THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929.
DEFECTIVE THRILLER !
THE BLACK PIGEON.
By Anne Austin.
THIS HAS HAPPENED.
(horror as was never to be entirely RUTH LEFTER, berntiful accretary is erased from her mind,
"HANDSOME HARKY“ BORDEN, promoteTİ of dubione sideki companies, becomes enese) |
to JACK HATWARD, who offer
serose the narrow airshaft from Bardera.
On Saturday morning in January, Borden has two women callers. The first is RITA
Every finger of her groping hand seemed to have an eye, as if her wide, terrified, blus ones were not enough. But all the eyes in the
DUBOIS, night club dancer, who in to secoWorld.could not have found Jack's pany him for a werkend at Winter Haven, automatic platol In the drawer, for The second raller is MIUS, DONDEN, Borden's wife and mother of his two children, who it was not there..
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women for her monthly allmony which the For a frantie minute, kneeling promoter forces her to ask him for in pernuw beside that pulled-out drawer, Tearsing her husband, la busy the ag she pawed among the soiled towels lo return, in before kaving alimpers « pistol
and rubber-banded bundles in Ruth's desk. Kila İraton and Borden wATIE goodbya with a torn bank note, remindin ancient life insurance "literature," fer of her "beresin.”
While Ruth takes dictation. Borden make but alle know that the thing she a playful gas at her and she screams, attract had never had the courage to touch Ina Jack's attention in the oppuille office, but which she would now, if she Jack furious and threatens Torten ere the alighaft. He is still onery when Hulk had found it, have hugged to her morts him for lunch. Ruth forgele her bank breast in a transport of relief and book mad rushes back to the office where a joy, was not there-not there. bruta herly: Jack believer Bønden hurt her but Rush indeta he is wrong. At dhe She heard Jack's voice in the luncheon table Jack saya ba left their thenito office. Rose, trembling and tickets on his desk and returns fur thens. Be is one 20 minutes, returethe e versa chied, from her kneeline poal- turbed. Thli mood peralata through the Len. Haid ligaux to bis desk for malines and reapprace namin, when he ralla Sunday night. At the office Monday morning an she faced him.
Ruth goes into Horden's private offre with | crumb for pigeons that gather on the win. dow ledge. Her eyes x le horror on the thing sprawled yene de window on the flour.
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"Hello, darling! Sweet of you
to pay me a good morning visit,"
| his cheerful voice began. Then he saw her white, stricken Tree, the horror in her widened blue eyes. "Why-what's up. Ruth". Wult! everything! Jack's' here,
Slowly, her feet feeling as stifHold and cold as the thing that lay wet?" on the floor, Ruth Lester backed And his arms were about her, Award the door which led into her steadying her, holding her close own office, her hand groping for against his heart. Her fingers dug, the knob, in a desperate need for fintu his shoulders. "Mr. Borden! something to cling to, for her He's dond? Murdered! Blood, whole world was whirling madly | Jack-oh! What am I to do? The about her. But her storing, un- polleo--oh, Juck!" winking blue eyes could not tear
The young man's arma went lax themselves away from the sight|f.r a moment, then tightened about which led them the prostrate her so that she guaped for breath. body of her employer, "Handsome "God! That you had to see it!" Harry Borden.
His exclamation, altered on jerky Even in death he Loked hand-gast of breath, might mean any- some. His still face, very white | thing--anything! against the polished dark brown Ruth struggled in his arms, hid wood of the floor and in contrast her eyes against her elbow, "My with the sleek blackness of his un fault! -- screamed! If only I ruffled hair, was pillowed upon his hadn't screamed. Jack! I won't up-flung left arm, so that he looked have to tell the police, will 1, Juck? as if he slept. But the lid still- FH He! I lie, Jack! Nobody ness of that crumpled hody was mnt will have to know! I'll lie!* the pence of sleep. Froni beneath
'The nun seizixi her roughly, the slightly raised right shoulder shook her a bit to slop that bys
he had fallon upon his side-terical bubbling. "Shut up, Raff!! Bomething which had once beenD you hear me?-stop it, I say!; worm and red had spurled, form-] You've got to get hold of your ing “a dark, Irregularly shaped | nerves, darling! Ok, my God!" he pool, dry now at the edges.
groaned, pressing his cheek hard
Her groping hand found the door against the golden curls. "Listen, knob, and the clung to it, awaying | Ruth! The man deserved to be dizzily for a moment. Then, frenzy |«hút." Hold fast to that, anrling! taking the place of stunned hor. He deserved it, I tell you! There's ror, she banged the doar unon that only one thing for you to remem- ghostly sight and staggered across ber--that we love each other. her own office, both hands reaching | Niw, we'll go—over therd-” and for the outer door.
The mudded, his face grim, to the win. When she had come in, she had|dow across the airshaft, "and face left it on the Intch, so that visitors this thing together. Take my arm to the office might gain access, and darling. Hold tight!"
