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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

KANAKY MUKDEK CASE

S. S. VAN DINE AUTHOR THE BENSON MURDER CASE

CHARACTERS

PHILO VANCE.

JOHN F-X MARKHAM, District Attorney of New York County

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heavy-set bronzed man of about may seem wholly scifish for me foriy, alert but ill st case.

even to auggest It-but, in any "Traffic Officer Phiops arrived event, wouldn't the testimony of the from Boonton a little while ago, telephone operator as to the hour! adid Markham, by way of introduc-of Miss Odell's return and her calls tion. "Cleaver is expected at any for help be sufficient to establish moment now. He has an appoint the facts, without my corrobora-

tion" manment here at half past N¥c.”

· MARGARET ODELL (The

"CANARY")

CHARLES CLEAVER, a

about-lown

KENNETHI SPOTSWOODE,

manufacturer

Fl

Vance drew up a chair." "I do hope he's a punctual beg

So do I." returned Markham viciously.

gar."

LOUIS MANNIX, an importer DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST, a

fashionable neurologist

Less than ten minutes later TONY SKEEL, a professional bur-

Cleaver entered the rolunda from glar WILLIAM ELMER JESSUP, tele-the street, paused at the deak, and

phine operator HARRY SPIVELY, telephone op-

erator ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the

Homicide Bureau

THE STORY THUS FAR

"I have thought of that, of course; and if it is at all possible to prepare the case for the prosecu- tion without summoning you to ap- pear, I assure you it will be done. At the moment, I can see no neces- sity of your being called as a wit news. But one never knows what sauntered into the lounge-room. | may turn up. If the defense There was no escaping the obser- hinges on a question of exact time, vation point Markham had chosen; and the operator's testimony la and as he walked by us he paused and exchanged greetings. Mark- hum detained him a moment with a few casual questions; and Cleav- or passed on.

"That the man you ticketed, of- ficer?" asked Markham, turning to Phipps.

Phipps was scowling perlexedly. "It looks something like him, sir; there's a kind of resemblance. But it ain't him." He shook his hand "No, sir, it ain't him. The fellow hung a summons on was stouter than this gent, and wasn't as tall."

"You're positive?"

The jewel case in the apartment of the murdered Margaret Odell Kad been opened with a steel chis- el after a futile battering with a poker. This leads Vance to the theory that Skeel did not commit the murder, even though his fin- ger-prints were found, but Was hidden in the clothes closet while Che girl was strangled by some

one else. Vence traces a pleture to Alye La Fosse, who informs him that Louis Mannix was in her apartment from, ten-thirty of the ..evening of the murder until two in the morning. Vance also learns something that makes him ques-substantial fee, tion Cleaver's alibi.

CHAPTER XXIX "What about the summons for speeding?" Markham asked.

"Yes, sir-no mistake. The guy tagged tried to argue with me, and then he tried to slip me fiver to forget it. I had my head- light on him full."

Phipps was dismissed with a

Vance sighed. "My worthless ex- istance is to be prolonged. Sad. But you must try to hear it.

I say, Markbum, what does Pop Cleaver's brother look like?"

"That's it," nodded Markham. That's for you to expinin," said "I've met his brother; he's shorter Vance. "But if you'll take my ad- and atouter....This thing is gel

I think I'll have vice you'll send for this Bonton ting beyond me. catchpole, and let him have a look it out with Cleaver now."

lle started to rise, but Vance at Pop. If he says Cleaver is the man he ticketed, I'll humbly do forced him back into his seat.

"Don't be impetuous Cultivate away with myself."

"Well! That makes it worth try-patience. Clever's not going to do ing. I'll have the officer at the bunk and there are one or two Stuyvenant Club this afternoon, and prelimis'ry steps strongly indicat I'll point out Cleaver to him...... ed. Mannix and Lindquist still se- What other staggering revelations duce my curiosity." have au in store?"

"Mannix will bear looking lato." Markham put down his knife and fork and learned back.

Markham clung to his foint. "Neither Mannix or Lindquist is here now, and Cleaver is. And

friend, are you feeling quite nor-night Monday-Simple what?" No

questioned or disqualified for any reason, you may be required to come forward. Otherwise not."

Spotswoode sipped his ginger ale, A little of his depression seemed. to have departed.

"You're very

venerous, Mr. Markham. wish there was some adequate way of thanking you." He looked up hesitatingly. "I pre- sume you are still opposed to my visiting the apartment... know you think me unreasonable. and perhaps sentimental; but the girl represented something in my life that I find very difficult to tear out. I don't expect you to under- stand it--I hardly understand it myself."

