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"I want you," he said, "to put the muzzle of his gun against your tem- ple and pull the trigger."

"You want what?"

"You heard me, didn't you?" "Say, lissen, you! What's the gag? D'you think I'm nute?" "Listen yourself, Bracco. taken all the cartridges out of that guns It's empty."

"How do I know It's empty?"

I've

DRAMATIC CHANGE IN FINAL SET

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strength-but more often she was made to stretch for a bail that was sion by a subtle combination

They were there to destroy cohe not killable, a ball that took her force and finesse; and if they made of away from a familiar base. Hughes their principal target this Added to this difficulty she found was not only because Hughes was Miss Round serving, except in ono the weaker link, but because un- or two gaines, with fine length and lesa Perry is allowed to be active speed.

all the time, his concentration la Gull thrust his buge torso half- Miss Jacobs Relentless, apt to be diverted, way across the deak. His ugly Lin-

Even since her fright against

And, of course, when a player colnesque face gleamed like marble Miss Ingram, Miss Jacobs has left has his mind centred on the aln- In the lamplight.

nothing to chance.

glea championship, it is always Just the point. You've got to take court, the scene of her Wightman to sandwich in a doubles match, in "You don't know, Bracco! That Restored yesterday to the Centre diMcult, as Crawford also found, my word for it. Before I accept Cup triumph, the American cham-which dual control is exchanged your case you've got to prove to me pion annihilated Frl. Ausser in

for single. [that you're willing to trust me with two quick sets. your life."

Hughes Unreliable Overhead.

The first took only Afteen ed swiftly to parchment; his black The gangster's swarthy skin-turn-

minutes, and the whole match was over in forty minutes. After each side had won a wet eyes stared wildly out of a mottled, The German girl, like Mile.Hopman' and Prenn found Hughes repulsive, yellowish face.

Payot, had her driving arm deflect becoming very unreliable overhead, "What the hell!" he shriekeded by a carefully concocted mix and they did not fail to feed this faintly. "What the hell?"

ture of length and strength. weakness with a cascade of lobe. "Do what I say!" roared Gall

She rarely got the waist-high ball. To achieve their 6-2 score they Morton in a voice whose thunders to strike. Miss Jacobs sliced. on got two breaks of service, both at had shaken many a courtroom. to her bootlaces, so to speak, con- Perry's expense.

Their own ser. "Do what I say--or walk out of this centrating on a low trajectory all vice

returns were uniformly office straight to the electric chair" the time.

ateady, with Prenn perhaps more Bracco made a sound-an inarti- culate animal sound, deep in hisjed a service point. It was surpris

Now and then Fri, Aussem scor-consistent than his partner.

In the fourth set the English throat. Then, as if hypnotised, he ing what speed so small a figure pair made a gallant attempt to slowly raised the revolver (it seem-could generate. But these were stave off disaster, and they might placed the muzzle against his right and mobile, Miss Jacobs was al-showed such precision on the vol ed a great weight in his hand) and only momentary gains. Resolute have succeeded had not Hopman temple. His eyes grew enormous as ways in command of the match. they stared into Gail's.

ley and Prenn such firm confidence | Miss Palfrey's Error. overhead. "O.K., smart guy! I'm trustin' you, see? I'm trustin' y-"

Despite her rich repartoire of The sixth game was so long and strokes and an intuitive brain The shot shattered with crazy directing them, Miss Sarah Palfrey served three double faults in it for fluctuating that Hughes actually echoes the silence of the

room failed to do more than capture the without these lapses costing the Bracco's body leaped convulsively off middle set against Mme. Mathieu, game. soft crashing sound, and lay still. the chair, strack the floor with a and even this coup she endanger-

Finally, after four-all, Hopman

Gail Morton acted quickly then.

ed by allowing a 5-2 lead to melt won his service from 15, and then In an instant he was bending over

away.

the service of Hughes was captur- the gangster's crumpled

Miss Palfrey, it seemed to me, fed after the Englishmen were with- form, Bracco was dead.

made the cardinal mistake of em. in a stroke of 5-5. Picking up the revolver that lay on the floor near Ploying the chop against an op Well Guaged Returns. ponent who likes nothing better

led where it was.

& by, Gail took from his pocket the than to swing, low or high, to a His service returns to the feet of Hopman was the best of the four, Ave cartridges that he had removed from it and, breaking the gun, re-

forward ball.

the incoming volleyer were per- placed them in the chamber.

