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MY ADVENTURE AT CHISELHURST

(Continued from page 4.)(

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Steamer,

"CONTE VERDE”

and you

sometimes get entirely I asked the inspector what Jamca fantastic ideas. I was sitting look had died of, and he said: "Oh, pro| PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI. ing at this brightly illuminated picbably some acute form ture of Mrs. James, Well, for an oisoning,"

of food

AND SINGAPORE. incredibly short space of time thenown for certain

but it wouldn't be whole character of it seemed

until after the CONSIGNEES Carge are hereby to post-mortem. In change. Instead of an oil painting would 1 mind telling him everything of the Hong Kong Kowlar the meantime, landed at their risk into the Godown

informed that all Goods are being in rather vivid colours it suddenly we had had to eat and drink the Wharf & Godova Co..pany, Ltd.,

looked like a photograph, or, to be night before? I did. Actually it Kowloon, whence and/or from th strictly accurate, a photograph as was only a check, because he'd al. harves delivery may be obtained. reproduced in 财 newspaper. Try ready got it all down in his note here, unires notice has been given 42 Optional Cargo will not be landed: hours prior to vessel's arrival, ou

looking at one through a magnifybook. I dare any he'd been talking

ing glaas, and imagine it to be fout the cook and the maids who'd

carried on from port to port to the

extenda.

teet by three, and you will get the waited on us. He even knew that anal port of call to which the option same effect that I did. There was I hadn't had a name printed under this photo-James had, but there was nothing the Gaeds have left the Godawp, and any fish, whereas No claims with be samitted atte graph and my eyes certainly read it, wrong with that, as it had all been all Goods remaining undelivered after but before my mind could take it nished downstairs. I was able to the 7th instant, will be subject to what it was the illusion was gone more helpful in the matter of and I was wide awake again. drinks afterwards, and I didn't for

I next inquired after Mrs. James.

as soon

rent.

he presented to the undersigned on u All claim ageret the verac! mus before the 16th instant, or they will not be recognized.

It was all over so quickly that set to mention the final whisky and just said: "Um, that's funny," and milk and the three aspirins, all ofį didn't pay much attention to it. which he carefully wrote down.

When James came in after a lengthy good-bye on the telephone didn't even tell him. He'd have only made some fatuous joke about the strength of his cocktails.

He was full of apologies about his wife not being able to get home and so forth, and he explained what had happened with yards of detail. I'd gathered most of it already, but 1 had to pretend to listen with inter- est so as to make him think I hadn'tter. She had then completely col heard some of the other things tant apsed, which was only natural, and had been said. He then went up they'd had to carry her to her room finally to dress and again left me ind put her to bed. Things were gu alone with the picture, but although bad with her that there was talk of I tried from every angle, both with a nurse being sent for. and without the lights, I couldn't manage to recapture the peculiar "half-tone"

All broken, chafed, and damages where they will be examined on the Goods are to be left in the Godowns. It had apparently been rather dis-7th instant, at 10 am. by our sur ressing about her. They'd tele in the case of dutiable cargo. Con- veyors, Mcsers. Goddard vonglas. phoned to Worthing they'd found how gravely ill James Imports & Exports Office

a8 signees are requested to inform the was, and she'd arrived home just have such goods for examination.

that they is he was dying. No one had hud ed.

No Fire Insurance has been offe the nous to be on the look-out for

or at the front door, and she'd got et by ight up into the room and soon how tags were before they could stop

My inspector then went away, but he warned me that I should effect, neither was have to appear able to remember the name which which would probably be three

at the inquest, had appeared underneath. By the days later. way, it is worth noting that if I'd Hecided to dress at Chiaalhurst in- stead of at home 1 probably shouldn't have been left alone with the picture at all and got the jim jams about it.

James came down in due course, and we had a most elaborate dinner He always did things very well, and there was

reason why he shouldn't. People with five thou- sand a year often do.

no

I turned up bat wasn't called. They took only evidence of identi ication and the proceedings were iourned for three weeks to await the result of the post-mortem.

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I wrote to Mrs. James soon after wards asking if there was anything Sat ather vague note about being too San.

could do, but she sent back ill to see

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I had another interview with the Tues.

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At the end of dinner we carted! police after that, but they didn't our coffee and old brandy into the Ask me any more questions about lounge, and then he introduced me food, and when the adjourned in Thurs. to his unspeakable' wireless set.

quest came on it was perfectly hadn't spotted it earlier because it

obvious 'why.

The eause

of Fri was housed in a tall-boy which had James's death wasn't food poison lways been there.

