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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

CANARY" MUKDEK CASE

S. S.VAN DINE AUTHOR OF THE BENSON MURDER CASE

"Fancy that, now! "One"can't lock a closet door with the key on

the inside-pan mo, Sergeant? :

pointing to two small gilded chairs which had been overturned, and a fragile tip-table that lay on Its sido near the piano.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1928.

THE DISARMAMENT

COMPROMISE.

AMERICA RAISES NO OBJECTIONS.

Washington, Aug. 1.` Officials here apparently, scono objection to thu compromise worked out by Great Britain and France in an effort to end the naval disarmu- ment deadlock arising from the Pre- Disarmament Geneva timinary Conference.

Conference

Ulifs

It is understood that the compro- "Oh, they fit into the ensemble," mise Includes an assignment of total returned Yance: "They're all light combat tonnage to cach nation and pieces of furniture which could will permit the resumption of the casily have been knocked over or Disarmament thrown nside, by the hasty gentle, autumn. man who rifled these rooma."

"The lamp might have been knocked over in the same way argued Heath.

Vance shook his hend. "Not ten able, Sergeant. It has a solid bronze base, and lan't at all top- heavy; and being set well back on the table, it wasn't in any one's way.... That lump was upset deliberately."

The sorgeant was allent for while. Experience had taught him not to underestimate Vance's ob; servations and, I must confess, as

The deadlock arose through France's rejection of proposals to Britain has limit submarines. ugreed to a limitation of craft used as a defence against submarines.

on the carpet as soon as the 'cap tain finishes his job here."

He turned to Dubois, who, hav- ing completed his search for finger- prints in the bedroom, was now inspecting the piano,

"Any luck yet?"

The captain shook his head, "Gloves," he answered succinctly, "Same here," supplemented Bel- lamy grutty, on his knees before the escritoire.

looked at the lamp lying on its side on the end of the "brary" table, well removed from any of the other disordered objects in the

Vance, with a sardonic smile, room, Vance's argument seemed to posscas considerable force. I tried turned and walked to the window, hard to fit it into a hasty recon-where he stood looking out and struction of the crime, but was smoking placidly, as if his entirel utterly unable to do so.

interest in the case had evaporated,

"Anything else that don't seem to fit into the pelare? Heath at length asked.

At this moment the door from the main hall opened, and a short thin little man, with grey hair and a scraggly grey beard, stepped in- side and stood blinking against the vivid sunlight.

Vance pointed with his cigaretto Loward the clothes-closet in the living-room. This closet was along- "Good morning, Profesear," aido of the foyer, in the corner Heath

greeted the newcomer. near the Boule cabinet, directly op-"Glad to see you. I've got some- posite the end of the davenport thing nifty, right in your line."

"You might let your mind dally

(To Be Continued.) and impatient; apparently he re a moment with the condition of garded the torn gown as Irrelevant that clothes-press," suggested Vance carelessly, "You will note that, the simple main issue.

went on, though the door's ajar, the con "Moreover," Vance "there is the corsage. If she her-tents have not been touched. And in the the only area had torn it off while being it's about strvingled, it would doubtless have apartment that hasn't been disturb- fallen to the floor: for, remember, ed." she offered considerable resistance.

Heath walked over and looked puzzle.on another page. ler body was twisted sidewise; her into the closet. aknee was drawn up, and one alip "Well, anyway, I'll admit that's FALL

per had been kicked off,

"Now, no bunch of silken posies," he finally conceded.

PHILO VANCE JOHN F-X. MARKHAM, District Attorney of New York County (THE MARGARET ODELL

"CANARY"). CHARLES, CLEAVER, a man

about-town KENNETH SPOTSWOODE, a

manufacturer

LOUIS MANNIX, an importer.. DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST,

fashionable neurologist

TONY SKEEL, a professional bur-

klar

Vance had followed him indolent-

WILLIAM ELMER JESSUP, tele-during duch commotion. Even der.

phone operator

HARRY SPIVELY, telephone o

erator

ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the

Homicide Hureat

·

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Here is the solution to the

RILE, RILL, FILL

RISE,

TROJAN

TOURERS

one, Solid Tyres-

is going to remain in a dady's lap ly, and stood gazing over his shoul- when indies sit still, their gloves

"And my word!" he exclaimed and hand-bags and handkerchiefs suddenly. The key's on the in- and programinies and serviettes ar side of the lock. Fancy that, now! forever sliding off their laps on One can't lock a closet door with to the thor, don't y' know."

"But if your argument's correct," the key on the inside-can THE STORY THUS FAR

protested, Markham, then the sergeant?" When the stranded body of wearing of the lace and the snatch- Margaret Odell, kwn to Jroading off of the corsage could have been done only after she was dead. way as the "Camry," was found in And I can't see any object in such her apartment, New York found itself enfronted with one of theseless vandalism."

