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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CANARY MUKDEK CASE

ÞY 5. S. VAN DINE AUTHOR 9 THE BENSON MURDER CASE

CHARACTERS

PHILO VANCE

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

ODELL

"CANARY") .......

(THE

CHARLES CLEAVER; & man

about-town

KENNETH SPOTSWOODE,

manufacturer

a

LOUIS MANNIX, an Importer

DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST,

fashionable neurologist & TONY SKEEL, a professional bur

glar. WILLIAM ELMER JESSUP

telephone operator HARRY SPIVELY, telephone op-

crator

ERNEST HEATH, Sargeant of the

Homicido Bureau,

the

THE STORY THUS FAR Skeel's Anger prints had been found in the apartment of murdered Margaret Odell, Vance believes Skeel had

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of Father Augus-Kowloon pro-molishes all the established land-The body mendous-superb! It bably the most remarkable bluff marks of rationality and Bane tin, was in the Church and will

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"I couldn't help admiring him

The funeral procession com-sim manastød, He had now reached the argu- when he calmly shoved forward all

doubt. menced at St. Margaret'a Church, his chips, knowing, as I did, that mentative, stags of his he held nothing. He staked every. "You say Spotswoode is guilty. Happy Valley, and wound its waY thing, d' ye see, wholly on his con- Yet we know, on. Irrefutable evi-slowly to Leighton Hill Road and viction that he could follow my dence, that five minutes after he then up Morrison Hill Road past reasoning step by step and, in the came out of the apartment the girl the Monument. Most of those who last analysis, outwit mo. It took screamed and called for help.

"He was standing by the switch: attended the fanel wended their courage and daring to do that. And it also took a degree of self-board, and, accompanied by Jessup, way to the Church, where they Hended by orphans of the many confidence which would never have the went to the door and carried on joined the long procession. permitted him to bet on a sure a brief conversation with her, She Catholic Institutions in which was certainly alive then. Then he Father Augustin was actively as thing.

went out the front door, entered "The psychological principles In-taxicab, and drove away, Fifteen sociated during his lifetime, and volved in that hand were identical minutes later he was joined by followed by students of all the with those of the Odell, crime. Judge Redfern as he alighted from Catholic schools in the Colony, the with a the taxicab in front of the club procession was a long one and was threatened Spotswoode powerful hand-a pat hand-just here nearly forty blocks away an impressive sight. Girl orphans ins the girl, no doubt, threatened from the apartment house!

from the Italian and. French Con- but him; and instead of compromising

vents, boys from the St. Louis In- been

"It would have been impossible dustrial School, students of St. Instead of calling mo or laying hiding in a closet while the stran-down-he outreached me; he resort for him to have made the trip in Joseph's College, and the various gler did his work. The aubeced to one supreme coup, though it less time; and, moreover, we have

other Catholic Boya and Girls' quent murder of Skeel, after he meant risking everything.. the chauffeur'a record.. Spots- had promised to reveal the mur My word, Barkham! Can't you woude simply did not have either Schools in Hongkong, were among derer, bears this theory out. Spots see how the man's character, as re- the opportunity or the time to those who formed the lengthy woode, who had called on the girl, vealed in that amazing gesture, commit the murder between half- parade. had rushed to her door at the dovetails with the paychology of the past eleven and ten minutes of

twelve when Judge Redfern met flower-bedecked hears were Chi-Yangtazo Ins., $50 n. sound of a scream, but had been

·reassured through the door that

Markham was silent for a while; him. And, remember, he played nese students of the local semin- nothing was wrong, Vanco has

he appeared to be pondering the poker in the club here until three arles. Behind the henree were to in the morning-hours after the be seen the Rt. Rev. Bishop Val- Markham invite Cleaver, Mannix

matter.

torta, Rev. Fr. Spada, Rev. Fr. No and Spotswoode to his apartment

"But you yourself, Vance, were murder took place." for a poker game, promising to not satisfied at the time," he sub-

val, Rev. Fr. Byrne, S. J., Rev. Fr. name the murderer the next day.mitted at length. "In fact, you

