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Murder Backstairs
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
"A-what?" she asked,
ANNE AUSTIN
AUTHOR OF
"THE ANCHGING PARROT" *THE BLACK PIGEON, ETC.
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930.
with a mother-in-law like Abble Berkeley and involuntarily his hands loosened slightly their grip upon Gigi's,.. After all, though it was a caddish thing to do, Crosby had written the words in strictest confidence to an old and trusted friend.
to-"
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fume" Gigi told him schemently. House of Representatives, has an- "I wanted to throw it all into nounced that he is introducing a "Yes" she cried passionately. "Yes, he did! He wanted her to his face and tell him if he didn't Bill for the construction of war- Pak-Up Capital ........Quilders 80,000,000, a thousand million dollars, which Rare Fund .............................Gullder 40,000.000. Gigi gasped, shrank away from to drink herself to death! That's like Abble he could go straight craft involving an expenditure of Dundee, her topaz eyes widening why I hate him
"Did you tell Mrs. Lambert you he declares is necessary in order to enormous size. Then suddenly "Gigi, my dear!" he checked her.
with Britain in the next ten years. she got control of herself: terror He drew his chair close to the bed had seen the letter?" Dundee ask-to secure American naval parity
It appears that the programme BRANCHES "No," she admitted flushing will include 73,500 tons of changed to blank innocence on her and took both her icy little hands.
six- childish face.
"Tel me quietly what you mean, Tish would have been shocked at
destroyers, 52,700 tons of what basis you have for such ame. And it wasn't her fault! And inch gun cruisers, 150,000 tons of charge."
she didn't feel that way at all marines and 69,000 tons of air- A shamed red dyed her cheeks, She did everything she could to craft carriers. Reuter's American
make Abbie stop. I heard Abbie her. I have more than enough but her eyes met his bravely simply tearing into her just the evidence that your mother is ad-you'll think I'm a nasty little other day for begging her to
She dashed into her bathroom aleted to drinking perfume for the sneak, but I didn't mean to pry promise not to drink any more of and was back in a moment. "Got alcohol it contains. Now will you I was in Tish's room about a week
the stuff."
it out of my clothes tamper," she please tell me how long she has ago, while she was taking a bath had the habit?"
So another mystery was clear-announced triumphantly. "It still smells," and she thrust the little She crumpled suddenly and sank to dress for dinner. I was al-
ed up.
It was quite clear now upon the beautiful old fourposter ready dressed, and lots of times 1
talk to her while she what promise Mrs. Lambert had square of linen and lace against dresses. Well, I just happened to exacted from Abble Berkeley the his nose. "Can they really
from this whether the perfume shivered. "Oh, why can't you let pick up a book on her beside table night before, so soon after Sey- mour. Crosby had presented his and a letter fell out."
"Adressed to Mrs. Lambert?"shameful gift Dundee cut in sternly.
"Don't pretend innocence, Gigi" Dundee commanded sternly, but! his eyes were filled with pity for
bed.
"I don't know, exactly." she
us all alone? We haven't done anything to you—"
"Doris Matthews has been mur- dered, Gigi." Dundee reminded her. "But Abbie's drinking perfume' hasn't got anything to do with that! Gigi protested, with too pas
sionate vehemegev..
"I'm-afraid-it has. Gigi," the
detective retorted slowly. andw, didn't she?"
"Doris
go in to
*
"There wasn't any envelope, and when I was picking it up I saw a few words that that minde me perfectly furious! So I read it all. It was from Mr. Crosby!"
"What made you furious, Gigi?"i
Suddenly a monstrous suspicion crashed through Dundee's mind, a suspicion which, if founded upon fact, would explain a great deal, probably everything.
"Gigi, tell me the truth: was
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Dundee asked softly, scarcely dar-that the only reason you tried to Crosby's. Doris may have
it, too."
ing to breathe.
