Murder Backstairs
CHAPTER XVIII
ANNE AUSTIN
AUTHOR OF
"THE ACHROR PARROT "THE BLACK PIGEON, ETC.
Dick after the scene yesterday ?"
"I-no, I didn't quarrel with her "George Berkeley, don't you dare at all. I merely told her most cm- insinuate that I'm lying" Mphatically that she was not to vamp Berkeley cried, furious tears filling Dick!" her pale blue eyes.. "Mr. Dundee
"Was she sulky or impertinent as asked me if I saw Doris again, or she helped you dress for dinner
Just night?" spoke to her, and I told the truth when I said I didn't! I can't swear it was Doris who answered when I called her on the house phone--" "On the house phone? When?" Dundee demanded.
eyes
The tear-reddened blue looked startled, then roved wild- y about the room as if seeking help. And when they encountered the stern gaze of George herkeley they clung for a moment and grew wider.
to
While my husband and I were talking in the library last night," the woman answered defiantly. "As told you, I'd thought I shouldn't
"She--she wasn't like herself,* need her to wait up for me, and had given her permission to retire when Mrs. Berkeley admitted as if the She pleased. But my headache got words had been wrung from her. to be so bad while George and "She-she was clumsy
I decided I'd
"So clumsy that you became dis- were talking that need a massage of my forehead and gusted with her, spoke pine. Doris is-was--awfully good sharply, and after she had retorted at that sort of thing. So I rang impatiently, you pushed her vic- her room on the house phone andiently from you? Dundee asked,
his voice suddenly steely,
Captain Strawn hitched up his "You did not recognize the voice. as Doris's?" Dundee interrupted,
trousers and grinned approvingly. Well, I thought I did. Now they were getting somewhere!
"---you!--"
Mrs. Berkeley her throat. gasped her hand at
she collapsed against then again the cushious. "I might have known h'd toll tales-make a mountain ut of a molchill! I didn't push ter! just slapped her cheek. not very hard, either, but she had
on grossly impudent- "
sumeone answered
was rather apsel, and it never oc- curred to me at the time that it could be anyone but Doris. She hu a roum 1 her own, you know, on the in the servants quarters third floor. I told her to go to my room and wait for me."
"At what time did you call her?" "Oh, how do i know?" she burst ut angrily, dabbing at her mas- 1 wasn't watching carded tears,
"Just when and where did this m take place. Mrs. Berkeley ?"
"Why don't you ask Wickett,
told ince he's already
you so "And I suppose you enbuted on mach" she cried angrily. "I'll dis your husband feeding so sorry about harge him. too! He and that girl Four awful headache that he'd cut were a thick as thieves, and both and let you them have acted, ever since they shout the argument have your 321 way Captain am, as it Mrs. Lambert and not Strawn cut in, apparently distrustsere the head of this house." sul of Pranlee's more gentle meth
"refort to answer such a ques-
shocked? But i was something like|thini e asked. 15 minutes after George and I be- gin to talk
Will you answer the question,
e. Mrs. Berkeley?"
Oh can't go let me alone?" she zied! Mrs. Berkeley cried furious wailed. Then, capitulating sudden
ip: " was while was dressing for Wan a slight smile Dumler pot dinner. 1-1 told her to open a
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The necessary changes having been effected to the charge sheets, Inspector Shannon next stated, in reply to the Magistrate, that com- mittal of the accused would be asked for, on the more serious; charges, while leaving the others to stand and be dealt with by his Worship us he thought fit,
There would be one witness from the s.3. Tung Om on board which the accused was arrested, while there would also be five or six other witnesses, only two of whom, said Inspector Shannon, would be giving evidence at any great length.
Mr. Grantham: Bail? Inspector Shannon: He hopes Anyhow, I should to get bail. object to hail.
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A discussion ensued as to the ports that the s.. City of Pekin
Three dif- has broken in two and sunk. The date of the remand.
ficulties then presented then- whole of the crew, consisting of eighty-one men, has been landed. selves: (1) his Worship had no There were no passengers on day available for the case this board the vessel when she strandweek; (2) the Easter holidays intervening and (3) the necessity
Then how new hott. of perfume I'd bought ined in a fog between Quelpartit of adhering within the prescribed long was it before you went up to the city yesterday, and and she island and Port Hamilton legal period of one week.
"after speaking with [said something impertinent---** JOIN MI, Boris apmeone-n the house "phone"
reasonable to my room,
April 10.-Router.
say, Mrs.
a
case.