Gallagher, S. J., Rov. Fr. Situ, as And he names Spotswoode!

looked doubtful and worried."

well as Fathers of the Maryknoll "Vance, there's no human way to Mission. The Rev. Brother Direc- "True, old dear. I was no end

round those facts. They're tor of St. Joseph's College and worried. The paychological proof get

so firmly established; and they pre- of Spotswoode's guilt came dashed unexpectedly wasn't lookclude Spotswoode's guilt as effec- members of the staff were Vance paused and looked up. "You perhaps recall the circum-ing for it, don't y know. After tively and finally as though he had present. stances? It was a jack-pot. Allen eliminating Cleaver I had a parti been at the North Pole that night." dealt Cleaver a four-straight-flush pris, so to speak, in regard to Man-

"I admit everything you say," he Consul General for Italy, Lt. John- and gave me three kings. The nix for all the material evidence other hands were so poor that every in favour of Spotswoode's Innocence rejoined. "But as I have stated beson, representing the G.O.C., Mr. one else was compelled to drop out. that is, the seeming physcial im fure, when material facts and psy-11.C. Macnamara, Mr. G.P. de Mar- possibility of his having strangled cholorical facts confilet, the matin, Dr. F. Bunjo, Mr. A. A. Alves, "I opened; and Cleaver stayed. the lady had, I admit, impressed terial facts are wrong. In this On the draw, Allen gave me an- me...

Alves, Mr. J. M. Noronha, Mr. II. other king, and gave Cleaver the "I'm not perfect, don't y know.se, they may not actually be Mr. W. J. Carroll, Chev, J. M.

Very well, magnus Apollo" Dixon and Mr. P.M.N. da Silva. cand he needed to complete his Being unfortunately human, I'm wrong, but they're deceptive."

An impressive service at the straight-flush. Twice 1 bat a small still susceptible to the malicious The situation was too much for

nerves. graveside was sung by. Rt. Rev. exacerbated amount, and each time Cleaver animal magnetism about facts and Markham's

you lawyer "Show me how Spotswoode could Bishop Valtorta assisted by a num- raised me. Finally I called him, appearances which

course, he won. He chapa are continuously exuding have strangled the firl and ransackber of the priests present. and, of

There Wha * profusion of couldn't help but win, d'ye nee. over the earth like some vastased the apartment, and I'll order He was betting on a sure thing. [phyxiating effluvium. And

wreaths sent by the many friends even Heath to arrest him." Since I opened the pot and drew when I found, that Spotswoodu's fitted per two cards, the highest hand I could psychological nature

"Pon my word, I can't do it," of the deceased, amongst them be- possibly have held would have been fectly with all the factors of the expostulated Vance. "Omniscienceing one "From his old Mother to

South four of a kind. Cleaver knew this, rime, I still harboured a doubt in was denied me. But-deuce take her dear Augustin." The G.O.C., and having a straight-flush, he also regard to Mannix. It was barely t-I think I've done rather well in knew, before he raised my bet, that possible that he would have played pointing out the culprit. I never had me beaten. At once the hand just as Spotswoode played agreed to expound his technie, don't realized that he was not the man it. That is why, after the gamey know."

was over, I tackled him on the sub- was after."

ject of gambling, I wanted to check his psychological reactions." "Still, he staked everything turn of the wheel, as

he

CHAPTER L

"By what reasoning?"

i

"

Vance. was unmoved.

