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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1930.
Murder Backstairs
CHAPTER XLV
by
ANNE AUSTIN.
AUTHOR OF "THE AVENGING PARROT" *THE BLACK PIGEON, ETC,
such an odour from a drain pipe?" Dundee asked, with his friendliest At nine o'clock that Sunday eve smile, reinforced by a five-dollar bill ning Dundee descended to the for each of the girls. "And don't laboratory, of Dr. Abel Jennings, mention to anyone-not even, Dis city chemist and toxicologist, and trict Attorney Sherwood or Captai received the report that wood al-Strawn that we've had this little cohol impurities had been found in talk."
the specimen of perfumed earth from the summerhouse flooring.
"A slim chance, but one that I couldn't afford to overlook," he said
"Well, there's your case. Dunto himself as he left the butler'a dec," Dr. Jennings concluded
pantry and turned toward the draw- cheerfully.
ing-room.
"And all I have to do is to prove it." Dundee retorted. "Thanks to certain interference, that will be an almost impossible task.”
He lost no time, however, in set- ting to work.
bother "Wickett, I'm going to you again." he said to the butler whom he found at work in his pantry.
Five minutes later he acconi- panied George Berkeley library and closed the door
to the
"Please forgive me, Mr. Berkeley, for calling you away from your bridge game," he began, "but there is a question I must ask you."
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"Not now. Later, if you'll be so kind, I'd like you to bring a plate of sandwiches and a large thermos ttle of strong black coffee to me
It is Mr. Sherwood's privilege to investigate any case for his own office, but he cannot ask the po- lice to abandon their own lines of inquiry," Dundee explained courte- in the tower, room. I'm going to ously. He paused, groping for be working there several hours, words with which to frame a ques- I know of tion, so that it would indicate the It is the only place where I can be sure of absolute possesion of knowledge which ha. privacy.. By the way, there's a did not posses at all. "Mr. Berke-f key to the door at the bottom of lay, when you went upstairs about | the stairs, isn't there?"
half-past 10 Friday night, to---say
The the room itself is in anyone at all on the sword flour?"
the door."
"Yes, sir, Wickett assured him, good-night to Gigi and possibly con- removing the key from a large ring.sule her, did you see or encounter
The multimillionaire fell into "I saw no one on my "Thanks. Wickett. Maybe two the trap. locked doors will keep Gigi out ...way to my daughter's room, but Now, Wickelt, I've been told that when I was leaving it I saw Wick- it is your job to fill the lighter ett emerging from my wife's sit- fountains and that commercial weed) ting room." alcohol is used.”
Dundee concealed his exullation. Yes, sir," Wickett agreed, with Not by the flicker of an eyelid must faint surprise hat apparently no he betray to George Berkeley that fear.
not until this moment had He "Where do you keep your supply] known of the visit to Gigi's room.¦ of wood alcohol? Has anyune ac The trap had been laid upon the j cess to it except yourself?"
dimsiest of foundations-merely af "No ong but myself, sir," Wick-long-delayed recollection of the fact! ett answered promptly. "I keep it that when he Dundee had re- locked away
in my pantry here turned to the drawing-room Fri- and the keys are never out of my day night after his telephone call:
of Police Headquarters, Berkeley possession, sir."
"Good! Mr. Berkeley told you to was not in the room and did not use wood alcohol instead of ben-return until just before Clorinda zine, I suppose ?"
Berkeley announced her intention "Yes, sir. Either fluid works in 1 going up to bed. the lighters, but Mr. Berkeley ask-1 ed me to use wood alcohol, because perfume flask to Mrs. Berkeley's of the black, sooty smoke and the room," he said casually. odour of benzine."
!
"That was when Wickett took the
"I believe so," Mr. Berkeley an- "Right, Wickett! When did you swered coldly. "Though I did not last fill up the fountains?"
"Friday morning, sir. None of know at the time what his errand
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I can. swear
money if I put it into a beauty shop. filled it full on Friday, sir, but I I might add that Doris had accept found less than two ounces in it ed the idea gratefully, on the con- and it holds fivè.” dition that her fiance did not ob-}· "That's our secret, Wickett." ject to my being her silent part-Dundee warned him.
ner."
them was completely empty, but I filled every fountain in the house, There are six, all told: one sir. in the drawing room. one in the your wife's rooms yourself, did you library, one in Mrs. Berkeley's sit notice the perfume flask?"
