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Murder Backstairs
CHAPTER XIX.
ANNE AUSTIŅ
AUTHOR OF
THE AVENENG PAVOT *THE BLACK PIGEONS ETC,
and curiosity in her eyes.. Some thing oddly like panicky fear.
It was Bonnie Dundee who mixed "Go to the little parlor as you a dose of aromatic spirits of am-were told, Gigi Clorinda com- monia and George Berkeley who mandeu sharply, her fine black staggering a little under her, brows
drawing together in a weight, carried the fainting wo-frown." "I don't want or need- man to her unmade bed.
your interference."
"Looks like confession coming
"It will be all right for Gigi to on, don't it?" Captain Strawn come along, won't it, Chief?" Dun- whispered as Dundee was hurrying dee asked, turning his head so that past him to the bed.
only the chief of the homicide But when Mrs. Berkeley opened squad could see the slow, significant her eyes and was jerked back to dropping of his right eyelid. realization by the sight of Captain "But no shenanigans, young wo Strawn bending expectantly over man!" Strawn agreed severely, and her, she did nothing more illumi-Gigi linked arms with him, rubbing nating than to scream, then close her bright head against his un- her eyes again, rolling her head form sleeve before matching step distractedly on the mussed pillows. with his the four moved
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They left her in her husband's through the drawing room.. charge shortly, but in the hall
Strawn beckoned to a detective do- ing patrol duty and stationed him
room.
"Now, what's the kid butting in
in the little foyer between sitting for?" Dundee wondered silently. room and bedroom, with instruc-"She got something up her sleeve, she's afraid tions to listen at the not quite knows something closed door leading into the bed- Clorinda will spill."
In the big front hall they came As Dundee and Strawn were upon Wickelt about to ascend the walking down the broad stairs the marble staircase, with a silver tray latter whispered exultantly: "Pretty laden with letters,
"Just a minute, Wickett!" Cap- good case against her, eh? Wickett,
"MTS. took the flask of perfume Crosby air Strawn halted him. had given her to her room between Berkeley says that she gave you 10 and 11. She says herself she that flask of French perfume to told him to take It up, and I'd bet take to her room Inst night. That
right?" Perfume gore. my bed he did.
"Yes, sir. I was just returning Giri in struggle in the bathroom.
from the library, after showing Mr. And the old Tartar admits she
Dundee by the tek phone there, girl around slapped the
seven Geluck. Tried to lie about order- when Mrs. Berkeley called to me took it ing the girl to go to her room and gave me the lask, wait till she came up. Thought upstairs immediately, arr."
"And where did you put it?" "On Mrs. Berkeley's bathroom dressing-table, sir."
her husband would back her up. an body else would know, But George Berkeley's a white man, and no fuol. either. Wouldn't let her get away with it, would be and tress' rooms?" Strawn chuckled.
"Did you see anyone in your mis.
"No, sir. There was no one in
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"There's something-a lot--that hasn't come out yet, Chief. Did you catch that about the other bottle of perfume?
I'd give a good deal to know the truth about Doris's 'impu- denze exactly what she said to
After dismissing the butler, make Mrs. Berkeley slap her.
Strawn strode into the library, it is now, I can't see Mrs. Berkeley Gigi's little legs stretching them chasing the girl out of the house, selves ludicrously to keep in step. brandishing the flask of Fluer d'-
"Will you be seated?" Clorinda Amour, till she caught up with her asked coldly. Then added sharply: in the summerhouse, and then "Don't sprawl all over
HARDIN Captain her promise to meet him last night domestle and foreign banking and exchanze erocking the poor thing over the ah Strawn, Gigi." head with it, no matter how impu-
"Sitting on the arm of his chair when the family was in bed?""
The magnificent poise was bra-ment both at home and abroad. dent Doris had been or how serious isn't sprawling," Gigi corrected her ken at last. Clorinda Berkeley their quarrel was, if she was there sister cheerfully, "I want to be gasped. started to rise, then sank when Mrs. Berkeley went up for the where I can chake him if he asks back against the couch, her eyes questions he shouldn't. Like this!"
closing so that the fan-like fringe
night."
and she leaned over and encircled "Hunk!" Strawn snorted. "You the austere detective's big neck don't drht for a minute that she with her little brown hands, then was there, do you? You proved laid her flushed cheek against his laughed wickedly. "You that yourself, with the mouth-print and on the mirror. The struggle, too. know, being only 35 does have its And you saw what a spitfire the old advantages. Think of all the dunno is! Got fists like sledge ham- gorgeous men I can hug before mers. My chest'll be sorc for a I'm 16 and grown-up, if I work week. No telling what a woman fast"
saw
like that will do when she loses her "Shut up, Pest!" Pest!" Captain temper. Not only was she sore at Strawn roared, but Dundee the girl for 'sassing' her, but she that he was vastly pleased, had it in fur her pleaty about pleased that he was not suspicinus Dick."
as was his young subordinate- "Yes, I know," Dundee frowned.or the child's real motives. "Now "Bui--Well, what next? Clor-Miss Clorinda, I've got a gooo many questions to ask you, and I advise you to answer them fully and truthfully, or—"
you say may
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If she gives us what "Sure! sounds like a straight story as to w that senrf got into the summer- house, I, for one, am pretty near ready to get out the bracelets for
"Don't you have to tell her. the old lady. Guess I ought to have¦'And I warn you that anything checked up on the shoes she was
be used again-l wearing last night, to see if there you? Gigi interrupted. bouncing was any of that perfume on the
on the chair-arm with excitement. soles, but I didn't want to show my
"Your sister is not under arrest time hand too soon. There'll be for that later, when she's out of yet," Captain Strawn reminded the way. The shoes are safe, all her, "so I don't have to warn her
She can't dispose of them against incriminating herself."
"But Gigi has warned her, and--- a souse them in benzoin without
the haughty Miss Berkeley is on being caught at it."
They found the two girls, Mas, her guard!" Dundee told himself, Lambert and Crosby lingering at sending a narrowed, newly respect- the breakfast table, though no one ful glance at the child, who re- it with wide-eyed in- was eating. Lounging in the arched turned opening between drawing room and nocence.
"Miss Clorinda, when did you dining room was Detective Payne.
"Oh, hullo, Bonnie Dundee Gigi last see Doris Matthews" Captain
right.
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