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Murder Backstairs

CHAPTER XLVIII

ANNE AUSTIN

AUTHOR OF

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Into. the twilight of the room blackmailer," Dundee stopped a woman's figure. The quietly.

eyes

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From her lax left hand hung an afternoon paper, so folded that a two-column picture of George] -Berkeley was plainly visible to the detectives watching from the clothes closet.

"She was silent for so long then | that Dundee was afraid he had pushed her too far, that she would not confess. But at Inst she cried:

It

"Oh, what does it matter? will hurt Seymour less to know the truth than to go on being tortured with doubts of Phyllia's love for him."

Slowly she lifted the news-

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pleasant things that go with money Tablets and gave him two Tablets "Motive!" Captain Straw and high social position. When my which acted easily on his bowels, breathed in Dundee's ear and the husband's estate was settled, after which he went peacefully to younger detective pinched him to found that nearly everything was sleep. On waking he took food

You see, a woman had been and mended rapidly." The woman could not have blackmailing, him heavily for years. heard, but she lowered the paper, Disillusioned, sick at heart, for I lifted her breast in a tearing sigh had loved my husband. I faced the and slowly started to cross the world

almost penniless. Forty- room. Her

hand, from four years old... whose wrist her handbag dangled. "The thought of marrying some went up automatically to remove | middle-aged or old widower for his her close-fitting black hat. money was abhorrent to me and I man's name, or at least the name

Dundee held his breath. The was not trained for any sort of he had given her. I typed a letter | supreme moment was upon them.work. The only position could to her, signing the man's first name For as he had known they would, possibly fill was that of social sce-and asking her to send a thousand those tortured eyea flew to the retary and the idea was unthink- pounds in banknotes to W. L. dressing-table. Not once since able-then. I was too proud ... Parker,' care of the American Ex-

"But to go back a little. A few press Company, in Paris. Saturday morning-he felt sure- had. Mrs. Lambert returned to her weeks before my husband died-hemoney came. I asked for mail for room without casting, a terrified was killed in a polo accident-1 Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Parker, repre- glance at her dressing-table to met and took a great fancy to Phyl-senting myself as Mrs. Parker, and make sure that the black-and-golds Benham. It amused and de- received the package without di- perfume bottle had not betrayed lighted me to force her upon so-culty. It was-30 easy-"

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"Third: tye same reason. blackmailed Phyllis Crosby. Money You could not endure the thought of poverty, of working for your in- feriors, of being humiliated daily by a woman like Mrs. Berkeley.

THE END.

her, that it was still there. How dish, liked her immensely and again" Dundee suggested softly. niany times she must have seized rather hoped he would fall in love it, wildly casting about for with her. But Phyllis fell in love means to hide it or to destroy its with Seymour Crosby.

Seymour tell-tale contents, only to realize did not have much money: he hesi each time that she was safer with tated to ask the child to marry him, it in plain sight, in. the place for fear her father would regard

"She deserved to die!" Mrs, Lam- where Della, the maid had been him as a fortune-hunter.

bert cried suddenly, rising on her accustomed to see it. In its right-i "One Monday morning Mr. Ben-

elbow to stare at him with wild ful place, it looked supremely ham telephoned me that his daugh-fears had been confirmed; that she eyes. "A drunkard, a fool, a' self- innocent, for the black glass con- ter was ill and hysterical, that she was being blackmailed and that herish and cruel mother, a nagging cealed the fact that, once nearly wanted to see me. I went. Phyllis father had refused to cable her any wife to the finest man in the world empty, it was now full. Missing, told me a wild, almost incredible more money. She could not meet. But I gave her her chance to live! Even after she had slapped destroyed, it might betray her...story. She had a friend who had the blackmailer's last demami.

Handbag, newspaper and hat joined the chorus of a musical Seymour had sent for me, you my darling that night, I made her slipped from her nerveless bands comedy, opening in Atlantic City know, to try to cheer her up. Me!" promise not to drink the perfume to the floor. Jerkily, as if she the previous Friday. As a lark, Tears forced themselves out of Seymour had given her. I told my were half paralyzed, Mrs. Lambert Phyllis accompanied her friend, her closed eyes and slipped down self then: I shall poison it to crept to the diessing-table. The staying backstage. When the show her pallid checks. "It was the night. If she breaks her promise, detectives saw her stare at the was over, two young men, thinking night she died. I told her, begged she deserves to die." label, which Dundee had printed both of them were chorus girls, in- her, to end it all by telling. her

"But it was Doris who died," and pasted upon the fare of the Vited them to go to a roadhouse. husband the truth. I hated my-

Dundee said. battle. A shaking band went out Phyllis thought it would be fun to self, wanted to sin no more but He rose and signalled to Captain to touch it, then shuddered away accept. There was some drinking so long as Seymour didn't know, I Strawn, chief of the homicide

hot much, she insisted to me- knew I would be too weak to re-

squad. Only then. It seemed, did she see but several hours later Phyllis ist the temptation. Phyllis thought the greyish-white remains of her awoke, to find herself in a hotel the man tennis oxfords... ·

had followed her, of bedroom with her escort of the eve-course, that it was he who was

Began to "Quick! She's going to faintning. She

scream. bleeding her. Doris knew as much Guests reported the disturbance. Phyllis herself knew; the mis Strawn whispered urgently.

