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THE CHINA MAID MONDAY, MAY 20, 1935
SCULPTRESS LEAVES FOR AFRICA ALONE
Belgian Artist On "Type Hunt"
A
The Unconsidered Trifle
(Continued from-Page
and the whole place secul deserted."
to be
Wilder stood still looking down
He paused for a moment at the body. His first sensation.
"My name is Wilder. I am Mr- ane of a curious surprise at Ensor's partner. We had important High adventure and artistichat had happened
business to discuss to-night. Will ambition are taking a young Ensor
was dead. He. Richard Belgian culptress-alone all the wilder, had killed him. A mur investigate?
Fou send someone back with me to way to Equatorial Africa.
most
Iderer:.
and knocked loudly. He opened the letter-box and listened. There was no sound in the house.
"Don't like the look of it, he muttered-
Mile. Jehanne Tercafs has
*Ill come with you myself, sir. I He passed a hand arruss his foreknow Mr. Ensor to started on her long voyage darkest Africa determined to head. He was a murderer. He bad
The inspector reached for his stay for several years among the taken up that ugly curved knife
that. wild African tribes of Ruanda-with the deliberate intention of
They hurried to the house. The Urundi, the Belgian mandated killing Ensor and driven dark shape of it loomed out against territory. There she hopes to re-home with pitiless strength. The the pale sky. There seemed to be the wound, the something particularly black and capture in marble and bronze the knife remained in
characteristic types of handle jutting out from the huddled sinister about it. The inspector these African races-for the figure on the floor. A dark stain pleasure and enlightenment of was spreading on the caret." the rest of the world.
He drew back. He was rather This courageous young woman pleased at his own coolness has devoted most of her artistic He felt no regret or remorse for life to the study of African what he had done. It was Ensor's types, and the Colonial Museum own fault. The fool had driven in Paris already possesses two of him to it. It served him right for the servants Wilder whispered. her works-one representing attempting to force him out of his
and the other fair share of the business. For
moment he even felt a little proud of this" demonstration that he was not to be taken advantage of in such a fashion. Enser was the only of his defalcations. There was no looking into here." man in the world who had known one else. And Ensor was dead.
He glanced at the clock on the
“Motherbood”" "Silence."
PREYING ON WOMEN MOTORISTS
Repairs Blackmail
motorists and
He rang again:
"What can have happened
There were three of them
The inspector turned away from the door.
“I'm going round to the back,” be said "There's something wants)
They went quietly round the house
!* "There's a Eight in the library,”
this woman, whoever she was, would The inspector signed him to
come.
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A. A patrols in Hampshire are mantel-piece. It was five minutes Wilder said softly. "The window stopping women
to ten In another five minutes is open warning them against accepting of fers
silence; and crept noiselessly up to to repair their cars
by the roadside.
He looked round carefully. There the window. Wilder followed him. The most recent case reported;
They peered round into the room. were one or two signs of his owThe body of Ensor
hidden was that of two men in a car who į
presence to be removed. He push-| motorist near
from them by stopped a woman
the couch and the led the chair he had sat upon back to armchair he had been sitting on. Poole and informed her that thei
its usual position, and smoothed! transmission of her car was loose!!
The girl was standing at Ensor's and told her that if she continued the cushions. He did not intend to
desk, rapidly running through the to drive it she would probably have make any mistake. There would be
contents of the drawers. It was an accident. They then offered too clue to point to himself. He
evident that the knocking at the! tow her to the nearest garage, but took out his handkerchief and care!
front door had alarmed her, for she [100 yards from the garage they un-fully wiped the handle of the knife
was scattering the papers right and hitched the tow rope and demand-without disturbing it. Then
left, pausing once or twice to listen ed 103. as a towing-fee and ls. 3d went on quickly to wipe everything
intently. She was wrapped in a else he might have touched. as petrol expenditure.
dark. cloak, and a small black hat Putting the handkerchief back The woman
paid up and then
beautiful in spite of its drove to the garage, where she was into his pocket he made another framed a face that was strikingly informed that her car was in për-careful scrutiny of the room. There
whiteness. fect order.
were many famous cases in which
They saw ber glance down some stupid little point had been
shuddering, at something on the Joverlooked, and had led to detection
floor, her eres wide with horror. -something that a child should not Then the inspector stepped into the have neglected. He would not be caught like that. He was going to room. Wilder behind him
The girl streamed -and shrank be much too careful There should
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Not one. He took out bis handkerchief again and put it over
stricken.
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"What do you want?" she gasped faintly.
Before the inspector could speak
la startled shout came from Wilder.
My God, look there!"
He knelt on the floor "It's Ensor" he cried.
Stab
{bed!"
The inspector looked down at the the handle of the door before headdled figure, then at the white. opened it: In the dark hall he felt face of the girl
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Then be crept quickly round by the wall
grimly, "I should say I want you.”
He turned back, and; closing the windows, fastened them securely.
“You stay where you are, young lady," he ordered. "Don't move an inch!"
Wilder looked up.
The house stood some way back "He's quite dead" he said slowly. from the road, and was well hidden He got up unsteadily. For a mo ment he seemed to be dazed. "Poor "It's dread-
There
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He turned to the girl "In heaven's name, how did you}} • come to do such a terrible thing?
She came closer to them
There
All broken, chafed, and damaged by trees and a high fence. 2nd June Goods are to be left in the Godow was a semi-circular drive from one fellow." he muttered.
where they will be examined an
Wilder went ful... 30th May 20th May, 1935, at 10
by zate to another."
round to the garage yard where be Mesars Goddard and Douglas.
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“I didn't do it!" she cried widly. "I never touched him!”.
Wilder shrugged his shoulders
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The inspector had been bending over the body. Then be straighten- He saw the girl come round the ed himself and looked steadily st] opposite corner of the house and the girl.
Ensor's
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You were going through his papers," he said sharply. You laren't denying that, I suppose?? conShe put a hand on the back of a chair to steady herself. She was (siraking pitlolly,
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