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ky S. S. VAN DINE AUTHOR THE BENSON MURDER CASE
CHARACTERS
.PHILO VANCE
JOHN F.-X. MARKHAM, District Attorney of new York County MARGARET ODELL
"CANARY")
CHARLES CLEAVER,
about-town
(the
a man-
KENNETH SPOTSWOODE," a maufacturer
LOUIS MANNIX, an importer
crator
ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the
Homicide Burenú
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a moment's effort he steadied him-citement might produce self.
"You think perhaps I' threatened
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"Perhaps the principal contri- bution of our island to the life of man upon this planet is that it has contrived to gather more than
human beings into a common osaton very so four hundred and fifty million Bombar rious results."
He took a newspaper cutting polity, so that, although differing phong to strangle hor?" is words were from a gold-edged. letter case and from one another in every part! Kabe
cular of colour, mee, language and Kowloon vibrant with the intensity of his handed it to Markham. passionate anger. "And you would "You will observe that this obit-creed, they oboy a common politi-London Jike to turn my threat into a noose tuary notice mentions her prostra-eal superior and are schooled in
tion and confinement in a private peaceful methods for the settle-world. to hang mot Paugh!"
This statement was made by Mr. He paused, and when he spoke sanitorium. I have been her phy-ment of their disputes."* again his voice had become clearer,sician for years."
H. A. L. Fisher, in the course of concluding lecture On "It is quite true I once inadvisedly
England's Place in the World," at the final session of the City of London Vacation Course in Eduen- tion, at the Holborn Restaurant.
Markham, after glancing at the DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST, a attempted to frighten Miss Odell cutting, handed it back. There was with a threat to kill her and to a short silence brokén by a question fashionable neurologist
"By the bye, doctor, what is the TONY SKEEL, a professional bur-commit suicide. But if your in- from Vance,
formation is accurate as you would glar WILLIAM ELMER JESSUP, tele-have me belleve, you are aware that name of the night nurse at your
I threatened her with a revolver, sanitorium 7"*
Doctor Lindquist looked up quick- phone operator
mentioned HARRY SPIVELY, telephone op-It is the weapon, I believe, that is
conventionally
when fly.
"My night nurse? Why-what making empty threats. I certainly would not have threatened her with has she to do with it? She was thuggee, even had I contemplated very busy Monday night, I can't understand.... Well, if you want no abominable an act."
"True," nodded Vance. "And her name I have no objection. It's THE STORY THUS FAR
Fincklo-Miss Amelia Finckle."
Vance wrote down the name and, Vance believes Skeel was inno-it's a rather good point, don't y'
rising, carried the slip of paper to cent of the murder of Margaret know."
The doctor was evidently encour Heath. Odell and that he lay hidden in a closet while the stranger did hla aged by Vance's attitude. He again ridicules the faced Markham and claborated his work. Markham theory but Vance ly unshaken. le confession.. shatters Cleaver's alibi of being "A brent, I presume you know, out of the city the night of the is rarely the forerunner of a vio murder and urges Markham to lent deed. Even a brief study of check up thoroughly on Mannix's the human mind would teach you whereabouts. Dr. Lindquist, who that a threat is prima facie evi- had lied once before, is brought indence of one's innocence. A threat again and questioned.
generally, is made in anger, and acts as its own safety-valve."
CHAPTER XXXII
He shifted his eyes: "I am not
a
"This great integrating achieve- ment," added Mr. Fisher, "whether the result of good fortune or aidill, of high courage and deep humani- ty, of religious zeal or commercial appetite, or of all these in com- place in the work." bination, gives to Britain a special
Juries and Afternoon Tea. Ho said that we ceded to Ger- "Sergeant, bring Miss Finke many aupremacy in beer, music, here tomorrow morning at eleven, and disciplined knowledge; to he said, with a slight lowering of France supremacy in taste; and to one eyelid.
"I sure will, sir. Good idea."the United States supremacy in
brilliant mechanical His manner beded no good for Miss Finckle.
ness.
י
inventive-
This country, however, was one A cloud of apprehension sprend
which had spread through the over Doctor Lindquist's face.
"Forgive me if I say that I am world Parliaments, railways and insensible to the sanity of your factories, co-operative societies His tone be- and safety bicycles, the use of cavalier methods." a married man; my emotional life trayed only contempt, "May I hope tobacco and afternoon tea, the Doctor Lindquist winced and con-has not been stabilized, as it were; that for the present your inquisi-practice of athletic sports and "I think that will be all, doctor," aseptic surgery, child welfare aldered the matter at some length. and I am constantly coming in tion is ended
work, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, "And if I admit that my affection close contact will hypersensitive for Miss Odell was other than pa- and overwrought people. During returned Markhum, politely. "May the jury system, the Salvation period of almormal susceptibility have a taxienb called for you?". ternal-what then?"!
