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Murder Backstairs

CHAPTER XXXII,

Gigi was the only one who at- tacked the delicious meal with

enthusiasm... any

Dundee dered, with some embarrassment,

won-

vented the relief the whole party must have been feeling from ex- pressing itself more exuberantly.

And he wondered, iso, which face might betray its owner if he should say, suddenly: "Regardless of what Captain Strawn says, I don't think Daris Matthews' murder has been solved!"

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"Never-ic I think I shan't get it," she retorted cheerfully, pillow- ing her head comfortably against Mrs: Lambert's knees,.

"Let her stay." Mrs. Lambert begged, laying a tender hand on the bright brown curls. "Gigi loved Doris--too."

GABY'S FORTUNE.

BABY'S FINGER CROSSED TO

MARK CLAIM:

A cross-shaped scare on the little "You were very fond of Doris,finger of her left hand is part of Mrs. Lambert?" Dundee seized the the evidence upon which Mrs. Edna- Jopening.

C. Stiles, of Pasadena, hopes to

ley, I'm going to barrow Mrs. Lam-swered simply,

"I loved her," Mrs. Lambert an-solve the mystery of her parentage and make her an heiress to the estate of Gaby Deslys, the dancer known who died 10 years ago.

|bert for a few minutes."

"Oh!" Mrs. Berkeley looked; "How long had startled, then indignant. "You her?"

the

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An attorney has forwarded to the for Paris courts Mrs. Stiles's contention talk that she is an illegitimate child of Strawn the dancer.

was

mean you want to question her? I He was not making notes, thought all that miserable third-he wanted his “wilness" to if it was his presence which pre-degree business was over, since the with the utmost freedom.

had asked her two or three hur police know who killed Doris."

Mrs. Stiles's claim is based large- "Won't you use the library, Mr.ried questions after the discovery Dundee?" Mr. Berkeley suggested of Johnson's flight with the stolen on the testimony of an aged courteously. "I'm going to have a valuables, but there had been no French nurse, who said that the po-time then to go into past history.dancer, years ago, gave birth in game of golf myself-if the ice will permit me to leave

"Since August, 1927, when I first secret to a baby girl, near Chicago.

Phyllis Benham, whờ

A few hours after the baby was grounds.". *

Doris's mistress then," Mrs. Lam- born, the nurse said, she cut a cross Dundee flushed. He knew very bert answered. "The two girls on the little finger of the child's Not that he had any intention of well that Captain Strawn had were more like chums than mis-left hand for identification purposes. throwing such a bombshell, of no intention of keeping the Berke-trees and lady's maid. I be- course. His mind was a maelstromley family or their guests under lieve Doris had been with Phyllis

The dancer, the nurse added, in- of questions, unexplained and ap- the slightest restrain, so he parently unrelated facts and half-lying. for purposes of his

was about three years before Phyllis's structed that the baby should be own, marriage to Mr. Crosby. They were placed in a foundling home. A few formed suspicions. But as yet he when he said:

about the same age 22 then, days later a man is said to have left Doris, partly because of her in gauze, in a children's home at This is one reason I sweetness and beauty,' and devo-Peoria, Illinois. am presuming upon your hospital-tion to Phyllis. And that, Mr. ity."

Dundee, is why I asked to speak to

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" Mrs. Berkeley protested, as the nur liberty will be curtailed?"

Branches and Agencias at she paused because her voice broke.words in her intense surprise. Alexandria Kal Yarn butler bent over her with a vege-

"Probably only a day or two,“

Doris "So Peggy Harper says,

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Batavia.. "But do eat all of Dundee answered

Ecbe taule dish.

uncomfortably. almost passionately. "Doris was did not say anything to you about Buence Artes London you My beautiful, beautiful Johnson may be caught any minnot just a maid, just an ordinary having seen Johnson before?"

(Temporally Los Angeles pearls! And my pigeon-blood rubyute, you know. If he confesses or servant, if there is such a thing!

closed) Lyons "Oh, no! If she had, I should

Calcutte If I could only get my hands on if any direct evidence of his hay-She was a lovely girl, a

Canton beloved have thought, naturally, that John- that vile man-And he seemed ing committed the

Changchun New is girl, a loyal friend. These truths son had been employed in such a gentleman, too!

mean, found-"

about Doris must be recognized by York or London and that Doria had Feastian for a valet"

him at the home of, one "What if he proves it wasn't yuu-by the police--when you are seen "Can't, we talk something else, him?" Gigi demanded. "Captain trying to solte her murder." Phyllis's hostesses." Abbie?" George Berkeley interrupt-Strawn says Doris was murdered "The police think her murder is "That probably accounts for it," ed coldly. "Your jewels were in-between half-past 11 and 12 o'clock. solved," Dundee reminded Dundee agreed. "Did you see John sured. They can be replaced—” What if Johnson could prove he gently.

son yourself, Mrs. Lambert?" (Gerard's Lung Tonic Syrup)

"But Doris can't!" Mrs. Berke- left before then?"

