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MEPFORP MAIL TR173TJXE, MT5DFORT), ORFOON". FRIDAY. MARCH 20. 1936
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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tYS'OPnil: At att Bobby Jont)
ami f'ranfcie Oericenl Aave Ienrni.
with (A Aelp o ttr friend
Badger, that Roger Baetington
ffranch i the villain of the mytteri
out murder of Alan Carttatre. And
they have htm securely bound on
the floor o hit cottage in Chipping
Bomerton. But they do not knoto
J 'here Moira S'icholson ie, and they
n not have proof that will convict .
Roger before a fury. Roger U quiet'
ly laughing at them from hi& -1omlortablo
poftUfon on the floor. ,
Chapter 40
MOIRA
NOBODY bad as ysr, avolved any
plana. Bobby rather doubtfully
murmured aomethlnc about police.
"Much the beat thing to do," aald
Roger cheerfully. "Ring them up andj
Hand me orer to mem. ma cnane
will be abduction, I auppose. I can't
yery well deny that." He looked at
Frankte. "I ahall plead guilty pas
' alon." ..:.
Frankle reddened. "What about
murder?" she asked.
"My dear, you haven't any evl
deuce. Positively none. Think It orer
and you'll see you haven't."
"Badger." said Bobby, "you'd bet
ter stay here and keep an eye on him.
I'll go down and ring up tbe police."
"You'd better be careful," aald
Frankle. "We don't know how many
of them there may be In the house."
"No one but me," said Roger. "I
. was carrying this through single
handed." Bobby bent over and tested-the
knots. -
"He's all right," he said. "Safe as
houses. We'd better all go down to
gether. We can lock the door."
"Terribly distrustful, aren't you.
my dear chap J" said Roger. "There's
a pistol In my pocket If you'd like It.
It may make you feel happier, and
It's certainly no good to me In my
present position."
Bobby bent down and extracted
the weapon.
"Kind of you to mention It," he
aald. "If you want to know, It doea
make me feel happier."
Bobby took the candle and they
died out of the attlo, leaving Roger
lying on the floor. Bobby locked the
door and put the key In his pocket
He held the pistol in his hand. '
"I'll go first," be said. "We've got
to be quite sure and not make a mess
of things now."
A rather rickety flight of ateps led
down to the main landing. Every
thing was quiet. Bobby looked over
the banisters. Tbe telephone was In
the hall below.
"We'd better look Into these rooms
first," be said. "We don't want to be
taken In the rear."
Badger flung open each door In
turn. Of the four bedrooms, three
were empty. In the fourth a slender
figure was lying on the bed.
"It's Moira" cried Frankle.
The others crowded In. Motra waa
lying like one dead except that her
breast moved up and down ever so
lightly.
"She's drugged, I think," said
.Frankle.
She looked round. A hypodermic
' syringe lay on a little enamel tray on
a table near tbe window.
"She'll be all right, 1 think,", she
said. "But we ought to get a doctor."
"Let's go down and telephone,"
laid Bobby.
They adjourned to the ball below.
They got through to the police sta
tion quite easily, but found a good
deal of difficulty In explaining mat
ters. The local police were highly
disposed to regard tbe summons as a
practical Joke.
However, they were convinced at
last, and Bobby replaced the receiver
with a sigh. He had explained that
they alao wanted a doctor, and the
police constable promised to bring
one along.
'T'EN minutes later a car arrived
with an Inspector, a constable,
and an elderly man who had his pro
fession stamped all orer him.
Bobby led the way to the attic
then stood dumbfounded in tbe door
way. In the middle of the floor wss a
heap of severed ropes. Underneath
the broken skylight a chair bad been
placed on the lied which bad been
drugged out till It was under the sky
light. Of Roger Batalngton.ffrench thera
was no sign.
"He must hare had a knife In hla
pocket." aald Frankle.
"Even then, how could he get at
It? Both hands were bound together
behind his back."
The Inspector coughed. All his for
mer doubts had returned. He was
more strongly disposed then ever to
regard the whole thing ss a hoax.
The doctor was their salvation. Me
declared at once that Moira tad
been drugged with morphia or some
preparation of op'nn:. He did not
consider her condition serious and
though she would awake naturally
In four or five hou.-s' time.
VALLEE
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,ir? lif got in return, mjiy -lc lh
currvnt eimon of the "iwandtl," pro
duced by Wnite and crooned by Vl
lee. White decided yesterday that If Ac
tor Equity will let him tear up Vl
lee's run-of-the-pl.y rontrsct. the
shoa- wia go on. otherwlM It will
cJom blui(U)'. oliw
Ha suggested taking her off then
and there to a good nursing home In
the neighborhood.
