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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1930.

Murder Backstairs

CHAPTER XXXIV.

ANNE AUSTIN

JUTHOR OF

* THE BUNK PIGEON, ETH

had slapped her face?"

thing. But poor Dad has a beset The effect of the question was ting worry about them. He's atartling. The woman's tired eyes afraid some thirsty and incautious family blazed with anger, and her lipa member of his precious were shaking ne she repeated: will take a swig of the wood alco- "Stapped Doria?... Oh! Then, hol and fill an untimely grave. regaining a measure of control she Therefore he delivers periodic loc- answered: "No Doris did not tell tures on the horrible effects—” me that."

,། The ringing of the house tele- "Don't mind so, Tish!" Gigi phone interrupted her torrent of pleaded, stroking her friend's words. Snatching up the receiver tury. I had never worked for flushed check with tender browa; she cooed "Hullo!" and winked "Abble on the ram- money in my life, and the pros-fingers. "Abbie has a rotten temat Dundee.

she per, you know. She flies off the page?" she whispered after a mo Mrs. Lambert's eyes flew wide, peet dismayed me, but"

Aloud: "Yes, darling! ..Oh, to stare at the detective Incredul hesitated, then flung up her silver-handle and goes banging around, ment.

"The but she really doesn't mean any She's still being quizzed." ously. "Doris? Suspicions?" she crowned head defiantly.

got biffed myself last me? Why, Abble! How can you? repented. "I don't know what you small remnant of my dead hus-harm. 1

WAS almost com-night, remember, and I'm not I'm belog my most charming self

dear, little mean. I am sure Doris knew no band's estate

wide-eyed was harbouring any bad feelings now-your it

daughter. more about Phyllis's. suicide than 1 pletely exhausted, and

Of course I'm not necessary for me to earn money painst my peppery parent." did, or thun Seymour Crosby knew?

"I remember," Mrs. Lambert giving away family secrets!... "Probably no more, tut

in some way."

but her arms All right, darling. Keep your much, Mrs. Lambert!" Dundee re- "Why didn't you get married agreed quietly,

shirt on. I think they're almost torted significantly.

"Forgive what must seem like through." cagerly. "You're so beautiful and "Don't mind him. Tish!" Gigi"gain yourself, Tish?" Gigi began tightened about the small body.

"She wants you to hurry, be bert," Dundee went on, "but last cause she needs Tlah," she ex- cried, stroking the pale cheek of such a lamb I should think every unwarranted prying, Mrs. Lam- her friend consolingly. Then to plutocrat that looked at you-" Dundee she blazed:

Mrs. Lambert's delicate cheeks night I happened to overhear Mrs, plained unnecessarily. Can you

"I hurry." Dundee grinned at tell blume her if she fiba a little to lamed, and she stopped the rush Berkeley xay to you, 'All right, I

Will a hand over promise.

her. "Now, Mrs. Lambert, will protect Phyllis Crosby's memory of words by laying

ex- you please tell me when you laat the child's mouth. "I accepted the please, what promise you from scandal?"

"have told nothing but the position and Mrs. Berkeley asked tracted from Mrs. Berkeley?"

"Really, Mr. Dundee, I must say Doris Matthews?" truth, Gigi," Mrs. Lambert said me in begin my duties by engag

a thoroughly refuse to answer that question." wearly.

of competent lady's maid for herself Mrs. Lambert, retorted icily. "It and Clorinda. I had had a letter was a purely personal matter, from Wickett while I was still in having nothing at all to do with France, telling me that he was with the tragedy you are inves, returning to America, and saying tigating." that he wanted to serve me if I

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"At exactly what time, you Lambert asked. "You were at the inquest

mean?" Mrs. Course, Dundee persisted. "You

Let me think.... It was about heard her father's testimony, Ile

11 when I came upstairs. I went long letter from one of my New was on his way to see his daugh-

to my room first and was reading York friends which I had been tou Capital (fully paid up)........Y. 108,800.000 ter and to take her home when

busy to open when it came on the she died, believe."

when I sud- "Yes," Mrs. Lambert admitted, should again set up an establish-

Dundee shrugged slightly, then late afternoon past, with sudden spirit. "But I bement. On my arrival in New York grolled at her disarmingly as he denly remembered that I had neg- lieved then and I still believe that located Wickett through an en- took a rather crumpled package lected to enter an important en

lying. Cullen Benham was

ployment bureau and offered him

was Mrs. Berkeley's desk calendar. As from his cont pocket. He had consented to her marriage to this post, which he accepted. Af cigarettes and a patent lighter gagement for this morning on Mr. Crosby, but very mis- day or so later he sent Doris to snapping unsuccessfully at the flint was opening my door to go to room I Seymour me. She was employed on a Long when Gigi scrambled out of Mrs. Ms. Berkeley's sitting takenly believed that

the saw Doris hurrying past on her was murrying Phyllis for her Island calate, but wished to be with

Lambert's lap and snatched

way to the backstairs. She looked father's money. Mr. Benham said Wickett again."

ighter from his hands. A letter from he had received

"Bet it needs, filling!" she told as if she had been crying."

"Did

you stop her speak "She simply adored you!" Gigi him.. "Let me do it! See this Phyllis, asking him to cable her $25,000 and let her come home.ent in.

funny little fountain?" and she her?" Dundee asked.

to her. She Doris," Mrs. "And 1-loved

"Yea, I culled But he could not produce the let-

door and 1 asked ter said he had destroyed it. Lambert said quietly, for the ran around the big desk to where

an ornamental little keg with stopped in my and time during the interview. "gleaming brass bands held a her what was wrong. She said. "Yet," Dundee interrupted. think that is all I can tell you, prominent position among writing Nothing. It's just that I've been "Mr. Benham was on a ship hur-Mr. Dundee. As you probably accessories. "It's a filling station talking with Mr. Crosby and to be obtained on application.

