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THE FAKED ALIBI
(Continued from Page 11)
"I'm! What sort of a stick was he carrying?" Dizod Hawke shot the question at Hardy like a pistol-crack, and the young man blinked as if he had been struck. But saddenly light of understanding dawned his eyes.
Then it "wasn't Jim Hardy," ex- claimed Tommy.
Be bid in ides that he had seen
this gentleman in the neighbourhood Dixon Hawke shook his head.
quite a lot. In fact, he believed that The man who did the deed was he was in business somewhere close a left-handed, as I told Forbes by, but he did not know his name.
Every word the outsätter said fitted Jim Hardy is right-handed
Tommy Burke felt relieved; he had in with Hawke's theory, and in to the broad-Tommy's mind made it a stonewall in taken a great fancy
toj certainty. shouldered Jim, and he hated
Dixon Hawke didn't say much when "By Jove, sir, I remember now! It think that he may have been gulky
care, and, what's more, he of this ghastly crime. I he wasn't he told him the result of the inters
Dixon Hawke would soanview:.be
The never did; dat Tommy knew dropped it on the lift floor, and Iguilty
by the gleam in his grey eyes that picked it
prove i up for him.
When he had finished his examina-he was pleased Inspector Forbes miffed. Tomeny
"Good lad!" was all Fawke said. Burke
and tion of the mad cake, Hawke strolled little whoop. gave a
across to a door leading to another Now we'll get along to Clare Street Dixon Bawice smiled.
room, which the policeman informa-Station, and hear any further news The Half-Finished Letter
Forbes may care to tell u "Well, that's about all Hardy.ed him
Coin was Mr. Goldman's office.
shock
for Goldman when Inspector Forbes grinned when he lad," he said kindly. Cheer up.
not so black as ther he comes back, remarked Tommy, saw them. "Things are
Found the bicke with the pink partner's they came into the
Wonder where he is?
eyes and blue teeth yet, Hawke?" he "Do you really believe that yarn, room.
Forbes said he was down in the gibed. Hawke?" asked Forbes, when they
Dixon Hawke smiled at the police- were back in the inspector's room country on business," said Hawke. "Black beard and dark glasses, and "He will first learn the news from man's heavy humour.
unicar the expect, the newspapers,
"Have you found Goldman yet?"| picking up the stick, which last little bit accounts for that young police get in touch with him before he asked.
Forbes nodded blackguard's prints being on it. Bah! Halle, mere mud!",
The traces of mud which the keen "Yes; he's been staying the night Hawke, it's a chunk of fiction he's
Car broke down, so invented while cooling his heels in eyes of the detective had spotted at Tonbridge..
were so small that Tommy at Srst he hung on overnight. He phoned the cell"
Saw the see them, but a brie! ex-us a couple of hours ago ath is sometimes more difficult did not to believe than fiction." snapped the amination convinced him that it was news of his partner's murder in the is coming famous detective. "I admit it sounds the same type of Kent bop soil as paper this morning, and
in
here As soon as he arrives in Ah, this looks like the man fishy, but that remains to be proved." the original lump they had found
"I prove it all right knapped the cupboard
Hawke did not bother to make any coming in now Forbes. "You watch me!"
Hawke turned to see a thick-set, Hawke closer observation, but crossed to the
looked out. From this Jewish-looking man pushing open the In the meantime, Te like to view door and
place it was impossible to see either station door.
of the
announced "I'122 the main door "You're wasting Jour time, the lift or
offices, as the newcomer as soon as he was inside Hawks" said Forbes, "but if you like Walker & Goldman
Jove! Inspector, this is a terrible doing it, I ain't going to stop you corridor took a right-angled bend.
Is it true that the lift-bey "Well that's pretty cicar" mur-'affair Hang on a minute and I'll give you a
mured Hawke, half to himself. has been arrested?" permit
Mr. Goldman,” asked
"Quite true. sir?" 35
Tommy,
{plied Forbes. who had overheard the remark.
That the murderer let himself out Goldman Look
"Tm going to replied
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"what do you make of that, Tom-I was strung, 2000 after the first blow Malaces cane, Mr. Goldman?"
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On a blotting pad in front of the secount for the main door being lock-standing by now he asked a ques- armchair lay a half-finished letter, ed from the inside? You gotta re- tion.
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Goldman swing round on the de- The Black Hair
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Hawke smiled at his young assis-look of fear flashed into his eyes. of paper.
"A Malacca crae?” he said. “No, Tommy came to his side and took tant's puzzled expression.
"Probably Walker always kept but my partner used to have one, a look.
"An ordinary business letter, half- that door locked when he had an ex- which he kept in the offer. Why?"
"Because a Malacca Che inished, sir," he replied. "Walker tra valuable packet of diamonds on must have looked up at his murderer, the premises for valuation
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"That don't make it any the bet ter for Jim Hardy," he remarked "Walker would have known him well enough.":
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Or the oily look like the weapon which
cost. 1
replied
it
| glanced about the room. Els eyes he knew also that it was going to be Goldman's Barke; coming in at the
Tommy
or else the last word would have been murderer may have suggested that murdered your partner"
"A cane that bore the. wonky. It's neatly written, like the it would be better if the door was Hawke. SAILINGS hem so he could not have been locked, in which ease it only goes to finger-prints of Herdy apon
prove Iker's
that be was a great friend "Faked!" gasped Goldman. "Finger-! writing it when he was coshed."
prints on it? Why, dash it, sir, if Wbed
Jim started to hammer and Hardy's prints were on the weapon, "Well reasoned out,
that whoever make a row he got the wind up, and surely he must have committed the said. "And it proves did it was well known to Walker, and dived into the cupboard. When they murder?"
