The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-04
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 When elderly AMOS PEA.
 BODY falls Go his denth from the
 Hecond story balcony of TOM
 8VEKkEK.fiS Long Island home
 HENnA, Toni,s wife, believes ft ts
 murder. Peabody was her cOu.
 sln. Rushing Co the balcony, Lin.
 4a feels something thrown about
 her throat, almost stranglcs and
 she and Tom decide to pretend Cousin Amos death was Rn ncci. kieuf, mUanwhil7 dcvoting them- selves to solving the crime. They have four guests, all of whom become suspects: MIR STATLAN. DER, business associate of Toms, CAPTAIN DE VOS, hand nosno Belgian; MARVIN PRATT former auitor Of Lindn's; and HAN SHAUGHNESSEY. Irish
 writer. On one excuse and then anuthgr the guests are persuaded % finish out their weekend wise it.
 linda finds tho towel with
 which the attempt was made to ntrnnglC her (itlcntiflcd by smear of sunburn ointnentl in
 EtnfIandcr's bathroom. Tom, suspicious of Shaughncseey, searches hls room. Tho Irishman 0iaCovcrs this and to set matters right Linda tells him tho whole story, asking him to help solve the mystery. They learn that on the night of his death Cousin Amos opened . French window that made Q loud, disturbing sound, swinging in the wind.
 Just before dinner Sunday evening Tom goes to get the car out so he can take Devos to a dinner engagement. Linda ts alone with statlandcr. She Is in. Attentive until sine hears him say that when Cousin Amos was found dead Dc VOs appeared from the far end of tho hall inc stead of his own room.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER xLvI
 Linda heard tho words as In a Iiaze. From our end of the hall - tho nursery" Statlander q said. It seemed as if he had shouted those words through the shattered quiet of the house.
 She summed every ounce of sourage she possessed and turned | smile of forced brilliance upon lhe somewhat astonished MT stat lander.
 "oh - yes - perhaps --- I don't LOW" she gasped; then. as her blood seemed to circulate moro nor Inaily and the room ceaSed its hystericai cireling around her, she vent on moro coherently. "I'm sure no one actually slept In the aurscry," she said politely. (As II t mattterod--as if anything mat cred now but getting Tom back or getting to him and telling him , Anyone might have been sleeploss md rer less and wandered in there, ia you say, in search of breath 1f air. oh. Rosie --- dinner ia ierved? MT Statlander-wouid you ~-perhaps you'll walt here-i'll run 5ver to the garage and tell Tom.
 ssNot at all" He rose with stiff "f will do that, Mrs Av0rlll. A pleasure. assure you, Hood evening, MT Pratt!" And af I.indn wildly triod to think of some excuse which should not be toe .lie to hold him, Marvin lnoppor- Iunely appeared and her opportun- ty vanished.
 Fortunately Marvin was unob- lervant. And, perhaps even more 'ortEnate, ho was feoling extremely we'll pleased with himself because ,f t' ! outcome of the afternoon's game. Hor part was purely n lis. Ienfng enc.
 '"rhat was gorgeous, Marvin! Oh ] wish e. lld have seen it! Why didn't you tell me you wero--" The phrases, came to her urgent need. And from the corner of her eye she saw throe hgures Ieav. tho garage 1oor and come across the lawn --- Shaughnessey, statiander. Tom.
 She felt sho was chnttorlng lit- Ile hyst terically. Tom, always ,ensitivo to her mood, looked sud denly at her, thbn at Marvin and Ihen grew very grave indeed.
 "Oh. no, Tom = mol" She dared not breathe tho word aloud though sho too, receptive to his thought sney Instantly ho had guessed the reason for her agitation, but mis- read its exciting cause. Before she rouid signal him to drop back q her husband had executed n quick maneuvor. tt took him with apparent interest and ploos- ure, beside the still happily uneon- scious Marvin, and, hand on arm Tom marched into tho dining room with the man he now considered