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GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII.

“WEEK-END ́MURDER"

BY GABRIEL E. FORBUSH

Prologue

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 19324..

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There had been that whining, them and her brown, capable little [crying baby in India-strange fingers ran wildly through short, what a fuss people made over a curly, heat-matted hair, child alrendy half-dead from host "Whow! It's hot when you're and improper feeding a nul- not in motion! Come out on the sance to itself and to everyone front lawn-thore's time. Wat [elso!

In for a regular Fourth of July And the woman who would tease Anell. I guess. Why, there's the for fade when ho had brought her boat!" famethyste-

Hennessey ran her up to the The other's voice was smooth, one of the tenants, carrying

ago.", Averill's And now, just recently, this per- anchor an hour Quiet reigned in the big, high- expressionless. It simply filled the br.ef caso and a portmanteau of

sistent, obviously, dull-minded In- volca showed his pride in the trim coflanged, oid-lashioned room with gup leit for some sort of response. somewhat travelled appearance. its com.ortably worn furniture, "Um

.... but no one clas'd have, The man paused in the lower hall dividual with his itching curiosity little cabin cruiser dancing in the richly dark bangings and blazing any motive, they say... looking to light a cigarette with steady, about things that didn't concern amali bay before the house. "Glad him and his exasperating, Infuriat he rushed the fob through-I open fire. Two men-outwardly, now for a homicidal maniac." compotent fingers, and again on at least, enjoying their silent com. "Yea?" Again a colourless tone. the front steps to consult his inx little personal habits that imagine we'll keep her humming panionship-gat reading and yet under its surface courtesy watch by the light of the over- way of clearing his throat, of most of the week-end." amoking before the smouldering lurked more than a suggestion of head lamp. Somehow he convey. rattling his newspaper, of squeak- "Well things have changed a logs. Each occupied a deep, luxu- irritation.

ed the idea of a man about to take ing his shoca in two-four rhythm bit." changes Uh-huh. That rious chair, so high of back that

the a late night train, yet one unhur- and then suddenly breaking it off. Dropping as easily as a child to only the tops of two heads showed whole A lunatic's another ried and with plenty of time to holding the foot in suspense, start the soft grass, Linda pulled gent- thing again. That, is, I suppose make it comfortably. He started, ing in again in different meter. ly at the ears of an infirm old ter from the room behind them,

lunatic. Nowadays off with the same business-like |

Wall-all neatly disposed of rler which had come trotting up It was quiet there in the old ro- the man's a modelied house in a half-forgotten they divide the types of Insanity briskness toward the nearest sub without undue trouble or excite to join them as soon as they ap- corner of the city-a house built into such different classifications. way station. The house where no ment. At least none that touch- peared on the terraced lawn. The to old dog puffed heavily after the In a day when outside sounds were But psychology's your line, not one was given occasion to mind ed him. After all, how allly

the business of another remain put too great a value on huran exertion of the short, waddling leas but walls were better equipp. mino—”

ed decently dark and quiet behind life! Molecules all-but for the run. ed to repel them, when neighbours

enke of those who went on living, "Tom," Lindo broke off and- doings were not common property There was the respite of a few his undramatic departure.

the more annoying moleculen denly, "poor old Bunty's getting and one could live for years with moments' silence, then the foot |

railroad The man in the

car should be eliminated. Surely that blinder and deafer and wheezler out giving them, in turn, any great began to move again, back and

every day." knowledge of one's comings and faith, back and forth, its faint stirred uncasily as the rattle of a was the highest sanity.

atulo Sanity as the word crossed his, "Yes. Wo must do something creaking newspaper from across the goings.

aquec-eek, squee-eek

..wait until the end of summer, through the open though." Quiet ... except for an be- through the quiet room. The brought a sudden, unwelcome flash mind, the man again moved rest- breath of the sea, casional stir and thump when a meter was net not quite regular, of suggestion and memory. Then lessly. Then burned log parted and showered not quite what a listener would he smiled a little, with a trace of window came.

and he relaxed and smiled with The old dog flopped over by out the sparks.. and except subconsciously expact. It stopped self-satisfaction.

broke

a That was the most recent-well complète, tranquil pleasure. A'Linda's knees in the out-strotched for the subdued yet irritating...it started. creak-erenk-creak of shoe leather rhythm... the paper of this

holidaying her name mentioned, she wag- one crossed leg, suddenly with a stiff rattle.

and peace of mind.

Like others, it Long Island-and the poined before the fire, automatical. Then the voice went on again. had been a complete, uneventful week-end effered a pleasant Inter-ged her absurd tall lazily. The

lude as a guest In comfortable,

with two humans, feeling the treachery ly circled back and forth on a nar- comfortable, relaxed, indolent,

luxurious home, 'almont Font what fa A homicidal There had been the incident. of row are and at times stopped, em-'

sudden, guilty tenderness. ..the garden. . the covertly Insolent porter on the charming host and hostess. The of their thoughts, petted her with phasizing the alight sound by its maninc ?"

. the *This!"

White Mountain express-and the water,

"I never thought I could bear cool nights. Why temporary cessation.

