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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933.
"WEEK-END MURDER" BY GABRIEL E. FORBUSH
CHAPTER XXIII.
De Vos'e manner was cool, al- | most indifferent. He seemed to be making conversation. Never theless a little trickle of foar went up Linda's spino at the suggestion underlying the random phrases. Tom's words came back to her. "Not off the grounds," he had said. "In the boat--"
you-"
alignment: Havo.
Che hesitated as though wondering whether the subject might be too painful) "any idea how it hap pened? You"
"I was there, you mean?" Aside from her desire to load the talk back to the tragedy, Linda felt a surge of pure relief to speak about it openly. Seeing this, he relaxed his evident cau- tion lent ho distress or displease hor. "No. I don't know what happened, Mr. DaVos. It's been told me, just as if I'd been miles away."
"Ah! We found you-uncon-
"I often take the wheel," she an swered quite calmly, "but I'm no mechanic and scared to death of engines, Tom managea that." "And I suppose, like most men, he would be enraged if another were to attempt the task in his ab- sence Still the offhand, casunl tone but for the moment Linda wasacious-" utterly incapable of an answer. Instinctively she looked toward The evident sympathy warmed the house and hia oyes followed her. She could speak freely to hers. She saw him glance up to this
entirely ΠΟΛΥ
attentive, ward the balcony and then knew courteous, understanding person. by his expression that his thoughts She thought fleetingly how much had shifted to another subject. more natural Europeans were in She could safely Introduce the any approach to trouble or un- theme so much in her own mind happiness, which all too often He spoke irst, however, soberly tongue-tiel the average self-con- but without constraint.
scious American.
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"I see you have already mended the balcony railing. A shocking accident, Madamol- beg you to believe I am indeed sorry that it occurred."
my cousin's room. But I was downstairs when it
You happened.
she know," hesitated, remembering the events on the club porch, then plunged "Thank you." The ring of sin-ahead, "he was to have left the cerity in his voice touched her. house early this morning. When we got home after the dance it After all, it was foolish to think. just because he was Interested in was so horribly hot and so nearly boat as was everyone else un morning that Tom and I thought, the bay-that he meant to take we'd cool off with a dip instead of her, alone, out on the water. "It trying to go to bed. Tom went on was shocking. Terrible! I can down ahead of me. I came out on hardly believe now that it really the terrace and-" Her voice happened. We live so unevent-
faltored. "Just as I did so, Cousin fully here and the place looks, Amos must have fallen overhead. aven now, so peaceful. No," she IIe-his body hit the terrace right went back to answer his question, in front of me." "the break is not really mended. Someone seems to have put the upper railing back into place. That is all."
"You say 'his body. He was dead-?"
"Not then. At least, his eyelids
rushed indoors for help"
the polite boredom of his previous | wrong." mannar and recollected suddenly The Belgian's lifted eyebrows that no man enjoyed a detailed liscininou any advantage in the |description of ailments and symp. | tralt.
toms.
"A person of great intensity," be commented. "For "myself," I find such virile heartiness Catigu ing."
"Then you came to my rescue all of you," she added to explain the personal pronoun na his eye- brows lifted. Ifa Inughed easily. Perhaps Linda anawored sonsi- "My dear Mrs. Averill, there bly. Farhaps her reply was what was no need for rescue. Your it coemed to her own onra, a for- very good friend, Mr. Pratt, hindblo and meaningless croak. already lifted you as Mr. State relander and I came in. We could only offer assistance. Then when your husband came, he naturally took command."
American women. No acreaming, no fainting!"
"Well, not then." Linda membered what was supposed to have happened. She must tell he story as she and Tom had agreed sticking as closely to the trutiz as possible, but leaving out what must on no account be revealed to anyone. oven thla attentive, sympathetic listener. "I should" have called out, perhaps. But I simply felt I must do something
hurried upstairs blindly his door was open and that must have startled me, though it's hazy now when I try to remember. Going to that room was partly force of habit. When Tom's aunt lived here we always had it when we visited and after we moved In we worn there for a long time while the rest of the house was being decorated. Anyhow-when I saw the broken railing" She flung out her hands with an expressive gesture.
IN Buch 24 TRAN the
"Poor Tom! He must have been terribly upset!""
A reminiscent smilo twisted the corners of tho Belitian's grava mouth.
houer, For, facing toward the she had suddenly folt her eyes drawn upward. In that second, at the closed window of the nursery, she saw a face. Though it in- stantly moved back to dissolve in the shadows of the room behind there was no mistaking the iron grey of the hair, the strong fen- tures, especially the prominent faw. Marvin Pratt in the nursory on the lawn-and, most important, puli- ing back quickly out of sight the moment she looked toward him.
Why should he be there? Was
Or the bal-` he spying on her? cony communicating with the other room-
"Yes-nh-Mr. Averill was con- aideraly upset. He ran upstaira-looking down at them dripping from the water, so he was obliged to walvo the very de- lightful duty of carrying you to your room in favour of Mr. Pratt. I believe he yielded his privilege with some reluctance."
"Oh Nalindy hnd told Linda this. It somewhat explained the stiffness betwon the two mon. Poor Tom! It must have been an- noying to have to permit-in fact. request-Marvin to carry her to her room and doubtless he had not bean any too gracious about it. She was glad she had made this minor discovery, It seemed to be about all she had gleaned from the present conversation,
"That
natural psychology,"
nodded slowly. "So often it is the symbol of a thing rather than the actual
"I hope you had a little sleep occurrence which shocks us. You kept your head wonderfully in the between coming back from the face of the accident itself, but the Club and the accident this morn suggestion of the torn railings-"ing," he said. "I'm sorry your
"Yea. I hadn't thought of it rest was so disturbed.
"Like you, I preferred not to that way. But even now I feel all cold and trembly when I remem-retire," he answered. "The night ber how I stood there and looked, was hot but there was a slight at that broken place. Everything breeze off the water and I made got black and sort of rushed at myself comfortable in the chair by mo-1 felt as if I were choking the window and dozed off there, I must in fact have gone soundly for breath-"
"It is not a pleasant feeling-asleep, for I did not hear your to faint!"
cousin's fall. Your own, inside the house, sounded faintly through my confused dreams-and then I heard steps and voices which thoroughly roused mo. Mr. Pratt,
"It's horrible! I've only fainted once before in my life and that was so long ago I'd forgotten how it felt. That awful sensation of
hands went to her throat.
"Ah?" She noticed a return to
"Ah, yes. I see now. Several moved. That's why I left him. I strangling-" Involuntarily her in fact, left his room with Ruch---
of the lower bars are still out of
"You are very courageous, you
such vigor and haste that It would have roused any sleeper."
"Marvin does move energeti- cally when be's in a hurry." Linda smiled at the picture his words suggested. "But he's always de- penable
She seemed to be whirling through space. The world was n dizzy unreality and she longed only for sanctuary and safety. then she steadied, realizing that DeVos had noticed neither the ap parition nor her distress. Desper- ately she tried to think of some obvious remark to cloak her panic, Accident saved her. Through the casement door came Statlander, followed by Tom. At the same moment Rosie emerged from be bind the bushes and came toward her. The earth became stable again-it was time for tea.
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