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’ “And I've been told tliat adoles
cents were abnormally sensitive,"
Dundee r?rinned down at her. "Do
4 | r m jergma ever wait Berkeley?” for an invitation, Miss
.if'-'T" th ink I shan’t, get
it.” she retorted cheerfully, pillow
lDg her head comfortably against
Mr : Lambert’s knees.
■■Lot her sidy." Mrs. Lambert beg
laying a tender hand on the
briu'it brown curls. "Gigi
Doris—'too." fond
“You were very of Doris
Mrs Lambert?" Dundee seized the
opening. loved her, ■ t Mrs. Lambert
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steer simply.
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’ not making notea, for he
h • was
wanted his "witness'' to talk with
the utmost freedom. Strawn had
asked her two or three hurried quea.
turns after the discovery of .lohn-'
son’s flight With the stolen valu-
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ables, but there had been no time
then to go into past history.
' Since August, 1927. when I first,
met Phyllis Ben hum. wno was Dor
is's mistress then," Mis. Lambert,
answered. "The two girls were
.mor e like chums than mistress an d
lady's maid. T- believe Doris had
been with PhylJLs about three years
before Phyllis's’ marriage to Mr.
Crosby. They were about the
age—22 then, I think I was ir
stantly attracted to Doris, partly
because of her sweetness and beau
ty. but largely because of her loy
alty and devotion to Phyllis. Aral
that, Mr, Dundee, is why I asked to
speak to you,”
'‘Yes?” Dundee promt ped. when
she paused because her voice broke.
"Oh, don’t you .see?” she cried
almost passionately, "Doris was
not just a maid,' just an ordinary
servant, if there is such-a thin?!
She was a lovely, girl, a beloved girt,
a loyal friend. Tese truths about
Doris must be recognized by you—
bV the poiice—when you are trying
to solve her murder."
fThe police think her murder is
solved," Dundee reminded her gen
tlv.
“I know, but—”
"But' you don't think so. Mrs.
Lambert?" Dundee took her up cag
es ly
T—don't know," she confessed in
a troubled voice. “I suppose John,
son. the valet, is guilty. But I’ve
been airaid all sorts ol insinuation:'
bp made against Doris by the
papers. Your Captain Strawn him
salf asked me if 1 had 'missed'i
arythine since Doris has been here
an(1 whether Phyllis Crosby had
ever b?en robhed -"
" That f as ^ cause ? oris se£med
to recognize Johnson t when they met
al fhp servants . dinner . ta b!e last
nighi,” Dundee explained, “The
police naturally look for a confed
erate on the inside, as a matter of
routine.”
"You say Doris seemed to rec
ognize Johnson?" Mrs. Lambert re
peated. brushing aside his last words
in her intense surprise,
"So Peggy Harper says, Doris
did not say anything to you about
having seen Johnson before?"
Oh. no! If she had. I should have
thought, naturally, that Johwson
had been employed in New York
or London and that Doris had seen
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hostesses.”
"That probably accounts for It."
Dundee agreed. "Did you see John
son yourself, Mrs. Lambert?”
"Yes. It was I who engaged him,”
die answered, readily, "Hi s re fer
ences were excellent and his appear
ance good. In fact, as Mrs. Berke
ley remarked at lunch, the man
seemed to be almost a gentleman,
in the narrow social sense of the
word.”
"With a gentleman's appreciation
of art.” Dundee said dryly. "One of
the things he stole from Mr. Crosby
was an ivory immature of Phyllis
Crosby. Something he could mi
sell—''
"A—miniature—of Phyllis?" Mrs.
Lambert repeated, in a whisper.
She leaned weakly against tlm
back of her chair and the pupils
of her eyes dilated to an enormous
size.
"Please tell me frankly what you
are thinking. Mrs. Lambert,” Dun
dee urged gently.
The social secretary got control
of herself with an obvious effort.
She even managed to smile shght
ly
"You startled me," she confessed.
"I know how Seymour—Mr. Crosby
—treasured that miniature ol Phy
lis. It is an exquisite thing, a .re
markable likeness of one of the/most
beautiful girls I ever saw. But :it
ycu cnid. it is a thing a burglar
cculd not sell, without betraying
himself. It seemed absurd to iw
that a burglar should steal it*'
"To me. too." Dundee assured her
quietly. "But. please. Mrs. Lam
bert—”
"I know!” Gigi interrupted, strik
ing her small brown hands togeth
er. "Everyone says Johnson look
ed like a gentleman, and I'm here
to tell you he had S. A. plus—in a
deadly, quiet sort of way, if yoi
know what I mean. Now, lookee!
Doris half-way recognized him. Dor
is was Phyllis Crosby's maid. John
son, or whatever his real name is.
steals a miniature of Phyllis, which
he can't sell, and which, therefore
he wants for its own sake! I'll bet
my new golf clubs it was Johnson's
showing up here as a servant that
threw Doris off the track, so she
couldn't remember where she'd seen
him before—"
"Hush, Gigi! You’re being ridicul.
ous!" Mrs. Lambert commanded
sternly, but Dundee saw that her
face had gone ghastly pale.
