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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE CASE OF SUSAN

WRAGGE

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(Continued from paze (4)

Bellingham took her to Strase- feldt's for the last appointment, and sat in the waiting-room. When she came back to him she was flush-

Strassfeldt start jed and excited.

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Bellingham sprang from his seat] and walked towards the picture. Suddenly his jaw dropped and his eyes bulged.

"BENRINNES "** "Good God!" he murmured in a boarsa whisper,

hor- Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- "It's-It's

formed that all Goods are being land- He looked at the pictured at their risk into the hazardous ed when he saw Bellingham, and orrible."

"That has not been there and/or extra hasardone Godowns of the way home Susan told him that again.

before!" We peered up at the face The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Strassfeldt had kissed her good-bye. that broke through the background and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharven delivery may be ob Bellingham put his embarrassment like a ghost.

tained. down to that, and the incident was forgotten in the excitement of the final wedding preparations.

Susan's

room.

"It's a man's face," I broke in. "Couldn't suddenly have come there. It's impossible--"

"I tell you I've never seen it be fore," protested Pellingham.

No claims will be admitted after the Geods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered aftur the 1st February, 1938, will be sub- jeet to rent.

They lived happily for some time.

All claims against the steamer mus Time only matured Susan's beauty, "Never noticed it perhaps. Scan be presented for the Undersigned on but Bellingham became lynx-eyed the pleture too often: but the fellow or before the 15th February, 1933, or with jealousy. Then one night who painted that fuco in knew his they will not be recognised."

All broken, chafed, and damer job."

Goods are to be left in the God we they were heard quarrelling in Bellingham suddenly swung round where they will be examined on thr

at 10 am.

by Bellingham was on me. "I know that face," he cried 31st January, 1938, at

Messrs. Goddard & remonstrating,

Douglas. then threatening, eagerly, "I've met it in the flesh

To

the General Bond- comply with times. Strassfeldt! ed Warehouse Regulations consignees while Susan sat calmly picking out everal

That's who it is! Dr. Karl Strasa- must have a Revenue Officer in attend- the hard chocolates from a box faldt!"And then he told me about ance when damaged dutiable goods She found an extra hard one and bit | Susan's trip to Vienna.

It started my mind on a new jit viclously. She turned her head

After leaving Bills of Lading will be countersign forward, sending the chocolates train of thought. to say something, and suddenly fell Bellingham I went straight to our ed by.

where the ex-

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. rattling on to the floor. Beiling-Black Museum,

Agents. She

every re-hibits of

Case ham ran towards her.

are kept.

Hong Kong, 25th January, 1933. the chip from the covered for a moment, then put her Taking up

we found in the body, 1 hands to her stomach in great pain. tooth

Soon after the doctor came she was dead.

Acute food poisoning was doctor's tentative diagnosis. would not say more until the quest.

by

No trace of polson was found analysis and not one of the other people at the dinner party had had

much as

..

It

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It was some time before the ser-gazed at it in a now light.

of the white spots vants were roused and a doctor tele- resembled one

on dominoes, and phoned for, and Susan grew worse. you use Perspiration stood out on her fore- about the same size. I stood un- language, you make her understand VICTORIA & VANCOUVER head, although her hands were tey consciously rubbing it with my your feelings.

a Passion has of my universal tongue. cold. She tried to say something thumb against the ball

She is shocked, Then it struck scornfully reminding you of her about pins and needles-but her finger-thinking words were inarticulate, Seeing me that the whole surface WAB fiance. her struggling for breath Belling-very smooth-there were no jagged "Her repulse lights the flame of ham propped her up with pillows. or sharp edges such as you find on jealousy in your ungaverned mind; splinter from a hard substance and the fear that she may ruin you I put it under the microscope, and by exposing your feelings for her the suddenly my mind jumped to the

Bows a seed of revengeful hate. He signicance of the planed surface-

"If you could not have her, no in-That chip had been made purposely,

man should. With diabolical cun- like a cap. It was intended to come ning you set about to work her of-at some time,

