THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1933.
THE UNKNOWN BLONDE
DECIN HERE TO-DAY
* Kext morning Bannister svads that TRADY
the inslesh, in pusslod.
tella blm der nama la JULIET FRANDE and
France and Senrot khe has disappeared.
something lande on, his back,
CHAPTER IX
Bannister noted
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BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
"They're at the rear." Bannister was poking about the napors on the desk. "If it was the girl who shot him," he said sud- dealy, "how do you figure that she got atyny?"
plained. "It's just back of the cla-
There's a stairway," Link ex-
the stairway and into the laundry. Then she could have crossed the hall to the tradesmen's entranco.” "And gone out the rear way, Bannister,nodded solemnly. "Oh, I' see!"
"Suppose she wore something else?"
"Id know her anyway," the ho tel clerk declared emphatically, "I'd know her the minuto I anw her!"
Bannister explored the room for another 10 minutes. There was, little to be gained there, he thought, but he wanted to fix certain de- tails in his mind. Then he said, "Well, I guess I'm through hero."
Bannister thanked the clerk and They rodo down to the first floor. took his leave. But ho was leas thun half way across the lobby when a bico stopped, him.
It was a woman's voice. "Just a minute, young man!" it cailed. | "Just a minute!”
Bannister turned. Ife faced à short woman in a blue and gray "It must have been the girl," sweater suit, hurrying toward him. Link Inaisted. "She was the only The woman's cheeks were quite one who came up here."
pink: her hair Was a Blightly faded titlan, and her voice was do termined. •
Thore acomed to be so much in the open. Bannister dropped the ob Un sormy November evenina DAVID room; a bed; a chest of drawers fect inside his pocket. An instant BANNISTER meets a pretty bond ir) and Revoral of them pulled out and later Link the hotel clerk, offers her * 1x In the cab. in which he le
33. riding, 15er handbag opens and he sees si spilling their contents; two chairs, peared in the bedroom doorway, Ferplver inside.
lone of white leather of modernis- "Sorry to be gone so long," he KING, orchestra lender, has been found dead, tic design; a night table holding a apologized. "I thought it would in his apartment. Police are searahing for an, carafo, and empty glass; a ward; only be a moment but there are so unknown blond. who visited king the night robe trunk tilted on end; a small many things" He did not com- before. Bannister, remembering the girl in radio, Golf.clubs sprawied in one plete the sentence, "The place is
Ifd sees her again that morning. The girl corner. There was a atack of music upset," he went on. "Nothing goca vator. She could have gone down away the known nothing of the murder on the radiator and a pile of mag-right: It's been that way since She begs Bannister to belp ber and benzines on the floor. There seemed last night."
He goes to see his old friend, JIM PAXTON, to be ever so many smaller articles
"I can imagine," Bannister said -edtips of the Tremont Fost, and arranges to in
work on the King murder case for the Pol toilet articles on top of the chest King was lying when you found the room, too-brushes and dryly. "Mind showing me just how Later he returns to the hotel to see Jullet of drawers; a large mirror above him?"
Bannistes sous to see the room in which it; a photograph in a silver frame Ring died. As he stands in the doorway showing a pretty girl smiling his description even the demon The clerk agreed willingly but Denise Lang; a cocktail shaker on the trunk; a sweater and suit of stration he attempted was not clothes hanging across the back of very clear. Bannister decided that one of the chairs. On the wall he would have to have a look at
a large framed the polico photographs. photograph of Tracy King himself. ledge jumped down. Link saw it Suddenly the cat on the window
Bannister nasumed to be theatri- and said, "Oh, there's · Rajah! I cal acquaintancen. One he recog. don't know what's to become nized as a Broadway star. Most him Mr. King thought the world A cat! It must be a cat. Ban- of these photographs had inscrip- of that cat. Used to bring people nister twisted about, reaching for tions written across one corner. hero especially to see him. I told the animal. The cat evidently did Yes, the place was certainly the maid to see that Rajah got his not like such handling and object-chaotic. And yet there was noth- ment this morning. Mr. King al ed. Its claws dug deeper, as it ing with what Bannister had ways had it sent in regularly.Ita tried to maintain its precarious learned about-Tracy King. A vain valuable cat, you know. Very position. At last Bannister had the man, no doubt. Extravagant or he valuable. What's to become of it animal in a firm grip, pulled it would not have been living at the now I'm sure I don't know!" about in front of him.
