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Murder Backstairs
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.
The Crimin: Doria Matthews, pretty English Jady mald, murdered Friday night in mer how by blow on head from heavy fume finsk; body dumped into luke on viale of millionsite Berkeleys,
Detectives: Bonnie Dundee, guent of Dick Berkeley at time of crime, and discoverer of
Strawn of the Itamilton Homicide Sqand.
ANNE AUSTIN
AUTHOR OF
WTHE AVENGING FURBODI *THE BLACK PIGEON, ETC.
character of house guest in Clo-
rinda Berkeley's home, to probe the meaning of that "unless." "By the way, Miss Berkeley, do your father and mother know yet?" "No. I didn't fancy the task," "There's
taly at sunrise swimming party: Chatain Clorinda retorted coolly.
Members of lauscheld: Nin, Gerge Berke-othing Mother enjoys so much as ley social climber: George Berkeley, gpposed a good fit of hysteries, and Father f highter's marriage to
close friend of
Seymour Cranky: New York winy widow and I are not on confidential terms er, under a cloud in the eyes of police, but just now," she added, with bitter
humour. "I see the police have ar-i Mrs. Letitia Lambert, social secretary trived. They'll probably enjoy the Clorinda Berkeley; engaged to Crosby, but not in love with himy olnetved stealing uut uf bour Fridny night by Dundee,
Mr. Berkeley.
Gigi Berkeley: 15, who naccountably of perfume presented by Crosby to her mother Dick Deckeley: drunk Friday night; in- fatuated with Deris; had forced her to serve to meet him later Friday night, and known
sprinkled all guests Friday night from fusk
by Bund to have been missing from his
חנאת
Wickett: butler, formerly in employ of lath Mr. Lambert and Crosby
Eugene Arnold: chauffeur.
Doris
engaged to
Clorinda and
ste Bal Dick
adapurts. Strawn mends thunder to And if Dick is in his roum.
CHAPTER IX.
sensation. I shouldn't."
Dundee proceeded up the stairs, grateful to Mrs. Lambert and Gigi for not bursting out upon him with questions he could not answer. Odd that Gigi should prefer Mrs. Lambert to her, mother, though Dundee could not but be glad that it was the social secretary's gentle understanding which was now cop- ing with the high-strung little girl's} shocked
nerves.
He went to his own room, thence, by way of the bathroom, to Dick feared, the missing man had not Berkeley's. As he had expected and returned. For the first time he tried the door leading into the hull.
As Dundee let himself into the house by the front door, hoping to evade the hysterical questions of the servants, who must have it was locked. noted the arrival of the police cars. the door leading into the backstairs quarters was torn open and a young man in chauffeurs
toward uniform lunged
him, pausing only long enough to slam the door viciously in the face of
a maid who was pressing forward Inquisitively.
Doubtless Dick had
Pocketed the key, to prevent his but Dundee, who had heard him absence being discovered by anyone make the rendezvous with Doris and who, he must have thought, could be depended upon not to give
him away.
But now, Dundee re- flected grimly, it was no longer a question of shielding a friend en- gaged in an intrigue with a pretty
servant.
murdered, and the hounds of the law would have to be set upon Dick
later, decently
Doris Matthews had been
Ten minutes
"Excuse me, sir!" the chauffeur panted. "But will you tell me what's up? What are the police doing here? Della, the upstairs nutid, told me Doris didn't sleep in her room last night. It's true, 19 Berkeley's trail, it? Nothing's happened to Dorielothed and sketchily shaved, Dun- The police aren't here about her. dee sped down the backstairs and are they, sir?"
out of the house. A frightened cook and housemaid had peeped out at him, but he had given them no time to question him.
He was almost sobbing, and one big, freckled hand kept runnin distractedly through his curly.. dark-red hair.
When
arm
hesitated
to
The machinery of the law had Dundee answer, the chauffeur so far for been set in motion during his ab
sence. Captain Strawn and the got himself as to seize the guest's)
whom he had and shake it frenziedly, coroner. Dr. Price, "For God's sake, sir, why won't met during the investigation into the Rhodes House murders, were you tell me? I'm Arnold-
bending over the body of the dead Eugene Arnold, the Berkeley chauffeur, and I'm engaged to bgirl, still stretched upon the cury- married to Doris. I have a righting bench of the summerhouse. The to ask if anything's happened to finger-print expert, Carraway, was already busy with his black powder and camera. Wickett, the butler, stil stand outside the little arbor, but Seymour Crosby was missing from the gruesome picture. A knot of uniformed policemen and plain-
her-"
"I'm sorry, Arnold," Dundee said slowly, but I can't speak for the police. Will you please wait as quietly as possible in the servants sitting room until Captain Strawn
calls for you?
And I think 1
elothes detectivas
stood
on the
would be wise for you not to lake's edge, awaiting instructions
talk-"
From the chief of the homicide Then it is Duris Arnold inter-quad.
"Dick Berkeley has not re- rupted, his voice going heavy aud;
turned," dull with despair.
Dundee Then appar-
reported to voice so low that ently realization swept over him. Strawn, in a
"Since His freckled, pleasant young face Vickett could not hear. flamed with anger. "Did she he's still in dinner clothes-they're elope with Dick Berkeley, sir? t in his closet-I don't think he that what the row's about? For
could have got far without being noticed." God's sake, tell me!"
Strawn turned his back on the "Sorry, but I'm afraid I can't tell you anything. Arnold," Dundee corpse, and jerked his head toward said quietly, and started up the the immobile butler. "Got any rea- son to think the old boy's mixed "Gone! With that drunken up in this" he whispered.
