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THE BLACK PIGEON.
By Anue Austin.
CHAPTER XLIII
13ng. I've seen them a dozen times, "Well, darling," Ruth anid, at least. They're through work at after she and Jack Hayward mine. I'll speak to Mr. McMann had deposited lightly burdened as soon as I get back to the
trays upon a table in a far corner of the cafeteris, "this has been a buey morning! Net result a con- fession!"
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Jack interrupted, grinning: "I thought you were conducting, his investigation, young lady! Why Anaconda Copper "What!" Relief flared in the not make inquiries ourself? Mrs. Bethlehem Steel ..... 99 young insurance broker's eyes. Pellow, the grand old dowager in Chrysler Corp. (Com
mon) "Why didn't you tell me as soon charge of the cleaning women, 48 we met?"
qust be in the building now. She General Motors (Com-
mon) Contrition sobered Ruth's vivid comes on about two o'clock, I
Goodrich B. F. (Com- little face. "Forgive me, darling think, and acts as a sort of house.
mon) I've raised your hopes, just to keeper for the building, eyen be-Granby: Consolidated dash them. It was just Bonnyfore the cleaning women come on.
Copper lying like the darling little Idiot Let's have a go at her, darling. International that he is, because he thought Now-cat every leaf of that anlad, McMann was going to arrest me or Papa spank!"
Ruth obeyed, but now and then I'll read you his whole 'confession' -I took it down in shorthand, at a puzzled frown knit her brows, McMann's
Tve and her brooding blue eyes dark-
· request-when transcibed it. Of course Benny ened.
"What's the heavy thinking was half delirious with fever, but
last
I'll never have a nobler com- about, honey?" Jack inquired at pliment paid mo~”
"You're a siren and
Ruth shook her head; as if to a cradle snatcher," Jack told her severely, clear it of mists. "I don't know. "It's a good thing I'm going to That's the funny think about it.
In fact, I'm not so marry you and withdraw you from circulation. Any other develop thinking as--listening." ments this morning?"
the girl
much
"Listening? Spirit messages?"
Smiling delightedly, told her sweetheart of Cleo Jack laughed. Gilman'a stimulating visit and its
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Judicrous effect upon dour old tested. "Dad did come to me in Willys Overland ... 24 McMann. "I really believe, Jack," my dream last night and make me
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she concluded, "that if Cleo hadn't remember the orchid-tinted letter, viling the life out of me, Just married one of the most And I believe that letter is more don't get
A minute to do my uppity of the Upper Ten, that our important than it seems now, or work!"
Ruth's smile broadened, for she department's shining Daddy wouldn't have"
"It was your subconscious, get-knew that Mrs. Pellow had never light would have tried to dato her up. He may do it yet. But ting in a chance to remind you of enjoyed herself so much in her wasn't making any idle boast Inst something you'd forgotten," Jack life. "It is awfully annoying, I night when I said I was going to explained easily. "But I'm glad,know, Mrs. Pellow, but I won't take charge of the murder in-darling, that you had your little keep you a minute. You check vestigation this morning." And visit with your father, even if it cut the cleaning women as they then she told him, of her visit to was only a dream. He must have leave every evening, don't you-- Mrs. Borden and to Minnie been a wonderColby Lester." about nine o'clock?".
"He was," Ruth agreed, "But Cassidy, resulting in the discovery
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"Good work!" Jack applauded what I'm trying to listen to." slip past me with anything they:
The girl frowned. Those poor, haven't got a right to! Why, just Pale-Up Capital Quilderm dutifully, but Ruth was quick to
Christmas day see that a shadow settled in the thin, tortured hands of Martha before
betero mes-Christmas Eve, it was--I caught me Puod .......................Guilders eyes she loved. He acknowledged Mannings... What mute the shadow by adding, hesitaingly: jaage had they been trying with one old lady trying to sneak out "But I can't help feeling sorry, out Martha Manning'e knowledge with a satchel full of Christmas aweet, that poor Martha Manning or consent, to get across to her? presents she'd swiped from
"Oh, how awful?" Ruth Inter- has to be dragged into this. I'm And surely there had been some- sure she didn't kill Borden, and thing else something she'd made rupted, with
apparently drop well, there's something about a mental note of as Martha Man-aympathy for Mrs. Fellow'st trou- that woman that gets you- ning talked, something apparently bles. "You stand in the lobby and
check them out, don't you?" A "Jake Bailey, another
'Come along, darling, if you of our
"Yes, mias, I do! Every single morning callers, puts it a lit-want to see Mra. Pellow!" Jack in-night in the week, from nine tle differently," Ruth retorted. "He terrupted, just as Ruth felt that o'clock till they're all gone, and says Miss Manning, got Borden, she was on the verge of receiving Saturdays from four till the build- London Baakeri-National Provincial Bank but he doesn't mean exactly whrt 4 clear, strong message from her ing's clear,"
"You were you do... I'm sorry, dear! subconscious mind,
on duty Friday understand how you feel, for I've "Now it's gone!" she reproach-night, weren't you, Mrs. Pellow?" "I certainly wast But none of been feeling like a malicious, med-ed her future husband ambiguous-
rosc ly, but sho dling little beast myself, ever since Here's my check. You may as out of your office, Miss Leater! obediently. my cleaning women stole any gun she told her whole, pitiful, tragic will get used to paying for it, I'll take my oath on that!" Mrs."
