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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929.

DETECTIVE THRILLER!

THE BLACK PIGEON.

By Anne Austin. '

CHAPTER XXXII.

"Yes," McMann admitted. "But he could have walked down to the' Ruth Lester's hand crept out, basement, without using the ele- but her crigining flesh rebelled. vator, or without being seen by She could not force her Bogers to the one man on duty after four close upon the small, flattened-out'clock Saturday." lead ballet which lay upon the

"And that exit door to the court

palm of Detective Sergeant Me-fis kept locked," Ruth cried. "It Mann's big hand,

had to be unlocked for me. The "The bullet which killed-Mr. porter in the basement had to send Borden?" she gasped. "But for Mr. Coghlan, the superinten don't understand. It's-flat dent, in order to get the key to un- lock it. Furthermore, 'Jack never "Yes, it's flat,” McMann agreed, hnd the key to this office, so he with dreadful algnificance. "And] could not have come here Satur- "It's not the bullet which killed any right or Sunday and gained Borden. It's the bullet he fired access to Mr. Borden's office, even in defence of his life-but just an if he could have entered the build- instant too late,"

ing and left it unobserved by the elevator man. You must believe me when I tell you that the key which the waiter, picked up and McMann's hard grey eyes drop handed to Jurk was the key to my ped. "Detective Carlson found apartment, not my office koy. No, this bullet while you were out to Mr. MeMann, you're on the wrong Junch with Hayward. He found arent. Please believe me, please ly on that strip of cement, seven keep an open mind for some theory flights below," and Menn point. Which will explain all the facts." ed to the window overouking the

Ruth shrunk into her chair. Please tell me. I don't under gland."

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Hirshaft "Ami after Carlson "As one of those facis," Me- found this--" the detective return. Mann pointed out, "is that Barry ed the lattened bull. to big poe-Borden fired a shot whick grazed ket and rose from Bod's desk-in brick in the wall beside Jack "I found something else. Come Hayward's window." here!"

"And what does that prove--

If his

Ruth followed him, jerkily, on against Jack? Ruth challenged. ise-cold feet, in the window. Two "Il serant that Mr. Borden Was pigeons, strutting about on the standing ner that window when window ledge, look flight, but she he was killed, but how can you be squrcely saw them. Her wide, sure that he was facing the win- frightened eyes followed the diree-diw when he took aim? tion of McMann's pointing finger { murderer-or, murderess-thred int - spot in the brick wall beside him in this office, isn't it easy to Jack Hayward's window,

picture Mr. Borden's armi dyin "See?" McMann persisted, but out, after he was hit, so that the without triumph. "A new seat in bullet with which he had mennt que of these old brieks. I've ex-to kill his attacker, was discharg amined it-and it's new all right.fed through the window? Why ag- That is where this ballet struck-sane that he had aimed at some harmlessly. IL was aimed at one in Jack's window? There was Harry Barden's murderer, who simply nowhere else for the hallet stood in Jack Hayward's window, to, go--"

but the lager which pulled the "Just a minute!" McMann inter- trigger was that of a man mortally rupted. Detective. Birdwell open- wounded or the shot would noted the door between the private "have gone so wldo of its mork, Do, office, and the outer office. "What you understand now, Mias Les- is Birdweli?". leg

on the

"Commissioner Weeks

Ruth raised her trembling hands] wire from headquarters, sir." to her fate, pressed her icy fingers) McMann reached for the inairn- tips into her throbbing temples, meat on Borden's desk, but before | "No! No!" she cried. "I don't un-he removed the receiver, he spoke derstand! All I know is the per to Ruth: "That's all for the pres- son at whom that shot was firedient, Miss Lester. Please remain was not Jack Hayward?”

in the outer office till I need you again. You might open and sort | M'Mann turned from the win- the afternoon mail. I take i dow, strade to Borden's desk, took charge of it and go over it later, his seat rain. Ruth followed un-of course."

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stendily, her knees so weak with. As Ruth shipped through the fright that they could scarely door which, Hrdwolf beld for her support her small body.

she heard the detective sergeant greet his superior, the policy com- missioner.

"What became of your platel which we know from fingerprint evidence that Burdeti haud av med

Sickly she realized, what that after you left Safarany, lingered call from the head of the polies me considerably until this ex department meant. Canumissioner dence turned-up." McManu said Wicks was famous for his choleric slowly. "I believe that Borden temper, his impatient demand for: was shot as he stoon against that quirk results, especially if sensue open window, that, as he fell, tional enses, like the murder of nortally wounded, his pistol-or Handsome Barry Borden. Maj rather, your pistol--clattered out metta svenied to be "Arrest sume- of his hand to the cement below body anyway and find out the His murderer retrieved it, de truth later." "In this particular, posed of it along with the weapus case, duck Hayward would un- with which he had killed Barry doubtedly be the victim Horten."

missioner Weeks' avid appetite for "Retrieved it?" Roth cried, adnewspaper praise, denly electrified. "How? How?

