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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1929.

THE SHINING TALENT.

By Eleanor Early.

CHAPTER XII.

"Of course there Is," she agreed. "It could open with the trial of Barrows..

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The plot thickened. Perry In- gersoll, according to Red, had

"And sum up all the evidence gone to Bernice's apartment or in the first act," broke in Red. the day her body was found with "Make a regular mystery of it, you the marriage license and a wed. ding ring in his pocket. He had, know. Might even make the testi- in fact, shown them both to Red mony point toward some other guy. Then switch it around and Slim Boynton..

again, and when you got the au dience thinking it was Barrows, suddenly acquit him. great anti-climax of that."

He had another fellow with him that morning. A boy from the university who was going to be his beat man. Bernice didn't want any bridesmaid, for all her gorge ous wedding gown. She said she couldn't trust women, and she hadn't a girl friend in the world. They were going to drive to the house of some man Bernice knew, who was a justice of the peace, and the ceremony was to be per- formed there, Then they were all going back to the apartment for a wedding breakfast.

"But I don't understand," in- terrupted Molly. "You say Inger- Boll and his best man went to the apartment that morning. But Bernice's body wasn't found until .afternoon. She'd given her maid

Make a

"Then open the third act with that place on Beacon Hill," inter- rupted Molly eagerly, "and the In- gersoll kid crying....'

"How'd you end it?" demanded Red. "Make a mystery out of it?"

"Oh, so," demurred Molly. "We'd have to have a surprise climax. Maybe we could convict Ingersoll. . . No, that would be too obvious. We might drag the best man in."

She was very excited now. Her cheeks were flushed, and her eyes were blazing with an uncanny light.

the day off, you remember. The "Oh, Red," she cried, "de you janitor found her that afternoon, think we could do it?" when he went in on business. And the medical examiner said she'd been dead for some hours. Ingersoll had been there morning, as he says. he'd found her then.".

Now if

in the have

Red blushed furiously. "Gosh!" he muttered. "I can't write. I'm only a police court re- porter. But there's your plot. Molly. Go to it, old girl!"

He took her hand awkwardly.

know, Molly".

"He did!" triumphed Red. "I'm awful keen on you, you "That's just it Bernice was 'dead at nine o'clock. Coldps ice, the kid Bays.",

"But he didn't give the alarm? "You're darn right, he didn't give the alarm. The boy's not so dumb as he acts. Anyhow he's a welcher. I told you that already, didn't I? He was scared. Scared

"Ked!" she exclaimed, ani

thought, guiltily, of Jack. "You're not making love to me, my friend?"

"

"Love" he repented. "Now, Molly, be your size."

I

"Well, I didn't really think you to death. And you can't blame thought I'd better be sure, Red,

were," she protested. "But him much at that, Molly. There wasn't anything he could do for because you see I have a boy. her. And, naturally, there was And I'm pretty crazy about him. Police and all myself. I wouldn't want you to going to be a row.

get me wrong.” - that.

"Yes?" Red shrugged, non-. "Nobody know that Ingersoll

"Well, remember had anything to do with Bernice. committally. There wasn't a chance of drag-what I told you about getting mar- ging him into an investigation. ried, dear. On to Gehenna, like Not so long as he kept his mouth the poet says, 'or up to the throne, shut. Maybe his friend, the best he travels fastest who travels man, had the cooler head of the alone." You don't want to forget two. I don't know. Anyhow they that, Molly." made a safe get-away. And body saw them."

Red paused. And a silence fell between them.

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"Well," he demanded, "what' do you think of that?"

Molly shook her head..

"I don't know. It rather does away with the suicide theory, doesn't it?"

"I won't." she promised. "You haven't any idea, Red, how anxious I am to have a carcer. Why, the very thought of writing a play- feel my heart, Red!”

It was beating, beneath her ruf-! fled blouse, like a fluttering bird. "I'm so excited," she confessed. and so absolutely crazy, that I think I could write your play, Red."

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"Absolutely." agreed Red. "My play?" he scoffed. "It's "Didn't I tell you she'd ordered your play, dear. Will you get to groceries and champagne for a work on it, Molly?" wedding breakfast? Nobody.does. things like that, and then takes a dose of cyanide,"

"No," she said. "No, I suppose not. What does Ingersoll think, Red?".

wh

"Oh, I will she promised. "I

And happily thoughtlessly- she threw her arms about his neck. "You dear old Red!" she tried.

Red kept his arms stiffly at his sides, and the colour drained from his thin, lushed cheeks, so that the freckles stood out, big and Molly's precious Kashmir. His bald, like a small boy's,"

"I'll write nights," she declared. "Every night. I'll begin to-

"Hell, Ingersoll knows!"

Red dropped his cigarette on the rug, and ground it fiercely

eyes were blazing.

into

Like a good story teller, Red had saved his climax. And now, having reached it, the horror of the thing seemed to engulf him.

"Bernice had a date the night before," he said. "And that date was with Barrows".

"You mean," whispered Molly, "Barrows killed her?"

Red shrugged his, shoulders. "Circumstantial evidence," he admitted. "He had an alibi, of course. Said he spent the even ing at home with his wife. Lord, that's no alibi! Mrs. Barrows was just naturally a go-through sort. She lied for him that's all." "But I should think Ingersoll would have been a state witness!" exclaimed Molly.

"No, he had sense enough to keep out of it," repeated Red "You can't bame him for that Bernice was dead. It wasn't as If he could do anything for her Naturally, he thought of his folks. It would have been sweet

morrow."

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But the next day Molly was un- expectedly assigned to cover a murder trial in another atate.

They called the defendant an anarchist and a bolshevist. But that was wrong, for he was just a gunman, and it was a mistake to call him long. brave names. Be- cause many people came to believe him unjustly persecuted, and some thought he was being prosecuted for his convictions, rather than for the murder of which he stood accused.

It was the murder of an old man who was night watchman at a fac- tory where the defendant was said to have entered, for the purpose of robbery. Chicago knew the de- fendant for a gunman, and his re- cord was bar. There was, how- ever, a good deal of hysterical sympathy for him.

The judge, who was said to be for his mother, wouldn't it, having prejudiced against the accused him mixed up with a girl like Berman, Was fearful of an nice, and the papers full of it? attack,

vand hud -request-

Resides, if he'd talked, he'd haveed police protection. State wit- been suspected himself. Imagine nesses were also protected. And if he'd kicked up a rumpus there, the jury would be guarded day and and anybody'd come in?'

Molly laughed hysterically. "You know what would have happened?" she cried. "We'd all have remembered that poem- of Oscar Wilde's about the minn who was hung for killing his sweet heart, and we'd have quoted these lines:

And blood and wine were on

his hands When they found him with the

dend,

The poor dead woman whom he

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The city editor called Molly to his desk before she had, time to slip off her coat.

You're familiar with the Man- dirello case, of course." he said, "but I want to tell you about the elaborate precautions they're tak ing for the protection of Judge Brewster and the witnesses for the prosecution. It's as much as your life is worth these days to take issue with a gunman.

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"We don't try murder cases in the paper. It's bad business, and it's dangerous... But we're going to Red slapped her on the shoulder. take a stand on this thing. We "Attagiri!" he approved. That's believe Mandinollo la guilty, and

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