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"That's the one, mister. that bit o rope? That's what asked.
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I'll take it down myself,**' "The front door was locked.
I admit that I'm puzzled." he "Have you a lad- Hawke said..
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"I'm not looking for congratula. [back to make the throw! Because I found a heel mark in the 'soft "Where did you learn to use the turf where you had rocked back to get purchase for the jerk which
the. victim from pulled your window!"
On a ranch where strangers How long have you been with
takes some seconds to die. His mean Sir Henry Trent's son, who something like this?"
Dixon Hawke threw back his body twitches and kicks, and thef was hanged as a pirate. You saw
A high, shrill, volume of rope, moves from side to side. his portrait."
"There are descendants of that head, sound echoed through the room. Tommy, there should be many
this bougb-not just branch of the family?" "Hi-yiyice Tip! Yip chorus marks on
**I remember one
cousin ed the detective. He stopped sad one!***
He caused just as much **Gosh, chief! You mean?” William. gave the girl a keen look
Miss Trent had jumped.to' ber "That Sir John was unconscious trouble as his ancestor, but then feet. gripping the back of the chair or dead when he was hung up he went off to Americs, and, as to support herself. Her face was here!"
we never beard anything else about white, and she shuddered as- she: Hawke was silent as he climbed him, we supposed be was dead."
The discovery Hawke nodded. He took a few stared at the investigator with down from the tree. sheer horror in her eyes.
he had made vindicated Sonia paces up and down the Jawn and "The same cry!" she whispered. Trent's fears. There was some-then stopped, facing the girl.
"Miss Trent," he said quietly. Just the same!"
thing very sinister behind the "It happens to be a cowboy deaths of Sir John and his brother. "you are in very grave danger, but Hawke explained. "In For some minutes the crimino you will be quite safe if you pro- Texas and over in Mexico they logist searched over the ground mise me one thing. If you ever shout like that to round up the about the tree,, but it was very hear that strange cry again, under eattle. Humph!-there seems to hard; and he could find no traces no circumstances look out of the be a strange sort of banshee roam-of footsteps. Finally he directed window!"' ing near your house, young lady!" the gardener to point out to hima
Mr. Dixon Hawke's big roadster the window of the room that the girl had returned to the house, the tions, mister."
detective continued his patrol of made the run to the old-world dead man had occupied.
rope? The room was on the second the garden. Kentish village, where the Treats
His hands were clasped behind had lived for many centuries. in oor of the rambling old building. record time. Tommy, who was and looked out over the rose garden him., and Tommy, who knew his ain't welcome."
Hawke paused. driving, stopped the ear in the nar-and orchard. The side of the chief well, made no attempt to
**And," he finished, “because I the circus? row street.
thouse was covered, by a creeper, break in on his silence.. "Which way now?" he asked.
**Eight months." The man took found evidence which satisfied me It was getting dark when Hawke but it was not sufficiently strong
Hes step towards the criminologist, Sir John was dead when he was "The house is of the main for anybody to have climbed it gave a sharp exclamation. roud. Miss Trent said. "If you As for the wall of the house, it began to run down the drive which his fists clenched menacingly. The hung up to that tree! You were go on about half a mile you'll find was smooth, without any oras-led to the main road, and his light of a nearby fiate fall fall on very clever, Trent.
**It was clever of you to wait his face. assistant hurried after him.
"Why are you asking one of our mental projections. fields. The turn is just after it." Hawke walked back a few paces "Getting up an appetite for me these questions when you kin until the circus came this way, 30 see I ain't aiming tuh know yuh?" that a stranger would not be Hawke looked curiously at the and stared up at the window. dinner?" he asked.
noticed. It was clever of you to big rents and caravans as the car Next to it was that of the room "No but I've just remembered he roared.
Hawke's hand slid into his wait six months before you killed turned by the side of the field. It which had been occupied by Sir that there's a circus in the village!"
As the surly cowboy Sir John. I suppose you would was a small touring circus of the John's brother. It was not pos Tommy gasped. It was hardly pocket. kind common enough in the Eng-sible to see into the rooms from like Dixon Hawke to break off in made a sudden lunge at him he have waited until the circus came
below. lish countryside.
the middle of a train of thought stepped back. There was a black this way again before you murdered Trent House was a Sne old build- The detective looked behind him.and go to a circus. For a momenti automatic in his fist, and it was] Miss Trent.
"Then I expect you would have ing dating back to Elizabethan There was a bed of roses a few the young fellow wondered if his lined up with the man's heart."