The owner of the foot sometimes So quickly, ao quickly had the convenient curve around which refreshingly

bother about the past? The pre-o have an asthmatic old dog anid Linda andly, crackled the pages of hin evening fother risen that he was standing the bouncing little

"and now I can't bear the idea could be decidedly agreeable-and paper with a quick, nervous, mean- over the man in the chair before swung, flinging off the insolent sent promised delightfully. Life around me,"

upward look porter and, it appeared, also very this was one of its most agree of putting her away.” ingless gesture which never failed a single startled

a passenger. The

"Well the summer may make to bring up the other man's head could more than catch the fixed nearly losing

a difference," her husband offer sharply only to have the frown glare of the eyes and the inhuman, passenger had. just stepped from able phases,

ed vaguely. Then, remembering i smoothed out by an immediate teeth-baring grin. There was a the parlour car to go forward to

the trend of the conversation, he effort of will as his eyes dropped tense, animal-like apring... the the smoker of the little country

convulsvely once train as it hurried toward the "Hello, Tommy! I'm so glad you seized upon it to leave the un- again to his book. His apparent foot twitched

where its important got home before any of the com-welcome subject. wish to concentrate on its pages.... the warm leather squeaking junction.

... and was still. canches were transferred to the juny came!"

"You said things had changed. seemed to escape the notice of his suddenly

Utterly atill. As the room was big through Byer. When others, Lindn Averill, piling out with Anyone back out?" more restless companion who,

the little "Someone backed in. You re- he skimmed through the paper, utterly quiet. No creaking, rest attracted by the passenger's shout myriad bundles from frequently interjected a low ex- less rhythm, no rattling pages, of warning, burried to the scene roadster, found her husband act-member. Cousin Amos Peabody. clamation, a mullered comment. The newspaper lay where it lind of the accident he could only sug- ing a butler at the open door of The distant relative person from gest that the porter, betrayed by their recently acquired Long, Boston? Due to arrive any mo on the news before his eyes. Sud- fallen from an inert hand.

The old house was quiet, too. funiliarity Into carelessness, must faland home. Beyond him, eveniment ... driving out from town." denly he came to something which

The four-storey building with its have lost his balance at the unex- they kissed, she caught a He whistled silently, Chuht and held his interest.

on each floor pected lurch-just as he himself glimpse of cool, open, shadowed "Wheeeew! That does compli- "Imp" he exclaimed. "They single apartments

hall service. There very nearly had. The explanation hallway, a lower-liden table eate things! With all these AV now that truck driver d'dn't wasted n

the truth that the centre of the room beyond, and strange men on your hands. Nat kill the girl in the Harlem store, was no one to see a well-groomed, was so patently

a blue-that, fly 1 recall him. Cousin well set-up man-a recently arrive there was no further inquiry into through doors opposite, Seems he has an air-tight alibi."

ed visitor-leave the apartment of the matter.

green vista of shore and Sound. It Amos isa't strange enough. Binks, "Yes?"

was a lovely place, this White my child, why did you make it Haven, and the nicest husband such a field for unknowns?" went with it~!

"Thought we might as well get The nicest husband-looking ex- all these duty visits off our list. tremely handsome in his rather de- After all, you started it with those bonair sporting clothes--was two unknowns that European ollice gathering up the bundles that still perfume man and your Iremained in the little blue car. manager from the middlewest "Wherever did you get all this plant. I must learn their names truck- he grumbled. "Thought before they come!" you anid this morning you were all

an the fool of

success,

train had

Moun.ed police rode rough shed into mobs of jobless rioters in London, before the throngs were turned back from their intended march on Parliament. Here the mounted police are charging into the crowds at the Marble Arch.

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Linda was sometimes secretly ready for the gang to arrive?" amused by the enthusiasm

"Oh people do forget things, which her husband fulfilled his Cook and Nanna-and I do my-ocial as well as business duties self."

as sales manager of a flourishing "And anyhow, it's a nice day "beauty concern," but she knew and a run over to Port-**

that the importance in its line his as much to Exactly. Carry this in, too, was due almost that's

the K dear. Careful! It's whole-souled interest as to shrimps! How long've you been dynamic personality of the amaz- here ?"

ng little woman whom the pub- Half an hour or so. Come one knew as "Valeska." Valeska

sho ans} the 3:11 and walked up. Decided (in unofficial moments

exotic I'd better be here before anyone wered to name of lean arrived. You always have half a character) had seized with char- dozen things to tell me to remem acteristic acumen upon the ber not to forget." He grinned Averills' recent inheritance of a wickedly.

lovely Long Island place to make "Pie! Well this time there are it an asset of her own business. la fow."

Nothing lonth to earn the sub- "Shoot!"

stantital assistance of her liberal She had pulled of her driving allowance for entertainment, tho gloves, looking ridiculously little young couple had become accus- beside his heavy leather ones, an omed to frequent visits from home the hall bench. A crushed red and foreign celebrities, prospec-: turbon was slammed down beside

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What had begun as an orderly assembly of 210 English “hunger marchers,” volnforced by some 21,000 London unemployed, suddenly Baind into violent rioting when police charged a group of trou- ble makera, Brisks were thrown, wallow -wetked and vakioles overturned as the Gghting spread through the shopping saction around Hyde Park. This picture, taken during the keat of the exsite. “muus, akows a fallom domumstrator. holding his hand altar being struck by a policeman.

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