Murder Backstairs
CHAPTER XLVI.
by
ANNE AUSTIN
AUTHOR OF
"INE MENGG PROPOR *THE BLACK PIGEON, ETC.
me, and they form one complete "Bonnie Duridet had cheerstal flask. No other bottle was
found on the bottom of the lake.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1930.
COUNTRY ROBBED
OF FERNS.
VANDALS WHO DESPOIL THE ENGLISH COMMONS.
SOLD AT 3D. EACH.
How the countryside is being despoiled of its beautiful ferns by vandals who tear them ruthlessly from their surroundings. vealed to a Daily Chronicle repre- sentative.
FIGHT FOR LIFE IN
A GALE.
ANES READY TO CHOP
BOAT AWAY.
Liverpool crew's desperate efforts to keep their vessel from foundering during a gale were described, when the coasting steamer Gertie (55 tons) reached. Fleetwood in tow.
The crew of four had a terrify-| ing experience when at one time the Gertle had broken away from was re-they were drifting helplessly after
another vessel which had taken her in tow.
Despite local by-laws, a huge trade, amounting to tens of thous ands of plants yearly, is openly going on in ferns uprooted wholesale from public beauty-spots in Devon and elsewhere.
The Gertie left Garston for the Isle of Man on a voyage which should have taken 12 hours.
Captain Cowzer said that steam began to fail and an engine.de. fect was discovered. The fires
The Lowestoft diifter Constant Star took the Gertie in tow, but the rope broke, and in all eight tow ropes were broken and there were
fully endured good deal of "Therefore he stopped long kidding from his uncle, Police Com-enough on his way out of the house missioner O'Brien, and, from his in pursuit of Doris, to put the chief, Captain Strawn, because of bottle away-most probably in his his use of a parrot as a "Watson," own room." when he felt the need of an audi- ence for his summing up of a case.
Dundee paused for a long' min- "I've tried talking aloud to my ute. frowning. Then he cried self, but I feel foolish. Cap'n is an triumphantly: ideal audience, for while he some-
"Of course, 'Watson'! What an times laughs at me, he can't waste idiot I've been! Shoes! No won my time by arguing or telling me der we couldn't smell Fleur d'a I'm a fool," he answered them.
That is the disquieting informa- were drawn, Amour when we sniffed at the Now, after five hours of sleep shoes we knew had been worn Fri-tion given by Mr. Perry, head of to clear his brain of all specula-day night! The poisoner was be the firm of Amos Perry, Enfield, tions and conclusions-worthless hind Doris. She fled first, and the one of the oldest firms of nursery now, in the light of his new dis poisoner had ample opportunity to men and the largest cultivators of coveries he sat with the parrot's observe how silent her fight was cage before him, his thick sheaf in her rubber-soled, rubber-heeled of typewritten notes ready for ref hoea. Not even crence. He had been talking stead down the uncarpeted backstairs did
The subject had arisen out of a ily for 10 minutes, telling the par-she make any noise. But in or-correspondent's complaint that in rot just how and when Doris Mat-dinary shoes the poisoner could not London roots labelled "Devon thews had died. And Cap'n had hope to be so noiseless. He stopped Ferns" were on sale at 3d. each, a
"The mate and myself were listened, head cocked inquiringly, and changed to shoes as silent assum considerably below that at clinging to the wheel on an open beady eye bright with interest the girl's. It would have taken which they could be cultivated.
bridge trying to steer the vessel; or so. Dundee chose to believe. Less than a minute and undoubt-
while the two other members of Now, my dear Watson,' that isdly the poischer knew, either from Gamekeepers, lower-class bailiffs the crew lay on the bridge with the crime which you and I must Doris herself or from deduction, and gypsies conduct a regular and axes ready so that they should try to solve." he summed up. "But what she meant to do. Doris would extensive trade, Mr. Perry said, by jump down and chop the small behind that crime lies another, not find. Arnold in the summer-despoiling commons and even steal-boat free and escape in it." which did not come off. Our pri- house, but she would wait,ing ferns from private land. mary problem; therefore, is to find for a short time
when she run
at least, cx-
ferns in the country.
Thirty Sacks.
none left.
"We then began to drift, and we thought we were finished," Baid Captain Cowser.
"Heavy seas were sweeping us from stern to stem.
"At last the Lowestoft drifter Mare got a rope on board, and the tow to Fleetwood was started."
"For one instance." he said, "on Seaton Junction, in South Devon, many as 30 at one time of ferus turn up from the lanes and waiting LADY DIANA'S ESCAPE. for the train to take them away,"
the person who plotted Mrs. Berkepeeting him to arrive any minute. ley's death by wood alcohol potson-Oh yes, the poisoner had time to have seen sack after sack-as ing, but who was forced, by fear, change his shoes-and he did!" to murder Doris Matthews instead.
