GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933.
“WEEK-END MURDER"
BY GABRIEL E. FORBUSH
REGIN HERM TO-DAY
AMOS PEABODY, elderly cousin of LINDA
foor balcony of the Atarilla" Long Island.
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AVERILI, falls to its death from the second walls the shadows were geometrical- home, Linda taches him just before hey even and dark and flat. There fles, in time. to hear him gay, alle pushed was & sonse of unreality about all Linda, rolling her could had tied to she saw-and yot it had a terrible, toll bar, he was murdered, rushes una pressing nearness which made her tries to wrangle he and his want to scream and run. Any faint. Her husband TOM, sees her fail and thing to break that air of still aus rushes to her. There are four quenta the house and they all appanz, "The guests arei HI STATLANDER, Qualne asociate of Tom's CAPTAIN DE VOA, haledre Bei-
Ljuda's) nad LAN SHAUGHNESBEY, Iriah writer, Eub of them bus quarrelled wi Cowin Ame
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on the first stop of the little flight, she had no need to strain her ears to catch Tom's part, at least, of the conversation.
didn't mean to wake you up! "Hello, Shaughnessy! Oh, sorry (He could step, exhausted, what- ever had happened this morning!) The enrage-that was where she "I won't b a moment. Just MARVIN PRATT former altor of had started to go. And in the wanted to ask you if you would garage was a man. Just an ordi- mind ataying on the rest of the nary, pleasant, well-dressed, well-day. There's been a little misun- mannered man. Or rather perhaps derstanding about the accident this not quito ordinary, for gonius-if morning. Our doctor's a bit opt he was a genius-novor is that, to go his own way, regardless of Certainly Lian Shaughnessey, in the regulations and he shouldn't both appearance and behaviour, was have permitted the body to be moved rather unusual, though on the side so quickly. Ho okayed our taking of distinction. What was there it to Port and now that's got us in about the thought of him all in dutch. The county medical that had stopped her as though examiner is away but he's coming by an invisible hand? She did not back and, just to show he's boss, know, but she knew she was physi ho's ordered us all to stay until through the proper formalities. Ife's due around dinner time so if you don't mind-"
DE PARSONS take charge. It le and that Linda fainted from shock. When be Ex Basils able to tell Tom what hap pened the persuaded him that they must korp cover who is the murderer. They are what official medical examiner, asnda word that everyone he the house must remain undis Bahlug trip and can not return for several
the four guenta with them until they a
pectedly sided in this plan when DR, BOYLE,
he has questioned them. Dayle is o
hou
CHAPTER XVII.
our first conference," Linda antho door and blocked it completely. swered grimly.
I couldn't noo into the room, and somehow I had the Idea he didn't
"That's the idea." "I'll go into the kitchen, aho want me to. It might have been said. "I have to break the nows to just my imagination. 1-well, it Rosie and Annie that the house wasn't any too easy for me to bo party is still on their hands. I'll civil and I can't honestly say I go up the back stairs and mcot noticed much about him. He was you in our room in five minutes," silf and had that air of holding "Yo-ca," said Tom, stopping with something back, as I remember. In his hand on the latch of the door. other words, quito himself. Then "But Binks-be careful!"
I went next door to DeVos. He "What could possibly happen in Was also quite himself, which meant What had happened in five minutes, courteous, assured me he quite
that bo five minutes-7" She stopped.
ла vory pleasant and
Not trusting herself to speak, eho made it easier for us was agreeable early that still, hot morning? understood and that anything that nodded and hurried over the grass, the grounds and I found he had a to him. He did ask about going off toward the service entrance.
(Continued on Pago 10.)
She presumed she gave intelll- gent directions, for after their first expression of concern neither Rosle nor Annie seemed to regard her with any degree of alarm. But until aho got upstairs agale-safoly and without meeting anyone-she moved with abstracted haate, her desire to see Tom again, alone, to mind concentrated on that flerce
begin with him their secret, urgent, dangerous hunt for her cousin's murderer, still within her house.
Linda flung open the door eagerly At her husband's step in the hall
door closed before she spoke.
In the silence after the little car cally incapable of forcing herself he can go over the ground and go and he was hardly inside and the
shot out of the stone gateway Linda beard Tom emerging from one upstairs room and caught the words, "very good of you" As ho stopped at another door she suddenly remembered that only three of their guests were hero in the house. Tom still had one of them to notify as well as the one whom she had quartered In the
garage.
"I run over myself and tell Mr. Shaughnessey," she thought impulsively and had pushed the screen door open before something' checked her hike the touch of a cold band,
to step into the roadway, walk across the lawn and go up that
In fact sho❘ short fight of steps. could not even face the idea of it.
Tom swinging downstairs with the satisfied air of one who has ac- complished what he set out to do, found her altting on the little hall bench and he did not guess the elfort it took her to smile up at hira as he stopped before her.
"How did they take 17" sho en- quired.
"All right- tell you later-·{ upstairs." She nodded as his voice dropped warningly.
Then a sleepy murmur and when Tom spoke again his voice sounded decidedly relieved,
the
Linda was strolling toward the house when Tom caught up with her.
"Tom-do any of them seem Boyle? Did you get anything from alarmed by this busness about Dr. the way they took it?"
"No. Each one took it differently "That's fine. Luncheon won't bo but all took it well, I blamed poor for an hour or so. Will you feel oid Parson pretty heavily and like coming over or would you emphasized the fact that it was only rather-7" Again
murmura formality. At first Statlander and again Tom sounded relieved. was distinctly disagreenible but that "Good! We'll look for you at 1 could be laid to his dislike of hav then."
ing his plana upset twice in rapid euccession. He was all ready to teave and his room was neat as a pin. If there was any evidence there against him it's gone now, She stood on the threshold of "I'll just run over to the garage "So that's all right, Blaks, my reminded him we still had a lot of their house and looked across the now and tell Shaughnessey," ho | child," he said cheerfully. "The Valeska business to discuss and road and little lawn toward the went on and the words, so exactly beggar was still half asleep when that appeared to reconcile him. garage. A silence ao profound her own thought of the moment I left but he knows he's to stay Either he really does want to finish that it seemed to have weight and; before, brought her instantly to her and since he hadn't made a move what we're supposed to clean up this depth lay over the pencofal Httle feet.
toward goltig so far as I could week-end or he decided ho'd botter scene, so clear was the day and! "I'll—I'll walk over with you." Aco"
seem to want to. Marvin—I'm so hot the air that clothed the It was unbearable that Tom should
"Well," Linda tried to be just.nfraid I was pretty short with world. Each pebble in the roadway go off so cheerfully, alone, into the "He was up carly this morning-Marvin. Just told him the facts stood out distinctly from its fellow, Httle building that had once seem- as you remember." .
and let it go at that.” ench blade of grass held itself erected so commonplace and now had "Yes-I remember."
"How did he act?" and alone, unswept by the alightest grown so strangely alien. Dis- Instinctively they lowered their "Just the same. He'd be a good current of air. The slight rough- regarding his surprise, sho walked
one to conceal a guilty secret be- ness of the stucco-walled garage primly beside him. If she talked "I told the others to come down cause he always acts ns if he had showed ko the moon's aurface, her teeth would chatter and that whenover they were ready," sald one, and so gradually you get used pitted with little dark valleys, high would hurt her pride! But sho Tom. "That you would be down to¡ to it. When I knocked he opened 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.* whore the scalloped tiles met the knocked on the door and, standing |
voices.
"Where you will join mo-for
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