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CHAPTER XXXVII.
"Stendy, boy" Police Commis aioner.O'Brien warned,
his 23
Barker.
Dundee heard the doctor's brisk As If through a deafening fox
comments as he made his examina- tion:
white-faced nephew opened the door to him and Sergeant Turner. "Death due to strangulation. 10 minutes later, then stood cling-No fingerprints on the throat. ing to the knob, his body swaying Marks where the braids cut into drunkenly. "Can't have you keel the skin... It was no weakling ing over before Dr. Price get that tied this knot, Commissioner." here. He's on the way. This is tough on you, I know-but all in a day's work for a detective."
"How long has she been dead?" Turner asked,
воме сансе
a more exnet
answer after. I
"Hmm. A little hard to tell. "I know." Dundee wiped a new Rigor mortie has set in, but in string of ley sweat beads from his
that happens more forehead, and stood aside, to let quickly than in others. Butat the newcomers see the ghaatir least three or four hours, 1 sight upon which his own eyes had should say. I'll try to give you rosted when he had forced his way into Cora Barker's room.
"Have you touched the body?" perform the autopsy-condition Sergeant Turner demanded briskly. of stomach contents, etc.
"No." Dundee
pressed his'll call the boys knuckles against his mouth to stil the quivering of his lips. "I want. ed to lift hes bark into her bed. but-Physic reminded me. She's just as we found her."
now. I've
arranged a signal, to keep things as quiet as possible," and he went to the front window, stepped out upon the porch, and waved hin handkerchier to ambulance below,
"Good!" Turner, followed by O'Biden, stepped to the east win-.. dow of the room and knelt beside the huddled body on the floor. "Good Lord! Strangled with her own braids! That's a new one on Pretty clever! There'll
the waiting
This seems to be a pretty, de- cent bunch of people, and since it's your home, temporarily. at least, I want to spare the house i as much of the horror as I can," be no fugerprints on her throat. O'Brien explained to his nephew. Sevier's a handy bird, isn't he? "That's decent of you, Uncle Doesn't take the trouble to previde|Put," Bonnie Dundee thanked a weapon in advance; just uses him.
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As silently as if they were pay- Poor old girl!"
ing tribute to the doad, the am- Sergeant Turner's "engual symbulance attendants came up the pathy made Bonnie Dundee elench stairs
and ontered the ΤΟΟΠ his fists in boyish rage. Poor old carrying the stretcher on which girl, indeed! Why, that was Cora Cora's body would be borne away. Barker there an the floor! CoraSergeant Turner listened anxious- whom he had eaten with, to whose ly at the door, but the house was playing he had danced;" Cora whose face a few hours before he still sleeping apparently.
"Let me help!" Dundee begged. had seen light up with the glory of
as the white-jacketed men. Bent triumphant love. Poor, passionate, love-greedy Cora. And poor Bert over the dead woman. For sudden- Magnos! new wave of nausealy he could not bear the thought swept
over Dundee when he that only anearing, allen hands ane beautiful thing that had come the chair across which her kimono out of the Hogarth tragedy-the ing, then rejected the garment Cora would in a love founded on sympathy and slightly soiled one.) faith--was murdered now, tin, have a better one, he knew-and
He found it in her closet. Sergeim Turner rose and step- There were tears in his eyes as fed aside, and again Hundee's] be draped the pretty negligee of eyes took in the whole horribleforchid chiffon and ostrich copieture before he could wrench feathers about
the poor,
rigid them away. Cura had gone to the shoulders; And regardless of window--and to her death-clad Conlookers, he stooped and laid bis only in a thin yellow silk night-lips lightly against the stiffening, gown. Undoubtedly her murderer thin, dry-skinned hand whieh had had called her to the window, and aroused his compassion when she had sprung from her bed-Cora Barker was alive. He stond which had heen slept in-without aside then as the body was lifted taking time to drape herself in the to the stretcher, and was about
Had gone to that window with her
eyes telegraphed- an amazing long braids of black hair swinging
"I know," Dundee agreed grimly, So this was the solution of the pluils received for one year or shorter perion Current Accounts opened and Fized In over her shoulders, Had her mar message to his brain.
"Look, Dr. Price!" he called derer counted on that very thing?
I'Hogarth case. “And Cora had to fit rates which will be quoted on sogliantiem. Had he known that Cora would urgently. "Did you notice this? tightly that she was strangled-his heartily. "Run atorg and do it.
Please, lips still on hers."
handle the ease from this end die to convince me that I was on "come to him, unconsciously offer. Her mouth is bruised ..