Shelby Arms. A young man who But was it a cat? Bannister had liked to give parties, judging from never seen such a creature. For the tall glasses and bottles Bannis- moment he thought it was after had seen in the living room. monkey. No, it couldn't be. It was! A young man, above all, who liked drawing away from him, issuing to have a good time and generally hissing noises that were unmis-succeeded. takably unfriendly, aumlutaicably feline.
The pain in his back was sharp and knife-like. Bannister's face twisted in agony but he did not ery out. It was his assailant that become vocal with a sharp, angry, "Me-row!" and then repeated it again, "Me-row! me-row!"
All this while Bannister buen knedling. Now he set animal on the floor, got to his
"Me-row1" cried the cat backed away.
had
and
Thero
were some othora which
of
"How about King's relatives?". Bannister asked. "Haven't they been notified?"
"If they have nobody has told me about It," the clerk said, rather aggrieved. "I suppose someone will have to take care of all these things"
The door of the clothes closet was ajar. Bannister drew it back. With a wave of his hand he in- the then
whistled softly to himself, (diented the personal posseauions of feet, Tracy King must certainly have had the dead orchestra leader. "Same- a wenknesa for clothes! Rows of body will have to attend to all this," suits hung there-two dozen at he said. "Until there are some sort The fur over its eyes and nasa least. They were in shades rang of orders everything will be left und covering its chin was very ing from pale beige to black, A here just as it is now." dark-almost bleck-with the de- plushy brown overcoat stood out finito outline of a
There was a small bath lending mask. From bulky and bealde it was a twoed off the bedroom, Bannister in- out this mask bright blue eyes top coat. There were gazed with a sinister leer. The ears and leather jackets and even a silk- living room.
Awentera spected it, then returned to the were dark, too, and, the feet and lined evening cape. A white mess He crossed to the windows, and tail. The rest of the body was jacket and a tail cont hung side by looked down., "No fire escapes brown, shading from rich cafe-nu-side. On the floor inlt on the back to creamy Ivory more than a dozen pair--and on the
wore shoes-around here, are there?" he asked.
shelf abové Bannister could A cat? Yes.
Bannister knew several hats. what it was now. The masked face made it look rather like a monkey or a raccoon but it was a cat allmur, half of disgust. It was just
on the cheat.
A
He closed the door with a mur-
as he turned to go back to the
right. A Siamese cat, a member of that cat family known as, "royalving room that the object on the
were
floor caught his eye. Bannister, stooped quickly and picked it up. He was studying it a moment Inter when he heard the outer
because for centuries they pets of Staniese royalty,
The cat withdrew still farther, circled uncertainly and then leaped agilely to a window ledge. There E it sat, steadily regarding Bannis- | ter.
The man rubbed his bruised! shoulders. All right," he said. "we'll call it a truce-so long as you don't try that trick again! Lord, what claws! Keep your dis- tance and I'll keep mine,"
There, were two windws in the bedroom. One on the south an oné on the west. --Bannister stepped to the nearest of them and looked out. Nothing below but a smooth plot of grass in the court. Be- yond was the rear wing of the building, jutting out, just as did this central wing. Certainly there was no access to that window front above or below,
T
II moved to the other window. A two-storey cottage, white with a green roof, stood below behind a boxwood hedge. It was neut cottage, rather old-fashioned. Shades were drawn at the windows, Bannister know the place. It be longed to old Judge Price, retired now and living in Florida."
But there was nothing to be seen. from that window to ́explain the brownish stain on the carpet. That. of course, must be where they had Cound Tracy King's body.
Bannister turned, giving his at- tention once more to the Interior of the bedroom. It must have Even rather untidy even before the de- teetives had made their search.
door
Mr. Nevilla Chamberlain opened Birmingham's 40,000th post-war house recently. He is soon spanking after the ceremony.
"You saw her, did you?" where again. Couldn't miss that "Yes, and I'd know her. any-
green outfit."
declared.
"I want to ace you?" the woman
(To Be Continued)
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