GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY
"WEEK-END MURDER"
BY GABRIEL, E. FORBUSH
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.
balcony of the Averille' Island
to hear him gap, "lic pushed mum 1
Lour
ME, STATLANDER, middle ww.tend MARLEEN Of the fros AVERILL
the largest brand her, iries The regain conscious veral bours later accidental and Linda has no opportunity to
25 has been assumed Contia Amos' death was zeli Tom what really happened.
CHAPTER XIV.
1933.
I know that we must decido, went all over the ground, didn't togusiur, 'fling what to say.”
"That a simple enough. Wo! can say I found Mfr. Pratt bending over you."
She caught her breath at the Huggestion."
Tom-Tom-how can you- "How can I what?" "Think Marvin-7"
courte
you?"
"Sure-with Parsons. Into the badroom, out on the balcony."
"And neither of you saw any thing 7
"What was there to sea? An empty bad-an open door torn railing
the
"And the body of an old man stones below and was killed. Was who fell over, headfirst, hit the doctor even surprised that the
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AMOS PRABODY, alderly wombo of LINDA AVERULL, fals to his death from the second she had resented it, had strong. Resturo so easily translated into a
"How can I help It?" His hands Linda reacam bias just before he dies, la tore thened and steadied her. Yet light-hearted wave! And as she clenched. "Linda-do you want
There are four susis Le the hours and all Tyd he obeyed with more finished with her vague memory to drive me crazy? I'm trying to fall kilit in become aperta of the murder. All worried perplexity than he per- that the choking prosaura gave, hold myself in. It's for your all hare queszelied with Cousin Ansoe. The had never seen Linda look so consciousness, he swore briefly, way instead of throttling him-balcony is quite high and he did go strong physically, hav, violent tampers and mitted himself to show, thought he just as ake toppled into unauke I'm going to report it that
"N-no. Of course it was only long story but the old-fashioned TOM serious, and as ho took the hand shortly, with the concentrated choking the life out of him worke fora, MARVIN PRATE, former auiter of Linda's; CAPTAIN DE VOB, she extended he experienced aanguish of futile rage.
"Tom" She was beside him badly crushed."
headfirst. His head was--woll, handmoue Belgias estmenting Europan quick inward stock. It was fey "So-what do you think of with ono quick movement. "Tom, Det fame muaviseturer; and LIAN SHAUG cold and, for all her outward con- that?" she concluded, trying: toden-I forgot that. Or NEBBEY, Irish writer and lecturer.
"There! He didn't suspect.}" Linda, realising ber cousin had tried 'to tell | trol, deeldedly tremulous.
relieve his evident tension by you think but wait a minute,
"No-no, he didn't." ber be whe murdered, roshen up, the staire to
without any sign of weakness or eyes burning into hers, he sat allowed her, to draw him down on Then she began to talk, quietly, speaking lightly. Face sot grimly, honey! Sit down here" He
"Did you see any cluo?" Lo strangle her and she falls in a fainte
"What do hysteria, and he listened, incredu-there a moment immobile. His the side of the chaise longue but traces of the man! No, nothing. you mean? Oh, us but belleving. Such things look made her realize suddenly as his face was tense and his eyes couldn't bappen but, If Binks said an outsider would reaitzo, what brooded darkly, not meeting hers
"And what would there be to so, they had! She told of the she had been through, what she She plunged quickly ahend. nce? It's only in books that door that was ajar; of the voices, had so narrowly missed.
"Dear-there are four men in murderer leaves a cigarette case or It was almost half-past 10 by her {so indistinct that she bad thought "I think it's murder and at this house and four man who long blonde hair, or something of ifttle clock when Linda's listening one of them his; of her quiet tempted murder!" he answered may have done it. In fact, you
the sort. If a man walks into a ears heard the welcome spin of approach, and withdrawal, un- slowly. "Good God-what might sald you saw Mr. Shuughnesscy room at 6 nm. ひで thereabouts gravel under the wheels of a re-heard; of her surprise when, down- have happened and I wasn't just about the same time and the when everyone in the house la turning ear and she opened her stairs, she saw him in the water: there!" Suddenly he engulfed her other two wore up, weren't they, sleeping, throws an old man over nyos to всо her mother-in-law of her pause on the torace: the with tenue, protective, angry ten by the time you got to the room? the rail and gous back to his room tiptoeing out of the room.
scuffle overhead; the sudden hurt- derness,
How can you be sure which one it what earthly trace could anyone "That's Tom" they both ex-¡ing down of Cousin Amos' body "“Ouch-my neck!" she exclaim-'was? They'd all had trouble with ever find-unlesa-7 claimed, and the older woman and the scant five words which heed. She wriggled tentatively, Cousin Ames. You remember wo "Unless what, Binks? laughed a little,
had strength gaap. Words then more violently. "But It's joked about the 'potenial murder-police can at least question them "You needn't worry, Lindy!" showhich had sont her flying up the only a little stiff now. Let me get ors.' Marvin is one of them. He said. "He'll be up here as soon as steps to identify his assailant- my breath. There! Why-where, may be the one, that's true-but--" "The police! The police of this
Averill broke in with ho can fly, and I'll go downstairs
да exare you going?"
Her words reached him but they village She paused to give his "To call the police."
started another train of thought. own imagination time to work. Linda-alonet Why you might "Oh Tom-walt! That's exact "Four of them and any one of "In the first place could we, oven When Tom appeared, as prompt--you might have been killed-ly what I thought you'd any and them might-Linda, those men convince the police? What exactly what you mustn't do, just don't wait for the noon train. possible proof could we give? It now, anyhow. You don't know! They get out of here as quickly naĮ happened no early-there were no anything whom would you ac-they can pack. I'll stand over witnesses. All the men were in cuse,"
every last one-I'll tell them it'a | their rooms or could say they His eyes rested on her specula- that or-orrost,"
were. I thought I was clicked- tively.
"But, Tom, you were convinced but I fell unconscious and might Her cager desire for speech did
"So anxious to save him?” it was an accident. Wasn't every-simply have fainted. You were not provent a flash of gratitude for
"Tom-what do you mean?"
body?"
swimming in, with your eyes full hie direct approach to the subject. He heard her out grimly. Hoard "You don't sound no though you "Yes, of course, Binks. How of water, and you thought you saw. No pretence that ho'd forgotten it, of the silent approach of the man wanted to catch your cousin's mur-could it seem anything else?" aman. And think of those parti- no argument as to whether ahe behind her the man whom she derer as much now as you did: "That's it exactly. Murder-cular four men-enn you imagine were able to talk.
had trapped there and who, fear-when
you tan upstairs." His nuurder simply doesn't occur to one of them bearing the Ides of "Sit down, Tom," she said, and ing delection, tried to sllence her voice was distant, cold.
anyone in-well, In our type of being accused of murder patient- knew na she heard her own voice forever. Heard why she had in- "I want to catch him more than home. And anyhow it had every | ly? Nobody-nobody from out- that the interval, frantically as voluntarily clutched at the air-lever," she said vehemently. "But appearance of an accident. You (Continued on Page 11.)
to see if your guests need any help clamation of horror.
in their final preparation."
ly as his mother foretold, his wife was sitting up, bright-eyed and looking astonishingly untouched by the recent diameter.
"Now, Linda-what's on your mind?"
--
"I nearly was."
"What's that?**
"I nearly was killed. You-you didn't know it, Tóm, but when you thought I waved--well, your being on the raft there, facing the house, saved my ¦
I guess,"
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