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Ruth Lester felt that she, as well as the frail, tortured woman beside her, could not bear the
"I admit that it is a threat,"Detaria suspenso of the next slow min-Martha Manning said coolly, then cakasza utes.
flashed a brief, almost affec- Colombo With nerve-wrecking delibera- tionate smile at Ruth Lester as tion Detective Sergeant McMan the girl gasped. "But it happens, drew another sheet of paper from Mr. McMann, that it is not u his pocket-the enlarged photo-threat against Mr. Borden's life. graph of the three fingerprints When I saw him Christmas Eve, discovered by Detective Ferber on by a ruac-just as I saw him Fri the glass panel of the door beday night-1 warned him that iftained an application tween the outer and the inner of he did not voluntarily make ade-
C. L. BANDES fices of the Borden suite; laid it quate provision for our son, 1
Hongkong, 19th July, 1922. beside the startlingly clear prints should institute legal proceedings he had just madé, in ink, of to force him to do so. Martha Manning's fingers; studied
"I have an abundance of docu- both sets of prints, then, with mentary evidence, including a maddening lack of haste, reached number of letters from Mr. Borden into his coat pocket, secured a in which he more than admits small microscope and filled it into paternity-bounts of it, in fact; his left eye.
also letters to my little son from At last he noddled with satisfac-his-father." Her voice faltered tian, folded both sheets of paper over that name for the murdered carefully together and placed them man, but her head remained high in a breast pocket of his cout and proud. Then he spoke: Miss Manning.
and waited, listening through · aj crack in the door.
expected. He did open the door
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"After several minutes I heard footsteps, and peeped out. Jake was at the elevator. When it had taken him in, and was on its way down, I ran to Mr. Borden's door, removing my glove so that I could knock loudly, I counted on Mr. Berden's thinking that Jake had "Had you taken steps to insti- come back for some forgotten last we will save much time if you will tute such legal proceedings?" Mc-word. Of course I tried the door tell me frankly at just what time Mann asked, with obvious scepti firat, but it was locked, as I had Saturday afternoon you paid your cism. -farewell visit to Harry Borden." "I had not," the woman' nd-wide, as I had hoped, and before heuf be quoted on application.
The thin hands were working mitted reluctantly. "I—had no could prevent me I slipped in." desperately now with a handker-[money, and 1 wanted Harry-Mr.
"Glad to see you?" McMann cut HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK. chief to remove the humiliating Borden--to be spared the conse in sarcastically.
"No," the woman answered sim- The Business of the above Bank is con ink stains but at the detective's quest notoriety, hence my repeat-y. "But-he did agree to talk ducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI) Bills of Exchange and Cable
McMann drummed on the desk with me. We sat hore-at his desk BANKING CORPORATION, Bol may be "I was not here at all on Sat-top for a long minute, and was and the beautiful voice faltered, obtained on application,
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"Borden opened the door be- BANKING CORPORATION, the requested
▲ G. ITTNES, the fact that your fingerprinta sheets from the loose-leaf register tween the two offices for you, I were found yesterday morning on kept by the elevator men of the suppose?", McMann suggested Hongkong, 11th September, 1927. the glass panel of that door?" Starbridge Building. The detec- casually, MeMann demanded triumphantly, tive antiched at them, then after "Yes of course! He was will NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL pointing toward the closed door a moment's study, he smiled that ing to talk things over, as 1 told between the two offices.
twisted, cynical smile of his and you." Martha Manning drew a sharp, said:
"Then how do you account for quivering, breath, then, to Ruth's "Suppose you tell me all about your fingerprints on the glass panel; amazement she smiled, and the Friday night, Miss Manning-your of the door between?" MeMann thin shoulders shrugged slightly, following of Borden, and your sprung, his trap. as if their owner were admitting cleverly managed interview with defent. "I am sorry to disappoint him.”
question they gripped each other fed appeals." convulsively.
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a that ao?" McMann snorted, the sidewalk opposite the Star-leaned for a moment against the after the frat impact of the shock bridge Building, when I saw Mr. door, throwing up one hand "Well, we'll soon and out if you Borden and a man whom I recog- against the glass panel to steady were here Friday night! Perhaps nized as 'Jake'-the pian
who myself."
