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Murder
at Monte Carlo
Paul Viotti
tapped with the tips of his finger nails the
five cards which lay face downwards before him
upon the green baize table. His four companions
took the hint and prepared to listen. This was
no ordinary card room in which the five men had
met. It was the Holy of Holies in the most
famous gambling club of New York. He would be a
brave man who sought entrance there while a
séance was being held.
"To-night," he said, "we are to speak of serious
things. Perhaps I am more careful of my health
than you others. Anyway, I know when the going
is good. One gang against us was dangerous
enough. We had all we could take care of when
Tim Rooney brought his boys out. Now there are
two. I am for fighting when I think that we'll
win. Now I am sure that we shall lose if we go
on, I say let us get away."...
The
Birth of Paradise
Hamer Wildburn sat suddenly up in his
wide and luxurious cabin bed, with the start of
the sound sleeper unexpectedly awakened. His
hands clasped his pyjama clad knees. He listened
intently. Through the wide open porthole
opposite came the thirty seconds flash from
Antibes lighthouse. From the shore road, which
skirted the bay, there was the faint hoot of a
belated motor car. Closer at hand the lazy
murmur of the sea against the sides of his
anchored yacht. Then more distinctly, he heard
again the sound which had at first awakened him.
This time there was no doubt about it. A human
voice from the open space. A woman's cry of
appeal. The soft but purposeful splashing of a
swimmer keeping herself afloat...The young man
hastened out of bed, ran up the companionway,
and leaned over the side. What he saw almost
immediately below was enough to startle anyone.
A woman was floating upon her back, a woman, not
in the day-by-day scanty but sufficient bathing
dress of the moment, but a woman in evening
dress, with the glint even of Jewels around her
neck....
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