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as she let it swing shut behind her The two corridors seemed in-been received from their. correspon- fleeing. horror-driven figare, she finitely Bng, stretching away like fonts, Messrs. Hayden, Stone and had the impulse, born of lung hab interminable paths in a nightmare. Co., of New York by Messrs. Swan, it, to click on the latch, so that no lan at last, they were in her own Culbertson and Fritz, Sassuon House, one could enter during her absence, olive again.
"Nobody can kurt him now.
She laid her head on her desk, Shanghai,, (cable address "Swanstock" needn't be afraid of unlocked doors pillowing it on her crossed arms, Shanghal), who are not responsible) any mare,"
Ruth's mind bubbled | while Jack, in a brisk, businesalike for cable mutilations. These quata- crazily, as she ran down the hall, voice, called police headquarters, tions are subject to confirmation: past the site of offers thai luy|Pragments of his conversation Chrysler Corp (Common) Qeyond Borden's, turned the cor- pierced the swirling chaos of her Packard Motor Car Co. ner, raced, on.'
mind---"Yes, Borden! B-o-r--e-n. General Motors (Commons) Henry P. Horden. Murdered in his Goodrich (B.F.) From the very first moment of office, suite 712, the Starbridge Granby Consolidated discovery there had been only Building.
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as if she would never rench the man heard him turn the knob she was engaged to, the man who the door which she had closed up-
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gone Vaccums Oil .... from the drawer of his desk...
• Missing. Two men who had offices in Phat heavy briefense which he had Jack's wing of the Starbridge not k! out of his possession after Building looked at the white-faced, he had returned to her at lunch- running girl, but she did not seen during the whole of the mattis own window by the quarrel? them, did not hear one of them call nge,
Suddenly Ruth's amall body was. "Check your hat and out to her. If she had, she would coat and bag,' sir"," Jack's galvanized' with purpose. If Jack not have answered. No one but reowl at the boy, his curt refusal had done this thing, he had done Jack would do nów, and he .
Add all the time, even when for her for her! He had com- Oh, no, no!
they were holding hands across the mitted a deadly sin, but he had briefcase, that horrible thinx of done it, to protect her. And now, blue stoel had been there.
before the police came, she could] do something for him.
She found his outer office door closed, but not locked, tore it open, gasped out Jack's name to the girl who was calmly opening mati..
Oh, no, no! Ruth wrenched her mind buck, forced it to reconstruct Where are you going, Ruth?" the events of Saturday afternoon. Jack demanded harshly, "Stay out
"Mr. Hayward? Yes, he's here, or rather, he's in the building. But that, too, was more than her of there! It's no sight for your} Just stepped out of the office n min- mind could bear, without shudder-cyes. Stop, I tell you!" ute. Won't you wait for him?"ing away and being dragged back. "Oh, let me go! Ruth sobbed, Miss. Barnes asked, her light-brown Her bruised lip. Jack's white tearing at his hands. "I've got to eyes taking Ruth in curiously, then hot anger against Border, his re- go! I've got to do It before the with a little cynical half smile, rusul to belleve that it had not police come! Don't you-under- which betrayed her thought that been Borden who had hurt her.stand?"
the engaged ocuple had quarrelled His threats, Insanely uttered "Do what? Are you crazy? already. "Go right into his pri- in the presence of Micky Moran, Please, darling, get control of your- vate office, Miss Leater. Fll see the elevator operator.. She had selfi It wasn't your fault, really If I can find him for you. I think had to hold him back with all her The man deserved to dle-" he went into the typewriter agency strength to keep him from forcing next door-".
This way into Borden's offices,
Ruth had no power to listen, Hia declaration that he had for
her
"Don't say that again! I can't bear it!" Ruth screamed. "Don't you realize 7-I've got to close the
did not know that she shut the gotten the theatre tickets, his re-window before the police.come!" dook of Jack's private office upon turn to his office to get them.
He let her go, or her strength the uncompleted sentence of his Had he really forgotten them, or secretary. Gasping, hand had he intended to do whato, for the moment was greater than pressing hard upon her heart, she the mustn't say it, even to herself! his, for she flung herself upon thel sunk down into Jack's desk chair, Again that agonized wrenching of connecting door, tore at the knob. her whole body trembling so that her mind, to bring it back to the until it yielded, stepped in-then stumbled backward into Jack's the chair quivered and squeaked. subject, no matter how horrible it
If only Jack would come! Come was... Had Jack seen Borden arms, quickly and take her in his arma, across the airshaft?
"The window's closed, Jack!] and tell her what to do, tell her Oh, God, why had the architect Closed! Do you hear? Closed! that he hadn't Oh, no; not that! set two windows exactly opposite Oh, God, I thank theel Forgive She mustn't go mad, with so much each other, so terribly close?...me Jack--" to do...
Afterwards, Ruth had Had Jack farlously delivered an 'There was a loud knock upon the no memory of reaching a shaking ultimatum to Borden about her? outer door, followed Immediately hand down, down, to the bottom Had they quarrolled then, so that by the turning of the knob, The drawer of Jack Hayward's desk, no Jack's fury became Insanity? police had arrived to inquire into memory at all of jerking it open. What casier than to snatch his the death of "Handsome Harry" But there memory began, recording automatic from the drawer of his Borden.
(To Be Continued.)
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