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“WEEK-END MURDER"
BY GABRIEI F FORBUSH
CHAPTER XLVI
FRIDAY.
FEBRUARY 10. 1933.
waiting just a moment, DeVes. I jaolt assent mechanically. Then ran out the sedan but I'm not the shrfil ring of the telephone antiated with the way the engine came and she motioned the others nisses and I think we'd better take toward the lawn. "Go on out," the little roadster. No, don't she said, "I'll be right along." bother the road's dusty and the grass is damp.. I'll run her back hero in a jiffy. Just walt at the door."
But when they had gone and ele dared pick up the instrument she was trembling so violently that she had to drop down on the bonch in the hallway and steady her arm against the wall.
"Yes?” she said. "Yes?. Yes!-yes, they've started..
A click in her ear-the con- nexion was broken.
She hung up the receiver and
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She summed every ou turned reason for her agitation, but mis- Statlander who seemed to have playing up to Marvin a evident n handkerchief "CLYDELLA” SPORTS SHIRTS
lander.
and
must watch
But it was more than a jiffy be
nerve alert, sensitive to her mood, looked nud- | brain, and this time her control fore Linda, every Linda heard the words as in a denly at her, then at Marvin and quivered dangerously. If she heard the scrunch of gravel under daze. "From our end of the then grow very grave Indeed.
should sercam Tom wouldn' arriving wheels. By the time Tom hall the nursery-" Statlander
"Oh, no, Tom-nof" Sho dared understand. There'd be trouble came they were all in the hall, had said. It seemed as if he had not breathe the word alond though and it might warn him! She talking, laughing, herself the cen shouted those words through the she toe, receptive to his thought, laughed tremulously, eliciting atre of the little group, rallying the shattered quiet of the house. know instantly he had guessed the look of startled Inquiry from MrBelgian on his desertion of her, a smile of forced brilliance upon read ita exciting cause, Before been reading her a homily on the exultation in his superior tennis skill, doferring to the curt finality of Mr. Statlander's analysis of the the somewhat, astonished Mr. Stathe could signal him to drop back weakness of modern house con
R moment, her husband had struction.
acience of the game. it don't executed a quick manoeuvre.
Then on the steps came a light.
Then Tom appeared-smiling, "Oh-yes-perhaps--I know," she gasped; then, as her took him, with apparent interest
pleasure, beside the still quick tread. She felt she would apologetic. Would he go through blood seemed to circulato mora'
have known its owner anywhere with it? What had he been doing normally and the room ceased its happily unconscious Marvin, and for all she had heard it so little. up in the garage all this time? "Alt ready. DeVos. Sorry. Hop hystorical circling around her, she hand on arm, Tom marched Into Something polsed, something cat went on more coherently. "I'm the dining room with the man heitko about it-the step of a tall, in!"
The He blue rundster seemed sure no one actually slept in the now considered he
E nursery," she said politely. (As very second, while Linda, thwart raceful, agile man, in perfect if it mattered--as if anything cd, was left to follow with the control of every muscle and nerve so staunch, no unromantic,
of his highly trained, beautifu much a part of her dally life. At the wheel, Tom flung her a smile mattered but getting Tom back or other two.
body. What a stupid, dangerous mis-
Then whe getting to him and telling him!)
anw her husband to which she gaily responded "Anyone might have been sleep-take-but there was nothing she turning from Marvin with an ai
head 1. pulse beating: The less and restless and wandered in could do about it! In a way of suspended interest, look up an. Belgian stepped in with one there, as you say in search of a was her fault and in a way it start some commonplace remark single, ndrolt movement; the door she couldn't Behind her, in the doorway, she slammed. She stood watching breath of air. Oh, Rosie-dinner wasn't. Anyhow, is served? Mr. Statlander--would help it. She couldn't shout across could feel the graceful, indoten until the little whirl of blue turned you perhaps you'll wait here the table, "Tom, you're mistaken! figure of the Belgian, ready now t the corner of the rond and dis- I'll run over to the garage and tell it isn't Marvin-It's DeVos"
leave. Half-rising, he fumbles appeared into the dusk. The meal was nightmare. Tom."
In the rather blank pause that his napkin, dropped it to the doo "Not at all," He rose with stiff How she managed to keep from and stooped to pick it up. In followed, Rosie appeared with the courtesy. "I will do that, Mrs. screaming aloud, from flying into credibly nobody but herself accm-tiled coffee table. "On the ter Averiil. A plenaare I Basure you. violent hysterics as it proceeded to feel the air of suspense--the Good evening, Mr. Pratt." And as on its chatty, informal course she horrible hovering of terror. Tom Linda wildly tried to think of never understood. Fortunately stood up, a little pale, she thought, some excuse which should not be ghost of their first evening arose rather than flushed by atooping, too fatile to hold him, Marvin to keep conversation animated and but quite himself. In fact, the Inopportunely appeared and hor to absolve her of much rea-emile he flashed at the newcomer opportunity vanished.
ponsibility. Some blithe, offhand wan almost moro warm
and
Fortunately Marvin was unob-statement of Shaughnessey's arous-welcoming than an ordinary greet- servant. And, perhaps even more od Mr. Statlander's controversialing fortunate, he was feeling ex-craving for accuracy. A spirited "Be right with you,. DeVos," he tremely well pleased with himself argument ensued, into which both said and through his voice ran the because of the outcome of the Tom and Marvin eventually were same vibrant tone. Suddenly sho afternoon's game. Her part was drawn. Ita vehemence, however, heard the beat of drums the mar purely a listening one,
lacked the acrimony of that dread-tin music that sends men forth to
"That wha gorgeous, Marvin! fut dinner party three nights be battle. "You're ready? Good! Oh, I wish I could have seen it¦fore, when poor Cousin Amos serv-Linda, excuse me a moment—” Why didn't you tell me you were ed as tinder to the ready anger of Then at last his eyes were to- The mechanical phrases all the others. No, not quite all-ward her, and from her own flash- to her urgent need. And certainly so far as the furioused all the agonized warning sho from the corner of her eye she discussion was
Her could put into a look. "He's the
came
concerned.
saw three figures leave the garage mind flashed back and she 33W, one" her eyes aald. Unbelievab- door and come across the lawn-again the still, contemptuous look! Shaughnessey, Staflander, Tom. of the man on her right, heard they, miraculously, in Tom's oyes she cool venom of his tone. "We did saw the same words, "He's the those things better-the CongoTM" The words rang through her
•
She felt she was chattering little hysterically. Tom, alwnya
one!"
Then, an imperceptible second of warning over, Tom walked out the door with that lithe, Hilting swing of his shoulders that again started the ring of battle musle in hor brain. Fighting the impulse to spring up and walk beside him-it would hurt more than it would help-she heard his voler, steady, friendly, apologetic.
"Sorry I'll have to keep you race, ma'am?" Linda heard her
wiped her hands fastidiously with which she found matted Into ball in one of them. Then she rose and went out on the terrace.
The little group awaited her around the coffee table by the low chair she liked. They were smok ing and chattering, but all started to rise as she came near.
"Don't get up!" Her voice sounded strangely far away to her carn. She felt as if an neon had passed since dinner had been end- ed.
"I'll pour your coffee in a moment." She sank into the chair and smiled a little unsteadily. "I mint tell you what's happened. i think-it's all right now."
She saw their looks, of polite, mystified interest. Only Shnugh- nessey sat alert and anxious.
"That was-police headquarters that rang up. When Tom went to the garage ho telephoned them- from there. They called back to (Continued on Page 11.)
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