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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CANAKY MUKDEK CASE

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

"My God, sir!" he exclaimed.

murdered her!"

CHARACTERS.

PHILO VANCE JOHN FX. MARKHAM, Districl Attorney of New York County MARGARET ODELL (THE

"CANARY") CHARLES CLEAVER, a

about-town

KENNETH

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"So that's how they

[here last night, and before I leave I'm going to find out how it was donc.*

Vance gave him a look of pa- tronizing amusement.

apartment, and was there when she returned at eleven."

The youth's eyes opened wide, and his lips fell apart.

"My God, air!" he exclaimed, "So that's how they murdered her!] -laid in wait for herl..." Ho stopped abruptly, auddenly realizing his own proximity to the myster- ious chain of events that had led up

to the crime,

MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1928

soon he came on back and® Baldi

I guess you were right. Then

ho tossed me half a dollar, and went out."

1

"You actually saw him go out! There was a note of disappoint- ment in Markham's voice,

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Way."

One by one the rosy petals ANCHES AND AGENCIES 1→ fall," came Vance's Indolent voice. Batasia "A most amusin', situation!"

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Markham was loath to relin- Canton quish his hope in the criminal b possibilities of this one caller who Kose had come and gone at half past nine.

"What was this man Biko?" he asked. "Can you describe bim

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Spively ant up straight, and bod when he answered, it was with an enthusiasm that showed, he had "But nobody got into her apart taken special note of the visitor. ment while I was on duty," he| "He was good-looking, not so blurted, with frightened emphasis, old maybe thirty. And he had "Nobody! I never left the board on a full-dress suit and patent- from the time she went out until leather pumps, and a pleated silk quitting time."

shirt" "Couldn't any one have come in the side door?",

"What Was it

1

"What, what?" demanded Vance, in aimulated unbelief, leaning over unlocked?" the back of the davenport. "A Spively's tone was startled, "It silk shirt with evening dress! never la unlocked at night. The Most extr-ordin'ry!" Janitor bolts it when he leaves at aix."

"And you didn't unbolt it last night for any purpose? Think!"

"No, alr, I didn't" He shock his head earnestly.

"Oh, a lot of the best dressers

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Mexico City, Aug. 6. An Insanity defonce for Jone are wearing them," Spively ex de Leon by Toral, who shot to plained, with condescending pride. death General Alvaro Obregon,

OURIENT ACCOUNTS epaned in LOKAL. "It's all the fashion for dancing,"

the request of his CURRENCY and FIXED DEPOSITE received "You don't say-really !" Vance

CURRENCY AND ETABLING DE tarma appeared dumbfounded. "I must attorneys for expert opinion da for one year or shorter periode is. LOCAL

And, beto whether the assassin suffers i which will be quoted on application. "And you are positive that no one look into this.

Brum-from "nervous infirmity." got into the apartment through the the bye, when this Beau

General Amado Aguirre, Gov- front door after Miss Odell left!" mel of the silk shirt paused by

"Positive. I tell you

I didn't the front door, did he take his ernor of Lower California, to- proposals to the leave the board the whole time, cigarette from a long flat silver day sent and nobody could've got by me case carried in his lower waist- Governors of all Mexican Slatested by the BONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

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Calles: continue two obtained on application.

HONGKONG BHANGHAI only one person that called and ask-

The youth looked at Vance in President

years after December 1st, the ond | BANKING CORPORATION. ed for here."

admiring astonishment. "Oh So some one did call!"! "How did you know?" he ex-under the present law.

General Aguirre would make Anapped Markhum. "When was claimed. it? And what

"Simple deduction," Vanco ex-applicable to President Calles the your memory before you answer." plained, resaming his recumbent constitutional amendment which extended the presidency from "It wasn't anything important," posture. "Large metal cigarette the youth assured him, genuinely cases carried in the waistcoat pocket four to six years. frightened. "Just a fella who somehow go with Bilk shirts for came in and rang her bell and went evening wear." right out again."

happened 7-Jog

"Never mind whether it was important or not." Markham's teno was cold and peremptory. "What time did he call?"

come

"About half past nine." "And who was he?" "A young fella I've seen here several times to nee Odell, I don't know his name." "Tell me exactly what took

Miss

Again Spively swallowed hard and weited his lips.

