morning?"
"You flatter me," said Vanes. "I
didn't really know. I merely sur-
mised it — basin' my conclusions
on the indications."
"So that's your mood," snorted
Markham hopelessly. "I'm telling
you, you outrageous -fop, that this
is a damned serious situation —
what happened to Fleel tonight had
ought to prove that."
"I know only too well, Markham,
how serious the situation is," he
said in a grave and curiously sub -
clued voice. "But there's really no-
thing we can do. We must wait
please believe me. Our hea1ds and
feet are tied. The most serious
part of the whole affair is that this
is not a kidnappiltg case at all, in
the conventional sense. It goes a
lot deeper than that. It's cold-blood-
ed, diabolical murder. But 1 can't
quite see my way yet to proving it.
I'm far more worried than you, Mr.
Markham, The whole thing is un-
speakably horrible. There are sub-
tle 'and abnormal elements mired
up -in the situation, It's an abomirt-
able affair, but as we sit here to-
night, I want to tell yea that I do
not know I don't know : ; I'm
afraid to make a move until we
learn snore.
I shall never forget the following
clay. It will ever remain in my me-
mery as one of the great horrors of
ray life,
Issue No. 41—'38
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.Snitkin," ordered
The day began eanventionally
enough.
"I think we'll take a spin down to
Markham's office, Van," Vance
said. "There's nothing to do laore,
and there may be some news that
Markham naively' regards as too
trivial to telephone me about,"
We arrived at Markham's office
a few minutes before ten o'clock,
"Glad you came, Vauce," \vas his
greeting.
"Alt!" Vance sat down lazily.
"Any tidin's, glad or otherwise?"
"Well," said Markham in a hard,
practical voice, 'Kenyon Kenting
was taken to the .uptown morgue
this morning and he identified his
brother's body beyond a doubt. And
I saw no need to put any other
members of the family through the
harrowing experience."
"Mrs. Kenting's Groom, as well as
the window -sill and the ladder, was
gone over thoroughly for finger-
prints."
"And none was found, of course,
except the Sergeant's and mine,"
"You're right," conceded Mark-
ham. "The person, or persons, must
have worn gloves."
"Assumin' there was It person—
or persons."
"All right, all right." Markham
was beginning to be annoyed. "You
are so damned cryptic about every-
thing, and so reticent, that I have
no way of knowing what prompted
that last remark of yours."
"Personally, I'd say you would
not find -them till you have located
the car in which Mrs. Kenting was
probably driven away last night."
"What do you mean—what car?"
demanded Markham.
"I haven't the slightest idea,"
said Vance laconically. "But I hard-
ly think the lady walked out of
sight .. . "And, by the by, Mark-
ham, speakin' of cars, what 'enor-
inotts array of information did you
marshal about the green coupe the
energetic Sergeant found so con-
viently waiting for him in the
transverse? ... Doubtless stolen
eh, what?"
Markham nodded glumly..
"Yes, Vance, that's just it. Be-
longs to a perfectly respectable
spinster on upper West End Ave-
nue."
After the Gems
"What about Abe, the buddy of
the chauffeur who drove us home
last night? I suppose Heath or else
some of the Torquemadas in Centre
Street put the poor devil through
the requisite torture?"
"You read too many trashy books
Vance," Markham was indignant.
"Heath talked to the 'driver of the
number one cab at Headquarters
within an hour of the time he left
here last night. He merely corrob-
orated what our chauffeur told us
— namely, that he dropped the`two -
men who came out of the trans-
verse at the uptown entrance of the
Lexington Avenue subway."
"Well, your information seems to
be typically thorough and typically
useless," said Vance. "Did any one
do a bit of checkin' up to ascertain
whether there were any unaccoilnt-
ed-for semiprecious stones round
town?"
"Good heavens, no! What have
your semiprecious stones to do
with_a case of kidnapping?"
"My dear Markham," protested
Vance. "I have told you — and I
thought, in my naive way, that it
had even been demonstrated to you
— that this is not a case of kidnap-
ping. Won't you even permit a sub-
tle killer to set the stage for him-
self — to indulge in a bit of spec-
tacular decor, so to speak? That
collection of old Karl Kenting's
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gems has a dashed lot to do with
the case... "
Enter Falloway
"I'm not worried as much about
such vague factors in the case as
I am about that attack on Fleel,"
Markham interrupted.
