The Lucknow Sentinel, 1930-11-06, Page 611 r
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.141117(ter Case
N;..ANCE STORY
BY S. S• VAN DINS
CHAPTER I. •
'''• Of all the criminal cases in -1.shiCh"
,
Philo Vallee Participated as an. Ma-
- official investigator, the niost-sittiste7;
• the mast hizarre,,,theuseemingly most
incomprehensible; and certainly, the
Most terrifying; Was; the one that
fI-
lowed .the -famous - Greene Murders.
'The orgy Of horror at the Old Greene
- mansion- .had been brought te its
• astmmeng*.chise in, Decernber; and
• after the Christmas' holidays Vance
- :• bad -gone' to Switzerland for the Win-
• ter sports. • Returning to New York
• . at the end Of February he had thrown
. himself into some literary work he had
•• long had in mind,. and for Over a
,inonth he had devoted himself Sethi-
• , lo,usly to this. thankless :task. . • ,
• However,: the !fact remains that
•' Vances translation of Menander was
rudely interrupted in,eal-ly APtil; and
for •weeks he becallie absorbed in a
criminal mystery. Which: threw the' en -
•tire country into a state Of gruesome
excitement.
Tide new' Criminal investigation; in
• *high he acted as- a ikind oamicus
curioe 'for Jan F. X. Markham,: the.
District Attorney of New York, at.
once became known as the Bishop
•.mnrder, case., There wad nothing ee-
elesiastical about that ghoulish
•slag crime Which set an entireconi-i,
*unity to reading the "Mother Goose
Meledies" with fearful sipPrehenSion;
• • and no one of the ft ame Of Bishop was„
as far asI Innow, even remtitely con,
sleeted with the monstrousevents
which bore that appellation. But,
the word "Bishop" was ap-
propriate,: for • it was an "aliasl used
' • by the Murderer . for the grimniest7
Of purposes. Incidentally it was 'this
name that eventually led Vance to the
ott.-incredible-truthrand-en
of the most ghastly. multiple crimes
bi police historY. '
The series -of uncanny andapparent=-
ly ruirelated eventa .which constituted
the BiShap murder case,and drove all
• thought of Menander and Greek mono-,
stichs from. Vane 's mind, began on.
, themorning of April 2, legs than five
•imnntlis after the double shootyng, of
Julia and Ada Greene. It slim one of
• those warm luxurious spring days
• which sometimes bless New YOrk in
early. April; andArancel was breakfatt-
' in his little root garden atop his
• apartment in East 38th Street. It
• . was nearly mion-7,-for Vance worked or
read until all hours, and was a late
•riser—and the sun, beating eown twin
a clear, blue sky, cast .a mantle of
• . introspective lethargy over the 'city.
' Vance sprawled in an easy chair, his
:breakfast on, a lbw table beside him,
g iiOng ,with cynical, regretful eyes
down at the tee -tops in the rear yard.
For years•I had been Vancesfriend
• and legal adviser—a kind of Monetary
• isteward •and agent -companion. r had
• quitted. my fathers law firm of Van
Dine, Davis & Van Dine, to devote
'myself wholly to his intereits—a post -
I found far more, congenial than that
•, of general attorney in a stuffy office
• , • r—and though my own bachelor quar-
ters were in a hotel ort the•West Side,
I spent most of my .time at Ten#e's.
'' apartment.
I had arrived early that morning,
• . long before Vance was up, and, hav-
ing gone over the- first-of-the-bionth
accounts, now sat smoking fli3r pine
• idly as he breakfasted.
•know, Van," he said to me, in
his emotionless drasa; "the prospect
• of spring and summer in New perk is
neither ,excithe nor romanttc,„:„ • It's
•going to be a beastly bore. Btft it'll
be' less annoyin' than travelin' in
Europe with the tourists jostlin' 'one
at every turn. It's very disz
• tressin"."
