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THE ́HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933.
WEEK-END MURDER"
BY GABRIEI F FORBUSH
CHAPTER XXXI
With a stiff little bow Shaugh nessey turned on his heel and wont through the screen door so quickly that the two babind him
were left breathless.
Tom recovered first.. Hastly he stepped to where the Irishman had boon landing by the table.
that? Tom, have you any Idea-7"
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She moved to touch his arm. The gesture was a consoling one but who needed the sense of sup port herself.
be poor with ligance, an" selad
Rosle shook her head.
↓ was to do him the service "I swore to tell no-wan of it," without anywan boing the wiser she said. "And this afternoon ho For it. But,” and again her voice knew it was clano an' ready for the was choked, "' 'tis the divvil's own Ironin'. I must tell him meatif,” luck, beggin yer pardon, ma'am, she sighed dojectedly. Aooms to haunt the altair, First.
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I tried some of the cinnin' thuld Linda suppressed a smile. Poor, yemi was after givin' me for honest, friendly nosic, so easily. spote on the tablecloth an fine tarbeeled (and doubtless forgotten) worked for the liquor. But whin by her for more skillful country- more lenient toward it hit the grans stains a terrible man! Though she could not help colour it turned them intirely! feeling Worse yet, whin I come to Siap Shaughnessey, she knew he had it with a hot iron, whole paces of shamelessly made use of Rosie's cloth came away under me hand." Hood nature. Suddenly she stood Conflicting emotions chased up. A light in the upper floor of through Linda's mind but her the garage had gone out, face showed only sympathetic t "Rosic, you tention.
something she did not get, but she heard a creak of bedsprings and the sound of someone moving. Then the door opened and Linda acted upon her instant impulse of sympathy.
"Rosic, dear child-whatever's "I'm absolutely in the dark
Idiot-blockhend-fool f the matter? Let me come in. about it. that I am! Why did I have to There! Sit down and tell me all "By heaven!" exclaimed Tom. pall such n bonor?" "Yesho could. The light's gone "Tam-we mustn't leave Mr. now but there was a little, outalde
It was hard for Itoale to get at, lonst. Come on, Binks. NoStatlander out there on the tor-
race alone. Can we talk ́thin | started. Never fluent, eho seemed "Oh, but 'twas mine that I been but wasn't. "Oh, yes, you he's gone in. But look!".
over Inter? I want to tell you baffled completely. Finally, in a made matters worse ma'am. I are!" Linda understood the pan- what he said.”
In one tong glass, flung back so that the last dying light struck full on its panes, Linda caught u faint reflection of n dark mass that was in the room and cutting through, behind it, a ribbon of pale grey that marked the road, lending to another dark blur in the background.
"I could nee him-just a blot of dark, moving-walking across the road and going into the garage. He was standing here, wasn't he
"Yes. With his back to the
I thought +loor.
"You did the best you could, honey. Just a damned bad break. He saw me, and there was light enough to see that I didn't go in the big double doors where the I should have, of course -fool that I am!-and up the stairs from Inside. Instead, I
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"Suppose he bolta!"
"Mr. Stattander?".
about it!"
"Woil she exclaimed. "That was a mess But it wasn't your fault, Resfe!"
and Annie had planned to go to the movies to- night, hadn't you?" she asked. Rosie nodded and then shook her head, indicating thus that she had
Rosle nodded. The tears magi- cally stopped but she paused ko a child midway between grief and pleasure.
never
sudden burst of relieved con- was frantic-like, you see, an' howtominie perfectly. "Dr. Boyle isn't fousion, the story came blurting was I to know he'd stay quietly. Incoming so you needn't stay home out. Stripped of its incoherence the house this avonin' an' not for him and you both need a little amel ropelitions. it was brief need the dress clothes, at all, at change to take your minds off the "Shaughnessey, of courset" "Oh My mind's on the other enough. She had launched upon all?" She healinted, then plunged, excitement of to-day. Was the a guilty yet delicious flirtation" "Tia a thier 1 nm, ma'am-me Freeman chauffeur going to take one. You ought to go talk to him,
ran up and see Roale--you with Shan-hnessy. The break as ye've always threated so mair!" you over to Port?"
faat tray of the first morning had Mr. Averill's shirt? asked said she was crying"
proved ita beginning, Later, Linda calmly, Rosie turned, eyes "Bawling; poor kid. Didn't no vastly flattered that preferred round with astonishment, as tice me or was to upset to try her to the quality," Rosie had apoke in an awed whisper. to hide it. Linda, her room faces agreed to meet him on the pine "Himsilf has missed it afrendly?"
