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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
"CANAKY" MUKDEK KASE
S. S.YAN DINE AUTHOR THE BENSON MURDER CASE
Markham grunted scotingly, and sunk back on the cushions.
"Your generosity wringa.me," he anid.
We
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928.
mented Vance. "And he selected a douce unlucky day for it... I say, imagine opening the morning paper and learning that your petite dame of the preceding evening had been
Disconcertin' strangled! what?"
"He's certainly disconcerted," aald Markham. The carly after- noon papers were out about an hour ago, and he'd been phoning my office overy ten minutes, when I suddenly walked in here. He's afraid his connexion with the girl will leak out and disgrace him."
"And won't it?"
Ost. · our way down-town! "I hardly see the necessity. No were delayed for a con-one knows who her escort was last siderable time in the truffle conges-evening; and since he obviously tion just north of Madison Square, had nothing to do with the crime, and Markham anxiously looked at what's to be gained by dragging his watch.
him into 117 He told me the whole story, and offered to stay in the city as long as I wanted him to," "1 infer, from the cloud of dis-
It's past noon," he said. think I'll stop at the club and have a bite of lunch.... 1 presume that eating at this early hour would be too plebeian for so exquisito
holhouse flower as you."
Vance considered the Invitation. "Since you deprived me of my breakfast," he decided, "1' permit you to buy me somo eggs Benc dietino,"
per fe, quorusodu when you returned just now that his story held nothing hopeful for you in the way of clues."
"No," Markham admitted. "The girl apparantly never spoke to him of her intimate affairs; and he a single helpful couldn't give nic A few minutes later we entered ggestion. His account of what the almost empty grill of the Stuy happened last night, agreed per fectly with Jessup's. He called for vesant Club, and took a table near the girl at seven, brought her home one of the windows looking, south about eleven, stayed with her ward over the treetops of Madison half an hour or a, and then left
her.
Square.
unl three
Shortly after we had given our order a uniformed attendunt en "When he heard her call for tered and, bowing deferentially at hel he was frightened, but on being de district attorney's elbow, held assured by her there was nothing sul at: unaddressed communication wrong, he concluded she had dozed seated in one of the club's envelopes, off into a nightmare, and thought Markham read it with an express- no more about Il. rion of growing curiosity, and as "He drove direct to the club here,! The studied the signaturea look arriving about ten minutes to of mild surprise came into his eyes. twelve. Judge Redfern, who saw At length he looked up and nodded him descend from the taxi, insisted to the waiting attendant. Then, on his coming up-stairs and play- excusing himself, he left is abrupting poker with some men who were iy. It was fully twenty minutes wailing in the judge's rooms for before he returned.
fm. They played "Funny thing," he said. "That fo'clock this morning."
(To Be Continued.) note was froni the man who took the Odell woman to dinner and the heatre last night... A small world," he mused. "He's staying sere at the club-he's a non-resi-of London, performed. the cere.) dent member and nukes it his head-| quarters when he's in town."
"You know him?" Vance put try-side sports club, near Leather- Markhara was in no mood for the question disinterestedly, hathing. He turned to Heath and
"I've met him several timės- poke with forced cheeriness.
"CaB me up Inter this afternoon, chap named Spotswoode." Mark-he drove a golden ball off the tee. I may get some new evidence out am seemed perplexed. "He's a of the outfit we've just interviewed man of family, lives in a country 24, And," he added, be sure to house on Long Island, and is re- put a man on guard here. I want garded generally as a highly re-
“When he heard her call for help he was frightened, but
concluded she had doze !off into a nightmare."
CHARACTERS
PHILO VANCE JOHN F-X, MARKHAM, District
Attorney of New York County
MARGARET ODELL (THE
"CANARY").
CHARLES CLEAVER, a
about-town
KENNETH SPOTSWOODE,
manufacturer ›
LOUIS MANNIX, an importer DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST, a
fashionable neurologist
this apartment kept just as it is spectable member of society-one
of the last persons I'd suspect of until we see a little more light."
"I'll attend to that," feath being mixed up with the Odell giri.
But, according to his own confes sured him.
Markham and Vance and I went on, he played around a good deal out and entered the car. A few with her during his visits to New York-sowing a few belated wild
minutes later we were winding rapats, as he expressed it-and last
Lord Ebbisham, ex-Lord Mayor,
many of opening the Artisan Clubhouse at Effingham, a cous-
head. To celebrate the occasion
SPEED,
BEAUTY,
SERVICE.
TONY SKEEL, # professional bur
glur
idly across town through Central night took her to Franculle's for Yes Sir, it's a WILLIAM ELMER JESSUP, tele-Park.
phone operator
"Recall nur recent conversation dinner and to the Winter Garden HARRY SPIVELY, telephone epshout footprints. In the
show afterwards." erator
asked Vance, as we emerged into
ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the Fifth Avenue and headed south.
