Murder Backstairs
BEGIN HERE-TO-DAY.
ANNE AUSTIN
· AUTHOR OF
"EVE AVEZONO FARROW" * THE GLACK PRED, ETC.
Wake up, Dick! Gigi has creed a sunrise swim!"
Because he wants to observe Baymour Crosby, for certain sinister reasons of his own. Detective Bonnie Dundee. le apending a week-end at Killeret, boma of the millionaire Str. and Mr. In the household ALDO 1 Berkeley: Dick Berkeley, Dundee's darsanat Yale: Clorinda Barkaler, en gaged to Crosby: Glet Barkale 15-year-old subasah z Mrs. Lambert, social secretary: Wichell, the butlar: Doris Katthews, lady's brightness.
former
maid: Eugene Arnold, chauffeur, An pleasant dinner and evening evimizmiæ. In | ́two ghastly incidents; Gigi is slapped by ber mother for unaccountably
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MONDAY, MARCH
1930
up lovers, and you'll have to pre- tend to be grown-up too... Where's Dick? Couldn't you get him'up?" !!
But she did not wait for a reply, for which Dundeb was grateful. She went akipping across the closecut grass to greet and badger her sister and Seymour Crosby.
"Slow-pokes!" she gibed shrilly. "Or, did you two pause on the de-gr-rand marble staircase for
pash embrace?. Ruce you to the lake, Mr. Crosby!"
a
And Dundee had not realized But he was talking to an un- how much he could ifke Seymour tenanted room. The bed had not Crosby until that slim aristocrat een slept In, and the light in the had flung off his dressing-gown floor lamp beside the armchair and dashed wholeheartedly after glowed yellowly in the morning the flying child, catching her, for}
his long legs were swift, two yards short of the spring board.
"A fire host you are!" Dundee Aprinking Apostrophized the missing young Clorinda fallowed slowly, her
The goesie wils perfume given Mrs. Berkman. "Invite a guest for the
beautiful face dark with sulky re-
les by Crosby, and Duades catcher Dick week-end, then spend the night out sentment. Berkalay drankenly forting Dorts Maibew,
on a bender."- the mald, to agree to meet him later.
stairs, Dinden son Clorinda ¦ stomiing'
for
ant
Dick and ean's and him. Searching down of the bones vivid sears in her hands. He sly overtrede quarrelling between Mr. and
Mr. Barkalay.
Worried, beet with premonition, be goer by a pounding on his door.
to heep and le awakened Saturday morning
CHAPTER VI.
"Mad at me?" Gigi challenged
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Closiada anneanom ut 18:45 that she is Underneath his surface disgust, her sister impishly. "Did wicked going to bed, and the party breaks
un little sister cheat booful big sister Arnold belog sammoned to drive two gets however, there was growing bone. Arwold sngaged to Doris, Dundee casiness. Doris Matthews most out of her beauty sleep? FONUDELNIK, mwo; Gigḥ, who confesses she
decidedly had not looked like "that Say!" she discovered suddenly, bas done "something dreadfuix; looks
kind of girl," and yet what other you look as if you hadn't slept explanation of Dick's all-night at all, Clo! You've got awful absence could there be? The girl circles under your eyes. Why had certainly agreed, however un- didn't you tell me to go to the and go to willing her consent had appeared devil, then turn over to be, to meet Dick after the sleep again? Gigi't household was a-bed.
honest!". "Well, what shall I do?" Dun- "Oh, leave me alone!" Clorinda sharply. "I'm all "Did I frighten you?" Gigi dee asked himself gloomily, as he commanded
bathroom and right, but. I don't think I shall laughed joyously when Dundee returned to the opened his door, showing tousled prepared to take a cold shower. swim, after all. That water must black hair and startled blue eyes. "Alarm the family? It's early yet be icy," and she shivered "You look exactly as if you were The young rake may, come sneak-turned her back upon the lake.
