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and a manicurist had already been dream of his eminence in the murdered, but, curiously enough, no will say that is improbable, body knew why or how or who by for a man so eminent must be recor Mrs. Gray was not to be distracted mised by his photographs in the public from finding out by the entrance of prints. Madam, on
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"She was not to know, of course, teat on to the rack, sat down 1 the
the bearded husband who left her on corner facing Mrs. Gray. Feeling Saturday morning with his bag of that he was looking at her, she went clubs was, in fact, on his way to a small
in an outlying suburb, where,
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"Murder story?" Baid stranger presently.
the
Mrs. Gray went on reading. "Poor stuff," said the stranger. "I've read several. Poor stuif." Mre. Gray went on reading. "If you will tell me the name of the one you are reading," said ine
"Then there's one other point," said occasionally that, after luncheon Mrs. Gray, "You ought to have
killed the TEL."
this discret little house, he woulf for the sake of appearances take a
The stranger's blue-gray eyei train from this oulying suburb and
twinled at her. But Mrs. Gray's play golf on some course not too far attention was riveted on the rack above
his head. The red eyes of
away.
murder
Small
stranger, "1 cas probably tell you she was very annoyed at having been her agitades amiably interested in
the end, and then you won't have to
Wednesday, 6th July at 10 am.read any more. What is it called?" was not aletical forin of blackmail.not to faint,
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How to Grow Asparagus," she said bitterly.
"I see you are surprised that I have white cat were staring unblinkingly at not, as yet, said anything of murder. her from behind the bag of golf clubs. But naturally the question of
Following her eyes, be looked up at did not arise until one day the young the rack above his head, but from lady discovered the real name and where he sat could see nothing un- eminence of her bearded protector.
toward
He turned again to Mr. "He found to his consternation that Gra
Gray, his longer describe duped. We shall no longer des
What is it
ist madam? You look as herz as a freek mind. But
But that though you were seeing a ghost" all. Presently her
annoyance Mrs. Gray was praying for strength Could she pull the the look Ing him for considerable sums of
communication cord before the mur Qu
eminent friend was
derer leapt at her? wealthy, but had many responsibilities.
rose with The bearded stranger Nor is a neglected wife any less ex-
deliberation. great
She gave a faint than a tortionate In her demands
tob and tried to stretch her arm up blackmailing sweetheart.
to the
but was "The day came when he realised that somehow
amiable by his Far from attacking her, he turned his back and looked at way.
He came to this conclusion with the rack above his head. The cat had great reluctance, but realised its inevi now climbed on to the golf-bag.
realised that he thetability. He also
"You little beast," said the bearded must have had some such thought at stranger
"Climbed quite amiably.
I'll teach the back of his mind from the moment into my golf-bag, did you? Mrs. Gray went on reading. "Permit me to tell you," said the when she had discovered his identity, you to climb into my golf-bag, and stranger, "that I can interest you a he had comtinued to visit her with spoil my stories."
his now useless beard.
He turned to the trembling Mṛs. "Now I want to add a detail which Gray. may or may not make my narrative "Madam may I ask your permis-
What finally de-ion te
to throw this cat out of the win- "Trying to read," said Mrs. Gray seem realistic to your was the fact dow?"
ided him to murder hat on the very day she had dis-
"In England?" said the stranger. "Good Litle, that-breathes suspense -action."
"May I go on reading white you smoke?" said Mrs. Gray.
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great deal more than that stupid murder story you are reading."
bitterly,
the young lady must be put out of the look amunication cora,
for
made ‘a vicious grab at the cal,
¡ "are not usually men of nigh, intel.ed his identity and started being but she spat at him and leapt to the]
"Murderers," said the stranger,
disagreeable about it she had also other end of the rack............. He laughed ligence. They make mistakes and bought or been given a small white and looked ruefully over this shoulder
at Mrs. Gray.
