DETECTIVE THRILLER!
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE BLACK PIGEON.
By Anne Austin.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
rupted, demanded the girl's whole attention with his next words:
"I submit, Miss Manning,” Mc- Mann began slowly, "that your need became so desperate that you determined to stop at nothing, not even a threat of murder, to force Harry Borden to. provide for your son. In't that true?"
"No!"
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"You deny then, Mies Manning, [pitiful appeal that Ruth's own eyes that you have ever threatened "I have acen Mr. Borden a num-"And so," "McMann
stung with sudden tears.
Harry Borden's life?" on, "you "I do! Of course I deny it ber of times during the last few followed him about, telephoned The beautiful voice throbbed with months at a distance," Martha him here at his office and at his anger, Manning answered the detective home, wrote letters which he did
McMann afled, that cynical sergeant's quee"^on.
not answer, made an excuse to twisting of the lips which always "You mean you followed him enter that you could observe your made. Ruth Lester shiver with re- about?" McMann pounced.
intended victim, then, by a lucky pulsion. "But you won't deny that Martha Manning amiled strange chance, discovered how you could you have written to Mr. Borden af Chrysler Corp. (Cam- ly, and did not answer. But ahe
number of times in the last few stamped out her half-smoked use that other office as the scene
months?" cigarette in the ash tray which of your crime-"
The woman's eyes dilated, then stood on Borden's desk, and droppscreamed, springing to her feet, swered in a voice so low it was al- "No, no" Martha Manning closed for a moment, before she an ed her hands into her lap-as if she could not trust one of them her eyes blazing, but her facemost a whisper: "No. I won't deny undor the piercing eye of the de-asher, except for those ghastly that. Of course I wrote him. I tective.
"I ask you again, Miss Manning when was the last ilme you saw Harry Borden?" McMann asked with, angry impatience.
spots of rouge. "You're cowardly, despicable! You know you have no foundation for a charge like that--",
pose and the result of that im is that?" promptu interview, Miss Mann- ing?"
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could reach him in no other way." "And when did you write your last letter to your former lover?" McMann persisted. "I haven't made any charge-. Martha Manning molstened her "My last-interview with Mr. yet," McMann reminded her grim-dry lips. "I-don't remember the Borden was on Christmas Eve. I'mly, as he too rose and pushed back exact time. afraid I took rather an unfair ad-his chnir. "Come here, Mins "Then let me refresh your mem- vantage of his manservant's care-Manning!" and the detective seizory," the detective suggested, slow- lessness he has probably tolded one of the woman's wrists and ly drawing a large, orchid-tinted you-and succeeded in speaking drew her by force to the window envelope from his packet. with Mr. Borden."
looking out upon the airshaft.
The woman half started from ber' "Ah!" McMann raised his bushy "Look!" and, he pointed to the chair, seemed about to ask a star- brows. "And what was the pur-opposite window. "Whose office tled question, then subsided, her gaze fixed in terrible fascination upon the closely written sheet Texas Corporation which McMann drew from the en-United States Leather
"A" The woman snatched her im-velope and laid before her. "As to the purpose of that inter-
"You recognize this letter? You United Staton Steel view, I decline to answer. Its re-prisoned hand from the detective's
Willys Overland hold and suit
rubbed her reddened admit you wrote it?" undoubtedly you
know
There was no need for an answer,
Vacuum Oit already," the
Woman answered wrist. don't know! How
and Martha Manning made none. calmly, but Ruth saw her hands should I?"
"You will note," McMann pointed swer is stili --but I won't think were gripping each other tightly Mann retorted. "That is the pri- Friday afternoon-the day before
Then let me remind you," Me-out obligingly, "that it was written of that now!'" in her lap.
McMann
vate office of Mr. John C. Hayward, Henry laughed,
That pitiful, quivering haud An ugly
Borden was murdered. one, all insurance broker, the very agree-Now, if you will kindly read aloud started to lift itself from the blot right! Yes, the man, Ashe able and handsome young man you the last three sentences of this letter, but with the quickness of a definitely closes on Friday, Sents has told us that you and Borden, consulted, not so long ago, on the ter and he turned over the single sleight-of-hand artist's the detec- may be booked in advance in the presence of Jake Bailey,subject of a policy in favour of sheet of orchid stationery.
tives big hand shot out and cover-Moutrles. Borden's bodyguard had a row, your son.... Do you' remember
ed it, flattening it against the. that ended in a fight in which you)
green surface of the blotter. were almost knocked out. see Martha Manning seemed sud-
One of those betraying, thin! With his other he zelzed à full denly to get control of her tor-hands reached out, hovered over ink well and tipped it, so that the the cut on your lip has healed.. You tried to kill your lover then,
tured nerves. Almost 'calmly, the sheet, but did not touch it fluid ran in a dark tido beneath
LOSS OF LEG. mov-dropped instead to the green blot the pressed-down fingers of the didn't you?-and didn't quite though Ruth though she make a job of it?"
ed hastily
ter with which the top of the desk woman. OVET the spot
OPERATION IN STREET Borden's -lifo blood was almost entirely covered-lay The woman's great dark eyes where
"How dare you?" Martha Man-
AFTER ROAD SMASH. blazed with scorn." "May I remind had obbed away; the woman there, quivering.
