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Murder At Bridge

by ANNE AUSTIN author of " THE BLACK PIGEON?

THE AVENGANO ESADAY”, anul NURDER BACKITAIRE”

CHAPTER XXXI

fruitless work,

shelf

TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1931.

[ment, Dunden took little interest in {the collection of pretty but inexpen- sive jewellery-Nita's trinkets, un- doubtedly which the brass box contained. .... No wedding ring among them.

CANTON FINANCES.

RESTORING THE VALUE OF BANK NOTES.

the

BANKS.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. ·BANKING CORPORATION.

AGENCIES

ALOR STAN

£1,000,000

·1,000,000

AND BRANCHŁA,

KUCHING

Authorised Capital ******* *.250.460.000 Tarved and Pelly Palkup .................... 20814,000 Reserve Fund

Bleeling Büre

................... ☎ 6,546,900 ·

HEAD OFFICE) HONGKONG. BOARD OF DIRECTURES.

3. A. Flammer, Zag Chairman.

Canton, Feb. 9. In spite of his chagrin at

not At the weekly measton of the finding the gun. Dundee studied Kwangtung Provincial Executivo

Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1851, the simple mechanism which Roger Council scheduled for to-morrow,

General Manager of Crain's Ingenuity had conceived, tho

HEAD OFITE: LONDON. From the outside, the eight-incli Canton Contral Bank will propose

resumption of Fald-Up Capital And then, directly beneath the length of board fitted smoothly, the Immediate

which was set regulation giving no indication whatever that silver azchange for all $10 notes Reserve Fand After a solid hour of hard and height, just above the pole on which it was otherwise than that it seem-/inued by the Central Bank, this❘ Bomarva Liability of Proprietore... 3,000,000 | Sameere Liability of Proprietors...$20,640,000

Bonnie Dundee swung a dozen coat hangers, Dun-ed-part of a cheaply built wall being the latest step by the Can- played on Government to restore the But Dundee's Anshlight was forced to admit ruefully to dee found what he was looking for. upon the bevelled edges of both Central Bank notes to parity. himself that his parting words to

It is offelally announced that of the board, the short board and the two neigh there are $7,500,000 worth of $10 the district attorney-had sounded A short length: like a youthful boast. And so far cheap board, a queer

scrap to bouring planks between which it it had proved to be a

woefully have been used even in es ahoddy was Atted. The pivoting arrange. Central Bank notes In circulation empty boast.

a. job as that wali was....Eightment was of the simplest, the small Canton,

nickelpiated pieces being net intol For nowwhere in the house Roger inches long. And set aquare in the the short board and the other two Crain had built and in which Nila centre of the wall, just below the Selim had been murdered could the sidif and pole. If he had not been planks with small screws which did detective find anything remotely looking for something odd, how-not plerce their painted outside resembling a concealed safe. The lever, he acknowledged to himself, surface. two plainclothesmen Strawn had de he would not have noticed it. Did

tricities.

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SHANGHAI

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(F.M.S.)

CALOUTTA

:

CANTON

HAIPHONG HANDURG HANKOW SKARDIN

(North Manchuria) TAVOY

the

KONGKONG

the

ILOILO

TOK

XARACI

XLANO

KODE

TIENTHIN

TOKYO

TONOKAN

BATAVIA

DOMBAY

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HAIPHONG

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HANKOW

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{DJUKET TRINGTAO TOKOHAMA KUALA KANGSAR ZAMBOANDA

(Patak P.M.6.) (Phillpine Ta) KUALA LUMPUR Foreign Exchange and General Bankin ILOILO business trausted.

Current Accounts opened and Fixed Dr JOHORE polls recaired for one rear or shariar periods. KODA ut rate which will be quoted na spplication.

A. II. FERGUSON,

Manager,

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ary, too, lo retrieve the weapon, lace any Innocent member of that party might have remembered later to mention the secret hiding place to the police-secret no longer since Judge Marshall had gossiped about | tailed to guard the house and to anyone ever notice the back wolla ́ Illa curiosity satisfied, Dundee it. continue the search for the missing of closets?

the closet into stepped out of

Then another thought balled up, gun and silencer looked on with un-

Sure of the result, he pressed the tiny foyer. He was about to and demanded attention. In concealed amusement as Dundee with his finger tips upon the lower leave when a terrific truth crashed new thenry, what place did topped walls, floors and cellings in end of that short piece of board. through his mind and froze his feet "bang or bump" have—that nolco e house that seemed to be excep And slowly it swung inward, the to the floor.

which Flora Miles, concealed In tionally free of architectural recen- top part slanting outward.

Of course the pun and silencer Nita's closet, had dimly heard? He had found the secret hiding (were not theref

Dundee had been positive, when Finally he grew tired of their place. And Dandre silently agreed This was the guest closet! In Lydia had discovered the shattered riald comments and brusquely with Judge Marshall that it was it had hung the hat of every person electric bulb in the big bronze lamp. ordered them to make a new and the simplest and most Ingenious who had been Nita's guest, either that its position in Nita's Foom in- exhaustive search of the unused arrangement you ever saw," for it for bridge or cocktails, that fatal dicated the progress of the flight of portions of the basement-those was nothing more or less than a Saturday afternoon!

the murderer-flight diagonally dark, unfloored regions, with their shelf set between the two closets, And to this closet, to retrieve across the room toward the back networks of water and sewage in those 11 inches of unaccounted hat, stlek, or in the case of the hall. But now pipes, heavily Insulted cables of for space!

