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DETECTIVE THRILLER !
THE BLACK PIGEON.
By Anne Auštin.
CHAPTER XXI.
car, since Micky Moran was pre vented from asking embarrassing.
a matter of fact,
"Hello, Dr. Nielson! McMann questions. As speaking the detective sergeant the red-headed elevator operator greeted the medical examiner or was a much subdued youngster, the other end of the wire. "What's with the fear of the law heavy the dope?. Fine And can upon him.
you tell me any more definitely when death occurred ... Hm! Close enough, I gucas! Let's see that places the murder between two and four o'clock Saturday, eh? ... Thanks, doc1"
McMann hung up the receiver
"Where
shall we eat, dar. when they
ing?" Jack asked, were upon the street,
"Anywhere but the Chester Ho-| tel," Ruth shuddered. "How about our own litio tearoom? But noi and faced the couple who waited, We've been too happy there. Let's scarcely breathing. "Well, Hay-nal go back there until we'vo ward, I don't think you'll be Bur-waked up 'from this awful night- prised to learn that the bullet mare."
which killed Harry Borden was the
"Then the Colonnade is as good
regulation. bullet for a Colt'a 38 a place as any." Jack decided." "I caliber automatic. Anything to want to talk, and there's no chance say now, my Jad?"
in this mob. Since it's a cafeteria, there won't be any watter hanging over us," he added grimly, as he guided her through the storm doors.
"Nothing-except that did not kill Borden and have no idea who did," Jack. Hayward answered #teadily.
A few minutes later they de- posited their lightly burdened trays upon a snail table in a far corner of the big, nolay room. Ruth au- tomatically raised a spoon of veg- etable soup to her lips, then re- pudiated it with a violent gesture.
"Oh," Jack, I can't eat! Talk to mo-say something Ol-I'm sor ry! But-It's been BU-SO hor- rible!"
"Mr. McMann, please don't forget that my gun was exactly like Mr. Hayward's-a Colt's 38, and that it, too, in missing," Ruth begged carnestly. "Can't you see that if Jack had had killed Mr. Borden he would not have disposed of my gun as well as his own, because he would know that the absence of my pistol would make suspicion fall on me?"
Agnia that gleam of ad.aiation Jack Hayward quietly laid down in the detective's grim grey eyes.his fork and reached for the girl's "Covey, this is by Lester's twisting, cold hands. "You want daughter," he remarked, with me to say I didn't do it, don't you, grin, to his hordinate, "A chip darling? Do I have to say it in off the old lock, en? Now, so many words? Well, thien, dar- Miss Leater, there's just one more ling--I didn't kill Borden.' question for the present: did you "Thank
you, Juck!" Tears yourself dispose of your pistol, welled up in her eyes, splashed up- either before the crime on Satur- on her pale cheeks. "If you had, day, so that it would not be avall would have stood by you. You able if Hayward forced his way know that, don't you? But Jack, into these offices and quarrelled with [who did? And where is your gun? Borden, or this morning after your You didn't take it home, did you discovery of the body, to confuse--to have it out of reach. in the Investigation with two missing case-?" pistols? Just a minute, please!
"No!" Jack dented, his hands
I'm asking that question of the tight upon hers. "When you first daughter of Colby Lester, the told me this morning I thought finest and most honourable crimi-you had done it--" nal lawyer it has ever been my privilege to know."
Ruth cried.
Jack nodded, his eyes pleading
inter-
Colour swept from Ruth's throat with her to forgive him. "From to the fringe of curls on her fore-some hysterical things you said head as she drew her small body about its being your fault-" very erect and faced McMunn with "I meant it was my fault that wide, unflinching blue eyes. "Mr. you had killed him," she McMann, swear on the name of rupted. "I and discovered that 'my dead father, who taught me your gun was missing, I didn't truth and honour-1 did not touch know mine was, tho, I thought you the gun, I. did not remove it, for had quarrelled with him when you any reason whatsoever, from my came back Saturday afternoon, and desk, and I do not know where it had shot him before you realized In!"
what you were doing. And I knew that if you had, it was my fanit, for having screamed and hurt my lip against the door. But tell me again, darling, that you didn't!"
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M'Mann gazed keenly into her eyes as she swore her solemn oath, then beckoned Covey to his aide. The two men, conversed in whis- Jack frowned and withdrew his pers for a minute or two, while hands, and Ruth knew that he was Ruth and Jack retreated, hand, in burt and angry at her insistence, hand, toward the front windows. " did not kill Borden, Ruth
"Well-12 o'clock Time for don't know who did. I wish to God' lunch!" McMann surprised them I did know."
both by booming out cheerfully. "I'd
-like you to be back by one, if con-
"Thank you, darling," she
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venient, Miss Lenter. I may need peated, smiling at him eagerly
you to help me go over Borden's and not casting a glance toward private papers. You may go about the man who hud followed them your business as usual, Hayward, along the food counters and taken but I have to ask you to hold his spat at the next table. yourself available for further There was no need to lank;' she questioning."
knew that his apparently uninter "Then I am not under arrest ?"ested gaze was upon her and Jack Jack asked quietly, as Ruth drew Hayward, that, although he was 'a sobbing breath of relief,
not close enough to have heard "Not yet," McMann answered their low-voiced converantion, he curtly.
hud "listened" nevertheless. For "And-and may we go to lunch Ruth had recognized in their together?" Ruth begged tremu-shadow a man who had testified in loualy.
one of Colby Lester's enses, for the "Sure! Why not?" the defective proscention- detective who was grinned. "But if I were you, Hay-a trained lip reader. So that was ward, wouldn't forget to tip the why McMann had permitted her waiter this time. Now clear out, and Jack to lunch together! He both of you, and don't waste time had hoped to get a confession in gossiping with the reporters." this way, since all other means had
If Jack had been guilty-Ruth
"Thank you, Mr. McMann!" Ruth failed. erled, tenra of relief quivering on her thick lashes. "I wait in my shuddered to think of the desperate office for you, Jack, till you get chance she had taken when, know- ; your hat and coat."
ing that the "shadow" was reading
As she was powdering her face every word that fell from their McMann appeared in the communi-lips, she had dared lead Jack into cating doorway and spoke to the declaring his guilt or innocence. detective stationed at Benny But it was innocence, thank God! Smith's desk. "Phone down to the McMann might not be convinced, i cafeteria on the corner to send me would not be, of course, but she up a couple of sandwiches, some ap-was.. :. No chance now to ex- ple pie, and a cup of coffee, Bird- plain to Jack, or everything would well. Better have then send up be spoiled. your own lunch, too. I'm too busy "Aren't you going to eat?" Jack to leave here now. By the asked, a little stiffly,
way, Miss Lester, I'm afraid I'l She smiled at him, brilliantly, have to nak you to stay all after-through tears. "I'm not very hun-
- 110011. You undoubtedly know gry, but I'll eat one bite for every
more about Borden's business and bite you take. And when we've
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