FRIDAY

Tile Birthday Murder

by Lane lnwis CEAPIII TWENTY-EIGHT Part Two

"0! course. if you want to argue that she was going to rely solely In an accident on the servant's

can in the kitchen all the time does allow that."

Tuck was aware that he spoke grudgingly.

"You don't like to believe Mrs. limo did it, do you?" said Proody.

Tuck laughed a little. "Put it this way. You know how leery 1. am of circumstantial evidence of, the sort we're facing here-where: everything seems to point to one eonclualon. Well, from the veryi start. so many things have pointedi glaringly to Mrs. I-lime that I find myself fighting the conclusion: that she did it. When a conclu-y sion is being slowly forced on .V0U' by someone you're arguing with, it gets your back up: you try hard to refute it."

He let his voice trail off, and the two men continued to circle the; black little lake in slow silence; The last words he himself hadi spoken echoed in Tuck's brain. "When a conclusion is being forc- ed on you.”

A mwboat's oar splashed on the; lake; the sound of a kiss came from the darime.-Ls to his right. A queer notion edged into Tuckls brain. That he was meant to ar-, rest Victoria Jason I-lime for mur-, dar. That someone had intended this. That Albert Hime had been, killed that. this might come about,

lie shook his head. Fantastic.- What did he know. what really did, he know in support such a con-v clusion? Nothimz.

Nothing. Bernice Saxe, was, to, his knowledge, A slizhtly stupid'

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veta oirico behind the inner one opening born the marble corridor. and they sat in two brown leath- er chairs. Mrs. Wa'.t's purse start- ed to slide from her short, sloping lap, and she grabbed for it with a little scream, and then rested one hand on her oosom and sup- ed: "I'm so on edge."

She took the cigarette which Tuck offered, puffed inexpertly while he lixhled it for her. She settled back with a slight cough which expelled I huge cloud of smoke, and waited. alert and bright-eyed, for me! something.

"Mir. Gufferty tells me you have some important information about the death of Mr. Hime," he said.

she nodded. "We were once hus- band and wife," she announced with quiet drama. He saw that she had thought carefully over the Words she would use to tell this, had chosen those,

'I'1Ick walled.

Mrs. Watt. seeing that this in. formation did not eiectrify him. took a second and more success. ful puff on her rigaret. and said: "So I thought that you might want to question me."

To be continued

Burgess Bedtime Stories

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he was taking a chance. He couldn't get rid of that feeling that he was being watched. Of- ten he stopped work to look and listen. Looking was 01: little use. for it was too dark and at best Paddy's eyes are not too good. His ears are better than his eys. But though he stopped often to look and listen. he saw nothing and heard nothing except the usual night sounds. it he was be.n2 watched, the watcher was keepzng very still.

Nothing happened that first night. Paddy went back during the day and did little work.

woman who had known her friendiN” 9”” i-miibled him He Were” Victoria. for almost a years. I-iar-W0 Work 31 night. 50 he didn't d0 rise was not even a face. He was agmuch during U10 (1331 While 119 blank in the uniform of an Army,wag at work during the day he CHDMIH Whn had returned out ofidid not. have that feeling of be- Mrs- Himos Dust to talk with he-"ling watched. No. sir. he did not. 9' Md Hm” "" the 5”me eV"”"F5,have that feeling of being watch- that. unfortunately her l'lliSbRlld:ed. No, sir, h? did not have that died 9' l'””50"r Heeling at all. But he had it again Concerning Captain Harriss, a that night phrase lingered in his brain. Froml usomebodv L, watching me. or somewhere. a phrase. Spoken in almy name is,” paddy," thought small, high voice. Oh, yes. Mrs.:he' ..whom,er it uh he means me

5axe's voice. "He was a crazy one."

He decided he wanted to see and: talk with Captain Harriss, to fill in this annoying blank. l-le re-I

turned to Froodys npartmcnt tn'

use his telephone. They heard

no good. Somebody is watching for 8. chalice to catch me. I simply mustnti give him a chance."

