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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931,

Murder At Bridge

by AUSTIN author of THE BLACK PIGEON

****THE AVEMANY FAROOT" AREA – MURDER BAGUSTAIRI

BEGIN DERE TODAY

ZERH Hell

ها

Lydia, her maith, ways she loved Nits and

the

trail all around and across nttle. And then he remembered. .... Ralph Hammond's footprints, of course, made that morning as he went about his legitimate business of measuring and estimating for. the job of turning the storeroom into bedrooms and bathrooma.

Dundee had not realised that he was frightened until he was in the

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AGENCIES AND DRANCHES. ALOR STAR

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Anal hyll again, facing one of the three:

doors in the buff-tinted plastered ¡Nita Selini had been murdered in wall. With surprise, and Rom Reservs Liability of Propricions... nurdered belde, the basement, as he had subcon- amusement. he became aware that Ruspicion of nearly all it her guests seiously noted on his headlong dush his hands were trembling, and that shows Special Investgater, Dundey, Breapple to question Lydia Carr, the furnace his knees had a carious tendency abe gave her, including bruke farms with doors awung open, and the lids of to buckle. A broken bull which hulirates to Dundee the laundry tubs had been left The fact that the door, directly fertirse towarder Bramped int it wh

the unavailing in front of him was open about two back ball Tracy Miles,propped up, after one at the guste, returns and offer to take menrch....... Litis home with him if the mix, and Dunder

Inches served, for some odd reason, itella her of cilo, and renda Mita'a will, Jeaving He ploded wearily up the base to steady his nerves. Pushing the everything der Lilla, which we Nitement stairs and on into the kitchen, door wide open with his foot-for for the crime in Egils. Lydia knows nothing Perhaps the ice box had something he never forgot the possibility of 12 the $10,000 Nits deposited since she came fit to eat in it-the fruit intended incriminating 8ngerprints which

that the

to Humiltage.

to

In a hate la Lydia, Nita teie her to draw for Nita's and Lydia's Sunday might easily be obliterated-he dia- her for cremation in velvet frein. 12 or 15 breakfast. Those caviar and ao-covered n light rear vid. which Dunder suspects we chovy anndwiches had certainly not door frame.

switch near the

ding doen. Ho lesena from dla thei Nita

want out with Halah Hammond, in love with bee and mining from the party, Thursday Inight, and Friday night, the night she made the will, anw Deater Sprague, who left her

that Jystin utet. Dunder tells Miles

the offer, and make him if he raw Nita' m when he called that Imurielag, and what was Mia méṭitinde.

stuck with him long......

•

but

not

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Hr was making his way toward

The instant illumination from a the electric refrigerator when be celling cluster revenied

a large as if he had bedroom, and, less clearly, another stopped as suddenly been shot.

and smaller room beyond it, facing The kitchen door, which he had the house faced-toward the taken especial pains to assure him-south. Knees and hands steady CHAPTER XXIII

self was locked, when he had made again, he investigated the finished "Umisul?" Miles repeated, frown-the rounds immediately after the portion of the gabled story swiftly. "He was a little short with departure of Captuin Strawn and A charming layout, he told himself. insc.

was standing slightly Had Penny Crain ones enjoyed this

(Perak FM.8.)

(Philippine Ta.) ne because he was busy, and, i sus. his men.

KUALA LUMPUR pert, a little jealous because air!

delightful Httle sitting room, with Foreign Exchanko and General Banking one calling on Nita-" He broke Sameone had entered this housefits tiny balcony built out upon the business transacted. off abruptly, in obvious distress.

loping roof? And it gave

Current Accounts opened and Fixed De him Dundee atared blankly at the pleasure to think that this

poelta seeled for one year or shorter perioda "Lauk here, Dundee! I didn't mean

was equipped with well-furnished

bigat rates which will be quoted on application. [door, which to say that, Ini I

suppose ya'll and

A. I. FERGUSON, furally Someone with a feminine bedroom had once been

Manager, l sonner or later Well, the fact modern lock.

But why had the door hers, as well as the small but per- key in, the whole crowd knows Ralph

To make excap feet bathroom whose high narrow

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE Hammond was absohitely mad about been left ajar? Nita Selin. Wanted to marry her,

easier?

window overlooked the back gar-

BANK LIMITED._ With the tee of his shoe Dundee den. The closets, dresser drawers Capitai (fully paid on) ....... 106.000.950 and made no secret of it, though we all thought or hoped it would of the lock, then, all thought of betely

pushed the door to, heard the click and highboy drawers were commerce Tand.... 115,00,000 little Penny Crain. He's been des

empty, however, of any voted to Penny for years, and since food routed from bla mind, made a trace of her occupancy or that of ITEAD OFFICE-TUKORANA.

nee quick but almost silent dash into any other...... Roger Crain made a mess of things the dining room to secure one of With these roomis going to waste, Alexandria and skipped out, leaving Penny and hes por mother high and dry were the pair of tall wax tapers, which, why he suddenly asked himach fatavia

In their silver candlesticks, ser all done our best to throw Fenny

served nd Nita Selim coaxed Judge Mar-Dombay Kobe u! Ralph together,

as ornaments for the sideboard. But

hall to have the unfinished half Buenos Ayres London If the intruder was still in the of the gabled attic tarned Into bed- Nita came to town--

(Temporarily Los Angeles

clom!] Was Nita in love with Ralph ?" he could be nowhere but in rooms and baths? Why couldn't Calcutt Dumice cut in, rather curtly, for that unfinished half of the gabled in have slept up here, if Nith Canton The had a curious distaste for her top story, The nearer statra were thought an much of her "faithful Changchun

those in the leek hall, and Dundee and beloved maid"? og Penny Crain discussed in this took them two at

