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THE HAMPSTEAD MURDER

(Continued from Page 10.)

Cheltenham if so look out for the sleuth, but please, don't lead him too much of a dance.

Come and have dinner with`us on Monday. 1 expect Dorotky will be back from Carnford.

Yours.

In P.

The letters were sent of, one-to- the Kensington flat and the other to:

St. John Claire. Esq.

c/o Pilgrims' Touring Side,

Peronne College,

Cheltenham.

That evening he worked later than usual, redrafting the chapter as far as the afternoon's interview made necessS, F. The following day he treated himself to a com- pensatory boliday at Walton Heath The weather was gorgeous and a couple of rounds, split by an ex- cellent lunch, put him in great fet- tle. Then back to the club for

te hated trains like the devil.

Jack Haley and Ann Sothern are in The Girl Friend," = Columbia picture, which is com- ing to the Alhambra Theatre next

Thursday.

through to Oudenarde Mansi ozs.

"Who's speaking, plesse?..........Oh, {that you. Daniela? Mr. Claire in?

...That's good. Listen care- fully, Daniels. It's frightfully m- portant. There was a letter from me on Saturday morning or late on the Friday night You didn't send it on to Cheltenham by, any chance?......Good. Will you⋅ let! me have it at once! Just keep it and I'll pop round for it in a {minute or two. If Mr. Claire |

comes in don't mention it... What's that?.....Good God!.. Oh, no, nothing serious. Just an- {noying: that's all He didn't leave

the address?.......Thank Daniels. Good-bye.”

The

It was a worried Prentisse who

That hadn't tom things; it hadj ripped them clean in half. first letter had been returned from Cheltenham and when Claire had come in about moan Daniels had brought them both in Al minute or two later the man had received urgent orders to pack up dinner and bridge, and a day ended

everything likely to be wanted for which he had been rather dreading.

a three months' tour in Egypt. Things were apt to be a hit duli

Claire himself had left the house; with Dorothy away again and so business should undoubtedly be only a few minutes before and had All sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice soon after her reta. Rogers and trusted to the firm of Perring and told his man that he would receive

the Daimler down there too made Ho

later instructions where to pick A pretty expensive job that, he UD personally PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGSTMll the difference, and

thought. Nearly fourteen pounds) Somewhere about noon on the for the view of an office and came back to Perter-street after Sunday he rang up Carnford Hall stamped receipt! It rather looked lunch. Why the devil had Claire as if it would be Johnny who had gone off like that and without even land Phipps, the butler, answered.

Then he opened "I'm sorry, sir, bat M Pren-the final laugh.

a word?

Surely he had sense Bombay, Marseilles & London, Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-tisse isn't back from church yet the packet and glanced at the type-enough to know that his secrets She'll be in at any moment now, written sheets Had the detective

were safe. There wasn't a man sir. Yes, sir: the mistress is chap been spotted or had he spent living who would be such an out- much better. The doctor is very the two-days-in-a-deck-chair-in the sider as to go blabbing or even pleased with her. Are you there, enclosure? Then the first words hinting about that sort of thing. Hamsir? Just hold on a minute, sir, caught his eye.

will you? I think I hear Mrs. Prentisse's voice in the garden.”

In less than a minute Dorothy Prentisse was on the phone.

"Hallo!

SS.

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That yen, darling?

How sweet of you to give me such a surprise!......Oh, simply worn to a shadow, darling." and so on for another Eve minutes with airy uis little. nothings that concern

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The party was picked up from the address given at 3.15 p. and followed to Waterloo Station where he took a train for Dork- ing. Here he was met by a saloon car driven by a lady. The car proceeded to Justin Friars, six miles away; passed right through the village and stopped at large house standing in its own grounds, called Frias House. The couple put the car up in the private garage and entered the hall, going them straight to the bedroom above where they're- mained for about half an hour When they came down they had tes in the drawing-room, facing south. Just before twilight they walked round the rose garden to-.. gether and once, or twice during their stroll were observed to em- brace passionately. There ap- ed to be

in boase. --- That was enough for Prentisse. Holt arrived, and like a man who He was horrified. Good God! has been given a job of work to do What would Claire think? | What a and knows that he has done it well. perfectly poisonous mess he'd got

As a matter of fact the only im- portant thing was that shë returning to town on the following: afternoon She wished he had not asked Johnny Claire and just when she wanted him all to herself. Lunt and the maids were back Didn't he know that? already. "But with all that work, vou poor darling..............”

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He must have sat there a good out half-hour thinking things How to get hold of Johnny to ex- plain; that was the desperately important thing. And why had he gone to Egypt, and in the bot sea- Then a brainwave. too? Perhaps that infernal report would give some hint of his whereabouts. Once more he pulled out the sheets The and skimmed them rapidly. usual stuff; love of a kind in cottage of a kind. He must have ent that match, too, for the report covered all the Saturday.

On the Saturday night a lad- der was placed against the window of the bedroom which the couple were ocupying as soon as ther had put out the lights. The following conversation was over- heard:

"Darling, are you sure you can trust Phipps?"

"Of course, you silly boy. He'd do simply anything for me. Be sides, I shall be over to-mor in any case.

“And what about Rogers?” The sound of kissing made the khawar mandible and the voices then became A VERFORIN.

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Even then he looked like a man the drawing-room. who has had a long lilness. -

She did not secompany tim on to the platform-but they kiss. ed each other good-bye in the waiting-room. The only words to be heard were, "I shaj blow you a hisa behind his back the next time he is there with us,

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which she repiled, "Will you, darling boy? But you mustn't forget and call me baby names.” They both laughed at this.

Five inntes later a WOMEN rushed shrieking into the road. – A.... {policeman raise up. Then two- maids came rumming out also, and by this time, other policemen had arrived and the gathering crowd was kept back. Inside the house everything was deadly quiet.

In the drawing-room were two people; one a woman, lying as if

It was not until half an hour asleep on a cushioned Chesterfield, Later that he left the flat. The and the other areas, writing caretaker's wife whom he passed in feverishly at a Queen Anne bureau. the passage said afterwards that When the policeman spoke it seem- he looked straight through her in fed as if he did not hear. When such a way that she felt a wave the paper was taken from beneath of "fear pass over her and ever his hands he merely zat and stared since then she had been unable to at the pigeonboles like a man who get from her mind the deadly in-wrestles with a problem./ug) tensity of his expression.

"What do you make of this, Whether or not he was mad at Jack?" said the policeman, passing the time is a debatable point.. How the paper to his colleague. different "men will react to the The other scowled and then look- stress of different emotions is ed puzzled. And with reason, for equally debatable. But that a man on it was written nothing but a of his fine nature, a man sensitive series of words "in" monotonous. and artistic to the soles of him; sequences should otherwise have done what "To the Editor of The Tin he did is incomprehensible.

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