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CHAPTER XXXVIL

The Miles Bone, still known in Hamilton as the Hackett place, since it had been built more than 30 years before by Flora's father, old Silus

dead these flackett, seven years, dominated one of the

MURDER BACKSTAIRI”

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there. Drake wanted to play ana- grams, and before the bridge game started, I went to the trophy Miles ex- room to get the box," plained. "I turned off the light when I'd got the box, and there was no light burning in there this

unable to fix the hour of death with any degree of accurcay,"

"Took your time, didn't you, Donnie?" Captain Strawn greated his former aubordinate on tho homicide squad. "Doc says he's heen dend between 10 and 12 hours

Since it's nearly 10 now, that

menne Sprague was killed some time between nine and 11 o'clock last night." "Better

between Hay

nino o'clock and midnight last night." Dr. Price suggested. "He may have lived an hour or more—un» " conscious, of course. For the in- dications are that he did not die instantly, but staggered a few steps, clutching at the wound. But

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which eucireler Mirror Lake the Brentwood section. Of mudi- fied Tudor areäftegrare, its deep red, mellowed urleka hand achieved in three" duendes almost the samue

aged dignity and impressiveness that characterized the three-cen mansion in England hich Sins Hackett's architect had used as an inspiration,

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The big henne faced the lake, a long series of innilscaped terraces.

leading down to the water's edge, but the driveway wound from the state road up a side hill, to the main entrance at the rear of the house.

to interview

Once before on Sunday, the Selfm's murder, day after Nita when he had come Lydia Carr and had secured the alibi which had eliminated Dex- ter Sprague as a suspect Dunden had driven his car

!p this bill between the tall yow hedges. But then he had taken the Tork whiteli led to the bonded doorway over the kitchen; had descended the kitchen stairs with Lyia, to the servanta sitting room in the base- ment. Now he conlinued along

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His approach must have been expreted nad observed, for it was the maser of the house who open- ed the great, iran-studded doors wod invited him into the broat mzajt: fall at the end. of which, down three steps, lay the immense living room. The detective's first

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of the Cromwell period, thick. mellow-toned mugs, and, in the liv- ing room beyond, splendid exun- ples of Jacobean furniture. In all this dignified but simple grandeur Miles short, stoul, nly Tracey blonde, the typiend business" Habitt

struck a false note.

A horrible thing to happen in a man's home, Dundee," Miles was saying, his plump. roxy face Wighted with horror.

can't

realize yet that we detually alept as usual with a corpse lying down here all night! And I have only

myself to blame

"What do you mean?" Dundee asked.

wasn't

"Why, that the body

Sole Agent discovered sooner, Miles explain el, it had necurred to me that Whitson hadn't close the trophy room windows, I should have gone

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A pale-fared, bald-hended but- ler had materialized while his master was speaking. "Boy par-

Bdon, sir, but I did not close the

trophy room windows because I

E thought you might be using the

maid, went in there to put the onagram liox back in the cabinet, and and found the body 2017 Flora Mrs. Miles--had brought the anagrams in from the porch and left them on a table in the iving room, as our guests were getting ready to leave. There was nothing else to bring in, in case of rain. The bridge tables are of iron, covered with alleloth, and fitted with oilcloth bags for

the cards, scure pads, and pencils

"Yes, I know," Dundee inter- rupted. "Miss Crain has already told me all about that, and a goud many detalls of the party itself, By the way where is Mrs. Miles now 7"

"In bed. The doctor is with her. She is prostrated from the shack."

"Where is this room you call the Trophy room ?** Dunder asked. "No, don't bother to come with mus Just point it out. It's

on this door, I understand.”

Miles pointed past the great cir- enlar staircase that wound ward from the main hall. "You can't see the door from here, but it's behind the staircase. Celia found the dour closed this morn- ing, un no light on, as

said."

Dundee cut him short by march- ing toward the door which was again elused. He entered so naise-

asly that Captain Strawn, Price and the Angerprint expert, Carraway, did not hear him.

For

a moment he stood just inside the door and let his eyes wander about the room which Penny had already described. It was not a large room looked smaller, crowded as it was 12 by 14 feet, possibly but it

ping-pong taide,

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an autopsy first-

Dundee croased the room, step- ping over the dead man's stick- swank affair of dark, polished wood with a heavy knob of carved onyx, which Iny about a foot beyond the reach of the curled fingers of the stiff right hand.

