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CTION FOR HONGKONG
DEAD WITH A KNIFE IN HER NECK
THE ACTRESS WORE
NEVER again would the great Lily Xavier thrill an audience on Broadway. The woman who had been rated as a supreme actress had played her last role. She was now only a corpse and an ugly one at that.
"I can't believe my own eyes," said Inspector Philip "Last Quill of Homicide.
month I saw her in her latest show. Had front row seats for myself and the wife."
The officer's eyes were riveted on the corpse that was sprawled out over a large table. She was bald completeir bald. And there wasn't a single tooth in her mouth.
A THRILLER
BY ROBERT BAU
She was a wonderful "But she did utter a terrible woman. Didn't let those scream. The doorman had to physical handicaps inter- ight with you to stop you. Why
did you run?”* fere with her career.”.
"At the present moment we "As her personal physician," have two suspects," said Quill, commented Dr Zachary Dixon, "Bring in Rudolfo Vilaz "I can explain why Miss Xavier that wig. She made a picture three years ago in Africa and contracted. a peculiar. disease. She lost. all her hair..
wore
Suspects
+
A precinct patrolman escorted a thin, nervous young man into the large living room!
"I didn't kill her, shouted Vilaz, pale as a ghost. "I was never in this apartment"
Scared
A WIG
bring me the other suspect. "We didn't touch the body. Wonder what the widower We at once called the police of the late Lily Xavier has and alto Dr Dixon.* to say?"
J. J. van Huygen, the pro- minent Dutch manufacturer, looked every inch a gentlemari The only time he ever got angry in public was when people call- ed him, “Mr Xavier." Just now he was very calm as he entered the room.
'A shout'
--
“You could have been in- side the apartment and killed your wife, ther quickly left so the elevato boy thought you were coming into the apartmeĖ instead of leaving,”: ped back the officer. "Are you insinuating that I killed my wife!” challenged He J: J. van Huyged
“Wrang choice of verb,” cor
rected Inspector: Quill. “I M.
"It has been in every gossip charging, you with, her murder "I shouldn't have been in this colown that we were separated," and I can prove it building in the first place," ex- began the old Dutchman, "I plained the young man. "I was came here for one simple trying to sell a special curling reason. To ask my wife if we iron to women. No peddlers or could get together again. I salesmen allowed here. Sure, loved her dearly.. I heard 'a scream. You bet
GAN. YOU FIND OUT INSPECTOʻR QUILL'S
"She was facing her killer, I got scared. You see, I am "I walked up the south stair- PROOF THAT J. J. VAN that is apparent, began the out on parole and I figured that way. Then I heard a shout, I HUYGEN HAD MURDERED Inspector. "And the killer pick- if anything happened to be was outside the door at the LILY XAVIER? SEND IN - "In fact she even had to ed up the sharp letter-opener wrong, the cops would pin it on same time the elevator boy came. YOU ́R. THEORIES. A wear artificial eyebrows and thrust it into her neck me." Then she lost her teeth and Then she fell across the large had, to have a full upper table and must have died with- and lower dentures made. in a few minutes.
Love
WHAT is: love?
Wit's sunshine in the rain,
The smell of spring in winter, A smile at nothing
At: no-one
A skip in your step,
A tilt in your head!
Or perhaps
A sparkle in your skin
S a withered rose
IT'S
Or
A drooping orchid,
A faded remembrance of
pleasant evening
red
IT'S OF
Pink, or even blue
a
I's laughter at oft-repeated
jokes,
Walking in the rain
Tram rides to nowhere
A wind-blown hair-do
It's sweet music
Soft lights
Fealing: chimés, from an organ
A dreamy waltz
A floating, billowing cloud of
organdie
FS, the joy of living-
IT'S
The knowledge of loving And being loved in return.
-Althea
Young
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