ning gaaped, straggling to releuso "You won't oblige me?" Me- her hand, "What are you doing?"" you that it was I, and not Mr. Bor-walked across the room and took
Damages of £3,824 were awarded den, who was injured in that en-er sent again. It was not until Mann asked cheerfully. "Then
"Merely saving time by taking in the King's Bench Division re counter?"
the detective was also seated that let me repeat them from a very your fingerprints myself, Misscently to a girl who lost her right "But"-McMann leaned forward she answered his question:
good memory: "But Harry, in all Manning" the detective answer-leg as the result of a "I did consult Mr. Hayward solemnity, I warn you that you ed, as he lifted her ink-stained collision. Loward her across the desk, his eyes narrow to slits "you've about insurance, but that is not will be sorry if you do not do hand and pressed the fingers upon The girl, Miss Esther Emily BRANCHES--Bandiermarin hated him and planned revenge usually considered à criminal what I ask. I phall telephone you a sheet of white paper,
Mayes, a chemist's assistant, of ever
Saturday morning. If your an-j (To Be Continued.)" since that night! That's offence, Mr. McMann."
(Continued on Next Column.) true, isn't H?”
"And how did you happen to "No" The denial rang out pick out that particular insurance sharply, then, in a 'volee that quiv. broker?" МеМали аsked Bur- ered and broke with emotion: "Icastically. "Is he famous in his loved him. I loved Harry Borden fleld ?"
now?"
from the day I met him till the day I saw his name and business he died. I still love him-where-listed on the bulletin board of the ver he is now, and will love him Starbridge Building," Miss Man- till I die?"
[ning answered defiantly.
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"One of those days when you were trailing Borden? By the still living with
The detective settled back in his way, you were chair, regarding the trembling Harry Borden when he took these woman with that twisted smile of offices three years ago, weren't his which Ruth Lester longed pas-you? You were pretty familiar sionately to strike from his mouth. with the layout of this floor, I
"Suppose we get down to brašн suppose?"
tacks, Miss Manning. I'll tell you
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"When I went to consult Mr.
a few things, and then you tell me Hayward about insurance, I had
few. Tit for tat, Fair ex-no idea that, his office was neroNs) change. First: you have a son-"the afrshaft from Harry's," was he said with awful casualness, the positive, almost calmly spoken then paused to watch the blood answer, but Rath saw a pair of slowly drain from Martha, Mann-thin, white hands twisting, inter- ing's thin face, leaving the rouge twining-hands that would not lie. spots in ghastly relief. "A son no matter ow well that beautiful you have tried to force Harry contralto voice could be made to j Borden to recognize and support serve its owner's hidden purposes. as his legitimate child—”'
As Ruth watched those, hands
"Stop!" Martha Maaning half she got an odd, subconscious im- rose from her chair, leaned toward pression that they had a message the detective with clenched, trem- for her-a message of vital
bling hand, as if she were going fimportance-but with that com- to strike him. "Harry Borden pelling voice to listen to, there did not deny that he was the father was no time for Ruth to heed the of my son! He knew-oh, my muto story that the hands were God, how well he know!" and she telling...
sank back into her chair and press- "Then may remind you that ed her knuckles to her mouth to when you were in Mr. Hayward's stifle the Bobs that were shaking othee on two oecusions you went her whole, frail body.
to his window, which affords a
McMann whs apparently un-view of the interior of this office moved. He went on relentlessly and stood there each time-for "You loved this man, you bore him minutes looking toward and un- a son, you lived with him for years, doubtedly into this very room?" and yet for months before his "I did not look this way, because death he would not even speak to I did not realize that by so doing you on the telephone. Ho left I could see into Mr. Borden's office. orders with his secretary and with My eyes idly followed a number of his manservant that if the woman pigeons circling about the window, with the contralto valce called, but my thoughts were on my son, Mr. Henry P. Borden was not in.and how to provide for him in case How do you account for this, Miss of my death." Manning?"
"Your natural death-or by way The woman raised her head, and of the electric chair?" McMann with tight-clasped hands, fought suggested brutally.
u moment for self-control. "I ask-
ed something of Mr. Borden which
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he, we not or cold not do.
The frall body stiffened, but the
I-demanded that he marry me. contralto voice scorned to make
do that our son might bear a plea for sympathy: "When I first
father's name."
would
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consulted Mr. Hayward about insur-
"What do you mean-could not?ance, I knew I was not well, but I Mcbfann caught her up.
considered myself a passable insur "He told me that Mrs. Bordenance risk. But when I saw him the not give him a divorce.econd time, I went with the know- She knew about my baby, and for my physician had told me that ledge that insurance was impossible, was determined that her own I have pulmonary tuberculosis, It children should never know of was with this knowledge that I ap- their father'sain. When I in-pealed to Mr. Borden on Christmas sisted, Harry-Mr. Borden-left Eve for help for my son."
There was a brief silence, almost "Because he had fallen in love Ion enough for Ruth to hear the with Cleo Gilman. Isn't that more mute message which Martha Man- like it?" McMann interrupted. ning's thin, twisting hands scomed
me-
The woman shrank against her to be trying to give her without chair, but only her great, torment their owner's knowledge or consent. ed brown eyes answered, with such But not quite, for MeMann inter-¡
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