GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16. 1932.
66WEEK-END MURDER"
BY GABRIEL E. FORBUSH
Prologuo
from the room behind them.
"This!"
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There had been the incident of
There had been that whining, them and her brown, capable little crying baby India-strange fingers ran wildly through short, what a tuss people made over a curty, heat-matted hair. child already half-dend from heat "Whow! It's hot when you're and improper teeding.. a nul- not in motion! Come out on the sance to itself and to everyone front lawn-thore's time. We'r
in for a regular Fourth of July And the woman who would teang nnell. I guess, Why, thoro's the for jade when he had brought her boat!” amethysts-1
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CHAPTER I.
the
"and now
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The other's voice was smooth, one of the tenants, carrying
Hennessey ran her up to the Quiet reigned in the big, high- expressionless. it simply filled the br.ef case and a portmanteau of
And now, just recently, this per- anchor an hour ago." Averill's collinged, old-fashioned room with gap tett for some sort of response. somewhat traveled appearance.
sistent, obviously, dull-minded In- voice showed his pride in the trim its comfortably worn furniture, "Um... but no one elso'd have
dividual with his Itching curiosity little cabin-cruiser dancing In the richly dark hangings and blazing any motive, they say... looking to light a cigarette with steady, him and his exasperating, infuriat he rushed the job through-I The man paused in the lower hall about things that didn't concern small bay before the house. "Glad open fire. Two mon—outwardly, now for a homicidal manioc.” competent ingere,, and again on ing little personal habits-that imagine we'll keep her humming at least, enjoying their allent com- "Yes?" Again a colourless tone, the front steps to condult KiB panionship-sat reading and yet under its surface smoking before the amouldering lurked more than a suggestion of hard lamp. Somehow he convey- ing his shoes th two four rhythm bit."
courtesy watch by the light of the over- way of clearing his throat, of most of the week-end."
rattling his newspaper, of squeak- "Woll-things have changed a logs. Each oceupled a doop, luxu irritation.
ed the idea of a man about to take and then suddenly breaking it off. Dropping as easily as a child to rlous chair, no high of back that Uh-huh. That changes the a late night train, yet one unbur only the tops of two hends showed whole case. A lunatic's another ried and with plenty of time to holding the foot in suspense, start the soft grass,. Linda pulled gent- thing again. That, is, I suppose make it comfortably. He started, ing in again in different meter. ly at the ears of an infirm old ter- It was quiet there in the old re- the man's a lunatic. Nowadays off with the same
business-like Well-all neatly disposed of-rier which had come trolting up modelled house in a half-forgotten they divide the types of insanity briskness toward the nearest sub without undue trouble or excites to join them as soon as they ap- corner of the city-n house built into auch different classifications, way station. The house where no ment. At least one that touch- peared on the terraced lawn. The in a day when outside sounds were But paychology's your line, not ond was given occasion to mind cd him. After all, how silly to old dog puffed heavily after the less but walls were better equipp. mine"
the business of another remain. Pus too great a value on huma exertion of the short, waddling ed to repel them, when neighbours'
ed decently dark and quiet behind life! Molecules all-but for the run. doings were not common property There was the respite of a few his undramatic departure.
aake of those who went on living. "Tom," Linda broke off, aud- and one could live for years with moments' allence, then the foot
the more annoying molecules denly, "poor old Bunty's getting out giving them. In turn, any great began to move again, back and The man in the railroad car should be eliminated. Surely that blinder and doafer and wheezlar knowledge of one's comings and forth, back and forth, its faint stirred uneasily as the rattle of a was the highest sanity.
every day," goings.
Bquee-cek, 4
aquee-cek creaking newspaper from across the alela Sanity as the word crossed his "Yes, We must do something Quiet
except for an oc- through the "quiet room. The brought a sudden, unwelcome flash mind, the man again moved rest- .. wait until the end of summer, castonal stir and thump when a meter was not not quite regular, of suggestion and memory. Then leanly. Then
through the open though." burned log parted and showered not quite what a listener would he smiled a little, with a trace of window came a breath of the sca
land he relaxed and smiled with The old dog flopped over by out the sparks
and except subconsciously expect. It atopped self-antisfaction. for the subdued yet irritating . . . It started... broke aThat was the most recent--well, complete, tranquil pleasure. A Linda's knees in the out-stratched creak-creak-creak of shoe leather rhythm. the paper crackded act in defence of his own comfort lovely part of the country this abandon of utter comfort. Hear- as the foot of one crossed leg, auddenly with a stiff rattle. and peace of mind. Like others, it week-end offered a pleasant inter-ged her absurd tail lazily. The
Long Island--and
holiday ing her name mentioned, the wax- poised before the fire, automation! Then the voice went on again, had been a complete, uneventful jude as a guest in a comfortable, we humans, feeling the treachery ly circled back and forth on a nar- comfortable, relaxed, indolent. success.
lo a homicidal
almost row are and at times stopped, em- "Just what
luxurious home, with phasizing the slight sound by its maniac?"
the covertly insolent porter on the charming host and hostess. The of their thoughts, petted her with
sudden, guilty tenderness. water temporary cessation.
