The Ilnlatcheil Door

By Frank Price

The nightt was dark but clear. Fortunately the pavement was dry, so there would be no tell-tale marks on her satin shoes. she would soon be back now after - how many hours was it since she had slipped out of the restaurant? There was a big clock projecting over the corner she was making for and now she could see its face. hands pointed to five minutes past ll-but that couldnit a. right! she glanced at her wrist. hl It said the sairie. But it had been a quart- er in ii when she passed that clock

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Her hastening steps were sudden- ly checked and she felt again that impulse to turn. and look back which she had resisted when leav- ing the room where Roger Borden lay. This time she submitted to it and some instinct which had caused the movement was Justified. There was a man following her. As if seeing her pause and look back he. too. checked his pace and seem- ed to try to conceal himself in the shadows of the wall beside him.

Panic seized her and she ran blindly forward, round the corner into the light, up the steps to the lobby of the Boldovina, and into

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Then was several women in the cloakroom, but all were busy at the mirrors with , cosmet- ics and powder puffs, save one who, uttering lamentationa, was having a long rent in her lees skirt mended by the attendant. Thanks to their preoccupations nai11s.ra's tempestuous entrance was not not- iced. and the fact of finding her- self among so many others was enough to suggest the advisability of behaving with as least outward calm. She paused just inside the door. breathing hard, and made an effort to pull herself together.

she was surprised to feel herself trembling in every limb. A moment ago she had been running as she had never run before in her life: now she was limp and powerless and feeling that if she did not im- mediately get support she would faint. There was s cushioned seat along one wall of the room. sway- ing and stumbling, she managed to reach it and sank down into a cor- ner where. for a couple of minutes. she lay back with closed eyes. fight- lniz desperately to master her weak- nose.

It passed off presently, and she began to be more aware of her surroundings. There was a babel of chatter which came to her in frog-

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Barbara had half risen with a great start. she sank back at the last words, telling herself that she must be careful. An awful fear that those two wars spealung of her had nearly driven her flying from the room. They were not; they could not be! No one but herself knew what had happened in-that room where she had left. Roger Borden. No one knew-yeti But it would be known sometime-in. a few hours at most; and in the meantime she must do nothing that could draw the faintest suspicion on her of having done anything she would not wish to be known.

Collecting all her energies she made a supreme effort to behave with ordinary composu c. She sur- veyed the backs, mostly here, of the chattering women before her. To her overwraught mind they sug- gested a convocation of megpies. gabbling emptily of nothings. I-ler glance. wandering round, come to rest on a small, square table at her elbow beside the end of the seat. A glass, half full of liquor, stood an it and she recognized it as that in which the attendant had brought the brandy ordered for Nancy. She was sitting where she and her friend had sat not more than half an hour ago - and what worlds of time that was away from her now! She had seen death. sudden and awful-had unwittingly caused it, for all she could say! And what had been happening to Nancy? How were things between her and her husband?

Abritptly she thought of the let- ters. It was to get them she had gone to Borden's fiat. Not only had she failed in that but he had told her that they were already on their way to Martin Wlnterton. She be- lieved she had seen them go -- the packet the manservant slipped into his overcoat pocket; as he came to the flat. door. If they were to be posted they would arrive with the morning's mail, but she had the impression that Borden intended them to be delivered by hand. If that were the case, the man would still be on his way. Something must be done to prevent those letters from reaching Martin.

She made ah effort to rise but sank back again. Her limbs still trembled so that she could not trust them. The attendant, having finished her darning. was coming towards her with something to say:

"That brandy I brought for your friend wasn't paid for, miss."

"Oh. I'm sorryi I'll do it now."

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”You”re right. I won't waste it." Barbara replied. She took the glam and drank the contents with a de- fiaht toss of her head. It was the first time in her life she had taken such a drink and lt.nee.rly choked

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an's face” which revolted Barbara thoiuh she could not help being thankful that her absence had not been betrayed.

"Thank you,” she said. "I'll see if I can find him now." she hand- ed the woman half a. crown and went out of the room.

There were steps on her left lead- ing down to the counter of the gen-

Asked me if you were still here." "Why did he as: that? What did you say?" Barbara demanded quick- lyly. Why should Roy l-Iernersley suspect that she was not there? "Told him you were, of course. I could see he wouldn't like it if I said anything else and I was never one to make trouble." There was a knowing, leery smile on the wom-

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