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THE FAKED ALIBI
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"H'm! What sort of a stick was
When it wa't Jim Hardy," ex- He had an idea that he had seen claimed. Tommy-
this gentleman in the neighbourhood quite a lot. "In fact, he believed that he was in business somewhere close by, but he did not know his name.
Every word the ostiller said fitted in with Hawke's theory,
"By Jore, sir, I remember now! It was a case, and, what's more, be dropped it on the Fift floor, and I guilty picked it up for him.".
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Inspector Forbes mused. Tommy Borke gave a little whoop, ¡Dixon Hawke smiled.
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Dizon Hawke shook his head.
The man who did the deed was he carrying?" Dixon Hawke shot the question at Hardy like pistol-crack, a left-handed man, as I told Forbes: and the young man blinked as if he Jim Hardy is right-handed.
Tommy Burke feit relieved; he had hr I been struck. But suddenly light of understanding-dawned in taken a great fancy to the broad- Tommy's mind made it stonewall
shouldered. Jim, and he hated to certainty.
Dizon Hawke didn't say much when think that he may have been guilty of this ghastly crime. If he wasn't he told him the result of the inter nity Dizes Bawke would soan view; he never did; but Tommy knew by the gleam in his grey eyes that prove it.
When he had finished his examina-he was
"Good was all Hawke said. and tion of the mud cake, Hawke strolled
across to a door leading to another "Now we'll get along to Clare Street room, which the policeman inform Station, and hear any further news The Half-Finished Letter
Forbes may care to tell us." "Well, that's about all, Hardy.ed him was Mr. Goldman's office.
Bit of
Inspector Forbes grimmed when be shock for Goldman when Cheer up, lad," he said kindly.
ther he comes had remarked Tommy, saw them dhings are
not so black as
as they came into the partner's Wonder where he is? "Do you really believe that yarn, room
Forbes said he was down in the Hawke?" asked Forbes, when they
on country on business," said Hawke. were back in the inspector's room. “Black beard and dark, glasses, and "He will first learn the news from expect, unless the a the newspapers, picking up the stick, which last
Young police get in touch with him before little bit accounts for that blackguard's prints being on it. Bahi Hullo, more mud!”
The traces of mud which the keen "Tes: he's been staying the night Hawke, it's a chunk of fiction he's
detective had spotted at Tonbridge.. Car broke down, so invented while cooling his heels in eyes of that Tommy at first he hang on overnight He 'phoned the cell.*
Saw the Truth is sometimes more difficult to believe than fiction," snapped the
Forbes. You watch
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"Found the ticke with the pink) ever and blue teeth yet, Hawke?" be gibed.
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"Have you found Goldman yet?" he asked.
Forbes nodded.
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did not see them. but a brief ex-us a couple of hours ago.
is coming amination convinced him that it was news of his partner's murder in the
this morning, and paper famous detective. "I admit it sounds the same type of Kent hop soil 2 the here as soon as he arrives in
in the original lamp they had found
town. Ah, this looks like the man fishy, but that remains to be proved.'
d prove it all ng napped the cupboard.
Hawke did not bother to make any coming in
BOW" Hawke turned to see a thick-set, sning
going to repbed Hawke, closer observation, but crossed to the
this Jawish-looking man pushing open the locked out. From In the meantime, I'd like to view door and
of
place it was impossible to see either station door. the crime."
lift or the main door of the "YOU'IF wasting
time, the your
offices, as the Forbes, "but if you like Walker & Goldman Hawke," said
took a right-angled bend. doing it, I ain't going to stop you corridor, chat's pretty clear," mer Hang on a minute and I'll give you a permit
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mured Hawke, half to himself.
"What is, sir?" asked Tommy, who had overheard the remark
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"Goldman,“ announced the newcomer as soon as he was inside, [ Jove! Inspector, this is a terrible
affair.. Is it true that the lift-boy
has been arrested?"
"Quite true. Mr. Goldman," plied Forber
TC-
Goldman took off his bowler hat and wiped his forehead.
Hawke suddenly bent down and whispered in Tommy's car, and the youngster slid quietly out of the station without anybody noticing him go.
