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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933.

"WEEK-END MURDER"

BY GABRIEL E. FORBUSH

CHAPTER XXI

wanted to speak to them now, to express her appreciation of the way they had stond, by Tom and his mother earlier in the day. Roste must be wondering, too, it

But

Marvin could not avoid her in- definitely. Probably, when he was not so conscious of being alone with her, that abnormal constraint would relax enough to permit hor to probe again into those danger- anyone would be back for tea and ous subjects.

Annle about dinner. Linda veor- At present he had rankly deserted toward the dining room wing, ed her-quite obviously strand-walking along the soft turf with ed her on her own front lawn. out stepping on the gravel path. She had hoped to prolong their talk At the very end of the house, Looking after Marvin's retreat- Cousin Amos wanted to advlee, his subsequent avoidance of her. until perhaps the Belgian return- where a decorativo clump of ing_figure-retreating, perhaps, her! That hardly fitted in with Sho knew his fanatic standards of ed. She wondered if Tom were bushes blocked night of the door but in a manner more suggestive this theory. The old man might behavior. She could not imagine, making any progress, over their of the sunroom, she stopped. She of a militant forward march have warned her or remonstrated thinking swiftly, any single sug-sales diagrams, with Statlander, could hardly have said why. Linda was tempted to run after with her over some too appareat gestion that would so quickly, so If so, it would only hinder his she realized that for a second or him and demand that he come intimacy, but what advice would surely, inflame him. Would it in probing if she were to join them. two she had subconsciously been back and toll hor what

really he have given? Why that em flame him to murder? Perhaps well-she'd better get a book and aware of the murmur of voices and happened, answer her questions, phaala on their talking together? not alone-but with something make the best of it.

now they were very plain. Sho listen to her protests: Sho did

"He was so anxious to find out," else, equally insulting-no, sho

wondered Idly what delivery boy none of these things. Her glance who slowly analyzed every word of really had no justification for im-,

had come so near the front of the travelled to the placid front of Marvin's brief, confusing outburst, ugining any other motive. Nor, grass. Nearing the houso she kitchen door for the voices would She rose and went up the soft house. He could not be by the the big white house. She met the "whether Cousin Amca and I got probably, did she need one. This waiked more and more slowly. not then sound so near. cold starc of its many win together to talk something over alur

Unless would #B Burely enrage No, she was not exactly nervous they were looking for her, Rosle dowe and her mood of childish after the dance. He wanted us Marvin as the idea that ho was un- but somehow there lay a deeper or Annie seldom came around here, rage instantly vanished. "Murder not to talk about something, gentlemanly would infuriate De- shadow there than should have If they came from the service murder" What? Was it that Cousin Amos Vos and that he was unsportsman- been on the front terrace. The door it was usually to go toward house abcmed to sny blamed mo for the supposed flirta-like would offend Statlander and house

seemed до silent, She dropped into the wicker chair tion? How idiotic! But that that he was a social and mental ominously brooding. If she went from real weakness than wouldn't account for Marvin's bo-inferior would hurt Shaughnessy in Nonsense, it was her house, from graceful yielding the ing not frightened, exactly Ap-Uncanny Cousin Amos-to hit so her home! Tom was inside, and inovitable. She had Bworn penetrate that mystery. She had prehensive, that's the word. He surely at the weakness of each what if he were not? She wa8 came acutely aware of herself and

| most awfully didn't want us to get one. The special insult that taken the first steps to do 50 together and to compare notes. I would Instantly drive him into that often here alone all day, except her surroundings—and that low, She had it begun to the things Tom had mentioned what had he done that we could might fairly be called madness

cover all Bat that again isn't reasonable, state of insensate passion that had she done any good at all? discuss that way? Did Cousin

Amos know something—?"

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She had learned—or had sho? why Marvin had quarrolled with Linda gave herself a little shake. Cousin Amos. It seemed in "Now I'm just reading things into éredible that the old man had what he said. Everyone knows actually taken it upon himself to Marvin's the high-mindcet sort reprove another guest for his at of person. It must have been sim tentions ("such as they were!" ply a calidown over his way of fo- thought Linda disparagingly) to cusing on me. Tom noticed it and hin hostess. Yet that paternalI told him it was just Marvin's touch was so like him to mention queer way. But Cousin Amos of that, her father being dead, he ascourse had to infer the worst-andino detalls of Marvin's actions last an old relative-na if she weren't go straight to the point with the

of age and able to take care of wrong person." herself, to say nothing of having Tomi Yet Marvin had said

She sighed. There had been good cause for Marvin's rage and

*

toward the faithful helpers in her for the maids of course

That thought turned her mind

kitchen.

Again Linda sighed. The way

She had not seen them since her] of the defective was not easy. She was less a success than her first, hurried visit this morning and ske eagerness had assured her she would be. She knew-at least; she guessed-why Marvin might have killed Cousin Amos. But she pre- ferred fact to guesswork. She did not know what had been said and certainly she had failed to find out night and this morning. Then her apirits rose, n little. After all, this was only Saturday afternoon. They had the rest of the day and

the road or the garage, of ideaa, her mind came back sharply to the moment. She be

The garage! At the association

half-whispering no near. Except soundlessness, this quiet, hot July for it, the air fairly pulsed with

afternoon on the deserted lawn, Then from her vantage point she

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