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that it was Eliot. So there had the marriage of his only niece with
been no plenic under the wall of the park that day,
penniless Foreign. Once clerk. "I'm not quite penniless, darling,"
"Was he alone?" he asked sud-Ellot protested. denly.
"Yes."
"Where did he go?""
"O dunno where he went the porter said eraftily. ticket. might have took 'ee to chester if so be he went there."
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So. But you only have enough
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"Rubber: Well-posted circles
to buy those very suede gloves you expect consumption of rubber in wear in London and nothing over the United States during 1984 will tu," buy me hats and frocks, not to safely reach 450,000 tons. Total "His spank of all the other things your sales: 111 ots," Router. Market Factors Dar-wife will need if she is even to be!
lighted.
noticed in the same room with your- The following telegrams were On the way to Dorchester Ormic self. Don't you want people to received by Messrs. S. E. Levy'
from Reuter: tried to keep his mind to the im-noties me?"
Eliot. "No," said
"Only possibility of Eliot's having com-
me. Favourable factors prior to the Ho opening of the markets: (1) Un- mitted so sordid and apparently I'm glad the sleuth has gone.
derlying sentiment is cheerful, meaningless a murder. Yet was it was always looking at you"
"I thought him rather a nice based largory on expectations of Eliot needed
encouraging developments at money. Everyone knew that Blaber man," Catherine said.
"He's a fool."
Washington. (2) The publication kept large sums of money in his cottage. Ellot would have been They walked back to the Hall, and last week at 26.5% of capacity, told about the income-tax man-it] Ellot took the news to Sir Thomas "Steel," in estimating mill activity! was a village Joke. He might have his library. Sir Thomas was de says that buyers have generally: His fine, sensitive face showed less hesitation in covering
their immediate requirements. gone into the cottage on an impulse to steal, been surprised by Blaber, softened as he listened.
Unfavourable factors: (1) "A nephew, you sníd?" and shot him to stifle the scandul
"Yes, sir."
Traders remain Fantastic! And yet Orme was
very cautious, Jawaiting a clarification of some of coming to believe that the more) fantastic a story seemed the more "I suppose he will be," Eliot the prevailing uncertainties.
Steel mill activity is estimated a' likely it was to be strictly true. murmured. Murder itself, done by a civilised "He won't want to stay here any 23.9 per cent of capacity, com- man, was fantastic-like meeting a longer than he can help," Sir pared with 22.8 per cent the pre- business He Thomas said meditatively. "All vious week. Weekly naked savage in Bond-street; remembered suddenly that on that that money. He'll want to begin failures amounted to 214, compared Iwith 267 the previous week and evening at Oxford, when Eliat had spending some of it at once. behaved so insufferably, he had shall get Nicholson to make him an 282 failures during the correspon- also talked a great deal about the offer. I shan't appear in the mating period of last year.
ter myself. There's no reason why The Standard Oil Co. of New poetic charms of murder.
To be truly poetic, of course, it should pay more for the wretched Jersey has again reduced gasoline If he thinks prices by half a cent per gallon hat to be completely useless and place than I nced. disinterested--an experiment in the some villager is buying it" He in the Northern section of New
"You're not Jersey. macabre, undertaken in the spirit of turned to his niece. aesthetic research. At the time it saying anything, Cat."
One
Now
#I
"Young, I daresay?"
The pledge that Bankers will put
had seemed just the sort of blaguej."I was thinking how nice it would their shoulders, to the wheel to would expect from Ellot, be if you and I and Michael were hasten a recovery was given, as always friendly and happy together the American Bankers' Convention He took himself firmly in hand.like this," Catherine said wistfully opened on a note of optimism. Mr. Sir Thomas looked surprised. Francis Law, President of the He was doing the one thing he must
Bunkers' Association, before the never do-form a theory and try "Well-" to fit the facts to it, instead of let- "Darling, I can't not tell you," Convention opened declared that ting the theory evolve naturally Catherine cried. She jumped up there was a most marked Improve- from the facts. He decided to think and ran towards him with care-ment in the banking situation. "T of Catherine Severn.
fully calculated air of love and shy-feel that bankers can do their part
It struck him that she had never ness. "I'm so happy. And you're by displaying evidence of con-1 answered his idle, question as to the only person in the world I want fidence. Bankers are not greatly Michael and disturbed by an unbalanced Bud- whether there had been a picnic on to know about it.
