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Murder Backstairs
CHAPTER XLVII.
ANNE AUSTIN |
AUTHOR OF
*THE AVENGING PARROT *THE BLACK PIGEON, ETC.
these shoes first," Dr. Jennings promised matter-of-factly. "What's the poser?"
The Berkeley household had been notfied
afternoon on. Sunday
"I thought.maybe the white shoe that the inquest into the death of polish had queered our chances." Doris Matthews would be held Mon- Dundee admitted. "Then one other day morning, at 10 o'clock, in the little thing, Docktor.. Look! Can funeral chapel of the city morgue.you tell me whether this perfume When Dundee entered the din is a mixture of what the label at half past eight he claims it to be and Fluer d'Amour, ing room found that he was the last to ap- the scent on that handkerchief pear for breakfast and that every gave you to analyze?” member of the party was decorously dressed for the coming solemn oc- casion.
"Hello, sluggard Gigi greeted him joyously, then broke into parodied song:
"My Bonnie lies long past the
hour,
My Bonnie lies long in his
bed!"
.
"Each perfume is composed of its own essential oils." the doctor answered. "If there's any what d'you call it?-Fleur d'Amour, El be able to tell you"
"When ?"
" try to have both reports for -you by five o'clock," the docter an- swered, then explained in seme de tail the need for so much time.
without his suitcase. "One more stop, please, Dick, and then for the inquest.. Meredith's Depart-
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"Gigi!" her mother reproved her. "Just when we were talking of a funeral, too!" She turned explana- torily to Dundee: "George and I have decided to have the funeral here, dear Mr. Dundee. In the lit- ment Store"
It took only five minutes for the tle parlor-not the servants' sit- ting-room. Doris was Church of detective to purchase a bottle of England, wasn't she, dear Mrs. Nuit de Joie, identical in appear. Lambert? I'm sure our own Epis-ance with the one he had just left copallan minister would be delight-in. Dr. Jennings' office and three ed to conduct the services, both minutes more to give it into De here and at the cemetery-”” teetive Payne's hand, with explicit Before Dundee took "Mrs. Berkeley, Mr. Crosby and instructions. I have talked it over and we'd like his place among the witnesses to Payne to take Doris to New York and be called by the coroner, bury her beside Phyllis. We feel was well on his way to Hillcrest, it is what they both would want-Coroner Price reproved the two in- "Oh!" Mrs. Berkeley said uncer-excusably late arrivals with a fierce tainly. Then, in a rather strange frown, which seemed to have no
Detective "You won't be coming effect upon
Dundec's
Dundee returned to Dick's car. Radio Cortis
cheerfulness.
voice: back, I suspect?"
Mrs. Lambert smiled faintly and The inquest dragged along until shook her silver-white head. "past noon, bringing forth no new don't believe you will need me, now evidence, for of his own recent dis coveries Dundee said nothing. Dr. that-"
"Of course it was largely be-Price called upon him to tell of cause of Clorinda's marriage to Mr. the discovery of the body in the its removal to the Crosby that I needed you," Mrs. lake and of Berkeley interrupted eagerly, "and summerhouse, then dismissed him. now that she is going to marry At one o'clock District Attorney
Sherwood requested an adjourn John Maxwell instead-"
"I'm glad you admit it at last, ment of the inquest until Thurs Mother," Clorinda cat in quietly. day and the coroner readily agreed.
"Oh, I'm going to stop trying to
"Well! Where do we go from manage other people," Mrs. Berke here?" Captain Strawn grinned at fey laughed, flushing brightly. his young subordinate as they lin- "Your father and I had a long talk gered in the cleared funeral chapel. last night, children and your old "I'll bet Sherwood would give his Abbie is going to settle down and new silk topper
to have be a model small-town wife and mother,"
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not
jumped into this Jonah of a case
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black-and-gold bottle of perfume he had purchased that day and put the original bottle in its place. But that flask had a new label now. place of the gold seal bearing the name, Nuit de Joie, there was a large on the plain white.sticker. And
were the glaring white surface words, lettered in black ink by Dun- dee himself:
Fleur D'Amour.
BQ
On each side of the desecrated perfume bottle he placed the grey- ish white remains of a tennis ox-
that had been ford-shoes gleamingly immaculate when he had first seen them-on Saturday morn- ing.
minutes Ten
later Captain Strawn and Detective Dundee were crouching side by side in a clothes closet, whose door was open just enough for the two men to observe the entrance of the room's owner and any drama that might take place before that sinister dressing table.
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There were voices in the hall. Tired people coming up to dress for so cockily. Did you see the papers dinner. Faintly there cam this morning? Promised the dear sound of doors opening and clos- voters he'd have the murderer being. And at last the knob they bind bars within 24 hours."
