The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-28
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AMOS PEABODY. elderly cou- MIu or LINDA NVHNILIa fnlle Co I|I death from lIle second no0r balcony Of the AvcrIll'a Long Is- land home. linda reaches him inst before no dies, fn time Co hear him gasp, sEle pushed me-4n
 Lin1n, realizing her cousin had tried Co tell her he was murder cIl. ru1lles upstairs tO the bal- C0sy. Someone steps behind her, lEieB fo strnnRIe her and she falls in q faint. Her husband, TOM. sees her fall and Fusfes to her. There arc four guests in tho house and they all appear. The guests arc MIR STATLlANDER, business associate of Toms; CAP TAIN DE VOS. handsome Bel- ginn; MARVIN PRATT, former guitOF of Idnda's; and HAN GHAUGHNESSEY, Irish writer. Each Of them has quarrelcd with C0usin Amos.
 DIR PARSONS takes charge. It ls assumed Cousin Amos death was accidental and that Linda fninted from shock. When she is finally able to tell Tom what happened she pcrsuades him tllnf they must keep the four guests with them until they dis- cover who Is the murderer. There fs no evidence on which t0 ar- rest anyone hut Tom and Linda both feel that one of the four Is guilty. Suspicion points to Pratt because he was first to reach Ldn- U- a0. Ra.f- 2<.<n a<x Shaugfnessey becauce Tom met him on tho grounds q few mos ments Ic. r. TIM HAWAIIAN of tho local police force arrives. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XVI
 pr Parsons was angry. "Its that old fool Boyle trying to make trouble" he exclaimed. What does he mean by such idiotic behavior !? Not your fault, Tim, of course"
 Let's all sit down." said Linda abruptly. This mystery seemed more than she could bear. The doctor and Tom both looked to- ward her anxiously but she ignored the searching giances and spoke brigkly and cheerfully to Tim.
 What's the mater, Tim? And what about pr Boyle?"
 Gratefully Officer Hanahan ad- dressed himself to her.
 ''He himself phoned, ma am" he said. mot 20 minutes ago. Down off OrieB. Point he's been, with some friends on fishing trip. They went yesterday morning and were to come back the Monday. Hap pened he bethought himself to til- liphone his house, and Mrs Boyle told him Dr Parsons here was calling him up to report an acci- dent. So thin he tilliphones the station himself and tell him-beg gin yer pardon, ma a'am--about the poor old felly fallin' offen the little balcony-like. At oncet he flies into q latherin' rage"
 Half shot as usual, I suppose" interjected Dr Parsons.
 From Tim's sheepish glance and quickly repressed grin they knew that the little doctor had hit the mark.
 "Ah. well. sir--'tis a holiday he's orwell, this timper--'
 "Yes, we know Boyle's timper- CT temper. But that's no excuse for holding us all up like this," fumed the irate doctor.
 "Hold us all?s Tom caught at the words.
 '.That's 1t, sir, 'Tis-'tis against the law you know to move the body" Forced to voice the truth and so place the blame, Tim scratched his head and glanced sidowise at the fuming doctor. He was thinking perhaps of the many times that irascible, kindly little man had lectured him for the vari- ous sins of growing boyhood. The tables now were turned indeed!
 "Yes-yes, of course, author ized that. Perfect poppycock to say I couldn't! Does Boyle suppose that I'm going to leave a corpse out there for hours in the hot sun"
 Easy, easy" said Tom anxious 1y, but Parsons was beyond caring for the layman's shocked reaction to the ordinary difficulties of his profession.
 While he swigs whisky off in the Sound somewhere and hangs a line overheard pretending to jig for bluefish? Too bad he hasn't fallen overheard long ago, except it'd be q raw deal for the fish to be poi soned that way"
 Tim reverted with what could hardly be called tact to the moot point of the discussion.
 So the body having been moved