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DETECTIVE THRILLER ?

THE BLACK PIGEON.

"By Anne Austin.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

clearing the man, she loved vanish- ed-or almost vanished. For-it Martha Manning had not so used Jack Hayward's office, who hadt

McMann, tacitly admitting his inck of proof by not answering her challenge, considered for a long moment, then said, with a shrug of his massive shoulders: "Well, where do you say you were? Got a good alibi all framed up, I sup- "And you said"-McMann level pose? First: where do you Bay ed a forefinger at her and narrow-you wore when you made that "All right, Mles Manning," Mc-ed his gray eyes to slite "you second telephone call?" Mann

urged impatiently,

as said: Teli Mr. Borden that if he the woman's blazing eyes swept is wise he will talk to me when I dramatically from Jake Bailey to call again". Your last warning, himself.

wasn't it. Miss Manning?"

CHAPTER XLI

"The stairway door, Mr, Bailey, "If you wish to call it that," if you don't happen to have no-the woman shrugged. "What I ticed," Martha Manning began meant was that, if he did not keep quietly, "is next to the elevator. As his promise to establish a trust

THE VOLUNTEERS.

ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.

The following orders for'tho Rong- kong Volunteer Defence Corps are issued by Licut Col. L. G. · Bird. D.S.O., Ó.B.E., Commandant.

1. King's Birthday Parade The Corps will parado as strong as possible at Corps Headquarters at 10.00 a.m. to take part in the Core- monial parado in connexion with the celebration of His Majesty's Birth- day. dress:

Review order 1.0. Helmet, khaki Jacket, shorts, black boots, put Lees and

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Scottish Company

24, 1929;

The Naughty ... Child,

Your naughty child is often not really so blamaworthy as he seams. Even we grown-ups know what it

is to be con- trary

days,

Bohe

those

days when as an excuse for 111temper, moroseness, or perversitles of

one

kind or

another,

BAY WO

Wo

nre

"out of sorts'. under the woatheroF 'not feeling up. to the mark." As with us, with the child-the naughtiness*

"I called from a booth in a cigar store," Marta Manning replied calmly, and named it. "And I called at five minutes to two, as I told you. After my conversation with Mr. Borden, I was sure he would do as he had promised, and I went directly to the park, where ing, until half-past four, when I support the child, as I had threat-returned to the Acropolis-arriv ened on Friday night.".

ing about 15 or 20 minutes to five." "And yet"---McMann pounced➡ "Any proof that you were in the ed. "What's wrong with 'em?" and "you were so dizzy with joy and park? See anyone you knew?" less Motor Armoured Car Company organization of the digestive prom

through with the suit to make him

you waited for the elevator to take fund for our son, I would go I walked or sat on benches read- you down, I had ample time to note ~~with

some amusement-your taste in shirts and cravats."

"Is that aa7" Jake Bailey snarl-

Martha Manning smiled-that

he looked down at the blue-and-relief when you came out of his McMann aaked sarcastically. white striped shirt and plain black office. Friday night that you had necktie he was wearing at the to lean against the door for sup-strange, ironic smile that deepened moment the latter obviously a port! How do you account for the bitter lines between nostrile tributo to his dead employer.

"Nothing-with those you have your sudden change of heart?"

Ruth,

•

and mouth corners. "A lone wo- man, practically, friendless, is not likely to encounter acquaintances in the park."

"I thought sol", McMann com- mented with grim ambiguity. Then he strode to the door and curtly requested Rita, Dubois to enter.

.

