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(Continued from page 7.) "What do you mean?" he said
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Crewson glanced at the clock on the mantelpiece.
"Nothing" Millway confessed, "except the remote possibility, that a
"And of course no one can be burglar might break in while you hanged on motive only, even at its were away and find the body."
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Millway got up from his chair May be obtained. When I got back here I should take
heavily. He was breathing quickly, advantage of the darkness to put your body on the back seat of the and his hands were unsteady. Over Car, cover it with a rug, and put the his face had come the strain of a
sickening terror. car into the garage. I should then
go to bed and have a good night. "I don't know what you're talk In the morning I should drive downing about." His voice was hoarse to the bungalow at Southaven. and thick. "I've had enough of this There would be no one there except nonsense."
"Sit down, Millway," said Crew our old housekeepers, as we always take a couple of the servants down son quietly.
He had glanced again at the clock. from here when we go."
"Unlucky to get into an accident The change he had been looking for on, the way down and have your had begun to show itself through luggage' discovered," Millway sug-Milway's fear. gested.
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Agents. cularly careful I think I could steer have you done to me?" he muttered.
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down," repeated Crewson Hong Kong, 18th August, 1933. should transfer your erstwhile self gently.
to the motorboat which is moored at Millway "fell back into his chair.
body in it. For a moment he stood my private and quite secluded land-Crewson remained standing. ing-stage, with some heavy lend You didn't think I knew, Mill-still, looking down at it. A flaw? weights I happen to have in the way, You thought you'd been very No.
garage down there, explain to the clever-but there were too Many He took the whisky and siphons housekeeper that I was going to try flaws in your plans. There isn't one back to the dining-room, emptied the lout some new gadgets for the boat, in mine.".
ashtrays, and, taking the two glasses
and set off on a pleasant little trip. Millway's breath scemed to catch to the kitchen, washed thern care- About ten miles out I should attach in his threat. He almost choked fully. He was perfectly cool. the weights to your body in such "You can't kill me," he shuddered. He put on his hat and coat, a way that they could not possibly "It would be cold-blooded murder.switched off the lights, and went become detached, and commit it. You can't"
out to the car. with due solemnity, to the deep. It Crewson laughed. His face had
He drove from Hampstead to the would certainly remain there-long suddenly hardened. There was cold Savoy in a little over a quarter of an jenough."
He stopped, and, helped himself to another cigar from the box on the small table between them, lit it, with unhurried deliberation.
"That is I venture to think, 22nd Sept. pretty nearly
n perfect crime. I 20th Oct. would be prepared, as I said just now, to bet every penny I have that your disappearance would never be solved. If the slightest suspicion
I
hate in his eyes.
hour, and began to carry out his "Can't kill you? My dear fellow, programme to the letter. In the killed you tweny minutes ago."
grill-room he joined a party of
A sharp cry came from Millway.-people he knew, and, mentioning the
He tried to get up, but seemed to theatre he had been to referred ap-
nave lost the use of his limbs.
provingly to the play.
"Your whisky and soda," sald
He was in excellen: spirits, and Crewson calmly. "I told you.".
contributed his full share to the "You've polsoned me,” Millway hilarity of the supper table. After gasped.
wards he went on to his club, and "You've have been dying." Crew-playd bridge for a couple of hours Fever fell on me as being concerned (son told him, all the time we have with his usual akili and good for-i uth Sept in it I could give an unshakable ag/been talking. I said it would be astune. He stayed on chatting for 6th Oct. count of myself. To-night-the pleasant as possible. It's a native
the
home. theatre, the Savoy, the club. To Poison form the 'Amazon. I tried it another half-hour, then drove back first on my business partner in morrow and the next day-alone at Montevideo. We had a difference of Leaving the car outside the front bungalow. So far as the jopinion. There is no palo-only door be let himself into the house, theatre is concerned-why, I even that gradual sinking. In another and, opening the library door, turn- have the programme
and the
ed on the light. He looked over the counterfoil in my pocket!"
back of the couch.
He rose, and, taking the pro-) gramme from his pocket, threw it on
five minutes you will be dead."
He smiled broadly.
"I've been telling you all this' be-
Yes... it was there, under the
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He sat down on the arm of his lifted it up in the rug and carried tightened round the arms of his
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Crewson went on in the same tone, "And you really thought, Millway, back seat, and, bringing out Mill- without answering the question that you could deprive me of my way's hat, overcoat and stick from that? It the hall, placed them on the floor of "And against all that what could dear wife as easily as
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He went to bed and slept soundly. excellent plans failed.” ⠀⠀ bad persuaded my wife to run away
Millway struggled forward in his abroad with you."
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His voice trailed off, but he roused packed a suitcase. It was a lovely himself with: another effort. day, and as he opened the garage "Treated her abominably... Spent doors he was smiling grimly in anti-
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He took things leasurely on the
• Crewson's face darkened with
road, driving with unusual care. It |rage.
"You told her that. She'd never was a run of about 80 miles to Southaven, and he knew every inch have known if you hadn't."
of the way. There was little traffic) He stopped. Millway hind
in either direction Ordinarily it staggered to his feet, his hands never took him more than two clawing the air. The words that hours, but to-day he was allowing came from his lips were so faint himself an additional half-hour for that Crewson could scarcely hear extra caution. We d them
He wondered what was happening "There's a flaw. You haven't at Millway's chambers in Bury- seen it. A fawan
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murderer-the thought did not dis-night, or have telephoned If he had. tress him in the least, for, as he had been unexpectedly detained any admitted to Millway a few minutes where. Probably they would ring before, It was not the first time he up the police and the hospitals; but had resorted to such means." Kill-no doubt his disappearance would wey had been a fool not be treated seriously for at least ́ ́ He looked round. • Behind the another day and by that time *** couch would be the best place. When he reached the bungalow he TAIPING Bending down, he raised the body drove the car straight into the CHANGTH
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