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The Inspiration C

(Continued from page 7.)

Even razor in hand, he would hardly be a match for William

Of Mr. Budd

provingly, noted well-kept teeth and a "Not on any account," said Mr. gold stopping. The customer was obl Budd. Too late now, he couldn't make viously ready to spend money on his another effort. He vividly waw him- personal appearance, pr

self tripping on, the threshold falling the terrible fist lifted to sinal him

{Strickland, height six feet, one or off and gentlemanly customer advising white sprong, the "

two, who had so, ferociously batter- all his friends to vixit "his man ed his old-sunt to death, so butcher-wonderful fellow

at the back of Victoria

Infancy, Mr. Budd saw this well into a pulp Or perhapirered

was actually

the

pistol

back of

Badd retreated to ly hacked her limb from limb, so sever find it by yourself only a

the shop, collecting his materials. K horribly disposed of her remains in place, but he idows, what he's about only tho

he had been quicker more dotective

in a book he would have the copper. Shaking his head write it down, for

YOL

obarved that thumbnail, that tooth dublously, Mr. Budd advanced to imperative that there should be no

Hair dyes were

two and tw

two together, and run awkward But the door to cast a forlorn eye at the things ly.

had been case in the out to give the alarm while the man's www head was wet and soapy and his face buried in the towel. Of he could have father into his eyes -nobody possibly commit a murder for the street with

busy establishment over the way, paper lat and nearly an into a bulky customer et see you have been using a tint who dived in rather precipitately. before, air, said Mr. Budd, with res

I beg your pardon, sir, mur-could you managh, yer

tell menumpuran

eyes mured Mr. Budd, fearful of alienat-well, fact is, as said, my fiancere `a Even now Mr. Bodd took down a

- younger_ than Ing ninépence; "Just stepping out good bit

a. A bottle, shook for a breath of fresh air, air. Shave, expect, you can see I began to go grey on the shelf-even now, was it really,

head

and put it back early my father was just the same too late? Why could be not taken upstreaky bit restored, you see, But

sir

The large man tore off his over, our family go I had it touched bold course? He had only to open a

"Are you prepared to die?" demanded abruptly.

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"Do you do dyeing?" man impatiently.

"Oh!" said Mr. Budd, "yes, air, certainly, sir."

It

I

coat without waiting for Mr. Budd's she doesn't take to the colour, so for, so quietly up behind the un-

thought, if obsequious hands.

have to dye it at all ting man and say in firm,

convincing voice: not a colour she does why not

fancy while strickland, put up your hands. Your he we're about it, what?"

life I

at my mercy. Stand up till common jest

the un- take your gun away. among

Now walk The question chimed in so al-inking that hairdressers are garrul-trout to the nearest policeman"

pus. This is their wisdom. The hair. armingly with Mr. Budd's thoughts dresser hears many secrets and very Sherlock Holmes would do.

in his position, that was what about murder that for a moment it many lies. In his discretion he oc quite threw him off his professional weather and the political situation, borne in upon him that he was not But as Mr. Budd returned with a cupies his unruly tongue with the little trayful of requirements, it was lest, restless with inaction, it plunge at the stuff of which great man-hunt- "I beg your pardon, sir," he unbridled into a mad carcer of inconers are made. For he could not seri- stammered, and in the same moment venient candour.

ously see that attempt "coming off." decided that the man must be al Lightly holding forth upon the Because if he held the razor to the preacher of some kind. He looked caprices of the feminine mind, Mr. man's throat and said: "Put up your Budd subjected his customer's locks to hands," the man would probably mere- rather like it, with his odd, light the scrutiny of trained eye and fin-ily catch him by the wrists and take eyes, his bush of fiery hair and gera. Never never in the process of the razor away. And greatly as Mr. short, jutting chin-beard. Perhaps nature could hair of that texture and Budd feared his customer, unarmed, he quality have been red. It was na-felt it would be a perfect crescendo even wanted a subscription.) turally black

hair, That would be hard, when Mr.ed, as some black hair wurely turn of madness to put a razor. Into his

will turn, to hands. Bud had already set him down as a silvery grey. However, that was Or, supposing he said, "Put up your ninepence, or, with tip, possibly one of his business. He elicited the hands," and the man just said, "I

information he really needed the won't even a shilling.