The man who committed the a frequent visitor to this, room weet off to phone he made his break
crime" said Hawke, slowly and im he had been a stringer, it is ex-and_got_sway.”
"Yes I see that, sir," said Tommypressively, "dropped the stick and got tremely unlikely that Walker would have 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 ander must have been pretty chick with lad's finger-prints were on it
The man was a close friend of struck him down. No lad, we must his client to have beer such an easy look for the murderer in a person mark. Blokes who deal in diamonds Ezra Walker; he hid in the cupboard, sort what gets and left traces of mud which showed ain't usually the
that he had very recently been in caught napping." Tommy frowned
"How do you know it was Kent, say near Tonbridge, Mr. Gold-
That's in
the hop country.: client?" snapped. Hawke as he turn man. ed
sway.
The man was wearing a false beard, Tommy Burke's eyes narrowed as composed of hair identical with the he stared at the broad back of his one upon the shoulder of your coat,
Mr. Goldman. The Cake Of Mad
chief.
With that, Hawke's hand flashed Dixon Hawke did not reply, but
Tommy
knew who Flavke hati turned away from
the desk and marked down as the murderer, but out and plucked a black hair from alighted 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 Tommy watched him as he opened satisfy a Judge and jury, and the warning.
"Look out, sir; he's pulling a gun!” the door, and a moment later he saw proof when it was shown had to be
But Dixon Hawke had seen the his boss pier something off the wood glaringly clear. It was a short, black hair, which had
They left the Shaftesbury Avenue movement, and before the gun was become caught in a tiny splinter, offices about ten minutes 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 she placed the hair in Hawke made straight for his labors the pistol, but the bullet bit into the an cavelope and put it into his wal-tory. Taking the black hair he had four by Hawke's feet, and then let. Then, bending down, he ex-found on the door from his wallet, Forbes was upon the scene.
Goldman fought like a maniac, but, amined the floor.
he laid it on specially-pre-
x
an strong as he was, the combined and put it under The cupboard did not appear to pared slide. have 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 obviousTommy heard him give a little ex-he was still on the foor Tommy footmarks, but so ploughed about as clamation of surprise, and then the Burke zipped in behind and seized poses Only one thing Hawke trea-famous detective turned to him with his boot-heels.
a broad grin on his face. "It's With a hefty twist he wrenched at fa bis dydney bled about, and that
handa. lump of mud which he found just in-goat's hair, Tommy," he announced them and both came away
-Have a 100% # look side the door.
A small packet wrapped in tissue- When Tommy looked through the This he carefully picked up and microscope at the strand of hair, paper was inside each of the hollow laid on a sheet of paper. Tommy saw that it was a cake of mud from he realised that Hawke had spoken heels.
nothing more nor less than the truth.{ Sobbing with fear and rage. Gold- the instep of a man's boot, and must The hair of a gost grows with a root man was handcuffed, and held tight have dropped on from boots either placed in the cupboard or from the of unique shape, and may be easily ly by the constables whila Forbes
recognised in consequence. In ad-read the charge. feet of someone standing inside.
"And here's the spanner he did it dition, the hair is very broad at the Hawke
root and
tip, out narrow in the middle, with, chipped in Tommy as the in- fell apart,
and then Tommy until it
"What does it signify, sir?" asked we took the tool, wrapped up
spector saw what his boss was afteriisa, tiny
Tommy. piece of dried-up leat. For several "It rather proves that Hardy's tale in a piece of oily rag, and after a minates the famous detective studied of the man with the black beard and quick look at it, handed it to Forbes. it under the lens, and then he turne dark glasses was absolutely tone,” "Tommy is right,” he said, "He to his young assistant.
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purpose, as it is so broad, at the Tommy out to search theinear Tonbridge, but his "car, into, andón and, evening, 34) was a clever
unstock
I knew that
but It
root
looks like real human hair
tool box
of Goldman's car, and he garage, booked up at a hotel, sad and well-planned mars has been trimmed a lot. "Next
thing
to do is to find out was smart enough to find what was then pretended that te was going came "I don't see it helps" any."
where t
bought and ae Clever-wanted “
back to the garageht, the fast Tommy, and Forbes 200
Instead be walk-chan The inside of the cake is stilling's is so close to Shaftesbury **Look: here. Hawke,” said wet" replied Hawke quietly
verse, we'll try there first thing in when the prisoner had been taken train to Londen, bought the beard, see what you mean, sir, ex- the morning. Most of the theatrical away ****' owe you' about" sa big in and worked the finger-prints" stunt not. dained Tommy excitedly, "Someone people get their make
their makeup gear from apology as a man can make. You're on Hands, who failed to recognise
the right mans you've got him in the disguise tipped away, Jim Hardy-out of this stood in that cupboard - only a
LEW Jack
caught Clevering hours ago, and left the mud there,
'clock next morning saw back the diamonds which he parked “After the murder he and which belongs to hop-country Tommy Burke off to
to interview the in those faked wall" and ain't found xnywhere else. | manager of the theatrical store, and my bacom doels, and yur te saved and catght the Q,35 back to Ton-lean't keep him now's
the way around. bridge, and turned up at the hotel in Ten minutes later Jim Hardy, se it follows that whoever it was be touched lucky first time.
abs "But what gets me is how Goldman time for a late dinner, telling the crepanied
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