1930-04-28 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1930.

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Murder Backstairs

CHAPTER XXIX.

ANNE AUSTIŅ

"Because Phyllis was wearing them the night she died and be "P'm sorry, Dundee." Seymour cause they were the last gift 1 Crosby turned to the younger had made ber. I guve them to detective, ignoring Captain Doris as an engagement present Strawn's charge for the moment and because I knew that Phyllis "I told you an untruth, the first I would have liked for her to have bave uttered since this questioning them." began. I did not receive a letter,

"And I say you gave them to from Mrs. Lambert, mentioning the her because Doris Matthews had fact that Doris had come here to be made up her mind to expose you Mrs. Berkeley's maid. I was sur-to the Berkeleys, partly because prised-startiod, if you will-at the she was fond of Clerinda Berkeley news. But the surprise was a pleas and partly because she wanted to ant one, tinged only with pain that make you suffer for your wife's I should have so vivid a reminder murder!" Strawn told him sternly. of my dead wife's last momests. "You made an appointment with had not seen or heard from Doris her to meet her in after the inquest, since my wife's house, when the house was quiet, death meant the breaking up of for the night-"

Gur home."

. "It is

true, Captain Strawn,"

the summer-

"That is not true!" Crosby Dundee conceded willingly, "that shed. "I did not leave my Mr. Crosby added, immediately after Mrs. Lambert's news, that he room again last night and you can- not possibly have any proof that would be delighted to see Doris."

I did ao!" "Hunh!" Strawn shorted, scepti- cally. "Well, the point is, Crosby you lost no time in getting to Doria Matthews, and—”

"Yeah?" Strawn grinned, as if nursing secret proof.

But Dundee know his chief had (nothing more up his sleeve. Dur- "Pardon met The meeting was ing the lull the younger detective entirely accidental," Crosby inter-became aware that some forgotten rupted. "I happened to open the fact was tapping at his memory, door of my room and saw Doris in Suddenly he the hall, walking toward the back stairs. I entled to her, and she came to me, standing just outside my door. We talked-"

Kathy, I've seen and talked with Mr. Crosby!" Strawn began to quote solemnly. "I don't dare write exactly what he said and What I said, even to you, but he gave me There, Crosby, you have the last words A murdered girl ever penned. I suppose you've had time to think up a nice, harm- less explanation 7"

had it and his tilted

chair crashed to the floor as he asked:

"Mr. Crosby, was this conversa- tion between you and Doris over-i

heard by anyone at all?"

"Overheard?" Crosby puzzled. "Why, no, I don't think so. We spoke in low tones or whispers and

was alone"

"Where was the valet Mrs. Berke- ley had hired especially for you?" Dundee asked tensely.

"Valet?" both Strawn and Crosby repeated blankly,

eyes

Seymour Crosby's lean, handsome

Then Crosby's sombre face flushed darkly. "My impulse lashed with sudden comprehension. is to refuse to answer, but I believe "By Jove, Dundee In all the ex- the truth will be less painful tocitement I had completely forgotten Miss Berkeley than the construc-about Johnson! The fact is, he was tion you are putting upon what not on duty when I returned to my Doris wrote. After we had ex-room last night-and I have not changed the ordinary greetings and seen him since!" inquiries as to health, Doris said: "What's all this?" Strawn sput- It brings it all back so, sir,tered. "Who the devil is Johnson?" mecting you. It seems only yester

Dundee explained:' “Last night.

day- Then she burst into tears, when Mrs. Berkeley greeted Mr. and whispered: 'Oh. sir, how can Crosby, as he appeared in the draw- you marry again so soon, when you ing room just before dinner, she loved Miss Phyllis so much?"

"So that's what Doris said:"oped Mr. Crosby had not found Johnson 'too ghastly' a valet and "Strange talk remarked that he was the best she Strawn sneered.

could do locally. She explained that Mr. Berkeley would not have a 'man' for himself—”

from a well-trained maid!"