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on duty admitted him, young Fun What be did was somehow that we were expecting Marseilles,
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Walker's office, and watched this, he got off the lift on the floor valuable packet of diamonds.” that to
about the packet of know all stairs, took Marsellies
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Hawke stood in the middle of the corridor.
the parcel as soon comprising Goldman's door here."
They room and subjected the place to a through
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armchair lay a balf-finished letter. ad from the inside? You gotta re-ti Did you
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been
On a blotting pad in front of the account for the main door being lock-standing by: now he asked ques- & thick ever possess and Hawke leaned over and examin-member that Jim was hammering on
it mighty soon after the first blow Malacca case, Mr. Goldman?" ed it.
Goldman swang round on the de- struck." "What do you make of that, Tom-was
the fraction of a The Black Hair
tective. and for my?" he asked, indicating the sheet
Hawke smiled at his young asis-look of fear flashed into his eyes paper.
"A Malacca cane?" he said. "No. Tommy came to his side and took tant's puzzled expression.
"Probably Walker, always kept but my partner used to have a look.
"An ordinary business letter, half-that door locked when he had an ex-which he kept in the office. Why?". "Becatis A Malacca Canc may on Walkertra valuable packet of diamonds
which finished, sir," he replied.
for valuation. Or the easily book like, the weapon
partner replied must have looked up at his murderer, the premises
of
oze.
or else the last word would have been murderer may have suggested that murdered your
"A rane that bore the wonky. It's neatly written, like the it would be better if the door was Hawke SAILINGS others, so he could not have been locked, in which case it only goes to fingerprints of Hardy upon it."
proved that he was a great friend "Faked!" gasped Goldman. "Finger- writing it when he was coshed."
prints on it? Why, daab it, sir, if of Walker's. Hawke nodded approvingly.
"When Jim started to hammer and Hardy's prints were on the weapon, "Well reasoned ont, Tommy!" he
that whoever make row he got the wind up, and surely be must have committed the said. "And it proves
the did it was well known to Walker, and dived into the cupboard. When they murder"
"The man who committed I went off to 'phone he made his break afrequent visitor to this room.
crime," said Hawke, slowly and im he had been a stranger, it is ex-and got away."
"Yes I see that, sir," said Tommy Ipressively, "dropped the stick and got tremely unlikely that Walker would bave sat here quietly writing while a bit doubtfully, "but I reckon Walk-Hardy to pick it up. That's how the the other walked right up to him and er must have been pretty thick with lad inter-prints were on it.
The man was a close friend of strock him down. No lad, we must his client to have been such an easy look for the murderer in a person mark Blokes who deal in diamonds Ears Walker; he hid in the cupboard. ain't usually the sort what gets and left traces of mud which showed perfectly at home in this office.”
caught napping."
that he had very recently been in Tommy frowned.
HOW
do you know it
a Kent, say near Tonbridge. Mr. Gold- That's in the-hop country. client?" snapped Hawke as he turn man.
The man was wearing a false beard, ed
Tommy Burke's eyes harrowed as composed of hair identical with the he stared, at the broad back of his one upon the shoulder of your coat,
Mr. Goldman." chier. The Cake Of Mad
at Hawke's band flashed that, With Dixon Hawke did not reply, but
Tommy knew who Hawke had the desk and marked down as the murderer, bus out and plucked black hair from turned Away from
Eis eyes be knew also that it was going to be Goldman's coat glanced about the room.
Tommy Barker coming in at thei slighted on a big cupboard near the a hard task for them to prove it. fireplace, and he crossed over. What might satisfy them might not door at that moment, screamed a
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Tommy watched him as he opened
"Look out, sir; he's pulling à gun!” the door, and a moment later he saw
But Dixon Hawke had seen the his bass pick something off the wood
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They left the Shaftesbury become caught in a tiny splinter offices alous ten
later, and half out of Goldman's pocket he was Hawke gave a little exclamation of went back to Dover Street. where upon him. There came the crack of satisfaction as he placed the hair in Hawke made straight for his labora- the pistol, but the balles bit into the had floor by Hawke's feet, and then an envelope and put it into his wal-tory. Taking the black hair
it
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let. Then, bending down, he found on the door from his wallet, Forbes was upon the scene.