Gilbert and Sullivan operas, "Your consideration overwhelms Army, highclaes tailoring, and the Markham, accepted the question conceived an infatuation for the
young woman, an infatuation which me.. But my car in below." And as an alliríation.
she did not reciprocate certainly Doctor Lindquist haughtily with not with an ardour commensurate drew. with my own.
"You were intensely jealous of her, were you not, doctor?"
Markham immediately summoned "Jealousy," Doctor Lindquist re-
"I suffered deeply; and she made Swacker and sent him for Tracy, marked with an air of ironie pro- fessionalism, is not an unusual ac-no effort to mitigate my sufferings. The delective came at once, polish- companiment to an infatuation. Indeed, 1 suspected her, more tluning his pince-uez and bowing uf- Authorities such as Kraft-Ebing, once, of deliberately and perversely fably. One would have taken him Moll, Freud, Ferenczi, and Adler, torturing me with other men. At for an actor rather than a detec- I believe, regard it as an intimate any rate, she took no pains to hide tive but his ability in mattera re- paychological corollary of amatory ber infidelitles from me. I confess quiring delicate handling was a by-
that once or twice I was almost dis-word in the department. attraction."
may assume
1
what you
"It Is," he added, "a country favourably considered abroad for the plays of Shakespeare and Ber- nard Shaw, the poems of Milton and Byron, the philosophy of Her- bort Spencer, and the fiction of. Scott, Diekens, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Galsworthy, and Wells."
"TITANIC" A FINĖ FILM.
NOW SHOWING AT THE QUEEN'S.
aro
"Most Instructive," Markhamtracted. And it was in the hope "I want you to fetch Mr. Louis noded his head appreciatively. "of frightening her into a more Mannix again," Markham told him.) am to assume, then, that you were amenable and considerate attitude "Bring him here at once; I'm wait- Infatuated with-or, let us say, that I threatened her. I trust that ing to see him."
Tracy bowed genially and, ad- amatorily attracted by Miss Odell, you are a sufficiently discerning and that on occasions you exhibited judge of human nature to believe justing his glasses, departed on his
ferrand.
"And now," said Markham, Ax-FUNNNDARULAEN The story of "Titanic," showing the Intimate psychological corol-me."
"Leaving that point for a mo-ing Vance with a reproachful logis, lary of jealousy!""
ment," answered Markham un- "You
towas in putting Lindquist on his Saturday, is one that should make please. But I fall to understand committally, "will you give me "I want to know what your Idea at the Queen's Theatre until why my emotions are any of your more specific information as
your whereabouts Monday night?" guard about the night nurse. Your a big appeal. Photography, scenic affair."
Again 1 noted a yellow tinge brain isn't at par this afternoon. effects and direction, these
"Do you think I didn't have the all fine attributes of an artistic which is further "Ilad your emotions not led you crem over the man's features, and
him. He'll have until characterised by the able manner to highly questionable and suspi-his body stiffend perceptibly. But nurse in mind? And now you've production
eleven tomorrow morning to coach in which George O'Brien and cious acts, I would not be interested when he spoke it was with his ha-warned
in her answers. Really, Virginia Valli, and an excellent in them. But I have it on unlim-bitual suavity. penchable authority that your emo- "I considered that my note toer
better calculated to defent us in respective roles, Lions so reacted on your eller you covered that question satisfac-Vance, I can't conceive of anything cast of supporters, handle their
our attempt to substantiate the judgment that you threatened to torily. What did I omit?"
"What was the name of the pa Lake Miss Odell's life and also your!
And in view of the fact that tient on whom you were calling man's alibi.” own.
“I did put a little fright into him, the young woman has since been that night?"
didn't I?" Vance grinned complac ently. "Whenever your antagonist
murdered, the law naturally-and "Mrs. Anna Breesłon. She is the widow of the late Amos H. Breedon
reasonably a curious."
Long Branche".
The doctor's normally pale face of the Breedon National Bank of begins talking exaggeratedly about sicemed, to turn yellow and his long splay fingers tghiefied over the arms of his chair; but otherwise he sat immobile and rigidly dignified, his eyes fixed intently on the dis- trict attorney.
"And you were with her, I be- lieve you stated, from eleven until one?"
In "Titanic" is shown the hard fight put up by a young derelict to win a fair share of this world's happiness, and he carries with him the full sympathy of the audience
the insanity of your, notions, he's as he struggles along from one already deuced hot under the collar, adventure to another, culminating "But, Markham, old thing, don't in the scene when the wreck of the over my mental "Titanic" is most realistically de- burst into tears shortcomings. If you and I both pleted. From the humblo to the "That is correct."
thought of the purse, don't you sublime, and back to the point ren! "worth-while" also where his the wily doctor "And was Mrs. Breedon the only suppose
the ex- at the thought of her? If this Mise effort begins-this is "I trust," added Markham, "you witness to your presence will not augment my suspicions by auitorium between these hours?" Finckle were the type that could perience of young John Breen "I am afraid that is so. You see, suhorned, he would have enlisted which for the insight gives into any attempt at denial.".
after ten o'clock at night I never her perjurious services two days one phase of life, makes of for-ring the bell, I let myself in with ago, and she would have been men- "Titanic" one of the most notablo tioned, along with the comatose productions that has been screened my own key."
