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PHILO VANCE »
appearance in the 'Follies'the 1traction; took his M. D. from the only welcome ones at her apartment Ohio Stato. Medical, practiced In business shady have been Mannix, Doctor Lind-Chiengo-some quist, Pop Cleaver, and, of course, there, but never convicted; came to The Canary was a Albany and got in on the X-ray- Spotswoode, bit exclusive, it seems; and no other machine craze; invented a breast- man got near enough to her even to pump and formed a stock company CHARLES CLEAVER, a man-be considered as a possible mur-made a small fortune out of it;
JOHN F.-X. MARKHAM, District Attorney of New York County MARGARET
(THE
ODELL
"CANARY")
about-town
manufacturer
KENNETH
SPOTSWOODE,
LOUIS MANNIX, an importer DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST,
fashionable neurologist
derer."
Q
Mannix
went to Vienna for two years———"
"Ah, the Freudian motif" "It rs, then, that you have
"returned to New York, and a complete quartet to draw on,"
1 private sanitarlum; Vance's tone was apathetic. "What opened
charged outrageous prices, and do you crave-a regiment?"
"No." answered Markham thereby endeared himself to thi TONY SKEEL, a professional bur-patiently. "I crave only one lagjen now rich. Has been at the endear-
possibility. But
was ing process ever since. Was, de glar WILLIAM ELMER JESSUP, tele-through with the girl over a year fendant in a breach-of-promise suit ago; Claver and Spotswoode both some years ago, but the case was phona.operator
He's not mar- HARRY SPIVELY, telephone op- have water-tight alibis;, and that settled out of court.
érator
leaves only Doctor Lindquist, whom ried."
"He wouldn't be," commented can't exactly strangler and burglar, despite his Vance. "Such gentry never are. Trascibility. Moreover, he, too, has.. Interestin summary, though an sillb; and it may be a genuine-yes, decidedly interestin'. I'm
ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the
Homicide Bureau F
one."
picture
Vanco wagged his hand. "There's something positively pathetic about the childlike faith of the legal, mind,
tempted to develop a psychoneour- Isis and let Ambroise Arent me.
do so want to know him better. And where-oh, where--was this egregious healer at the moment of "It does cling to rationality at our erring sister's demise? Ah, times, doesn't observed Mark-who can tell, my Markham: whe ham. N
know who knows?"
THE STORY THUS FAR The jewel case had been opened with a steel chinel after being battered with a poker. This leads Vaner to the theory that the real murderer had not opened it but someone after him, someone who wis hiding in the closet, when the
"My dear fellow Vance rebuk- "In any event, I don't think he murder was committed. That man. he thinks, was Skeel, whose fingered him. "The presumption implied was murdering any one." prints were found in the part-in that remark is most immedest. ment of the strangled Margaret 1f you could distinguish between Odell. Markham ridicules the the-rationality and rationality you ory and Vince painstakingly ex wouldn't be a lawyer-- you'll be
No: you're going at plains his reasons for thinking the rod.
The crime not one of robbery but the this thing the wrong way. work of a highly intelligent man real factors in the ease are not what who wanted the girl out of the you all the known circumstances, hut the unknown quantities-the human ra, so to speak---the person- alities, or natures, of your quartet.” |
He it a fresh cigarette, and lay back, closing his eyes,
way.
CHAPTER XXV
(To Be Continued.)
BUSTER KEATON.
"STEAMBOAT BILL JR AT THE QUEEN'S.
.
"Steamboat Bill, Jr." is the title) of Buster Keaton's latest surprise comedy which comes to the Queen's Theatre to-day as the feature at- traction until Saturday. This new production presents the "frozen feed" star as a master of subtle comedy and pantomime as well as the daring, blundering camedian of "College" and "The General." The
When Vance finished penkiur,
"Tell me what you know of these there was a long silence. Mark- ham, impressed by the other's ear-four cavalieri, serventi--you say
Heath has turned in his report, nestness, sat in a brown study. His Who were their mamas? What do ideas had been shaken. The theiry of Skeel's gullt, in which he had they eat for breakinst? Are they clung from the moment of the susceptible to poison-lyy?... Let's identification of the finger-prints,ave Spotswoode's duasier first. had, it must admitted, not entire Do you know anything about im pictire is a story of modern life "In a general way, returned on the Mississippi River. The ly satisfied him, althonid he had been able to suggest an alternative. Markham. "Old Puritan stock, humorous side of steamboating pre- Now Vance had categorically re-believe-governors, burgonasters, dominates, but there are moments successful traders. All when the thrills displace the badiated this theory and at the few
intermix- laughs, Buster appears as a pant- same time had faced another Yankee forebears no
As a matter of fact, Spots-pered, college bay, who returns to which, despite its Indeliniteness, hind nevertheless taken into actual all de represents the oklesst and his home town to assist his burly New England father, a river steamer captain, the physical points of the case; and hardiest of the Markham, at first antagonistic, aristocracy-although I imagine whose business affairs are going had found himself, almost against the so-called wine of the Puritans from bad to worse. The situation. his will, becoming more and more has become pretty well diluted by sympathetic to this new point of now. His affair with the Odell girl is hardly consonant with the older
mortification of Puritan desk."
view.