The little dancer showed signs of the strain under which she had lived during nt least 24 hours, but there was a trace of the old jaunti-

"Old home week for Handsome Harry's sweetien, n'est ce past" she laughed, ns her bright young. black eyes took in the older woman. "You recognize Miss Manning?" McMann asked quickly.

on." Martha Manning smiled. "But Friday night you were wearing a The "great,,dark oyes suddenly shirt with broad purple stripes and looked atterly weary. "I was a bright red cravat. The colour afraid he had promised just to get combination was rather noisy." rid of me on Friday night. 1 "Were you wearing such a shirt wanted to talk with him again, to and tie on Friday night, Bailey""sk him if he had seen his lawyer, McMann demanded.

as he had promised he would, or "Well-what if 1 was Bailey had made the appointment to do retorted.

| 30," "I suppose you yourself have an Birdwell

the opened

door. alibi for Saturday, Bailey?" MeHere's Miss Dubois, chief." Mann changed tactics suddenly, "Have her wait out there till 1ness as she sauntered into the

"Alibi? What fell do 1 aceeal for her," McMann

directed room. with an albi?" Jake spluttered. "impatiently. "New, Miss Man- left town Friday night at 9:24-ming, why didn't you call Borden went to visit my folks up near 15 or 20 minutes later?

Why did' Newtown. They live on a farm, you wait until after two o'clock.?" and 1 guess at least 1 people cari tell you that Jake Bailey, the closely, her

watching the woman famous prizefighter, was spending heavily, wondered if it was fear the dancer informed him. "Keep

own heart beating"

"No-just a natural conclusion," Saturday, Sunday and Monday or merely indignation which made your seat, baby-face," she grinned with his family. I'd a-heat those great dark eyes dilate as at Ruth Lester, who had risen to home sooner, but I didn't see a city they did.

offer her chair. "I'm sure Mr. Mc- paper till this morning, and then!

"After two?" Miss Manning Mann won't keep me long." "Just give me the names of a repented. "I did not wait until

She was right. In a series of few of those 10 people," McMann after two! 1 called at five min-rapid questions McMann elicited suggested, and Jake Bailey prompt-wered the phone himself. He day night: She had had dinner at ites of two, and Mr. Borden an- the following story regarding Fri- ly obliged.

"You can go now, Jake," Me-gain promised to see his lawyer the Crillon with Borden, and had Mann said, when that formality)

"Just a minute!" McMann cut was concluded, "but don't leavnj

in sharply. "Suppose I tell you town. Where are you going to what happened! You came to the live, new that Borden is dead?"

"Back to the Mills Hotel for Sturbridge Building to see Borden Jake, I guess," the ex-pugilist ad-again, after you'd made your first

call mitted ruefully. "Sure, I'll keep)

"That's not true!" the woman cried.

I took the first train,”

Monday-".

Woman

seen Jake Bailey join her "suitor" on the sidewalk before the restau- rant. Borden had joined her at 10 o'clock at the Golden Slipper" night club and had arranged with the manager for her to have the night off on Saturday, so that she In touch with you, Cap," he added,

could go away with Borden on the with his former geniality. Then,Shut up and listen to me!"

week-end trip to Winter Haven.

Borden had had to pay in ad- "And say, Cap, don't let the dame the detective commanded harshly, yance for Rita's substitute, but pull the wool over your eyes. You enme here, knocked on Bor-had seemed in the best of spirits. Take a tip from Jake Boiler-do's door, he naked who it was,No, ho had not said a word to her she got Harry!"

you answered, be recognized your cerning a visit from a

about Martha Manning, or con- When the man had swaggered voice, refused to admit you, you earlier in the evening.. out of the office, McMann gave him somehow;

determined to see him or talk with an order to Detective Birdwell:hat John C. Hayward's offices lie whom Borden had given his firkle Throughout the questioning of you remembered Rita Dubois, the Inst woman to Bring in Rita Dohuis. She's in directly across the airshaft from love, Martha Manning sat Covey's charge down the hall."

with Then, returning to his desk and Borden's; you went to his door, downcast eyes, and when the dan his inquisition of Martha Manssibly to ask him to let you use eer had been sent back to Detective ning, he asked the question which his phone, even to solicit his aid Covey, a tremulous sigh of relief Rath had been expecting him to forcing an interview for you stirred the bitter mouth of the

with Borden=" nak for the last hour: "Miss

"No, no. That's not true! None Manning, where were you on Saturday afternoon? You've said it is true!" Martha Manning your work at the switchboard cried passionately, rising from keeps you only till half-past 11 her chair in her excitement.

older woman.

