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"WEEK-END MURDER"

BY GABRIEI F. FORBUSH

CHAPTER XLVIII

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Linda frowned. "I wish I'd putting up as poor 25 bluff an, Lyon, our bitterest rival in the been there! I always seem left possible-shoves the book under beauty. out of all the excitemont."

those garden magazincs on the "Child, you've had plenty!" ob-contro table. Of course he didn't served bar husband severely, fool the old man for a minute and "Enough to last the rest of your the next time he came to look for

to. Well-I wouldn't

it it was gone. Cousin Amoa, of word until I'd seen you but course. But Marvin didn't know Kathleen chased me out and then thht and he lived in home suspense the others caught me and I may say some suspense-1" couldn't get out of it. But, be-

"Don't gloat; it isn't becoming," lleve me, I handed those birds said his wife loftily. "Then of plenty to think about!"

Course Cousin Amos hold Marvin them

up on his way out--when he pre- tended to us that he was going to read those stuffy old essays or

"Tom! You didn't let know we suspected them?".

"Dida't I? With full parti- calarsovery man had it coming to him. Shaughnessey formed up like a aport and the rest had to take it and like it."

"Marvin ?"

whatever."

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1933,

"And wanted to know how many Borvanto it took to run it."

"Ife calculates on having just one. Ho says all six Statlander are handy about the

females house."

have helped you, I know. Any- how, the house where all this happened - will always have # special interest for me! Well, I couldn't contradict that!".

"He could have helped you-? "They'll have to bel"

But didn't he ace ho was a "So you see the place was al-suspect?" ready in his mind's eye and he was just tidying up his own pro- perty when he fixed the railings."

"But why did he look away?" "There we did surprise a guilty seerot. He was no end fussed when Shaughnessey popped that You know his line about climbing Rockica and Himalayas and the rest?"

oul.

business,

know. Didn't think he should tell me be fore he told Valeska herself, but he's been simply twittery about winding up his affairs and at the hold the same time trying to

"Wan. It all a fake?" tidings back. Wish he'd choked

"No, he did it all right--but on 'em!"

"That explains the valedletory years ago. He developed that kind of phobia that can't endure air!"

"And there's

come. heights wants to jump off and to more

lle has a

all that. Of course he's a'nut on Lean on this, Binks.

his physical prowess but as far wife and five daughters!"

as climbing goca he lives on past glories. Even the balcony upset

"But what has this to do with me?" inquired Linda dramatical ly. "He hasn't shown signs of a Kullty passion for me, if that's

him."

oft?"

"Hoard me say it, over and over, but never did take it in. Passed it over indulgently cach time as a deluston of the weak-minded. Ho hum: Binks, I'm actually sleepy!"

She yawned luxuriously. "Soʻm Think I'll take a shower and go to bed."

a

"Hurry up. Binks-I want shower, too. Oh, Ray-" She stopped in anticipation. "Shaugh Ressey came clean. At the very end he mentioned causually how he happened to be stirring round carly that morning."

"How?"

"The poor nut! You know he wasn't quite himself when he "I bet he was mad Linda went up to bed. Seems he'd for- to gotten to wind his watch and it the late Emperor of Rome what you're hinting. Considera chackled. "But it's heavenly

think he huy the house. Oh, stopped at about 10. He rolled would appreciate your estimate of me as useless and exasperating bat. Tom-won't this put him into bed, slept an hour or two, his deathless prose." Tom re-person as he ever knew."

woke and found it light and looked "Well, I sort of weakened there. turned the anab with interest.

"You wrong him. His passion

"Not at all I said that, after at the witch. For all he BUY’H hell out on the book. Later "Yes-Marcus Aurelius was a Isn't guilty--but he confesses did speak about it when I was blind, all right, but Cousin Ames shyly to 'n warm affection'-that's all, a murder had been committed about how easily the Shaugh nesseys carry their liquor I think alone a moment with him und I

"I suppose you had to. What he was still a triflo muzzy-witted. was darned glad I'd had the sense must have already assimilated the exact term for your charm-hern”

considerable Asiatic folklore foring self."

did he say?"

He thought you'd said 10 for to keep quiet before the rest. He gather his comments when he "What? Ho can't bear me !"

That capped the climax. Poal-breakfast, so he leapt up and nearly died even then-being ac stopped Marvin were-well, Bibli-

"Every word true." cused of committing murder was sal in an Old Testament-prophet-

"I'd like to see him look attively beamed and rubbed his dressed and beat it for the house

"I had locked the door-force of nothing to the agony of being re-

faintest minded of that early error. Re-calling- down-fire-and- brimatone someone he really did detest," re- hands together with gloating and

emphatically. glee. That, Mr. Averill, makes habit, for I hadn't the member I spoke of his netfog em- sort of way. If you know what marked

"When I think of the gloomy, dis-the place more interesting. I like recollection afterwards of doing barrassed when we met-how he mean."

approving looks I have been get-working out problems of all sorts it. He tried it-till thinking the -never had a murder one before.time was the middle of the morn- sort of backed up against the

ting-Can you prove it?"

If you'd told me about it, I could

(Continued on Page 5.) bookcase and fended me He'd just caught sight of his Literary Lapse, the skeleton in the closet, ar rather in the drawing

room

off?

"Some day when I have more time," ald Linda dreamily, "I must look up Marvin's little opus." "Not if Marvin knows it. He confiscated it with my bermis- alon-and you'll have to bind and gag him and search his baggage to get at it."

"But how did Cousin Amos-?" "Hadn't ho a genius for trouble-

when { making. Well,

came downstairs Marvin was just about to ancak it out and of course he was caught at it. Later he got back and was about to make off with it as nonchalantly as he could when ho aaw Cousin Amor' eye on him. So Marvin-still try-

"Contamination Fence," miniscently.

of his pre-

Linda

rc-

Linda

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murmured

"Absolutely. The way he be- “Oh, yes. Said he wasn't fit to haved when you questioned him. associate with us or rather with He thought you thought Cousin you, darling the sweet young Amor committed suicide. That wife, hardly more than a child-"was why he kept ducking the suk

"How simply outrageous! What ject, while you of course thought did he think I was couldn't that he saw you were hinting at stand a little Tommy dearest, murder. He tried to set your what was in the old book any-mind at rest, to make you believe how?"

It was simply an accident. I "Coming now to Mr. Statlan-ather that none of the six Stat- der," declaimed her husbandlander females would question oratorically.

anything he asserted." "I and out some day." mur-

"Then ho straightened the rail- mured Linda.

inge so they wouldn't suggest "Thore's another dunderhead. Cousin Amos? I never would What do you suppose he's been up have given him credit for so much to?"

consideration!" "I'd like very much to know, "Well" Tom's mouth twitch- dear," replied his wife with sused. "There was another reason, picious nieckness,

too, Binks. His new job will be leaving in New York. He heard me place, he's

"First

ing to be offhand and probably | Valenka. Going with Rosemary telephoning-kaew this place is

for sale-

"A great light breaks! That's why he asked so many ques- tions-?"

"And looked up fireplaces-"

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