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THE BLACK PIGEON.
By Anne Austin.
CHAPTER XXVIH,
THE HONGKONG
THURSDAY, MAY
TELEGRAPH,
AMERICAN STOCKS.
NEW YORK.
1929.
Torturing Indigestion. Made Wretched This Young
Lady's Life
Until On The Advice of Her Mother She Tried
two of 'em to agree on the time, I'll give you my nice silver shield. According to these birds CABLED QUOTATIONS FROM -no offense, fellows!-guns were] popping off in the Starbridge Building last Saturday afternoon The following quotations as at the close of the market on Wednesday: from half-past one to half-past have been received from their corres- three o'clock, but just try to pinpondents, Messrs.. Hayden Stone and one of these guys down, Miss Lea. Co., of New York by Messrs. Swan
Culbertson and Fritz, Sassoon House, Road, ter, and he'll tell you that at the Shanghai, (cable address "Swanstock"
Dr. Williams Plak Pilla,
Miss H. German, of 59, Church Murston, Sittingbourne,
stuck stubbornly to his story, Me- Mann tried a new tack: "And "Here I am, Benny!" Ruth cried, you saw Borden, did you, whon time he thought it was the back-Shanghai), who are not responsible England, states:-"A few months finging her arms about the sway-you tame back to swipe Miss Les fire of an automobile, and that befor cable mutilations. These quota-ago I became a victim of In-1
Ing figure of the 17-year-old office ter's gun?" boy. "Oh, Reuny dear, what is "Wasn't gonna swipe it: was the maiter?"
just gonna borrow it," Benny The boy clung to the girl weak- quavered. "Yes, I seen him all Ly, his pale grey eyes suffused right. He was settin' at his desk. with tears. "Aw, Ruth, they ain't I seen him through the door. Old pinched you, have they?"
Minnie left it open when she was "No. Benny, no!" Ruth was emptying his wastebasket. I was Jaughing and sobbing at the same closing the drawer of Mian Lea- time. "Who said I'd been arrest-ler's desk, and he thought I was ed ?"
her, 'cause he called out. That "Micky Moran. I'm gonna knock you, Miss Lester?" and 1 stepped his block off, the big for," Benny into the riddle of the office, ao's gasped, wiping a sleeve across he could see me, and 1 said, "No, unmanly tears, "I knowed you air, it's rae. Mr. Borden.' And he didn't do it—"
yelled out. Then what the devil "And how did
know, are you hanging around here far? Benny McMann demanded, in a What are you looking for in Miss deceptively rasund and friendly | Lester's desk?' And I said I was voice, from his chair at Horden's lookin' for a slamp, and he said desk. "Come on over here and to get t'ell out of here, and and tell me all about it, if you're able heat it. An' 'nt's a-honest to to walk. . Been sick, all day, God" Benny? Just what seems to he the trouble?"
really didn't pay any attention.
digestion. I suffered such pain tions. are subject to confirmantion:
Previous Latest.after eating that I dreaded the Price. Price, approach of meal times. My
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"Can't say I blame a chap with Anaconda Copper.... 140 a business of his own to look after Bethlehem Steel. 110
Chrysler Corp. (Com- nobody's fool enough to want to
.mon) testify in a murder case that may General Motors (Com
mon) drag out for weeks and be tried Goodrick B.F. (Com- two or three times. Ho, hum! It's
mon) a great game, Beautiful!" and he Granby, Consolidated grinned impishly at Ruth," "But
Copper it has its compensations
International Cement Have you seen this cxtra?" he (Common)
04 added, reaching for a paper which Liggett and Myers "D" 89 he had tossed to the floor beside Missouri Pacific (Com, his desk. "Got a swell snapshot inon) of you-you didn't duck your head Novadá Consolidated
50 Copper quick enough," he chuckled. “Your sweetle looks sore enough to bite Packard Motor Car
(Common)
138 nails in two, but he's a good-look-Indio Corporation of ing guy at that. How the sob-
Amerien (Common) 101 sisters will love him! Wanta see, Standard Oil Co. of girlie?"