'end. The work upon which you discovery My next

were engaged suggests a plan- The innocent-looking sinister.

easy, with your manipulative skill; fragment fitted the tooth perfectly. certain, with

your professional One of her new, false with Too perfectly for an accident. The knowledge.

tooth itself had been broken pur teeth; a back molar, so as to be out At the inquest death was proposely, with some definite object. of sight, and difficult of detection. A nounced to be due to syncope.. Be All that night I sat up, my brain' tiny corner, resembling a broken working in flashes, gradually fitting chip, sawn off, and cleverly atuck on thing. The coroner was not satis- pieces of the puzzle into their again, forms a cap. Immediately 24th Feb.fied; neither was I, and the inquest places.

'underneath, in the tooth itself, you All the symptoms

There is only one way to deal drilled a tiny hole in which was adjourned. pointed to some kind of food poison with a clever, canning murderer-secrete the poison. It was simple Ing, but the only foreign matter strategy and surprise.

'to make the whole thing before you found in the body was a fragment of Next morning I set out for put it in the mouth.

The introduction I pro- porcelain which the girl had chipped Vienna.

In 'grim silence he sat, some de from one of her teeth in biting the cured to Dr. Karl Strassfeldt (after sperats plan working in his brain.

conferring with the Australian "Not at once," I went on, "but at Frefect) merely told him that I was some future date, that damaged cap I worried over the cast. Susan Wragge had been polsoned in a fellow-collector of china, anxious would

come off, uncovering the some subtle way I was convinced; to see his Sevres. His heavy face polson in the little indentation recalled the uncanny likeness that underneath, and freeing it to do its

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I was questioning Bellingham loomed over Susan's shoulder in her deadly work. Biting something

hard would do the tatal trick-li again one night-he sensed my balf-portrait. 3rd Feb,

Strassfeldt had not a big collec- chocolate almonds, for instancet It 20th Feb, formed suspicions with brutal re-

happened to tion of Sevres, but two or three the simplest thing in the world to Bentment-when, 1 glance up at Kooper's portrait of examples of the earliest art almost break a bit off a tooth by biting pon

I made me forget the purpose of my a hard substance, isn't it? Busan that hung in his library. 7th Feb, stood gazing at the alluring face visit. Under my delight he thaw thing is too commonplace to cause when suddenly I became aware ofed, aha his eyes lost their furtive comment or suspicion; and aconite 5th Feb,secing something more than I look look.

gives all the symptoms of food, 12th Fob.ed for. In the corner of the "The very earliest mouldings, poisoning. Even the remedies are You (We the same, barring one thing. portrait, behind her left shoulder, these," he said proudly.

"Long before must not let the victim sit up. Bel- was another face, looming out of the speke in French,). dark background with smouldering, the coloured clay was introduced. lingham himself told me he propped sinister eyes! The vision was un- Where will you find auch artistry, her up with pillows as she struggled for, breath. That gave me a clue I fell back, clutching a auch neat workmanship canny.

"I'D show you!" I cried, If it had been ordinary food poison corner of the table.

Imanoeuvring so that a broad table ing, that little act of windncas "D'you are it, Bellingham,"

"A plece of the would not have killed her. Aconitine cried, pointing. with a trembling stood between us.

neatest workmanship I've seen for poisoning is the only one where Anger. "D'you see it?"

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ting up is fatal. I dived my hand into my pocket, Unconsciously, Bellingham was and, bringing out the damaged your cat's-paw. You guessed some- tooth, presented it on my open palm body, in ignorance, would be, He gasped in horrified surprise. Thore is no way of detecting aconi "She's dead!" I flung at him. tine in the body after death————” "Foisoned? That was your handl- Strassfeldt suddenly sprang from with limited passenger accommodation. werk, So fa this," and I pointed his seat scross the table, and shot

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