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THE CHINA MAIL
RIDAY, BOVE
THE SUBTLE CRIME (Core 11)
Ming Edwina was waiting on the wide verindah She looked leurdly young in her grey bride attire. A faint flush seeped
"This shernoon,” he said, “we'll} go down to the village and
Miss Edwina's kumile enveloped him with the warunk of a fleecy
through the baby skin and her eyes cloak
were bright with excitement.
He raised her hand to his lips Small helpless hand whose scratch would be no more than a kitter's
He must ove what he had so do krinkad, where discovery
“Nonsense? You didn't hes when I was here before...
"Old-Christopher war with ...ma, pond be. Anaws.every inch of the
*I wonder if you know all it means to a woman who's been place. Suppose I yet caught down alone so long suddenly to find there). Suppose this door should companion who understands and am and I couldn't open it. You
loves her for herself.”
saw how the front door stack
"There's a hatchet in the cellar.
"You make me sahamed, dear," he answered, "that. I have so little I could salater this door with ove to give you. I want to lay the world at your feet. ↑ When I think) that I had to ask you for the money sure there was a hatchet, in case “On his last visit he had made
to defray our expenses-”
"What matter whose money
"Martin dear" (she knew him as Martin Lacey), "I thought you'd never come," she said with relief. He explained that he had gone (down to the steamer on which they were booked to mail at midnight and got their baggage safely in She brushed aside the question the stateroom. Just in case they Aren't we partners. Suppose my fortune had been swept away like were delayed until the last minute,
the last five years ivours in he wanted everything set. He Would that have been my fanit?" wanted to spare-ber any anxiety "But a man feels" For Wozny.
*I've always meant to live Miss Edwina told him somewhat abroad some day." she broke, is, wistfully that she had been alone"and now I'm going with you unde her nervous. She spent very for our living"" since ten in the morning and it What difference whose money pay
little time at the home of her an- This was the cue he had been cestors. It was too isolated, too, waiting for.
sad. A month or so each year "Did you sell your bonds as was about all she could bear. Old advised?" Christopher, the caretaker who "Yes. The money is upstairs in
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the instrument inside his coat did not instantly do its work.
"You'll go down with me?” she asked, looking up at him.
"Of course. You didn't imagine ra let you go alone *
"Oh, then everything's all right." The fear faded away like mist and her gaiety rained Td better put on an apron. The bin will be fall of dust and I mustn't stain zar wedding dress"
From a book near the pots and
as hung a lanter
He lighted the wick while she tied on a hangslow sorom He kept the flame so low that as they went down the ladder-like steps only a faint yellow, fame guided
them.
how wise he had been to get the of the way spot with so much eath of a boat on a black sea. caretaker out of the way Apart on my person.”
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Politics In Great Britain
The Government Case:
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Labour Opposition Case
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unemployment and tariff pol Adherance To League.
cies will be attacked.
Constructive Suggestions The Government will also re-
"On new its promise to adhere to Labour will declare again for a the constructive side.
Emphasis will be laid on the to quote the newly-appointed was the only person who occupied der my mattress last night."
fact that defence measures will Leader of the Labour Party, He laughed to hide the satisfac the place.
She descended carefully. clinging not prejudice Social expendi-Major Attlee - has resulted. "And you asked me, Martin, to tïon his voice must hold.
to his left hand. With his other ture. A deferice loan is contem- The Government's defence,// give him a week's holiday, 10 J
"Just like a woman! The first be held the lantern. The air of plated sent him off this morning. He place a thief would look."
the cellar was damp and chill It The poor man :
knows I have f "But no one seemed surprised.
*almost extinguished the fame. He He. bere." hasn't been away in years.. took his dog for company.”
"Better let me take care of it*19*t the lantern in a hollow in the
wall The man she hew as Martin "Ill be glad to. You can't The light radied forth 5ke the the Covenant of the League in British Socialist. Commonwealth While he answered her he thought feeling I had, coming to this quailing resection from the stern the cause of peace to the same to lead the world to a secure extent as has been demonstrate and universal peace as well as Miss Edwina's soft little handed by Mr. Eden at Geneva and this country to an era of indus still clung, helplessly as a child's for as long as the League retrial prosperity and national de- from leaving the coast clear, the "As soon as we land I reinvest
velopment. As she moved toward, the wine mains an effective instrument emite old fellow would havé a dif (it in British securities *
bla, no more than a grey spot in for carrying out the principles
Despite the prevalent Oppo- ficult time explaining that week's He watched her up the stairs the dark he drew his hand gently of the Covenant. For the consition belief that they cannot absence, if and when the body of Watched the cavern of the second the mistress of the house should floor suck her into darkness. Inway. He reached inside his coss / Enued pursuit of this policy:1\win this Election, there remain
Now the thrill of accomplish. will claim that it has already some prophets who are much- Ibe found
ljust a little while now.. ment the breathless, choked the support of the Whole Bri-more optimistic They believe tish Empire (including the Irish that a shock may be in store He also congratulated himself It was almost too easy.
Ision of excitement at top pitch-]
Free State), of the Opposition for the Government who, they that he had convinced Miss Edwina She came down presently carry-It was always 40.
parties in the House of Com-say, are placing too great a re- this was the one romantic backing a fair-sized black hand-bag.
Always, while his mind stayed"] ground for their wedding.
Miss. It was in line with his art that electrically clear, the final moment mous, of the Churches together fiance upon Geneva policy being with the sympathy of the uppermost in the minds of the Edwina, deeply in love, was not as she handed him the bag he did
brought a surge of emotional
United States of America. difficult to convince.