Then he lifted his from the rack, and it ander his arm, stood above
cat.
uro caught. Now I shall tell you, Now our eminent friend not on who shrank as far as she
how an intelligent. man detested eats as cats, but he detested madam, could commit a murder and never this particular cat doubly and trebly. even be suspected. Have I your For, though white. It gradually became could into the corner.
a symbol of the young Indy's inner She waited, her eyes closed, R' sercam nature. And it was such., a vicious ready in her throat, for the first
touch of his hands.
hands. She must have little beast.
attention?"
for
com-
Mrs. Gray closer her book with a
"With all his plans perfected, he lost consciousness, But Immediately suap and looked steadily at the bearded stranger. Then she smiled. arrived at the little house one Satura wild rush of air brought her to her day morning as usual. She kept only senses, The door was banging to
She He was so obviously amiable, with one servant, but by long arrangement and fro. was along twinkling blue-grey eyes that had this servant would leave every Satur- The white cat was staring at her
morning as day
her mother's house from the opposite end of the of hardness in them a base
In North Islington and return only on
At the same moment the though he always knew what he was Sunday morn
was almost filled by a emine "Ouring. about. His well-trimmed greying
a Roman friend was compelled, large female with beard suited. him, too:
regret, to have luncheon She looked at Mrs. Gray disdainfully. She much to
But this was then Found the compartment land, wondered who he was, and decided alone that Saturday.
unavoidable, for the young lady, who more in sorrow than in anger, he might be a Harley-street had been treated with a touch of chlo-"Amelin;" The whie cat immediate specialist who enjoyed playing the roform, was lying not uncomfortably ly leapt on to her shoulder and she an the kitchen floor with her head in stroked it, caressing its head with her fool in an amlable way.
the gas even. His luncheon, there lips. She looked severaly at Mrs. fore,
snack.
"Very. well," sighed Mrs. Gray.
had
nose.
said:
"Let me put it this way," said the known as a 2019 have, minded this less told me that Amelia was in here
perforce to be of the order Gon't you think you might have
would
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the
answer
we "But bearded stranger. "Supposé
be imagine someone quite well known throughout his meal the small white She must have got out of my compart
at had not sat in
order of the ment right at the end when we were -a writer-a peer-a great doctor
little someone in the public eye. A * Sung-room eyeing him with cold going through the tonnel five minutes]
was afraid she might have which now reminded him ago, and man in such a position, recognised of his wife and now of the deceased fallen out of the window." wherever he goes, has naturally to in her most disable moods, Final.}
"But," sighed Mrs. Gray, "Is that y, making such
The lady with noises as oc-your cat?". be careful."
zarred to him, he approached the cat Roman nose, disdaining to "Why?" sald Mrs. Gray.
with a view to kicking it out of sight stupid questions, sniffed and marched "Why?" smiled the stranger. But she saved him the trouble by slip away down the corridor with Amells
ber shoulder+ "Suppose the poor devil occasional-ing out of the room, after which he purring en
Next day the Sunday newspaper ly wants to amuse himself. I am did not see her again.
"He had come prepared with awere full of the suicide of the Rt. 19th July not asking you to supposse a fish, letter written on notepaper identical to Hon. William Henry Boisregis, Mrs. 22nd Aug madam, but a man. In the case of a that which she had habitually used and Gray had not told the friends in was at Le cestershire with whom she was Ash, of course, the story would not in her handwriting, which
This letter staying weird experience in the It arise. Now, suppose this famous from difficult to imitate.
She said nothing now. briefly, and, let us hope, touchingly train. May I ask, madam, explained that she was
And-it didn't make committing wax too fantastic. if you are married?"
U out of lonelines
sense, either.
The man most and left it on the table in the sit-denly have gone mad, and that was all "Yes, thank you,” said Mrs. Gray. "Splendid. Then let us suppose ting-room, wiped; away any finger there could be to it.
prints he may have left and, taking All the same, on Monday, mas
morning bis man has-or had an entangle-up his bag of clubs, left the house the she read the newspapers carefully, ment. He is a man who respecta way he always came and left by the She thought she must be going mad, his wife and considers her happi-back door, which was not overlooked too, when she read a paragraph to the
effect, that on Sunday morning honses. ness. He is not ardent, but he is by neighbouring
"But as he walked to the station he domestic of a Miss Lucy Watson, who first and last a cultivated English did not much care whether or not it had lived a solitary life in North suburb, had found her
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Gray,
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Mrs. Gray bought some newspaper then "Now suppose, madam, this man forming this cit 2nd July ja desire for the
as I did at a suburban station, Was William Reary Boisregla Just as "He installs this young lady in a obviously on my way to play golf murderert Or born: larong of 18th July, small house not far from London and To-night I should go home or my whose Involved Hea had apparently
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La July fresh young mind of had been me getting into the train Not one zave particulars about the cat.
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