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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY, 23,

DETECTIVE THRILLER !

THE BLACK PIGEON.

By Anno Austin.

CHAPTER XL.

A short, broad-shouldered man, Hello, Cap! Seen In the papers battered, unmatching features, on his face composed of a set of where my buddy, Harry Borden, got which a genial smile. set oddly, bumped off, and that you was an swaggered into the room, his sur lous to have a chat with me. Any prisingly falsetto greeting accom- thing I can do---Wall, I guess you panying an normous hand thrust don't need me after all, Cap!" be out toward the detective in charge broke off to exclaim when, on of the investigation Into the murder reaching Borden's desk and shaking of Henry. P. Borden: hands with MeMann, he got a view of the face of the woman whose back had been turned toward him as he entered the room. "So you got him, did you? Minute my back was turned-

"Just a moment, Bailey!" Me- Mana Interrupted sharply. "You Identify this woman?"

"Sure I know her! Harry painted her out to me not a week after he took me on to look after him. „Jake,' he says, ‘take a good look at that woman and don't let her get any nearer to me than ale is now, or you'll lose your job, Jake, he says-

"When and where was this?" Mc- Mann interrupted Impatiently.

that told, that Jake, Bailey's words It was not a laugh this time had struck home. It was a long- drawn "Oh!" of infialte misery, so heart-rending that Ruth Lester in- voluntarily leaned forward and. patted those tight-locked hands whose message she had not yet had time to read.

MeMann prodded his witness.

"And after your knacked her out?)

"Well, me and Harry fixed her up with some brandy, and I took her down and put her in a taxi. Paid for it, too," the ex-pugilist added virtuously.

•

Marthu Maming raised her hend then and stared steadily at the man who leaned nonchalantly against her dead lover's desk,

"But you were with Borden be fore you left?"

'Now-lemme see!" Jake Bailey laid his pearl-grey derby on his dead employer's desk and scratched hia head. "Must a-been fong about the middle of November, for I had my Inat bout with Battlin' Demon "Sure I was. I went with him, on November tenta frame-up it to the Grillon, a swell feed joint, was, too, Cap, I'll take my Bible and waited outside while he ate onth! All right, Cap! Keep your with his new sweetie, that classy shirt on!" he admonished the de-little.dancer he picked up at the tective genially. "But you nat, Golden Slipper. "Bout half-past didn't you? Well, it must a-been six it was when he met Rita there: about the middle of November, then and around eight when him and and me and Harry was walkin' her conie out: He put the frail in along the Avenco when Harry pipes a taxi, and promised to see her at this dame gittin' off bus. She the Golden Slipper about 10, be- make like she's gonna spenk to fore her act went on at 11. She him or bust, and then he says to wouldn't let him drive over to her me, Harry says—”

"Yes, you've already, told that McMann interrupted impatiently. "Did she speak to him?"

"Say, Cap!" Jake Bailey grinned broadly. "Harry hopped into taxi so quick I almost got left!"

hotel with her always acted pretty ritzy with him that dame did. So him and me hopped into another cab and come on over to his office. Said he was dopin' out ค a new scheme and wanted to work

awhile before goin' to the Golden

"Did you ever see her again?" "Sure! Christmas Eve. That Slipper."

bird that potter around Harry's upartment went to the bootlegger's

"And did you come up with him?"

"Sure. Harry, wouldn't go into

downstairs and left the door un-his own office at night alone, if he

latched, and first thing ne

"How long were you with Bor-

and could help it.” Harry knew-in the bedroom wo was there. pho was, no shame at all-busting, in on a man what's den?" changin' his clothes !”

}'

At the expression, of Jake's out raged modesty, Martha Manning laughed a queer, startling blend

"Oh, bout half an hour, I guess," Jake answered readily. 'I didn't have nothin' to do but kill time before my train left-9:24, that was. Must a-heen 'round nine when I beat it sure, that's of scorn and ironic amusement, when it was! Eight: fifty-five! I

"Yeah! You can laugh, can't remember

asking the eleva- you " Jake Bailey's little greenish- tor man what time it was. blue eyes glared at her with hat- "Please, Mr. McMann, may 1 red. "You got him-jist like he ask a question?" Ruth spoke for thought you would, and now you the first time since Jake Bailey had entered the room. "I've just

laugh!"

Murtha Manning's great, tragic brown eyes swept him scornfully, as if he were an obnoxious insect,

been wondering how Mr. Borden got into his office, since he'd given. his key to Rita Dubois Friday

then dropped to the hands in her afternoon and never did get it lap.

back."

