THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933.
UNKNOWN BLONDE
BEGIN BERK TO-DAY
Who killed TRACY KING, probate
leader DAVID BANNISTER, author, former news
found dead in his AparientI
paper, reporter, undertak.s to find out.. "Police aru noueching for an "unknown blonda" who visited King abortly before ki dasih. Bannister has even this girl, but the has dhappensed since.
BERMAN SCURLACII, who wrote King s threatening later, fa in Jal),. He derisou hie
Innocence. Bannister works on the case with 1. RANDOLPH GAINEY, A reportat of of the Post. In the dead man's apartment Vannteter picks up an nud-fashioned waelding plature which, he krepe,
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BY LAURA LOU BROOKMÁN
fashioned design. Beneath the down rather heavily in the nearest, night. Horn-tooting and radios and headed fringe of the lamp shade ter odd, high-pitched volce want jazz dancing at all hours! Wild
bright glow fell in a circle six on sharply. "What'd you come partics. I guess I know! I've got
or seven feet across. Beyond this nere for?" circle the room was almost in dark- Ness.
"Oh said the little man, "I didn't know-I was just wonder Ing
ilo turned to withdraw, the words unfinished, but McNeal stopped hims
ars, haven t17 I've got eyes, "ABK you." mo how I know a thing like that!"
how
"Just a minute!" the captain called. "You'lo silas Holtastor's brother, aren't your I want to BOO
MeNeal looked nettled. He was
The man looked back doubtfully, zccustomed to doing the question-
"Me? he asked. "You want to aco Ing himself, "Wo came," he said From the inflection of her volee me?" It took an instant for Bannister's crispy, "to find out what you cant seemed that Captain McNeal "There's no reason eyes to accustom themselves to the tell us about Tracy King, the young anould have waited instantly. But Matthew!" Melvina Hollister put to talk to dim light. Then he saw that the man who was murdered upstairs." captain McNeil did not wit woman before them was tall and
"He doesn't know anything "Oh!" The line of Mies Hollis-) So his parties disturbed you, about all this. There's no reason rather squarely built. Pale eyes tor's lips became straighter than lid they?" no and evenly. "Dutat_nil—” AL DRUGAN, frand of King's, says the mensure the two men from head to aver. There was a pausea mo-ou over speak to him about it?" orchestra eader has been having trouble foot. The woman's hair was worn ment oddly tonag-and
"Excuse me. Miss Hollister," Mc- JOD PARKOTT. a former vaudevlile parcher and secure Harris of the meruer. pompadour fashion and fastened went on.
then sho The paie eyes, anhed. "I cer-Noal interrupted. "I'll ask my own tianslator tella CAPTAIN M«NEAL, of the
"I can tell you," she said, tainly did," Mins Holuster said.questions, if you don't mind. And detective bureau about quarral betww nigh on her head in a style of 25 "that Tracy King was an evil man. King and MELVINA HOLLISTER, middle- years before. She hand
For a night or two it was quiet. came here to see your brother. agud pinster, allar King's cat killed her nose, dominating the slender face, was sinful and dissipated. At night What did Tracy King cure
a large He indulged in strong drink. He then-the same thing over again! well as you.". camery. MeNKAL decides to investigata.
and her thin lips were drawn into when decent folks were asleep in decent, respectable to lost their room.
Matthew Hollister came into his NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. a straight line. Her dress was uf, their beds he engaged in carryingcept He was an evil man, I tellippers sounded monotonously and The flop-flop of his house dark silk, high at the neck, with on I'd be ashamed to mention. His you. It's the devil's work he was his eyes, reating on McNeal, seemed CHAPTER XVIII
lace collar about the throat. Over moral character"
toing and the devil who came for eproachful. M'Neal parked the police car and her shoulders was drawn a small
"Just a minuto," McNeat Inter-m-" climbed out, following Bannister, knitted Jacket. She was an Im-rupted. "How are you no sure of
"They're policemen," Miss Hol. Half-way to the entrance of the pressive figure and at the same time
There was a slight noise behind later explained rather inaccurate- all this?"
chem and Bannister turned. They. "They're here to ask about the Shelby Arms, the door opened. A forbidding one.
Miss Hollister eyed him disdain-loor into the next room had opened man who was killed last night." group of young people-three men "You're Captain McNeal?" the fully. "My brother and I have and a man stood on the threshold. and two girisappeared. They woman asked, and the captain lived in this hotel since the build- Ho was under average height-a wore laughing and tacking rather | nodded.
McNeal's mounting annoyance ing was opened," she said. "We're ittle man with thinning gray hair showed in his tone. "Mr. nolally. The girls were evening The pale eyes darted toward respectable, law-abiding folks. The and mild
Hol wraps over bright dresses. One of Bannister. "Thon who's he?" she manager of the building, can tell ile wore a dark woollen hous. Neal and this is Mr. Bannister, eyes behind spectacles. Ister," he said, "I'm Captain Mc- the men had on a top hat.
demanded.
you we aren't complainers either. jacket. For an instant he stood We're from headquarters and I've As Bannister and McNeal passed
instant McNeal looked But during the last four months. there, eyeing the group in some been trying to find out from your them the girl in the fur jacket was perplexed. Then he said shortly, since that good-for-nothing Tracy perplexity. singing the words of a popular "Friend of mine. We'd like to talk King moved into the apartment
alster what she knows about the Before the new-comer, could shooting last night. So far I to you a few moments, Mian Hol- above, this place has been bedlam!spenk. Melving had acen him. She haven't learned much. Sit down, McNeal snorted. "A lot of dif-lister. I suppose we can sit down?" Bedlam!" she repeated emphat-turned sharply. "Matthow," ference it makes to them that aj
sho won't you? I'd like to hear your She motioned toward chairs, sat 'ically. "Not a minute's sleep at said, "you keep out of this!"
(Continued on Page 10.) MBA WILS murdered here Jast night!"
song.
"No," said Bannister soberly. "I don't suppose it doen."
They went inside the hotel. The entrance looked almost exactly na
It had that afternoon. The same girl ant at the switchboard. Link, the clerk, was speaking over a tele- phone. He put down the instru- ment as they approached.
"Good evening, Captain McNeal.” to sald. with elaborate cordiality. "Good evening! Is there any thing"
McNeal Interrupted, explaining briefly why they had come. A few moments later he and Bannister stood before a doorway in the sec ond floor corridor.
McNeal knocked but there was Bo answer. He knocked a second time, louder A third knock and the captain began to fume, m- patiently. "They're there!" he acolded. "Link said so. I'—“
The words died as they heard a bolt turned in the door. Then the door opened inward slowly. Through a silt of not more than two inches a voice naked sharply, "Who is it?" McNeal's answer was prompt and impressive. There was a mo mient of delay. Then the
door
opened wider. Through the open- ing a woman peered out at them.
For an
Evidently she was satisfied or conBaltic a lighter carrying wheat crashed into the bridge at the
During one of the storms which have recently raged in the
cluded it would be best to comply with McNeal's request, for she stepped back and said in the anne sharp tone, "You can come in."
There was a single lamp in the room, a reading lamp of rather okt.
entrance to the port of Wellin, completely blocking it. Photo shows the partly submerged wreck.
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