Watch his light."
Voll, then-teil Annie to tele- R way." Linda hedged. path the night of the dance.) the garage.
"All right." In the dark he felt "But I wasn't there over-long, "But never mind, Rosie. I don't phone him while you wash your a quick kiss on his check. "Don't | Mrs. Averi}}," Rosie vowed and blame you. You didn't want fr. face and brush you hair. And worry, Tom. I'll join you soon. Linda belleved her. "Annie'd ha' Shaughnesacy to be embrrassed trust me to fix this up somehow." But for goodness sake, flatter Mr. knowed if I'd stayed out far into and you tried to save his face. The look the big, raw-boned Statiander and keep him quiet till the I can talk to you.
night.") At last, fearing Mr. Averill would gladly have lent young girl turned up to her was
adoring. Linda I had him quite Annie's reproofs for herself and him a shirt but he wouldn't have frankly fluttery when you came back. He's possible trouble for him, Rosie wanted it known-and if he had kimped praise for fear of "spoll- no innocent darling, either and had sent him back to the club worn the one you gave him and ing the girls but when she gave plenty subtle. Don't quarrel with grounds. That is, he had started just left it with you when he went it she meant every word, and they him, whatever you dol"
that way and she had hurried you could have returned it with- knew it. "What do you think I am?" re- back to the house. He could, out Mr., Averil being any the dashed right in the central door torted Tom indignantly, forgetting Linda perecived, have tarried thero wiser." and came out from there too. knew I didn't go near the car but his sweeping self-contempt of a longer alone or briefly joined the upstairs to his place. Oh, curso moment before. As he started out dance, and, finding someone more the ensement door Linda looked willing for a prolonged solitary the luck! That's bad, Linda!"!
after him indulgently. He cer- flirtation, returned to the shelter "Yes. Did you-how did you tainly was having a rough time, of the treas. As Roale went on poor dear! She walked slowly up with her story, Lindn inclined to leave it?"
For before break "The shirt? Just as it was, the steps, wishing she could have the latter idea. think. But Linda-another queer a little time to herself, alone and fast the next morning 'Shough. thing! That wasn't any shirt of undisturbed.
nessey had come to the kitchen his. That was one of mine."
At the last step, she came to a door with a bundle and a petition, "Tom-are you sure?"
decision. It might be foolish-He had spilled liquor on the front "Sure na you'd be of a dress of and worse--but it was action and of his evening shirt, torn it slight that seemed called for. Cheared y and smeared grass stains into yours. That one with the fancy y her resolution, she knocked the cuff.
briskly at Rosie's door and called. "Rosie--it's Mrs. Averilt. Might I come in a moment?"
There was
a subdued flutter
boaom."
Ho
"That waffle-front one?" "Yop. Only been laundered once or twice."
"Now will you please explain and a tearful voice answered
"Tis poor he is, for all the grand looks of him," said Rosie naively, "and proud that ye should not know he has but the wan shirt. Sure, 'tis the Irish know how to
'Rasic's
eyes were grateful, "That's what I thought, ma'am. But 'twas wrong of me to do it without his knowin'!"
Linda patted the roughened
hand.
"There, Rosio! It's over and no harm done. Now I've an idea that will make everything all right. tell Mr. Shaughnessey I happened to find you working on the shirt and told you to try the cleaning fluid. As it was spolled when you did what I suggested, it would be up to me to make up the loss to him and I told you to send one of Mr. Averill's till I could get an ether".
This aerial photograph affords a general view of Randolph Field, near San Antonio, Texas, where the U. S. army has established the "West Point of the Air” to train military pilots. This is reproduced through caurtesy of the U. S. army corps,
"The saints bless you, ma'am," replied Rosic fervently.
(To be continued.)
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