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The policeman stood upon the korb, brooding on this and that, and as Miss Fisk came panting up to him, he regarded her benignly.
"That man!" panted Miss Flak,
dered-I saw it!"
For quite three days thereafter Miss Fisk ostentatiously ignored Number Thirty-four and all that therein was, though she was aware that on the second day the lay- But
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"Eh?" said the policeman. "Oh, be quick!" cried Miss Flek. "I tell you I saw it-through the window! Ho strangled her-oh, horrible The-the body's in the
barrow"
went
Mias Flak reddened again, and
The policeman devoted a moment
No claims will be admitted after to earnest consideration of Miss
the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after Fisk, for he was a wise and ex- turned hastily from the window, the 6th December, 1932, will be sub- perionced policeman. Then he After what had taken place it was ject to ront. turned very suddenly and
All claims against the steamer after Mr. Morris at a great paces play any interest.whatever in those on or bacated to the Undersigned į
unseemly-nay, degrading-to dis- must be Miss Fisk trotting breathless at dreadful people. Besides, if an or they
tho-20th December, 1932, will not recognized. egg were to be obtained for her All broken, chafed and damaged supper, it must be obtained forth- Goods are to be left in the Godowns, with, before the closing of the where they will be examined on the 5th December, 1932, at 10 am., by shops. Miss Fisk rolled up her Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, knitting and went in search of her
his heels.
"Hi" said the policeman, affa bly enough. "What have you got in that barrow ?"
Mr. Morris stopped, turned, and surveyed the policeman 'nastily.
"What the hell's it got to do with you?" he asked:
"Allow me," said Mr. and flung back the sheet.
Morris,
hat.
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When she stepped into the street her eye was caught by the barrow, "It might have a lot to do with at rest in the gutter before Num- me." returned the policeman, "and ber Thirty-four. As she surveyed then, again, it might not. Let's it with distaste, the door of the have a look, anyway,"
house disgorged Mr. Morris, mov "Certainly," said Mr. Morris, and ing swiftly. He wore his hat and whipped away the sacking.
carried in his arms the lay-figure, "Hello!" said the policeman shrouded in a sheet. At sight of staring at the sheeted thing. Miss Fisk he paused and gave her "What"
a long, blank stare; rather a queer stare, she thought, and extremely (Continued from previous column.) rude. Then he laid the figure in it with elaborate casuainess. She There was a brief silence. Then the barrow, threw the sacking was aware of compassion for Mrs. the policeman began to laugh, a over it, and trundled on down the Morris, and wondered what Mr. Morris had done to her this time. vost, mighty laugh that came from street at a rapid walk.
Miss Fisk followed slowly, an- Really a dreadful man . . . But no somewhere near his boots. He bent a moist and humorous eye xious to lose sight of Mr. Morris Mrs. Morris was apparent, though upon Misa Fisk
as speedily as might be. At the the time for the setting out of sup- "Murdered, eh?" said the police-corner by the Spread Eagle the per was long past Nor was there man. "Well, I never!
policeman was standing majesti- any sign of Mr. Morris and his know a lay-figure when you see it,cally beneath the lamp. As Miss hateful barrow. Really, reflected mum? You an artist, then, sir?" Fisk went past he touched his hel- Mies Fisk, gazing idly across the
had looked "I am," returned Mr. Morris hot-met and smiled at her in a polite road, the man
queer just now........... ly, "and there's no law, so far as but whimsical way. 5th Dec. I know, against an artist lending "Just seen the gent with the body Then, very abruptly, Miss Fisk his lay-figure to another artist, and 80 by mum," said the policeman. sat upright in her chair with a
"Nice evening."
little, startled cry. Her mouth delivering it on a barrow."
A little later Miss Flak entered opened sharply and so remained, "That's a feet, sir," said the
her-while her face turned very pala. policeman pacifically. "Sorry to her sitting-room, established trouble you, but this lady had an self in her chair, and resumed for For, in that queer, empty, silent iden you'd murdered your
her knitting. Across the road the room of Number Thirty-four the 24th Dec,That's rich, that is!" He laughed sitting-room of Number Thirty-lay-figure was standing in its ac-
four lay clearly revealed by the customed corner.
THE END: "Oh, it's you, is it?" he said. evening light, and she glanced at "Well, be good enough to mind your own confounded business in future, you nosy old beldame! Damn it, am I to be spied on and followed about by every old busybody who
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Miss Fisk waited for no more, but turned about and went away from that place at speed. She was more than, glad to gain the sane- tuary of her sitting-room, for she had never been called a nosy old 5th Dec beldame before." As she aank gratefully into her chair, she glanc- ed mechanically across at Number Thirty-four, and noted two things -the absence of the lay-figure from its accustomed corner and the presence of Mrs. Morris, very much alive, very sullen of coun- tenance, wearing a bandage about her throat, and laying the table 11th Dec. for supper. Miss Fisk reddened, frowned, and for the first time in her life turned her back to the window, It was still so turned when, Iater, Mr. Morris. came trundling his barrow home up the street. Therefore, she did not see the offensive glare which he bes- towed upon her window. But she felt it.
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