Homfelde Bureau
THE STORY THUS FAR
Markham nodded nhatrnetedly. "As I remember," mused Vance, in the hypothetical case you pre- sented there were not only fool-
witnesses
Vance's theory is that two un prints but a dozen or more wit known persons were in Margaret | Desses--including a youthful prod- Odell's apartment that fatal even-igy-who saw a figurd of some kind ing: one hiding in a clothes closet, erases the hibernal landscape the ulner the man who strangled her. Here you are in a most natiy In no way can the police account for potter because of the disheartenin
are neither foot the presence of anyone in the fact that there apartment. The door to the alley prints in the now nor was bolted on the inside, and the wire saw a fleeing figure. In short. | mun who had gone out with the you are hereft of both direct and| "Canary" the night before had circumstantial evidence.
. Sad, been the only one to be seen with sad.".
He wagged his head dolefully. her, and circumstances completely eliminated him. There is another "y" kiow, Markham, it appears) man who called while she was out, to me that the testimony in this but une of the phone operators case constitutes conclusive testifies that he had been umble to proof that no one could have been get in the apartment.
legall
with the deceased at the hour of her passing, and that, ergo, she is presumably alive. The strangled CHAPTER XIII
body of the lady is, I take it, simply An ugly light came into Heath's an irrelevant circumstance from the the standpoint of legal procedure. eyes.
"We've got ways," he said know that you karned lawyers through his teeth, "of getting damn wan't admit a murder without a Interesting conversation outa peo-body; but how, in sweet Heaven's ple who haven't no great reputation name, do you get around a corpus for repartee."
felieti without a murder?"
"You're talking nonsense," Mark han rebuked him, with a show of
anger,
Vance, sighed. "How the Four Hundred needs you, my Sergeant!" Markham looked at his watch. "I've got pressing work at the "Oh, quite," agreed Vance. "And office," he said, "and all this talk yot, It's a distressin' thing for a isn't getting us anywhere." He lawyer not to have footprints of put his hand on Heath's shoulder. some kind, isn't it, old dear? It "I leave you to go ahead. This aft- Baves one so up in the air." ernoon I'll have these people brought Suddenly Markham swung round, down to my office for another ques-Yon, of course, don't need fool- tloning-maybe I can jog their prints, or any other kind of ma- memories a bit...... You've got torial plues, he flung at Vance some line of Investigation planned?" tauntingly. "You have power of
"The
usual routine," replied divination such as are denied ordih. Heath drearily. "I'll go through ary mortale. If I remember cor. Odell's papers, and I'll have three rectly, you informed me, somewhat or four of my men check up on her." grandiloquently, that, knowing the "You'd better get after the Yel-nature and conditions of a crime, low Taxicab company right away," you could lead me infallibly to the Markham suggested. "Find out, if culprit, whether he left footprints you can, who the man was who left (or not. You recall that boust?... here at half past eleven last night, Well, here's a crime, and the perpe- Irator left no footprints coming or and where he went."
"Do you imagine for one mo-going. Bo so good as to end my ment," asked Vance, that if this suspense by confiding in me who
killed the Ödell girl.” man knew anything about the mar
"Vance's.serenity, was not ruffled der, he would have stopped in the hall and asked the operator to call by Markham's ill-humoured chal- lenge. He sat smoking lazily for "Oh, I don't look for much in several minutes; then he leaned that direction." Markham's tone over and flicked life elgáretle sh was almost listiesa. "But the girl out of the window.
a taxi for him?"
that'll give us a lend."
may have said something to him Pon my word, Markham," he joined evenly, "I'm half, inclined Vance ebook his head facetiously.to look into this silly murder: I "O welcome purc-ey'd Faith, white-think I'll wait, though, und ece handed Hope, thou hovering angel, whom the nonplassed Heath turns girl with gold wings!"
lup with his inquiries."
"Not my iden of an Intellectual, or even edifyin', evening,"
com-
You
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THE EX-SPEAKER'S ROMANCE.
UNEXPECTED ANNOUNCE. MENT OF MARRIAGE.
London, Aug..2.
The ex-Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. J. II, Whitley, who was a widower for three years, was married by special licence nt Chelsea to-day, surprising his frienda, who had not heard of the engagement.
wns
The bride
Mias Helen Clarke, an old friend of Mr. Whit- ley's family.
She lived in Russia through the War and the Revolution, and is now an active worker in connex- ion with women's Institutes and is President of the National Council for Social Servier.
Mr. Whitley's first wife, whom he married in 1802, died, in 1926. Her maiden name was Marguerita Virginia Marchetti. Mr. Whitley is 62 years old.
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