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“WEEK-END MURDER”

BY GABRIEI F. FÖRBUSH

CHAPTER XLVIII

"Child, you've had plenty!" ob served her husband severely. "Enough to last the rest of your

the

Linda frowned. "I wish I'd { putting up as poor bluff as Lynn, our bitterest rival in the been there! I always acem left possible-nhoven the book under beauty business, you know. out of all the excitement."

those garden magazines on the Didn't think he should tell me be- centre table. Of course he didn't fore he told Valoska herself, but fnot the old man for a minute and he's been simply twittery shout the next time he came to look for winding up life affairs and at the

hold Cousin Amos, of same time trying to ait it was gone.

course. But Marvin didn't know tidings back. Wish he'd choked that and he lived in some suspense on 'em!"

I may say some suspense—!"

"Don't gloat; it isn't becoming," said his wife loftily. Then of courae Cousin Amos held Marvin up on his way out--when he pre- tended to us that he was going to

life. Well--I wouldn't say word until I'd Heen you but Kathleen chased me out and then the other caught me and conidn't get out of It. But, be- lieve me, i handed those birds plenty to think about!".

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

thei

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"Didn't 17 With full parti-read those stuffy old essays or culars-overy man had it coming whatever." to him. Shaughnessey Tessed up like a sport and the rest had to take it and like it."

"Marvin 7"

"Well, I sort of weakenedl there. held out on the book. Later 1

"That explains the valedictory air!"

MONDAY,

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

FEBRUARY 13. 1933.

have helped you, I know. Any- how, the house where all this happened will always have A special interest for me! Well, I

"Io calculates on having just ane. He says all six Slatlander females are handy about the couldn't contradict that!"

was A

"Heard me say it, over and over, but never did take it in. Passed it over indulgently each time an a dolusion of the wenk-minded. Ho hum! Binks, I'm actually sleepy!"

почке."

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

But didn't ho ser "So you see the place was al-suspect?" ready in his mind's eye and ho 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 secret. He was no end fussed when Shaughnessey popped that out. You know his line about 1. climbing Rockies and Himalayan and the rest?"

"Was it all a fnke?" "No, he did it all right-but years ago. He developed that kind of phobin that can't endure heights wants to jump off and all that. Of course he's a nut on hie physical prowess but as for as climbing goes he lives on past lories. Even the balcony upset

him.

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

"Hurry up, Binks I want n too. Oh, say!" She shower, stopped in anticipation. "Shaugh. essay came clean. At the very end he mentioned causually how he happened to be stirring round early that morning."

"How?"

to "And there's more

come. He has a Lean on thin, Binks. wife and five daughters!"

"But what has this to do with

"The poor nut! You know he me?" inquired Linda dramaticul

wasn't quite himself when he ly. "He hasn't shown 'xins of a

"PH bet he was mad!" Linda went up to bed. Seems he'd for guilty, passion for me, if that's

"But it's heavenly to gotten to wind his watch and it The late. Emperor of Rome what you're hinting. Considers chuckled.

think he'll buy the house. Oh, stopped at about 10. Hu rolled would appreciate your estimate of me as useless and exasperating a

but. Tam-won't this put him into bed, slept an hour or two, his deathless prose." Tom re-person na he ever knew."

wake and found it light and looked with Lurned the sunb

"You wrong him, is passion of?" interest.

"Not at all. I said that, after at the watch. For all, he' saya Isn't guilty-but he confesses "Yes-Marcus Aurelius зак A

shyly to 'n warm affection--that's all, a murder had been committed about how easily the Shaugh- nesseys carry their liquor I think the exact term-for your charm- here"

"I suppose you had to. What he was still a trifle muzzy-witted. ing self.",

did he say?"

He thought you'd said 10 for "What? He can't bear mo!"

"That capped the climax, Post-breakfast, so he leapt up and "Every ward true." "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 faintest someone he really did detest," re- hands together with gloating and

Linda emphatically. glee. That, Mr. Averill, makes habit. for I hadn't the "When I think of the gloomy, dis- the place more interesting. I like recollection afterwards of doing approving looks I have been get working out problems of all sortsit. He tried it-still thinking the -never had a murder one before, time was the middle of the morn- ting-Can you prove it?"

If you'd told me about it, I could

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ld speak about it when I was blind, all right, but Cousiu Amon alone a moment with him and 1 must have already assimilated was darned glad I'd had the sense considerable Asiatic folklore for to keep quiet before the rest. He gather his comments when he nearly died even then--being stopped Marvin were well. Bibli rused of committing murder was cul in an Old Testament-prophet- nothing to the agony of being re-

calling down fire-and- brimstone minded of that early error. Ite member i spoke of his acting em-sort of way. If you know what marked mean,"

barenaned when we met--how he sort of backed up against the bookcase and fended mi ott? lie'd just caught sight of his Literary Lapse, the skeleton in the closet, or rather in the drawing

romm."

"Contamination

Bence,"

hin of

jire- murmared Liuda ru-

miniscently.

•

"Absolutely. The way he be- "Oh, yes. Said he wasn't fit to haved when you questioned him. nasociate with us--or rather with He thought you thought Causin |you, darling--the sweet young Amos committed suicide. That "Some day when I have more wife, hardly more than a child-"was why he kept ducking the sub- time," sald Linda dreamily, "I "How simply outrageous! What jest, while you of course thought must look up Marvin's little opus."did he think I was-couldn't that he saw you were hinting at "Not if Marvin knows it. He fatand a little Tommy dearest, murder. He tried to set your confiscated it--with my permis- what was in the old bunk any mind at rest, to make you belleve sion--and you'll have to bind and how?"

it was simply an accident. 1 "Coming now to Mr. Stallau-gather that none of the six Stat- Hag him and search his baggage

der." declaimed her husband fander females would question to get at it."

anything he asserted."

Then he straightened the rail- they wouldn't suggest ings so Cousin Amos?

never would have given him credit for so much consideration!"

"But how did Cousin Amos..eratorically.

"I'll find out some day," mur- "Hadn't be a genius for trouble-

when { making? Well,

camemured Linda. downstairs Marvin was just about.

"There's another dunderhead.

"Te like very much to

to ancak it out and of course he What do you suppose he's been up was caught at it. Later he got to?" back and was about to make off

know, "Well-" Tom's mouth twitch- with it na nonchalantly 14 he dear," replied his wife with sused. There was another reason, could when he saw Cousin Amos' }picious meekness,

too, Binks. His new job will be place. he's

leaving in New

York. He heard me eye on him. So Murvin--still try "First ing to be offhand and probably (Valeskn. Going with Rosemary telephoning-knew this place

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for sale-"

"A great light breaks! That's

many why he asked so

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