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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1933.

"WEEK-END MURDER?

BY GABRIEL F FORBUSH

CHAPTER XXVII.

"There's a double supply need, thought, hurrying alone. She had In white package-flat like this." Ife motioned in the air. Just tho Bize of ".

There was no mintaking Rosie's words. "An extra towel?" sheed, there." said. "Certainly, sir, I'm sorry—-” "Just the bath." That way Pratt anaking. "I have plenty of the other kind.”

Rosie's voice seemed to coma from farther down the hall. Be foro the linen closet, probably. “I must have slipped you, sir. can't think, haw. You should have had enough. I always allow for the beach. Will this do you,

air?"

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"She'd remember." "Then you think-7"

"I think I found that missing towel in Mr. Statlander's hamper. And I know it was the one that went round my neck.'

"But wherever you found it, it was Pratt who naked for another." "Mr. DeVos might have if he hadn't. All we know is that there

was one short. And that Mr.

"More than enough. Thank Statiander had the smenry one in you."

his possession, "That's thaL!" thought Tom, "Of the two, I'd rather be the exchanging glancer with his wife. ono who naked for another than "But it doesn't necessarily mean the one who had it in his ham -after all. he shares the hath per. Binks, even if we have to with DeVon. Would he take it ask him pointblank, we

mast for granted he was short one, learn where Stallander got H and though, and ask Rosie for another why he hid it away." if the missing one hadn't been his own 7

Rosie doern't forget and I'm aure Binks tells her to leave plenty."

"Marvin's gone back to his room. Tom, you were going to say, something?"

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"A folded shirt," Baid Linda. "Exactly. She simply flow up the stairs and down again because she came right out. That made me think he couldn't be there. Ho couldn't have resisted a little chat even if she was anxious to get back."

ously at the doorway which opened only onco and the message was of the stairs at their hend. Still scribbled in panc!!. allenco and he stopped into the "The shirt is ruined entirely," larger of the two rooms, long, low,ho read." "I fixed the tear as bant many-windowed, delightfully invit7 could but the staines got worse ing, and, he was relloved to see, not better. I hope the words for the moment untoannted. ran closer here, at the bottom of the shoot, and Tom stopped to the By the door abroad, many-window for a better light. Below dushloned couch ran parallel he saw the road, the bit of lawn, to the wall, reaching almost to and, beyond, the house door, the first of the casement windows Standing in It was Linda, chattor- along the front of the room. Oning with forced galety, her eyes that couch where it might have turned anxiously up to the garage been hastily dropped by anyone in windows-and - just coming a hurry to retreat lay a fat bundle, { through the screen door WHO amateurishly wrapped, and folded Shaughnessy. into the cord which tied it was a What Rosle hoped Tom did not piece of paper,

stop to discover. With one quick Tom still stocksti!I, Hstening. | motion he was besido the bundle. Behind him, on the other side of tucking the note under the string, the tales, was the bedroom. Ile and he ran down the stopa no stepped quickly to that door, also quickly that he had time to slip "Tem, you must see that shirt!" open, and glanced into the smaller from the little hall into the garage. "I'm going, now. If he's there room, with windows on two sides proper, so that he was emerging I'll simply make an excuse-re-through which the brocze from from its open double dours as the mind him that dinner will bothe water, Airted the curtains in frishnin reached the building. ready in 10 minutes."

waving spirals. This too, was stily he,tried to think if he had emply

left any trace of his presence up- It was the work of a second to stairs." e îngi noi béen amokiur, case the folded paper from under ro There would be no ash on floor the string and open it. The sheet, or window sili. No, he was safe. torn from a lined pad, was creased i (Chatinued on Page 113

"Better than that ask him to stay, the way we have the others."

"azight! I will. But f he isn't"

"Hurry, Tom! They were by the screen door. "I'll try to keep him if he comes this way."

Going across the lawn Averill boran hastily to form the en- De snapped his Angers in irrita-tences, Boyle, of course-late

it! I tion. "Damu

wonder if the others were aloying the night. I've lost my chance. I must get "No trouble at all to have you over over to the garage, Linda. Did here, old chup." Yes, that would you see Shaughnessey ?"

be the The to take. But he most profoundly hoped there would be no call to take li.

"I do," astreed Linda when at the sound of the door closing they turned with one accord to each other. "But I'm a le low on towels just now and having all theso exira people has crumped. "No, he didn't come in with me a bit. But I told Rosic to let the other men. Haven't you seen me know if she needed any more." [him down here?"

About the gafage brooded, the silence of a deserted building.

Would she be apt to forget "No, and I've been watching to

be sure. anyone?"

I did ocè Rosie though. He called up from the bottom of "Never! It's her regular rou-and she was going over there--the little flight of steps and took tine. She wouldn't vary it." Ivery quietly and furtively, the precaution of knocking vigor- i

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