·

•

"Doris was rather more than a servant in our household,"

"Well, where is this bird now?" Crosby said quietly. "She had been Strawn interrupted disgustedly. with Phyllis for years; the two "He unpacked my bags when I girls had been real friends, as mis-arrived yesterday afternoon," Cros- tress and mald frequently are. And by offered, “and help me dresa after our marriage, I became very for dinner There was nothing said fond of Doris myself."

about his waiting up for me, but "Well, now, that's interesting!" took it for granted that he would. Strawn exclaimed triumphantly. "A │However, when I went upstairs little too fond, perhaps? As fond about 11 last night he was not there of her as Dick Berkeley was?" though my things had been laid out "That' # vile thing to say, for the night. I have not seem him Strawn!" Crosby replied contemptu-since."

oualy. "It's absurd to have to deny "Is anything missing, Mr. Cras- such an insinuation, but I do-by?" Dundee asked. most emphatically!"

"I can't say, since I have not "Well, get along with your fairy taken the slightest interest in my tale," Strawn ordered curtly. "What town bejongings since—since I went did you say to Doris, then?"

down for the swim this morning," Crosby answered.

"Crosby hesitated, the dark flush deepening. "I told her I could not live in the past, that, to save my reason, I must try to build a new life"

"In other words, Gentlemen must portive, ch?" Strawn

contemptuously.

"Then we'd better have a look around." Strawn decided abruptly, stuffing Doris's letter and the ear- rings into his coat pocket.

•

paraphrased The three men left the dead girl's room, Strawn taking time, how-

"I am not a penniless fortune-ever, to lock the door and pocket hunter, Captain Strawn!" Crosby the key and descended to the sec "When 1ond floor, which was being patrolled , retorted with dignity.

married Phyllis Benham I was aby a plainclothesman. ∙man of a fair amount of means. Seymour Crosby's room was 0 Part of my small fortune was lost very large and very impressive in unwise speculation after my chamber, with private bath and marriage, in an endeavour on my commodicus dressing room. part to more than equal my wife's "Did you have anything of value, income from her father. But I still Crosby?" Strawn asked, as the have an income of approximately Berkeleys' guest plunged into the $10,000 a year, sufficient for a sin-dressing room. gle man to live on comfortably- "My money was in abroad, at least. I was not marry-along with the earrings,' Crosby ing Clorinda Berkeley for her replied. "This morning

I trans- money."

ferred the wallet from my dinner "All right, all right! Go on! clothes to the lounge suit I am What else do you claim was said wearing now.... Good Lord' My between you and Doris Matthews ?" smallest bag is missing!" he gjacu-

"Doris, still weeping, said shelated.

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understood, and hoped I would be Within another five minutes he happy again, but she asked-as if was enumerating his losses, while jealous for Phyllis: 'But you don't Dundee listed them on the almost love Miss Clorinda as you did Miss) exhausted pad of paper which had Phyllis, do you?' And I-please served him as a notebook since the realize that these words are force investigation began: from me replied:

"A pearl ring, which I had "My heart is in Phyllis' grave, brought as a gift for Miss Berke- Doris, but I am more fond of Misa ley; a necklace of seed pearls, in- Berkeley than of anyone I have tended for Gigi; a silver cigarette ever known-except Phyllis." He lighter, for Mrs. Lambert; a tooled paused, then explained defiantly: leather billfold for Wickett, con- I admit that I used a melodra- taining a new 850 gok certificate matic, trite expression, but I did and a miniature of my wife, Phyl- so because the sentiment was reallis, painted on ivory by a famous and the swords would appeal to Parisian miniature-painter." Dorfs. And I believe Doris did Crosby's voice broke on the last not dare repeat them, leat some- words and Dundee believed that how they come back to my future he would willingly, have sacrificed wife and cause her pain. She told far more than he had lost, if the me then that she too was fond miniature could have been returned. of Clorinda and could understand. "Is that all, Crosby?" Strawn That was all, except that I asked snapped. Then to Dundee: "Come her to wait a moment while I took along! We'll see if Mrs. Berkeley's those earrings from my wallet, jewels have been stolen, too!"

ré I have carried them since my They left Seymour Crosby in his tioned in Mrs. Berkeley's foyer "Well! I must say Mrs. wife's death."

room, collapsed in a huge armchair, tried to report as his chief charged Berkeley, still reclining on her Carried them in your wallet, eh? but whether from relief or weari-in, but: Strawn brushed him aside chaise longue, began indignantly. Why Strawn prodded sceptically, 'ness it was hard to say,"

and flung open the bedroom door | She was alone.

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