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THE BLACK PIGEON.

By Anne Austin.

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she suspected for a moment that I killed Harry Borden," she added quickly as McMann reached for pencil and paper.

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my voice, eried out, My God!ed them, put them on. Then I |Martha? Then he turned and ran went in,”

back to his desk and picked up an

Now suppose there aro two automatic. I think it was stark

The slight body was shaken with men of equal education and fear of me in my “Letty' disguise, shudder of horror, but after natural ability applying for a but of course I' can't say "what a moment she continued: "The position. One of them Lg cloar was in his mind. I can only toll first thing I forced myself to do minded, frosh, complexioned, what he did. I saw him coming was to close the window. I did not pleasant matinored, efficient. The back to the window with the auto-notice the pigeon's footprints in other is sallow, depressed, has a mantic, and suddenly 1 remembered blood inside and outside the win-bad akin and offensive breath, Mr. Hayienrd's gun. I stoopeddow. Then I looked for my let-Which gets the job? and jerked open the drawer. ter.. It was not in his pockets or When Harry aimed his pistol at in his desk. don't know where

There is no need to await your me my own aim was going up, you found it. But in my search Answer to this question. A more and in my hand was Mr. Hay for the letter I found the money. important one is, what makes the I took it for Paul, but also with difference between the two men? ward's automatie."

"You mean to say," McMann besome vague hope that the police Almost always it is constipation gan sarcastically, that Berden would think he had been shot by the condition wherein waste was such a poor shot he couldn't eld-up men. I also took the pis-materials accumulated in the In- hit a target only eight feet away?" afraid that if the police found the

tal from his-his hand. 1

was testines poison the blood, fog the "His aim was accurate," Martha fired gun they might look every-

brain, depress the spirit, Manning answered quietly, "but it where even outside the window, organize the digestion. was deffected by a white pigeon although I had closed it. At any alighting on his hand just as he rate, my Instinct to protect Mr. pulled the trigger. The bird Hayward made me take the gun, thought he was offering food-not wrap it with the other one and denth. The shot meant for me hide it in my pail. went wild, but mine, fired before Harry could aim again, did not. breath-possibly of relief. Then, The flat breast rose on a great think that's all. I killed him- before he could kill me."

exploded.

CHAPTER XLVII. "I would prefer that you begin your confession with the story of how 'Letty Miller' came into exist- ence, Miss Manning." the detective, "All right," McMann "conceded. sergeant decided. "There has been "I hardly think that Tim Cassidy's ample evidence to prove your rela-widow would connive at a murder. tionship with Harry Borden-your But go on. You laid your plans own story this morning and the to kill Borden 7" evidence volunteered by Frank

"No." Again that fishing de Ashc, Jake Bailey and Attorney Walters. I think perhaps your nial. "I merely wanted to Be near visits to Mr. Hayward's office, oa-him, to have easy access to his tensibly to inquire about insurance, office, so that I could see him alone some right and make him listen, I would be a good starting point."

believed he still eared something "Not ostensibly!" Martin Man- for the boy, at least. But Jake ning contradicted. "I really want Bailey was always waiting when ed to take out a small policy on Harry worked at night, and my my life in favour of my son.chance for an interview did not hoped to save enough from my tiny come. Not even Friday night, for salary, and to earn more in some it was.nino when Jake left, and I other part-time job, to pay the pred to leave the building, or be miums.

ught for and discovered by Mrs. "The Idea came, to me when Pellow. But admitted Harry to had followed Harry into the Star-ls offer that night with my pass-Where are the guns 7 What about bridge Building one afternoon, Hekey and he did not recognize me. the closed window? The $500 in did not see me until we were both

smaller bills that Borden had on

"All!"

McMann

in the lobby, and he refised to. "Friday afternoon I wrote one stop and talk with ine. When he last urgent appeal to my son's fahis dead body." had rushed into an elevator, I stood ther, and on Saturday morning I

