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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1933.
"WEEK-END MURDER"
BY GABRIEL E. FORBUSH
BEGIN REDS TO-DAY
AMOR PEADODY, siderly cousin of LINDA
bome Liida reaches him Just before he
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so tall bar he was murdared. rushes up-
hind ber, trie the ita p
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Ing casually. "He was my moth- Her question confused him no-
# second cousin. You know she ticuly,
died when I was a child and i
"Why-wall-that you weren't
I
ved wan Und's family. That New very close to each other." England branch of Mather's kept "What difference would it have nort of a duty-eye on me. Wrote made to you if I had 7" Try as at birthdays and sent prosents she would she could not make tne (Improving ones) and when any words of them were in town. which seemed to quiver between
quite casual-suspenso them wasn't often, came to see me. Af on the quivering heat waves of tor Dad died Cousin Amos sintor the hot afternoon air. Marvin AVERILL, falls to his death from the second on the atous flage and adw him¡ly, almost furtively. floor balcony of the Averlila Lang Jeland vanish through the casement win-
asked me to come to live with her spoke as though under unbearablu No Cousin Amos was not for- but who was much relieved when dies, in time to hear him Kap, le pinned dow. She was suddenly glad that, gotten. An Linda dropped her I wont to work and stayed in New compulsion.
though she could not see him, he eyes from the balcony to which York instead. I visited her onco
"Difference-difference! Linda reallting her counts had tried would be there, near the window she had raised them in a mute or twice the had a lovely old thought you saw him often, talked sisirs to the balcony. Someone steps be and facing toward the lawn, pledge she saw Marvin Pratt come place at Marblehead-and I met to him intimately. He said that
strangle ber And apparently absorbed In
Ifor husband. faint.
solemn through the casement and look Cousin Amos there." TOM, 1909 her fall and rushes to her. There figures and reports, but con- about him. She know he could are four guests is to hours and they all stantly, she was sure, glancing out see her perfectly well, in the dec-intimate acquaintance with you? Thon Mr. Peabody had no very burinisme mesociale of TomE: CAPTAIN D to where she sat in plain view and ortive green wicker chair by the Indeed 12 was very alight!" step away from help if clump of bushes, and she waited, Linda almost laughed "Peor man! VOR, bandsome Heigian: MARVIN FIle only a former suitor of Linda's; nad LIAN SHAUGH. NYSSEY, Fran wruer. Each of them have help were needed.
apparently indoleni but inwardlylle violently disapproved of has quarrelled with Comain AmON.
Yet she was, after all, alone.tenne, for him to come toward Ing his sacred routine interrupted. Alone, and forced to wait, with her for her first ordeal.
The few times I did visit Marble apparent calm, for something im
hend ho usually managed to bo possible to imagine in advance. And it proved an ordeal indeed. called back to town. And I had thing."
Marvin came, at last, but cume, about as much fondness for his as though under orders which he old-fashioned ways as he had for didn't go to his room--or he come only reluctantly obeyed. Certain my disturbing influence. ly he deliberately held her off, re-
But he visited you here. Af- ahout-" fusing to be led into any friendly, reminiscent chat.
appear. The gyvosta ́Azur MH STATLANDER,
DI PARBONë takim charge. It in secumed." Cousin Amoe death was accidental and the Linda fainted from shock, When she is Rnally des him that they must lees: the four guest
able to sell Pass what happened tho perana.
with them until they dlacover who is the murderer. They are unsxpectedly alded in
this P.Rri when DIL. HDYL, amcial medical gxaminer, senda word that everyone in the thand. Dayle is on shing tric and can
hossa must, nemala until he has, questioned
not returú for enverni boune.
Des Vos has an sngagement for the after goan with veely PLEUE STATIONEIL Tum in to talk business with De Vor. Linda de elitem to see what she can find ont from Prat who was fret to reach ber after the
fainted.
CHAPTER XX
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ho-ho was an older relative-
thought that perhaps even last could your father wasn't alive-that ho
would advise you-I night, after the dance, you'd slip into his room to say good-night- perhaps to talk a little--". never have thought of such a
"Honvens, no Marvin !
I'd
"You didn't see him then. You
to yours? You didn't talk-
ter all, he felt free to come unin-spoke the moment he paused. This "What about, Marvin?" She
vited."
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was vital. Never had she felt
Yes, waiting was hardest of all. She could bear anything better, It must have been quite 10 min- uites since Tom left her longer since her guests scattered, after luncheon, to their different ocen pations. The house stood silent But finally, with a curious, and calm. Thoughtful handa had wrenching effort, he himself straightened the spindles of the brought their desultory
Linda looked at him in aston-anythi. so important as what talk ishment. suppose that would as coming. If she could wring balcony and adjusted the top rall straight to the subject uppermost scem a sign of intimacy. But the it from himl so that the effect was much al in her mind.
"About-about-" Terrible to important thing to cousin Amos Ways. Cousin Amos was gone, ob- "Linda, let me ask you--your was that he was caught over,
watch that conflict going on be- With a quick pressure of his literated, the very evidence of his cousin, Mr. Peabody was he a holiday week-end. I might as well fore her very eyes! Something to hand, Tom turned away, Linda death removed, and all that was very close connexion?"
be honest. He probably invited suppress, something fighths to be watched him cross the brief stret left of the old man had been tak- "A very distant one," she an-himself here rimply to save hotel #nid! ch of inwn, heard mis as seep en from her house, unobtrustive-swered, inwardly alert. but speak-bills. He was cannler than any
"Linda" It was a cry from Scotsman and would have gone the depths, "I can't tell you-but anywhere to endge a few days' if I'd known-if I'd known--I lodging, I happened to be the vio-needn't have we wouldn't-when tim this time. He may have tried he said-" A black surge (waa lother pecople he know better and it anger or remorse) seemed to found them full up over the wrench through his body and, Fourth. So he calmly overlooked Leating down on the yleiding turf, the fact that he never did like me he stuck his fist against the metal very well-nor I him."
support of a little iron table so Marvin's month set in its harsh-violently that his knuckles showed fest, narrowest lines.
Graw and bleeding.
.
“I wish I had known that yes- Aghast. Linda gat silent. Sho terday," he muttered. "My God—dared not question. She held her why didn't you tell me?"
breath lest any sound or move-
"Tell you what?" Linda forced) ment distract him. If the threat- herself to be natural, even hu- jene outburst came she might morous, though instantly she felt fearn so much! But Marvin gain- the surge of a strange, suppresseded a measure of control and, emotion-too strong. would though he muttered sullenly, she say, for the occasion which arou-caught a note of apology in words and it,
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