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year-old royal blue velvet dress which Nita had chosen to be heri Dundee
And in his desire to rea- which had saved ha fe echo-
sure the publfe through the press, ing his mirth raucously, na his eyes Sanderson had vaguely promlaed hit upon the following lines of an even more specific revelations than print halfway down the third col-Dundee had actually brought home urin of page 410 of "Who's Who in with him. Prodded by reporters, Sanderson had admitted that he did not himself know the nature of those revelations.
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The exasperated young detective "A taunt and a joke which turned sour, my dear Watson!" he ex-could picture the murderer read.ng hints and pro alted to the parrot. "A joke I was those sensational
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not intended to live to laugh over!" mixes, could imagine hle panic, the He closed the book and replaced need for immediate action, so that it in the bookcane, careless of finger- Special Investigator Dundee should prints, for he was sure the mur-not live to tell the tale of his New derer had been too clever to leave York discoveries in the district nt-
ny behind him in that room-or torney or anyone else. upon the gun and sencer either.
right or for that matter.
Tut whether he was Interestedly. Dundee surveyed wrong, Dunder determined to give chance. He went the scene of his attempted murder. hie hunch If he had unsuspectingly gane up to into the over-ornate bedroom in the high shelf to reach for the book which Nita Leigh Selim had been he would have stood so close to the murdered--shot through the back register that there would have been as she sat at her dressing table powder burns on his shirt front powdering her face. If her murder Just as there had been on Dexter had been accomplished by mechan- Sprague's. And he would have been leal means, how had it been done?
There WAN shol zo near an open window
register no hot-air chance for Angerprints there, here.....
From the dressing table Dundee either, since he had not closed the windows on
his departure for New walked to the window, upon whose York. not wishing to return to a pale-green frame there was still the stuffy apartment---that the polienting pencil mark which Dr. Price would have been justified in think had drawn, to indicate the end of ing he had been shut from outside.the puth along which the bullet had it was an old fashioned house in travelled, provided it had travelled more ways than in the manner of far. Nothing here to aid in its heating. Outside of one of his mechanical murder. |twe unscreened windows there was But in a dash Dundee changed an iron grating the topmost land his mind. For just slightly above ing of a fire scape.
Dundee could the pencil mark there was a small imagine Captain Strawn's positive dent in the soft painted pine nected with two small, lot metal plates, one upon the other, so that juess in placing the murderer there the window Trame
Changchun And before his mind could frame when stepped upon a bell would rouching in wait for his victim....
Yes, damned ingenious, this at-words and sentences he thought he ring in Lydia's basement room. Tempted
Undoubtedly saw how Nita Leigh had been mur- murder
was something odd Fengilen Strawn would have dismissed the|dered,
[about the wire. Although it was note as the work of a crank, not Nothing here? Not now, be obviously new, a section of it near hitting upon the fact that it had cause he had taken the lamp to the two metal plates was wrapped been written in that very room, on the courthouse for safekeeping. with black adhesive tape. Another Hongkong Dundee's own typewriter and str
He saw it clearly in imagination memory knocked for attention upon Honolulu tionery. Strawn might even have
The long cord of bronze floor lamp which Dundee's mind.
Nita the bronze lamp had been mended Fot a mournful sort of amusement Lydia Carr had given to out of the fnet that Dundee had Leigh, its big round bowl studded with exactly the same sort of tape about a foot from where it ended been advised to call upon a greater with great jewels of coloured glass. detective than himself for assist- And in recalling every detail of the in the contact plug. arcel
minutes, Within another two Yes, Ingenious indeed! lamp he saw what he had dismissed And so amazingly simple- as of no importance at the time and Dundee, with a flashlight he had BANK OF CHINA.
Suddenly the young detective in the excltement of finding that found in the kitchen, was explor snatched for his hat. If the mur-the lamp's bulb had been shattereding the dark, earthy portion of the derer were so ingenious In this by the "bang or bump" which Flora basement which lay directly to the Case, might he not have been Miles had described. One of the big cust of Lydia Carr's basement room. equally clever in planning and exe-glass jewels had been missing, leav-And he found what he was looking cuting the murder of Nita Leighing an unsightly hole.
for-adhesive tape wrapped about Pap Capfial Solim?