"Don't be a spoil-sport, Clo!" expecting to hear that the mil-ing back in time for breakfast, lionaire master of Hillcrest had and be properly indignant at my Gigi begged, hopping upon been discovered foully murdered interference. Yes, I guess I'd spring-board. "You'd only be In his library, with the doors, and better give him a little more time cold a teeny minute, and then-- windows securely locked on the and quite a large piece of my Goodness!" she broke off sudden. inside. Sorry to disappoint you, mind when he does turn up!" ly, and raised her short little nose After the biting cold of the to sniff, as a sudden breeze from but Dad is in his room and has
rose-and- just sworn roundly at his favourite shower, followed by a vigorous the south rippled the
of the lake. daughter for waking him up so towelling, he felt fit to cope with silver surface
And by the time. he "Fleaur d'Amour! Can't you! early in the middle of the night, any lake. as he called it, though it's nearly had pulled on his dark-blue swin-smell it, everybody? It must have ming suit, which Mrs. Rhodes had soaked clear through to our bones, seven o'clock."
"I feel like swearing roundly insisted upon his bringing, he to keep on smelling like this!"
contemptuous a sudder "Don't be an idiot, Gigl!" Clo- with myself," Dundee. growled at her, was even whistling in
spirits. His rinda commanded angrily, as the told you it was too cold for swim-: as he wrapped his dressing gown surge of animal more decently over his mussed scalp-prickling premonitions of little orange-and-brown figure ming, Gigi. Come pyjamas. "What's the big idea, the night before were temporari darted from one to another, snif-house.".
ly forgotten,
fing like an eager puppy. "It's young woman?".
In the front hall he found just your imagination- "Woke up early with a headache
"I do smell Fleur d'Amour that terrible perfuming, 1 Bup-Wickett awaiting him, a tray ladea
Gigi insisted. "But come on
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New York, March on, Bonnie! Let's show 'em some as she had told him the night befor cable mutilations. ly warm. So" and she flung ming, sir?"
Tone of Market-Strong," "I rather think not, Wickett," real diving!-three makes ready, fore, had swam every sunrise inj open her silk Happi coat to dis-
No. of Shares done,-2,500,000, play a brief bathing suit. Wake Dundee answered evasively, as he and four we go!" And on the last an icy lake-
Call Money-4. The hair stirred on his scalp- a took the orange juice the butler word she released her new play. Dick up, lamb darling, grab
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Her dive took her far into the she realized his purpose, but only Gold Dust He wouldn't answer, but you can Dundee.
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His dive took him many had said; a young, fragant, joy-the little circular summerhouse short of the spot where Gigi had hang-over of his."
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sion on her dripping face, he as she arms spread like wings. curls bobbing merrily
When the detective rose the bounced lightly on rubber-soled
second time, after a long minute For a long mintue they stood shouted anxiously: "What's the swinging their clasped hands joy-matter, Gigi? Did you hurt your-under water, his face was a ghast- sneakers.
"Ugh!" Dundee shivered, as he ously, while Gigi's topaz eyes selves?"
ly grey-white. But he did not "Hurt myself?" she echoed, her speak until powerful, overhand headquarters last night was to the A brief report available at Police thought of how cold the lake must shone at him. "You look about 15 be, in spite of the unseasonal yourself this morning, my Bonnie voice queerly muffled and trembly strokes had brought him swiftly effect that the body of a Chinese warmth of the new morning. But Dundee!" she decided, an oddly "Of course not! But" and she to the spring-board..
male had been. found hanging by he had no intention of disobeying. deep note under her strident began to swim rapidly toward the
Gigi stared up at him, dumb the neck on the roof of No. 138, Grinning a little at the realization young soprano. "Bonnie, bonniel springboard on which be stood.
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"Don't pay any attention to the Crosby, I'll need your help." there appears nothing to indicate room. There was no answer, and tummy when I looked at you
otherwise. (To be Continued). he turned the knob, calling: Oh, darn! Here come the, grown little idiot!" Clorinda commanded
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