He was silent again for so long Is that clear?""
hat Cap'n turned rapidly about on his perch three times, then croaked "Good night! Good night!"
thews."
Dundee
we
An important phase of the matter is that not only is the countryside thus despoiled of its natural flora, but buyers do not really benefit.
Gardeners Deceived.
side for ferns to sell," Mr. Perry ex- "The men who strip the country-
plained, "naturally choose the sometimes as much as ten years old, played out, and unlikely to take in a new soil.
"Perfume! Cap'n croaked sud- denly, proud of the new addition to his vocabulary.
"Good night? Why, I've just be "Exactly!"
grinned.zun," Dundee reproached the bird, Someone transferred more than "Let's see now, where stand.
wood alco-Noiseless shoes two ounces of deadly
.Bedroom slip- hol from the lighter fountain in pers, or tennis shoes? But I've Mrs. Berkeley sitting-room, to the tuoped and snooped and sniffed in fisk of Fleur d'Amour which Sey-every clothes closet in the house mour Crosby presented to his and I've not caught a single whiff hostess Friday evening. And was of Flear d'Amour, except from Clo-fargest. That means that they are caught in the act by Doris Mut-rinda's gold slippers.
"Let's follow the murderer back "Perfume!" Cap'n repeated and to the house from the summerhouse, flapped his wings excitedly.
after his ghastly work there had
"They are, in fact, practically "Exactly-again!" his master apbeen done. It is almost certain plauded. "Where is the perfume hat the perfume splashed upon his worthless to the gardeners who are which Mrs. Berkeley's would-be hues when the bottle broke. Of deceived into buying them.
"In Wales the same thing is murderer removed from the lasknurse it splashed upon his clothes, to make way for the wood alcohol? no, but that didn't matter, since going on. Thousands of hart's- Gigi had wasted about an ounce of Gigi had helpfully anointed every-tongue ferns are dug up and sent to the Fleur d'Amour. Mrs. Berkeley one with perfume earlier in the eve-town, and it is years before the knew just how much was left inning. But perfume on soft shors scenes of the spoilers' activities re- the bottle, for she took the task
...Now, how could he remove It cover. Moreover, this from Gigi herself. Therefore, the most successfully?.... By washing minate digging up means that rare would-be murderer had to remove the shoes? Not so good. Perfume varieties go with the rest unnotic-
about two and a half ounces of perfume before putting that amount of wood alcohol into the bottle.
indiscri.
ed and are gradually exterminated. is devilish persistent stuff."
"Another
suffers place that Very earnestly he stared into the
on the parrot's beady eye, then suddenly similarly is Lymington, he smote the table with triumphant borders of the New Forest,
"Hundreds of men engage in the "Now, it is not at all likely that fist. the surplus perfume was poured "Tennis shoes-white shoe pol-trade, even working with carts. down the drain pipe of Mrs. ish!" he cried. "Easy and quick. Berkeley's bathroom basin, for the Freshly polished tennis shoes would very good reason that Mrs. Berke- cause no comment... Well, that's sure that, unless I've been barking up ley would have been almost to smell it when she came up to the wrong tree bed. Therefore it seems logical to see what
we know
Now, let's about this.
"Local authorities in whose areas the fern collection is going on can- not be doing their duty property," Mr. Perry included.
his tennis shoes, to cover up the
suppose that the surplus perfume would-be poisoner. was poured into another battle- "First! He knows that Mrs. perfume. But there was another and what more logical than a per-Berkeley is a perfume addiet. problem confronting him: What fume bottle to hold perfume?
"Second: He knows that Mrs. lo do with his botile of Fleur fountainAmour?" "Mrs. Berkeley's would-be mur- Berkeley has a lighter derer 'probably counted on several Glled with wood alcohol in her sit- He brooded for several minutes, days elapsing before the victimting room.
while the parrot dropped sleepily en his perch. What would he do? When at fast the answer came he uttered so sharp a cry of triumph seen by glancing at her dressing-1 "Fourth: He knew Arnold could that the bird protested with one of table or could have known already.not meet Doris in the summer-the oaths he had learned from his. "Now-why the choice of Fleur house; therefore he must have mischievous old mistress, Mrs. Em- d'Amour instead of the new bottle been present when Mrs. Berkeley ma Hogarth. of department store perfume? To ordered the car.
drank the Fleur d'Amour, since she "Third: He has what seems to had another new bottle of perfume him good cause to wish Mrs.Berke- on hand, as the plotter could have ley dead,
It was nearly one o'clock when incriminate Crosby, provided the "Fifth He Wax someone to Dundee concluded his long mono- would-be murderer was not Crosby whose appeal for mercy Doris Mat-logue to the parrot and covered the himself? Or because the Fleur thews, a kind-hearted girl, must long-suffering bird's cage. Weary. d'Amour had come from abroad? have turned a deaf ear. Other but triumphant, he unlocked the You see, my dear Watson, if the wise her, murder would not have tower room, descended the steep wood alcohol causing Mrs. Berke- heen necessary."
stairs to the third floor, unlocked ley's death were traced to perfunie
that door and was about' to step down into the hall when he found that the door was pushing againet something soft but unyielding.
