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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933.

"WEEK-END MURDER

BY GABRIEL - F FORBUSH

CHAPTER XLV

"He is the only one who showed the slightest sign of knowing what

hour or two more at best, Dinka!"

"You wouldn't put it off till to morrow morning?"

"Wouldn't dare. They're all go ing in on the 8:10 with me. That menns a terrible scramble to get off. No, anything that happens has to happen to-night."

"I suppose he's right." Tom suddenly faced with the possibility ("It's time for dinner. Only had lietened attentively to Linda's of a break in the routine. He may report of her talk with Shaugh-| not anticipate arrest but he's acting nessey. "After all the murder as he would if he did," happened yesterday morning and by last night wo had a line on all of them. I think Shaugh acsacy's definitely out of it. Linds, simply because he couldn't have got

to the up

Friday night, or rather Saturday morning, without one of us hearing him. When you think back and see how the small sounds that were made were magnified by the quiet of the house you can soc that a mun couldn't come In through the screen door"

room

"That is, allowing you forgot to lock the other-"

"Yes. I wish I could remember And I can't mention it to Shaugh- Reaney because it would show still have suspected him--"

"Well, anyhow, as you started to say the screen door bangs!"

"That's it unless you hold it with your hand, which you know ho wouldn't think to do. If he, had, he would have had to creep up the stairs without either of us hearing him—"

"In other words, it would have been deliberate--which is exactly what we feel sure it wasn't."

I was driving at when I made him talk about it all," mused Linda. "He didn't start and flush and act like a villain on the stage but ho wasn't a bit anxious to go over the ground and I'm convinced he saw perfectly well what I was leading up to. The nearer I got to the heart of the matter the more res tive he was."

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Again she felt the faint prickle of anticipation along her spine.

success.

"Perhaps, Well-we can't do anything right now. You're hav- Ing dinner a little carly, aren't you, to get DeVos off? I'm sorry he's going out. It sort of spoils things at least I'd like everyona here and every chance-this Inst hour or two,"

"You're alwaye saying "Hurry, Binks! I'm all ready!"

"Then come along. You were the one who wanted dinner early." Wrangling amicably, they start- ed out together. On the stairway they overtook Mr. Statlander go ing down ahead of them,

"No way we could stop him with- "Ah-Mr. Averil)" he exclaim. out telling him what was up." ed. "I just had you in mind. If Linda gave her nose the final dab you have a moment before dinner of powder before she joined him at there was one point I omitted to the door. "We're ao obviously do make as to sales during the past ing nothing and he couldn't be six months in our survey this expected to turn down an attrac-afternoon, I can cover the ground tive invitation even if he weren't very quickly-" so amitten with Fleur."

"Smitten with Fleur's millions! I think he's a cold and calculating customer."

"Ob, but, Tom, she is quite a charmor! You have to admit that "

"I don't see it," he asserted stoutly. "You've got twice the looks and can put it all over her for style and well,

all-round sportingness. She's all for her. self and docen't oven know how to hide it."

"It's going to happen, Tom. It's going to happen! know there was trouble in this house-party I know we're on thi and it came. "There are two things I hold verge of-of something and W' against him still," said Tom alow-come. Oh, please don't look so ly. The way he said nothing' discourageil, darling! You've when you asked if he'd found done vour best-and honestly. Tom anything. Remember, Linda? He something, something, la going afterwards admitted to the towel, to happen! That's my hunch and apparently without seeing that he you've got to believe it had contradicted himself"

He attempted to show the con-pair.” "Yes. And what W48 thefidence for which she appealed bai "I wish them joy of each other.

теля the effort other?"

an entire furry, Binks!"

"The way he turned away from the railing when he was straight- cuing it up, according to Shaugh-I nessey's account. That's one of thone curious, unnecessary acts | that often reveal a lot-and it's ! also the sort of thing no one could make up."

"But you didn't notice-when he appeared in pyjamas and bathrobe that he looked as if he'd had a tunale ?"

"But as for Statlander-in spite of the trouble with his hearing I'm again undecided. That man has something on his mind! He had the most curious air about him- "He'd have had time to fix up if very Important and-what shall I he'd shown the marks of one. Of call it?-valedictory, as we wont all of them, hla escape would be over the papers. He was doing caslost. His room is right across nothing less than giving me a full, from the nursery, He could-slip detalled report of his entire work in there and tidy up in the time: as manager of Valeska's middle-I was coming up the lawn and then weat factory from the day he join us later.""

Lame. System, buying, profits, "Tom" She made a gesture of employment everything. Now aweariness and distress. "You're i man doesn't go away for a going round and round." pleasant week-end and launch into "I know, Binks--but I honestly A rehearsal like that-back to the think we're going further ahend year our-unless his mind is some- each time. Like a spiral staircase, how disturbed and he feels it his wo go round and round but we last chance to get it off his chest," also go up. The more we go over

"Guilty conscience?"

it the more important little things "Possibly.

Overconscientious. —like the time element and the ness as far as the office is con-way Statlander's behaved sinco cerned. He certainly gave me the then-come out clearly." impression that he had arranged "Speaking of the time element to leave everything in my hands in- perfect shape, I'd say it was the

"Yes." His enthusiasm and habit of mind of a person who conviction fell from him, leaving: always has been systematic and is him openly dejected and uncertain.

not.

"She won't be able to put over much on him if she lands him--or if he lands her. They'll be a

"I wonder if you'd mind waiting In moment--or even until after dinner?" Tom's smile was his most winning and the other, after coughing rather portentously, seemed willing to cede the point. "I want to run the car out from the garage so that it will be ready when DeVos comes down. You can explain, Binks-I'll be right back."

"You Ace, Mr. DeVos is dining out," said Linda patiently. "Ho'li leave about the time our dinner is over and if Tom has the car out he won't have to leave the table early or keep Mr. DeVos waiting. Besides dinner must be nearly ready in a few moments, now. So

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