11. MOXI rying to his daughter's side, when know, Clorinda and Mr. Crosby for starving-lighters, but we feed and remembering. I saw that she became engaged on the last dayemwood atcohol instead of gas. was emotionally upset and did not up the of the voyage."

Watch!" and she jerked the detein her. She ran oil

don't believe”

she was killed."

When she committed suicide," Mrs. Lambert corrected him.

"Pardon And Mr. Benham had unquestionably cubled his daughter these words: Not another cent Come home, he reminded her.

"If she had asked his permia- xion to come home, I fail to sce why he did not wait for her in New York," Mrs. Lambert pointed

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Dundee was silent again for a lighter apart, then held the tiny backstairs to the servants quar- BANK OF CHINA. long minute. Then he asket reservoir directly under the min-ters and I went to Mrs. Bericoloy's abruptly: "Mrs. Lambert, was it iature spiggot whose top she sitting room." from you that. Doris expected to turned. "Now see if it will light." "You did!" Dundee exclaimed. the refilled startled. "We had no idea-How borrow sufficient money to set up Dundee accepted

lighter with thanks, then re-long were you, there, Mrs. Lum- a beauty shop of her own?"

marked admiringly: "That's neat! bert?"

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The Hongkong Jockey Club ad- "Possibly he wanted to deal salary as Mrs. Berkeley's secre-assured him. "He patented the personally with the man who had tary

thing himself and one of his fac-vertise that Draft Programmes and

DAIREN Owlog to our numerous branches in Chi "Do you know whom she had tories turns, them out by the thou Entry Forms for the Fifth and made her a unhappy." Dundee suggested. Then, as Mrs. Lam in mind as her benefactor?" Dan- aand. He's sinfully proud of it Sixth Extra. Race Meetings to be and large connection in the Important coMT DELET bert expressed her scorn only with dee pressed.

too. Designs a new type of body held on Saturday, May 17, and on mercial centres of the world, we are able to extend to our elleni special facilities for her blazing eyes:

The house is Saturday, June 7, and Monday June, domestle and foreign banking and exchange. "Will you tell

"Why. nu! I haven't the least every week or so.

We xiso handle the issue of Banda and me whether to your knowledge idea."

full of them. Abbie has a gor- 9. may be obtained from the Race

ment both at home and abroad. "Mrs. Mrs. Crosby was jealous, or had!

Lambert, did Doris tell genus one for her sitting room Courae, Hongkong Club and Cause-atter Pablle, Funds of the Chinese tivera canse to be jealous of any other you last night that Mrs. Berkeleyla modernistic urn, the darlingest way Bay Stables.

wonin?"

"No! I can swear that such a thought never entered Phyllis's

hend

Dundee was silent for a while, his eyes nurrowed in thought. Then: "Did you see Doris after the inquest, Mrs. Lamberi?"

"No, not until she came to see me upon my return to New York," "ler mistress* she answered.

death was a terrible blow to Doris, and after the strain of the inquest she eollapsed. The papers said that she went to the home of an Aunt, in a London suburb. I made a note of the aunt's name and ad- dress and sent flowers and delica- eius to her there, but did not go to see her, since I myself was suf-i fering from the strain and from: grief. I went to a little village in the south of France and remained there, in seclusion, until I sailed for America carly in August."

"Did you see Mr. Crosby during that time?",

"No, but I had several letters from him. He was travelling over the Continent, making a brave ef- For fort to conquer his despair. several months I feared he would follow Phyllis, and in my own letters to him I said everything I could to make him happier."

"And yet, just 16 months after his wife's death, Seymour Crosby Commerce Mr. Hoover thanked the becomes engaged to be married to Dunder reminded business inen for co-operating with another girl," the Government in stabilising her.

economic forces after the Wall "No fair!" Gigi protested, mak and Street crash. Future prosperity ing a face at the detective

burrowing deeper into Mrs. Lam- was certain.

embrace. "I've always Mr. Hoover, predicted the aban- bert's donment of the belief that a apecu- heard that widowors who were lative rise and fall was a disease crazy about their wives get mr- which must run its courae; Herled again quick." promised an accurate examination'

Mra. Lambert smiled, dropped a

of ways of achieving greater grateful kiss stabilisation, but uttered a warn-brown ing that they were not yet out of Dundee: the wood.

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upon the tumbled curls then explained "It was who introduced him The investment markets had ab-to Clorinda, and I who encouraged sorbed, since the Wall Street him to try to find solace in a new crash, two thousand million dol-life with a girl whom 1 esteem When I wrote Seymour lars of new securities. There had highly- been aò significant bank or indus-that I was returning to America, trial failures, no

substantial re-, he replied that he too was home- on the -daction in wages, and no strikes or aick, and would join me

Mauretania. On shipboard 1 be- lockouts connected with the situa- tion.-Reuter's American Service, came acquainted with Mrs. Berke- ley and her daughter, and intro- duced them to Mr. Croaby. Soy- mour and Clorinda were obviously

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"I bet she did!" Gigi giggled. Again Mrs. Lambert smiled, an

tion in September. The campaign expression which made her look has covered the City of Victoria, almost like a giri again, and very Kowloon, the Now Territories, beautiful. "When it became fairly outlying villages, islands and boat obvious that an engagement would population. A total of 135,185 result, Mrs. Berkeley begged me vaccinations were made.

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