The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 3, 1936, Page 3

MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1936. MURDER BY LAURENCE SYNOFSIS: Inspector Hylton ts finding it an exceedingly tricky job to learn who murdered the miserly old Arthur Burdett, detested by everybody in Hope ‘Bn He Just about has i€ pinned on Dale hipley, half nephew of Burdett and until a'few days before, Burdett’s heir. He still believes Shipley may have had a hand in tt, but now an appointment card from a hairdres- ser's shop found outside the room in which the murder was ‘com- mitted, connects Mary Fenton with the deed in some way. Hylton means to find out how. Chapter 27 NEW STORY A SREAt: deal. of "bushiesd ‘was i done in Fenton’a Stores on Sat- .urday. The busy time had hardly started yet, and* Hylton was the ‘only customer in the shop. John Fenton’s eyes took an uneasy 'ook when he saw who had come in. “Anything I can do for you, sir?” he asked. “I want a word with you, Mr. Fen- ton, in the back room will be best, won't it?” “Just as you like sir.” Hylton followed the storekeeper into the small living room at the back so perfect in the unhygienic hideousness of its smug Victorian- ism that one felt it could have been matched only by a deliberately, and rather cruelly, designed stage set. “Mrs. Fenton in?” te asked. John Fenton hesitated, if ever a man’s expression pleaded for life not to badger him any further his did at that moment. “Well, sir, f suppose she’s somewhere round at the back,” he said at length. “Ask her to step in, would you?” Fenton went to the door, poked his head into the passage and called “Mother.” Mary Fenton was busy in the kitchen. “Coming John,” she called in the very words and tone with which she had answered him for thirty years. The rustle of her black dress could be heard in the passage, and she entered the living room. Her eyes went at once to the Inspector and all the color drained from her face. John Fenton crossed over to her and he took her hand, patting it kindly. “Now, Mother, don’t take on,” he begged. “This gentleman wants to ask us a few questions | expect.” “I do, though I hadn’t sald so,” Hylton smiled. Mary Fenton sank into one of the worn, red-plush chairs and nodded. “What was it you were wanting to know sir?” John asked. “Not a great deal. Did Mrs. Fen- ton have her hair done in the Luxor Saloon in Morechester on last Mon- day afternoon?” “Yes I did sir,” Mary answered. “Good. And did you have an ap- pointment card to remind you of the time you were to go there?” “Oh yes, they always give you that when you book the time.” Hylton produced his notebook. “Is this the card?” “Where are my glasses, John dear?” John knew where her glass- es were, he should have done if habit counts for anything. Mary put them on with fingers that could not help trembling and John heartened ‘her with his hand on one shoulder. “That's better,” Mary said, in- specting the appointment card once more. “Yes, | suppose this is it; it says Monday at 2:30, doesn’t it?” “Now Mrs, Fenton, that card was found outside one of the windows at Enderton Court — how did it get there?” “Oh.” 1M fees FENTON grasped John’s comforting hand with her own; when she spoke it was in a con- trolled and purposeful voice. “Mr. Burdett was a hard man, sir, He never thought of anything but money.” Hylton nodded. “Go on.” “John, you tell the gentleman about the shop and all.” The Inspector listened to the his- tory of Fenton’s Stores—a dream of thirty years duration, a story of tive minutes telling. “That was how it stood, sir, Mr. Burdett wouldn't listen to anything but the money; and it wasn't as ithough he needed it all that badly. I told him ft meant the end of Fen- ton’s Stores if he let the Coastal {People rent next door, and he didn’t are if it did.” “That's what I couldn’t stand,” Mary broke in, “when | saw him that Monday in the Square ! thought: ‘it isn’t right of God to tet things be like that,’ ob I felt awful bout it.” “My dear, my dear.” | “It’s all right now, Jobn, I can tell the gentleman everything now. a feel better about ij all. Well sir. I thought about the thing an ‘day ‘Monday. And after a bit I beean 10! TONIGHT W. MEYNELL think perhaps it couldn’t really be so bad. 1 thought surely Mr. Bur dett couldn't do what he threatened | if he really understood what it; him any more, he said he had done his best and it was no good.” “So 1 suddenly thought I'd go up to the Court myself. On Monday Mr. Steeble always has a women’s serv- ice at a quarter to eight, so | set off as usual at half past seven, and of! course John thought he knew where I was going; but | never went near St. Leonard’s, 1 went straight up to the Court. | went up the back way because that’s the nearest for us—” “What time did you get there Mrs. Fenton?” “It was eight o’clock, sir, as J rang the bell; I heard St. Leonard’s strike, and I- thought what Mr.! Steeble would be thinking about me not being there.” “What happened when you rang the bell?” “Nothing, sir. I rang and rang and nobody came. Well, 1 wasn’t going to be beaten, sir, and { walked round to the side of the house. There was a light showing in a window. Know- ing what he was, | thought the light | would never be burning unless he was there, so I thought I'd tap the pane and attract his attention that way.” “And did you?” “No sir, 1 got right up to the win- dow just going to tap it, and there was a bit of a crack between the curtains and I could see right into the room—” “Well?” Hylton prompted gently. ‘V EL, sir, 1 saw him dead, across the table and his head all— all like it was; only a foot or two away it seemed.” “You never went into the house?” “That | didn’t sir. | was so upset I dropped my bag outside the win- dow and had a business to get it again. | was particular careful when 1 got back here to see if I had lost anything, but | never thought of that appointment card.” “Why didn’t you tell somebody about it, Mrs. Fenton?” “Well, sir, | was very upset in the first place about going to speak to Mr. Burdett without a word to Mr. Fenton, and then what ! saw there put me out altogether, as | think you will understand. Next morning, of course, {t was all over the village | and I thought I'd do best by not szy- ing anything.” Hylton nodded; he was genuinely relieved to find that this old couple were not criminally involved in the affair, He rose to go; he didn’t think there would be any more tish to catch in this pool. “Now, Mrs. Fenton,” he said kind- ly but quite firmly, “you were very foolish not to go straight away to the Sergeant and tell him all you've told me—” “I'm sure I was, sir,” Mary sobbed. “But better late than never, so don’t worry any more—” “It’s all right then, sir, is it? 1 shan’t be taken up for being an ac- cessory after the fact or whatever they call it, shall 12” “Good Lord no. The Law’s there to help lawabiding people like you, you know. One thing I do want you to help me in though—” “What's that, sir? I'm sure I'll do anything | can.” “You're quite sure about the time when you rang the bell at the Court?” “Oh, I'm sure of that sir. I heard St. Leonard’s striking the hour as plain as plain, and J thought | ought to be sitting in church listening to Mr. Steeble instead of being where 1 was. Oh I’m sure of that.” “Right. Now, not a word about this to anybody else and—” Ping! “—and there’s someone in the shop,” Hylton conciuded with a kindly smile, “so just let me out the back way and don’t worry.” The Inspector walked straight from Fenton’s Stores as fast as his long legs would take him towards Fielden Cottage, thinking furiously all the time. He did not grudge the time spent in listening to Mary Fen- ton’s somewhat verbose explana- tion, for one vitally important fact had been established by it, Arthur Burdett was dead at eight o'clock. Lumsdale could not have reached the Court in time to do the murder. Hylton looked forward eagerly to his interview with Dale Shipley. Nor could he resist a smile at his own expense. 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