Husband und wife exchanged the first frank; affectionate glance that
"I'm afraid his prophesy will Dundee had seen pass between them and the young detective felt a sud- come true, Chief-though no one den surge of something remotely will be more surprised than Dis akin to fondness for the woman he triet Attorney Sherwood himself!" had disliked so heartily.
"Hey! What's that? Boen hold- ing out on me, have you, young feller me lad?" Strawn blustered,
He looked swiftly toward Gigi, The child's eyes were downcast and her lips were trembling, but wheth er from grief at Mrs. Lambert's imminent departure, or from
"I have got a pot on to boil," Dundee confessed. "I can't tell you
a about it now, for may be all
painful joy over her mother's tacit- wrong. But if I'm right-and ly promised reformation, he could think I am you are now invited to not tell. But when be glanced at attend a very private confession Mrs. Lambert he felt no doubt at purty at Hillcrest this afternoon at all as to what had brought the six o'clock."
tears to her blue-grey, shadowed "And in the meantime, what am eyes. For her eyes were upon I supposed to do?" Strawn demand. Gigi...
d sarcastically. "I'm only
the
At a quarter to 10 Dick Berke-chief of the homicide squad. What ley knocked impatiently upon Dun-jare my orders?" dee's door.
*
"I'll be down in five minutes, Dundee laughed. "I want you Dick," the detective promised. to telephone to Hillcrest this after- "Wait for me in the cur. Have the noon about four o'clock and request. cthers.gone?"
very officially the presence of every "Everybody's gone-including the member of the family, and of Cros- servants," Dick told him. "And by, Mr. Lambert and Wickett, in you'd better make it snappy or your office. I'll come along as a we'll be late."
matter of course and to make sure Carrying AL suitcase, Dundee there are no absentees. You can moved swiftly from bedroom tell them anything you like, hammer to bedroom, collecting white away at them with as many ques- canvas tennis shoes and golf tions as you can think up. I'll slip shoes. In one bedroom he away at five and telephone you paused before a dressing table, whether the pot's boiling or not. picked up a black-and-gold bottle of If it is, I'd like for you to duck out perfume, removed the stopper and at about 20 minutes to six, leaving sniffed. There came over his face word with Sergeant Turner to dis a ludicrous expression of disap-miss the crowd 10 minutes after pointment. Then be read the la- you're gone. By then you'll be on bel again-Nuit de Joie; he'd had your way to Hillcrest, with a a girl not so long ago who used that) minutes". start of the Berkeleys. scent; he sniffed again, then smiled 11 be waiting for you and then- triumphantly. Very carefully he with luck-the pat should boil over wrapped the bottle in his hanker- very promptly."
10
chief and deposited it among the Probably if Dundee had not stag- shoes.
ed a confession in the Rhodes House "What are you doing with that murders in much the same secretive Buitcase?" Dick demanded. "I and dramatic fashion, Captain thought you were staying here un-Strawn would not have lent his aid til this murder business was to the programme outlined by his cleared up."
subordinate, without knowing what
"I am," Dundee assured him.it was all about.
. "I'm just taking some stuff into As it was, the chief of the homi-
town to have it cleaned."
cide squad followed instructions to They drove almost la silence, but the letter. At five o'clock Dundee when Dundee asked the boy to left Police Headquarters for Dr. stop at City Hall, Dick commented | Jennings' laboratory. At ten'min- dryly:
utes past five he spoke four cryp- "I didn't know there was a laun-tic words to Captain Strawn: "The dry or a cleaners' shop here, though pot is boiling." In another five
I suppose the politicians need one minutes he was in a police car, head- for their dirty linen.",
ed toward Hillcrest, his suitcase. between his kness.
Dundee was still smiling at Dick's brave attempt at a joke when he But he was not jubilant. So far, entered the laboratory of Dr. Abdl as he was concerned, the show was Jennings, city chemist and toxi- over, With all his heart he wished cològist.
he could leave the theatre before "Another job for you,' Doctor," the curtain rose on the third_act he announced, as he opened the that terrible, necessary third act suitcase. “You may find it a poser, in which a human being, as life- I want to know if there are any loving as himself, would be crush- wood alcohol impurities lurking be-ed before his eyes. But he had to neath the nice white polish on go on with it. With his heart like
any of these shoes, but--particular-lead he set his stage. From the centre of a dressing table in a bed. ly this pair."
“Then I'll analyze the cloth of room at Hillcrest he removed the
were watching so intently turned quickly under an urgent hand..
"Coming!" Strawn whispered hoarsely and his fingers closed hard upon Dundee's shoulder.
(To Be Continued.)
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