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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CANARY MUKDEK CASE

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

"Are you absolutely certain that no one could have been hidden in these rooms at the time you went home?

CHARACTERS

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

"CANARY") CHARLES CLEAVER,

about-Lown

KENNETH

manufacturer

SPOTSWOODE;

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LOUIS MANNIX, an importer · DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST,

fashionable neurologist TONG SKEEL, a professional bur-

klar WILLIAM

FLEMER JESSUP, telephone operator HARRY SPIVELY, telephone op

ERNEST HEATII, Sergeant of the

Homicide Burent

erator

THE STORY THUS FAR

A scream had come from Mar- Haret Odell's apartmert. The man who had just left rushed back to her room and Kucekpi, "She an swered," said Jessup, "And told him everything was all right and to.go

Vance alaod up and stretched aimself.

"The absorblir problem, it would seem, remains in statu quò,” he re- marked airily, "How, oh how, did the fair Margaret's executioner get in?"

"You know, Mr. Markham," rum- bled Heath sententiously "I've been thinking that the fellow may have come here caller in the afternoon --say, before List side door was tocked. Odell herself may have let him in and hidden him when the other man came to take her to dinner."

the names of any men she was in the habit of going out, with 7**

"Miss Odell nover mentioned any names to me," the woman said. "She was very careful about it, too -accretive, you might say. You see, I'm only here in the daytime, and the gentlemen she knew gen erally came in the evening."

"And you never heard her speak of anyone of whom she was fright öned-anyone she had reason fo fear?"

"No, sir-although there was one man she was trying to get rid of. He was a bad character-I wouldn't have trusted him anywhere and told Bins Odell she'd better look out for him. But she'd known him a long time, I guess, and had been pretty soft on him once.".

"How do you happen to know this?"

TUESDAY,,

"It would appear that way, wouldn't it, now? But, then-who knows?-it may prove to be your brightest and most comfortin' clue.

Furthermore, we learned that someone evidently locked himself in that clothes-press, as witness the! shifting of the key, and that, more! over, this occultation did not occur until the abigail had gone, or, let us say, after seven o'clock,"

"Sure," said Heath with sour facetiousness; "when the side door; was bolted and nd operator was sitting in the front hall, who swears nobody came in that way." "It is a bit mystifyin'," Vance conceded sadly,

"Mystifying? It's impossible!" grumbled Markham.

Heath, who was now staring with meditativo pugnacity into the closet, shook his head helplessly...

"What I don't understand," he ruminated, "is why, If the fellow was hiding in the closet, he didn't ransack it when he came out, like he did all the rest of the apart- ment."

matter.

"Sergeant," said Yance, "you've! put your finger on the crux of the Y'know, the nent, undisturbed aspect of that closet! "One day, about a week ago," rather auggests that the crude por- son who rifled these charming the mald explained, "1 came in after lunch, and he was with her rooms omitted to give it his atten in the other room. They didn't tlon, because it was locked on the

Inside and he couldn't open. it." hear me, because the portières were draw. He was demanding money, and when she tried to put him off he began threatening her. And she said something that showed she'd given him money before. I made know it. And we can't introduco a noise and then they stopped ar- guing; and pretty soon he went even one Into this apartment log- ically. Distressin', ain't it?" (To Be Continued.)

out."

"Come, come!" protested Mark- ham. That theory implies that there were two unknown persons

in here last night."

Vance sighed. "Harrow and alas!

Information has been recolved

"What did this man look like?" Markham's interest was reviving. "He was kind of thin--not very tall-and I'd say he was around Thirty. He had a hard face-good-by friends in the Colony, that Mr. looking, some would say and pale Loule Lauger, late of the Magazin blue eyes that gave you the shivers. General, and Mr. Mangin, late of He always wore his hair grensed the Far East Oxygen Company, back, and he had a little yellow whe left on a prospecting trip to New Guinea, have been successful moustache pointed at the ends."

in discovering gold: It la stated "Ah!" said Vance. "Our that shipments of are to the coast olo!"

the neighbourhood of "Has this man been here since?" are in

$10,000 monthly. asked Markhum.

J

"I don't know, sir-not when 1 was here."

More than half the private motor- "That will be all," said Mark-cars now on the road are being padi for by instalments, saya au ham; and the woman went out.

"She didn't help us much," com-authority. plained Heath.

"What!" exclaimed Vance, "I think she did remarkably well. She cleared up several mooi points."

"And just what portions of her information do you consider par- tieularly illuminating ?" asked Markham, with ill-concealed annoy- ance.