women, summer coat and hat-bad A little dashed, Dundee returned circtric wires, cobwebby rafters, I take off my hal to Roker come every person who had been to the bedroom. The big lamp was sloping banks of earth, and rough Crain!" Dundee reflected. "No bur. questioned and then searched by where he had first seen it-about shelves holding empty fruit 2018 fælar in the world would ever have the police.

a foot beyond the window nearest quor bottles which con-thought of pressing upon a short Dundee tried to recapture the the c porch, and at the head of the trasted sharply with the neatly plece of board in a foyer closet, in picture of the stampede which had chaise langue which was sot be-Capital (fully paid up).......Y. 100,000,000 celled and cement-Hoored space desearch of a safe. .But how did followed upon his permission for tween the two west windows, Reserve Fund Y. 118,000,000

tofurance, laundry and Judge Marshall know of its exist all guests to go to their homes. But where, according to Lydia, the larep HEAD OFFICE: TOKONAMA. Columbia Records maid's root.. Dundee himself had

Jence?

it was useless. He had stayed in falways stood. The too-long given those regions only, a cursory The only answer Dundee could the living room with Strawn, had lay sinckly along the floor near the Inspection with his flashlight, for think of was that Crain, overseeing taken not the slightest Interest in west wall, and extended to the Batavia it was highly improbable that Nita (the building of his house, had sud-the scramble for hats, coats and double outlet on the baseboard beamb Selim would have made use of adenly conceived this brillant and sticks. For Strawn had previously hind the bookcase.... A slack Buenos Arma London secret hiding place for her jewellery simple plan, and had tipped one of assured him that the guest closet cord!

(Temporarily Los Angeles

clowed) Down on his hands and knees and valuable papers, if that hiding the carpenters to carry it out for had been thoroughly searched. place were located in such dark, him. Possibly, or probably, he had So quickly that he felt slightly Dundee went, peer under the low Awesome surroundings.

trragged to Clive or Ralph Ham- dizzy, Dundee's thoughts raced bottom shelf of the bookcuse.... No. The hiding place, if it really mond, his architects, of his clever around the new discovery. This Yes! The pronged plug of the lamp Dairen (Dalny) Newchwang existed- and it must exist bud invention. And the Hammond boys changed everything, of course. cord had been jerked almost out been within easy reach of Mita had passed on the information to anyone of half a dozen persons of the baseboard outlet! It was dressing und bedecking herself for Judge Marshall when, after Crain's could have arrived with the gun easy to visualize what had hap Hamberg a party, ve Lydia Carr could not failure and flight, the house had and aflencer-not screwed together, pened: The murderer, after firing Haskow have been kept in complet» istnor-become the property of the ex- of course, because of the ungainly the shot, had involuntarily taken a ance of its location.

Ljudge.

length-and seized the opportunity step or even acveral steps backward, With that conviction in mind, These thoughts rushed through presented by Nita's being alone in until his foot had caught in the Dundee returned to Nita's bedroom, his mind as his flashlight explored her bedroom to shoot her. What loop of electric cord, causing the big to which he had already devoted at the shelf through the tilted opening. entier, then, than to hide the wes lamp to be thrown violently against least half an hour. Nothing in the The gun and silencer must be here, pan on this secret shelf? And the wall near which it stood.... big clothes ehnet. where Florn since they could be no place elsewhat easier than to retrieve the But who? Miles had been hiding while Nita

...But the shelf was bare except weapon after permission had been Anyone of half a dozen people!! WRS being murdered. No secret

to their But-whol drawers in desk or dressing table small brass box, fastened only granted to all to return

(To Be Continued) or bedside table. No false bottomy a clasp. In his acute disappoint-homes?

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He had even taken every book,

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the four-shelf bookense which stod against the west wall near the north corner of the room, Jol- Agent and had satisfied himself that no

[book was a lenfless fake.

MITSUI

BUSSAN His clue inspection of the bath- room and back hall, upon which Nita's bedroom opened, had proved As Fruitless, although he had re-

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linen press which stood in the hall,

and nieasured spaces to a fraction

of an inch. As for the walls, they were, except for the doors, unbro- expanses of tinted plaster." And yet

kan

Ile stepped into the clothes eluset

E again, hammer to hand for cust

tapping of the cedar-board walls. Nothing here... And then he tapped again, his ear against the emi wall of the closet-the wall

Tfarthest from the side porch...

T

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Yes! There was a faintly hollow echo of the hammer strokes!

Excitement blazing high ngain. he took the tape measure with which he had, provided himself on his way out, and calculated the length of the closet from end to end. Six feet...

lies

Emerging from the closet closed his eyes in an effort to re- call in exact detall the architect's blueprint of the lower floor, which Coroner Price had submitted to his

jury at the inquest that morning. Yes, that was right! The inner wall of Nita's clothes closet was also the back of the guest clonet in the little foyer that iny between Nita's bedroom and the main hall. Within 10 minutes, much Inying- on of the tape measure bad pro- duced a stariling result. Instead of having a wall in common, the guest closet and Nita's clothes closet were separated by exactly 11 inches Why the waste space? The blueprint, bearing the imprint - of 16 the architects, Hammond and Ham- mond, showed no such walled-up cubbyhole!

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Exultantly, Dundee again tered Nita's closet and went over every inch of the narrow, hori- zontal cedar boards, which formed the end wall. But he met with no reward. Not through this work- manlike, solidly constructed wall had an opening been made..... But in the foyer claset he a different story. Its back wall had amateurish look. This closet was not cedar-lined, as was Nita's, but was painted throughout in soft ivory. But it was the back wall of the closet in which Dundee was interested. Unlike the other walls, which were of plaster, the back was

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