When the American used the fectly gauged; he forced the rising | The empty shell of the sixth cartridge, plain drive without check she was ball time and again. which he had not removed, remain-fighting the French champion with His lobs and lobbing volleys had her own weapons, and since Miss the judgment of a master, and his Carefully replacing the revolver

Palfrey has a happy volleying own smashing was without a ragg‹ on the floor, near the dead man's range one wonders she did not ex- ed edge. outstretched hand, Gail rose and ploit it more.

Hopman's inclusion in the Aus- went to the clothes closet near the In the third set, as in the first,tralian Davis Cup team is, I un- fireplace. He took off his bat and Miss Palfrey seemed content to derstand, ruled out, but one does overcoat and hung them in the place her returns just beyond the not forget that he and Crawford closet. He removed his yellow plg-service line. The menace

of at have been a pair with many fine Jakin gloves and stuffed them into his tack was absent.

victories to their credit.. overcoat.

The French player, rarely presa- The other British pair, Collins He strode back to his desk and ed, got time and position for her and Wilde, only survived aginst telephoned police headquarters. sweeping drives, and her backhand Breese and Clynton Reed after a Then he sat down, lighted a cigar, was as safe as her forehand.

five-set contest. and waited.

The succeeding doubles brought Gandar In a remarkably short time two a great surprise in the defeat of went, down fighting against

Dower and Malfroy patrolmen, a coroner's assistant, and Perry and Hughes, the British and Stoefen; all of the four sets| Lott EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, office. Gall met them at the door. Prenn.

a detective sergeant arrived at his Davis Cup pair, by Hopman and were close, and one went to the They all knew lawyer Morton.

Cambridge captaitis. This devastating deed on the "Evenin', sir," said the sergeant. part of Australia and Poland (for "What's happened?"

Prenn, I believe, although long a Gall pointed to the corpse on his resident in Germany, is a native carpet. He said quickly, "that is of Poland) was achieved in four down when Kirby and Miki-a two- A second seeded pair went or was-Johnny Bracco, sergeant." sets.

"Bracco! You mean Brasco the

nation combination like Hopman None of them went beyond ten gangster?"

games and there were indications and Prenn defeated Crawford "Yes. He came here to-night to of an upset when the psychology and Quist. The centre court was try to engage me as his attorney.of the two pairs were compared.

showing signs of wear during this

With Crawford still a convales- "Johnny confessed he done, the

Despite their long association, cent and his nerves jaded, the Aus- Pendexter job?"

Perry and Hughes never gave an tralians were at a physical disad-- "Yes. He wanted me to defend impression of a composed combina-vantage; Kirby and Miki always him. He felt that he was in grave

looked the more durable pair, es- danger."

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"Yes,"

Prenn, although their only ex-

After 3-all the game went with the service until the fatal thirteenth, when Quist's ser vice was broken through.. Crawford had missed a fairly

"It's very simple, sergeant. perience in double barneas had Bracco was desperate-frightened been in the French championship, out of his wits and yellow to the dovetailed with ever-mounting.con-easy smash, and Miki had made backbone. When I refused to have fidence. Their generalship had ob- some daring running volleys, Kirby anything to do with the case, he viously been carefully rehearsed won his service to love to clinch. went all to pieces.

and was as carefully carried out. the match "I ordered him to leave my office. Suddenly he pulled out his gun and before Bracco came in. He walked warm applause, for the victors had This unexpected triumph drew shot himself Temporary insanity, to the fireplace; stood looking down shown bath co-ordination and skill. S'hal, Moll, Kobe & Fokohama.

I suppose." Amoy, Shal, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka. "That tough gorilla croaked him faded prettiness still aroused reper that he often plays a poor doubles at the picture of the woman whose Crawford told me afterwards Shal, Hoji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama self?" Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama.

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Mechanically, he murmured to defeat yester

like that of "Well, I'll be a son of a gun," said himself the bleak words printed Perry's on the same court, does Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohams

the sergeant softly. Amoy, Shal Hoji, Kobe & Osaka. Gail Morton Knowing Johnny, Whose Husband Was Kled"

He looked at above It: "Mrs. George Pendester, not mean that either will be show- S'hal, Mejl, Kobe, & Yokohama. It's a wonder, he didn't croak you."

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Gail Morton's ugly face took on a - Indeed, I shall be surprised if Gall smiled and shook his head. Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama.

He lacked the nerve, sergeant, glowing grate,

light other than that from the we do not see the champion Amoy, Shal, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka. S'hat, Moji, Kobe, Ozaka & Yokohama You see, I didn't turn my back to you'd have done better to have

good against Shields as he him. I kept looking him straight married me, my dear he said clous against Wood as he ainst Sideren, and Perry, a as In the eye

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