(not even open it. He must wait:
electorate and are allowing in- The front door with its upper until he could steal a moment ent ecstasy...
puts forward a case against the reeling on employment, a dis beard her gasp of pain. He raised Labour Opposition on this subtrust of armaments and a dis- and yellow glass stuck stubbornly his too great sarerness.
ject, it will be that while they like of being rushed SAILINGS as she struggled to force it open. He made a point of talking about the piece of lead pipe covered with
Should this estimate or that He closed his hand, strong, sure, where he would take her on their tre tape, to bring it smashing support sanctions they propose
to throw every obstacle in the of Lord Snowden, who thinks and muscular, over her soft one, honeymoon. To Taormina; to down on her hese
(Capri, the Blue, Grotto with ite Halfway his arm was held "way of the Government that that the Conservatives will lose and the knob tarwed.
200 seats, be realised, the de- The yawning hall and musty enchanted glow of moonlight; to right as if paralysed Against his already is carrying them out..
·Böld Measures
tailed aims of the Labour Op- smell of walls that never felt the Bhodes (Miss Edwina had never ribs the impact of a bullet was a
bot piercing stab.
The Government will y claim position will become of imme- Tan paper, in a faded pats been near Greeee); to all the lands
Simultaneously the cellar radiate also that if the League showed dinte importance Be-of romance.. He fed her dreams” [tern of gold, covered them
From the wine signs of falling as an effective yond a double-doorway with brown and held tight the black handed white light
bin a battery of light flooded his instrument of the Covenant the Ivelours portieres.the parlour lay bag.
dark and somnolent. Green win- When they were seated at heh, yes. He did not fall, but, as Opposition parties would
Edwina, who was holding | Bokie" | measured the bushes National Australia & New Zealand dow blinds were drawn. Through Miss Edwina apologised for the inr his side, looked down on Miss tate to take the bold recom face a sickly light touched the over Not much of a wedding feast! He thing thrust through the pocket of Government is prepared to em bark upon if necessary to sit will stuffed Victorian furniture, the suggested they might angment it her hungalow apron.
He knew now that his lifted arm also attack the Opposition's at few pictures in heavy tarnished by a visit to the cellar. Hadn't gold frames, the ornate chandelier, he noticed some dust caked bottles was gripped from behind with mtitude towards the Cerence-set-
|vices: "Don't let's go. in there!". Miss in the wine bin when she showed mense power.
FIE wrist was being twisted m In so swift and shor Edwins clung to him. "I haven't him through the house? Yes-she been in that room since my father's had almost forgotten. She be til the lead pipe dropped from hispaign it may be do
ther any attem funeral and it reminds me. of lieved there was some vintage)
His exptor kicked it out of the to carry the death
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panel of leaded green, red, blue, for her sight She must not note. He seized her shoulder. So far as the Government sufficiently for the depth of
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LIGA PORTUGUESA'S OPPORTUNITY
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Howelf Shames P ~the Medicals, after a rather done disappointing start, Dava vary: well recently: Pym is fo great form, while in the inter- mediate line, Howett is also good. Fond and Sister are also playing on form and these forwards "will" giste the Portuguese defence PERRY RAXİOTE moments.
At the other side of the ball was been particularly fond of it somey. Another meu picked it patorate very far
To his straining eyes the cellar jar issues whe another, smaller door, studded Amontillado sherry, and some
be time to fight with a design of coloured glass Tokay. She never had hired wine seemed to be full of men
The blinding battery from the issues fanci Hke the front one. As: Miss Ed-But this was zu- occasion.
no match for the Engineers; as wins-reached-It, a stray wisp of must find the key to the wine bin wine bin moved to one side and he with special reference to the St Joseph's are likely to prove sunlight through a circular yellow It was while she was out of the made out the face above it of financial policy of the Labe
Christonher, the seulle caretaker. Opposition; tail" "policy, town hey are again changing the But the semility was gone. The planning; housing transport? have no dificulty against the Air team, while the Lincolns should pane hovered in a sort of hald over room that he opened the hand-beg. her blonde head..?.
The bEls were, in rols of five-hum
|shipping; agriculture: sina "In this golden light, he whis-dred and a.. thousand denomina- were shrewd and narrowed.
"Well got you this time, Mr. clearance, and many other mat Foren Ipered, yon look like like an antións- Hie alle fagers 2 Martin Lacey, alias Arthur-Com-fers, in all of which the Gov-
through them like live things, alias George Lowery
ernment, claim to have served the comparison gave him Their touch! Sweeter than a
"Wanted in Chicago for the mur-the country well. amused satisfaction. To choose woman's lips, finer than the Golden A
der of Agnes Hollister. Wanted. Sydney just the right word in zucha Fleece!
San Francisco for the murder Įsituation?- Al word that fifted so
Five thousand--ten themzsand---- exactly. He dropped her hand and twelve fifteen, He counted to lifted his to the softly rippling twenty-five thousand before-his hatt His fingers fiched to twist trained ears caught her footfall themselves among the roots and There was still a roll upcounted aal- till her eyes went blind with « She came ju- dangling a pain and her throat shrieked ter. Her eyes danced. A dimple For against the echoing walls, round the corner of her But the time was not yet.".
She looked dens: the Instead, he rested his lips more the gleefal child about. against the pale gold ringlets and start on splende. murmured what a lucky man, he
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The blood from the wound in his
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