So Paddy took care to see that the way from the water's edge was kept open. so that it he should .have to run for his life there

ringing as he opened the dDOl'.I . . , , Froady answered it. A look of in-E.?.::3: nl::qtn(:)'eh1';:zou,:31g hgmtwahyet terest glowed on his cherubic face. i i i . I-is replaced the receiver. ”Thatl.wou!d have '0 tum” oven for he was Gufferty. The:e's a won-.an”s'a very poor Jumpen M N” "' dawn there namm Mrs. George. round. Where the water was near- wau who says sh! has immrmnme-st to that tree he dug away some information about Mr. mmwol the mud at the bottom of the About his dean... lpond making the water deeper (ynn--H-In TWFNTX-ymyg Ilther: This was 1: trhatljhoulld pal-L -1-W0 ie ave 0 run r is ie 0 . M", Gmme WM. WM smmmcould dive into deep enough wa- very straight on the edge of onel i” i” be f3mY,53f9- of the hard chairs in Guiferty'sl A W159 one 15 P3ddY the Bear office. She was a small, p1umpQV5r' He 193V9S "OWNS W Ch-inc! woman, clad in what was obvious-,1f he 93" hell? ii- H9 i7T0VideS ly her best, over 3 hmck dress, met for the future, making sure that top of which was ornate with xzoldthe and his family will have food studs set in A .-other ugly cinsignjoiiotizh through the winter, and she had on a fur coat or brown he 15'” afraid 19 Work '0 K" it- lapin a little worn at the cuffs. . Her black hat, small and rakish. 1 had a. great deal of veiling. On her Ellen S well-powdered rlireiss bright. rouczc , . fM-” Have her a. look or hot excitement. d,.s.(,:i”"mmL!:i.'...m...pEE .1 She WAS excited. Tuck saw at wherein our lone duck, a. descend- once: In her well-ted face her eyes ant of Mattie the Muscovey, wash- hnd the sparkle of a girl's at heard her black and white wings. W5? d?ii'lP9- lwhere has she been? All summer Tuck took her to the small pri-ishe has been taken up with a prob- M lcm of hatching in her stolen nest beneath a barn. The farmers have no time to wrlggle into this dim

Bedeque and ' ' ' recess to investigate her state of affairs and the housewives find;

--u the pathway to it too fearful to

r M11 Austin Ramsov of ('-0Y1-negotiate. who knows but a rat or way IS t--tin: in Borden with,a mouse might lurk thereaboutsitl her sons Roland nnd Clarence. she comes to a door to hes a. hit all ibread or a handful of grain and

Mr. and Mrs. Orville Taylor, then she is off to her watch. Founri's Mills and Miss Wilma "There" James commented watch- Thomas, South Gr.-mvllie. were In: her at her bath a moment to- guesis of Mrs. Hcr-tor M.-icKcn7.ie, day "is another creature that is Bordon on Sunday, November 25.,onl,v an ornament about this

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Mrs. Norman Oatwav and soni At last the plowing is done, the Wendali are SpPnrling a few dayslicltls ready nmv for the winter. with Yrlends at Sprinizhill, N. S.j”That ends the field-w.k for this

-W--u vycar!” James said at supper "un-

Cst. and Mrs. Jack Nightingale less we clear a bit of new land. visited in Elmsdale on Sunday,.It's amazing how a little extra November 25th with the lattcl's,helps- you cnn then keep another mother, Mrs. Basil MacNeiil. jsheep. another cow perhaps, or a

--- lpig. However." he added "we're

Capt. and Mrs. Wylie Irving thankful to have done what we have returned to Borden after; did . . ." spending a. few days touring the! "Aren't you being naughty?" we Msritimes. ,qucricd of granddaughter when

.v..- she answered us brusquely this

Min Hattie Ross. of the P. C. afternoon. "And if I am" she re- Houpital. visited her sister Mrs. plied "you should no very thankful Hector MmcKenzie st Borden last that I was good this morning!" week-end. Yes, always, everywhere there re.

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Paimertmains much for which to give spent a recent week end in Bar thanks. don with the latter's parents, Mr. Until tomorrow - - Diary - and Mrs. Roland Ramsey. Good-night . . . .

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