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CHAPTER XLVI
"Check this right now, Bird- When the elevator doors opened the still bored and apparently com- well!" McMann flung the order to at the seventh floor, Ruth Lester inolent detective seated at Benny ran ahead to open the door to Bor Smith's desk. den's sulte, for Ramon Romero's.
eyes.
ture of infinite weariness.
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Had Malaria Nine Months, Another Curo In Ceylon By Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
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There is no disputing facts. That the rich red blood made by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills over- comes the germs of malaria hass been proved, over and over again the evidence by incontestible testimony. Read Ekanayaka, a
of Mr. W. J. Government om- ployee residing at Waragode, Kalaniya, Ceylon,
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"Some years ago I fell victim to malaria while making tour on business," states Mr. Ekanayaks. "The fever attacks were recurrent and made me very weak. For about nine months I was trying various medicines in the hope of getting the malaria out of my system but they had little or no effect.
frantic efforts to escape were occu- "Telephone number's pying the entire attention of both |0430," Rita volunteered. "A little the policeman and the detective. blonde homewrecker, riame of Na- Another of those shameful tab-nette, took care of him. She al- leaux that follow in the wake of ways doea," she added viciously. murder and of which Ruth had seen "Oh, you'll find he was there all enough in the last 30 hours to lost right, Big Boy," she turned Inso her a lifetime, if aho had ever craved, morbid excitement, met herently to McMann again. "And [that I telephoned him a little after half-past two. I called from In a chair drawn up to the large the lobby of this 'building to tell ["library", table in the centre of him that it was all right-I'd got]
Borden's reception room, the ex- the cash for him." hausted body of a woman half sốt,
"One day a little book came half lay, her head reating on the
into my hands wherein I read of "But you didn't tell him you'd table, her arms outflung in a go- robbed your dead lover's body to case of malaria having been erouching over her, so that the get it, did you " McMann pouac. cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, breath of his menacing words ed.
and thus was led to try this stirred the dark, dishevelled hair,
"No! Because it wasn't. true!" remedy. After the first bottlo my was Delective Sergeant McMann.
Rita Hashed, her black eyes blaz-temperature improved and I found "Sure I'll let you reat, and I'll Ing. "Say, I'm getting sick of my appetite returning. So 1 con- let you eat and I'll let you have a you harping on that line? If I've tinued the treatment until I was Ever since drink, when you come clean, Rital told you once I've told you & hun-completely restored. a
You robbed Borden's dead body! | dred times that Harry
then I have kept good health, so Borden That's all I'ma accusing you' of! gave me the other half of the from my own experience I can That's all! Come on now, Rita~ $500 bili, of his own free will recommend Dr. Williama' Pink get it over with!"
and accord, and that he was alive. Pills as a cure for manlarin." Neither Rita Dubois nor the de-when I left him!" tective had heard 'Roth's almost McMann shrugged, and, aban-: noiseless opening of the door, but doned that line for a new one, of when a moment later, Ramon Ro-more immediate interest. "So the mero, dragged to the door by his money was for Romero, was it? captors, spat out a foreign oath, the What did he need $500 for? To girl's body, became electrified, was out of the chair too quickly for hu-pay his beauty parlor billa? man eyes to take in each of her cát- like movements.
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The two-handsome, swarthy face of the prisoner, became convulsed with hatred as his eyes took in the horror-stricken face of his wife, but McMann roughly interrupted the, torrent of Spanish invectives by or dering the detective to bring in his
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"Now, Rita-no use for me to Ruth, listening intently to the naked his subordinate, when the try to talk to that Spanish-jah-one-sided conversation, SAW male dancer had been rudely forced bering husband of yours-Romero thundercloud settle on the detec down into a chair at the table may not have killed Borden, buttive sergeant's face. After a long nerosa from his wife.
he'd killed someone and needed pause, in which Carlson was evi- money for a getaway! Out with dently talking fast to put himself "In the lobby downstairs," Casey admitted. "Found a gun on him, it, and save time. You know dam- right with his chief, McMann Here it is.
And heed well I'll get the goods on him growled disgustedly: "Well, find made no bones of what he'd come anyway.........”
