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THE CHINA MAIL.
A MAN WITH BIG HANDS
(Continued from Page 7.)
girl would squeak sooner or later-hammering of his heart. Then, "How d'you know the bullet was and then his game would be played like a madman, he turned and made fired from my window?" demanded out for good and all. And Kinga dash for the street-and the near-
doesn't mind takin' a chance wheri jest cail-box. Nobby resentfully.
It had started to rain-a thin, "Easy Nobby. Matter of angle-his own safety's at stake. He's and direction. Jeeves, soon worked | proved that before. So, you see, he saturating drizzle-when the taxi that out. The bullet was fired from probably arrived at the conclusion drew up to the kerb at the upper take my that this girl would be better out of end of Hill-street. From it, a cigar your window. You enn
the way."
glowing between his lips, stepped word for thut. Care to talk now?"
"So you think it was this David the tall, burly form of Detective- "What the blazes d'you think I know about it, then? Just because King who came here last night-inspector Markham. Nobby was}
bash over the waiting in the darkness. I've done one or two stretches for and gave me this
head, eh?"
"This way!" he breathed, grab- burglary and housebreaking"
"I think it's highly probable."bing the detective's arm.. "Don't get all heated up, Nobby.
Nobby had counted the dark, I'm not tryin' to plant it on you: assented Markham cautiously. "At! I give you
my word about that. any rate, it's about the only clue squalid houses. The street door of on at present. No. 27 was open an inch or two: But who was the particular kind of we've got to work
a friend you had in here last Just a moment, Nobby!" The in-Nobby and the Inspector slipped went to a table, quietly inside-up the steep, rickety- spector rose and night?"
Nobby was aflent, staring up at carefully taking from it a small tin stairs to the tiny landing. There the ceiling. Markham sat motion-box painted black. "See this?" was no light, no sound. less, that lazy smile still on his lips. Markham held the tin box towards
"It may have been a man, "Nobby Nobby. blurted out suddenly, "but to my mind it was nearer a monster-or a ¡devil!**
"Come, come!" snapped Markham, his amiability slipping from him. or
"Don't let's have any talk munsters and devils and things of that kind! What was the man like? Did you see him clearly?"
Nobby shook his head.
in
"No, don't touch it! Just take a look at it-this way! Tell me what you see,"
"Finger-prints!" Nobby ejaculat ed. "Pinin as Punch! Whose are they, though?"
Nobby pointed.
"In there," he whispered. There was a thin streak of light of the doors. The beneath one inspector stepped towards it, turned the handle and looked into the room, his with Nobby peering across
shoulder.
room.
Markham bent slightly..
By the amall table in the middle "The finger-prints of the man who of the poorly furnished room a man came into this.room last night," he was sitting a man whose left arm breathed.
was cut off at the shoulder. He Nobby stared at the tin box in made no movement save that his| "I only saw his reflection in the wardrobe glass," he replied, a trifle fascination. The impression upon eyes became fixed upon them with
it was quite visible to the naked a cold, hard glitter. sullenly. "It was pitch dark
Markham stepped quietly into the here. I'd been lying awake for hours, eye-immense, splayed-out, grotes I suppose, thinking out-well, that que.
"The girl was carrying this hox "Your name is David. King, I doesn't matter, anyway, I didn't when she was shot," Markham ex-believe?" he said. even hear
the door open or any plained. "Perhaps she had just) The mun at the table did not sound at all. But suddenly-I was left King. Perhaps it was King reply for a little while. looking into the glass, you sec-I
himself who came here left night.j He seemed to be thinking. Then: saw a shape moving
the across
Perhaps he is the man with the "You're making a mistake, inspec- room. It was blurred-the face
enormous hands."
tor. My name is Rivers-Arthuri was, anyway. 1 couldn't see what
Nobby made no reply. He was Rivers." it it was like the face, I mean. was just a black blat. But I could staring at the impression with sec the form underneath it all puzzled eyes. right. And one of the hands."
Nobby stared at Markham's in- tent face. "I thought I was having
The voice was smooth, with calm menace underlying it.
"It was full of cheques and Markham ushed slightly. He Markham added knew that he was taking á risk. If forged notes," carefully replacing the tin box. "It the man at the table were telling looks to me as if King had knocked the truth
an
bad dreams at first. It was such over some ink and got the stuff on The one-armed man rose slowly.) huge hand-on enormous hand. 1
his hand. The girl was going to His hand began to creep stealthily don't reckon I've ever seen such a hand before in my life not on a get rid of the forgeries, probably towards his hip pocket. In
King chose this room for the deed instant, then, Markham had leapt man, anyhow. And it didn't seem he contemplated. He's clever. He across the room, his two hands to have any shape in it, either. The knew that we should find out where fastening like bands of steel about
ingers were just like blobs-at
the shot had come from. He wait the man's wrist. least two of them were. It-it wased until she got under the lamp- like a hand, about five times as big as an ordinary person's that had been smashed-or crushed out- Nobby's face, something like that! I was just getting ready to let rip when I got this bash over the head and and that's about all I remember!"
