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Murder Backstairs

CHAPTER XIV.

asked Strawn

by ANNE AUSTIN

AUTHOR OF "THE AVENGONO PARROT"" "THE BLACK PIGEON, KYC,

Strawn 7

My wife is a very-ex- eitable person, and you must real "Who do you mean, Mrs. Berke-ize what an ordeal this is for her

Captain

"All right, Dundee! Go ahead" again, when the hysterical woman Strawn commanded ungraciously. had stopped screaming for a mo-"It's not entirely regular, but any ment. Remember, you are accua thing to save time." ing someone of murder!"

mean Eugene Arnold, my

chauffeur!

"And where-did Doris ?"

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

"And did you discharge Arnold for his insolence to your son?" Dan- deo asked quietly.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1930.

FASHION PARADE.

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"N-no," she admitted reluctantly. A MANNEQUIN DISPLAY AT CABLED QUOTATIONS FROM

"I bawled him out, all right, but- well, you see, with Mr. Crosby com- ing and the big party tonight and all, I simply couldn't fire my chauf feur and my maid. There wouldn't have been time to get others—”

"I see.

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"I had a heart-to-heart talk with tion of Artificial Silks and latest New York, by Messrs. Swan, Culbert- Dick. He adores me, just as my fashions for European and Chinson and Fritz, Sassoon House, Shang-Subscribed and Fall Up. 2534.100 other children do," she went on lese, in a Theatre of Fashion, on hai, (cable address: "Swanstock," fatuously. "I made him promise to the Second Floor of the depart Shanghai), who are not responsible let Doris strictly alone"

mental store commencing to-day, for eight days. The exhibition is for cable mutilations. '

"New York, Apr. 8. "Do you know what Arnold had open daily from 10 to 12.30 and 2

to 6.30. A series of mannequin Tone of Market.—Easy, came into the parades will be held each day No. of Shares done.--4,500,000.

showing the full beauty of the

Call Money-4% » That's who!" the wo Dundee, with

"From what they all sald, he saw fabrics when made up into gar- a rueful, apolo man panted fighting of her hus-getic glance toward his chief, he saw Dick kissing Doris." Mrs. ments. The mannequin are speci- American Smelting

admitted hand'a restraining hands. "Let me drew up a chair and laid the pad Berkeley

reluctantly ally employed from Shanghai, Anaconda Copper up! I'm going to find my boy!(of notepaper on his knees. With "Anyway, he told me he was sorry where the Sincere Company had Baltimore & Ohio

Chrysler Motors You can't hold me here, making pencil poised to take down the an- about it all, and promised faith- held a similar Exhibition which City Service Common me answer silly questions, when swer, he naked his first question: fully not to have anything more to met with a huge success.

Curtis Wright Common do with the girl. And I know he my poor Dick"

Mr. T. C. Harda, representing Eastman Kodak "Will you please tell us, Mrs. would have kept the promise if he Messrs. Whitworth and Mitchell, Electric Bond & Share "Mrs. Berkeley, please try to con- trol yourself!" Strawn commanded Berkeley, what happened yesterday hadn't drunk a little too much at Limited, of Manchester, is on a General Motors harshly, for he knew how to deal to make you so sure that Eugene dinner last night... You needn't visit to Hongkong, supervising and General Rly. Signal

think, Captain Strawn," she added, assisting the Sincere manage Gold Dust with hysteries. "I feel absolutely Arnold is Doris's murderer?" sure that your son is not dead, Now that her son's safety seemed "that you can arrest my husband ment

in arranging the Exhibi-Goodyear Tire and Rubber or we should have found his body fairly certain, although his disap for buying bootleg liquor. All our tion. A Press representative Granby Consolidated

International Cement where the girl's was hidden" He pearance had not been explained, wines and whisky and liqueurs are who visited the Theatre did not add that, at that very mo- Mrs. Berkeley-was far less hysteri- pre-war 1 made George buy a big Fashion yesterday, found that the Nevada Consolidated

of Montgomery Ward ment, Policeman Collins was div- cul. Indeed, sa she plunged into her cellarful before prohibition went greater part of the Second. Floor Radio ing into the lake on the stim chance narrative, Dundee had a suspicion into effect."

was beautifully decorated for the Sears Rocbuck & Co. "I'm on the homicide squad, occasion, while the Theatre itself Simmons Ca. that another bady lay on its cement that she was rather enjoying it all.ļ bottom.

"Well, you see, dear Mr. Dundee, Mrs. Berkeley," Strawn reminded is lined with the famous "Wemco" Standard Oil Co. of New York findsho began, "my poor, darling Dick her grimly.

se--how shall I say?-suscepti- "Oh! Well, then, you can simply. Fabrics including the Wemco- Union Carbide & Carbon

Mitachene, In the lake, near the summer-ble! Not that I think Doris is arrest Eugene Arnold-if you can Bydeline, Milose, W.B.K.O.. Wemco house," Strawn answered. "Your or was-anything to get excited] find him!" she cried. "Don't you Georgette, Wemco Crepe de Chine. daughter, Georgina, got up a little about... Well, anyway. Dick see what happened? My poor Dick Mr. William Ma. who is manag- swimming party early this morn-thought she was awfully pretty and did forget his promise or maybe ing and when she dived to she saw cute and he flirted with her quite that deceitful girl led him on! Any-ing the Exhibition and who is res- ponsible for the design of prac- the body."

a lot. I'm afraid--"

way, he met her and Arnold caught tically all the Chinese dresses in "Gigi?

