1933-10-25 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1933,

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Connell,

"She chose the locker containing the personal miscellany because she guese- ed that there would be a faw whiskies. consumed out of the other locker be

LONDONS

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Inspector (Berringer)

It is the present indiscriminate. with a partner on his arm, emerged fore the murder, and some fool might uncontrolled growth of suburbs from the forest of dancers and attempt later to

to revive Puletter or and the casual scattering of de- made his way back to his table.mself with brandy. So she put the velopment over the regions which oddments together and placed them most needs to be planned and His partner was small,, dark and

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whose dancing was inspired morenah and the whale." she remarked date hundreds of thousands of peo- ple, are being spoiled by aimless by agility than ability, sat down "She remains in the locker all the scattering of sporadic develop very moist and pulled at his collar. morning. When she hears Pulelter's

ment. The woman glanced impatiently of the locker and into a chair. Pulet- step in the outer office she slips out

I should like to see some check at the walter, who thereupon drew ter's step in the outer office she slips put to this outward the cork of a bottle produced ap-out of the locker and into

srowth of a chair. scattered suburbs at once parently from thin air. She had Puletter is surprised to see her. He obviously been drinking a good

accents her explanation that our of the throwing a "green girdio" round staff showed her in."

their extremities, by reserving a deal, for her face was animated and "You're suffering from galloping belt of land round London flushed as though she had just imagination. You can't prove all transformation into parks, playing stepped from under a cold shower, this!" She

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"This woms, has a grievance against retreating

Pluetter. He has thrown her

I am not without hope that this waiter.

She has dise wred that another wo will come about. Before the finan- "The drink here le bilge. Talk on has been railing each evening clal crisis the L.C.C. were consult | {nlat

vintage! This wine

ut six o'clark and signalling within with other counties and local isn't old-its only Infirm. I could drink had got into touch with Mrs. Puletter. authorities with a view to creating!

taxl honter near Puletter's office. enough to float a shipping combine.he tels Paletter that his wife and such a "green girdie" by allocating Come on

let's have some the women have arranged to be

outside more," she cried, lighting one of in a tasi together at three o'clock, and a small rate throughout London for Doctor Simma's cigarettes and put-Plot may not have believed of Health has suggested that it is trau hin by giving the usual sig- a number of years. The Minister ting three more in her bag.

this story at Arst, but when Mra now desirable for this scheme to It would have been difficult to Paletter turns up to her appointment be revived. estimate her age, which seemed to with her unknown informant and gives vary with her mood.

the required signal at three o'clock, he Her ebony s

Looking ahead nt London in hair was sleek and straight.

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the set of the eyes, the buck and she enrefully removed all traces of the furt that there had been two persons shoulders ake matured ivory, and a that office. She releases the catches gazing listlessly into the palma.:

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ker. There she stays while the mar She took a long pull at her glass, der discovered, the bady is removed. face was a mask. It seemed to have amid the hubbab about them. Her and said: "I wonder ron

Then! don't and until the staff have gone.

she emerges, repinew the shelf more than you do, Berrin- contents of the lucker, The door drawn down it and the flesh beneath and Town suddenly old and sprung with lines as though a heavy hand had been

ta's self-locking from the inside,

was nothing to prevent her open-Presently she rose to her feet wearily

the olive skin was crambling away.; across here was

it and walking quietly out, leaving and pulled her wrap about her sboal- Ing it tocked behind her."

dance top,"

Inspector Connell Jenner the table.

"That in a very unusual scent that you are using. Masie." he said.

"Manie always

uses something different

from

the bunch," she laughed. "What about your friend here? Doesn't he dance or does he merely eat and drink?" Simms" eyed her with great disfavour and

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"We will now infiate our Imagina: raising her glows. tions to bursting point," she taunted

The woman who killed Puletter to "Oh! He'll uncoil himself presently, for num have visited his office before. Masic.

He is fresh from the nest believe I can have you identified ak yet" he said, and

as he spoke he having been up thara ɑned. rireich out a cautious foot. There She spread her hands in mock can-

You are not trying to

uncrossed

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ders.

"Shall we be going?” she asked in a small, hoarse valen.

"Going where?

ta

"To Headquarters." "Perhaps we had better," he assent d sympathetically, and ushering he mind if I permit two of my men casually towards

towards the exit. "Do you escort you there? Think things over carefully, and I will are you latter

Impulsively, she caught him th

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a large discoloration visible teration. through one of her stockings below. Boys! The knee, and he touched it with his wish this on me?" she cried melodresarcastic tongue I was infuriat font as though accidentally. She drew mistically in her breath sharply and

"It huks a little like that Masie." wer legs. The inspector was itatant-Connell returned her ironical smile the joy of feeling his hide suffer- ly all commiseration.

with the utmost good humour, "No- "My fault

"I'm sorry," he ex-body could remain so long in so con- suffer, and to know that all the time

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agony he made ~'Iwo nasty claimed.