"Neither ean 1, sighed Vance, most battling murders in its hisIt's all devilish queer? tory. Vance, student of phycholowy

Heath looked at him sharply. and of crime, is taken to this That's the serond time you've Apartment by Markham. The

violently disordered that. But there's nothing The medical examiner gives it what you'd call queer about this his opinion that to murder was. It is a straightawny case." committed about 11:30 the night spoke with an overtone of in- preceding.

"The key may not mean any|| The "NO-TROUBLE" CAR: thing," Heath observed honefully. "Maybe the door was never locked. Anyhow, we'll find out about thất pretty soon, I'm holding the mald outside, and I'm going to have her

rooms

are

CHAPTER V.

"I guess that's all, doc," Heath decided. "' get the body to the mortuary right away. Let's have the post-mortent as soon as you can,"

"You'll get a report in the morn- Ing." And despite his apparent eagerness to be off, Ductor Dore- mus stepped into the bedroom and shook bands with Heath and Markham and inspector Moran be fore he hurried out.

Heath followed him to the door, and I heard him direct the oflicer outside to telephine the depart-

sistence, like anian arguing: against his own insecurity of opinion. "The dress might've been Horn almost any time," he went on the flower stubbornly, "And might've got caught in the, lace of her skirt so it couldn't roll off,"

"And how would you explain the jewel-case, Sergeant?" asked Vanee,

"Well the fellow might've tried the poker, and, then, finding it wouldn't work,' used his jimmy:"

"If he had the eficient linmy," countered Vance,, "why did he go in the trouble of bringing the silly poker from the living-room?"

The Sergeant shook his head perplexedly...

"You never can tell why some ment of public welfare to send an of these crooks act the way they ambulance ut once for the girl's do."

body,

"Tuttut!" Vance chided him.

"Such detachment!" Vance sald"There should be no such vord as to Markham. "Here are you atew-never in the bright lexicon of de ing most distressingly over the secting."

passing of one dame fair and

Heath regarded him sharply.

frail, and that blithe medicus is "Was there anything else that worrying only over a sluggish Ilver struck you as queer?" 371 subtle

brought on by early rising."

"What has he to be upset over?"

doubts were, welling up again.

"Well, there's the lamp on the

complained Markham. The news-Lable in the other room.

papers are not riding him with

We were standing near the arch-

spurs. And by the way, what way between the two rooms, and

was the point of your questions about the torn dress?"

Vance lazily inspected the tip of his cigarette.

"Consider," he said. "The lady

Heath turned quickly and looked blankly at the fallen lamp.

that."

"I don't see anything queer about: "It has been upscf-ch, what?"

was evidently taken by surpise; suggested Vance.

for, had there been a struggle be "What if it has?" Heath was forehand, she would not have been frankly

puzzled, "Damn

near

strangled from behind while ait everything in, this apartment has ting down. Therefore, her gown been knocked crooked."

"Ah! But there's a reason for and corsage were undoubtedly in- tact at the time she was seized: most of the other things having conclusion of been disturbed-like the drawers But despite the

closets and your dashing Paraeclaus--the dam- und pigeonholes and age to her toilet was not of a na vases. They all indicate a search; ture that could have been self-in-they're consistent with a raid for Hicted in her struggle for air. Ifloof. But that lamp; "now, d" ye she had felt the constriction of the see, doesn't fit into the picture. gown across her breast, she would it's a false note. It was standing have snatched the bodice itself by on the opposite end of the table putting her fingers inside the band. to where the murder was But, if you noticed, her bodice was mitted, at least five feet away; and intact; the only thing that had it couldn't possibly have been in the struggle. been torn was the deep lace flounce knocked aver

com-

on the outside; and it had been.... No, it won't do. It's got no torn, or rather ripped, by 'a strong business being upset, any more lateral pull; whereas, in the cir-than that pretty mirror over the cumstances, any wrench on her gatelegged table has any busines part would have been downward or being broken. That's why it's

queer." outward."

Inspector Moran was listening in- "What about those chairs and tently, but Heath seemed restless the little table?" asked · Heath,

Lane, Crawford's

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OBREGON MURDER.

FOUR SUSPECTS ARE STILL HELD.

Mexico City, Aug. 2. Four suspects are being held in the San Angel gnul under formal charges of connexion with the assassination of General Alvaro Obregon, it was announced to-day by Juan Correal, the Federal attor ney in charge of the prosecution.

These four are Jose De Leon Toral, Sister Concepcious do la Liata, Senor Mara Altimira and Jorge Fernandez Gallardo,

The father and mother of Toral, the confessed murderer, have been released.

Sixteen nuns who have been in custody for several days have also been freed after questioning.

Dr. Temple, Bishop of Manches- ter recently dedicated a marble tablet in Rugby School Chapel to the memory of Dr. Percival, a former headmaster.

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