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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1933.
"WEEK-END MURDER"
BY GABRIĔI F FORBUSH
CHAPTER XXXVII
"I fool no though this morning Tom throw her a quick, appre-jasked me-and questions about were six months away,” murmured | ciqtive glance. Linda
"How do you feel otherwise? Tom Averill studied his wife keenly as she relaxed on the chaise longuo.
the house!”
alght with him after this."
could, without rousing har hua- "Could he break me in two as band. Sitting up in bed, however,, casily as he did the golf club?" she perceived Tom by the window, she teased, but at sight of his evidently wide awake and ready face repented. "Sorry, Tommy! for what the day might bring, Somehow I still can't believe it. the sound of her stirring, he Well-it's time for you to go down. | turned at once.
At
I do think we made some progress, "Hello, Binks. Awake for good don't
You
or going back to sleep?" "Yeca-some," he said soberly,
"Awako and going to get right but inwardly he felt far more du-
up. Has anything happoned?”” blous over their probable success
"Nothing-yot. I've been think than he had 12 hours earlier. "You saw that, too? Yos-he "Yes. He's inquisitive as the They had something on everybody ing things over though, honey, and but nothing convincingly definito un feel more encouraged than I did turned suspicion from himself devil. But neither does that not-anybody. Well, the night might last night. He glanced at tho very neatly.".
essarily mean that he's murder-
bring counsel! He waited in the clock. "Why don't you, batho and "Yet what he told could easily ous."
hall until he heard the little click dress, then come over here and we have happened."
Linda shivered. "That's a ter of the key returning, then went can talk a bit before we have to "Yen he can't disprove it corrible word, Tom
slowly downstairs.
ko down."" tainly."
"I know." He sobered quickly.
Ten minutes inter she was ready Linda, left alone, found sleep "And there WEB something "Binks-we can call in the police harder to cosx than she had exhor, shower-wet hair combed In about the way he said it that rang the first thing in the morning-or pected. She heard more faintly sleek waves, her eyes enger, hor
tatlander turned away as if ho trae. That bit about how Mr. oven tonight."
than from the hall the even meas-brown legs curled on the chaise "There'll still be time," she ure of what she supposed to be longue, near the big chair whence didn't want to ace-"
sald. "Till after dinner tomor- Mr. Statlander's slumbers. She he had watched her rapid toilet "I thought of that. It's the type row wo stick to our guns. Havo heard the crush of gravel as An-appreciatively.
"And they talk about the femi- of thing that's hard to make up." you planned any line of attack for nie and Rosle returned and their
"And what he said about. the the day?"
whispers and movement in the nine vanity of lingering over the
(Continued on Page 10.) "If we eliminate Shaughnes-kitchen below as they she hoped towel fitted in."
"ile made it fit. He could have sey, wo have Statlander, Pratt-loit everything, in prder for the invented all that after you told and DeVos to be considered. night. And sooner for than she him about the attack and how Suppose you let me tackle Pratt would have anticipated, she heard "Absolutoly," she said. but you found the towel in Statland- in the morning. I'll do my best-voices in the lower hall, the purr give me a minute to get comfort- er's hamper."
don't worry about my getting of a self-starter as the Stoners' along with him."
chauffeur turned over his engine, able. I thought it was hot out side but this room's hotter."
and the farewells of the departure.
"All right. Dend bent, of course, but nothing serious, Why?"
"Because, Binks, If you can stand the gaff, I think we'd better talk things over now. I needn't go right back they're perfectly har- py without me-and too much has happened to sleep over it. That le, if we mean to carry this through, we ought to atraighten out this evening'e gleanings. Are you game?""
Her eyes were almost closed but she managed to open them ngain.
"Come here a moment." said Tom quietly, and as she stood be- side him at the door, there came the rhythmic sound of gentle snaring from the next rooms.
"But on the whole I bellove
him."
Mr.
*
She laughed. "All right. You you really try!"
*
can do it if
Then Tom's voice in the upper · hall, bidding the two men good- night, and she was out of bed and at the door to open it again before ho knocked,
"And on the whole, so do 1." They smiled at each other. "Now, said Linda, lowering her voice instinctively, "we come to "As for Statlander-in the first Statlander. He certainly place, he is still to be prevailed
After that, with the sense of re- seenis our best suspert."
upon to stay, and while I think ho "There's a lot against him. I've will, if he refuses, that spills the lief and return to normal which his you'l have to presence gave, she foll into a heard in the office that he's ef- beans. Then
him about tho towel. sleep so deep, so dreamless, that flelent as the devil, but with a pump terrible temper and the conceit of That's your end of the house. It seemed but the passing of a a Prussian officer. For all ho's DeVos we can both have in mind. moment before she woke to find older than any of us here, he has I didn't like that break abuurt the room filled with morning sun that thick-set, sturdy physique that getting to the room before I did." and know that the final day of "Oh, must I wrestle with that their adventurous week-end had often means abnormal strength, and he's in splendid condition. Ila Statlander man again" groaned come. temper-well, I can testify he has Linda. "That seems almost more
Feeling the sense of conscious one-and
acted than I can boar!" certainly
"Perhaps I can help you some. virtue which for some reason early strangely all thege days. This morning, for instance, I found I'll try. But I know one thing,waking gives, sho decided she him looking up the chimney in the Binks. I shan't let you out of my would get up and dress, it sho drawing room fireplace. And ho had no explanation or apology to make when I came in. Asked me If it drew well, as 1 remenber."
he's
"It sounds real," he whispered, "but don't take any chances. Binks: Remember When I go Shutting the door again he ind- cated the key in the lock.
She nodded without answering. Somehow this simple precaution brought home to her more vividly than anything that day the con- stant menace which hovered over them. But she sponged off quick ly and appeared, cool and perfect ly calm, to ensconse herself by the window toward the water.
And now for the parley," she anid. "First, what do you think about Mr Shaughnesscy now?" We can't count him out alto- gether," Tom answered. slowly. "He hasn't explained and he won't explain all there is against him and, while I think that's just stub. burn Celtic pride, it leaves him Cousin Amos." still open to suspicion.
Yet on
"I know. I heard him and Iti struck me as perfectly ridiculous. But that's no sign he murdered
"No, but it's a sign he's a little
right mind?"
the whole he pretty well cleared nuity. Who'd ever do that in his
himself."
And "And pretty well implicated Mr. "I'm sure I don't know. Statlander."
as for the personal questions he's
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