THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1933.
THE UNKNOWN BLONDE BY LAURA LOU
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KING, orchestra lender, has been found dead
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BROOKMAN
"I didn't think they had, the woman continuod with an ́· I-told- you-so nod of the head. “Every- body around hore's too scared!. But I'm not. And there's plenty that's' queer been going on" "I think it's werd up in poor Mr. King's apart-And you can smoke if you like, when it happened," she went on.fine the police should know about On a stormy November rening DAVID ment. You were with Mir. Link, I'm a widow, Mr. Bannister, and "I've been in Chicago and I just it!" BANNISTRIE maris & pretty blond girl and weren't you? I saw you get out of I like to see men comfortable.“ got back this afternoon. I wasn't It comed offers har lift in the cats to which be the elevator together." She drew She pushed an ash tray in the here when the detectives were ask and Bannister was beginning to a lengthy preamble ridlog. Her handbagt opens and be news' A revolver inside.
back, eyeing Bannister sharply, shape of a green fish toward him. ing questions of everyone and grow restive. But in another in- Next morning Bannister reads that TRACT:What do you moan," sho de- Bannister drown package of that's why I wanted to talk to you. stant that restiveness was gone. in his aperimal Fetics are searching for animanded, "anying you're not a de-cigarettes from a pocket, offered You see there's something I think "asknown blond," who waited Kink the night tective?"
them to Mrs. Kennebec, but she the police ought to know!"
"If you're a detective, young. batore, Bannister, remembering the girl In Well, he had told her the truth. declinel, lo extracted one for She paused dramatically. "It's man-or a special investigator or He sees her sanim that morning. The And he was more than a little himself and lighted it. He was be about Melvins Hollister and her whatever you call it--you'd better. swears alw knows nothing of the murder
ginning to wonder how this Inter- brother," Mrs. Kennebec went on. find out where Melvina Hollator "Has anybody' said anything to was last night when she said that view would turn out.
"You had something to tell me?" you about those two?
she wasnt at home. You'd better ho naked.
find out about the tongue-lashing "Yes, I have. It's about this i Bannister said that they had not, she gave Tracy King and how sho murder" The woman leaned Ho had stopped twisting the match swore aho'd have him out of this forward and the jowelled car rings in his fingers, was listening in- hotel or know the reason why. The woman'sighed. Then that's shook violently. "I wasn't hore tently. all the botter," she said.. "Come Jon!"
the taxfond, in paraled,
talls him her name la JULIET FIANCE and
She begs Bannister to help and be sureOS,
curious to hear what she had to Je mom to pro his pid friend, JM FACION, say. "My name is Bannister," he editor of the Tremont Poel, and a told her. "Yes, I've just come from to work on the Ring murder case for the King's rooms. But I'm not with Post Lauer be returns to the hotel to the police department. The truth Bannister rose to see the room in which is I'm doing a little-or, special King died. Ands an object he puts in bla investigating-"
Juliet Prasce sad learns she has disappeared.
-pocket. Downstairs. In the Jobby a WORSEN
call to him.
CHAPTER X
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Bannister thought the woman They gained the second floor by must hayo mistaken him for some-icans of the stairway which, as
one else. He sald, "Why, yes, of course but--"
She had halted directly before him. She wore small red jewels scrowed to the lobes of her ears and as she talked the jewels shook, entching the light and reflecting
of the elevator. Mrs. Kennebec led Link pointed out, was just back
the way down a corridor, paused before a door and inserted a key. "This is where I live," she said. "Come in.
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over-
The open door revealed an or- it. At the throat of her sweater nately decorated living room. In ault she wore a sparkling broach size it was almost identical with which might have been a diamond.the room Bannister had examined The suit appeared to be a trifle on the floor above but there was tight for her short, round figure.no other similarity, An Her titian hair had been curled stuffed divan and chair upholstered until it had a faded, frizzed lookin mauve satin wore squares of Yet, In spite of these details, she Ince on their backs. The rest of had a sort of prettiness. Once the furniture appeared to Bannis- Bannister was aure, she had beenter-who knew nothing whatever very pretty.
of periods in decorating to be
"But-er, you sco—”
"I want to talk to you," he told French. Louis-something or other. him firmly, "about this murder. he guessed. The furniture. waz You're detective, aren't you?jamall and delicate with much hand Well, I've got, something to tell carving. There were pictures on your"
the wall-too many of them-hung { from heavy tasselled cords. A tall "I'm Mrs. Kennebec," the woman rose tamp with a fringed ahado. introduced herself. "Mrs. Russell Two ather Inmps, one mauve and Kennebec. My apartment is on the one of parchment. There were in- second floor. We'd better go up numerable, amalt ornaments-dec- there; there's no place. to talk orated boxes, gilt and lace trimmed here,
pillows, figurines, bowls and vases of brass and bright coloured glass. Everything looked feminine, not particularly tasteful, and expensive. The woman draw back. "Not a Mr. Kennebec sank to one of the detective!" she exclaimed. "Why, chair. "Sit there," she said. in- the telephone operator said you dicating the mauvo allk divan. were! She said you and Mr. Link]“It's more comfortable for a man.
"Excuse me, Mrs. Kennebec," Bannister told her firmly, "but I'm not a detective!"
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