Dairen (Dalny) Newchwang time regardless

But even as he asked himself the Fogtien "Sometimes we were sure she of the nine. Who had preceded him question Dundee realized that the (Malden)

answer to it had been struggling Hanko was," Miles answered. She flirted stealthily. By the aid of the

lighted candle he discovered with all of us men-had a way

anto attract hia attention. with her of making every man she electric switch at the head of the stairs, flicked it on, and found him- talked to think he was the only self in a wide hall, one wall of pying them as late as last night! which was finished with buff-tinted Weaving swiftly through the three plaster and three doors, the other

manner.

since

pebble on the beach. But there was something specini in the way she looked at Ralph... . Yes, think she was in fere with him But then again," he frowned, "she

Harbin

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Deporte received for fixed periode at ralen rough boards with but a singles, like a bloodhound on the to be share on fallende

scent. Dundee collected the few but With his candle held high, so tuitive conviction. A copy of The sufficient proofs to back up his in-

door.

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would treat him like a dog. Seemed that is light should not blind him, Hamilton Evening Sun, dated Fri- BANK OF CHINA. to want to drive him away from and well aware that it made him dey, May 23, left in an armchair in her--but she always called him back a perfect target, Dundee opened the the sitting room. All --Oh, Lord!" he interrupted him unpainted door and found himself raised about six inches from the self with a grean. "Now I sup pose I have put my foot in it! You've the dark, musty-smelling room bottom, so that

that had served Nita Selim and the stirred

the night breeze got the damnedest way of making

the hand-blocked Crains before her as a storeroom.drapes. And, clinging to a chap tell everything he would cut From the ceiling dangled a green drapes, the faint but unmistakable Reserve Funda out his tongue rather than spil. cord cuding in a cheap, clear-glass odour Dundee! But just because a young bulb. But its light was sufficient to

of cigarette smoke. man's in love, and happens not to

Finally, with

low penetrate even the farthest Iow

cry show up at a party, is no reason nooks made by the three gables dee lang back

of triumph. Bonnie Dun- think he sneaked up to the house

the hand-blocked and killed the woman he loved and e blew out his candle and dropped linen spread which covered

as useless now.

the Owler to our namerous branches in China accounts opened and Fixed De- and large connections in the important composits ir ocal and foreign curren-- dumb that I haven't seen the drift {nothing human was concealed baered that the sheets

A quick tour convinced him that three-quarter sized bed and discoy-mercial centres of the world, we are able 50 cles taken at rates that may be as

and pillow satend to our cilenta epecial facilities for of your damnable questions, Dan-hind one of Nita Selim's empty the shadow of a doubt, been alept, other Public Funds of the Chinese Government

domestic and foreign banking and exchange. enses, though clean, had, beyond

certained on application to the decl

Do you know Ralph Hum-wardrobe trunks, or behind one of

We also handle the Lase of Bonds and Bank. mond, by any chance?" he cluded, his round face red Junger.

to

wanted to marry. For I'm not so

con-

the several pieces of heavy old far- apon, with nitare, undoubtedly left behind by touched a pillow case he sniffed. Bending so that his nose almost

who had l'omutte!... Who was the man slept in this bed Jast night?

· (To Be Continued),

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the dispossessed Crain family.

Big footprints on the thick duet “No--but I should like to meet which coated the floor showed him him." Dundee retorted. He that he was being no more thor-i seems quite hard to locate this ove-nagh than Captain Strawn's brace ning."

of plainclothes detectives had been "Well, when you do find him,"[much earlier that evening.

Major General J. W. Sandilands Tracey Miles began violently, his pairs of giant footprints...... blue eyes blazing with anger. With an exclaimation he discov-turned to the Colony yesterday by Pald-up Capital

the ss. President McKinley. He was "you'll soon find you've been bark-ered a smaller, narrow pair of accompanied by Capt. D. R. M. {ing up the wrong tree! There's not prints, and followed their winding Cameron.

cleaner, finer, straighter

fact, he is a friend of yours,

after

300

left

Mes. Dundee answered south- ingly, and I resport you for every word you've said....By the way. ld all of you go to the Country Club for dinner here?

Somewhat moillfied, Miles an- swered: "All of us but Clive Ham- mond. He said he was going to have a look around for Ralph him- self. Seemed to have an idea where ho might find him....A

.And, oh yes. Sprague disappeared in the scramble. He hasn't a car and no- body thought of offering him a lift, Guess he took a bus into Hamilton.

Ah, Here's Lydia!...... Hell, Lydia!" he called heartily to he woman who was standing, tall and aunt, in the doorway. "Mighty glad you're coming to look after the kids!

om behind the black veil which from druped

her ugly black hat and hil her scarred face, Lydin answered in: the dull, harsh voice that was char- acteriatle of her

Thank you, sir. I'll do my best."' She made no protest when Dun- dep, with a word of embarrassed apology, went rapidly through the heavy suitense she had brought up from the basement with her. And when he had finished his fruitless search, she knelt and silently Bmoothed the coarse, utilitarian garments he had disarranged.

Five minutes later Dundee was alone in the house where murder had been committed under such. strange and buffing circumstances that afternoon. He was not nor- youn, but again he made a tour of Inspection of the first floor and basement, looking into closets, teat ing windows to make sure they were all locked. Everywhere there were evidence of the thoroughness of the police detectives who hadi searched for the waspon with which

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