" Little did he suspect what the next
few weeks held in store for him. Had
• he known. I doubt if even prospet
' of
an old Pre-war spring in Paris
• would have taken him aWay; for his
insatiable mind liked nothing better
• than a complicated problem.; and even
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No expense spared tO have it
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WiAmtErs is bitid tot* diehest
that men and machines and money
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The delicious peppermint
flavor freshens the mouth
and aidsdigestion. •
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--He glanced at his Waal rloiri'
vonomy Corner
Went itidnOrn, leaving Alle to oPeelgato
vaguely MI the cause of bis tinWentea
perturbation: A treatise on archery
German" dietionarY„ a eellectiOn 02
lehildren's verses, and Vanee 11100M-
prehensible utterances regarding in-
• sanity and fantasy—what possible
connection could thesb things have?
, I attempted tojind a least coranton
denominater, but without the slightestsueeess,
suceess, and it was no wonder I failed.
) Even the -tretli when it came eat
weeks later bolstered up by an array
as he spoke to me that morning the of incontestable evidence, Wined tee
Ode that presided over *his destiny incredible and too Wicked for accept.
*ere preparing for him a strange and ace by the normal mind a man,.fascinating enigina—one which was to Vance shortly broke in• on my futile
stir the ita.tikm. deeply and add a new s ulations. II„etwas dressed for the
and terrible chapter - to the annals' os street, and seemed impatient at Mark.
hash's delay arriving.
"Y' I wanted, something to
interest me -=,-,a nieelaScinatin' crime,
for instance," he remarked• "but—rny-
•word!—I wasn't:exactly longin'..fora
nightinare. If I ,didn't know. Mirk:
hhrn so.well I'd ansnect ,him spoof-
ing.' . •
When Marldiairi stepped into the
roof garden a, feiv. minutes later it
was onlY too plain; that he bad 'aen in
deadly esniest. His eiiptession was
sombre and troubled, and his'. usual
cordial greeting, be reduced. to the
thereat curt formality. Markham and
Vance had been intimate friends for
fifteen years. Though of antipodal
nnturesthe one sternly aggressive;
brusque, forthright, 'and ahnopt 'pow-
derouslY serious; the other Whimsical,
cynical, debonair, and aloof frOin the
;transient concerns of life—they fonnd
in each other that attraction of Om-
plenientaries which so Often forms the
basis einn inseparable and enduring
companionship. •
Vance had scarcely poured his-eec-
end cap of .coffee schen Currie, ,his old.
English butler and, general factotum,
appeared attlie French dem.* benring'
,R Portable. telephone:
"It's Mr. Idarkhana, sit," the old
man said, apologetically. 'As he seem-
ed rather urgent, tad( 'the liberty
of informing him you 'were in:" He
plugged , the telephone into a base-.
board. match; and set the instimment
on the breakfast table.
• "Quite right, Currie," Vance miir-
niuted, taking off the receiver.. "Any-
thing to break this deuced Monotony."
• Then be.. spoke to Markham. • "I say,
old man, don't you ever sleep') I'm in
the midst' of an omelette aux fines
herb.es., Will you join me? Or .do
you merely, crave the 'Miele of my
voice?" •
He hrokenff abruptly, and the ban-
tering look. on his lean features 4157
aPpeared. Vance was a marked Nor-
dic type, ivith.4 long, sharply -chiselled
face; gray, wide -set eyes -' a narrow
aquiline nose; and a straight oval'
'aim His mouth„ too, was firm and
clean-cut, but it held a leek of cynical
Cruelty whichtwas more Mediterran-
ean than Nordic.' His face was strong
and attractive, though not exactly
handsome. It was the face Of a
thinker and recluse; and its very se-
verity -at once •sticlions and intro-
spectiveacted as a' barrier between
him and his fellows. •
Though:he was immobile by nature
pression Of. his :emotions, I noticed
that, as he- listened to Markham- on
hi -phone -that
he &Ord not'
entirely disguise his ' eager interest
in what was being told him. A slight
frown ruffled ' his, brow; and his eyes
reflected. his inner amazement. • Worn
thne to time he gave ventoto a inur7.
niured kAniazin'!" or "My word." or
"Most: extfordin`iit1"—his favorite
expletives—arid when at the end of
several minutes he spoke to Markhani,.
a curious excitement- marked his iman-
• ner.