If you mean Jack Hayward when

of Com-

Fifteen minutes later, as sho (sat at her desk, trying to conten-

you say his murderer, how could trate upon the thick sheaf of cor-

Jack have possibly retrieved my respondence addressed to a man

who would never read it. Police Commissioner Weeks arrived,

pistol on Saturday? Otto Pfluger the elevator operator on Juck's corridor, has told you that Jacki descended in his car.

Ruth knew the commissioner not inore than 10 minutes after 0110 had personally. In the old days, be taken him up. There is no way fore her father's death, Weeks had

dined occasionally

with the of entering that court below ex- cept through a basement door. Ifamous criminal lawyer. Calby know, because I once dropped my Lester. She rose and faced the handbag out of that window and tall, lean, distinguished-looking had to go clear down to the inse-man who had barked out a cert ment and through a door leading greeling to Detective Birdwell. from the basement to get it.

"How do you do, Mr. Weeks?"

"If Jack had done that, he would she faltered, trying to make her have been seen. Moreover, he trembling pa smile naturally. "I did not have time to walk down wonder if you remember me?" seven lights of stairs, counting Light sprang into Commissioner the basement stairs, and all the Weeks' cold eyes; a broad smile suddenly beneath his way up again, in the 10 minutea flashed he was in the building. And stubby white moustache. "Remem- exclaimed there has not been one shred of ber you, child?" he evidence from either of the clean- cordially, taking her cold Hitle ing women or any lenant, to con-hand in both his. "Who could for- firm your earlier suspicion that got your pretty face? You're Jack used my office key to get into Colby Lester's daughter, of course, this oflice after Mr. Borden was And while I'm mighty, sorry that killed, to retrieve the pistol pro-you're dragged into this miserable vided it fell to the door instead of business, I'm glad to out of the window."

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hind them. Had she helped or in- From these one-sided telephone hall. We'll have Hayward in first.

Every description "Well, and very happy," Ruth jured Jack's chances by her des- conversations which Birdwell car Miss Lester will answer the phone 'na the almost hysterically triumpanawered steadily. "You see, Mr. perate, indirect appeal to a man ried on at Benny Smith's desk, if it rings while you're gone." hant girl made each of her points. Weeks, I'm engaged to be married who had never been known to per- Ruth learned that Cleo Gilman had The phone didn't ring during ive had considerately turned his |Boecial faudiitius for Home Exchange. Then, when she had finished, he to a man I love with all my heart mil friendship to interfere with not yet been found, that no in the detective's asked slowly: "What about Satur--Mr. John C. Hayward. I'm go- the performance of his duty? Well formation at all had been gleaned standing trembling beside it, wish- day night or Sunday? Knowing ing to invite you to my wedding." and her body sagged tiredly as the present whereabouts of ed it would that something nured.

"Hayward?" the commissioner she had done her best for Jack... Jake Bailey, the murdered man's would happen to make those long Ruth wanted to warn him that that the pistol lay there, he could have taken his lime about com-repeated, his eyes going cold and

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pale again, "Isn't that the young of suspense for Ruth Lester. From mitted to return to his home, fol- door opened and Jack Hayward of the flattened bullet found in the court below his window, but he And there is no record of his man-7 Oh, hello, McManni I'm five until six o'clock the rumble of lowed by a detective, was so ill pushod in ahead of Birdwell. being in the building Saturday renewing an old friendship with voices, sometimes loud, the words that a doctor's car had been park- Ruth's anxious, loving eyes do- stopped her first worda. by laying Authorised Oszitál

Lastred almost intelligible, sometimes lowed before his home for more thun voured him. He had evidently just his lips against hers. That kion, Pald-Up night or Sunday," Ruth told him little Ruth Loster." triumphantly. "I

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brushed his hair, for the deep which Ruth wanted desperately to the register for those days, but I'm Ruth sank slowly into her chair through the closed door. There At nix o'clock came tixx order waves in it gleamed welly in the prolong forever, leat the next time sure you have, and since I know as the two men--the detective aer-were infrequent interruptions, which Ruth had been, expecting electric light. Not the act of a their lips met it should be from Barples.......................................... Jack wasn't in the Starbridge gennt in charge of the investiga- when Birdwell received reports, and dreading. McMann, looking guilty man... And his bronze between prison: bare, lasted until Building after two o'clock Satu- tion into the murder of Henry P. from headquarters or other detec pale and harassed, opened the door brown eyes, wide open,, candid, Detective Birdwell elowly crossed the pinced me of the world.

the room and opened the door into day until nine this morning, Borden, and Police Commissioner tives working on the case, which and smoke shprply to Birdwell; clear, smiled at har know his name is not on the re-Weeks-passed into Borden's pri-he, had to relay to his superiora "Get Hayward and Rita Dubols. They both forgot Detective Bird the private office,

(To Be Continued.) gister. That's true, isn't it?" vate office and closed the door be closeted in Borden's private office. Rita's in Covey's charge, down the well as they moved toward ach

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