(To be Continned. I

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I want to know why he lied to mecapades. After many adventures, many gereen romances,

including fall from the window lured together in "Lady Winder- "I'm overcome. Such Himalayan about that summons."

that evidence " can tell you that," said Vaner of a skyscraper, the youth, in a mere's Fan." which will be screen-actress In Britain before the London Benkers-National-Provincial Bank, Hagacity. With against him, he should be arrested "He wanted you to think he was in surprise climax, proves himself a ed at the Star Theatre to-day and World War. nt once...... Vance, my dear old the wilds of New Jersey at mid-hero of the hour by rounding up to-morrow. Based on the famous a gang of criminals, receives a play by Oscar Wilde, the story mal? No dizzy spella lately?

The inference is a credit to your blue uniform and wins the girl of is a dramatic one and tells of a recompense. There beautiful woman's sacrifice for shooting pains in the head? Knee Intelligence! But I hope you don't his heart as jerks all right?"

seriously think that Cleaver is is an excellent supporting cast her daughter that the latter may "Further more, Doctor Lindquist guilly. It's possible he knows which includes Eddie, Gribbon, continue to enjoy the things in was widly infatuated with the something but I certainly cannot George Selgman and Warner life which had been hers since childhood. Directed by the famous Canary, and insanely jealous. Re-picture him as a strangler.”

director Ernest Lubitch, the stars Laura La Plante: "And why?" cently threatened to take a pistol

Captivating Laura La Plante in are supported by a strong cast of and hold a little pogrom of his

"He's not the type. It's incon-

Burt ceivable-even if there were evi- the leading player in "Butterflies players, which includes own."

in the Rain," which comes to the Lytell, May McAvoy and Helen dence against him."

and to- Dunbar, The psychological judg-World Theatre to-day "Ahi ment! You eliminate Cleaver be "Ah! That's my secret."

cause you don't think his nature Markham was annoyed.

harmonizes with the situation. I "Why so mysterious?"

say, doesn't that come perilously "Needs must, old chap. Gave my near being an esoteric hypothesis? word, and all that sort of thing, or a metaphysical deduction?.. And I'm a bit quixotie, don't y

"However, I don't entirely agree know too much Cervantes in may with you in your application of the youth." He spoke lightly, but theory to Cleaver. That fisheyed Markham knew him too well to gambler has unsuspected potential- --push the qucation.

ities for evil. But with the

That's beter." Markham sa up. "Where did you get this in- formation ?"

"I got something else on Man- nix, sir; thought you might want

In less than five minutes after Lacory itself I am wholly in accord. we had returned to the district at- And behold, my dear Markham: you torney's office Heath came in.

yourself apply psychology in its abecedarian implications, yet ridi gule my application of it in its to add it to the report I turned in higher developments. Consistency yesterday, Burke secured pic may be the hobgoblin of little ture of him, and showed it to the minds, y'know, but it's nume the -phane operators at Odell's house, less a priceless jewel... How

He's about a cup of tea?" Both of 'em recognized it. been there several times, but it We sought the Pulm Room, and wasn't the, Canary he called on. I sat down at a table near the en- was the woman in Apartment 2 trance.Vance ordered oolong tea, She's named Frisbee, and used to but Markham and I took black he one of Mannix's fur models. He's coffee. A very capable four-piece been to see her several Imes dur orchestra was playing, and we eat ing the past six months, and has restfully in comfortable chairs taken her out once or twice; but without spealting, Markhamn was he hasn't called on her for a month tired and dispirited, and Vance was or more.......Any good?"

"Can't teil," Markham Vance an inquisitive look. thanks for the information, geant."

We had been there perhaps half "By the bye," said Vance dulcet-fan hour when Spotswoode strulled Jy, when Heath had left us, "I'm in. He stopped and spoke, and feeling tophole. No pains in the Markham asked him to join us. He, head; no-dizzy spells. Knee-jerka too, appeared depressed, and his perfect."

eyes showed signa of worry. "Delighted. Still, I can't charge a man with murder because he calls on his fur model."

busy with the problem that had shot absorbed him continuously since "But Tuesday morning.. Never before Serhad I seen him so preoccupied.

"I hardly dare ask you, Mr. Mark ham," he said difdently, after he had ordered a ginger ale, "but how do my chances stand now of being

"You're so hasty! Why should you charge him with murder?" called as a witness?" Venco rose and yawned. "Come, i

"That fate is certainly, no nearer

Van. I'd rather like to gaze on than when I last saw you," Mark- Pernob's tomb at the Metropolitan ham replied. "In fact, nothing bas this afternoon. Could you bear it?" happened to change the situation At the door he paused. "I say, materially."' Markham, what about the Boonton bafiift?"

Markham rang for Swacker.

"And the man you had under suspicion?"

"He's still under suspicion, but

"I'll see to it at once. Drop in no arrest has been made. Wo'rs

at the club around five, if you feel ko It. I'll have the officer there then, as Cleaver is sure to come in. before diner."

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hoping, however, that something

will break before long.".

"And I suppose you still want me to remain in the city?"

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