•
"Oh, by all means!" he said. "I
shouldn't miss it for all the lost corn-
edies of Menander. . . . It sounds
Mad: . . . P11 don fitting raiment; im-
mediately. . . Au revoir."
aeplacing the receiver he rang .for
Currie.
• "My gray tweeds," be ordered "A
sombre tie, and my 'black Homburg
hit." Then he returned to his omelet
with a -preoccupied air.
After a few momenta he looked at
me quizzicaI1y '
"Wha might you :mow of archery,
Van?" he asked.
I knew nothing of archery, save
that it consisted of shooting arrears
at targets, and I confIssed as much.
• "You're not exactly revea:in', don't
y' know."' Ile lighted one of his Regie
cigarettes indolently. "However,
we're in a for a little finder of toxo-
phily, it seems. I'm no leading auth-
ority on the subject myself, but. I did
a bit of potting with the bow at Ox-
ford. It's not a passionately excitinr
pastime—much duller than golf and
folly as complicated." Ile smoked a
while dreamily. "I Say, Van, fetch me
Doctor Elmer's tome on archery from
the library--.-theres a geed chap."
. I brought 'the book, and -for neatly
half an hour he dipped into it, tarry-
ing over the chapters on archery asto-
clations,touinaments and matches,
and scan-
ning the long tabulation of
the best American scores. At length
he settled. back- in his chair. It was
obvious he • had found something that
caused him trpubled concern , and. set
his sensitive mind to work.
"It's quite mad, Van," hg remarked,
his eyes in space. "A mediaeval tra-
gedy in modern' New York! We don't
wear buskins and leathern doublets, 'needs. •
and yet, by jove!" He suddenly sat Crepy patterned woolen makes up
upright. "No, no! Iit's absurd. • I'm splendidly in this modeL
letting the insanity Of IVIarkhaires Style No. 2620 may be had in sizes
news' affect me. - . ." He drank some 16; 18 years, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and
more coffee, but his expression told me 48 inches bust. The 36 -inch size re -
that he could not rid himself of the1 quires 4% yards of 39 -inch material
idea that had taker) possession of Taw. with '% yard of 27-iojch contrasting:
"One more faVor, Van," he said atl Transparent Velvet, That Crepe and
length. "Fetch me my German die- georgette crepe also appropriate.
tion'ry and Burton E. Stevenson":, HOW TO ORDER. PATTERNS.
(To be continued.) •
• What New York
Ls Wearing
Chestnut Stoliln2 (for. Roast Tiirkey),
Ingredients: 2 Ibe. 'of: chestnuts, %;
piet stock or water; 1 QA, of butter. a
good pinch of sem, salt and pepper.
Method: Cut o'ff the tops of the chest-
nuts, and bake or roast them for
about 20 Minutes. Remove both the
enter and innerskins, put the chest-
nuts intoa stewpan, add the stock
(no more than will • barely cever
Own), and .einimer Until they btoorae
tender and 41,7.. • Rub through fine
sieve, add the butter, salt and pepPer;
and •use as required. Time About
1 hour. • Sufficient. for, a medium-
sized turkey
Fish Farce (Whiting or• other Fish).
Ingredients: ¼ lh. of uncooked fish
(two Whiting's); Vpint of Wilk or
Salt stock, 2 oz. � - flour, 1 oz.. of but-
ter, or good fit, 2 eggs, .pePper and
Snip- Method: Melt the, butter or
fat,. stir ' in, the flour; add the /milk or
• stock, and 'cook until the Penedo, forma
'a .compact mese realm/.the bowl of
the spoon.- Pound the 'fish and the
panada Well together, add: the' egib
one by' one, season well, and pass the
• ingredient -4 through a wire sieve. A
lighter mixture may be obtained
when required. by. pounding 3 yolk
with. the fisb and mixing, the 3 whites
(stiffly, whisked) after • passing the
• mixture through the sieve. Time:
:About 35 minutes. Sufficient for
about 1 lb. of farce. . •
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Bran. Fruit Muffins
4 tablespoons shortening,: 1-3 cup
1 sugar, 2 eggs, 2 On* sour rnilk, 1 :clip
raisins, 2 Mips egoked bran, 2 cups
*our, 1 teaspoon . soda, 2 teaspoons
baking powder, % teaspoen salt.