"Gigi" he whispered angrily. And then he saw
that she was
she had drunk, it would be much
safer for the poisoner if the per- He was silent again, passing all fume had come from France, rather possible suspects in review, put than from a local department store. ting them, one by one, to the best "If my reasoning is correct so of his fifth conclusion. Finally far, the would-be poisoner expected he spoke aloud again, very so-asleep, woolly bathrobe wrapped to have ample leisure in which tollemnly: dispose of that incriminating sur-
arms.
into his sighed, then the wide.
She grunted, opaz eyes flew
about her gay silk pyjamas, her "So far as we know, Cap'n, curly brown head sunk upon her plus of Fleur d'Amour before Mrs. there were only two people in this knees. Berkeley's death. But consider the house whom Doris could possibly He stooped and gathered her up problem which confronted the poi-have hated-judging from her let Soner when he or she--but let'ster to her sister and from all the say 'he' for the sake of convenience evidence we have in hand. Those was caught in the act by Doris two people were Mrs. Berkeley and
"I thought you'd never come out, Matthews. Wa know there was a Seymour Crosby-provided it was Bonnie," she murmured. Then an- struggle, that Doris was pushed so Seymour Crosby whom Doris knew ger routed sleep. "I've been wait violently against the bathroom er Auspected to be responsible, ing here to tell you what a cad I mirror that the smudged print of directly or indirectly, for Phyllis. think you are! Tricking Daddy her rouged mouth was left-as one Crosby's death. Let us say she into admitting that he came to my of our few clues to what took place. only suspected, until she saw him room Friday night and that I-I "Then what happens? Doris suc-plotting the death of another told him" She hesitated, obvious- ceeds in wresting the flask of poi-woman. Her auspicion wouldly not sure just how much Dundee soned perfume, from the would-be have become a certainty then. She knew. murderer, flces with it-not taking would have shown no mercy. If "That you told him you hated time to get her cout the keyshe had come upon anyone else your mother and wanted him to to the back door. Her goal is the than her beloved Miss Phyllis's' divorce her?" Dundee finished the summerhouse, where she believes killer, preparing to poison
a sentence for her, so confidently she will find her finance, Arnold, woran she disliked, would she not that she tumbled into the trap. waiting for her,
have been easy to move with pro- I didn't mean it," Gigi whim- But the poisoner knows Arnold testations of repentance and pro-pered. "I was just so awfully sore not there, that he is driving the mises not to repeat the attempt? at Abbie because she slapped me Benjamin Smiths home. So he pursues Doris. But he does not deed think so, if I am any judge at 1-said?"
I think so. I do not in-..I guess he told you what else leave behind him, in Mrs. Berke-all of Doris Maithews character!" "No, Gigi, but you're going to Disconcertingly, the parrot tell me now," Dundee said gently, holding her small body close
ley's bathroom, the bottle contain-
ing the surplus Fleur d'Amour, chuckled throatily. And he does not take it with him
when he follows Doris, to the sum- that's what you
"Oh, I shan't go half-cocked, if against his heart. And: in ex- mean by your change I'm going to tell you that
erhouse. If he had, he would ribald laughter," Dundee retorted. you're not to worry any more- ave cast It Into the lake along "I'm going to consider every your father did not try to poison with the fragments of the crystal single possibility....
But be your mother, then kiil poor Deris
Atted together, Captain Strawn tells 'returned to his room and polished" flick Those fragments have been fore I forget! Doris's murderer to keep her from telling."
(To Be Continued.).
HER CAR SMASHED IN COLLISION,
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, was somewhat seriously injured in a) motor accident while driving to London.
She had been staying at West try seat of her mother, House, Aldwick, Sussex, the coun- the Duchess of Rutland, and was driv- ing her car back to London.
Near the cross roads at North Berated, about a mile out of Bognor, the car collided with one
which was being driven in the opposite direction by Mrs. D. R. Hancock, of Greenways, Aldwick- road, Bognor.
Both cars were smashed.
* Superintendent Brett, of Chi- chester, heard of the accident by telephone, and he motored to the
apot.
He found Mrs. Hancock had her right wrist severely injured and Lady Diana Duff-Cooper had both her knees badly cut and was also suffering from shock.
Lady Diana Duff-Cooper was
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