"My God!" Commissioner O'Brien nothing much to do anyway, I aup- the wrong trail," he told himself ing a perfect means of strangula-may 17" and he gently lifted the Con? Or had the murder been un. discoloured upper lip, turned it breathed, and turned sharply away.pose, but listen to how sound bitterly. "Me and my 'bad penny'
remeditated?
back till it touched the nose. "What a newspaper story this is asleep everybody was when Cora!... Well, Sevier le certainly a bad At any event the long braids "Dr. Price, her lips have been going to make! Sergeant Turner was being strangled.... What a enough penny... But why, why had teen erorsed in the back. Beszed a hard against her teeth commented with morbid satisfac- fiend that fiddler turned out to be, did Mrs. Hogarth greet a fiend like drawn around and tied beneath her that the print shows plainly. tion. "Emil Sevier will sure go Croaked her because he thought Emil Sevier in that joking way? chin in a single knot. The wiriness | See?"
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killed with n klaa." of the hair had loosened the knot "You're right," Dr. Price said blooded murderer this, state has had-"
New York. He preceded the slow-moving Capital, Surplus now, but the hands of the mur slowly, as he bent to examine both ever had. Still want him to
"Or possibly because he got cold 'stretcher through the door and was derer had held fast to the eads of lips. "But I don't quite anderhave plenty of ice water and an feet and beat it before the money halfway down the stairs when he and Undivided the braids anti! life had been ex-{stand—”
electric fan, Dundee-Instead of was found. Maybe she'd promised heard a door open, then Bert Mag- tinguished.
"I do!" Dundee cried in the bad old third degree?" he to send his share in him-Com-nd' voice: Dunder drew A shuddering charking voice. "Don't you see-added tauntingly.`
missioner O'Brien began to specu "Is anything wrong? breath. He was glad.the poor, die Uncle "Pat, Surgeant
The boy whitened to the lips, late, then shrugged. "Get the truth What's that? Not-oh, my God! Tarner?
then he flung up his head. "I sup-out of him this time, Bonnie lad. Not Cora! Wait! For God's sake, coloured face was bowed down Com Barker was killed with a Lupon the grotesquely sprawled kiss!
pose you're right, and I was You've got plenty to work ou, for tell me let me see her!" eredulous fool, Sergeant Turner. tunately.. According to Dr. Price, j knees, so that he could not see it) "What do you mean?" Sergeant But, if Sevier did this I'd like to the woman has been dead free ernie Dundee tore on down the stairs, Almost in a frenzy himself, Bon- in all its horror.
Turner demanded incredulously. "She's been dead for hours,” be "Oh, can't you see? I thought the thumb screws on him my-four hours, which means that Se-jerked open the door and plunged beard Sergeant Turner saying to lát
wtf."
vier probably killed her just before out into the grey of dawn, TCommissioner O'Brien. "Big strangled to death without making
Good boy!" Turner applauded he was picked up.
(To Be Continued).
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nearest and yet he evidently
War the
rouse the whole house, don't you heard nothing, or he would have femmi-sioner?" - "Yes; by all means,
investigateil, and--and found her buys to keep a sharp watch over like this. I'm glad he didn't. the boarders' rooms, but not to an- Thank God for that, at least. swer any questions. You've got He was in love with her was ge three men on the grounds, haven't lig to, marry her, I think, when
the Hogarth case was settled."
vrou...
"Pour." Turner answered, “Roa...
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sir precaution. They won't find "Steady, boy!" O'Brien warned. bysterical anything, unless it's another Cuban "You're getting cigarette stol We've got "our as a wongin. Tell us quietly just man already. I guess Patrolman what you mean." Callahan will rate a promotion bu
"I mean." Duniter torced himself
of this night's work, Commista speak in a calmer, lower voice. sioner".
"that whoever murdered Corn Bark- she was He left the room, carefully and er stranked her while noiselessy closing the door behind being kissed. The mat pressed him, to give the necessary instrue. his mouth so tightly against hers tions to the silent men posted in that she could not cry out when he the downstairs and upstairs halls, tied the braids of her hair. In the brief moment while the door Can't you see it all? He was so WB open there was no sound of well known to Cora that when he my disturbance. Apparently none called to her from the porch in a of the sleeping boarders had been low volce she came instantly, aroused by the quiet entry of the recognizing him, of course. police upon the scene of the new "Maybe they talked a bit first-I tragedy.
don't know, but he certainly mude When he returned Dr. Price, the love to her, played with her hair, i Coroner, was with him."
Maybe he remarked on how long "Nobody's awake yet, but Mrs. the braids were. I can hear him Rhodes, and J aroused her myself saying: "Why, they come clear to to break the news," Sergeant Tur-your waist, even when they're ner announced in a low volce. crossed in the back, and he crossed "You came on the ambulance, them in the back to prove it. didn't you, Doctor?"
Crossed them to make strangula- "Yes. You want to get the body tion possible. Then he brought the away as soon as possible, I aup erossed braids over her shoulders, nuse," the coroner answered, as he and, while kissing her, suddenly knelt beside the body of Corn, tied them and drew the ends o
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