"One step and I'll shoot!" he gone back to the States and waited days. There was a beautiful park yards away, and the old gardener chief was going crazy. He follow-
warned. "William Trent, you are until the lawyers advertised for in front of it, and an extensive was hovering over them, muttering ed him anxiously. orchard at the back. The house to himself as he fingered the At the field Easke stopped to under arrest for the murder of your descendants of that pirate ancestor Clever but it was a ans in very good repair, for the blooms.
look at the posters. They ad- cousin, Sir John, and for the foi vour, be said. vertised a troupe of acrobats, a murder of his brother, Malcolm, great mercy I managed to find you Trent fortune was a large one, and) "Drat. those birds!"
out before you killed that sweet the family had always clung to That's the second time it's hap-lion-taner, a cowboy rope-wizard, six months ago!" their ancient home.
The circus actor staggered. He girl who was the last obstacle to pened.
and a clown who was hailed as The great entrance-ball was hung Hawke walked over. He noticed the greatest in the world." The was white to the lips as he slowly your inheritance!""
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Ruined some fine blooms!*' ring-side. It was a very poor gone from his voice, and he spoke
Hawke was standing in the great hall of The acrobats were quite like an educated man. "The first Baronet," Miss Trent! "Didn't I hear you say that it show.
Trent House. He was going back said. The next one is his son, was the second time it had hap-the usual turn, the lion-tamer had looked at him grimly. Henry. The fourth one is the third pened?""
difficulty in making bis beasts look "I'll tell you how you murdered to London that night.
be said. "In each You're a very wonderful young. Baronet, my great-grandfather." Ay, sir. They've had a hard fierce, and the jokes of the clown your cousins,
the criminologist smiled. **And the third portrait?" time, these trees. Last February, were weak. Hawke yawned several case you used the same method. lady," Hawke asked. "You've missed out just which the leaf buds were betimes and showed no interest until You found out the room in which "If it hadn't been for your sus- ginning to show, they got chopped the rope-wizard entered the ring. your victim slept, and, at s Inte picions the murderer would never He pointed to a picture of a thin-up like."
The man was dressed in cowboy hour, you, took your stand under have been brought to justice." faced man with strange, savage **Chopped up?"
outfit and was a real Westerner. the window and gave the cowboy My poor suspicious wouldn't eves. The artist had caught the "Young twigs and buds were He could certainly twirl a rope, cattle-call-a sound so unusual to have done much if it hadn't been mood of recklessness and cruelty. knocked off, sir, I found 'em just and the detective and his assistant England that it was natural the for you. Mr. Hawke, there's just man you had come to kit should one thing I would like to know, "Sir Henry Trent's eldest son,
joined in the rounds of applause. after Sir Malcolm died." the girl explained. "He was dis Hawke gave a low exclamation. The turn was the only decent look out to see what had caused however. How did you know that man at the circus as William inherited. The black sheep of the He picked up some of the leaves one on the programme, and when it."
He jabbed the gun against the Trent? Nobody has seen him family, Mr. Hawke. He was hang and petals and looked at them it was over Hawke rose to his feet
since he went off to America when iller's body. ed in the Caribbean as a pirate;"' closely, Then he began to "Let's get out," he said.
How did you He looks his part, Those are examine the ground close to the Once outside the tent, the de- "Keep still! You were under he was eighteen. very strange eyes. Now, Miss bed. He found a place where tective walked to the line of the window with your rope, and know he was a descendant of that Trent, my assistant and I will look there were some recent scars in caravans which served as dressing when the head of your victima pirate ancestor of mine?" -
Hawke led the girl to the canvis The rope appeared you threw a loop sbout round on our own. It might be the soft turf They were like the rooms for the actors. Father painful for you. Perhaps marks that a whip would have wizard was standing by one of the his neck. You jerked him out of of the Trent who had been execut- the window, breaking his peck and ed in the Caribbean Beaching up, one of the servants will show us the made if some idle child had lashed vans smoking a cigarette. orchard."*
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He was a fairly young man with causing instant death. Then you he held a newspaper over the lower "I'll send for the head gardener. "Do you know what made these a thin face and dark eyes. There carried the body to the orchard and part of the picture, hiding the frills He found daddy."
harks?" the criminologist asked. was something secretive about him, hung it from a tree so that it would and files of the age....
"Therkar your answer,” he said The gardener shook his head.and he began to walk away as be appear like suicide" "Them pesky birds, I expect!" saw Hawke coming towards him. "How do you know all this? quietly. Except for the costume, this might be "s painting of the service of the Trents. He kept up he muttered.
***Just a moment 1' the detective gasped Trent."
"Because I found rose leaves murderer, Miss Sonia' The like a running fire of talk as he led the Ewe hardly heard the reply said cheerfully..
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