"And I suppose that I may be Mrs. Breedon, as a witness to his at this Theatre. The film should "I say, doctor, what method of! extermination did you threaten permitted to question Mrs. Bree presence at the sanitorium Monday not be missed.
don?" Miss Odell with ?”
Vance was watching the closely. Presently he leaned
ward.
Doctor Lindquist jerked round, regretful. thrusting his head toward Vance.
night.
Doctor Lindquist was profoundly "The fact that he avoided all ́re- ference to the nurse shows that "Mrs. Breedon is a very ill wom-she's not to be wheedled into swear- No, Mark- He drew in a long rasping breath, Lan. She suffered a tremendous ing falsely.
I deliberately put him on his and his whole frame became tense, shock at the time of her husband's ham. Blood sutured his cheeks; and death last summer, and has been guard. Now he'll have to do some question Miss there was twitching of the mus-practically in a semiconscious con-thing before wo cles about his mouth and throat,dition ever since. There are times Finckle. And I'm vain enough to For a moment I was afraid he was when I even fear for her reason. think I know what i'll be." going to lose self-control. But after The slightest disturbance or ex-
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"I am of opinion that the ab- near the power station, when Mr. fession and great food trade or sence of preservatives in perish-R do Zylwa, an Extra Assistant ganisations oblained recently able fooda dnes tend to increase Conservator of Foresta, and n show that the risks of food pol the risk of their becoming infoe-popular aportsman, was drowned soning are undoubtedly increased, ted," he stated in an interview. In attempting to save his two chil
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"Therò la no doubt that the dren who were bathing is a pool Indications that the present out regulations prohibiting the use of and got into difficultios.
Mr. P. G. H. Fender, the Surrey Reserve Fund.103,000,000.00 break of para-typhoid is ending.preservatives have been applied
children cricket captain, was fined 158. at It appears that the too hastily. The course which I Dangers Realised.
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and been the education of the public the pool, which in some parts is his ear to stand too long at the realised by medical mon fever, have occurred in various others, who have the handling of and of the food trade up to the very deep and the water is ex- Piccadilly parking place on July 17. During July, 1951% tons of silver, parts of the 'country since the the nation's food supplies, were use of refrigeration as a method tremely cold. Their father, who introduction of the new regula anticipated in 1926, when the first of preservation. Chemical pre was on the bank, jumped into the valued at £70,000, arrived at Croy-LANOL
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safety, but himself went under and with revolvers. on Pre- refrigeration developed. servatives in certain food-stuffs. partmental Committee
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tives nor effective refrigeration.ed and the body recovered an hour suggestion that the absence of been published in the previous is that we have neither preserva-The water in the pool was drain-
Discussion was then made dif- It is undoubtedly a result of this later.
The deceased leaves a widow cult, since the evidence on which that there have been so many out- not breaks of polsoning over tho the report was based was
country-more, in fact, than have and seven children. He came of published.
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CHINA ON THE SIND OF DE
NOVEMBER, 1917. Authorised Capital .............850.000 164.2 Palden Ospit..... .RTEON Reserve Funde and............ 1,6EDASIUMS HEAD OFFICE FIRING, HONGKONG BRANCHES, 4, Queen's Road Central; Branches and Sub-branches all over Gädd and agrrespondents in Europe, America other parts of wozić..
LONDON BANKERS.
The National Provincial and Union Best of England Kimited,
The Guaranty Trust Company of New York, NEW YOKE BANKERS,—
The Irving National Banks." The Bestse able Trust Company of New Yorker
Enter allowed on Current Amoranta'aaj Fixed Deposits. Tere on application.
Every-description of Banking buslang,
transacted.
Konon' granted 'on approved sestriLING Special facilien Low Hensa Zocobangs.
BHOU 1.CENT
Masical.
THE HO HONG, BANK, LTD.
(Established 1917.3 MAN CAPITAL,
de Paría; Credit Tronnales Banque de "Authoriasd- Caplial, sans Paris et des Pays-Bay; Boclate General. Jatuet
Ta LONDONThe National Provincial and| Paid Up
Union Bank of Engisad, Jadi Comptoir urvo. Klakšilti National d'Escampis de Paris, Oradit Lyonnais.
In NEW YORK-J, P. Morgan & Co.
Interest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits according to arrangamers. The
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
Sale Depoelt Boxes to let.
holdere
paplos
$30,006,
of
HEAD OFFICH)—SINGAPOES. Branches, agencies and Carreopenčania in hi the principal cities of the world, and
Every description of Desking and. Kichaand bosinene trenašated:
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