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"Think it's funny, do you?" "Gigi, what was that 'dreadful Captain Strawn asked savagely, thing you spoke about having as Gigi doubled up with hysterical done?" Dundee asked gently.
"Oh! That?... I shan't tell laughter. "Well, you won't think it's so funny when I put your mo-you!" and the Puckish little face Colombo, Hongkong Karachi, Madras, Shang- ther, your brother and your sister flamed red.
"So you confessed to under arrest for murder?"
doing "Are you going to leuve something terrible, did you?" cout?" she mocked him, and laugh- Strawn interrupted, smiling. Then ed again, but her hysteria had the smile was wiped out by a new been successfully conquered by sternness. "I think I can tell you Strawn's shocking threat. "Oh, what you did, young woman! don't be so silly!" she added pas-You'd been to your mother's room sionately, her little brown fists and stolen that faak of perfume, clenched. "Women don't go to get even with her for having around murdering maids because slapped you for wasting it." they are insolent! And I'll tell you Gigi stared at him with ap something else, too: Doris was parently genuino admiration. never really insolent in her life, Haven't you got the most gorge- and she was in love with Eugeneous imagination?" she marvelled. Arnold with all her heart! She'd "Say, Big Chief, you ought to have snapped her fingers at Dick, write detective stories, instead of if he'd asked her to marry him fiddling around with real Doris wasn't the kind of girl to ders, where you're so hobbled with Hongkong Omes: 11, Queen's Road, Central marry one man for money when she was in love with another, and again! And I'm not going to tell
Meaning, even if she was, she would have you what I did do! Arrest me, Wald-Up Capital known that Dad and Mother would if you like!" and she laughed as Reserve Fond cut Dick off without a penny if he mariied her! Now where's your wrists invitingly.
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"And I'll tell you if you'll stop! was shaken. "However, I've got one little job to do before I've interrupting," she promised sweet- finished. ... Wait here, all ofly. "After I said good night to
Bonnie Dundee, I went down stairs) to the second floor and almost bumped into Mr. Crosby and Doris. They were"
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And he strode out of Clorinda's room, without a backward glance even for Dundee. But that young man was quite sure where he was going and why, and equally sure that he would return to report failure.
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"Crosby Strawn shouted. "Sure! A brand-new suspert for you! Aren't you grateful?"; Gigi laughed. "They were talking) "I'm very serry, indeed, Miss right outside Mr. Crosby's door. Berkeley," he began hesitatingly, or rather, he was standing in the his face going red with embarrass-open door, and Doris was in the to thrill! ment, "that I must appear a most hall. Now. prepare ungrateful and obnoxious guest. Doris was crying?"
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"Of course I'm not! Ask Sey- Alexandria "But you do keep dreadful com- pany, Bonnie Dundee!" Gigi ae-mour Crosby, if you don't believe Batavia cused him. "I've always shivered me!" she flamed. "He was put-lombar
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I never shall again! Ugh!" and thing, and with her other hand she Ca
was dabbing at tears in her eyes. she shuddered.
"I'm glad you're not as angry And I heard him say, 'I'm sorry it's not more and then he saw me with me as you should be,"
and shut up quick, Doris said told her humbly..
"After all, murder has been something and then turned toward committed." she justified her own mother's room, to lay out her tolerance. "And you're my things for the night, I suppose." "Yes?" Strawn prodded, as she friend,"
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"That's all there is," she as- She gave him her hand with a new shyness, which he found very sured him. "I didn't hang aroun sweet and very touching. They the hall in my pyjamas. I went were still standing, with hands right to my room, which la next clasped, when Captain Strawa to Mr. Crosby's, and went to bed. came striding back into the room. And I was asleep, too, in about; his face a thundercloud.
five minutes.”
"Did you hear your sister leave this room, which must be directly across the hall from yours?" Strawn asked.
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With that hot little hand in his,] Dundee could not restrain the im- pulse to decrease her anxiety.
"Did you find any perfume on Mrs. Berkeley's skirt or on the soles of her shoes, Chief?"
"No" he admitted, his scowl deepening. "But I did make her acknowledge that she'd gone to "Did you see Crosby go back Miss Clorinda's room and found it into his room and close the door as empty. Say's she thought her you were returning to your room?" daughter was taking a stroll.with "Didn't look back. Didn't give Crosby, and didn't worry. But a hoot what he did." Gigi retor-domestic and foreign banking and exchange. that's the third lie we've caught ted. her in," he added savagely.
"The third? Then look no fur- ther!" Gigi cut in flippantly. "Abbie has an iron rule never tol tell more than three fibs in one day. She's funny that way does everything by the rule of three."
"Well, let's see what's your limit, young woman!" Strawn addressed her sternly. "When did you last see Doris Matthews?"
"The spotlight at last!" Gigi secmed delighted. "Now, let me What time Ummm. would you say it was when I was talking to you in the third floor hall, Mr. Dundee?"
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I was going up to my room, after startling clearness, two apparent- the Smiths had left. Gigi was inly unrelated incidents of the night the third floor hall, waiting for a before.
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"Delighted! You see it was this his blue eyes taking in every Doris Matthews." way," Gigi began eagerly. "I had change of expression on the beau "Miss Berkeley, Doris was mur-
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you were walking about the upstairs-but I couldn't sleep, and our family affairs seems to have grounds of Hillcrest. If John I thought I'd have a little powwow been unlimited," Clorinda answer-Maxwell was with you and if your with Dick. I knew he'd gone up, ed contemptuously, but there was story is otherwise true, he could because he'd stopped at my door no doubt of the panic in her dark do a great deal to corroborate that
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There was a loud knock on the a little beast, wasting her per-pleaded, "but was it not your love necessary for a conviction" fume like that," Cigi said cheer- for John Maxwell which made you door. Captain Strawn answered.
"Excuse me, sir, but a reporter fully. "Anyway, when I couldn't decide on your walk last night to sleep, I slipped upstairs, in my side with your father against your has been talking to the servants pyjamas, to see Dick, and I found mother in the matter of your en-through a window, and Arnold, he wasn't there, though there was gagement tq. Mr. Crosby?
"Clorinda drew a sharp he has something to tell you, sir," the chauffeur, ia pretty wild., Says smoke in the room and I knew he'd just left. Then Mr. Dundee breath of pain. "I refuse to an anid Plainclothesman Harper. came along, and we talked a little' swer! And I fail to see how the
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