The detective sat for long min- utos, making futile marks with his pencil an Borden's desk blatter. Then, at last: "I'm going. to let warn you if you try to leave the you go now, Miss Manning, but I city you shall be detained and arrested."

cach morning. Account for your plowed through her protestations. The detective's mighty voice time after that,#please."

"I did what i do every after You didn't find Hayward in, but because his cleaning, woman was noon," Misa Manning answered calmly, though Ruth saw that careless, you found his door on-

"I shall not leave the city," again the thin hands were twist-neked, entered, telephoned Bor- Martha Manning promised quietly.. ing nervously in her lap. "Iden, quarrelled violently with him and left, but not before she had

From a few minutes after two un- smiled mistily, with walked. My doctor's orders are til two ten, learned that he would tragic eyes and bitter mouth, at her great that I spend at least half the day do nothing for you-Wait!" He Ruth Lester. in the open air. He says it in my only chance to conquer the the agitated woman into her chair McMann grumbled in self-defence commanded roughly, and forced "Nothing to hold her on-now," ung condition." Again her with ruthless hunds. "I voice and manner made it clear know the exact worda with which all the commotion?"

even to Ruth. "But-good Lord What's

that she was not asking or want-he refused your demands, Mles

For the second time during the ing sympathy.

McMann tapped on the edge of Manning! Harry Bardou said to investigation into the murder of Borden's desk with his pencil. Borden what he can do and can't office boy, tore open

you, "Who are you to tell Harry Harry Borden, Benny Smith, the the door, Then: "If I remember correctly do? A witness overheard Bor-stood swaying in it, but this time

and I think I de-Saturday was den sny those exact words, Mias he said: "I've come to give my

Manning!"

a very cold and windy day."

"But the sun was shining," Miss Manning reminded him quickly.

"Where did you walk? And how long?"

"But not to me!" she cried, but she sat still again, except for these twisting hands, watching the detective'a face.

self up.

1 shot Mr. Borden!" (To be Continued.)

Nanking, May 23.

"I had lunch first-milk and

"And, then," McMann went on Tang Seng-chi has been appoint- fruit and rolla-in my room at the inexorably, "you remembered the ed chairman of the Military Ad- Acropolis, and then I walked the gun you had seen lying in the bot-visory Council, vice Li Chung-yen, streets until about half-pust one, tom of Mr. Hayward's deak, the recently dismissed.-Router. when I went into a drug store to first time you were in his office. telephone to Mr. Borden."

You called Harry Borden from:

to

own

"Which drug store?" McMann Hayward's.. window, he stepped

caught her up sharply.

Promptly she gave the name of first-

his

window, after securing Che weapon one of the busiest drug stores in with which he had armed himself the downtown district.

against an attack he evidently

1

• *

"And talked with Borden?" Me-feared, and you shot him, his bul Mann suggceted, with an effect of let going wild and hitting the wall casualness.

beside Hayward's window." "No," Martha Manning smiled | slightly. "A woman with an Irish Oddly, as the detective's charge brogué answered the phone. Satd piled up against her, the woman she was the 'cleaning lady, that became more and more calm. When Mr. Borden had just stepped out he had finished his terrible haran- for a minute, but would be right gue, ale raised her head and her back, mid please, wouldn't I hold eyes met bin fully, steadily, though the line" Amazingly, the con-her face was ghastly white around trulto voice was gone, and in its the rouge spots. "Mr. McMann, placo Minnie Casaldy's pleasant, you are merely trying to bully mo cracked old voice, rich with the into confessing a crime I did not brogue she had brought from commit, You cunnot possibly Ireland,

Ruth smiled, but McMann did

"And-then?" not.

Martha Manning resumed her

have any proof to back your absurd charges. I will gladly face any- one you can bring forward who will ay that he or she saw me in this building on Saturday. You know

own voice, “In a minute or two.you cannot bring forward such a Mr. Borden would not talk then: person, for I was not here."

the 'cleaning lady' told me that

but wanted me to call him again hind those quietly emphatic words,

in 15 or 20 minutes."

HURRY!

At the supreme confidence be

clearance sale

the last of Ruth's hopes of thus

A

causça many a run in silk stockings.

will conform drewed in the kilt.