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got there

and one on the trace. The inside of that locker smells he must have known that it was me What man could have carried out ́n That very action supplied me with the other lag. How on earth did you get faintly of

scheme like that? unusual scent. very Lhose?"

me, who was shoving him head-

A few more cases illusive thing that I had béen groping first into the jaws of Hell. I didn't like this and I'm have been looking for a womax.

for poultry farming for. You had removed crushed You

get all sorts of kicks dancing ing a certain unusual scent, whi

feintend to kill him that way- sweat instead."

cigarette-stub Irom Paletter's hand. in a rodeo like this Forget it."

"There is one thing I cannot under-He was a very, soavy smoker-look at mall and dark, and probably kicked didn't had some desperate idea of "Bui

surely, the din't kick you as und Bruised about her legs by Pulet of the window. When I saw the broad left a vestige of a clue that there was room for half an hour, I dashed back. seizing his legs and tipping him out stand, Connell. That woman never his fingers—and he had bean is thadd high up as that?*** he perslated.

ter in his death agony." That's the one thing our liquor can She yawned.

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couple of mule marka"]"We ought to rustle up & pretty good matically. If Beened to act auto-[you know otherwina ?”

wasn't premediated." The inspector laughed.

of cigarette ends or ash in the abe frowned and bit her thumb refler wreath here."

Connell beckoned the two plain- "I didn't!" he confessed. "TORY anywhere. A slight thing, but enough Lively. "You puzzle me, Berringer am afraid that you will have clothes men and turned away. The woman certainly WAI

thorough, but to set me wondering if Pulsiter had Your voice is very famillar—and satinfy me as to where you were the sank into a chair by the doctor and she was too thorough. You remem-acme urgent reason for poking

ht y can't place you. Now, where on three o'clock this afternoon, Masia.“

wined his forehead.

ber going to the restaurant after we head out of that window." He hailed carth have heard that voice before Instantly she was all attention.

"Thank heaven. Doc., few

You recollect the waiter. women left Puletter's office? and recently, too?”

"That's easy!" she said promptly, enter the homicide business. What the little Chinese girl set leg on the Inspector Connell leaned across the She leaned across to Doctor Simma ingenuity! What colossal nerve! table and tipped out Lable.

Confidentially, "This is where Sher- "Perhaps it was in Felix Puletler's lock taken the big bump, my drar office this afternoon" he suggested Watson. Excuse me while I take away)

Allow me-- the bottom brick." She had spllled a little wine on her "Well!

" asked Connell. an. dress, He plucked out his handker- ruffled. chief. She watched him while he dab. "I enent this afternoon-in fact. I

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ed her eyes to his, her face was calm my foot outside the door. I can prove and faintly mocking.

If I listened to my wireless set most "Now I remember where t hayat day any body on the next floor- an tell you that. Why pick on met remarked casually, "I had a brother Tell your fable to some of the other.

He died in India... Oh!! girls-they all knew Puletter." Very like"

Inspector Connel! stared at her M "Did you know Felix Puletter?" silence. asked Connell, ignoring the explana "Are you going to quit ruining my

noning, Copper She unleashed

once

Lion.

h. "Sure!...

*

So did most of the girls took of venom. In my stage days,

we would have called you a dumb-ac Puletter died to-day. Masle, The Her curled scornfully, fact won't be generally known till l- "Would morrow."

care for me to give you afternoon's radio programme,

you sin

"How terrible. We shall all miss item by item?" She had spread her him here," she said simply.

"I dare say!

murdered him, Masie,"

fingers preparatory to enumerating tha

A woman items, when Connell raland his hand

and interposed.

She shook her head sadly, "He was always fond of the women. wa Puletter."

wwby,

"Did you know that the Melbourn Cun wai run at three o'clock to-day?" of the rate was reļay- "A description ed from Australia.“

The inspector paused to light cigarette and to watch * cloud

"Are you trying to tell me a fockey drift smoke

ild thin? Haven't I told "Tie was murdered by a woman who I got all that on my radio. Il give you once? entered his office before the general ou firat: second and third and All staff arrived in the morning-hilenarticulars if you want. If you aren't the early office boy was distributing the Grand Announcer. They all talk letters, probably. Puletter's desk was

aid Connell, and supported at each end by a locker. unlike you, only you're funnier, These lockers were of fair size, and there was a hint of admiration in his divided into

and lower comparts a stroke of conjunt but while en upper

That

wireless alibi of yours ments by a centre shelf. in one loc-was a g

he ent kies, brandies, and have been here I have had two men other soap, in- checking you up. One. Hibbs. Your hair-brushes, -tike. / Neither corinaadid Exam kot in a small Iseal keep. » Ha stood

and iendly janitor at the flala, had a would wirika anybody'

dye optible to win few dollars on place in which Lo

conceal oneselle the woman had thought: out - a "wat had drawn,, "Not Hein A

Why pot taks the hearing Traum: V

In full ingenious iden articles oat of

lamp them/Mall up to your flat and knockowej locker un and rankeys" the shelff. →→ inan to squeeze in, shut the

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