"Damn it, Vane!" he said, "I'm not in the least convinced by your theal rical theory. And yet, I feel a earions undercurrent. of plausi-
1.33.
the
tions produced by such mortifien-
"It's wholly consonant, though, with the psychological reactions bilty in your analysis...I wonder which are apt to follow the inhibi-
He turned sharply, and scrutin- ized the other steadfastly for a man," submitted Vance, "ut what does he do? Whence cometh his ment.
uere?"
"Look here! Have you any one in mind as the protagonist of the drama you've outlined?"
"His father manufactured auto- mobile accessories, made a fortune at it, and left the business to him. He tinkers at it, but not seriously, though I believe he has designed . If you are over to find the murder a few appartenances.”
er, you must look for a shrewd,
Pon my word, I haven't the slightest notion as to who killed the Vince assured him. "But lady."
suprema
"ild hope the hideous eut-glass superior nun with nerves of fron.old for holding paper lucts is who was in imminent danger af tot o of them. The man who in- being irremediably ruined by the vented that tonnonu decuration is girl a man of inherent cruelty capable of any fiendish crime."
It aldn't have been Spots- and vindictiveness; croist; a fatalist more or less; us woude then," said Markham to- evrtainly I'm inclined to believe-me-lerantly, or
can't quidity as your poten- thing of a madman."
ial strangler. We know the "Oh, nota, Ionatic just a mad girl was alive after he left her, man, a perfectly normal, bogical, and that, during the time she was calculating mahaan-same as yardtred, he was with Judge Red- and I and Van here, Only,, our fern.... Eeten you, friend Vance, hobbles are harmless, d'ye see,englin'l manipulate those facts to This chap's mania is outside your the gentleman's disadvantage."
Jaw. reversed
"On that, at least, we agree," preposterously
conceded Vance. "And that's all That's why you're after him.
"If his aberration were stamp-you know of the gentleman?” collecting, or golf, you wouldn't
"I think that's all, except that
give him a second thought. But he married a well-to-do woman- his perfectly rational panchaut for danvhter of a Southern senator, I eliminating declassers hation who believe."
bothered him fills you with agerar: it's not your hobby. Consequently, you have a hot yearning to flay him alive."
"I'll admit," said Markham cool- ly, "that a homicidal mania is my idea of madness."
And
Doesn't help any......... now, let's have Mannix's history."
Markham referred to a typewrit- ten sheet of paper.
"Both parents immigrants-came over in the steerage. Original name Mannikiewicz, or something "But he didn't have a homicidal like that. Born on the East Side; mania, Markham old thing. You learned the fur business in his miss all the fine distinctions in father's retail shop in Hester man was - Street; worked for the Sanfrasco psychology. This noyed by a certain person, and Bet Clonk Company, and got to be fac to work, masterfully and reasonatory foreman, bly, to do away with the source of
"Saved his money, and sweet- And he did it withened the pot by manipulating real his annoyance, surpassin' cleverness.
To be sure, his act was a bit state; then went into the fur busi- ness for himself, and steadily
grisly. But when, if ever, you get worked up to his present opulent your hands on him, you'll be amazed state. Public school, and night to find how normal he is. And able commercial college. Married In toooh, able no end."
1900 and divorced a year later. Again Markham lapsed into Lives a gay life-helps support the long thoughtful silence. At last night clubs, but never gets drunk. I suppose he comes under the hend The only trouble with your in- of a spender and wine-opener. Borno money in genious deductions in that they las invested don't accord with the known eir-musical comedies, and always hua a cumstances of the case. And facte stage beauty in tow. Runs to which appear to you antagonistic Blondes."
he. snake.
to my deductions.
"Not very revealin'," sighed "Well, there are only four men Vance. "The city is full of Man- of the type you describe who could nixes.... What did you garner have had any remote reason for In connexion with our medico?"
the Odell woman. "The city has its quota of Doc- murdering Heath's scouts went into her his-tor Lindquists, too, I fear. He was tory, pretty thoroughly, and for brought up in a small Middle-West over two years-that is, since her bailiwickFrench and Magyar ex-
is not improved when Keaton falls in love with the daughter of a rival shipowner. From
then onwards.
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