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It was
the largest and her Dundee studiel
horribly room. scarred face, made more horrible gaudiest of the collection-a huge now by what looked like genuine bow of filigreed bronze, set with:
imunerable stones, as large
she thinks fran ter husband Polly Beste And Giller Hammered, together in the tum: Bexler Horngar, who wrote the to Nin and was came to Hausiston at her wn attige{lon: Judge Marches), whinner join, equiped with a platim kleurer, whatevdi for the murder and who ate kiese Nite in
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that must have Ravmnd, wive anys she www an the porch,
Thunder, retal investiantor, rele whom your mistress wanted to and-green stones
cast a strange radlance over the
ITAIPUJONO had been want * nod offers to pass the ones untlcommit suleide?"
HAMNURO midnight. Looking in Nisa's leak, la fin The single, tear-reddened eye pretty head that from her chequrdunk test where all her the glared at him suspiciously, then beto lle just beneath it, on the heaped face pillows uf the chaise longue, "I don't know." And deprelievi Finoon since abe came in the came wary, bank of which Lenke la vice president, the
"Was it Dexter Sprague, Lydia?" Dantec reflertad. mind that whe hman dieting blackmail
Inde plan fiesta
"Sprague?" She spat the unme | pul din $40 a week.
if AR Lydia had read hin then her well,
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CHAPTER XX.
in the Lydia Carr, still clothed black cotton dress and white ap ron of her maid's uniform, strug. gled to sitting position on the edge of her tasement room bed.
No, no! That's a He! It was an
I 1+l! accident.
You my
you fainting.
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"When did he become her- laver,; Lydin Dundee, asked causally. "I gave her this-saved up for it The Woman stiffened, berame [out of my own money" she was meancingly hostile. "Who says he assuring him with savage triumph was her lover? . You can't trick me. in proving her point. "And she Authored Capital
I'd cut out my lover it so she brought it with us Mr. Detective! tongue before I'd let you make me when we came from New York-- say one word against my poor It won't fight! It was working all right best night. because my poor Kir!!"
little girl was lying there, looking pretty under the coloured light
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fault!. Who dared to say Nita
Miss Nita did it? "Better lie down, Lydia," Dundee "I don't want smyganded gently
ydin," he began again, after al With strong twlats of her You've had a hard thoughtful passes
"I have proof hands Lydia began to unscrew the Den day, with the abscessed touth. The that Nita Leigh Selim was Mureligreed branze bowl. As she lift-Galle dope the dentist gave you, and.......
I don't wonder that had never forgiven her for the ed it off she exclaimed blankly: other things. you lost your head, went a littlery, she did you." His erazy, perhaps
Angers touched the letter in his pocket- that incredible "Last Will
"Why, look! The light bulb'n--- troke 7"
ati!
The detective's sinister implict-Testament" which Sita hud writ- tion seemed to make no impression ten the day before she was mur- at all up the woman with the dered. scarred face,
"I asked yun--" she gasped, her single wye glaring at him, "who dared say Nita burned nav!"
tol "It was Nita herself whe
Dundee answered softly, "Just a few minutes ago,"
"Holy Muther! the maid gasped. Get her think the dead woman. Pad appeared to him in a vision, Dundee told him f. Perhaps her euntessing wond! come the quick-
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But Dundee had already seen--- not only the broken Hght bulls but the explanation of the queer noise that Florn Miles had described
Interest allowed on Current Arceunte and "And that's another lie the hysterically over and over, as "a
The chaise Fixed Deposits at Tates that may be mater
F. THOROUGOOD. woman cried, shaking with anger.bang
feet, toodangute stool between the two win.ained on application. She struggled to her
Comedows that gened upon the drive. swaying dizzily a moment
few tairs with me to her room, and And at the head of the chaise longue
show yo
some proof that stood the big lamp, just a
the door leading onto the Pance along, I tell inches from the wall and only jargave hert.
Trying to make me any font from the window frame "rch... A little progress, killed my poor girl, when i have which Dr. Price had pencilled the ch
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1 point which indicated the end of you!
But Lydia was not through prov- died for her Come on,
Atul Dundur. wondering, begin the imaginary line along which the
tress. She was snatching things ning to doubt his own conviction a shot which killed Nita Leigh Selim ng that she had forgiven her mis-
had had travelled.
from Nita's clothes closet - The maid began to rock her little...the conviction which
of Nita's
Ser these mules with their s The "bang ur hump" which Floral
I gave em to my gaunt bouly, her arms' crossed over sprung full-grown out
My per little girl: strong, informal will, and which Miles had bears! has been made by trich fenthers? her at chest.
the big lamp girl!... And this bed jacket? Even in death she thinks of me, had seems to explain everything
animal the wall. And unsicutely embroidered the dowers on it with sho's
She sent me a mes, followed Lydia Carr from her kasete anocking of
hement room in the bedroon in which the one win had tried into the my own hands." didn't she? Tell me! supe.
Nita had been murdered.
Through her dond of proof Dun-organised tober 28, 1918, under special
chatter of The National Government as an was always trying to comfurt me,
thin and Lydia Carr amp was Nita's mardherr de intr-
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE HANK. i!! fantic haste to nuke dee heard the whirr of a car's e- sir! The poor little thing madn'i
rine, then the loud banging of Subverted Capital ...................... ratched up the powder box from believe I'd forgiven her as soon as the dressing table. Her long, bony cape,
fear's door... Running Hotsteps Up Capital de dem it Cell 7!**
with
And that avant that the mur-Jan the flagstone path.... Dundee "Yes" Dander agreed, his eyes fingers busied themselves watching her keenly. "She sent you frantic haste, and suddenly into derer had fat toward the back hall, reached the front door just as the
message of ze sort...ints of the room came the not themgh the window in front of hell pealed shrilly...
"1 haght her this which he had stond, not through can't give it to you until you have tinkle of music. told the all about the accident in which you were burned."
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"I'll tell," Lydia promised eager. Gone was the harshares and secretiveneta with which she had met his earlier questioning.... "You see, sir, I loved Miss Nita- called her Nita, if you don't mind,
sir. 1 loved her like she was my own child. And she was lot of ine, too, fonder 4 me than of any- body in the world, she used to tell me. when some man hnd hurt her bad.. And there WIN always some man or alher, she wGS
wort and so pretty....Well, found her in the bathroom day, just ready to drink.poison, to kill her poor little self—"
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"When was that. Lydia?" Dun-
interrupted.
of
"It was in February-Sunday, he inth of February," Lydia went
still rucking in an agony grief. "I tried to take the glass out her hands. She'd poured a lot the stuff out of the bottle.... You see, she was already in u fit of hysteria, or she'd never have tried to kill herself .It was my own fault trying to take the
lass away from her, like I did
"She flung the acid into your
TSANG FOOK PIANO face Dundee asked, shuddering.
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She didn't know what she was Į doing the woman cried, glaring it him. "Nently went out of her mirst, they told me at the hospital, because she'd hurt me
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Duntice let her sob and rock her arms for a while unmolested, In February Nila Selim bad had to borrow money to pry doctor and hospital bills. Had borrowed it "gold-dup" it... And
or
in
Mav she had been rich enough to have $9000 to invest!
"Lydin, you never forgave Nita Selim for, ruining your fe as well As your face! Dundee charged her suddenly.
"You're a Har" che cried pan. sionately. "I know what I folt! It's my face and my life, ain't it? I tell you I didn't even bear grudge against her-the poor little
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