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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1933.
GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL
“WEEK-END MURDER”
BY GABRIEL F FORBUSH
CHAPTER XLVII
"I suppose if I leave you two right there. He stood there amil-bably sat there brooding over the young idiots alone you'll talk a wita bis eyes sort of droopy-quarrel and the insult he endured all night." Kathleen Averii,ou know-and a litilo mocking.rom Cousin Amos, and full of standing in the doorway, surveyed somehow, ns if he knew something morbid, half-insane thoughts-ne” her son and his wife with marked at way all the time but I just rork"?
didn't. I see now he has looked "And the door went tork-rock- disfavour. Tom looked away! gulltily and Linda, sitting up in put it down to his cool, superior bed, smiled disarmingly.
oreign ways--" 'We will." the anid. "But. Kathleen, don't you see I've got to? It's the one thing I need. I'll burat if I don't."
"And you'll be sick if you do. Well-I've nothing to say about it. Tom won't be turned out and once you get him alone he hasn't the backbone of a jellyfish."
"Backbone! I wish you'd seen him," crled Linda indignantly, "going, off all by himself with that terrible man"
"Don't Under her delicate, becoming rouge Tom's mother Lurned white. "I shan't sleep a wink to-night and you're
a monster 11 you do."
"All the more reason-" "There's no reason
in you
either of you." Ashamed of her momentary weakness, Mrs. Averill spoke sharply. "It was
crazy thing to do and it's a wonder you're both alive to tell the file. Now don't argue with me. Rosie's fixed me shake-down in the nursery and if you have hysterics or any of the things you should
A
And she firmly closed the door behind her, leaving neither as them at all misled as to her real anxiety and affection.
"But. Tom, what-?" "Ok-his white shirt front, 3inks."
"His what?"
"His window was parallel with that door and he could hear it louder than anyone else."
She sighed. Well-Tom-we did it. Thank heaven It's over!" "But by a very narrow margin," the raft, the 'something I couldn't mark of Statlander and my Im- ihat was it-what I saw from he added soberly. "The chance re. locate.
eume' back to mo in a man.
As soon na 1 gaw him there pression of the shirt front.'
"If he'd keep his head and just eaw am just toe way I did then. laughed at the iden-"
arvin had been only not a far away. You see.
trousers and Statlander in a fight. This
"We'd have proved it but it undershirt would have been
a long, hard arrycloth bathrobe but DOVOR
way, naun'i andresed that night. He'll be bound he's put quictly Blake, Ila family' hush it up somehow, and had his coat off and a long, dark away and it will never come to Love on, but from the raft I caugat trial. Surely we, won't push it."
ps of white-horseshon haped. It stood out from the tack rest of him. In daylight it Just looked wrong. But I never could place it,"
"He didn't undress? Bu "Yes. He must have lied to
you. You told me that when he alked about it with you ho sald bo undressed and sat and dozed
the og chair by the window.
have after such an experience, "Wait a moment, Tom. Hel bang on the bathroom wall and didn't quite say that-but I did I'll wake right away. That la, ir have that impression." She hugg- I'm asleep," she added hastily, her knees and bent her head on "which I doubt I shall be. Good them in concentrated effort to night!"
bring back the exact words. "Ho said, I made myself com/ortable in the chair by the window and dozed off there That was it. .om. I mialed you. When he "She's à lamb, isn't she?" com-
nid 'made myself comfortable,' 1 mented Linds, settling herseli
ook it for granted he meant he luxuriously among the cushions, undressed and repeated to you that "But, oh, Tommy-I thought I] way. I'm awfuly sorry!" never would have you all to my- "That was perfectly natural solf! Now, for heaven's sake," have gone on the same assump- talk. I'm frantic to know all on.. I suppose. he took off bin about it."
dress coat and put on the bath-
obe. Now I think about it, I re-i ember aomething olac that should have told me a lot. When e joined us in Cousin Amos' room he had a very long robe on and it was drawn close across hi
way over. or course that hid the white shirt i front and made him look entirely different."
"Are you sure you ought?" "Don't be an absolute gout! Do you want me just to curl un and die?"
"Henven forbid!" He stili ound it difficult to do anything but look at her rather hungrily.chest--lapped "Where shall I start?"
"At the beginning. That is, w went downstairs and that Stat- Jander man caught you and you went off to the garage. What don't see. Tom, is how you knew-violently because I found out while you were gone and you thought it was poor Marvin.”
"Poor Marvin-poor me! I was having fita talking tennis to that man and thinking you'd got the goods on him somehow and that I had to leave you and drive DeVos to the Stoners. How did you find out, Binks?"
"One of those little things. Stallander was rambling on and suddenly he said something about the nursery. I was wool-gather- ing, but I made him repeat what he said and in that humorous, care- ful way he went over it again. About how curious it was that when I collapsed in Cousin Amon room, Mr. DeVos appeared from the other end of the hall our end. I never did know how he got on the subject. That hit me, Tom, just like a real blow. I couldn't
"How-how.did he take it?" Involuntarily Linda shivered hand was laid over hers,
and immediately his "Dua't talk about that,. Binks. Don't think about it!"
she
pleaded. "So it's better to talk!"
"I can't help thinking,"
"Well-badly"
"He was violent?"
it'd be all a bunch of us could do
"Clear off his nut. I told you!
to be, when the time came. They! to manage whoever it turned out
crazy when I called but somehow nent four men-thought I was put it over and we needed every man of them. It wasn't a pretty acene."
"I suppose he killed Bunty?".
me-for caring about a fat old "He laughed about it-jeered at dog, I suppose. He was a maniac, Binks. Yes, he went out that night and prowled about"
"Suffered from insomnia. An- get my breath. There it was the other thing I forgot. When small thing we'd been waiting for.
I
While you,
we
I thought I must get to you-and met in the city at the office early then dinner was ready and Marvin the week ho spoke of it-anid. came down and Mr. Statlander he always slept badly in hotels. ad a sudden fit of manners and I was just on allusion and I for- went off to get you. I was full got all about it. Added to this of excitement and suspense
blazing heat-this sort of spell thought a pop!
always strikes a European na Frect from hell-he was pre- Door dear”
bably all keyed up from at least two and perhaps three or four "Oh, I had Marvin picked for nights without sleep. The first the guilty one, all right. I was night he went out and roamed afraid to look at you and all the around-und Bunty Buffered for time you were waiting to set me. You eno: Imagine she'd be right if I did!"
right on the job with an unknown That meal Was ghastly.. I prowling about after midnight, kept waiting to hear-his step-noor spunky little cuast Then the in the hall and when I did and he next night after the row at the club came and stood behind me and the dance he came back to But then, Tom, something hit you, that hot room-it was the worst, You started to get up perfectly (night of all, you know-and know cheer'ully and naturally"
he hadn't a chance in the world to "Binka-it came over me and Inleen, So he just 'mado himself nearly gave the whole show away comfortablo' in the chair and pro-
"Speaking of Mr. Statlander-" Linda's impish grin was, in a mo- you're not very complimentary ment, 29 dauntless 08 ever.
about your senior, Are you, darling 7**
made more trouble, unnecessary "Well, he is an old fool. He's
trouble-
"Have you talked it over with him ?'*
"Lord, yes. We've all hashed and re-haahed. After you pulled (Continued on Page 14.)
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