un come

. "So! Your vaunted penetration amounts only to that does It? Well, well! Here and, now I be "A poker player, Markham, who

a professor of the higher would bet on a sure thing is one

you mental sciences, and I pronounce who lacks the egotistical self-con-one

solemnly that Doctor Crippen mur- fidence of the highly subtle and su-put it,"

dered the Odell girl. To be sure, premely capable gambler, Re is

"Ah! But not in the same sense Crippen's dead; but that faci not a man who will take hazardous chances and tremendous risks, for that Spotswoode did. Mannix is a doesn't interfere with my newly he possesses, to some degree, what autious and timid gambler as com-adopted paychological means of de- the psychoanalysts call an inferior pared with Spotswoode. To begin duction. Crippen's nature, you fits perfectly with all the instinctively he with, he had an equal chance and grasps at every possible opporn even but, whereas Spotswoode soteric and recondite indications of tunity of protecting and bettering had no chance at all—his hand was the crime. Tomorrow I'll apply for

an order of exhumation." himself.

complex, and

a

worthless,

see,

"And yet Spotswoode wagered the

Vance looked at him with wag- "In short, he is not the ultimate unadulterated gambler. And the limit on a pure bit of mental calcu-

"Recognition of my transcendent man who killed the Odell girl was lation. That was gambling in the gish reproachfulness, and sighed.

On the other hand, genius, I see, is destined to be supreme gambler who would higher ether. atake everything on a single turn Mannix was merely tossing a coin, posthumous. In the meantime I chance of winning bear the taints and jeers' of the of the wheel, for, in killing her with an even that is exactly what he did. And Furthermore, no calculation of any multitude with a stout heart. My only a gambler whose paramount kind entered into it; there was no head is bloody, but unbowed."

He looked at his watch, and then Belf-confidence would make him planning, no figuring, no daring. scorn, through sheer egotism, to bet And, as I have told you from the seemed to become absorbed with on a sure thing, could have com- start, the Odell murder was presome line of thought. mitted such a crime. Therefore, meditated and carefully worked Cleaver was eliminated as a sus-put with shrewd calculation and preí,"

"Markham," he said, after sev-

supreme daring.... And what cral minutes, "I've a concert at true gambler would ask an adver-three o'clock, but there's an hour Markham was now listening in-sary to double a bet on the second to spare. I want to take another ip of the coin, and then accept an look at that apartment and its tently.

offer to redouble on the third llp? various approaches...Spotswoode's rick-and I'm convinced It was

"The test to which I put Spots- woode a little later," Vance went

I had got the impression that

"I purposely tested Mannix in nothing more than a trick--was en- on, had originally been intended that way, so as to preclude any heted there; and if we are ever to Thus I not find the explanation, we shall have for Mannix, but he was out of the possibility of error. game. That didn't matter, how only eliminated him-I expunged to look for It on the scene," ever, for, had I been able to elim- him, eradicated him, wiped him out Inate both Cleaver and Spotswonde, utterly. It cost me a thousand dol then Mannix would undoubtedly lars, but it purged my mind of any Markham, despite his emphatic de- lingering doubt. I then knew, denial of the possibility of Spots-! have been the guilty man.

spite all the contr'ry material indi-woode's guilt, was not entirely un- catione, that Spotswoode had done convinced. Therefore, I was not surpised when, with only a half- away with the lady.".

hearted protest, he assented to "You make your casa theoreti-Vance's proposal to revisit the Odell to Spotswoode was pretty well ex- cally plausible. But, practically, apartment.

(To be Continued.} plained by the gentleman himself. I'm afraid I can't accept it.

"Of couse I would have planned something else to substantiate the fact: but, as it was, that wasn't necess'ry... The test I applied

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Parla at du Para-Day 1 Bociala Gangesh je brand

In LONDON-The National. Phoriacial and PalKID

2 Union Bank of England, 140i Comptoir Saturva. Zabilities

National d'Escaple: de- Parle, Credit (holders Yo

In NEW YORK:—Y, P. Morgan & Od

· Interest flowed on Current Accounts and

Pbad,Deportis according te orensesnack.",

Erary sortation of Banking

--Bača Daconii Baicae to Jak,

MEAD OFFICE»—ANGGAPORE,

Branches, apsneles and Correspo

the principal sition of the work.

- Bewry Umuription of Banking and Robens