nut Dundee tried another shot in the dark. "When you went on into
ting-room, one in the guest room) "went no further than the sit- which Mr. Crosby has now, one in ting-room," Berkeley answered. Mr. Berkeley's room and one in Mr. Again the trap had sprung. "I Dick's."
was there only five or six minutes. possibly less time."
imo-
"What was your errand to your Dundee considered for ment, then made a sudden deci-wife's sitting-room, Mr. Berkeley?" sion. "Wiekett, would it be possi-! Dundee asked quietly. ile for you to collect all these foun- His host's stern, handsome face tains without being observed?” flushed darkly, but he answered: "The family is in the drawing-"I was using my wife's telephone. room now, sir." Wickett demurred:1 wanted to make a call and her "That fountain is not important telephone was the nearest. 1 tried But please get all the others, bring to reach my lawyer, but there was them here and measure the amount no answer"
of wood ale hobremaining in every
*
one of them. As soon as you have For the third time, but very con-
BEER finished, report the results to me fidently now, Bonnie Dundee pre-
in the tower room.'
tended knowledge he did not pos "Very well, sir."
to your lawyer sess. "That call "Just a minute, Wicket," Dundee was a direct result of your few Sole Agent
detained him. "Please send Peggy minutes' talk with Gigi, was it not MITSUI
Harper and Della Blinn to me hero. Mr. Berkeley?" BUSSAN You need not come in with them, The millionaire shrugged and the KAISHA however."
fush on his face deepened. "I am LTD.
When the two mands, looking very not surprised that Gigi has tattled. tired and frightened, entered the She has a very loose tongue. But PILSENER BEER HONGKONG butler's pantry, the detective has I can assure you that I was not
tened to reassure them.
following her hysterical sugges "I keep, you only a minute, tion. I was not about to consult girls, and I'm not going to accuse my lawyer in his professional capac either of you of murdering Dorisity, but as a friend. He has a Matthews. But I want to ask you daughter of Gigi's age, whom he a question and I want you both has enrolled in a junior college in think hard before answering it the cast. After my talk with Gigi. While cleaning bathrooms and hand-basins yesterday and to-day send her to this college, instead of I suddenly made up my mind to either downstairs or upstairs, has
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perfume about a drain pipe?"
The girls looked at each other planned. Mrs. Berkeley's idea was blankly, then shook their heads de- that Gigi should be groomed for society by Mrs. Lambert, I wished cidedly in the negative.
"Would you have noticed such to ask my lawer's opinion of the an odour if perfume had been pour-college, for a girl of Gigi's tem-
Qed down a drain pipe?" Dundee per-
U
sisted..
"I'm sure I would air, there's been so much ta! perfume, on account of p
Terament."
"I see," Dundee nodded, "Thank since You saw no one when you left Mrs. you very much, Mr. Berkeley about Berkeley's sitting room?",
· Doria
"No one at all. It is likely that to Mra. Berkeley's rooms soon after I left, to lay out i
| bottle of it," Della answered. "But Poris went
I didn't smell any perfume at allmy wife's things for the night, but
Lyesterday or to-day. That is, in the I did not see her in the hail as I closets smell of perfume because was returning to the drawing-
All of the clothes
Miss Gigi sprinkled it on every
room."
"One thing more, Mr. Berkeley.
body before Doris was hit with the understand that you had agreed
T bottle. But I haven't smelled key to finance a beauty parlor venture
at all anywhere else. Mrs. Berke- for Doris.".
ley uses violet bath salts, but she'
Doris was killed."
"That is quite correct," the mil
Yhasn't even used any of them since lionaire agreed coldly. "In fact, "I don't clean upstairs-just this began a letter to my lawyer Fri- floor, but I didn't smell any per day before dinner, but I was too Tume in the lavatory down here," it. When Doris told me of her en
upset over another matter to finish! Peggy assured him.
"Then will you take particular no-agement to Arnold, she also con- tice to-morrow morning both of fided her ambition to open a beauty you-and report to me if there is would be required. I admired the shop. I reminded her that capital
I
am
When the butler had left, the Dundee heard.him through with- detective locked the door at the interruption. "I sorry foot of the stairs, returned to the Doris did not live to benefit by your tower room and locked its door.
then addressed his parrot: kindness, Mr. Berkeley." -
"I'm afraid you're in for a long session, 'my dear Watson!!"
"So am I... If you'll pardon me. I get back to my bridge game," Berkeley answered stimy.
Half an hour later Wickett was admitted to the tower room. Hèt came bearing a tray of sandwiches and coffee, as well as information which seemed to puzzle him· ex- ceedingly.
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