Goldman fought like
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be was, the combined and put it under
an strong The cupboard did not appear to pared slide bave ever been used, and the dust extremely powerful lens of the micro-weight of Hawke, Forbes, and two constables bore him down, and while was thick Tommy noticed obvious scope
Tommy heard him give a little ex- he was still on the floor Tommy footmarks but so ploughed about as to be useless for identification por clamation of surprise, and then the Burke tipped in behind and seized
famous detective turned, to him with his boot-heels. poses. Only one thing Hawke trou-
It's a broad a br
on his face.
With a hefty twist he wrenched at in his |bled about, and that was a fost's hair, Tommy." he announced them and both came away
banda lamp of mad which he found just in-
Have • look"
A small packet wrapped in tissue- Iside the door.
When Tommy looked through the This be Lid
on 1 saw that it was a cake of mud from the instep of man's boot, and most have dropped off from boots either placed in the cupboard or from the feet of someone standing inside.
Hawke carefully prodded the mud Tommy until it fell apart, and then saw what his boss was after a tiny piece of dried-up leaf. For several minutes the famous detective studied
to
his
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be realised that Hawke had spoken heels nothing more nor less than the truth. Sobbing with fear and rage, Gold- The hair of a goat grows with a root man was handcuffed, and held tight- of unique shape, and may be easily ly by the constables while Forbes
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"And here's the spanner he did it dition. root and tip, but narrow in the middle with chipped in Tommy as the in-
"What does it signify, nr?" asked spector ftaisbed. Tommy.
Hawice took the tool, wrapped up! It rather proves that Hardy's tale in a piece of oily rag, and after it under the lens, and then he turned of the man with the black beard and quick look at it, handed it to Forbes "Tommy is right," he said. "He absolutely true," glasses was young assistant.
answered the detective. "Bat the wiped the blood from the spanner in "It's a piece of hop leaf, lad." he heard was a false one, and made of this cloth, and you'll see there a hair
"Like this" explained Hawks with beer ready to swear that Mr. Gold- announced and the mad itself is dyed goat's hair, the best hair for which will be found to correspond
sham breakdown man was in Tonbridge all the after- a smile. He had the with the dead man's hair. from the light, hop-country soil,"
the purpose, as it is so broaden they sent Tommy out to search the near Tonbridge, pur his car into a mom and evening. It was a clever Tommy looked puzzled.
root, looks like real human hair |
Itool-box of What about it,
that has been trimmed a
Goldman's car, and he garage, booked up as a hotel, and and well-planned murder, bat it lot Next thin
“Thanks to you, sir," -muttered #Bere #ng to do is to find out was start chough to and what was then pretended that he was going came unstack"
it was bought, and as Clever-wanted."
back to the garage. Instead be walk- close to
"Look Shaftesbury is 80
here, Hawke," said Forbes, ed into Tonbridge, caught the fast Tommy, and Forbes nodded.
"That's a fact, Burke; guess you've Avenue, we'll try there first thing in when the prisoner had been taken train to London, bought the beard, ex-the morning. Most of the theatrical away. "I owe you about as big an and worked the finger-prints stunt got a boss worth having.
"I knew that year ago,” mid claimed Tammy, excitedly. "Someone people get
on Hardy, who failed to recognise
Tommy. “But what about letting caught the right man; you've got him in the disguise.
"After the murder he slipped away, Jim Hardy out of this place? You hours ago, and left the mud there.
next morning saw back the diamonds which be parked
and hmad which belongs bop-country Tommy"
catght the 6.35 back to Ton-can't keep him now.
Ten minutes later Jai Hardly, no snil, and ain't found anywhere else.
manager of the theatrical store,, and my bacon all the
way around. Then it follows that whoever it was be touched lucky first time.
But what rets me is how Goldman time for a late dinner, telling the companied by Dixon Hawke and had been in the hop country of Lent The manager remembered selling managed to fake such a perfect alibis hotel people that eh had been at the Tommy Burke, walked out of Clare. DEO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG just before coming here."
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"I don't see it helps an
The inside of the cake is wet replied Hawke quietly.
see what you
air,"
their
stood in that cupboard only a few Jack Cleverine bake-up gear from anology an a man can make.
Tens of to interview the in those faked heels, and you've savce, and turned up at the hotel in
time on the