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THE WHISPER

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her

OLD BLUE FUNNEL VESSEL SCRAPPED.

Agamemnon's Service Ends At Geneva.

Many who remember the Blue

slatera

"You want me to tell you why I' They looked at one another, mut-j brought you all here to-night? Itering angrily. She waited until wonder if any of you remembered they had turned back again to her. Funnel liner Agamemnon would it was seven years ago to-day that "I don't know what the motive. your leader, Philip Anster, my lover, was, and I don't care. I only know not recognise her as the Italian was arrested. Did you remember that one of the men round this table steamor Impero, which has just that?"

bourayed him. I am going to give been broken up at Genoa.

She was one of the famous class Not one of them spoke. Thoy that man five minutes to confess." were all watching her closely. Her voice hardened. A dreadful which Scotts, of Greenock, bulit,

being "And I wonder, too, if it occurred expression had come into her face. Achilles and Deucalion, which were the Ajax, to any of you that this is the first "If he does not confess within anniversary on which you have all that time I am going to shoot the considerable improvement on the Alcinous class. Single-crew ships been free men-the first anniversary)one I believe to be guilty.” on which it has been possible for The nine men shouted at her, a of about 7,000 tons, they followed me to bring you all together.". confused storm of horrified words; the Holt principle of good speed, "Why have you done it?" Klein but not one of them lifted a hand and could always be relied upon for

their 13 knots. cried sharply, a strange note of fear from the table. in his voice.

They were specially designed for| "Leila," Crauston cried, "what on earth are you thinking of? You the Far Eastern trade, carrying a "You all recollect the circum-couldn't possibly do such a thing. certain number of passengers in addition to their cargo, and had stances of Philip's arrest? I needn't Are you mad?" remind you of them. They - were "She is mad!" Klein almost a deadweight capacity of 8,800. The Agamemnon was the second screamed. "Look at her eyes!" very strange, weren't they?"

Their voices dled down. They Blue Funnel liner of that name- stared at her, shuddering, horrified the first has only recently been She cut him short with a gesture. by the deadly frozen hatred in her scrapped-and she went to sea on "The police were able to lay their eyes. She stood perfectly still until the Oriental service under the com- plans perfectly. He had no chance there was silence round the table. mand of Captain H. Nish.

"I've waited for this,” she said,

Saw War Service: to escape. They seemed to know exactly what his movements were to without raising her voice. "For

For years she was employed be-a very curious thing consider-seven years I've waited for it regularly on the Holt services, Ing the special precautious he had longing for the moment when I principally to the East, keeping taken. Was that one of the things should see you all in front of me. free from accidents in a satisfac- you have often wondered, VannocT" I've kept my eyes on each of you tory rainer until 1910, when she "It was." Vannoc returned. "Ons wherever you've been. When one of stranded during a fog on the coast of them."

She took no notice of him.

"They were," Vannoe said, "and I've often wondered—-—"

·

you came out of prison my watchers of County Down and was refloated "I've wondered too," she said. followed, and never let you go-by. the Liverpool salvage steamer "I've been wondering for seven until the last one, Vannoc, came out. Ranger. During the war she was years."

Then, on this anniversary, I tricked chased by a submarine off the Then a sudden change came over you all into coming here. And one south-west coast of Ireland, but her. She made à. lightning move- of you is the traitor who sent beat her off with her gun without ment-and the hine men saw the Philip to his death. That man has dimculty, and, like all fast cargo tiny black muzzle of an automaticfive minutes to confess."

carriers, she was requisitioned by Ipistol.

"By God," Calmet said, "she the Shipping Controller. "Don't move," she said softly.means it."

As soon as she was released, she "Not evon your heads.

Her eyes travelled slowly round returned to the Yokohama and Furious exclamations came from the table.

Datch East Indian aervices, with an all of them. But they did not move. "Don't make any mistake about occasional diversion, until In 1927 "Leila," Grauston, cried, "What that.. If the man who knewa hum-she was sold to Italian buyera for are you playing at? Put that thing self to be the traitor does not con-about £16,750. Under the name of away."