Could are married. We were married afget and there are no more fears the day of Blaber's death. she was it possible that she was fortnight ago. The very day that of any uncontrolled infication." afraid for Eliot?
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poor man was shot."
"The very day," Sir Thomas | began.
Night Telegrames The following telegrams were received by Messrs. S. E. Levy and
Wall Street is steady, with fractionad advances predominat-j
T Dorchester hie-picked up the "I must have walked past the cot-Co. from Reuter last night:-
man who had driven Eliot tage at the very moment,”. Eliot from the station. He had driven interrupted in a gentle voice. him to a register office. No, he had Sir Thomas Severn's face had ing. While-a-slight-advance-seeme not waited. Orme drove there, darkened. It cleared again sudden- to be indicated, a sustained up. Under the appropriate date he found ly: He smiled at his niece. "What turn at present is not anticipated. the record of a marriage between am I to any?" he asked. Michael Nicholls Ellot and Cathe Irine Severn. '
As he came out, feeling very fat, the only thought that occurred to him, was: "How silly to have
"Say you love me just a little," Catherine murmured.
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FASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, commit a murder on his way to be and a great deal of advice, both of
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1934.
7,000 2nd Nov. 7,000. 1st. Decr 7.000 28th Dec.
Steel activity in the Youngtown district this week is estimated at: 28 per cent of capacity.
The Owens-Illinois Glass Com URING the following week Sir pany and its subsidiary concerns, Ishowed a net profit of $6,085,000; be married."
couple which was generous rather That finished that. A man than merely adequate
with $4,952.000, the equivalent of He gave
$3.36 per share, last year. doesn't, unless he is insane, stop to Eliot two boxes of his special cigars
E. A. Pierce Co.'s Report married. Orme saw Eliot hurrying which the young man accepted with In their market report, the through the plantation and along
a perfect courtesy. Then he sent American Oriental Finance Cor Manila, Rabaul, Heisbar, Svdney the path: struggling desperately them off in the second car to spend poration, correspondent for Messrs. with the spasms, meeting his be-the last week of Ellot's leave honey-E. A. Pierce and Company New loved, giving her between gasps mooning in London.
¡York state: final instructions and then hurrying The day they left was the day J. "Stocks: There was no change on to the junction. By the time Blaber's nephew and heir arrived in in the market, with Traders probas- he got there he was doubtless cured.
the village. After dinner Sirly waiting for President Roosevelt's She must have gone into Dorchester Thomas strolled through the warm speech to bankers on Wednesday.
"Wheat Traders sold off sharp Orme hoped that the hiccoughs scented dusk to the plantation be had returned during the ceremony. hind Blaber's cottage. He went by ly late in the session on selling from away known only to himself. Eastern connexions and peor sup When he reached it he saw a young port. The domestic visible showed FORTNIGHT later he was re-man with red hair and large red a good decrease, but an increase of called. He had made no dis hands superintending the removal over 10,000,000 bushels in Canadian coveries about the murder. Indeed, to the cottage from a cart of some wheat brought about further sell- he had come to the conclusion that pieces of dilapidated furniture. Siring.
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had been discovered at Falmouth think not. Why, ever since I see can Oriental Finance Corpora Nat Distillers A nephew, who said that so far as this place once when I was a kid Hon
he knew he was the dead man's I've had a mind to it. His voice; only relative. Orme went back to cracked in triumph. Ishail-live
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All my like S
N.Y. Rubber-Dec. She was in the park when t Sir Thomas went slowly back Chic, Wheat-Dec. came, with Michael Ellot, but one of The night scents of his garden rose Chle Corn-Dec... her many allles-this one was the round him. The white front of his Silver Official gardener's son-brought it out to house glimmered ghostly against the Montreal Silver Des 62.70 her. She decided that Michael must wine-dark sky. "I've committed a low Jones.AVEJ S take the news-to Sir Thomas him- perfectly useless murder, he said Oct. 20 Close Change dity Exchange Incorporated to in The captain in charge of the
self as if he had just learned it in to himself gently.30 Industrials the village. In the state of a plea. It had not, however, been use 20 Rails
homas, 120 Utilities surable excitement that would fol-less. Only useless to Sir Thomas,
40 Bonds sojow the announcement Sir Thomas who had had all the trouble, 11 Commodity
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(The End)
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