“I’m not either being ridiculous'"
Gigi protested. "I heard Dad and
Abbie rowing about Mr. Crosby yes
terday afternoon; and Dad said ho
was a wife-killer. Then this morn
ing I asked Wickett how Mrs. Cro;-
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You see I got an aeroplane
And I’m all set to fly;
But Papa says I'm tar too
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To lake a trip up high.
I said to Ma; “I’ll now take
off:
Tor distant points I’ll head."
She said to me; “All right—
take off—
Your clothes, It's time for
bed.”
by died, and he said she committed
suicide in London by jumping
a roof. He said Doris saw h\r do
it. and that Mr. Crosby absolutely
did not throw his wife over the
railing, or push her. or anything
like that. Now. I think it is John
son crook Is back of it all! Don’t
you see? He—”
"Gigi. you must stop!" Mrs. Lam
bert cried you* despairingly.
"If don't mind too much.
Mrs. Lambert. I'd rather hear Gigi';
theory." Dundep interposed quie 4 -
ly but firmly.
"Wouldn’t I make a swell detec
tive. Bonnie Dundee?" Gigi exulted
"Well, ihls is the way I dope it
out: Johnson was a 'gentleman
crcok.' playing the nightclubs in
New York, or something like tha*.
He meets Phyllis Crosby, or Phyllis
Benham, as she was then. She
falls for him hard, doesn't dream
he's a crook. They have a hect.c
love affair, and poor little Doris
catches a glimpse of him—just oner,
maybe, because Phyllis Is meeting
him secretly. Then somehow she
finds out he's a crook and ditchp?
him, and he’s sore, of course. Prct
ty soon she marries Mr. Crosby and
Johnson keeps bobbing up to
blackmail her. Probably he had
letters or something proving thf..’
had been lovers—"
"Please make her stop. Mr. Dun
dee!" Mrs. Lambert implored. ‘Sue
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can't realize what she's saying. I
was Phyllis Crosby’s best friend—'
"That's enough. Glgl,” Dundee
agreed, but his smile at the excited
girl had admiration and respect Ir
it. Turning to Mrs. Lambert he
asked gently: "Were you in Mrs. 1
Crosby.s confidence, Mrs Lambert?"
"I was. We were devoted friends,
111 spile ol the difference in our
ages." Mrs. Lambert replied, her
pale lips trembling.
"You were visiting her at the time
of her death?"
"Yes. Seymour wrote me—I we*,
at Biarritz—that .Phyllis was not
well, and Inclined lo lie morbid and
hysterical.''
“I bet she was going to have a
batal" .Qigi.cuL in excitedly.
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Mrs. Lambert flushed. "She was.; ,
I believed then and I still believe I
that her morbidness and her— he.' |
suicide were due to her condition.!
At Seymour's request. I went to
London to stay with Phyllis as long
as she needed me.*'
"Diet she tel) you why she was
unhappy. Mrs. Lambert?” Dundee
asked.
"I—I must refuse to answe".”
Dundee and Gigi exchanged a
significant glance, Gigi hugging her
knees and shivering with excite
ment.
“Did sh e confide to you. Mrs.
Lambert.” Dundee persisted, “thai
she was being blackmailed?”
“She certainly did not!" the so
cial secretary retorted emphaticai
)y.
"I see." said Dundee. _
"Now
Mrs. Lambert, what was Doris’s at
titude toward her mistress at thir
time? I mean, was Doris obviously
worried?"
Mrs. Lambert coiridered for a
moment, her tired eyes closed. Then
"Yes. I’think she was. she was
even more tender and devoted tharl
usual, I believe. The two girls spent I I
a great deal of time together. Doris
was with Phyllis even more than i|
was, Doris serving then more in the j
capacity maid.” of nurse than as lady': j
"It is quite possible then that
Doris was wholly. In Mrs. Crosby s
confidence?" Dundee persisted.
"Quite possible, of course." Mrs
Lambert agreed stiffly, "though I
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•Mrs. Lambert forgive me for
what must .seem like idle curiosity
to you. but-—would you say Mr. and
Mrs. Crosby were happily married?
That they loved each other?"
"Yes! Seymour loved Phyllis deep- I
ly and truly and tenderly, and Phyl
lis adored her husband."
"And yet—Phyllis Crosby com-!
mitted suicide.” Dundee reminded
her gently. - ‘
"I know!" Mrs. Lambert sank back
weorilv again, •She was teinpo'.
ariiy insane. That, is the only pos
sible explanation,"
"Will you please tell me all you
can remember ol Phyllis Crosby's
last evening?" _j_______________-_
"Mr Dundee, J have been patient
under this—this ordeal; I have tried
to answer your questions as if you
had a right to ask them, but I must
protest—”
"Because you feel sure there is
no connection between Doris's mur
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Mrs. Lambert was silent for
long time, hrr eyes closed, her
trembling lower lip caught between
her teeth. Impulsively. Gigi scram
bled from the ottoman into the
white-haired woman's lap and laid
her head confidingly, like a child.
against her breast. Mrs. Lambert
hesitated tor a moment, theu her
arms weijt convulsively about the
small body./
Her eyes were misty with teats
when she lifted them to Dundee
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seemed more ill and hysterical than
usual. She ate nothing, and finally
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would be useless to intrude until the
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Was Mr, Crosby reading a book
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ed, saying Phyllis was not there.
that she thought she was in the
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