"We now know, do we not re- 11. looks that way," Markham joined Vance serenely, "that no one admitted. "B.ing the maid in here was lying hidden in here when the again, and we'll see what we canIndy, departed yesterevening." Ifind out,"

"Instead of that fact be

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When the woman had been | ful," "retorted Markham, "I'd say rought in Markha questioned it noded materially to the compli her as to her actions during the cations of the situation." afternoon, and learned that she had gone out at about four to do some shopping, and had returned about B4lf past five.

"Did Miss Odell have any visi or with her when you got back ?" "No, sir," was the prompt an-

home." Earlier in the evening,wer. "She was alone.' said Spively, another man bad call-

"Did she mention that anyone

"No, sir."

ed for the "Cantry," but had been had called?

told she was out. He satisfied him-

self by knocking at her door and

"Now," continued

Markham,

the eaving. The next morning"could anyone have been hidden in the strangled body of. Margaret this apartment when you went home Odell was found in her appartment. at seven?**

The side door to the alley was Lolied

The maid was frankly astonished,

on the inside; the murderer must and even a little horrifled,

have left the front way, Both

"Where could anyone hide?" she

phone operators said no one other asked, looking round the apart than the men they mentioned halment, called. "But n man's voice an-

**There are several possible swered from her apartment when places," Markham suggested: "in someone phoned about a quarter to the bathroom, in one of the clothes- twelve," said Jessup.

...

CHAPTER XI Markham, clearly annoyed.at, the

closets, under the bed, behind the [window draperies.............

The woman shook her head de- cisively. "No one could have hid den," she declared. "I was in the

Interruption, eut in sharp with bathroom half a dozen times, and

I got Miss Odell's gown out of the clothes-closet in the bedroom. As

demand for the operator to proceed with his description.

"He wore his hair smothed soon as it began to get dark I drew down," Spively continued "and all the window shades myself. And you could see it was kind of long; as for the bed, It's built almost could the floor no one but it was cut in the latest style. down to And he had a small waxed mous-squeeze under " (I glanced tache; and there was a big ear-closely at the bed and realized that nation in the lapel of his coat, this statement was quite true.) and he had on chamois gloves...." "What about the clothes closets "My word!" murmured Vance, in this room?" Markham put the "A gigolo!"

question hopefully, but again the maid shook her head.

Markham, with the incubus of

the night clubs riding him heavily, "Nobody was in there. That's

frowned and took a deep breath. Vance's observation. evidently had launched him on an unpleasant train of thought.

where I keep my own hat and coat, and I, took them out myself when I was getting ready to go. I even put away one of Mian Odell's old

Was this man short or tall?" he dresses in that closet before I left." asked. next.

"And you are absolutely certain," "He wasn't so tall-about my reiterated Markham, "that no one height," Spively explained. "And could have hidden anywhere in these rooms at the time you went

"he was sort of thin."

"Absolutely, sir."

The woman paused and looked

There was an easily recognizable home?" undercurrent of admiration in his

"Do you happen to remember if tone, and I felt that this youthful telephone operator had seen in Miss the key of this clothes closet was Odell's caller a certain physical and on the inside or the outside of the Bartorial ideal.

Hock when you opened the door to This palpable admiration, coupled get your hat?" with the somewhat outre clothes: affected by the youth, permitted us thoughtfully at the closet door.

"It was on the outside, where it to read between the lines of his re- marks a fairly accurate description always was," she announced, after. of the man who had unsuccessfully several moments' reflection. "I re- rung the dead girl's bell at half member because it caught in the chiffon of the old dress I put past nine the night before.

away,"

When Spively had been dismissed, Markham rose and strode about the

Markham frowned and then re-

room,, his head enveloped in asumed his questioning. cloud of cigar smoke, while Heath

knit.

"You any you don't know the

Bat stolidly watching him, his brows name of Miss Odell's dinner com-

Ipanion last night. Can you tell us

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COUNSEL'S TWO BRIEFS.

EXPLANATION OF AN UNUSUAL PROCEEDING.

When an arbitration case was called at Bow County Court re- cently, Mr. Duckworth (for a respondent firm) told Judge Owen Thompson, K.C., that Mr. Shake- speare was not only counsel for applicant, but was acting for a third party joined in the proceed- inge, an unusual and Improper procedure."

"It does not appeal to one's sense of natural justice that counsel can appear on both sides,' he said.

Mr. Shakespeare sald that be- fore he consented to take the two briefs he satisfied himself that the two issues were clear and distinct, and that he could, there- fore, act for the third party. It seemed to be thought that the two arbitrations could be heard toge-. ther, but they could not.

The case then proceeded.

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