"Oh, that," Vance shrugged. "A
mere bit of technique. And the op-
erator of the sub -machine gun was
kind enough to miss his target. As
I told Fleel, he was very lucky."
At this moment Markham's se-
cretary, coning swiftly through the
swinging leather door, interrupted
the conversation.
"Chief," he announced, "there's
a young fellow outside who's ter-
ribly excited and insists on seeing
you at once. Says it's about the
Kenting case, Gives his name as
Falloway."
"Oh, send him in, by. all means,"
said Vance, before Markham had
time to answer.
(To Be Continued)
Mode Features
Slender Waist
Sleeves, Too, Are More Import-
ant Than For Several. Seasons
NEW YORK.—This year's fall
dresses are "soft" in design. They
show variation in cut, color and
fabric and many may be trans-
formed in appearance by a sleight-
of-hand change accessories.
A slender little waist is a char-
acteristic of them all. Skirts are
still short. The newest are wider
—either flared or designed with
gathered front fullness—although
some slim straight skirts are seen
too. Many bodices are slender and
fitted, while others are softly drap-
ed and a few are bloused.
Sleeves are important. The 1935
editions include the wide armhole('
angel, the bishop and the sleeve
with the fu11 top and tight fore-
arm. Necklines generally are
high, though "V" and square
necks are seen too.
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Autumn Ushers In
Three New Modes
Up -Brushed Hair, Daring Use of
Color and Unusual Shoes
NEW YO1tIi.—Three new devel-
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city shops after two weeks of ka-
leidoscopic fashion shows. They
are the up -brushed coiffure, the_
daring use of color, and the new
shoes. These three factors contri-
bute heavily to the general new and
different look of anyone dressed up
iii a 1988 'fall outfit. The coiffure
and the dazzling color combinations
strike a highly dramatic note, and
shoes, in following suit, are more
attention -catching than ever. Short-
er skirts have a lot to do with the
concentration on shoes, too. The
longer the expanse of stockinged
leg put ou view, the mare notice-
able the shoes are.
The spool heel, the quarter -inch
platform sole on street and evening
shoes, the two-inch clog sole on
evening shoes, were seen in the re-
tail shoes departments of the
stores. The spool heel and the
platform sole, particularly, are
bound to be worn by so many wo-
men this fall that before long the
eye will accept them easily.
These two innovations make for
refinement in shoe design. The
days when heavy looking street
shoes were in vogue seem to be
over. Shoes made on svelte, cling-
ing lines, their gracefulness height-
ened by cutouts in the vamp and by
high heels, are favored. Sometimes
the focal point of the shoe's design
is at the back, above the heel.
Winter Hats
Tiny Birds Nestle in Chic
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Paris Milliners are seriously
under way with .awinter hats.
Legroux is even showing fur
toques. One is a small rounded
nest shape of silver fox in which
nestle tiny pink birds. Another is
like a tiny Victorian toque of
sable -dyed ermine, held on by felt
streamers tied under the chin.
Two movements lead in fall
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back and folded over the forward
brim; while everywhere tiny tri -
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The second movement i5 the
bonnet, contrarily enveloping the
back of the head and showing
curls in the hollow of the scoop
brim 'at front, these often with
streamers tied under the chin.
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Cook A Haggis
West Lorne Man Comes For-
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writes E.T.C. (West Lorne) in the
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Haggis
14 ozs. oatmeal, 2 lbs. liver, 2
teaspoons mixed herbs, 1 lb. fat.
bacon, salt, pepper, 1 teaspoon
grated nutmeg, a little milk.
First catch your sheep. Kill it.
and dress it. Turn the stomach
wrong side out as you would a
chicken gizzard. Put to soak in ,
crock of salty water in a cool cel-
lar.
Then cut the liver into 501011
pieces. You can go on and chop-
the
hopthe lights and brains as well. But
just this first time stop at the liv-
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with two teaspoons mixed herbs,
salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste, and
one pound fat bacon.
In another kettle cook one lb.
oatmeal to a thick jelly in salty
water.
Serve Piping Hot •
While the meat and oatmeal -are
cooking, the stomach skin must be
washed and scraped and scrubbed
and put back in water.
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well together and then stuffed in-
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plate ;in deep kettle of briskly
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the top over well with a knitting~
needle to prevent bursting the
skin.
Serve hot. Carried high above
the head on a platter edged with
baked potatoes, care must be taken
it does not roll off. "... And it's
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