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Aeross the table Ramon Romero gratefully but allent.
leaned as far as his manacles into
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He hung up the receiver and re- layed the news to Ruth Lester, his voice harsh wih disgust and anger: "That was Carlson-the blankety- blank fool of a detective I detail ed to keep an eye on the Manning woman. And now he calls up to for her, and raised.compassionate "I go with you now!" he said whine a long alibi as to how he blue eyes to Rita's devastated face, arrogantly to Detective Caney. 'lost' her. Says be followed her For a moment she thought the dan- "You're right
will!" to the door of the ladies' rest room cer was going to faint, but slowly a McMann agreed grimly. "Take of a department store at a quar quivering hand found ila customary this dancing sheik down to head-ter to four, and she gave him the place on a slim hip, and the supple quarters and book him on a charge slip somehow, though there's only body regained a pathetic tatter of of carrying firearms till we know one door. He got suspicious when Reserve Fund its old nonchalant insolence.
more about his comle opera past," she'd been in there 20 minutes, "Well"-Rita shrugged, and her he added to the detective and the and sent the maid in charge to voice was hard, bitler, weary,patrolman.
look for her. Not a trace of the with a terrible undercurrent of "May I go with him?" Rita woman, though he's had every fe- gatavie amusement "the joke's on little begged, springing to her feet as male in the rest room paraded be- ambay Rita, all right! Laying for me to her husband was being led to the fore him- Well, Birdwell?" ho u Los Angele
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"Oh, dry up!" the dancer retort-lence that fell upon the group re-open door between the outer office! ed wearily. "This is just a littlelning after Ramon Itomero had quarrel between husband and wife. been taken away, "It's long after Yeah! That pretty boy is my hus-four, and the cleaning women are band all right! Now laugh, that on duty by now. You're going to have Letty Miller in for further questioning, aren't you?"
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nately believed that Jack Hayward BRANCHES:- husband killed Barden because her an harassed, puzzled look. you were going away with him,
too, but with a tiny smile tugging "Don't you remember-she's and now he wants to finish his the woman who cleans Jack's of.at the corners of her lovely mouth. LONDON BINTERE job by killing you. That right" Aicos, and the one who admitted broken; she saw the black pigeon As the silence continued un- "Killed Bordon?" Rita repeated Mr. Borden Friday night with herlight upon the sill of the open scornfully, then broke into laugh-pass-key," Ruth eplained meck-window, then, made bold by the yearly rental of from 1 to 860, ter which seemed to be born ofly. genuine amusement. "Do
[absence of human beinge in the "Oh, yes!" the detective agreed private office and the utter silence want to know where this dancing wearily. "You had some fantas of those in sheik of mine was
the outer room, the on Saturdaye theory about the scrubwoman's bird which Ruth, in a bitter mo afternoon, from one o'clock til having four, when Willette Wilbur and unlocked Saturday afternoon, so fluttered to the floor.
Hayward's door ment had christened "Nemeals," picked him up?... Well and if that anyone might have walked in. The, girl shivered involuntarily, you don't laugh now it's because and used a phone and his gun.as she saw the black pigeon peck- your face got froze into that scowl Won't do any harm to ask her, Iing at bread crumbs spilled upon the last hard freeze we had-suppose. And I might Ramon was in Madame Rosen check Martha
as well the very spot where Harry Bor- Manning's atein's beauty parlor Temple of about having been here Friday stain. She was glad when the story den's life blood had left its dark SATISFACTION! Esthetic Beauty, she calls it night. If the scrub-woman says door opened and the slight sound shooting the family bankroll" she was still working in this carri- startled the black pigeon into "For three hours 7" McMann dor and didn't see or hear any Might, upward and out of the open was heavily sarcastic.
thing of the Manning woman....window. But the next moment "Sure!" Rita retorted acorn-Get her for me, won't you, Bird-her own blood turned to ice in fully. "How long do you think it well? I'll stay out here and an-her veins, takes to get a haircut, a shampoo swer the phone if it rings."
For from just behind Ruth's with hot oil treatment, a facial; The detective sergeant had to chair came a shrill Banshee wail| a manicure, a pedicure, and an make good that promise less than of sheer terror, raing, rising, eyebrow plucking? Did you think a minute after the door had closed breaking at last on a note of sy- God made him look like that?" and upon his departing subordinate, preme horror, as a fainting body she pointed a mocking finger at He strode to Benny's desk, lifted fell heavily to the floor." her husband.
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