What was he to do next? name of the dye formerly used, and To cut his throat then and there said the fnated that he would have to be care-would be murder, even if Mr. Budd

ul.

Some dyes do not mix kindly could possibly have brought himself to relieved, with other dyes.

do such a thing. They could hot re- Chatting pleasantly, Mr. Budd main there, fixed in one position, till Iathered his customer, removed the the boy came to do out the shop in A stroke of luck, this. Dyeing offending beard, and executed a vigor the morning. meant quite a big sum-his mind ous shampoo, preliminary to the dre

Ing process. As he wielded the roar the light on and the door unfastened soared to seven-and-sixpence.

Perhaps the pollaeman would notice "Good," said the man, sitting Silk-tax and the Summer Time Bill-congratulate you, Mr. Budd, on bay- ing drier, he reviewed Wimbledon, the and come in? Then he would say, "I down and allowing Mr. Budd to put at that moment threatened with sud- captured. an apron about his neck. (He was den strangulation-and

A very dangerous passed natural.

criminal. But supposing the police- safely gathered in now-he couldly on to the Manchester murder. man didn't happen to netice and Mr. hardly dart away down the street The police seem to have given it Budd would have to stand all the time,

Tup as a bad job," said the man. with a couple of yards of white cot-

and he would get exhausted and his "Perhaps the reward will 17th Mayton flapping from his shoulders).

Ifven attention would relax, and then- things up a bit," said Mr. Budd, the After all, Mr. Budd wasn't called "Fact is," said the man, "my thought being naturally uppermost in upon to arrest the man himself. Ta young lady doesn't like red hair, his mind,

formation leading to arrest"those She says it's conspicuous, The "Oh, there's a reward, is there?

hadn't seen that." 17th May other young ladies in her firm make jokes about it. So, as she's a good bit younger than I am, you see, I like to oblige her, and I was think-,

Mr. Budd left the drier to: blow the when he left he sent that the Ing perhaps it could be changed for bush of liair at its own wild will It was at this

a moment, while he fetched the great Inspiration came to Mr. Budd into something quieter, what? "Evening

Messenger." The stranger As he fetched bottle from the read the paragraph carefully and Mr she has a fancy for. What do you the disquieting manner of his craft paper-knife that

odd vividness, an old-fashioned wooden had belonged to his saw him suddenly draw back his left mother. Between It occurred to Mr. Budd that the

It bore arm of the chair, and thrust it inscription "Knowledge is Power is the rapt change of coat even funnier than under the apron.

A strange freedom and confidence the original colour, but in the inter- But not before Mr. Budd had seen were vouchsafed to Mr. Budd; his mind ests of business he agreed that dark it. Not before he and taken conscious was alert; he brown would he very becoming and note of the horny, misshapen thumb. an easy, natural movement, and made removed the razors with great deal less noticeable than red nail. Many people had such an ugly nonchalant conversation as he skilfully Besides very likely there was a mark. Mr. Budd told himself hurried applied the dark-brown, tint young lady, A woman, he knew; will, ly there was his friend, Bert. Web. say frankly that she wants different ber, who had sliced the top of his.

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Dark brown, now-that's the colour Rudd, watching him in the glass, aft-fronted case he remembered, with

Bay?"

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streets were less crowded when Budd let his custamen out. try, or because she fancies it would his nail looked very much like that.

and climb on to a 24 suit her, but if a man is going The man glanced up, and the eyes "But that was only his

artfulness" a silly thing he prefers, if pos- of his reflection became. fized on Mr. said Mr. Budd, as he put an his hat 2nd May de 20th May sible, to shutte the responsibility Budd's face with a penetrating sert coat and extinguished the lights care

to someone else,

"Very well, then," said the custom tiny horrid warning that the real folly, "he'll take another at Victoris,

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as not, and be making tracks from- And I'm afraid the the reflection of Mr. Budd. er, "go ahead. beard will have to go. My young ladyNot but what," said Mr. Budd, "the He closed the shop door, shook it, as

Charing Cross or Wa

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