White Mountain express and the refreshingly cool nights. Why to have an asthmatic old dog
the garden
"I never thought 1 could bear The owner of the lost sometimes! So quickly, so quickly had the convenient curve around which crackled the pages of his evening other risen that he was standing the bouncing
bother about the past? The pre- Hittle train had
said Linda andly, paper with a quick, nervous, menn, over the man In the chair before awung, dinging off the insolent sent promised delightfully. Life around me,"
I can't bear the iden ingless gesture which never failed a single startled upward look porter and, it appeared, also very this was one of its most agree of putting her away."
could be decidedly agreeable and to bring up the other man's hend could more than catch the fixed nearly losing n passenger. The
able phases,
"Well the summer may make sharply only to have the frown glare of the eyes and the inhuman, passenger had just stepped from
a difference," her husband offer- smoothed out by an immediate teeth-baring grin. There was the parlour car to go forward to
ed vaguely. Then, remembering effort of will as his eyes dropped tense, animal-like spring the the smoker of the little country
the trend of the conversation, he again to his book. His apparent foot twitched convulavely once train as it hurried toward the "Hello, Tommy! I'm so glad you selzed upon it to leave the un- wish to concentrate on its pages .. the warm leather squeaking junction where its important got home before any of the com-welcome subject. accmed to escape the notice of his suddenly and was still. coaches were transferred to the pany rame!"
"You said thinga had changed. more restless companion who, na Utterly still. As the room was big through flyer. When others, Linda Averill, piling out with Anyone back out?" he skimmed through the paper, utterly quiet. No creaking, rosi- attracted by the passenger's shout myriad bundles from
the little "Someone backed in. You re- frequently Interjected a low ex- fuss rhythm, no railing pages, of warning, hurried to the scene roadster, found her husband act-meniber. Cousin Amos Peabody, clamation, a muttered comment, The newsimper by where it had of the accident he could only sug- ing as butler at the open door of The distant relative pernon from- on the news before his eyes. Sud- fallen from an inert hand. gest that the porter, betrayed by their recently acquired Long Boston? Due to arrive any mo denly he came to something which The old house was quiet, ton familiarity into carelessness, must Island, home. Beyond him, even ment... driving out from town.” caught and held his interest. The four-storey building with its have lost his balance at the unex as they kissed, she caught a He whistled silently.
"Hmp!" he exclaimed. "They sinvle apartments on each floor pected lurch-just as he himself limpse of cool, open, shadowed "Whee eew! That does compli-1 any now that truck driver didn't bousted no hall service. There very nearly had. The explanation hallway, a flower-laden table eate things! With all these kill the girl in the Harlem store, was no one to see a well-groomed. was so patently the truth that the centre of the room beyond, and atrange men on your hands. NoL Seems he has an air-tight alibi." well set-up man- recently arriv, there was no further inquiry into through doors opposite, a blue-thal, ns I recall him, Cousin
ed visitor-leave the anactment of the matter.
green viata of shore and Sound. It Amos isn't strange enough. Binks, was a lovely place, this White my child, why did you make Haven, and the nicest husband such a field for unknowns?" went with it-1-
"Thought we might as well get The nicest hysband-looking ex- all these duty visits off our list. tremely handsome in his rather de- After all, you started it with thosa bonnir sporting clothes was two unknowns that European gathering up the bundles that still perfume man and your offica remained in the little blue car.
middlewest manager from the "Wherever did you get all this plant. I must learn their names ¡luck!” he grumbled. "Thought before they come!”
yon said this morning you were ali) Linda was sometimes secretly ready for the gang to arrive?" famused by the enthusiasm with "Oh-neonle do forget things which her husband fulfilled 3 Cook and Nanna-and I do my-ocial as well as business duties helf."
as sales manager of a flourishing "And, anyhow, it's a nice day"benaty concern," but she knew and a run over to Port"
that the importance in its line Exactly. Carry this to, too, was due almost as much to his that's a dear. Careful! - It's whole-souled interest as to the Arima! How long've you been dynamie personality of the amaz- here?"
Fay little woman whom the pab Half an hour on Ra. Come on le knew as "Valeska." Valeska the 3:11 and walked up. Decided fin unofficial moments she ang- I'd better be here before anyone iwered to name of leas exotic arrived. You always have half a character) hnd seized with char- ozen things to tell me to remem acteristic achmen upon the ber not to forget." He grinned Averilis' recent inheritance of a wickedly.
lovely Long Island place to make "Pie! Well-this time there are it an asset of her own business. la fow"
Nothing loath to earn the sub- "Shoot!"
stantital assistance of her liberal She had mulled off her driving allowance for entertainment, the vloves, looking ridiculously little young couple had become accus- beside his heavy leather ones on omed to frequent visits from home the hall bench. A crushed red and foreign celebrities, prospec- turban was slammed down beside · (Continued on Page 10.)
"Yes?"
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