The position was solved by (1). "Just what did she
the Magistrate formally remand- Dunder pressed, Berkeley
ing the accused until Thuraday | "I don't know exactly. Half an trange excitement in his dark eyes. rocks were tied into the girl's and (2) by his fixing Tuesday
simply "I don't remember!" the wo-skirt-" hour, possibly. George
next, the day immediately follow- anyway.Iman protested. wouldn't be
"You don't expect
noing the termination of the Easter But Mrs. Berkeley heard Doris me remember every tiny thing, more, for the had fainted, when I got
holidays, for the hearing of the wasn't here, so I got into bed ass yoù?. .. Well, it was just-
(To be Continued.) just a word or two, like—” She knit quickly as I could and took the bromide tablet, and went to sleep." [her brows, and Dundee was abso-
"Weren't you surprised and dis-ately sure she was concocting a lie.) pleased to find your orders dis-Oh, yes! She said, 'You use too obeyed?" Dundee askeri quietly. touch perfume, Madame. Of course "We-ell, of course I was, but in i was furious at such impertinence, was so late and 1 was feeling sofand 11 slapped her face!" wretched that I decided not to have “And where did this seeme take a scenu. Besides, 1 had afreadyplace, Mrs. Berkeley ?" made up my mind to discharge the "Why, in here! I was standing girl as soon Mr. Crosby's visitter re the full-length mirror in my was embed. He is to be with us felinet door, and Doris was adjust- only a week- -"
"You did not enll her again on the house phone?"
"No, I didn't! Do I have to say so a dozen times?"
"You say you went to sleep very soon after you retired?"
"I didn't say so, but I did go to sleep very quickly, because of the bromide tablet, you know."
Without a word.
ing the shoulder straps of my eve- nine dress," she answered quickly and positively.
Dundee and Strawn exchanged glances. then the chief of the bomicide squad decided to take a hand.
"In here, eh? You're sure it wasn't in the bathroom, ma'am?" Dunder rose, "Of course I am!" she shrilled. laid his notes on his chair, and "I was standing right there-" strude swiftly to the bed. He "Then when was it that you stooped to pick up something from pushed the girl over against the the toor and when he returned he bath om mirror, Mrs. Berkeley?" was holding, rather gingerly, Strawn went (31, his eyebrows damp ball of handkerchief.
raised.
"Did you cry yourself to sleep,
"The bathroom mirror?
"Then let me show you, lady!** Strawn invited grimly.
Mrs. Berkeley?" he asked gently, Why, I don't know what you're
The woman shrank from the talking about!" handkerchief as if it had been soaked with blood, instead of tears. "No-no, nu! i didn't! 1 cried this morning after I'd heard about Doris-"
She struck out at his hand furi- nudly as he endeavoured to help her rise Trom the chaise longue, and "Pardon, Mrs. Berkeley, but the scrambled to her feet, clutching her handkerchief you were using when negligee about her fat body. Captain Strawn told you the news George Berkeley remained where is the one you have in your hand he was, his chin propped brooding- now,” Dundee corrected her courte-ly upon a clenched fist, while the ously. "I remember the edging of two detectives and his wife went orchid linen. This one is all white, into the luxurious bathroom. as you can sec. And the condition
"See that smudge, Mrs. Berke-
of this handkerchief shows that the ley?" Strawn pointed to the mirror tears were not recently shed. You over the dressing-table. "Doris's tucked it under the edge of your lipstick, And the print of her pillow when you had finished weep mouth is smudged downward, prov- ing last night, I think, and it fell ing beyond the shadow of a doubt but when you arose this morning." that Doris Matthews was pushed
The woman collapsed suddenly against that mirror!" and began to cry into the orchid- "I didn't do it! I don't know any. bordered handkerchief which had thing about it! I swear I don't!" Betrayed her lie. "Yes, I-I did | Mrs. Berkeley's teeth were chatter- try myself to, sleep, but if you're ing as she backed away from the thinking it had anything to do with telltale mirror. "I didn't kill her! Doris-If you must know, I was That's what you're thinking! But crying because George had been so I didn't kill her, I tell you!" ---30 cruel, so pig-hended, so nasty "But she was waiting here for to me--"
you, when you came upstairs last "Abbie!" her husband broke in night?" Strawn persisted sternly. sternly.
"No, no! I swear she wasn't! I "Mrs. Berkeley, forgive me, but never inid eyes on Doris after 7:10 there are a few more questions 1 last night! I swear to God-" She am compelled to ask you," Dundee was hysterical now, beating at the began again soothingly. "First, broad, uniformed chest of the chief aside from the fact that you dis-of detectives.
"Don't take approved of your son's interest in
on so, ma'am,"
the girl, what was your own feeling Strawn advised. "I'm not arresting toward Doris? Was the relation-you-yet. I want to have a talk ship of mistress and maid a pleas- with your daughter, Miss Clorinda, ant one?"
first."
"Of course it was! 1 wouldn't "Clorinda ?" Mrs. Berkeley whis- stoop to quarreling with a servant!" pered, the blood draining from her she sobbed out indignantly.
face.
"I am to infer, then, that you did "Yes, ma'am. Seeing as how it not quarrel with the girl about was her silk scarf with which the
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