"Sprague's hat?" he asked, point ing to a brightly banded straw which lay upon the top of the cat

net.

"Yes," Strawn answered, “And idid you notice the window screen?** He pointed to the window in frant of which the body lay. The sash of leaded panes was raised as high as it would go, and beneath it was a screen of the roller-curtain type, raised about six inches from the window sill. A pair of curved, nickel-plated catches in the centre of

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the inch-wide metal band on the bottom of the coppernet curtain: showed how the screen was raised or lowered.

Dundee nodded, frowning. and Strawn began eagerly:

"You'll have to admit i was right now, boy, You've sneered at my guamaa theory and tried to pln Nita's murder on one of Hamilton's finest bunch of people, but you'll have to admit now that every detail of this setup bears me out."

"Yes 70

"Sure. This is the way I figure itut: Sprague has good reason to be afraid he's next on the pro- gramme. He's nervous. He hops taxi ut his hotel and comes here-- can't stick to his room any longer. Wants a little human companion- ship. This crowd here--and I have Miles ward for it-in't any too glad to see him, and shows it. He bags of gulf clubs, fishing tackle, | phones for a taxi to go back to his about 9:15, that was, Afiles teinis ricquets, skis and sleds, | hotel There were two windows in the |says--but decities to walk down the -north wall of the ruum, looking ont upon the yew-hedged drive- way, and between them stood u endinet of numerous big and little drawers,

with the long

Not until he irad taken in the gemment aspect of the room did Dandre fook at the thing over which Captain Strawn and the corner were bending the body of Dexter Sprague.

The alien from New York had the window nearer the east wall of the trophy root. his left check against the floor, He lay on his side, the fingers of his left hand still clutching the powder-burred

fallen about four feet from

mude the rounds of living roubosum of his soft shirt, now stif dining-room and library, after outer dried blood, pool or whirl MISENER BEER HONGKONG guests were gone last night,"

had formed and then half congeal- ed upon the rug. The right hans, the fingers half curled bat Bul touching each other, lay palm upward on the tone at the end of the rigid, outstretched arm. The one visible eye was half open, but on the salive, thin face, which You see, sir."

had been strikingly handsome in and Whitson turned to Dundee,

an obvious sort of way "Mr. Miles and Mr. Dunlap play-

and dignity which Dundee had el ping-pong in the trophy room

never seen upon Sprague's face after dinner until the other guests when the man was alive. The left began to arrive, and I did nor was drawn upward so that the want them to find the ruom stuffy

knee almost touched the ballet it was a worm night- if any of the guests-"

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Frum last night, Mr. Miles?"

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"How long has he been dead, doctor" Dundee asked quietly.

hill to meet it. Doesn't want to go back out in the porch and lle about having had a good time. when he hasn't,

Well, he opens the front door, or what would be the front door If this was any ordinary house, but before he steps

or hears, something eut he sens probably a rustling in the hedge Chcross the driveway, or maybe

even seen a face, in the fight from the hunterns on each side of the door,

"He feels sure Nit's murderer has trailed him. In a pante he darts into this room, and don't turn on the light for fear he'll be seen from the windows, but he can see well enough to make out how the screens work. I'll bet you anything rou like Sprague stayed in this Tom for an hour or two, till he flight the coast was clear, then teased up this screen, intending to climb out of the window and drop to the ground..

Not much of

a drop at that. You can see that the tail hedge on this side of the driveway comes pretty near up to these windows.... Well. figure

he laid his hat on this cabinet. in- tending to reach in for it when he was outside, but that he made some little noise which the gunman was Ustening" for, and that when he got the screen up this high, the gun man, crouching under the window, let go

with the same gin and silencer that he used to bump off Nita. I've got Miles' word for

him placidly. "Always the anme "Hello, hoy!" Dr. Price greeted

that neither he nor nobody else question! I've been here only a

heard a shot.... Of course, no- few minutes, and I've already told body knew Sprague was in here. Strawn

that I shall probably be ¦ und since his hat and stick was

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