Cream the shortening. and sugar -to-
gether, add egs. Mix and sift flour,
soda, salt. and baking pOwder„ To
thecreained- mixture, add the bran,
then alternate with the sifted dry in-
gredients. Pour into greased baking
tins And bake in, a moderate oven
Over (379 -degrees --Fahrenheit) for
twenty Minutes. This , recipe Will
make two dozen- Muffins. If sweet
tnilk .is used instead of sour milk,
;dive out 'the soda and„-incre&w the
amount -of baking powder 'to, six tea-
'sneonfirls. •
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Illustrated Dressma kfng Lesson
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• Winter wear, this dee will ,serve your
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The softly falling jabot revers Com-
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'Home Book of Verse'." .
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' When / had brought the volumes he*rite your name andaddress plain.
glanced at one word in the dictionary, ly giving number and size of such
an•d pushTued the bo..k from him. . patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
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I knew it all the time" , F it carefully) •for each numbr, and
Then he turnedto the s cti ' address your order- to Wilson Pattetri
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• Delicious !Iran Muffins
tabrespoons shorteningt 3 table
spoonsgar,.1_ egg,;cup
1 cup bran, 1 cup flour,- % teaspoon 4:
soda, % teaspoon salt, teaspoon bak-
• ing powder: Cream the shortening
and sugar together. Add the egg,
Mix and sift flour, soda, salt and bak-
ing Powder. To the creamed -mixture
add the cooked bran, then, the, milk
alternately with the sifted dry in-
gredlents. Put into Well greased
muffin tins, filling tin from % to 3-4
• full. Bake ip hot oven '(400 degrees
E.) for twenty mintes. . This recipe
makes one • ' dozen small muffins.
Raisins 'of chopped mita may be add-
ed to the recipe if desired.
• Honey, Nut and Bran Muffins
61Fresls frosattlse gardens'
mer for about % an hour. Stir• oc-'
casionally as the water evanorates,
• and -tile celery incomes- rather dry.
Add the melted 'butter, stir MAR it
belle, • season to taste, • and serve.
Time: About. 1 _boar. auffiele,tt for
'a boiled turkey or two fowls.
His Alibi
Thee. Altoona -(Kaw) Tribune re
Ports. a resident of thattown who ap-
pears on the pcirch of his home when-
ever his wife starts singing, so the
neighbors an see, he isn't whipping-
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Potato Fritters .
• One pound cold mashed potatoes,
three ounces minced ham or bacon,
one small Chopped onion, pepper and
salt to taste. Little milk to bind.
•.Mix potatoes, ham, onions and sea-
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Turbot au Gratin
Ingredients -7 -.-Remains of cold • tur-
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sauce, breaderumbs, butter and sea-
soning. Method: .Divide the flesh of
the" turbot into email pieces, carefully
freeing it from bone and black skin.
Place itin a fire -proof baking dish or
dishs, add a little good while sauce
and Seasoning,' e.over with finely -grat-
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place smal1 pieces of butter over the
top. Brown it in the oven or under
the salamander, • Time: About % an
hour. •
A Dainty Savourr
A new savourk4s always welcome.
This one is particularly 'appetising.
Gently cook—but not. brown—a
linely-chopped onion in two table.
spoonsful of butter. Add two table-
spoonsful of sifted flour, pepper and
daft to taste,. and inix well. Add
slowly a' cup of milk; stirring all the
time. When the mixture is smboth
aid think adirthree lilted hartlrolled
eggs, . Serve the savoury on well -but-
tered toast.
Celery Sauce• •
Ingredients -3-4 OM of Melted but-
ter, •1 head of celery (the white Part
only), salt and pepper, Alethod:
Wash the celery and chon it'coarsel.
Put it into, a stewpan with barely
..sufficient water to Cover it, and Op -
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• included the rhymes of the nursery • • •
and of childhood. After several min- "Dont beafraid of the bacon, Mr.
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