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"WEEK-END MURDER"
BY GABRIEL E. FORBUSH
DEDIN HERE TO-DAY
AMOS PEABODY, elderly, noir of LINDA
AVERILL, fall to his death from the second walls the shadows were geometrical- on the first stop of the littlò flight, floor balcony of the Averille Long landly even and dark and flat. There she had no need to strain her ears bome. Linds reaches him just before he dhe ta sime to bear him sp. "He pushed was a sense of unreality about all to catch Tom's part, at least, of the
Linda, rvalising ber squelp had, tried so she saw--and yet it bad a terrible, conversation,
lon
conoclate of
faint or rushes to her. There sta four resin in the bouse, and they all appear. The guest rel HI STATLANDER, but Tom's: CAPTAIN DE VOR, handsome al alan; MARVIN FILATT, former ruiter at Linda's and LIAN BHAUGHNESSKY, Irish writer. Each of them · han quarrelled with Cobaly Kos
Cense!
"That's the iden.” -
DAY. JANUARY 6 1993.
our Arst conference," Linda an- the door and blocked it completely. swered grimly,
I couldn't see Into the room, and somehow I had the idea he didn't "I'll go into the kitchen," she want me to. It might have been sald. "I have to break the nowe to just my imagination. well, it Rosie and Annie that the house wasn't any too ansy for me to be party is still on their hands, 1 civil and I can't honestly say I go up the back stairs and meet noticed much about him. He was you in our room in five minutes."
stiff and had that air of holding "Yo-ce," said Tom, stopping with something back, as 1 romember. In his hand on the latch of the door. other words, quite himself. Then "But Binks-be careful!"
I went next door to DeVoa. Ho
What had happoned in five minutes, courteous, assured me he quite "What could possibly happen in was also quite himself, which meant Unve
minutes 7" She stopped. that he was very pleasant and early that still, hot morning? understood and that anything that Not trusting borself to speak, she made it easier for us was agreeable to him! He did ask about going off toward the service entrance,
She presumed she gave Intelli- gent directions, for after. their first expression of concern neither her with any degree of alarm. But Roale nor Anale seemed to regard until she got upstairs again-safely and without meeting anyone-sho moved with abstracted hasty, her desire to soe, Tom again, alone, to mind concentrated on that force, begin with him their secret, urgent, of distinction. What was there it to Port and now that's got us dangerous hunt for her cousin's then about the thought of him all in dutch. The county medical that had stopped her as though examiner is away but he's coming murderer, still within her house. by an invisiblo hand? Sho did not back and, just to show he's boss, know, but she know she was phyel. ba's ordered us all to stay until Linda flung open the door cagerly At her husband's step in the hall.
through the proper formalities. He's due around dinner time so if, you don't mind”****
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tali ber he was murdered, rushes upstairs pressing nearness which made hor "Hello, Shaughnessey! Oh, sorry tries to sind. TOM, sem ber fall and thing to break that air of still aus (He could sloop, exhausted, what. nodded and hurried over the grass the grounds and i found he has a tries to strangle har and the fall want to scream mid run, Any-didn't mean to wake you up. ever had happened this morning!) The garage--that was where she "I won't Be a moment. Just had started to go. And in the wanted to ask you if you would garnish was a man. Just an ordi- mind staying on the rest of the nary, pleasant, well-dressed, well-day. Thore's been a little misun DIL PARSONS take charge mannered man. Or rather perhaps derstanding about the accident this stmed Cousin, Amos' danth was accidentai and that Linda fainted from shock, not quite ordinary, for genius-if morning. Our doctor's a bit apt she to finally able to tell Tom what hap he was a genius-never is that pened she parades hies, that they must keep Certainly. Linn. Shaughnessy, in cover who the murderer. They are mot both appearance and behaviour, was pretedis aided in this plan when DR. BOYLE, rather unusual, though on the side so quickly. everyone fax the bauss must remain call Reblag trip and can not return for several
the four mesta with them until they dar
offela) medial examiner, wenda word that he ha questioned them. Boyle in o
house.
