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Murder ANNE AUSTIN Backstairs
friends."
CHAPTER XXXI.
ejaculated. "Of course I saw the extras-"
For one uncomfortable minute The point is, Mr. Maxwell," Dundee was afraid his chief would Dundee cut in quietly."did you turn nasty. But Captain Strawn see this man Johnson on the. contented himself with saying: grounds when you were here last
"Reminding me that you're the night?". police commissioner's nephew, Maxwell made no attempt to and therefore a privileged char-deny the truth which Dundee had acter, eh?
All right! Have a guessed at. "No. I saw no one good time with your society but Clorinda last night. I was afraid the poor girl might be hav- "I shan't be entirely. Idle,ng a rocky time of it with the Dundee assured him cheerfully that she was being 'quizzed.
police, when I saw by the papers **I'll ask Mrs. Lambert to ***Then why didn't you barge, lend me her typwriter, and trans-right over?" Gigi demanded indig- cribe this bunch of notes I've
nantly taken.... By the way, chief, since "Because I didn't seg, a paper you're satisfied that Johnson until about 20 minutes ago," Max- solves everything, there won't be well answer. "After I left Clo- any need of airing the Berkeley rinda last night I took the inter- family troubles in the newspapers, urban to Mercyville, to see my I suppose?"
uncle...."
•
"No--and you can bet that takes a load off my mind," Strawn "The old boy who struck oil on grunted. "Lucky for me I soft-the farm?" Gigi demanded ex- pedalled the whole thing when the citedly. reporters mobbed me a couple of
"Good Lord!" John Maxwell hours ago! These multi-million- "The same," Maxwell grinned. aires and society swells-Well, "I put my pride in my pocket and I'm so grateful to Johnson for asked him if he'd lend me enough
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"And that's that!" Gigi cried. ing down that crook."
"So you can marry Clo and live Five minutes after his chief's happy ever after! I'll begin right departure, Dundee, who was still now by, giving the bride away. frowning over his shorthand She has a rotten disposition be- bearable by notes, was interrupted by a gay fore. breakfast, is tattoo upon the library door. lunch, and an angel by dinner-
He chuckled, then called con-time. She-" fidently: "Come in, Gigi!"
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She flung herself into the roommanded. "Now, Mr. Maxwell, will and upon the arm of his chair Jened last night, so
what hap- you tell me exactly
Tar e you rumping his crisp black hair
know?" ecstatically. "How did you know! "Certainly!" Maxwell agreed. it was me? Isn't it swell? Isn't "But I must go back a bit, I've it a gr-rand and glorious feelin' been away for more than a year, when you've been saying 'Eenie, and before I left, Clorinda and I meenie, moe' to find out which of had a well, a tiff. We had been your beloved family or friends secretly engaged, and while we committed murder, to have it turn didn't actually break it off, the out to be a common old burglar coolness continued in her letters after all?"
until the letters themselves
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IL KORI, elected... Of course, Abbie is that was scheduled for bonight. having a grand time throwing But I took a chance on calling her and the right was repudiated. The man's bed was over the boundary her poils and P just before seven last night, between the parishes of St. Saviour moaning that Doris was a heroine and she agreed to meet me at the and Trinity, his head being in one
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wasn't she?" she added wistfully. away."
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disappointedly, and was about to
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possible. At Clorinda's request chair and leaned against his 1 left her sitting on a stone bench shoulder, sighing happily. near the south wall, and struck "All's swell that ends swell," out for the gates. She said she she rejoiced. "Though I suppose The Bank of England & Midland Bank, Ld. "Mr. John Maxwell, sir." "Show him in, Wickett dar- was going to walk around the lake Johnson will say he did it all for
Ipoh to get back to the house, and pro- his aged mother, and wring my Bangkok ling," Gigi ordered. "And I'm going to stay, my bonnie lad!" she tested she was not a bit afraid to heart! Say, why don't you Batavis smile, old Wet Blanket? Does it Bombay added emphatically to Dundee, go alone."
take all the joy out of your life Colombo Maxwell! "Oh, hello, Johnny
Dehli Gaile "I see," said Dundee thought for a case to be solved?"" Whoops! How you've grown":
"You are posi-
"No," Dundee answered serious- Hongkong The tall,
broad-shouldered fully. Then, young man swung Gigi off her tive you saw no one at all during ly; then he forced himself to smile. Howrah
"There! That's my Bonnie!" feet and kissed her soundly, to your walk or as you were leaving
| the grounds alone?":
Gigi praised him tenderly. “You her ovident relish.
"Brat," he apostrophized her, "No one, until I was passing are the handsomest thing, with "you're a wow! Cuter'na Scutch through the gates," Maxwell an- your smiling Irish eyes and your terrier!":
swered positively. "And I did not crisp black hair. Believe I'll get "Go on! Say it! If you weren't actually see anyone then. Just the wave in it; Doris taught me already wild over Clo, you'd give the Berkeley limousine. It was me a whirl! Lord, I'll be glad turaing in toward the gates as I "Let my hair alone, Hellion!" be when that, sister of mine gets mar-passed through them. I was run- roared, then flushed as he looked ried, so I can have a chance...ning to make the interurban. Ta up and saw Wickett's, solemn face 'Scuse it, please! This is Bonnie heard the whistle before I reached in the opening door. Dundee, Johnny a
"Luncheon is served, Mişe defecatiff the gates, and thought I'd have And if the police hadn't already time to get to the next station Gigi picked out their criminal, you'd before the car did.”
Attaboy, Wicketf! Gigi cried, bo in for the neatest third-de- "Oh, well What does it mat- springing from the arm of the 2o. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkots,
chair, and dragging at Dundee's Pas-Up Capital ter now?" Gigi challenged Dun-hand. I shouldn't admit it, but is "Have you really caught the dee.. "You've got your murderer asked eagerly, relief lighting up. You see, Johnny, Captain bert descending the stairs. At Calenta murderer, Mr. Dundee?" Maxwell |
I'm starved." or at least you know who he is! In the hall they found Mis. Lori- | Batavia his good-looking face..
Strawn bullied poor Clo into ad caught "They haven't
- him,
sight of the evident chumminess Canton Johnny, but they know who hemitting she'd been in the sum of the child and the defective, a Haiphong is," Gigl answered before Dundee merhouse, after he found a strenk faint, whimsical smile lightened o could speak. "Oh, things have of blood on her cape and perfume the sombre melancholy which had on been happening at jolly old Hill-on the soles of her shoes. Clo got made her delicate and still beauti-di Bhanghai crest, let me tell you! Abble hires there after poor. Doris had been ful face seem-years older. Then · Correspondents in All principal eltlas of the a valet, to swank before Mr. killed and rolled down the sum she made a sudden decision world. A Crosby, and Johnson--that's the merhouse steps into the lake. She burglar and a murderer.", the house, looking for her, with you after lunch-about-Doris?" Business transacted Loane granted on LOOK FOONG SEAN,
(To be Continued.);
KAN TONG PO,
The President warned the com- mittee that the financial situation contained unpleasant possibilities gree and called its attention to a num ber of small appropriations, which, he intimated, might well be elimi- mated.
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