"Yes. It was I who engaged him," "That is why I am not permitted

Mrs.she answered readily. "His refer An excellent remedy in respiraley walled, dabbing at her eyes.

"Do you think you can get me an- to play golf this afternoon, Miss

up ences were excellent and his ap- tory diseases. Almost instant

pearance good. In fact, as Mrs. relief is secured in even the most her maid just as good, dear Mrs. Sherlock Holmes!" her father an-

Lambert "

swered for Dundee, a smile twitch- "I don't know," she confessed Berkeley remarked at lunch, the severe coughs brought on by

"I'm afraid not," Mrs. Lamberting at his stern mouth. "Use the in a troubled voice. "I suppose man seemed to be almost a gentle- aathma, catarch, bronchitis, said coldly.

library anyway, Dundee."

Johnson, the valet, is guilty. But man, in the narrow social influenza, &o., progressively

When Mr. Lambert, slim and I've been afraid all sorts of in-of the word." restoring the health.

groaned, then, without excusing immaculate in the powder-blue sinuations might be made against "With a gentleman's apprecia- It is also an excellent nutritive himself, he kicked back his chair sweater and pleated cream-coloured Doris by the papers. Your Caption of art," Dundee said dryly. tonic, stimulating the appetitend bolted from the dining room wearing all morning, took her seat I had missed anything since Doris Mr. Crosby was an ivory miniature flannel skirt which she had been tain Strawn himself asked me if "One of the things he stole from and is consequently an excellent "When I think the poor darling in one of the big leather armchairs has been here and whether Phyllis of Phyllis Crosby. Something he invigorator.

died trying to defund my jewels

could not sell—” from that wretched" Mrs. Berke-in the library, Gigi snatched up an Crosby had ever been robbed."

ottoman, planted it at the social sec- "That was because Doris seemed "A-miniature-of Phyllis " ley went on, her voice quivering retary's feet and flopped down to recognize Johnson when

they Mrs.

in Lambert repeated, "You wish you hadn't slapped

met at the servants' dinner-table whisper. her, don't you? Gigi cut in cruelly. Upon it.

"And I've been told that adoles- last night," Dundee explained. "The "George, are you going to let cents were abnormally sensitive," police naturally look for a confed-back of her chair and the pupils She leaned weakly against the

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Throughout the meal Clorinda Berkeley and Seymour Crosby apoke not at all, except for mur- mured acknowledgements of Wick- ett's services, But Clorinda's st lence was the stillness of deep hap-| piness and peace or so it seemed to Dundee. Her magnificent dark dj'es were softly radiant and an unsuspected gentleness and sweet- – hussN hovered over the beautiful mouth that had been so arrogant.

Crosby was silent out of weari-| ness and profound depression-a silence which not even his exquis-] ile courtesy could gnad him break.

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Mrs. Lambert dutifully sympa- thized with Mrs. Berkeley in fer broken, semi-hysterical complaints against Johnson, the fact that the big party could not take place and the unfairness of life in general. But only her lips sympathized, con- sled, reasoned. Her blue-grey eyes, looking abnormally large now be cause of the purplish shadows, were infinitely remote, infinitely weary.

| But twice, when Mrs. Berkeley men-

tioned Doris's name, Mrs. Lambert, glanced upward at Wicket and each time their eyes held, And Dundee knew that, for the moment, butler and former mistress com- muned silently and sorrowfully as two friends who had loved a girl who was dead.

He watched cannily for any tiny lue that might betray her mur- derer, if indeed he--or she--was in that room. A word, a facial ex- pression, the hypocritical overstres. [sing of a note of grief,

But there was nothing, of if there was, he could not detect it. And he was glad when, the desert served but not eaten, except by greedy Gigi, Mrs. Berkeley rose.

"I suppose." she sighed, must all try to get back to normal. Of course everything is at sixes and sevens, and I have so much

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