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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1928.

KANAKY MUKDEK CASE

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

CHARACTERS

PHILO VANCE

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

ODELL (THE MARGARET

"CANARY")

CHARLES CLEAVER," a man-

about-town

KENNETH SPOTSWOODE,

manufacturer

LOUIS MANNIX, an importer DR, AMBOISE LINDQUIST,

telephone operalòr

up to your office budget--the game was most successful.... Y sec, I attained the main object of my evening's entertainment."

ple."

"Lord no! What a priceless no- tioni Skeel didn't want anyone to know he was there. Why should he have staged auch a masterpiece "Oh I remember" said Mark of idlocy? That certainly isn't the ham vaguely, as if the matter, be-explanation. When we find the on- ing of slight importance, had for awer it will be reasonable and sim- the moment eluded. his memory. "I believe you were going to usc tain who murdered the Odell girl." "Amazin' memory! ... Yes, I alot fall the hint that I might be able to clarify the situation today."

"And whom am 2 to arrest Vance took a drink of coffee and slowly lit a cigarette,

TONY SKEEL, a professional bur-

glor

WILLIAM

ELMER JESSUr, fashionable neurologist HARRY SPIVELY, telephone op

erator

ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the

Homicide Burenu.

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"I'm quite convinced, 'y know, that you won't believe me," he re- turned, in an oven, matter-of-fact voice. "But it was Spotswoode who killed the girl."

smiled "That's encouraging," Markham. "But

proceed with rensons for Spotswoode's your guilt."

"Threo of my quartette, then were potential murderers," Vance ro- sumed. Accordingly, I requested an evening of social relaxation, that I might put them under the psychological microscope, as it

were.

"Although Spotswoode's ancestry was wholly consistent with his hav ing been the guilty one, neverthe- less I confess I thought that "You don't tell me!" Markham Cleaver or Mannix had committed THE STORY THUS FAR

spoke with undisguised irony. "So the crime; for, by their own state- Spotswoode! My dearments, either of them could have Skeel's finger prints had been it was found in the apartment of the mur- Vance, you positively bowl te over done it without contradicting any of the known, circumstances of the dered Margaret Odell, but Vance I would telephone Heath at once to believes Skeel had been hiding in polish up his handcult's, but, un-situation. # closet while the strangler did fortunately, miracles--such his work. Mannix, Dr. Lindquist strangling persons from across and Cleaver all lie about their own are not recognized possibili whereabouts the night of the mur-ties in this day and age.. der. Spotswoode, who had called let me order you another crois

Vance extended his hands in a theatrical gesture of exasperated despair. after

on the girl,, had rushed to her door sant." at the sound of a scream but had been reassured through the door that nothing was wrong. Later Skeci is found strangled, promising to reveal the durer. Vance has Markham invite Cleaver, Spotswoode and Manuix to his apartment for a game of

mur-

Do

08 "Therefore, when Mannix de. clined your invitation to play poker last night, I put Cleaver to the first tost. I wig-wagged to Mr. Allen, and he straightway proceed- ed to perform his first feat of pres-] tidgitation."

(To be Continued.)

"For an educated, clvilized man, Markham, there's something down- right primitive about the way you cling to optical illusions. I say,

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or must be done to disentangle you attraction until Saturday, Monte dishonoured and kills his superior a gratuity, and who has been in morning and spent the bour Bo before lunch checking a cata- from the Lorcici of legal facts. Blue is the leading player, taking officer in a sword duel." She her-somewhat straitened circumstances logue of ceramics which were to You're so deficient in imagination, the part of a dullwitted, alow in self, however, is attracted to the in Singapore, was greatly affected action young man who, however, greatest Loreador in Spain, who when the news of his good fortune be auctioned next day at the Ander-old thing."

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The difficult role of Carmen is years of age. entered the Stuyvesant Club and me close my eyes and picture Spots- tures in the course of a charming joined Markham in the grill. woode sitting upstairs here in the romance. Leila Hyams is the portrayed by Dolores Del Rio in a as a dance remarkably realistic manner, while "The lunch is on you, old thing," Stuyvesant Club and extending his heroine, being cast

be attracted by her beauty. gald Vance. "But I'll make it easy. armis to 71st street. But I simply hall girl who is fought for by the part of the greatest toreador, ia to All I want is a rasher of English couldn't do it. I'm a commonplace many, but finally won only by taken by Vietor McLaglen. There The efforts she makes to win him are of an entertaining and often bacon, a cup of coffee, and a crois chap. Such a vision would strike The Brute." The picture has an able supporting cast.