Pellow bridled. "Don't feel too badly," Jack young man!" urged tenderly, his hand closing. It was good to breathe in deep "Oh, I didn't think that for a over here tightly. "MeMann would draughts of the sharp, cold air, to minute!" Ruth disclaimed. "But, have got on her trail within a few feel the winter sunshine on their plonse, Mrs. Pellow, if you were in Capital (fully paid up) Y. 100,000,000 hours anyhow. since there must be faces. With mutual unspoken con- the lobby from nine o'clock till Bore Fusd... X. 168,100,000 any number of people who knew afcnt, the two who had lived for her and Borden's affair... But two days under a dreadful shadow "Nine twenty-five!" Mra. Pellow what did Meline, get out of the shadow which might material- interrupted. "And the time clock poor thing, with his dammableize into a prison cell for Jack will prove my words!" third degree methods?"
Hayward-stood for two or three "Then, please, Mrs. Pellow, did Ruth neglected her soup and minutes on the edge of the side-you see a woman--not one of your salad to recount every detail of walk, content not to talk, merely cleaning women, but a visitor in
the building, come .out. Martha Manning's story, in the to breathe deeply.
of the Datiren (Delay) Nagoya order in which McMann find ex- Micky Moran, the levator opera-building Friday evening between (Mukden) New York
of the car Ruth habitually nine and 9:257" Ruth finished | Hamberg "I'd like to choke that bullygd, told them where to find Mrs. her question breathlessly, while now Jack interrupted fiercely, when Pellow: "She's in her office on her heart beat fast. Ruth told him, with astonishing the second floor--238. 'Way at the vividness, how the detective had back of the building. I carried promptly. "No, No, miss, I'd take adiostack (Temperarily timed) secured the woman's fingerprints, her up at two o'clock. myself, and my Bible oath no woman visitar "Haven't you learned your lea-seen her go down toward her or any other visitor or tenant. son yet, red-head?" Ruth chided office
out of the stairway door to be solaized on seplication.
HMOEL him gently. "I should think you'd The heat cleaning woman, or between nine and 9:25 Friday never utter another threat so long housekeeper of the Starbridge
possibly more accurately, the night." as you live."
But Ruth persisted describing "I suppose some lip-reading de- Building, was in her little cubby.
accurately. tective has already made a note of bole of an office, just as Micky had Martha Manning my slip of the tongue, and if Mc-assured the couple she would be. Again she received the same post- They found her at her small, tive denial. "There wasn't any Mann is ever bumped off, I'll be cheap desk, talking over the tele such woman in our lobby Friday accused of the crime., But 'cut:
Head Ofeet-Hongkong,,25]MPECIALLY AUTHORINÉS MX, WAARS along, sweetheart! I promise to be phone. She nodded, and went on night at the time you say."
Authorised Capija with her conversation;
"What about the stairs béalda | Pai4-05 #md good!"
the Ruth "out along" rapidly, de
service elevator?" Jack”, „Dad' scribing with wry humour the vaatand. Yes, I'll nak
"Yes, Mr. Feldblum! I under- thought to ask, and for a moment RANG rious tilta between Martho Man-nie if she saw the paper that'a
Min-Ruth felt dashed. ning and Jake Bailey, Borden's missing, but all our cleaning wo hope flowed back, full, and strong" But at Mrs. Pellow's answer bodyguard.
men have, strict orders not to "No way for a woman to get in or, "But against his will," she conmove papers that are left out on out of them stairs. The door's cluded, "Jake did do Miss Mann- desks. All right, Mr. Feld. kopt locked after Bix, when the ing a good turn. His professional blum of course I'm very sorry, eloyster man goes off duty. No. pride would not let him admit but I'm sure--Oh! she cried an freight accepted after six." that Martha could have been clone grily, as she replaced the recolver When Ruth and Jack cocaped enough to him on the street so that she could see the pattern of on the hook. "Hung up on me, as from Mra. Pellow's own eliger if I as dirt under his feet!.. questions to the progress of the his shirt and tie, without his see-It's Miss Lester, 'isn't it? And investigation, Ruth, sala thought THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, Depends. Tarm on Applende ing her. So it all boils down to
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But I shouldn't say a word, accing night, that she must have been corroborated, her story of having
No. 10, Die Voeux Road Central, Hongkong. as how he's dead"
here Saturday afternoon instead Authorial Capital been In the Starbridge Building
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