Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1928 — Page 18

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THE STOBY THUS FAB M&rraret Odell Is found str.nxled. Sheet's fingerprints are found in the apartment, but Vance believes Skeel had been hiding in a closet while the strangler did his work. The thing that haffes police is the side door to the alley, which had been bolted on the inside the night before and was found the same way the next morning. Mannlx, Dr. Lindquist and Cleaver all lie about their whereabouts the night of the murder. Spotswoode, who had railed on the girl, had rushed to her door at the sound of a scream, but had been reassured through the door that everything was all right. Then Skeel is found strangled, after promising to reveal the murderer. Vance then demonstrates, in support of his theory that Skeel had been hiding in a closet, how Skeel could have left through the side door and relocked the bolt on the inside. CHAPTER XLVI HEATH nodded his head oracularly. "A crook, no matter how clever he Is, always overlooks something.” “Why single out crooks for your criticism, Sergeant?” asked Vance lazily. “Do you know of anybody in this imperfect world who doesn’t always overlook something” He gave Heath a benignant smile. "Even the police, don’t y’ know, overlooked the tweezers.” Heath grunted. His cigar had gone out, and he relighted it slowly and thoroughly. “What do you think, Mr. Markham?” “The situation doesn’t become much clearer,” was Markham’s gloomy comment. “My theory isn’t exactly a blindin’ illumination,” said Vance. “Yet I wouldn’t say that it left things in pristine darkness. There are cer-

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tain inferences to be drawn from my vagaries. “To-wit: Skeel either knew or recognized the murderer; and once he had made good his escape from the apaFtment and had regained a modicum of self-confidence, he undoubtedly blackmailed his homicidal confrere. "His death was merely another manifestation of our mconnu’s bent for ridding himself of persons who annoyed him. “Furthermore, my theory accounts for the chiseled jewel case, the finger-prints, the unmolested closet, the finding of the gems in the refuse tin—the person who took them really didn’t want them, y’ know —and Skeel’s silence. It also explains the unbolting and bolting of the side door.” “Yes,” sighed Markham. “It seems to clarify everything, but the one all-important point—the identity of the murderer.” “Exactly,” said Vance. “Let’s go to lunch.” Heath, morose and confused, departed for police headquarters; and Markham, Vance, and I rode to Delmonico’s, where we chose the main dining-room in preference to the grill. “The case now would seem to center in Cleaver and Mannix,” said Markham, when we had finished our luncheon. “If your theory that the same man killed both Skeel and the Canary is correct, then Lindquist is out of it, for Jie certainly was in the Episcopal Hospital Saturday night.” “Quite,” agreed Vance. “The doctor is unquestionably eliminated. Yes; Cleaver and Mannix — they're the allurin’ twins. Don’t see any way to go beyond them.” He frowned and sipped his coffee. “My original quartet is dwindling and I don’t like it. It narrows the thing down too much—there's no scope for the mind, as it were, in only two choices. “What if we should succeed in eliminating Cleaver and Mannix? Where would we be—eh, what? Nowhere —simply nowhere. And yet, one of the quartet is guilty; let’s cling to that consolin’ fact. “It can’t be Spotswoode, and It can't be Lindquist. Clever and Mannix remain; two from four leaves two. Simple arithmetic, what? “The only trouble is, this case isn't simple. Lord, no!—I say, how would the equation work out if we used algebra, or spherical trigonometry, or differential calculus? Let’s cast it in the fourth dimension—or the fifth, or the sixth. . . ” He held his temples in both hands. "Oh, promise, Markham—promise me that you’ll hire a kind gentle keeper for me.” “I know how you feel. I've been in the same mental state for a week.” “It’s the quartet idea that’s driving me mad,” moaned Vance. "It wrings me to have my tetrad lopped off in such brutal fashion. “I’d set my young trustin’ heart on that quartet, and now it’s only a pair. My sense of order and proportion has been outraged . . I want my quartet.” “I'm afraid you’ll have to be satisfied with two of them,” Markham returned wearily. “One of them can’t qualify, and one is in bed. You might send some flowers to the hospital, if it would cheer you any.” “One is in bed—one is in bed,” repeated Vance. “Well, well—to be sure! And one from four leaves three. More arithmetic. Three! “On the other hand, there is no such thing as a straight line. All lines are curved, they transcribe circles in space. They look straight, but they’re not. Appearances, y’ know—so deceptive! .. . Let’s enter the silence and substitute mentation for sight.” He gazed up out of the great windows into Fifth Ave. For several moments he sat smoking thoughtfully. When he spoke again, it was in an even, deliberate voice. “Markham, would it be difficult for you to invite Mannix and Cleaver and Spotswoode to spend an