"Y know, Markham," he said, "I'm not blessed with the gift of man-psychie Inspiration, but I have one

of those strange, indescribable feel-place." pursued Markham. ings, as the minor poets say, that if you really contemplate remaining in

"It was like this," he began, Jus bestrewn boudoir till you've DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST, aircovered how the mysterious visi- with effort. "The fella came in

fashionable neurologist

tar gained adaittance here last und started walking down the hall, Him: Miss Odell TONY SKEEL, a professional bar-night, you'd do jolly well to send and I said to

Klar

veral changes of fresh linen-not and said: 'Oh, well, I'll ring the WILLIAM ELMER JESSUP, telefor your toilet access'ries and isn't in. But he kept on going

o mention your pyjamas. The bell anyway to make sure."

"A telephone call came through soiree planned his entrance and exit just then, and I let him go on, most carefully and perspicacious-He rang the bell and knocked on ly" Markham regarded Vance the door, but of dublously, but made no reply.

phone operator HARRY SPIVELY, telephone ophap who engineered this le

'crator ERNEST ITEATH, Sergeant of the

Homicide Bureau

-1

·

THE STORY THUS FAR

"The gentleman came out of Ming

Tuesday, September 11;

11:15 am.

Heath had stepped out in the ball,

His most black hair, which ar- gentuated the pallor of his face, was leeked back from his forehead with

Odell's apartment about 11:30, and now returned with the day tele- said Jessup, and asked me to call phone operator, a sallow, thin young him a cab. While he was waitingnan who, we learned, was named Miss Odell screamed. We rushed Spively. buck to her door and he knocked. She answered and said everything was all right and for him to go home. About ten minutes later someone called her on the phone and a man's volee angivered from her apartment."

made; and he wore a very shallow noustache which barely extended beyond the alae of his nostrils, He No one else had was dressed in an exaggeratedly, come in, said Jessup, or gone out. dapper fashion, in a dazzling choi The only other means of exit or late-coloured suit cut very close entrance was the side door to the in his figure, a pair of cloth-topped alley, and that had been bolled a buttnard shoes, and a pink skirt the inside the evening before and with a stiff, turn-over collar to was found that way in the morning, match. Yet Margaret Odell's strangled body was found in her apartment the next morning?.

"

CHAPTER X.

"But even if Dubuis does iden- tify those prints," said Markham,

"we'll have to show how the owner

He appeared nervous. and im- audiately sut down in the wicker hair by the door, fingering the sharp crenses of his trousers, and running the top of his tongue over This lips. -

Markham went straight to the point.

"I understand you were at the

of them got into this place last switchboard yesterday afternoon

night. He'll claim, of course, they and last night until ten o'clock. la

were made prior to the crime."

"Well, It's a sure thing," declared

that correct?

Spively swallowed hard, and nad-

Heath stubbornly, "that there was dvd his hend. "Yes, sir."

some man in here last night when

"What time did Miss Odell go Odell got back from the theatre, out to dinner?"

and that he was still here until after

"About seven o'clock, I'd just

the other man left at half past sent to the restaurant next door eleven. The woman's servams and for some aundwiches"

"Did she go alone?"! Markham in-

the answering, of the phone call at

twenty minutes to twelve prove it.terrupted his explanation.

And ainee Doc Doromus said that' the murder took place before mid- night, there's no getting away from

"No. A fella called for her." "Did you know this 'felin'?". "I'd seen him a couple of times

the fact that the guy who was hid-calling on Miss Odell, but I didn't ing in here did the job.”

know.

know who he was."

"What did ho look like?" Mark-

"That appears incontrovertible,"ham's question was uttered with agreed Markham. "And I'm in-hurried impatience. clined to think it was some one ahe! Spively's description of the girl's She probably creared escort tallled with Jessup's de when he first revealed himself, and scription of the man who had ac then, recognizing him, calmed down companied her home, though Spive- and told the other man out in the ly was more voluble and less precise hall that nothing was the matter than Jessup had been. ....Later on he strangled her." Miss Odell had gone out at seven "And, I might suggest," added and returned at clevon with the Vance, "that his place of hiding was same man. that clothes-press."

"Now," resumed Markham, put-

Patently,

"Sure," the Sergeant concurred. ting an added stress on his words, "But what's bothering me. Is how "I want to know who else called on he got in here. The day operator Miss Odell between the time she who was at the switchboard until went out to dinner and ten o'clock ten last night told me that the man when you left the switchboard." who called and took Odellyout to Spively was puzzled by the ques- dinner was the only visitor she tion, and his thin arched eyebrows

flifted and contracted. had."

"I don't understand," he stam- Markham gave a grunt of exas-

mered. "How could any one call penation.

"Bring the day man in here," ha on Miss Odell when she was out?"

"Some one evidently did," sald ordered. "We've got to straighten this thing out. Somebody got in Markham. "And he got into her

Course there wasn't any answer; and pretty

(To Be Continued.)

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