Jake, this is a serious charge) That's right!" McMann agreed, you're king against Miss Man- rather ungraciously. He did not ning," the detective began. "What enjoy having been caught nappipy. foundation have you for this "How did Borden get in, Jake?" charge? Have you personal know- "Check, kid and Jake touched. ledge of Miss Manning's guilt?" his forehead in a salute to Ruth. “Personal knowledge-hell!” the "Harry didn't remember till he got ex-pugilist retorted. "If you mean to his door that he didn't have a did I see her do it-nő! I left key, and since I never had one my- town Friday night and fist gat self, he had to hunt up one of the. buck-"

old janes that cleans the offices to "Before we go into your own let him in with her passkey. He whereabouts on Saturday, when couldn't find the old lady that took Borden was killed," McMann in-care of his office reg'lar, and had terrupted, "suppose you tell ine to prove who he was by showin' a exactly what happened on Christ- letter with his name on it to the mas Eve, between Misa Manning weman 1 scouted around and and Harry, Borden."

found for him."

“Well, like I said--me and Harry "Hmm! Letty Miller, I suppose. other cleaning was in Hurry's bedroom, when in She's the only she walke, bold as brass.. "Harry,' woman on the floor," McManu she says, 'it's Christmaal Aren't commented, as he made a' note. you going to give me and the boy "Where did you find her?"

a Christmas present?' she says, "Down the hall." Balley answer- and by that time Harry was at ed promptly. Said she wasn't her, tryin' to walk her right back acquainted with the tenants an out of his room. But she hung this corridor, but was just helpin" back-like a wildcat she was-and out the old lady who belongs ont she keeps whinin' something about this part of the floor."

For the first time in many min- not wantin' nothin' for Christmas but his promise to git à divorce utes MeMann addressed a question and marry her-oh, no! She didn't to Martha Manning: "Did you see want nothin' much?" he laughed this scrubwoman yourself, Misa. sarcastically.

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"And then? Borden struck her The contralto voice was quite on the mouth?" McMann promoted steady, "No. As I told you be impatiently.

fore, I saw no one. Iwas alline while I waited for this man”...... Something like a blush ran over and she nodded scornfully toward the serambled features of the ex-Jake Bailey-"to leave, and no one pugilist. "We-ell, Cap," he admit- but myself was in the hall when ted reluctantly, "I reckon that was I left, after seeing Mr. Borden, me. Harry was payin' me a zood The scrubwoman who admitted sal'ry to portect him, wasn't he? 1 Mr. Borden must have finished her jist done my duty-at's allt But I work in this corridor before I had nover hit her till she snatched walked up the stairs." open her hundbag like she

tion "Where WAS you? You got her fingerprints, loft sometime wildcat in wag MeMann poremptorily command- reachin' for a gun-and Ilarryed the amazed ex-pugilist to wasn't in no hall when I come out between Friday afternoon and

"Mr. Borden carelessly opened yelled at me to help him." ailence. "You realize, Miss Man of here to take the elevator" Monday morning on the glass the door wide, thinking it was

"And did she have one?"

“No, I wasn't. I was behind the panel of that door between the you," Martha answered him ning," he said to the now calm, atairway door, holding it alightly two offices. Mias Manning insists calmly. "Mister Bailey, you've "No," the dead man's efficient bat burning-oyed woman, "that if ajar and watching you," Miss Man- that those fingerprints were mada just told Mr. McMann that you bodyguard admitted. "Reckon she Letty Miller tells me she was work ning assured him with cool tri- on Friday night, that she followed kept a sharp eye out for me, leat was after a picture of the kid sho ing on this corridor while

you umph.

you and Borden into the building, I follow Mr. Borden, and that you hdd in her bag. Had Merry claim you were in it your story

"Say " Jake Balley turned

·Christmas' for my Dad' wrolė

walked up the stairs, walted at the did not soo me again after Christ- on will be blown sky-high?" it-"

MeMann. You got 'the goods on hend of them on the seventh floor mas Eve. That's, correct, Isn't "I'm not afraid of anything that that dame, ain't you?-and she's until you left Bordon, and then 147" "And did Borden later intimate this Letty Miller may say," Martha tryin' to lie out of it, ain't she? immediately knocked on Borden's to you that he feared this woman Manning retorted scornfully, "for You got proof she was in Harry's door, counting on his thinking it what of it?"

The man glared at her. "Well- would kill him?”

I am telling the truth. I was here office, and she's tryin' to make you was you, returned for a Jast word." "Sure!" came the emphatic an--I did wait until-this man had believe it was Friday night she

"I couldn't have passed very swer in a cracking falsetto. "He left, I did have a talk with Mr. was here and not Saturday? That's tously. "Claims Borden- let her your seeing me?" she peralated. Mr. McMann that I watched you

"Hell" Bailey apat contemp close to you on the street without aald he'd, a-swore she was gonna Borden- croak him that time, and he bet "Say" Jake Bailey burst out,

right, ain't it?"

in-pretty and polite as: you! "Then the lovely contralto from the head of the stairs on Fri- she'd do it yok...”

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M'Mann grinned wryly, "Sub- please, does she? Hol Not Harry! volca vibrated with triumph, "I day night!".

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