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The capriciousness of Carmen, laughable nature, while the film' 80%l."

You capable hands of Clyde Cook. Most whose fiery and tantalising nature ends in a dramatic and rather Markham gave him a mocking of a hasheesh dream.

yourself don't use Cannabis indica, of the action of the picture takes surrounds her with numerous unexpected manner. smile.

"Loves of Carmen" combines i "I don't wonder you're economiz-do you."

Put that way, the idea docs place in the picturesque Death admirers, is the main foundation |

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Vance's eyebrows went up.

"I rather fancied my luck was most extr'erdin'ry."

You held four of a kind twice, and lost both hands."

"But, y ace," blandly confessed Vance," happened to know both times exactly what eards my op ponenta held.

"

Markham stared at him in amaze- ment.

"Quite so," Vance assured him, "I had arranged before the game, d'ye nee, to have those particular hands dealt." He smiled benignly.

sound a bit supernatural. And yet; Certum rat quia impossible cat. I rather like that maxim, don't know; for, in the present case, the impossible is true. Oh, Spots- woode's guilty-no doubt about it. And I'm going to cling tenaciously to that apparent hallucination.

own-as

"Moreover, I'm going to try to lure you into its tolls; for your we absurdly say good nume is at stake. As it happens, Markham, you are at this moment shielding the real murderer from publicity."

"I can't tell you, old chap, how I Vanes had spoken with the easy admire your delleney in not refer- ring to my rather unique guest, assurance that precludes argument; Mr. Allen, whom I had the bad and from the altered expression on taste to introduce so unceremón Markham's Ince I could see he was

moved. * jously into your party. I owe you apology. in explanation and an

"Mr. Allen is not what one would call a charming companion. He is deficient in the patrician elegan- cles, and his display of jewelry was a bit vulgar-though I infinitely preferred his diamond studs to his piebald tie. *

"Tell me," he said, "how you ar- rived at your fantastic belief in Spotswoode's guilt."

Vance crushed out his cigarette and folded his arms on the table.

"We begin with my quartette of Cleaver, possibilities Mannix, Lindquist and Spotswoode. Realiz "But Mr. Allen has his pointain, as I did, that the crime was decidedly he has his points. He carefully planned with the sole ob- ranks with Andy Blakely, Canfield, eet of murder, I knew that only and Honest. John, Kelly as an in- some one hopelessly ensnared in the door soldier of fortune. In fact, lady's net could have done it. And our Mr. Allen is none other than no suitor outside of my quartette could have been thus enmeshed, or

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Doc Wiley Allen, of fragrant we would have learned of him. memory,"

"Doe Allen Not the notorious Therefore, one of the four was old crook who

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"Now, Lindquist was eliminated "The same. And, incidentally, when we found out that he was bed- one of the cleverest.card manipu- ridden in a hospital at the time of lators in n once lucrative but'shindy Skeel's murder; for obviously the both profession."

BAMO person committed "You mean, this fellow Allen crimea- stacked the cards last night?" "But," interrupted Markham, Markham was indignant.

"Spotswoode had an equally good "Only for the two hands you alibi for the night of the Canary's mentioned. Allen, if you happen to murder. Why eliminate one and remember, was the dealer both not the other?" times. I who purposely sat on his "Sorry, but I can't agree with right, was careful to cut the cards you. Being prostrated at a known in accordance with his instructions.place surrounded by incorruptible And you really must admit that go and disinterested witnesses, buth stricture can possibly attach to my preceding and during an event, is doception, inasmuch as, the only one thing; but being actually on beneficiaries of Allen's manipulathe ground, as Spotswoode was that tlons were Cleaver and Spotswoode, fatal evening, within a few minutes Although Allon did deal me four of the time the lady was murdered, of a kind on each occasion, I lost and then being alone in a taxicab heavily both times."

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"You appear to have been in a woode took his departure."

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