To this Bobby and Frankle agreed,
not seeing what else could be done.
Having given tbelr own names and
addresses to the Inspector, who ap
peared to disbelieve utterly In
Frankle's, they themselves were al
lowed to leave Tudor Cottage, and
with the assistance of the Inspector
succeeded in gaining admission to
the "Seven Stars" in the village.
Here, still feeling that they were
regarded aa criminals, they were
only too thankful to go to their
rooms, a double one for Bobby and
Badger, and a very minute single
one for Frankle.
A few minutes after they had all
retired, a knock cam on Bobby'a
door. It was Frankle.
'I've thought of something," she
said. "If that fool of a police inspec
tor persists in thinking that we made
all this up, at any rate I've got evi
dence that I waa chloroformed."
Have yon?, Where?" .
In tbe coal-bucket," said Frankle
with decision.
EXHAUSTED by all her adven
tures, Frankle slept late the
next morning. It waa half-peat ten
when she came down to tbe small
coffee-room to And Bobby waiting for
her.
"Hullo, Frankle, here yon axe at
last."
Don't be so horribly vigorous, my
dear" Frankle subsided onto a chair.
It must be the sandbagging," aald
Bobby. "It's probably broken up ad
hesions in tbe brain. I feel absolutely
full of pep and vim aud bright ideas
and a longing to dash out and do
things."
"Well, why not daahf aald
Frankle languidly. . '
"I have dashed. I've been with In
spector Hammond for the laat half
hour. We'll have. to let It go aa a
practical Joke, Frankle, for tbe mo
ment." . "
"Oh. but, Bobby"
'"I aald for tbe moment We've got
to get to the bottom of this, Frankle.
We're Cn the right spot and all we've
got to do la to get down to It We
don't want Roger Basslngton-ffrencn
for abduction. We want him for
murder."
. "And we'll get him," aald Frankle
with a revival of spirit
" "That's more like It," aald Bobby
approvingly. "Drink some more tea."
"How'a Molrar
"Pretty bad. She came round in the
most awful state of nerves. Scared'
atlff apparently. She'a gone up to
London to a nursing home place In
Queen's Oate. She saya she'll feel sate
there."
"She never did have much nerve,"
said Frankle.
"Well, anyone might be scared
stiff with a queer cold-blooded mur
derer like Roger Baaslngtontfrencb
loose In the neighborhood."
"He doesn't want to murder her.
We're the onea he's after." ,
"He's probably too busy taking
care of himself to worry about us for
the moment." said Bobby, "Now.
Frankle, the start of tbe whole thing
must be John Savage'a death and
will. Either that will was forged or
Savage waa murdered or something."
"It's quite likely the will was
forged If Basslngton-ffrench was
concerned," said Frankle thought
fully. , .
"It may have been forgery and
murder. We've got to And out"
Frankle nodded. "I've got the notea
1 made after looking at the will. The
witnesses were Rose Chudlelgh. cook,
and Albert Mere, gardener: They
ought to be quite easy to And. Then
there are the lawyera who drew It
up Elford A Leigh a very respec
table Arm, as Mr. Spragge said."
"Right, we'll start from there. I
think you'd better take the lawyera.
You'll get more out of thera than 1
would. I'll hunt up Rose Chudlelgh
and Albert Mere."
"What about Badger?"
"Badger never geta up till lunch
time you needn't worry about him."
"We must get his affairs straight
ened out for him soma time." said
Frankle, "After alt, he did ears my
life." .
i "They'll soon get tangled again,"
said Bobby. "On, by the way. what
do you think of this?"
He held out a dirty piece of card
board for ber Inspection. It waa a
photograph.
"Mr. Cayman." aald Frankle Im
mediately. "Where did you get it?"
"Last night It had slipped down
behlud the telephone."
"Then It seems pretty clear who
Mr. and Mrs. Templeton were. Walt
a minute."
fOii lttt-lS H. ImU CMMe)
The btnavoltnt conspirators hive
a busy day, tomorrow.
RtMly a bej-red from yeeterdsy
afternoon's performe.nce, and, eald
apokeaman for White:
'The am. Jumped e-V0 over the I
matinee s urea ngci."
Vallee obtained a formal claim
eheet from Dqiilty to file claim to hu I
full salary whether he works or not.
By cloaln; the show Sntuntay.
While could wall all week and then I
reopen without Vallee In the caat.
The physical flhtlnii started at aa
early morning caat meeting Wednes-
oay wnen White told the company
I that he ntd to ehut dw mwi !
why to get rid of Rudy.
Rudy, aald olwrvera, called White a
"naMr" name and then the Mows fell.
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