Murder Backstairs
ANNE AUSTIN
AUTHOR OF *THE AVENGING PARROT" "THE BLACK PIGEON, ETC.
BEGIN HERE 'TO-DAY.
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still hung over an armchair, and
to obeerre Seymour'an ash tray beside it held half a Crosby, for curtain sinister reason connee dozen cigarette stubs, deposited with his profession, Delestive Bearle Dunder accepts Dick Tierteley's Invitation to spend there since the chambermaid had week-end at the millionaire Berkeley's home turned down the covers of the bed.
Crosby, social calebrity, of New York, engaged to Clorinda Berkeley, who is not inAnd in the room was a heavy odour
of whisky and perfume,
love with kir. Her tather is bitterly posed to the marriage. but her mother determined upon it. Dinner is an unpleasant ordenis Gigl, the 16-year-old laughter. freely
criticises her family to Dundee.
After dinner Crossby presents Mrs. Berkeley
with a large dask of perfume, which Gial anaiches from her mother, dashing madly from zucil to gut, sprinkling them all. Inces child runs from the room, soon followed Dick. Herkolny. On his way to teleph police headquarter for full information on Crosby, Dundee sees Dick lerkeley forcing his attentions upon preity Doris Matthewa,
Mr. Berkeley slaps Gigi's face, and the
"He can't have got far," Dundee said to himself, and frowned thoughtfully.
Suddenly his mind was made up. Regardless of the fact that Dick was his host, and that his host's. love affairs were none of his con- cern, Dundee knew that if he could
lady's maid, who is forced to agree to meet prevent it Dick Berkeley should not
Ein Enter.
further annoy Doris Matthews that
At 10:45 Clorinda abruptly Rose pataleenight. The girl feared him, dé- and the party brake up, Mr. Berkeley, how ever, detalning Mra, 1terkeley for a "conferspised him, and he was more than
ence" in the library,
CHAPTER V.
half drunk. There was his empty pocket flash.
Without forming any definite The room to which Dundee had plan, Dundee hurried out into the was on the third hall. Yes, thank heaven, Gigi had been assigned floor of the Berkeley mansion. Dick gone to bed!
He plunged down Berkeley, ushering him into it upon the stairs, hia steps inaudible, on his arrival that Friday evening, the thick velvet runner. had explained:
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In the 10 minutes or so since he "Nobody but the servants and me had gone up, the house had appar- up here. I chose my quarters for ently settled down for the night. privacy, Sorry, but you'll have to In all the big front hall there was Your room only one dim light burning, but as use my bath, old man. is really what Mother calls myDundee was erossing noiselessly to 'den, but the couch is comfortable the drawing room there came the Mother wanted you to have one of faint sound of a door opening, im- the lordly guest chambers on the mediately followed by an angry, im- second floor, but I thought you plugable voice: might enjoy a little bachelor peace
"And that's my last word on the and quiet. The ballroom's on the cast, extending the length of the subject, Abbie! There'll be no en- house; otherwise there's nothing agement announced here to-mor clear across the front but my row night! I'll not have my daugh- rooms. I don't think you'll mind theter marrying a wife-murderer!" servants. They turn in fairly! "Shut that door, George Berke- early, all except old Wickett, the ley Dundee heard Mrs. Berkeley's butler, and use the backstairs." voice shrilling in the library. ""Do Now, as Dundee plodded rather want Wicket: to hear you?
marble Now a listen to my inat word-- wearily up the winding staircase, his mind was a jumble: of half-formed foreboding of he
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Cierva, the Spanish inventor, in a broad palm had left its mark upon Gigi's check. Funny, brazen. im-
Paper read before the Royal Aero- nautical Society. pudent little Gigi?. But she had not deserved that! .
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The curious fact was disclosed that the total maximum weight of autogiros increased very quickly with the top speed. A correctly calculated autogiro, with top
So George Berkeley suspected, 90! Or did he more than suspect? Had he ferreted out, with the aid of private detectives, something His hand, slipping along the cold that had
not appeared at that marble halustrade, suddenly en-strangely perfunctory inquest 18 countered something soft and livmonths ago in London? But wait! ing and warm. Startled, he looked Perhaps he had had no need of down as little brown fingers curled private detectives! Right here in
not exceed about his.
the house was Doris Matthews, Mrs. 1,000lb. in weight, while for 100 "Gigi" he whispered, and bent Crosby's personal maid, whose testi- m.p.h, the weight could be. over to stare at the forlorn little mony had figured so prominently than 2,500lb. A machine weigh- incongruously gay py in the inquest. Just what had sheing 10,000 should be faster than. figure in jamas, crouching against the stair testified? Dundee knit his brows in 140 m.p..
head.
an effort to remember clearly.
"I've been waiting for you to. Then he shrugged. To-morrow he come up," she whispered, her voice would have the resume of the case catching on a sob." "Dick's not in which Strawn had promised to mail his room, and I wanted somebody that night. The Dick matter was to pet me and tell me what an awful the more pressing now.
