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Inspector Kenwsy went slowly hack to his chair and letter some time. drumming on the table with his fingers, while he went over ini his mind what Barbara had told him. Her account of Borden'si death tallied closely with his own notions of what had happened. It seemed to rover the whole ground at the event itself; there was only' one point where he thought Bax-

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was not t)xK.ilR to deliberate in- tention, but to ignorance of what was she had seen occurring.

she had spoken of pushing Bor- den from her so that he fell azainst. the table and of his im- II'iFdlRVE recovery and return to the alum-k on her with his revol- tcr in hs hand. That did not strike Kcnway as A, convincing, or etch possible, explanation of his resort to the wcapoil.

Bordon was a. burly. muscular

nvaii. He would be quite capablci

N dmlilirz with a wisp of I girl like Barbara without the help of lli'Pnt'wiS. I: was more likely that he hml scrn an enemy at the door at the rrwtn and snatched the re- tnlrcr up and raised it to fire in self tlctctwc. He. would be aiming past, or over, Barbara's head. and it was quite natural that she, ig- norant of the presence of a third person. should jump to the con- clusion that he was threatening her. The shots must have been practically simultaneous. It would he an instance of irony of late if Barbaraxq nCIiOn in throwing up Borden's hand had saved the life of the murderer!

But who was the murderer? Was he any nearer to a solution of that problem? Avlce Carlake had been in her flat immediately af- ter the shots were fired. Kenway had no difficulty in deciding that Barbara was telling the truth with regard to the conversation she heard taking place on the landing. There was no mistaking the identity of the speakers: They were Avicc and Anthony Revel.-atone. Barbara could not have invented that. meeting. There had been rmthimz published about the case which could suggest to her that the time of their arriv- al at Darnlcy Mansions had im- portance. She had described the actual facts.

Then, was either of them the murdererer? What about Revel- stone? Barbara had heard loot- steps on the landing before he rang for Avice, Whence had he come? From her account she must have been at the front door with- in 3 very few seconds of the time

of the shots. Whoever killed Bor-,

den could not have tzot. more than a few yards away; it might have been Rcvrlstone. say he had started down the stairs, heard some movement. below and turn- ed back. lie would naturally want to provide It reason other than the real mu: for his presence, and I call on Avtre would supply it. A derided prxsmbiliti-I

He took up the smaller bullet and looked at it aimentiy. What an insignificant little object to have done so much harm! The pistol from which it was fired must have been correspondingly tiny.

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,He remembered noticing stone's hands, huge. coarse llntl(IS,il they were, like legs of niu1ton.tl The weapon he was Difliiflni; l; would be lost in them. He doubt-I ted if one of those great, spatulat-., ted fingers could have been dtspos. 1. Led to pull the trigger. But a w(im- Li ;an's hand? Such a weapon, lit- ti, ills more than a. toy in appcar- It lance. would be exactly the thing i .to appeal to a woman who -wishedli to arm herself. Decidrdly he must” iiearn a great deal more about

iAvIC'. Carlnke! . .

He put the two bullets bark ini. ithe tnhie drawer and took out the: lfolder in which were the paprrs lconnected with the case Some- ',thing mitzht be there uhicii ho had overlooioed. He began to turn the papers ovcr. Here was thr- case with the statements rcicrrinc, to Borden's banking account, Hr had forgotten Rathbone and hzs promise to get front the bank manager the name of the pcrs in whose favour that outer been made. He looked at. his vrni Halt past ll. Rathbnne should I)" reporting very soon now.

He turned some more papers and suddenly snatched one up ' stared at a signature on it. T he took from his pocket the no with the heading; of the Xtrri :1 llotel which had been SW91! I” him that morning by the 0stn'P agent. Laying the two papers sxiv thy side on the table. he c(vupar- ted the writing at the foot of ears. To be continued

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