Less, I shall shoot. ... one of you." Impero she has been tramping ever "Keep quite still," she said. "Who might be innocent," quiver since. “You've seen me shoot. You know Ijed Kleln, ... used to split cards and hit swinging bullets? 1 can do it still shouldn't like any of you to make 19th Nov. mistake."

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She shrugged her shoulders. "Perhaps so. If the guilty one

"Listen!" Vanzoc cried. "It's

She seemed to be paralysed. Every

a wishes to prevent such a mistake he Philip's voice!"

{will confess,"

Klein

She glanced at the clock on the atom of colour had beer. drained from her face. It was a mask of mantelpiece,

uttter icy terror.

"Five minutes from now."

Still the whisper went on:

"You betrayed him yourself. You]

"What do you, want?? shivered.

"One by one," she said, "com- 29th Nov. mencing with Klein on my left, you

will put your hands down open onj For the first half-minute none of betrayed him yourself." the table. Any other kind of move-the nine spoke. They were all look- ment will be unfortunate, Klein." ing threateningly, suspiciously at den turn of the pistol-the spit of

Klein's hands came slowly above one another. the table, and were laid down open.

faine, a deafening report... with This is dreadful," Klein burat a shuddering cry she went down on One by one the others followed suit. out, in a high cracking voice. "Ito the floor. And the whisper stop

She got up, and, pushing her one of us is guilty he must confess." chair back, stood looking down at

23rd Nov.

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"He was betrayed," she said, slowly. "One of you mine betrayed him. One of you gave away that night's plans to the police."

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ped as she fell..

The men looked down at her. And I won't," Klein almost shrieked, not one of the nine faces showed I didn't betray him. I swear I any sign of sympathy or regret.

"It was Leila all the time," Calmat didn't."

The womon stood over them, the said, "And we never suspected pistol in her hand as steady a reck

"Two minutes," she said.

her."

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"I suspected her," Vannoc retura- ed. "I was sure she had grown

18th Nov. table.

"That's a lie," Lubbock exclaimed. "Not one of us would have betrayed 20th Nov. him."

Lubbock stared round desperately, tired of Philip, and wanted to get "Not one of us,”

"Confess, damn you, whoever it is, the money we had put away. But 24th Nov.

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ridiculous suggestion," At least don't let an innocent man I never breathed a word to anyone." 27th Nov. Calmet declared.

"If she was guilty," Lubbock ask- be murdered." 9th Dec, She went on as if no one had

"She's mad-mad," gasped Klein, ed, "why did she got us all here to spoken,

Again there was aflence. The play with us like that?" "I don't know what the object of grip of coming horror had seized

"I think I can tell you," Vannoc that one was--jealously, revenge them.

Their faces were white replied. "She knew I had said from Lubbock swayed in his chair.

the first that Philip had been betray- ed, and that when I came out I "Lefla, for God's sake...”

should devote myself to discovering "Four minutes," she said.

the traitor. She got us bere for a Then suddenly they heard

pretty little idea. She knew no one would confess, because no one was guilty and she intended to shoot

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"You flatter yourself,” Crauston eneered.

She raised her eyebrows.

"Do I"? Perhaps so. And yet for whisper strange toneless whis two years beforehand seven out of per. the nine of you had been secretly

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"You?"" Klein echoed.

"You betrayed him yourself,

"I saw it plainly in her eyes when Lefla!!

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"Who said Calmet hoarsely.

"No one in this room, quavered.

diesen That was the iden.”

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Over them again the whisper Becmed to hang in the air.

“But the whisper?" Bald,

Vannoc smiled.

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You betrayed him yourself, Leila. Topless You betrayed him yourself.":

"What is it?"Crauston called Bible to kngy from which man it shrilly,

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"Leila And-above the confession of voices,

audible mutter through them all, the whispen on repeating:

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The woman stood like a figure of stone before those eighteen accusing an awful terror had conta

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