Murder Backstairs
CHAPTER XV.
"I there?
ANNE AUSTIN
AUTHOR OF
"THE AVENGING PARROT" "THE BLACK PIGEON, ETA,
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"No! She-she didn't come,' Dick admitted. "Where did you come from?" what the devil are you writing "Say, Dundee, Captain. Strawn demanded.
Am I bein 'grilled,' as suppose you'ro Dick Berkeley?"
the papers put it? "In person, though I admit I
Terrible Dundee glanced at Strawn, and don't feel quite all hero. head, in fact," and the young man the chief of the homicide squad in the doorway to Mrs. Berkeley'e nodded grimly. "Dick, I'm taking He down what you any because this bedroom bowed Ironically. was dressed in tennis flannels and is an investigation into a-mur- a blue cunt; he had just shaved, der!"
ed wetly.
and his reddish-brown hair gleam- The young man's body sagged as if he had been hit in the stomach. "As to where I came from, dear "Murder?"
"Doris old sleuth-if you must know, 1
Matthews' body Was came from my room, descended to found in the lake this morning," the front hall on my way to snatch Dundee explained quietly,
"She
a cup of much-needed coffee, ran had been either stunned or killed into old Wickett, who looked at in the summerhouse and her body me as if he'd seen a ghost; also rolled down the steps into the collided with a covey of rare birds water." who said they were One of them said, I was most ur-
detectives.
gently wanted up here and here
I am!"
* •
It was nearly five minutes be-
fore the questioning could con- tinue, for Dick Berkeley turned so "Well!" Strawn ejaculated, and sick that Dundee had to abandon was guilty of scratching his iron his notepaper and lead the boy grey head like any comic sleuth to the bathroom. At last, seated of fiction. He glanced at Dundee on the orchid-enamel bench be- helplessly, then recovered suffore the low basin, set in a big ciently to bellow: "And how did orchid-coloured
dress- porcelain you get to your room, I'd like to ing table, Dick spoke to his friend: know, without any of my men see- "Ever been in love, Dundee? .. ing you? Where did you spend And lose her? God. I'm sick! the night?"
And I can't believe it yet. Not lovely little Doris-"
When he
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didn't have to wait up for Mother, and I thought she could get to the tower room, too without any- one's being the wiser.
"One question at a time, Sher-
"Well, she didn't come. I smok- lock," Dick Berkeley protested;
was better Dundee fed six or eight cigarettes and read then, laying a hand to his brow: helped him back into he bedroom, an old detective story magazine "And would you mind speaking where his mother was holding out I'd left up there years ago the more softly? You're hurting my her arms.
But Dlek ignored them tower room was my favourite hid- head and Mother's, too, I see" and slumped into one of the pale-ing-out place when I was a kid--- Ignoring his mother's "My darling green satin boudoir chairs. Dun- and then shout midnight I must boy! You're safe!" he answered fee took his own chair again and have fallen asleep, just as I said. Strawn's first question with very quietly began the unpleasant It was nearly nine when I woke, parent good humour: "You did-
task of dragging the boy's story n't happen to have one of your from him. flatfeet stationed on the little stairs that lead to the top room
With the questions deleted, and of the tower? Otherwise I should without the numerous interrup probably have bumped into him, tions which marked the telling of as I was none too steady on nyt. Dick Berkeley's story, in the pins then. But a cold shower and form to which Dundee later re- about a pint of ice water turned duced it, follows: the trick nicely, thank you. Icel water on tap in all the bathrooms; every comfort of a first-class hotel, and we can now include house de- tectives, I see, Abbic," he added to his mother.
and I bent it downstairs to my room, had a shower, shaved and dressed. You know the rest.... No, I didn't look out of the tower windows toward the lake, and I didn't hear a thing. It's pretty hard to hear anything up there."
When he had finished Captain
beckoned Strawn
to Dundee. "I have been in love with Doris "We'll check up on
that tower Matthews ever since the day I met
Then, room right now, Dundee. her, which was Saturday, Aug. 10, Mrs. Berkeley. I'll come back to the day Mother and Clorinda, ac- your story. In the meantime, I'll companied by Wickett, Doris and give orders to the butler to Mrs. Lambert, came home from serve breakfast downstairs and to New York. They had been abroad have a tray sent up to you. for a year-Mother and Clorinda, Yes, ma'am!" he added emphati- "Are you telling me you spent mean.