And he little beast I am. I couldn't sleep." stepped softly into the dark draw she confessed miserably.
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If Dick wasn't Dundee rounded the stairhead in the dining room.
degrees, have a minimum and, protected from the sight of there, he probably wasn't in the zontal speed of 18 m.p.h. and the anyone below by the high marble house at all. Halfway across the ability to descend vertically ant balustrade, crouched beside her, a light from the dining room stop dead on landing. cuddling the twisting little brown made the going easier. hands against his dinner coat.
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"You do smell sicky-sweet!" she giggled faintly. Did you think I was terrible, wasting Abbie's per fume like that? Well, I wasn't I was just " She broke off tha confidence abruptly however; baxan on a new tack, her topaz glowing like a cat's in the dim light from the third-floor hall bracket. "I
eyes
Wickett, the butler, stood at the big sideboard, counting silver wheeled at some faint sound the spoons into a velvet-lined chest. He clase to him detective had
made, and peered frowningly.
on her way to the front door. But she did not leave by that door. She rounded the stairs, listened for a moment to the subdued clash of voices from; "I was looking for Mr. Dick within the library, then tiptoedi Berkeley, tt," Dundee de- down the hall toward the backstairs clared himself.
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"He is not here, sir. The wine
Dundee heard the door open very was returned to the cellar some softly, did not hear it close. Ap wasn't just being time ago, sir,”-
parently Clorinda was guarding her mean then, but afterwards-after
"Right, Wickett!" Dundee grin- return, that it might be as noise-
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frightened I can't on the drawing room lights. "Don't that door, and listened. Very faint- sleep!"
bather! -1 can see well enough.ly came the sound of a chain being "Poyr little, dear little Gigi!" But if you do see Mr. Dick, I wish rattled, then still more faintly the he said tenderly, and lifted, the you would tell him I very much sound of a bolt being shot back. small hands to his lips: "You can't want to see him before I turn in." Clorinda had left the house by the, have done anything 'perfectly The butler, with a "Very well, back door, which Wickett had al- dreadful, and of course you're go-sir," returned to his work, and Dun- ready made fast for the night.
ing to trot off to bed, right now." dee threaded his way through the So Dick Berkeley was not the
"My!" she breathed softly, sol-over-furnished, dimly lit drawing
that family who emnly. "You kissed my hands, room. He was just about to step only member of Bonnie Dundee! Just as if 1 were out into the hall when a faint, abole out to keep secret appoint- a grown-up young lady like Clo muffled cough warned him that ments! Whom was Clorinda meet- rinda! Ilisten!" she pleaded someone was descending the stairs.ing? Seymour Crosby? After all, wistfully, "if you'll kiss my eye- Not relishing the idea of again ex- they were engaged to be married, lids I bet I will go to sleep!" plaining his presence on the dark-and their first evening together af- ened lower floor, he shrank back ter week of separation had not He kissed the ecstatically flutter-
against the heavy silk
been a sigral success. But-they brocade ing lids very gently, but he did not hangings, then, because he was a
had not coked upon each other as kies the soft, childish little mouth detective, and because that active lovers ardently desiring to be alone.
that quivered, expectantly. After sixth sense of his warned him that all, she was only 15.
Half an hour later quarter to the person stealing down the stairs 12-w.en Dundee had had a tepid She waited there. crouched was as anxious to be unobserved, bath to induce sleep, young thick. against the stairs, until he had gone as he was himself, he quite shame-at least, had not returned from niş into his room arid closed the door. lessly peeped.
rende vous. Dundea shrugged Switching on the lights he found
wearily as he got into bed. Ap-
the couch into a beautifuly made in the dim light her tall alender been quite willing to meet her mis- It was Clorinda Berkeley. Even parently the lovely little Doris had up bed, and had left a thermos bot- tle of ice water and a napkin-cov body was unmistakable. And she tress's son clandestinely, in spite of her seeming reluctance. Stiil she
kind of girl."
that a chambermaid had converted
was going out, stealing' out, for
And badn't Mra.
•
ered plate of tiny sandwiches on she was wearing, over the wine-red certainly hadn't looked like "that| the bedside table. Munching one velvet evening dreas, a cape of gold of the dainty triangles, he went metal cloth, trimmed with dark fur. Lambert told Crosby that Doris was into the bathroom, tried the door His eyes quite accustomed by now very happy in her engagement to leading into Dick's bedroom, and to the dim light, Dundee could even
Arnold, the chauffeur? found it unlocked., He knocked, distinguish the modernistic pattern The next questions Dundee asked had no answer, then entered. The of the batik silk scars she was nerwere spoke aloud: "Who's there? lights were on, but Gigi had vously pulling through her fingers What is it?" been right. Dick Berkeley was as she tiptoed down the last steps not in his room, but he had of the staira.
It was broad daylight and 'some-
one was pounding on his door and
been there very recently, for He waited, scarcely breathing, calling his name. a thin blue layer of smoke for he thought she must pass very
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