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And whist is the remedy? Any person who has once tried them. will admit that it is Pinkottes, the dainty laxative and liver re- gulators which, whilst eflcloney "I at first intended to hide both itself, never gripe or purge. "A weapons in my coat pockets, and litle dose tonight-you feel ever noon. But I remembered that Mrs. efficient in the morning,Of take them out with me that after-so much better, brighter and more Pellow has a keen eye for suspl chemists everywhere, at 60 centa cious bulges in coat pockets when she checks us out of the building, per vial. afraid to keep the guns and afraid i didn't know what to do, I was

to throw them away. I happened "Yes. I couldn't think what to to be alone in the supply room just do with them," Martha Manning before four o'clock somehow I admitted wearily. "And I had to forced myself to do my work; it come back as 'Letty Miller, both was a relief to be busy--and my to avert the suspicion which would eyes, searching desperately for a jhave fallen upon her if she had. hiding place for the pistols, caught disappeared, and to keep those sight of an old pail without a han-pails under my own eye, until I dle, much less deep than the one could find some way of disposing I was using. An idea came to me. Jof the pistola."

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Martha Manning answered obe in the lobby, Kazing blindly at the telephoned to ask for his decision, diently. I wrapped Mr. Hay bulletin board, as if I were lookingle was not in, or would not talk ward's

dusting for the room number of a tenant.I could not know which. I called rag

in the After a bit I saw the words 'Insar later at half-past one, from an bottom

pall. ance Broker after the name Joan, fee I was cleaning, and Minnie Automatically, think. But after

a long while-or what seemed C. Hayward, And the office aumber herself answered the phone. -742. didaat kudy Harry's of am sure that Minnie had no idea long while- remembered two

the letter 1 fice was visible from Mr. Hay-he was talking with 'Letty Miller.' things:

mine and found that the circum- "And you'd have got away with ward's window, didn't know it until Harry gave her a message for me, written Harry on

Friday and ference was the same, so that the it, too, if it hadn't been for Missfulsed on splitation. I was actually standing at that was to call again in 15 or 20 which must still

be in his

rims met all around, but that a Lester." McMann admitted almost possession. window. I saw Harry at his desk, minutes. . I—"

wanted it, of

false bottom was formed-a com- admiringly. "But what I can't un- but he did nut see me.

course. I did not want my son'partment deep enough to hold the derstand is why you fainted this "One moment, please: How did

mother to.. "Later, a physican

in a free you manage your transformation remembered also that I had shot still wrapped in the dusting rag, morning, as Martha Manning, to But I'll go on two pistols. I placed them there, afternoon when you were able this etinic told me that I had tubercu-each day from Martha Manning Harry from Mr. Hayward's cfice, just as Minnie Cassidy and one of sit at Harry Borden's desk with losis, and knowing that insurance switchboard operator of the Aeropund that he had been kind to me. the other women came in. They apparent composure." would be out of the question, olis Hotel, to Letty Miller, the did not want the crime traced to went in person to pass the news to serabwoman?" McMann naked,'

him or to his office. It seemed

noticed nothing"

"It was the Black pigeon, tak- Mr. Hayward, rather than write him a letter. I did want 10 нее "It was comparatively easy. De vitally necessary that I close "And where are the guns now?" Ing sudden Hight from the very Harry again, if only from a dis-partient store rest rooms in the Harry's window, so that no one MeMann demanded.

apot where Harry had-had lain," tance, and I was so lonely the afternoon and any place in the dark would suspect that he had been "There!" And Martha Manning Martha Manning answered, a prospect of talking with so kindoorways, anywhere. was killed across the airshaft. I took pointed to the scrub pail which shudder of horror shaking her thin man as Mr. Hayward was pleasant merely a matter of putting on or my broom and pall and went to she had not just inside the door body. "When I came to close the also. But I had no plans, then." taking off the wig, and making up Harry's office, letting myself in when she had opened it upon her window and to look for my letter

"Ah! Plane!" McMann com- or removing make-up, according to with my paskey. I forgot to pull entrance.

Saturday, a black pigeon that must have flown through the open win. mented dryly, with a keen glance at the role I was to asseme. This af- on the rubber gloves 1 always wore