Again McMann looked so cha- you're not aware of the fact, Miss had been with Mr. Borden, on
have Manning, that every tenant or vis-Christmas Eve when talked grined that Ruth could itor coming into this building after with him. You referred to him as Inughed, although Jack Hayward from seven o'clock in the evening is re-Jake Bailey a few minutes ago, seemed farther than ever quired to sign a register kept in but I did not know his last name being cleared of the charge of London Bankers-National Provincial Bank the elevator." He rose and was until then.”
murder which might be officially striding toward the communicat-{ She paused, and Ruth had an lodged against him at any mo- ing door to give, an order to Bird-jopportunity to note and almost ment. well, when Marila Manning stop-ludicrous expression of chagrin on "So you were, dizzy with joy, ped him, with a cool admission: the detective's face.
ch?" McMann granted at last. "I'm quite aware of the custom "Well! Go on!" McMann order-"What was the good news?" you mention, Mr. McMann! And fed brusquely,
"Harry- Mr. Borden - had agreed to catablish a trust fund for our son, promised me that he would take it up with his lawyer
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stairway and walked up."
about half-past one, just to tell Dairen (Daloy) Nagors He continued to the door, threw "Just what time was this?" Mc-him how happy, you were, I sup- Vangles Newchwang it open, and with harsh impatience Mann asked, his frowning oyes on pose?.... gave the acccssary instruction to the register sheet which had re- long-suffering Detective Birdwell carded the time as well as the Then, whirling back toward the name of all arrivals and depar- woman, the detective demanded:
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E. HORL name, in a disguised handwriting ing. Poor thing-Ruth thought right! you knew when Borden and that you've forgolten just even the watch that Borden must and Bailey entered the building, which name you did sign! have given her with his love had and when Bailey left it, but when "Hardly anything so crude and gone toward paying for the sup-I get hold of Jake Bailey I'l enatly exploded as that," Martha port of the child of that love. "But be able to knock your pretty story Manning smiled. "I am going to it was about half-past eiglit.".
Into a cocked hut-"
do something much' more simple→ tell you the truth. I walked up
":
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"He's damned right he can!" McMann exploded "Show him
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and walked down, taking care not And although Martha Manning to be seen by the elevator opera was slowly destroying the case Itor?"
which Ruth Lester had, with what McManu demanded. she considered quite remarkable "Why?" "Because you were planning then ingenuity, built against "the wo- to kill Borden and didn't have a man with the contralto voice,” the chance to go through with it?" girl could hardly keep from amil- "Your conclusion is undoubtedlying at the deepening chagrin on logical-from your standpoint," the detective's face.
"Well-why these dramatic Martha Manning agreed, still smil- ing strangely, "It simply happens pausen?" he demanded irritably.
in!" "I-am rather short of breath," to be totally inaccurate. I walked the woman admitted, but with no up because I feared Mr. Borden hint of a bid for sympathy: "I had seen me following him and walked up, resting frequently, for had given orders to the elevator was in no hurry. I had, no inten man not to admit me into
the tion of trying to see Harry while building."
the man Jake was with him. "But if you did see him, why could only hope that Jake would walk down?" McMann caught her not stay long, and that I should up sharply.
| have an opportunity to speak with "For approximately the same Harry-Mr. Borden alone," reason," Miss Manning painted out:
"And did you?" McMann_prod- patiently. "I mean-I did not ded her, as she again paused. Ho want Mr. Borden to give orders to had to wait, however, until a the elevator man that the woman spasm of coughing had spent it- he had just taken down was not self. to be admitted again.”
"When I reached the seventh "Then you expected to make an- floor, I found the corridor deserted, other attempt to carry out your and walked softly to Mr. Bordan's plans, which had miscarried?" office," Miss Manning went on at McMann pretended honest amaze- last, after dabbing at her lips with ment in face of the threat in the ink-stained handkerchief, "I this last letter of yours this listened, and heard faintly the sound threat against Borden's life?". of voices. I knew that Jake was He reached for the letter, read still with Mr. Borden, so I withdrew again that damning sentence:] to the head, of the stairway again,
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