I think Doris liked meally, as Mrs. Berkeley began to the night in the top room of the a lot, too, at first, though she never swell with indignation, "I'm run- tower?" Strawn demanded sourly said so.
She was always talkingning this house now-lill Doris "Bight you are, Sherlock!"
about knowing her place, and all Matthews, murder is cleared up!" "And what were you doing that rot,
(To be Continued) there? My name's Captain "But as soon as Mother hired Strawn, by the way."
Eugene Arnold as a chauffeur I "And a devilish curious fellow kurw I didn't have much chance. you are, too, Captain, if you don't] Since he was a sort of servant, too, mind my saying so." Dick said Duris felt all right about going cheerfully, "As a matter of fact, with him, and it wasn't a week be
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that is after about 12 o'clock, if their time off together. I saw her MORRISON PIANOS
I was sleeping there-sleeping, fore they were spending most of
should say."
as much as I could, but she never "And why did you go there to would go anywhere with me or sleep?"
even take
# walk about the grounds at night. And 1 was get-
"Well, to tell you the truth, Caping crazier about her every day. tain Strawn, I didn't go up there! At first, I admit, I didn't think
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with the intention of sleeping," about marrying her, but when she MODERATE PRICE Dick answered, his cheerfulness and Arnold got engaged last
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strictly my own affair, lapped-guess I knew then I'd marry her SWEETNESS IN TONE
ed to fall asleep, as I sat and in a rainute if she'd have me, but RESPONSIVENESS of TOUCH did not wake up till about 20she wouldn't give me a chance to
muiutes ago."
"You see?" Abbie Berkeley cried. with hysterical joy,
talk to her.
"Yesterday just before lunch 1 The poor saw her go into 3iother's room and boy doesn't know a thing about it! followed her. 1-1 was telling her Kiss me, Gearge darling! F'm so how much I loved her, when happy!"
Mother and Arnold came in from
"I'm asking you-and I warn a shopping trip. Arnold saw me you to give me a straight answer trying to kiss her, and he went with no nonsense: did you go to wild." He-he said he'd kill us the tower room to meet Doris Mat-both if Doris was double-crossing thews?" Strawn asked sternly. him with me. Mother beard the
Dick Berkeley's weakly hand-row from her sitting room some young face flushed scarlet came in. I was afraid she'd fire beneath the fine sprinkling of Doris, as well as Arnold,
and
reddish freckles. Furiously hel "Anyway, Mother got rid of both turned upon Dundee: "So you've of them and tried to make ne pro- been telling tales, have you? And mise not to have anything more to I thought you were a friend of do with Doris. As if Doris her- mine!"
self would let me! I told her I "Mr. Dundee's a detective, too, was crazy about Doria, that I was Dick!" Mra. Berkeley sobbed. going to ask her to marry me the "Oh, my poor boy! You don't first chance I got. She had a fit, know--"
of course, and swore she'd dis- charge Doris ng soon as 'Lord' "A detective!" Dick echoed Crosby's visit was
over. I told
blankly.
Then his face, which her if she did I'd walk out of the
had turned very pale, twisted into house myself.
a gri. "I say, that's a great selì;
for me, isn't it? I invite a friend)
here for the week-end and he turns "Well, you know the rest, Dun-
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ed. Doris was in the back hall, alone for the moment. The radio
Strawn saved Dundee the em- barrassment of replying. "I'm was playing, and I made her dance waiting for an answer, Berkeley, with me, and tried to get her to Did you go to the tower room to say she'd meet me in the tower meet Doris Matthews?"
room after the family was in bed. Told her I had something Import- Dick glanced first at his father, and to ask her. You heard her then at his mother before answer- say she'd meet me. I didn't know ing. Then he flung up his head whether she meant it or not, but defiantly, "I did! And Mother I wasn't taking any chances of knows why I wanted to see her so missing her in case she did. So I badly lost night. I wanted to ask went upstairs before the party her to marry me."
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