Dundee was in time to catch about to take them both to

The hotel detective came and was truss and maid were the closest of

the friends. her as she fell, but she was police station. The man in the not unconscious. For a long case squared it with the detective, minute she lay passive in his however, and left as soon as he could arms, her eyes still fixed in a blind dress. Phyllis had not given him trance of horror upon a vision of her right name, the night before, Luined shoes and a grotesquely and I tried to soothe her hysterical labelled perfume bottle.

"At the inquest Doris exonerated fears-told her she would hear no Seymour, of course, but she con-, Finally the paralyzed lids relax-more about it, that it was not her fided to me that she would avenge ed and curtailed the dawning fault and that she must try to her adored mistress if she had to agony of realization in her eyes. forget it. Then she showed me a devote the rest of her life to the Dundee was merciful to her. letter she had received that morn- cause. Her plan was to hire de- Motioning to Strawn to stay in ing from Seymour Crosby, It was tectives to trace Phyllis's black. the el, he rose with his burdenia proposal of marriage. She pro- mailer and make him pay for his and arried it to the bed. She lay tested that she could not accept, crime. That is why she wanted the as if dead until he had gone to the although she loved him with all her beauty shop-to make money more bathroom, mixed

of heart. The fear of blackmail, she quickly. She never suspected that aromatic spirits of ammovia and said, would hang over her head for it was-1. She trusted me, was held it to her grey lips.

the rest of her life... May I fond of me, until-"" After she had druck the dose, have some water, please?" Abhe she closed her eyes again and lay gasped, motionless, except for the rising}

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Seymour, and I left Phyllis on the "At last Phyllis agreed to tell roof to give him the message. You know the rest-that she died rather than tell him the truth.

"Until Friday night when she saw you pouring wood alcohol and falling of her breast in quick! "So it was Phyllis herself who into Mrs. Berkeley's perfume," gasping sighs. Finally she spoke. Dundee said thoughtfully,

suggested blackmail to you," Dundee finished the sentence, for her voice austy whisper:

as he her.

"Yes," "How long--have you known?" held the glass to her lips.

Mrs. Lambert agreed she moved so quietly always. "Yes. But at the time I told her dully. "I did not hear her come in; She must have been watching me for a minute or two, for she said:

'So it was you-you-who killed Miss I knew then that she

first

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I wasn't sure until to-day," he that it might be best for her or anawered gently. "At

for me to tell Seymour the whole couldn't believe that you, who said ugly story, trusting to his love for you loved Doris, could kill her."

her. But that idea frightened her

did love her!" the woman more than the other. The next day Phyllis!" cried, beating her breast feebly my husband was killed. I saw al- would have no mercy, would not with clenched hands. "That is most no one for weeks and had al- try to understand why I was plan- what made it --horrible... Oh, most forgotten pour Phyllis's dining to murder-"

I'm glad it's over! Glad, glad! Dolema until I saw her picture and "I believe I do, Mrs. Lambert," you hear? I couldn't have gone Seymour's on the society page of Dundes interrupted. "There were on much longer, trying to be a New York paper, announcing three reasons why you wanted Mrs. natural, having to talk

of their engagement and early mar- Borkeley to die. First, you loved her....I was going to kill myself ringe.

her husband, and wanted him to be to-night. Why couldn't you have' "Phyllis called on me just before frce to love you and marry, you—” given me time?"

the wedding and confessed that she "But he didn't know! He never, "Wouldn't you feel better if you was in terror lest her companion by a word or a look-" told me about it?" Dundee Bug of that dreadful night had seen her "I know! But you hoped he gested, very gently. "I am not picture and had recognized it; that would marry you for Gigi's sake, trying to trap you, Mrs. Lambert, he would blackmail her, knowing then come to love you for yourself. You realize that the ovidence is that her father was a very rich And Gigl knew you loved her father. conclusive, without your confes-man. Again I advised her to tell Friday night, in a fit of hysterical sjon."

Seymour, but she said she could resentment against her mother, she "Evidence? What do I

not; that she was going to beg him begged him to divorce her and about evidence now?" she moaned, to take her to England to live for marry you." her hands still feebly beating her

a year, at least. ·

The drawn face softened, glowed, breast. I warn you now that I'll pened. I visited in their home in you for telling me. But oh, what "As you know, that is what hap "Did she? My precious Gigi! Thank not live to stand trial. I'll find a London, then went to Monte Carlo, will she think of me now?" way somehow-200n! But you where I lost almost my last penny shan't go on thinking I lied about in a frantic effort to win enough was that you adored Gigi, the child being fond of Doris!"

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"The second reason, of course,

You killed her in a frenzy of east. In was then-in January had." terror, Mrs. Lambert, because she that I conceived the idea of-of was determined to expose you, not blackmail, Phyllis had told me the and hid her face with her hands.

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