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Murder Backstairs

CHAPTER XXI.

Certainly I was alone!" Clorinda Berkeley answered emphatically.

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"I tell you heard nothing!" Reserve Food Gigi's convulsive grip on Dun-Clorinda ruborted angrily. dee's left hand loosened slightly. "But did "o-smell something "You didn't take advantage of when you got near to the summer- the opportunity to enjoy a lovers' house?" stroll with your future husband, Mr. Seymour Crosby?" Strawn suggested,

I have told you I was alone, but allow me to correct you. Mr. Crosby is not my future husband!" "Whoops, dearie!" Gigi shouted gleefully. "I was betting you wouldn't go through with it"

"When was the engagement bro- ken,, Miss Clorinda?" Strawn ask ed suavely.

"This morning, when Mr. Crosby: and I were walking together to the lake. I told him that since my father was violently opposed to the marriage it could not take place."

"And Why is your father oppos ed to the marriage?"

"You must ask him," Clorinda retorted, and closed her eyes wearily.

"Do you want to marry Crushy? Miss Clorinda?"

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The answer was in Clorinda's frostigst voice: that eoneerus you or the ease you are working on, Captain Strawn "Darling, you are No haughty! Gigi laughed hysterically,

"So you went walking alone, Miss Clorinda," Strawn resumed long were you urbanely: "How out?"

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"Oh, I don't know? "An hour, possibly."

"Did you see anyone-any one at all on this walk?"

"No one!"

"You say you walked around the lake. Just when was that part of Strawn pressed the trip made "" her.

"That was the conclusion of my walk. I crossed to the lake from the south part of the grounds, walked east first and then circled the lake on my way to the house." "And stopped to rest in the sam ergouse?" Strawn pounced.

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The black eyes flew wide. No 1-I didn't stop at the summer house at all!

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"And I thought I was making The plot so thick it would curdie," Gigimourned, but Dundee saw the smile she had flashed at her sis- ter, and he knew there was grati- tude in it.

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"I don't think so... No, wait! I remember winding my watch when I was undressing for bed. At that time it was 10 minutes I had then been in the after 12. house about five or six, minutes, 1 think."

"Did you see your scarf when you let yourself in by the back door?"

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"No, but I had forgotten all about it. There is always a dim light in the back hall, however, as there is in the front hall, and I feel sure that I should have seen it. if it had been there."

"Did you, on your way out or on your return, observe a letter

"My seur u the summer-For note lying on the back hall house! Why, that's ridiculous! It wasn't there at all!"

"Then perhaps you have another explanation of how it came le be tied around Doris Matthews' knees when her body was taken from the lake Strawn said with dreadful ensualness.

table?" Strawn asked suddenly.

"A note?. No. I don't think even glanced toward the table." "Now, Miss Clorinda, when you which returned to your room, stairs did you take?"

"The back stairs. When I reached the second floor landing

toed to my room."

"Aamil her knees?" Clorinda [I listened, heard nothing, and tip- repeated blankly. Then she must have realized her danger for she the leather sat hok upright on

Couch. "But that's impossible,

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"Why did you tiptoe?"

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"I was afraid mather might have discovered my absence, and that

Tell you! It must have been an-she was listening for my return. other art, somewhat similar 10 On my way out, I heard her voice from the library, and know she

to and father were having another session over my engagement Mr. Crosby. That was one reason I knew they I took the walk.

"You admit, then. that you were carrying a silk scarf in your hands when you left the house?" Strawn caught her up triumphantly.

"No, because it is not true, would be quarrelling about it Clorinda answered more calmly. "1 was carrying a silk scarf until again, and I was in no mood for another scene. I stayed out till I reached the back hall. hut

felt fairly sure mother would be

dropped it to the floor when I was slipping the chain and the bolt of the out-side door. I did not miss it until I stepped outside and a slight breeze lifted my hair. did not return for it, however, as the night was warmer than I had thought, and I liked the feeling of the wind in my hair."

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"No. I saw no one, and heard, not the faintest sound. I thought I was safe," she said wearily.

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