CHAPTER XVII
to go his own way, regardless of the regulations and he shouldn't have permitted the body to bo moved He okayed our taking
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In the silence after the little car sally incapable of forcing herself he can go over the ground and go and he was hardly Insido and the
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to step into the roadway, walk across the lawn and go up that short fight of steps. In fact she could not even face the idea of it.
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shot out of the stone gateway Linda heard Tom emerging from one upstairs room and caught the words, "very good of you" ho stopped at another door sho suddenly remembered that only Tom swinging downstairs with three of their gucats were here in the satisfied air of one who has ac- the house. Tom still had one of complished what he set out to do, them to notify as well as the one found her sitting on the little hall whom she had quartered in the bench, and he did not guess the effort it took her to smile up at him as he stopped before her.
"How did they take it?" she en- quired.
garage.
"I run over myself and tell Mr. Shaughnessey," she thought Impulsively and had pushed the screen door open before something checked her like the touch of a cold hand.
"All right-Pl tell you luter- · | upstairs." She nodded as his voice dropped warningly.
Then a sleepy murmur and when Tom spoke again his voice sounded decidedly relieved,
Linda was strolling toward tho house when Tom caught up with
door closed before she spoke.
""Tom-do any of them m alarmed by this busness about Di. Boyle? Did you get anything from the way they took it?"
and
"No. Each one took it differently "That's fine. Luncheon won't be but all took it well. I blained poor for an hour or so, Will you feel old Farson pretty heavily like coming over of would you emphasized the fact that it was onis rather-?" Again the murmura formality. At firat Stationda and again Tom sounded relieved. was distinctly disagreeable but that "Good! We'll look for you at 1 could be laid to his dislike of bay then."*
Ing his plans upset twice in rapid succession. He was all ready to leave and his room was neat as a pin. If there was any evidence there against him it's gone now. reminded him we still had a lot of Valeska business to discuss and that appeared to reconcile him. Elther he really does want to finish what we're supposed to clean up this week-end or he decided he'd batter seem to want to. Marvin--I'm afraid I was pretty short with Marvin. Just told him the facts and let it go at that."
her.
She stood on the threshold of "I just run ovor to the garage: "So that's all right, Blaks, my their house and looked across the now and tell Shaughnessey," he road and little lawn toward the went on and the words, so exactly garage. A silence 60 profound her own thought of the moment that it seemed to have weight and before, brought her instantly to her depth lay over the peaceful Bttlefect,
child," he said cheerfully. The beggar was still half asleep when I lett but he knows he's to stay and since he hadn't made a move toward going so far as I could sco-"
“Well,” Linda tried to be just, "Ho was up early this morning as you remember."
"Yes-I remember." Instinctively they lowered their voices.
scene, so clear was the day and "I'll--I'll walk over with you." so hot the air that clothed the it was unbearable that Tom should world. Each pebble in the roadway, go off so cheerfully, alone, Into the stood out distinctly from its fellow, little building that had once seem each blade of grass held itself erect ed so commonplace and now had and alone. unawept by the alightest grown so strangely allen. Dia- current of air. The slight rough- regarding his surprise, she walked nesa of the stucco-walled garage primly beside him. If she talked "I told the others to come down showed like the moon's surface, her teeth would chatter and that whenever they were ready," said pitted with little dark valloys, high- would hurt her pride! But she Tom. "That you would be down to lighted with tiny pinnacles.Above, was entirely willing to remain luncheon but would rest until then the roof was a red that hurt and downstairs while he ran up and in your room." where the scalloped tiles met the knocked on the door and, standing I "Where you will join me--for
"How did he act?"
"Just the anime, He'd be a good one to conceal a guilty secret be- cause he always acts as if he had one, and no gradually you got used to it. When I knocked he opened
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