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evening—this evening, let us say—in your apartment?” Markham set down his cup with a clatter, and regarded Vance narrowly. “What new harlequinade is this?” “Fie on you! Answer my question.” “Well—of course—l might arrange it,” replied Marham hesitantly. "They’re all more or less under my jurisdaction at present.” “So that such an invitation would be rather in line with the situation —eh, what? And they wouldn’t be likely to refuse you, old dear—would they?” “No; I hardly think so. . . .” “And if, when they had assembled in your quarters, you should propose a few hands of poker, they'd probably accept, without thinking the suggestion strange?” "Probably,” said Markham, nonplussed at Vance’s amazing request. "Cleaver and Spotswoode both play, I know; and Mannix doubtless knows the game. "But why poker? Are you serious, or has your threatened dementia already overtaken you?” "Oh, I’m deuced serious.” Vance’s tone left no doubt as to the fact. “The game of poker, d’ ye see, is the crux of the matter. “I knew Cleaver was an old hand at the game and Spotwoode, of course, played with Judge Redfern last Monday night. So that gave me a basis for my plan. Mannix, we ll assume, also plays.” He leaned forward, speaking earnestly. “Nine-tenths of poker, Markham, is psychology; and if one understands the game, one can learn more of a man’s inner nature at a poker table in an hour than during a year's casual association with him. “You rallied me once when I said I could lead you to the prepetrator of any crime by examining the factors of the crime itself. “But naturally I must know the man to whom I am to lead you; otherwise I cannot relate the psychological indications of the crime to the culprit’s nature. “In the present case, I know the kind of man who committed the crime; but I am not sufficiently acquainted with the suspects to point out the guilty one. “However, after our game of poker, I hope to be able to tell you who planned and carried out the Canary’s murder.” Markham gazed at him in blank astonishment. He knew that Vance played poker with amazing skill, and that he possessed an uncanny knowledge of the psychological elements involved in the game; but he was unprepared for the latter's statement that he might be able to solve the Odell murder by means of it. Yet Vance had spoken with such undoubted earnestness that Markham was impressed.

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I knew what was passing in his mind almost as well as if he had voiced his thoughts. He was recalling the way in which Vance had, in a former murder case, put his finger unerringly on the guilty man by a similar process of psychological deduction. And he was also telling himself that, however incomphensible and seemingly extravagant Vance’s requests were, there was always a fundamentally sound reason behind them. “Damn It!” he muttered at last, “the whole scheme seems idiotic. . . . And yet, if you really want a game of poker with these men, I’ve no special objection. It'll get you nowhere—l’ll tell you that beforehand. “It’s stark nonsense to suppose that you can find the guilty man by such fantastic means.” “Ah, well,” sighed Vance, “a little futile recreation will do us no harm.” “But why do you include Spotswoode?” “Really, y’ know, I haven’t the slightest notion—except, of course, that he’s one of my quartet. And we’ll need an extra hand.” “Well, don’t tell me afterwards that I’m to lock him up for murder. I'd have to draw the line. “Strange as it may seem to your layman's mind, I wouldn’t care to prosecute a man, knowing that it was physically impossible for him to have committed the crime.” OLD CORNS COME OFF BY THOUSANDS Our clerk): nre demonstrating how easily "END-O-CORN" temoves the most stubborn old corns or callouses—even Vosculars. All this and nest week hundreds of men and women will profit from the demonstration being given at our stores about END-O-CORN All those who have stubborn corns or callouses and who have become discouraged by the poor results obtained from the use of other "com cures" should rtirelv come right away to hear about END-O-CORN/' the only remedy that will surely remove all corns and callouses quickly and without pain. If you live too far away, write to END-O-CORN LABORATORIES. 4 Garfield Blvd . Chlcf.fto. and we will see that you receive a Jar. Haag and Goldsmith Prtig Storee. —Advertisement. Security Privacy $3.00 a Year Safe Deposit Vaults of the Continental National Bank |v Good Used Plane I PEARSON’S I

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