"Pardon! Oh, my

Did Doris encourage them making love in the summer the Show, told our representative poor baby

house, and he killed Doris and Dick that there would be two European Mrs. Berkeley sobbed, covering her your son?" face with plump, beringed fingers,

not exactly, at least escaped," she summed up trium- mannequins who will parade to- "Where is she? Where's my baby when I happened to catch them to phantly. "Don't you see it all? day in dresses which are the latest now? She needs her mother--" gether, she admitted. "You see, Poor Dick was simply frightened designs from Paris, Mr. Ma said "Gigi is all right now, dear, Dick got into the habit of dropping out of his wits, for fear he would that the Chinese dresses would She's with Mrs. Lambert." George in when I was dressing, and I did be accused of the crime, and--and include over one hundred designs Berkeley assured her, tiking her suspect it was because he could ser he ran away! Please hurry up and of Shanghai, the styles ranging hands to hold them tightly in his. Doris. She acted as demure and arrest Arnold so it'll be in the p2 from morning, afternoon, evening,

Before Doris was rolled down shy as you please when I was pera and Dick will know he can

garments, dancing, and out-door the steps of the summerhouse into around, but when I wasn't, good come home!"

which are in semi-European style. the lake." Captain Strawn went on, ness knows-Anyway, yesterday I "You'd make a great detective, as if he had not been interrupted, had been out shopping and when I ma'am." Strawn told her sarcasti "she had been hit upon the head came home I had a lot of bundles cally. "But there happens to be An interim dividend of five per with the crystal flask of perfume in the car, so I had Arnold carry one or two little points your fine cent. on the paid-up capital which Mr. Seymour Crosby gave them up for me, I sent him on into theory don't explain. First: how been declared by the China Light you last night. The bottle broke my bedroom while I stopped to look did the perfume flask get mixed up & Power Co. (1918), Ltd, in res- and the perfume was spilled on the at the mail on my sitting room in the murder? If Doris was sim- floor. We've recovered part of the desk. Then I heard voices--Dick's ply going out to meet your son, why fragments and one of my men is) and Arnold's and the maid's-and should she take a stolen bottle of searching the lake for the rest of hurried in here, just as Arnoki perfume with her? She couldn't the pieces now."

was shouting to Doris: If I find very well hide it from him during "Hit on the head with my per-out you're double-crossing me with their love-making—” fume flask?" Mrs. Berkeley re-this-this young puppy. I'll kill He was interrupted by the sound poated blankly.

horror you both, and I don't mean maybe!' of a door being flung open, fol twisted her oldish, ugly face. "But .... That's exactly what he said. lowed by quick footsteps in the Then that door, too, was this is all too silly! Why should) Mr. Dundee she concluded tri- foyer. -Oh: She had stolen it, and umphantly.

wrenched open.

Then

it serves her right if she got killed with it!"

Dundee Maid

"Mrs. Berkeley," gently, as he drew nearer the bed, "didn't hear you say last night that Doris hated perfume, that it made her ill to amell it?"

"But she could have stolen it anyway, to sell!" Mrs. Berkeley cried angrily "That's exactly what she did! The crystal flask must| have been worth at least $50, and the perfume cost $32 an ounce. } know, because I bought some my- self on the Rue de la Paiz-some of) the

kind-Fluer, d'Amour! Doris had heard me say how wonderful it was, and how frightfully expensive. But why are you wasting time like this? Haven't I told you Eugene Arnold did it? Why, it was only yester day"

very

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"Just a moment, Mrs. Berkeley," Strawn interrupted, "Mr. Dundee writes shorthand, and I want him to take down the statement you are about to make. Where will I

ind paper and pencil, please?"

"In my sitting room-but J don't want you taking down every word say," Mrs. Berkeley sobbed. "I'll be frightened to death!"

At a nod from Strawn, Dundec left the stuffy, over-decorated bed- room and went through the little Foyer into the almost equally ornate" sitting room. In the unlocked Sheraton desk he found a thick pad of expensive notepaper, with a silver-embossed "Hillcrest." As he was leaving the sitting room there was a heavy knock and he opened the door leading into the hall, to confront one of the defectives who had been left on duty downstairs.

"Collins says, there ain't no oth- er body in the lake, sir, and that he's found the rocks and the bun- dle of glass."

"All right, Clemmons. Thanks! Tell the butler to take Collins up to my room by the backstairs, to change into his own clothes, then have him wait around downstairs until Captain Strawn has further! orders for him."

When Dundee relayed the news] to his chief, Strawn nodded. "Hear that, Mrs. Berkeley? Wherever your son is, he's not dead, for if. he'd been killed with the girl, the murderer would have disposed of his, body in the lake too.... Now, ma'am, I want you to get hold of yourself and answer my questions fully and truthfully. This is no time to hold back anything."

"George, don't let that awful po liceman talk to me like that!" Mrs. Berkeley moaned. "If I've got to be asked all sorts of frightful ques- tions, I want Mr. Dundee to ask them, not that awful old bulldog! At least Mr. Dundee is a gentle- man, even if he is a-a-

"Criminologist," her husband sup- plied, with a slight smile. "Would you very much mind, Captaini

"Wesell.

Be well advised-

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pect of the financial year ending September 30, 1930 and is payable on and after May 12, 1980.

"Dad! Mother! What the devil did you send for the police for? Can't a fellow spend a night out of his room without a swarm of de- tectives being called in to hunt for him?".

(To be Continued).

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