New Jersey
60 Standard Oil Co. of,
New York
"No, Ruth shuddered, warding off the proffered sheet with Southern Pacific trembling hand. "I'll go back Texas Corporation to my office now. Will you please send Minnie Cas-"
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"Benny," Ruth asked quickly, j "Who wants to know?? the before McMann could spring his office boy countered in a quaver-next question, "did you see my ing, belligerent valer,
pistol on Mr. Borden's desk when "This in Detective Sergeant. Me-you were talking to him?" Mann, in charge of the investiga-i "You keep out of this, Miss Les- tion of Mr. Borden's murder, tor!" McMann said sharply. "This
United States Steel ... 181 "Here's the old girl now!" Covey Vacuum Oil Benny," Ruth told the boy gently. love-sick young
puppy would
interrupted cheerfully. "All log-Willys Overland meetcha!" Benny swear black, was "Pleased to
white if heged out in the what the well- slumped into the chair the deter- theaght you wanted him to.”
dressed scrúbwoman will, wear. tive was indicating and perke. his] "I didn't see the gun, but Took your time, didn't you, Mo- head in a funny, frightened nod, wasn't looking at his deak," Benny ther Machree
"Now that we've been properly answered the question, in defiance Introduced, Benny," McMann of the detective... grinned, "suppose we start all over again. Why didn't you come to work this morning?""
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"Did anyone see you leave Bor.) den's office?" McMann shot at the boy. Cause I was sick, mister," "Sure! Old Minnie, the cleaning Benny quavered. "Honest to John woman. She come back with the I was! Sick to my stummick. waste baskets just an Mr. Borden Guess I et too many hot dogs yes-was yelling at me to get out.” Lerday. Or maybe it Wax "And just what time, did you come back?" McMann sprang his ptomaine poisoning."
Or maybe" and MeMann lean-trap casually. ed toward the boy across the desk
"Back?" Benny echoed, blankly, didn't come hack, and if any
the thought of killing man
sort of, upset your stomach!"
Benny shrank from McMann's narrowed, menacing eyes
Minnie Cassidy's work-rough- ended hands plucked nervously
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"Then I suppose you've got in as far alibi for the rest of Saturday as the back of his chair would afternoon?" McMann auggested, a good time telling it all over $10 per month payable at the Gov- W/T Operators is from $900 to permit. "Me?" Benny's adoles his narrowed eyes holding the again to Detective Sergeant Mc-ernment Radio Office in advance. $1,500 p.a. according to ability cent voice quavered and broke. hay's grimly.
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You mean what did I do Sat-stick right here and keep an eye required for a student to obtain | quarters You don't neshuily think I killed urday afternoon?" Benny was olan Mrs. Burden and Ritzy Rita. Coastal Certifiente is from six stations and on Government ves-
to nine months. Mr. Barden, do you, mister?"
viously stalling for time. "I=1] Can't tell what might happen."
The pay of asels only. ships' operator varies from $60 Operators employed by Govern "I'll take Minnie to Mr. Mc-to $100 per month with food and ment who have been trained in Mann Ruth volunteered eagerly.[necommodation.
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"Please, Mr. McMann!" Ruth went to a movie-down on Four- begged. "Don't frighten him a teenth street, 'nen I went home to death. Of course Benny didn't de supper-"
"Went to a movie alone?" "Naw--with
it Why in the world should, he7" And she laid a hand pro-
"Her name?"*
tectingly, foadly upon the boy's with a girl--" shaking shoulder and challenged the defective with flashing bluet eyes.
frail-- mean,
A
I don't know her name. dizzy little kid / picked up." "When did you last see Renty Benny confessed, in an agony of Barden, Benny?" the detective de-embarassment. "She said I would manded sternly.
call her Fritzle, 'caure 'at wasn't "Saturday, bout half-past one, her name, but what she liked to the boy answered sullenly, "I had he called. A tough baby. I didn't. to come back to the office for some try to date her up," he added, with thing I'd forget--"
eomical attempt to confide, as: What was it?" the detective in-max to mún, in the scowling de terrupted harshly,
fective.
