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GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1933,

"WEEK-END MURDER"

BY GABRIEL F. FORBUSH

CHAPTER XXXVII

"I feel no though this morning were six months away," murmured

Linda.

"How do you feel otherwise?"

Tom Averil studied his wife keenly as she relaxed on the chaise longue.

"All right. Dead bent, of course, but nothing serious. Why?"

"Because, Binks, if you stand the gaff, I think we'd þetter

can

ciative glance.

Tom threw her a quick, appre-asked me and questions about

very neatly."

the house-!”

sight with him after this."

could, without rousing her bus- "Could be break me in two as band. Sitting up in bed, however, easily as he did the golf club sho perceived Tom by the window, she teased, but at sight of his evidently wide awake and ready face reported. "Sorry, Tommy! for what the day might bring. At Somehow I still can't believe it. the sound of her stirring, he Well-It's time for you to go down. turned at once. I do think we made some progress, 'don't you?"

"Hello, Binks. Awake for good or going back to sleep?” "Yece-some," he said soberly,

"Awake and going to get right but inwardly he felt far more dü- blous over their probable success up. Han anything happened?" than he had 12 hours earlier. "Nothing-yet. I've boan think- "You saw that, too? Yos-he "Yes. He's inquisitivo as the They had something on everybody ing things over though, honey, and turned suspicion from himself devil. But neither does that nec but nothing convincingly definito on I feel more encouraged than I did casarily mean that he's murder anybody. Well, the night might last night." He glanced at the "Yet what he told could easily ous."

bring counsel! He waited in the clock. "Why don't you bathe and hall until he heard the littlo cllek dress, then come over here and we have happened."

Linda shivered. "That's a ter- of the key returning, then went can talk a bit before we have to "Yes he can't disprove it cor-xible word, Tomi.

slowly downstairs.

go down." tainly.

"I know." He sobored quickly.

Ten minutes later she was ready Linda, left alone, found sleep "And

there УДА something "Binks-we can call in the police harder to coax than she had ex- her shower-wet hair combed ̧În talk things over now. I needn't go about the way he aafd it that rang the first thing in the morning--or pected. She heard. moro faints brown logs curled on the chaise aleck waves, her eyes enger, hor right back they're perfectly hap. true. That bit about how Mr. even tonight."

than from the hall the even meas- py without me-and too much has Statlander turned away as if he

"There'll still be time," she are of what she supposed to be longue near the big chair whence happened to sleep over it. That didn't want to see

said. "Till after dinner tomor. Mr. Statiander's slumbers. She he had watched her rapid tollet is, if we mean to carry this

"I thought of that. It's the type row we stick to our guns. Have heard the crush of gravel an An-appreciatively. through, we ought to straighten of thing that's hard to make up." you planned any line of attack for nie and Rosie returned and their "And they talk about the femi- out this evening's gleanings. Are

"And what he said about the the day?"

whispers and movement in the nine vanity of lingering over the you gamo?"

towel fitted in."

"If wo eliminate Shaughnes kitchen below as they-she hoped

(Continued on Page 10.) Her eyes were almost closed

"He made it fit, He could have sey, we love Statlander, Pratt left everything in order for the but she managed to open them invented all that after you told and DeVos to be considered. night. And sooner far thua she again.

him about the attack and how Suppose you let me tackle Pratt would have anticipated, she heard "Absolutely," she said, but you found the towel in Statland- in the morning. I'll do my best voices in the lower hall, the purr give me a minute to get comfort-or's hamper."

don't worry about my getting able. I thought it was hot out- "But on the whole I believe along with him.”

aldo but this room's hotter."

'

him."

"And on the whole, so do I." They smiled at each other.

*

She laughed. "All right. You can do it if you really try!"

of a self-starter as the Stoners' chauffeur turned over his engine, and the farewells of the departure. Then Tom's voice in the upper hall, Bidding the two men good- night, and she was out of bed and at the door to open it again before he knocked.

"Come herp a moment," sald Tom quietly, and ne she stood be- side him at the door, there came "Now, said Linda, lowering her the rhythmle sound of gentle volce Instinctively, "we come to "Ag for Statlander—in the first snoring from the next room.

Mr. Statlander. Ho certainly place, he is still to be prevailed "It sounds real," he whispered, necnis our best nasow:{"

upon to stay, and while I think ha After that, with the sense of re- "but don't take Buy chances. "There's a lot against him. I've will, if he refuses, that spills the lief and return to normal which his Binks. Remember-When I go-heard in the office that he's ef- beans. Then

you'll have to presence gave, she fell into a Shutting the door again he indi- ficient as the devil, but with a pump him about the towel. sleep so deep, so dreamless, that ented the key in the lock.

terrib'e temper and the conceit of That's your end of the house. It seemed but the passing of a

Feeling the sense of consclous virtue which for some reason early waking gives, she decided she would get up and dress. If she

She nodded without anawering.a Prussian officer., For all he's DeVos we can both have in mind. moment before she woke to find Somehow this simple precaution older than any of us here, he has I didn't like that break aboung the room filled with morning sun brought home to her more vividly that thick-act, sturdy physique that getting to the room before I did." and knew that the anal day of than anything that day the con- often means abnormal strength, "Oh, must I wrestle with that their adventurous week-end had stant menace which hovered over and he's in splendid condition. His Statlander man again!" groaned come. them. But she sponged off quick temper-well, I can testify he has Linda. "That seems almost more ly and appeared, cool and perfect, one-and he's certainly acted than I can bear!" ly calm, to ensconso herself by the strangely all these days. This "Perhaps I can help you some. window toward the water.

morning, for instance, I found try. But I know one thing, And now for the parley," she him looking up the chimney in the Binks. I shan't let you out of my sald. "First, what do you think drawing room fireplace. And he about Mr. Shaughnessey now?" had no explanation or apology to We can't count him out alto- make when I came in. Asked me gether," Tom answered slowly, if it drew well, as I remember." "He hasn't explained and he won't] explain all there is against him and, while I think that's just stub- born Celtic pride, it leaves him Cousin Amos." still open to suspicion. Yet on the whole he pretty well cleared himself."

"And pretty well implicated Mr. Statlander."

"I know. I heard him and it struck me as perfectly ridiculous. But that's no sign he murdered

"No, but it's a sign'he's a little nutty. Who'd ever do that in hia right mind?"

"I'm sure I don't know. And as for the personal questions he's

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