"Меле whatever rotter!" Arnold
groaned, 4117-1 lurched blindly toward the back-answered sincerely.
stairs.
hail
་
· •
Dundee
door. But before he dis- "Then don't you think it might appeared Dundee heard him vow, he a good idea to let him in on the with terrible intensity: "I'll find secret of your official connexiun him and kill him if I have to hunt with the police?" Strawn sug-
gested. "If this all over the world for him!"
isn't thing quickly cleared up by a confession "A violent young man," Dundee from Dick Berkeley and developes commented wearily to himself, as into a rat-class mystery, we'il he plodded upstairs.
Ineed Wickett as an ally. No one He hoped to gain the third floor knows as much about a family like without further interruption, but this as its butler, and besides, he as he reached the second Clorinda can keep the const clear of other Berkeley stepped forward. She servants while you snoop around had changed from bathing suit to in the bedrooms and such." a morning dress of dark-green
jersey, a colour which made her "Just a minute, chief!" Dundee
interrupted.
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Shipping. Douglases, 3221 n. H. K. Steamboats, $262 Indo-Chinas, (Def.) $60 s. Union Waterboats $26 .b.
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Cottons.
Ewo Cottons, Tls, 13.50 a S'hai Cottons; Tls. 8) (old) n.
8.
El.
1.
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Sterling
- Silver
.050,000,000
20,000,000
£0,560.000
.80,800,000
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Y. 108,500,000
Alexandria
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1.
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Cald: Macg. Ord: Tls. 10 n. Canton Icos, $2.50 Cements (Comb.) $16.20 b. Ropes $7:15 b. United Asbestos $5 b.
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H.R. G. Loan 7% Prem. 8.
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45,000,000
4,009,005
Reserve Liability of Proprictors ...
3.000.000
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES.
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ALOB STAR
KUCHING
24,710,200,00 3,526,503.93
(Malay States)
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The Hongkong and Shanghai poits received for one year or shorter periods Taxi Company, St. George's Build- ing, will shortly reinforce its pre- sent fleet of yellow cabs by the addition of two Chevrolet taxis which are expected to arrive here next month. They represent an
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The Company is also contemplat- received from their correspondents ing the purchase of four Studebaker Messrs. Hayden, Stone and Co., of taxi-cabs, to cost about $10,000, but New York, by Messrs. Swan, Culbert final decision has not been reached ARGENTINE son and Fritz, Sassoon House, Shang with regard to the choice of this or BELGIUM hai. (cable address: "Swanstock," Shanghai), who are not responsible any other make of cabs for the pro- ALL posed extension of the Company's CHINA for cable mutilations.
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42 Otherwise, Chief, I'll have to
resign now-with deep regret."
An angry retort trembled on Strawn's lips, but he bit it back, and considered scowlingly. Ai We are also able to offer our last he capitulated grumpily: Customers the services of the "All right, Dundee! You know Branches of the International 49 I need you, but I'm warning you' Banking Corporation in San Fran Standard Oil Co. of New York 30 now that I'm in charge of this cisco, and Spain and also of The Union Carbide
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(France) S.A., in Paris and Nice. Wickett!"
· F. McD. COURTNEY,
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THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED.
Carbon
And the hunt was on.
(To be Continued),
pallor quite ghastly.
"I agree with you "Why didn't you tell him that that I might be of infinitely more Doris had committed suicide?" she value as a trusted guest, rather demanded coldly. "I imagine ethan as a detective, but hang it would rather have had the news all, I am a guest here, and I simply from you than from a policeman." can't do it-snoop around in the
"Because I don't know that bedrooms as you suggest--** Doris committed suicide," Dundee
"Resigning from the force answered, watching the beautiful, because a friend of yours is mixed sombre face keenly.
up in this, Dundee?" Strawn "Don't quibble with me?" she asked, a sneer twisting his broad. retorted, in a low, arrogant volec. thin mouth. "Gigi confessed to me on the way "I don't think you mean that. to the house that she recognized Captain Strawn," Dundee answer- the mermaid' in the lake, and 1ed quietly. "I want to be on the watched from my window as you case, but I'd rather be open and dived for the body and took it into above-board about it."
chance to be of any real use to the summerhouse."
"And jeopardize your future you. I couldn't be secreted "Where is Gigi now? Why usefulness on the homicide squad? behind screens while you were aren't you with her?" Dundee ask-Your uncle, the police commi-conducting your investigation, as ed sharply.
sioner, and I agreed after the was at the Rhodes House, and "You don't like me, do you?"Rhodes House murders that you not even
Wickett's connivance Clorinda asked, with amazing could serve us best by not getting could long cover my snoopings irrelevance. "So few peopic yourself tagged as what the people from servants or members of the PRINTING PRESS
Gigi preferred to be call a 'common detective.' With family. But if you want my consoled by Mrs. Lambert, as I the education, and social advan- official connexion with the homi- was busy being rather sick at tages you've had you can move eide squad to be kept dark, I have my stomach. Doris was one in circles not open to the rest of a suggestion to make." of the few people who liked, me,"
"Well?" Strawn growled. and-I was very fond of Doris. "I know the argument, and I've "Shoot! We've got to get busy." I can't imagine why she shou been willing to be of service in
"You can give out that I am cu commit suicide, unless—” ·
any way possible," Dundee inter-amateur criminologist, engaged in She broke off abruptly, and Dun-rupted, "but in this instance research work preparatory to dee saw a flicker of quickly control- can't bring myself to abuse hos writing books on the subject-- led fear in her magnificent black pitality so flagrantly.
another thing, too: as
do!.....
eyes.
There's which is strictly true, by the way; a guest. that I have studied Scotland Yard "I'm rather anxious to get into presumably under police surveil-methods and, that I was able to my clothes," Dundee excused him-lance as much as any other person render you valuable aid in solving self curtly. Not for him, in the in the house, I should have little the Rhodes House.murdera
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