GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933.
"WEEK-END MURDER"
BY GABRIEI F FORBUSH
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CHAPTER XXVI
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She had found it not on a towel place to look. Behind a chest of bar nor alung carelessly, man-drawers? No, it could be plainly fashion, over the tub, but at the seen if it dropped to the floor. bottom of the hamper, otherwiad She flow into her bathroom, empty. She know one didn't drop snatched down towels already } ~~ anything into a hamper by acci-there and draped the noiled one dent. One lifted the lid and did over a bar. Then across it sho it deliberately. And men, sho rea-hung other bath towels and, over soned, especially week-enders, ne them, several face towels, ver bothered with hampers. They Feeling very well satisfied with Tom's hands clenched uncon- With all the excitement she may think up something to ask him." expected to find a multitude of the pince of concealment, ghe sciously. "Whoever
tfunt not have had time. Usually she Detormining by this simple clean towels, always ready, and dabbed powder on her nose and towel will have something to say would have, but so much has hap-stratagem that Pratt's room was to have soiled ones spirited away hurried after Tom to me" bo exclaimed. "Your pened-"
empty,
by the hand that brought the bathroom blessed little neck, Binks! Look "Even finding it later in the which he and the Belginn shared, fresh ones. If a woman had, had Coming demurely downstairs, everywhere! Don't mind poking laundry would mean something she started her search at the the room, the clue of the hamper Linda heard voices in the room
But for heaven's anke, Linda, look other end of the hall. Plenty of
would mean less. But a man-beneath and at the foot of the now! Stop talking and get busy" towels there, but not
While she had been thinking stairs met the three guests whom "Here goes!" She went toward bath towels. How lavish, men
Linda bad anntched from the bar aho would least have liked to on- their own bathroom.
a used face towel, straightened counter five minutes before- brands of shaving cream and one fresh cake of soap into the "I would be " slick trick. standard sunbura. ointment but
tub Pratt, She greeted them with wouldn't it, to plant it on us not the one she used. Only one dish and otherwise attempted to while we were both downstairs? other possibility-the bathroom at give the room a "done" appear But probably it isn't here-I'll just the other end of the hall which ance which would account for the Mr. Statlander alone was using. disappearance of the towel if it
were missed. She hoped When she saw it she could hard-course that it would not be.
of "There's no word of Dr. Boyle," After clearing her own racks of ly believe
Then, she said, "and there's more than her suspicion. Linda listened
eyes. Creased draping the several things she had a fair chance that he won't get fully at the door of their room.
care--but the creases running roughly collected negligently over
from end to end as though pulled arm, she retreated as quickly as know, I'll feel much better satis- her back until late to-night. Do you "I hope everyone's downstairs,"
strongly apart from the hems-sho could without actually run fled if you will stay the night she said. "It seems quiet upand, marking the central one, anning to the safe harbour of her here. You are not inconvenienc here.”
unmistakable ameur of yellowish own room.
ing us a bit-In fact, we like to grease. She smelt it-yca, that was the characteristic camphor sensible of him. But it wos dis-piessanter if you don't feel you Tom had gone down. That was have you. And it will be so much smell! Then with a quiver of re-appointing, too. She would have, have to rusit off to get trospective fear, she lifted the ked to show him her prize. Now train to town.
Do let me tell Tom towel slowly and placed it around she must hide it. her throat. No, that didn't seem knew enough to conceal it in the can see to-morrow how you feel Anyone who that you'll stay over and then wa quite rigist. She reversed the first place might try to trace it about going in." ends, and felt the smeared creases and with the discovery realize against the hot skin at the back that he was suspected. Under the of her neck. Yes, it had
mattress? No, everyone hid pulled that way.
things there--it would be, the first!
were in their use! Two different the remaining ones, dropped a DoVos, Statlander and Marvin
"I'll abuse my housewifely privi- legen to the utmost." Linda mude agrimace na she rubbed her throat "But the others sit in the sun. They may have burned, too." "A man's collar protects his neek to some extent. One or two may have a touch of it but you're not apt to find everyone in themake sure." Hame house using the same suive, either. That camphor smell makes. the stuff unmistakable. But while you're looking you might watch ut for different sorts of ointment in the varioun rooms"
"If I find the towel, sluil I take it away?"
"By all means. If that stuit really show, it'll be obviously Rulled. Thal shouldn't arouse suspicion te have it disappear, I But will it be there so inta
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"There's a chance, but it's only chance. Rosie usually goes around before time to dress for dinner and leaves out fresh linen.
Toni looked out the window. "DeVos and Statlander are down on the lawn. Shaughnessey would have no reason to be up here and that leaven Pratt only."
"I'll have to take a chance on him. He'd be lenst curious of them all and I'll act very much the housewife if I meet him, fact, I'll go and knock on door and, if he answers, I
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