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14th January,

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volume of distorted noise was so grains taken internally is a pretty left Moji for this Port on the 6th surgical dressings), and fifty The B.I. & Apear Line 8.s. Talma appalling that I can't think why the hopeless proposition.

instant and is due here on the 10th eminent pathologist instant..

.

The very

celling didn't come down,

There was a long and terrible period during which we could con-person in the witness-box said that The R.M.S. Empress of Canada verse only by means of signs, and the poison must have been ad- arrived at Shanghai on then to my great relief one of his ministered not more than eight (Wed.) 4.30

Jan. 4 transformers caught fire and we had hours before death had taken on Jan. 5 (Thu) 3'p.m, and is due p.m. left Shanghai to put it out with a sodn-water place. This was allowing for the at Hong Kong on Jan. 7 (Sat.) 9 syphon.

milk, which would have a retard a.m. ing influence. As James had died (for Manila) on the same day at She will leaves Hong Kong at six in the morning it meant that 8 p.m.

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By then it was getting on for aleven and I said it was time to go he must have taken his dose acmo That, of course, meant a final: whisky, and he was just starting on night. As I had been the last per ing

time after ten o'clock the previous his, which he'd mixed with milk, by son to sec him alive, or at any rate, one the way, when he put it down and conscious, it made my evidence in the said: "My word! I shall hear rather important, especially as it and there about it if I don't take my aspirin," covered the first hour of the rom it. Even the mechanic from and he went upstairs to fetch some material eight. NEW YORK via Japan, Los Hokuroku Maru..Mon., 8th Feb., 1988 He was gone three or four minutes,

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and when he came down he said he'd court almost word for word what cribed the trouble with her tyres When my turn came I told the (in his Sunday clothes). He des- Colombia, Boston Philadel

had the devil's own couldn't find any

hunt, as he'd told the inspector, right down to and the discussion as to whether of his own and the three aspiring. 9th Feb. he'd been obliged to bag his wife's

she could or could not have got last three. These he proceeded to of questions about James's munner

The coroner asked me a whole lot home to Chiselburst before dark. take, and then I really had to go, and health, and I could only say dence of the same kind, and it all There was a good deal more evi- there was only just time to catch that he had seemed normal, cheer-went to establish that, whatever with limited passenger accommodation. my train, and that was that.

Noxt morning, during breakfast,

ful, and, bar his cold, healthy. else had happened, Mrs. James there was a ring at the bell, and James was called, and I was able her husband, and as it seemed un-!

When they'd done with me Mrs. couldn't possibly have murdered undermentioned. they came and told me that Inspec to see her properly for the first likely that he had committed sui-pany's Be Lading. tor Soames of Chiselhurst wanted time. She was even better looking cide the jury returned an open ver

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viewed him.

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He seemed quité a decent fellow, the sympathy of everyone. She face of it, and knowing what I did, and he led off by inquiring how was popular in the district, and it was my duty to get up and say was. I thanked him and said I was the court was packed with her something like this: "You'll par very well indeed: Ho next wanted friends. The coroner treated her. don me, but that woman did murder to know if I'd slept well, and I told with the utmost consideration. She her husband and, If you like, I'll tell 18th Jan him that I had, but even then he said that her relations with her you roughly how: she waits till he 3rd Feb, wasn't happy. Was I sure I'd folt husband had always been of the has a cold coming on and then de- To AUSTRALIA. Celling at Manila (P. Is.), Thursday La, Cairns, Townsville

no discomfort of any kind during very best and there had never been cides to pay one of her periodical the night? I enid: "None what-the ghost of a disagreement. She visits to her mother at Worthing over, but why this sudden solicitude also stated that as far as she knew She arranges to get hung up there 9th Jan. about my health?"

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However, at three o'clock this One could see what he was after starting in the morning that there 12th Jan: morning, groans were heard coming he clearly had the fact in mind that are only three tableta of aspirin from his room, and when the ser when a rich man dies in mysterious that he can get at and those aro vanta went in they found him ing tircumstances there are always the ones. The bottle they have half in and half out of bed, writhing plenty of people who seem to think been in is certainly a danger if the with pain and partially unconscious. that his widow ought to be hanged police get hold of it, but they don't. Doctors were Immediately called In "on 'spec. So, though their get hold of it because she arrives and they did all they could, but by evidence was hardly germane, wit home in plenty of time to change it six o'clock he was dead. This was nesses were called who proved, in for another. naturally a great shock to me, effect, that she had been at Worth- (Continued on Page 13.).

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