"Good God!" McMann ejaculat- dow after-after Harry was dead, Ruth to see if he were getting ternoon I walked into a department while cleaning, so that Martha every word of the confession down store rest room as Maitha Manning, Manning's, hands should not beed, when he had separated the fluitered up from the body. I in shorthand. "Just when were and left it as Letty Miller, without conspicuously marked with manual palla and stood with the two nu- didn't realize then that it was- those plans made, Miss Manning ?" your man, Carlson, suspecting that labour. That accounts for the tomaties in his hands. "And there just a pigeon. I thought it wan The two were the same person. This finger-prints, I think. But just they were when 'Letty Miller' camo the black soul of Harry Borden afternoon I changed hots-carrying after I had pushed open the door lugging that scrub pail into my going to meet its God." "On Christmas day, after my the extra one in my coat pocket, hetween the two offices I remember presence yesterday!" humiliating Interview with Harry and turned my coat inside out. It on Christmas Eve," Martha Man-is a reversible tweed, not the gar- ning told him, the exquisite, ment I wore this morning." thronty contralto faltering slightly. "I see" McMana hyrced, ob- "I felt that somehow I must be in viously chagrined. "Now about position to see him alone-not the second call to Borden Saturday with his bodyguard, Jake Badley, afternoon--" prosent-But to explain how I managed. I shall have to go back a bit-One evening early in De cember-"

It

1 had just entered Mr. Hay- ward's office, intending to make my call on his phone and then lenn

"Just a minute, Miss Manning!" | his offices-"

the detective interrupted. "Until "Wait! You know all along that this time-I mean, until the mac Hayward had a gun is the bottom sumption of a disguise-hád you | drawer of his desk, I suppoše?” ever made threats, verbal or writ- "Ne. I did not see it until 1 was ten, upon Harry Borden's life?"

"I had not the woman (1-

swered emphatically. Nothing was further from my wish or in

Letty Miller." I opened the draw- er to thrust in a towel which was

hanging out untidily, and saw the on thes. That was early last tention kiling him, I mean. I-week-Monday. I hellere. But even loved in,"

then I had no idea of evér using It. "And yet you became "Letty Miller, scrubwoman," McMann, "On Saturday afternoon I en- reminded her. "Baf go on, Misstered Mr. Hayward's ellice at Ave Manning. I believe you said some minutes (o two, to telephone Harry thing about one evening early in as he had requested. I was happy, December-"

1 thought he meant to listen to me "Yea, One evening early in De-at last. Mr. Hayward came back cember when I had followed Harry for his theatre tickets, and because to the Sturbridge Building, with the telephone was ringing, I left out getting a chance to speak with him alone. I waited in an office him, and was waiting for. him to across the tall and as soon as Mr. came out, a small army of cleaning Hayward was gone I re-entered his women poured out of the building. office and put in my call. I knew. It was just after nine. One of the Harry was in, for I had stepped to women-it was Minnle Cassidy, as the window and had seen him sit- I learned later-looked so ill that ting at his desk. He answered. I I followed her into the street. She pleaded with him to create a trust almost fulnted, and I took her fund for the boy, told him that I home, using the last cent I had was ill and might not live long to for the taxi.

support Paul myself. He called "On Christmas day, when I was me all sorts of names-liar, para- desperately casting about for a way site, and worse. When he finally do ser Harry alone, I remembered refused pointblank, I told Him a Minnie Cassidy's gratitude, remem-lie-I said I had already put the bered, too, thut she worked on the case, in the hands of a lawyer, seventh floor of this building.. I who would file suit Monday if he went to see her. I told her I refused to settle out of court. He needed work very badly, would was frightened, finally agreed to take anything. She told me that see me in his office that afternoon. one of the cleaning ladies'—her When he hung up I stepped to the partner on the seventh Boor, as window and looked at him. Is Minnic called her had just quit, face was black with hatred and and that her place had not been anger. filed.

"It was Minnie who took me to

Mrs. Pellow the following Monday, In-Rita Duboia. He was apolo- "While I stood there, a girl came but lato Christmas day I had en- gaged a room In a horrible old gelic and extremely-affectionate, He gave her, at her request, as I rooming house under the name of Letty Miller, and in the guise of leoked on, the torn half of a bill Letty Miller. Just for a week, In and by her expression of joy and case Afra, Pellow checked up on my the kisses she gave him I knew it address. The grey wig and this a banknota of very large

denomination.

I-nearly dress"—sho looked down at the faded called thing she wore had mad then-possibly quite mad," been given me as a sort of souvenir

"Hmm! Insanity defence!" Me- of my part in 'Stairs, a play in Mann commented grimly., "But- which I had made a rather notable 80 on." success just at the time I met Har-|

went

"I don't think I shall need an ty Borden. . Yes, I was an insanity defence," Martha Man- actress-"

ning retorted, with a strange smile. "That explains a lot," McMann When the girl had left, Harry commented grimly.

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