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GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1933.

"WEEK-END MURDER"

BY GABRIEI F FORBUSH

CHAPTER XLVI

Le have

read its exciting cause. Before been reading her a homily on the he could signal him to drop backweakness of modern house con AL moment, her husband had struction. executed a quick manoeuvre.

still

waiting just a moment, DoVes. Ijself assent mechanically. Then ran out the sedan but I'm not the shrill ring of the folephone satisfied with the way the ongine came and she motioned the others misses and I think we'd better take toward the lawn. "Co on out." the little roadster. No, don't she said, "I'll be right along." bother the road's dusty and the grass in damp. i run her back hero in a jiffy. Just wait at the

door."

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But when they had gone and alte dared pick up the instrument she was trembling no violently that she had to drop down on the bench in the hallway and steady her ara

"YOR?" she said. "Yes? Yes-yes, they've started.

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But it was more than a jify be-ngainst the wall. sensitive to her mood, looked sud-bruin, and this time her control fore Linda, every nerve alert, Linda heard the words as in adenly at her, then at Marvin and quivered dangerously. If she heard the scrunch of gravel under

Tom daze. "From our end of thethen grew very grave. indeed. should scream

wouldn't arriving wheels. By the time Tom

A click in her ear-the con- hall-the nursery-" Statlander

"Oh, no, Tom-no!" She dared understand. There'd be trouble came they were all in the hall,

nexion was broken. had muld. It acomed as if he had not breathe the word aloud though and it might warn him! She talking, laughing, herself the con-

She hung up the receiver and shouted those words through the lie tou; receptive to his thought, laughed tremulously, eliciting tre of the little group, rallying the shattered quiet of the house.

Belgian on his desertion ofher, wiped her hands fastidiously with knew Instantly he had gueased the look of startled inquiry from Mr She summed every ounce of

reason for her agitation, but mis-Statlander who seemed courage the possessed and turned

exuitation in his superior tennis which ale found matted into a skill, deferring to the cart finality ball in one of them. Then al a smile of forced brilliance upon

of Mr. Stallender's analysis of the rose and went out on the terrace. the somewhat astonished Mr. Siat-

science of the game.

The little group awaited her lander.

don't

Then Tom appeared-smiling, around the coffee table by the low with it? What had he been doing ing and chattering, but all started

All ready, DeVos! Sorry. Hop "Don't get up!" Hor

in the garage all this time"

voice sounded strangely far away to her The little blue roadster seemed eara, She felt as if an neon had in

passed since dinner had been end- se staunch, so unromantic, much a part of her daily life. Ated. "I pour your coffee in a the wheel. Tom ang her a smile moment." She anak into the chair and similed a little unsteadily. "I to which she gally responded- hend 11. pulse

beating. The must tell you what's happened. I Belgian stepped in

with one think it's all right now......” Aingle, adroit movement; the door

stood slammed. She

watching until the little whirl of biue turned the corner of the road and dis- appeared into the dusk,

The meal

was

of his highly trained, beautifu bady.

her husband

Then she anw

su

In the rather blank pause that followed, Rosie appeared with the tiled coffee table. "On the ter-

to rise as aho came near.

She saw their looks. of polite, mystified interest. Only Shaugh- nessey sat alert and anxious.

"That was-police headquarters that rang 11. When Tom went to the garage he telephoned them from there. They called back to (Continued on Pape 11.)

Then on the steps came a light. "Oh-yes-perhaps-I know," she gasped; then, as her took him. with apparent interest galek tread. She felt she would apologetic. Would he go through chair she liked. They were smok- blood neemed to circulate more and pleasure, beside the

have known its owner anywhere normally and the room censed its happily unconscious Marvin, and. hysterical circling around her, she hand on arm, Tom marched into for all she had heard it so little.m went on more coherently. "I'm the dining room with the man he Something poised, something cat- sure no one actually slept in the now considered he must watch like about it-the step of a tall, (every second, while Linda, thwart graceful, agile man, in perfec nursery," she and politely. it it mattered-na if anything ed. was left to follow with the control of every muscle and nerve mattered but getting Tom back or other two.

What a stupid, dangerous mix- getting to him and telling him!)

Anyone might have been sleep-take-but there was nothing she turning from Marvin with an ai less and restless and wandered in could do about it! In a way it of suspended interent, took up an was her fault and in a way it there, as you say in search of a

start some commonplace remark the couldn't breath of air. Oh, Rosie-dinner wasn't. Anyhow,

Behind her, in the doorway, she is served? Mr. Statlander-would help it. Shu couldn't shout across could feel the graceful, indolen you perhaps you'll wait here the table, "Tom, you're mistakenl

figure of the Belginn, ready now t I'll run over to the garage and tell It isn't Marvin-It's DeVon!"

Jeave. Half-rising, ho fumbles Tom."

a nightmare his napkin, dropped it to the floo "Not at all." He rose with stiff How she managed to keep from and stooped to pick it up. In courtesy. "I will do that. Mrs. screaming aloud, from flying into credibly nobody but herself seem Averill. A pleasure. I assure you. violent hysterics as it proceeded ed to feel the air of suspense the Good evening, Mr. Pratt." And as on its chatty, informal course she horrible hovering of terror. Tom Linda wildly tried to think of never understood. Fortunately stood up, a little pale, she thought, some excuse which should not be ghost of their first evening arose rather than flushed by stooping. too fatile to hold him. Marvin to keep conversation animated and but quite himself. In fact, the of much res-amile he flashed at the newcomer inopportunely appeared and her to absolve her

ponsibility. Some blithe, offhand was opportunity vanished.

almost more warmt and Fortunately Marvin was unob-statement of Shaughnessey's arous. welcoming than an ordinary greet- servant. And, perhaps even more ed Mr. Statiander'a controversial ing. fortunate, he was feeling ex-craving for accuracy. A spirited "Be right with you, DeVos," he tremely well pleased with himself argument ensued, into which both acid and through his voice ran the because of the outcome of the Tom and Marvin eventually were same vibrant tone. Suddenly she afternoon's game. Her part was drawn. Its vehemence, however, heard the beat of drums the mar purely a listening one,

lacked the acrimony of that dread-tial music that sends men forth to "That was gorgeous, Marvin! ful dinner party three nights be- battle. "You're ready?

Good! Oh, I wish I could have seen it! fore, when poor Cousin Amos serv- Linda, excuse me a moment— Why didn't you tell me you were ed as tinder to the ready anger of Then at last his eyes were to. The mechanical phrases all the others. No, not quite all-ward her, and from her own flask- came to her urgent neeti. And certainly so far as the furious ed all the agonized warning she

Iler from the corner of her eye she discussion was concerned.

could put into a look, "le's the saw three figures leave the garage mind flashed back and she Baw one" her eyes sald. Unbelievab door and come across the lawn-again the still, contemptuous look ly, miraculously, in Tom's eyes she Shaughnessey, Statiander, Tom. of the man on her right, heard the saw the same words, "He's the cool venem of his tone. "We did those things better-the Congo-” The words rang through her

She felt she was chattering little hysterically. Tom, always

lonel"

Then, an imperceptible second of warning over, Tom walked out the door with that lithe, lilting swing of his shoulders that again started the ring of battle music in her brain. Fighting the impulse to spring up and walk beside him-it would hurt more than it would help she heard his voice, steady, friendly, apologetic.

"Sorry I'll have to keep you race, ma'am?" Linda heard her.

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