Lester." Me Mann
ad-
To Ruth's amazement, colour "Miss Blooded the bag's pale, freckled dressed the girl suddenly, "1 wish fuec. "--just something you'd go down the ball to that don't remember," he stammered.
vacant suite where Detective Covey la stationed and ask him to send Minnie Cassidy, the cleaning woman, to me if she's come in."
"Listen here, my boy, I'll clap The handcuffs on you too quick to talk about if you don't answer my questions and answer them truth- fully McMann threatened.
"Certainly, Mr. McMann," Ruth agreed, trying to smile cheerfully, though she was convinced that the detective was merely resorting to a ruse to get rid of her while he
phasizing his words with a thump of his fist upon the dead man's desk. "What did you come back for? The truth, now, or the hand-grilled Benny Smith on the sub- cuffs for you, my lad!"
Jurt of Borden's unwelcome ad- vances to her.
Benny
cowered lower in his She found the eocky little deter
#rickety chair and shivered. looking wild- tive with his feet on
ly toward Ruth for help. Teil desk, abandoned by the recent The truth, Benuy," the girl urged, occupants of
the office suite. "I-I come back to get Miss Lea-Several men, whom she recognized ter's-gun," the boy gasped. " as tenants of the Sturbridge Build- Look it Saturday before last foring, stood about the desk, smok- Larget practice out in the country ing, exchanging theories.
and brought it back Monday morn- Ing, without Huth knowing no-
"Hello, Beautiful!"
Detective) thing about it. I didn't mean o Covey greeted her impudently.) "You and the Big Cheese having at harm-"
"Oh." The exclamation seemed good time down there? Believe to burst from Ruth's despairing me, child, he musta taken a shine heart, rather than from her throat, to you, to let you in on this in- If Benny had taken her automa-vestigation like he has."
"Mr. McMann has been very tie. McMann would of course con- sider the mystery entirely solved. kind to me," Ruth said, 'forcing With that troublesome Becond herself to smile. "Has Minnie cleaning woman, weapon thus eliminated, how could Cassidy, the she expect the detective, to have come in yet, Mr. Covey? Mr. Me- any doubt that it was Jack Hay-Mann wants to see her."
"And what a treat that'll be!" ward's gun which had fired, the fatal shot? And it was she who Covey chortled, "Yeah, she's in had urged Benny to tell the truth! the building. I saw her a minute "All right, Benny McMann or two ago. She's changing her I told interrupted harshly. "Where's clothes to get on the job. ..the gun now? Did you bring it'in her to come back here and I'd take her to the sergeant. Wantn wait? with you?"
At Ituth's cry of anguish the Mrs. Borden and Rita are in there" office boy had raised his terror--and he jerked his thumb toward stricken eyes to search her face. the inner office of the suite"but But at the detective's question be why not brighten up the day for faced his tormentor, his chin ald Jim Covey?" and he swung out thrust out belligerently. "I don't of the chair he had borrowed from: know where it is! I didn't take it the next-door office and pushed it) Saturday, 'cause it wasn't there! toward her invitingly.
Ruth seated herself, glanced And that's the truth, so help me!
around the circle of men diffident- God 1"
Ruth, in her Joy, could have ly, then turned the full glory of kissed every freckle on the homely her wide blue eyes upon the little young face, but the detective's detective: "Did ait these men hear Bavage effort to make the boy con- the shot fired, Mr. Covey7" she fess that he had Hed killed that asked innocently.
Covey chuckled. "Five of 'om joy in the moment of its birth,
Finally, since the boy, miserably think maybe they did and maybe Ill and frightened through he was, they didn't, and if you can get any
(To Be Continued.)
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