No wonder there had been a the wire which had been dropped "bang or bump" hard enough to through the floor of Nita's room be- Twenty minutes later he parked dent the frame of the window! For fore it had been carried, by means his car in the rutty road before the gun, wedged into the big bowl of a bored hole, into Lydia's room. The Selim bouse in Primrose Mead- and slightly protrading from the He was too late thanks to Cap
bell which aws, and honked his horn loudly jewel-hole, had "kicked," just as it tam Strawn. The to attract the attention of the plain- had kicked an hour before, when Sprague had rigged up was in work- thesman Captain Strawn had de it had dislodged itself from the ing order again. But as he was tailed immediately after the mur-hole in the hot-air register and passing out of the basement he der to guard the premises during clattered down the big pipe to the glanced at the ceiling of the large the day. There was no
answer. heat reservoir of the furnace. room devoted to furnace, hot-water And a violent ringing of
That the big lamp, when he, fol- 'heater and laundry tubs. the door. bell also brought no response.
The wing Strawn, bad first examined the ceiling he saw a hole.. guard had been withdrawn, proba-the scene of Nita's murder, had not The murderer had left a bly to julu the small army of plain-stood in front of the window frame he could not obliterate! clothesmen and patrolmen who had did not dampen Dundee's excite- At three o'clock that, Sunday been foolishly and futilely search-ment in the least. After Kuren afternoon Bonnie Dundee, fatigued. ing for the New York gunman-the Marshall's scream that room had after a strenuous day and Rutter- keystone of Captain Strawn's ex-been filled with excited people, who ing, to his own somewhat disgusted Authorland Capital
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He found the girl and her mother playing anagrams. After greeting im, Mra. Crain rose, to surrender er place to the visitor.
"You play with this girl of mine, ure of learning that he had inter- But-how had the gun been fired | dr. Dundee. She's too clever for rupted his former chief at a inte from the lamp? Electrically, of ne! She's beaten me every game course. Another picture flashed into so far, and when plead for two- Sunday breakfast.
SRW himself handed bridge us a chance to get "When did you withdraw the Dundee's mind. He guard from the Selim house?" he stooping, on Monday afternoon, to even, she shudders at the very asked
abruptly, cutting short see if the plug of the lump's cord word!" | Strawn's cordial welcome home. had been pulled from the socket, "Why did you drag poor Ralph
"Late Thursday afternoon." the saw it again as it was then--nearly laway from his dinner here today? Authorised Capital..... chief of the homicide squad an-out, so that no current could pass Penny demanded, scrambling the awered belligerently. "I needed all from the basohoard outlet under little wooden blocks until they my inen, and the Selim house had the bookcase into the bronze lamp. made a weird pattern of letters. been gone over with a fin tooth How far from the truth his con- "Beenuse I wanted to find out ex- comb half a dozen times... clusion that Monday had been! actly how Nita Selim was killed- Why
and I did," Dundee answered. "Oh, nothing!" Dundee retorted But what was the meal truth? wish I knew as well who murdered wearlly, and hung up the receiver Suddenly Dundee flung back her!" after assuring his old friend that the rug which almost entirely cover- Mute before Penny's excited quen- he would call on him later in the the bestroom floor and revealed tions, the detective idly selected b day.
the bell which Dexter Sprague had letters from the mass of face-up Galle No use to explain now to Strawn rigged up so that Nita might sum-blocks on the table, and spelled out, that he had given the murderer, mon Lydia from her basement in a low row, the monies of all the overy chance to remove any betray room, in case of dire need a prequests at Nita's fatal bridge party, ing traces of his crime. Besides, caution with which the murderer Suddenly, and with a cry that hla
first excited hunch after his whs familiar, since Lofs Dunlap startled Penny, Dundee made a new own attempted murder might very had innocently spread the news of name with the little, wooden let well be a wild, groundless one. In its existence,
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There was a half-inch hole in the murder being delayed or arranged hardwood. floor, and out of it issued
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Attorney Sandorenn's boast to the press that his office had been work- ing on an entirely different theory than that which connected the two murders with "Swallow-tail Sam my," that Special Investigator Dun. dee, borning, had been expected back in Hamilton investigating Nita Leigh's past life in New York,
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