-
"Well, the letter was all about "I don't know," Gigi sobbed.
the visit he was going to make to Uh, yes, I suppose she did, but if fillerest, and--and about Clorinda you're thinking Abbie would kill Doris, just because she knew, what he said about Clo was Doris wasn't the only one who perfectly lovely; that wasn't what
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"I know Doris wouldn't mean?" she
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spill all that perfume last night
"What do you gasped, her eyes popping.
"You were afraid that Seymour Crosby had grown impatient!" he
"But what if Della read it and emphasis. answered with slow
you suspected there was poison told Doris, knowing that Doris Hankow marle me sore.
Hongkong that in that bottle, intended for your was acquainted with Crosby?" first caught my eye were: her mother!"
"But Doris didn't know that Mr.Honolulu
Vladivostock (Temporarily closed) "No, no." Gigi cried, shudder- Crosby had given Abbie the per Interest allowed on Current Accounts,
Depolis received for fixed periods at rates perfectly impossible mother, but perhaps she will not long beating. "I just thought he was help-fume," she protested.
"Who can say now what Doris to be obtained an application. ing her into a drunkard's grave."
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Suddenly she laughed shaklly. knew or did not know?"
Hongkong, 11th September, 1927. He refused to say more to the "Don't I sound like a temperance pamphlet? You don't really child, for he knew how fatally think-?"
"Ok, shat up!" Gigi cried wildly, The whole family, and the other servant-?" Bundes sisted.
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"What!" Dundee ejaculated. "Uh huh!" Gigi sniffed, dabbing "I suppose sa," she sobbed.
"So I read the whole "We we didn't talk about it at her eyes.
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Doris could have Remerra Fundi "Was that why Abbie slapped had hoped would be a happy and But it is not so easy to be rid of are her Gigi stopped crying and peaceful one will present rather traces of poison. The stuff is on known, from the past, that Sey at murder. All that being so, stared fearfully at the detective. peculiar mother-in-law problems. our clothes and they can be ana-mour Crosby would not hesitate
.. Do you blame me for read-lyzed-"
shan't spoil my newDoris Matthews may have lost ing it?" she demanded piteously.
"No, Gigi," he answered, squeez-dress!" she interrupted vigorous-her life to save the life of the
taly. "If a sample is all you need, mistress who had slapped her! and large connections in the important com tightly, But
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He after I sprinkled you all. fairness, that there was some ex-with which I wiped off my hands know what the city chemist has domestle and foreign banking and exchange. cuse for Seymour Crashy. tried to picture himself saddled Wait!"
"How do you know it was for my sake that Doris-?"
"Because Doris said so, in a let- ter she was writting last night to her sister," he explained gently. "Has-it been very bad, honey?"
"Awful!"
Gigi began
to sob
| again. "Abbie and i had got along) together pretty well before-be- tore she went abroad for that year with Clorinda, but as soon! as she got bark I could tell some- thing was wrong. She acted so peculiar! She was either awfully: sentimental about me, or-or hor ribly cruel. Then I found out. I found her that way one morn- ing when I went in to kiss her before she'd got up, and I smelled perfume on her breath and I knew what was wrong with her. well, I guess I wasn't very tactful. I'm terribly frank, and I told her she was making a fool of herself. She-she's hnd it in for me ever since and I guess
I can't keep it out of my CYCR when I look at her--what I think of her for-for-"
"I understand Gigi. Have you talked with anyone about this?" "Only Mrs. Lambert," Gigi con- fessed miserably. "I can tell her anything, because-because she loves me and I simply adore her. She said Abbie must have got the habit in Paris. It seems that a
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"Did your father suspect-?" Dundee hesitated.
"I guess he was always afraid of her, and for Dick, too," Gigi admitted tragically. "Not until I was a great big girl would Dad allow any wines or liquors to be served at dinner, unless it was a terribly formal one, und then he'd try to keep Abbie from having more than just a taste. Of course' when she went abroad, there wasn't anyone to watch her and-" "I see." he said gently. He
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"So that is why you wasted as much of Crosby's gift as possible?" he went on.
"Ye-es," she answered, dropping her eyes.
She was too transparent for Dundee to be deceived. There's' something else, Gigi!...
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