Markham was silent for a while."Why?" He sat with his eyes fixed in a level stare upon the wardrobe glass. Then:
"You don't make use of this bed very often-not at night, I mean?" Nobby jerked himself up in bed, a snarl twisting his lips.
"What the hell d'you mean by
full in the light-and then-—————”
There was a queer expression onj
"Which hand did you say had made that impression?" he asked. "Left or right?"
Markham "The left,"
said.
"No, you don't! Got a gun, eh? Nobby, just feel in that pocket!"
Nobby drew out a gun, a small automatic, and laid it down on the table.
Markham pointed to a chair.
I
"Sit down!" he snapped. "Three nights ago a young woman, by the name of Jenny Golding, was shot! Nobby gave vent to a queer little dead in this street. I'm making laugh.
some inquiries into the ease. "Why?" he echoed. "Well, be-warn you that anything you say will cause the man who came into this be taken down and may be used in room last night hadn't got a left evidence against you. Are you hand at all! The arm was cut off quite willing to tell me what you at the shoulder!"
know?**
#
•
"Perfectly," assented David King,
that, curse you; If I don't choose It was the third night after the with an elaborate yawn-"seeing to sleep here at nights, what's that murder of pretty Jenny Golding that I know nothing whatever about got to do with you or any others that Nobby saw the figure on the it, Inspector," of your perishing crowd?"
blind. It was ten o'clock at night, "You recognised me just now?" Markham's face grew suddenly cold, with a bleak wind blowing
"Ob, yes! Why not? I've seen grim.
down Hill-street, which lay aqualid your photo in the illustrated
beneath "That'll do. Nobby. No abuse, if and black and eřapty
papers." you don't mind. What I was try-him. That was one of Hill-street's Markham took a "charcoal" pad} ing to get at-well, it should be idiosyncrasies-its emptiness when from his pocket and placed it on the perfectly obvious to you. Whoever night came.
table before King. It was who came here last night was! Nobby had turned, match in hand,
to having "You've no objection under the impression that you would to light the lamp on the table and, your finger-prints taken, I sup- be out, as usual. Probably they'd then, suddenly, he seemed to freeze. pose?" he suggested. been keeping you timed and indexed) for days,"
"But what did they choose this room to go and do a murder for 7" demanded Nobby, seethingly. "There
Through the window, which was
"Why, not at all," said King, with open at the bottom, he could see
a sheer. "Do you intend to put practically the whole length of Hill-them in your museum of curiosities,
Inspector?" street.
And, a hundred yards down the He placed his huge, shapeless- atreet towards the river, a light looking hand upon the pad, and Mon, 6th Feb. 1939 are plenty of empty rooms about, had sprung up in one of the unn Markham gave it a swift, gentle
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dows. The blind was drawn in-press, swiftly transferring it to the "No doubt there are, Nobby-but stantly--and, for just the fraction sheet of white paper he took from not in this street, I fancy."
"This street? What's that got to of a moment, upon the drain blind, his pocket. But he had known what Nobby saw the shadow of a man. the result would be long before 9th Feb. do with it, eh?”'
A man whose left sleeve dangled "Quite a lot, I think." Markham loose and empty at his side a man then, The impression was huge, splayed-out, grotesque but it was icant forward slightly. "Look here, whose left arm was cut off at the nothing like the impression upon with limited passenger accommodation. Nobby, you've given me your con- shoulder. An instant, that was all the black tin box.
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"King? Never heard of him!" "Perhaps not, but he's one of the swellest forgers in Europe to-day- 4th Jan. and the States as well, I reckon. For years he's been up against the British and Continental police, but so far he's proved himself darn aight cleverer than either of them. 2nd Jan,But the oddest part of the matter is that no one Has ever seen David King in the leah We haven't even been able to get a description 8th Jan of him. That's one of the reasons -the chief one why he's been able to soap, his fingers at us.so long. 2nd Jan. But we're a patient, hard-workin lot, as you probably know, Nobby
Markham grinned good-naturedly 29th Dec,and, for the last few monthë we've been tryin' to card-index the various people, King employs in his game. One of them was this girl, Jenny Golding quite a pretty, in nocent little dd to look at bat | underneath her looks-David King was wise, I reckon. He knew the
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