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Gun Company.

No. 8 Company under Captain A. Mackenzie. Scotia Company and Scottish Reserve Section.

No. 4' Company under Captain R. R. Davies. Portugueso Company,

Officers for Colours: Lieut. H. Owen Hughes and another Officer to bo detailed later.

The Corps Sergeant-Major will de- tall the escort,

Practice Parades will be held at Volunteer Headquarters at 6.30 p.m as under. Dress drill order mufti.

No. 1 Company under Captain A. M. Thornhill. Munday, 27th May:

1920.

No. 2 Company and Colour party under Captain E. J. R. Mitchell. Tuesday, 28th May, 1920.

No. 3 Company under Captain A. Mackenzie. Thursday, 30th May, 1929.

No. 4 Company under Captain. R. R. Davies, Friday, 31st May, 1929.

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The Band will poradn for playing with the Massed Bands under special instructions.

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2. Corpa Band.

Shanghai, (cable address "Swanstock," The Band will parade for practice Shanghai), who are not responsible for King's Birthday Parade on followfor cable mutilations. These quota- ing dates at Headquarters at 5.30 tions are subject to confirmation: p.m. in mufti. Friday, 24th May,

Previous Latest Tuesday, 28th May and Friday, 31st!

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p.m.

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4. Car Section. Monday, 27th May. Parade Corps Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. to proceed to Kennedy Road Range for Machine Gun Part 1. Musketry.

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7. Portuguene Company, Parade. The Company will parade at full strength on Friday, May 31st At 5.30 p.m.

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King's Birthday Parade. The at- tention of all ranks is called to para. 1. of this order, in connexion with this parade.

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Paria, Lyons, Marseilles, Saigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Tourane, Quinhes, Bus, Thenh hoa Vinh, Tom Ford [Pęking, Shanghai, Tientsin, Hongkong,

Bankers.

France:--Societe Generale, Banque Nationale de Credit, Banque de París et dos. Pays Bas.

London; Midland Bank; Ltd 2 New York-American Bachange Irving Trust Co., Banca Commerciale Italiana..

San Francisco:—Bank of Italy. ̈ Every description of banking and Exchange business transacted. Corres pondents throughout the world.

L. Bernis,. Manager.

Hongkong, Brd August, 1928. -

THE BANK OF CHINA.

SPECIALLY AUTHORISED BY PRESIDEN« TIAL- MANDATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON THE IIND DE NOVEMBER, 1917. Authorland Capital. *...................... 389,400.060.48 Pald-Up Capital

* 18,278,049.00 FANDASEJA Reserve Funde o...............ASTLÍ

HEAD OFFICE; PEKING. HONGKONG BRANCH.

4. Quam's Road Central. Branches and. Sub-branekes all orse Chisa and Correspondents in Europe, Aiserica ané viber parts of the worl

LONDON BANKKOR:=TLa National Pr vincial and Union Bank of England, 144

The Guaranty Trust Company of New York. NEW YORK:DRANCIERS:-The Irving Ha tional Bank,

The Equitable Trust Company of New York. Intereal allowed on Current Accouple sně Fixed Deposita. Terma on Application.

Every descriptios of Banting -DÖNTÉSNA transacted.

Loans granted De approved smauritian, Special facilisis for Hama Euphaugs.

BHOU J. CHAM.

Manasw.

THE KO HỒNG BANK, LTD

(Katabilahed 117.) CAY ITAL

Authorhead Capital

Pald-Up

Reserva Kabli

holders.

of, share-

KALAM 4,400,407

**** 1,400,000 1,219,000

Shanghai Dorrepondanta In all principal cilims, of the Burgios

BEAD OFFICE1===SINUAPOI Every description of Bank and change Branzhen, Agacles and Correspondenis Business transacted. „Loans granted on ap- all the principal attim at the worl proved scar] tier.

Evary description of Bankers and Rushexag SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES. to. LANDS busingan izanabcted.

- TAN, ING BOOL

KAN TONO PO, Hongkong, 11 March-1937,"

Culet MinaKEI, “

Hongkong, April 176, 2028,