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The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:
Illade
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
B" CARLETON KENDRAKE
That A Mas, Į
would twint dead atmospheres with the tong of some shrewd attorney
and distort the little inculents, the When PAN BLEEKER, pulcluber of Thenaky sea biceze.
The Luter led the way, to a smaller minor matters, so us to make them poker resortir, has been razorlaver hibed room back of the living room. Mrs. scent big and important,"
What minor be termites to employ HIDNET ORIFY.
"What little incident? famous criminologat, to solve the murder. Cathay was there, stretched in a res
Morden had boett gned to learn the c.ining chair, A robe was drawn matter?" pressed Griff.
She said nothing. The corners of could about FRANK B, CATHAY, wealthy about her. Her face was white and and prominent, who had thrinsened to wow Cho
eych Were dark-rimmod. Her her lips quivered.
Tw
The 13.de because the newspaper repared his seemed like white wax and "Piesse." sho anid. "You didn't Cathay had been arreme. Lacer proven that the man arrested, alving the there was something piteously pathe-come here to bait me, but to ank me name of Cathay and accompanied by tie in the woman's eyes as she stared something or to tell me something. Clied MARY BRIGGS, W
poor at the criminologist. They were eyes Please get over with and go."
The lace pubiahed a txtraction.
Griff's voice was low-pitched and Then Morders found dead and a few that held curiosity, grief, tragedy, hours later, comes news that Cathay is dead, and more than the dark lustre confidential.
gelbly polanned.
Hidher Grill undertake the case.
to CHARLES FIRMER. Cathay'a lawyer, and then to Cathay's home. There he w CARL RACINE, private detective, leaving in Cailey's car. The chauffeur my hostilety to Griff. You can't a Mrs. Cathey,"
CHAPTER XIV
The chauffeur wormed back behind
The geari the wheel of the big car; shift lever snapped home and the automobile, with Racine, the detec tive, inside, liet smoothly down the driveway, progressing as effortlessly As a trout gliding through the stark depths of a forcat pool
of fear.
"Please be rented," she said. Sidney Griff thanked her, dropped to a choir,
"Bellevo me, Mrs. Cathey," he eald, "I had no wish to intrude upon your grief. I come to make a suggestion and a suggestion merely,"
"I want to ask you," he said, "if you knew that the reporter who had been sent by the newspaper to in- vestigate your husband's reputation
body was murdered, arul hin found yesterday afternoon?"
..
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Had nome electric current gal- vanized her to sudden activity, she could not have reacted more quickly ar violently to his words. Sho nat bolt upright. The firmy negligee feil
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"What is it?" she asked.
That you will not," he said, "op pose an autopsy,"
She shuddered and eald nothing "I have," said the criminologist, open in the front and away from one case shoulder. The dark panic of her eyes discussed certain phases of the
bloodless your attorney, Mr. Charien was now intensified. Her with Fisher. He tells me that hurried
lips quivered before they managed to Sidney Griff watched the enr until settlement was completed with The mouth the one word-Murdered!"
your husband Wea "Yes," he said. "You hadn't heard it had turned the corner of the block, Blade because Then he stepped to the doorbell and taken seriously ill, and you both at- about it?"
Alexandria, "Murdered?" she said. "Oh my moment later was handing his card tributed that illness to mental anxiety to a solemn-faced butler who assured, caused by the article which had been God!"
She dropped back against the chair; him that Mr. Cathay was receiving published"
"Not because of the article." said and lay very still and very motion- "You will tell her," said Sidney Mrs. Cathay. "Not because of that less. Griff, that I have no wish to intrude: nlone but because of the tactics of Griff went to her side, fek of her; upon her grief. it is, however, im- the newspaper people, They were pulse, went to the door of the room
maid will going to blacken Frank's reputation and jerked it open. A portant that 1e her. You
few feet of the explain to her that I am a criminals by every means in their power and standing within Rist and that if she can grant me an Frank's reputation was all that he door, her face flushed.
"Your mistress," said Grist, "has audience now it may save her much, had to hes for Money meant bat Inconvenience later."
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The maid stared at him necusingly.
The butler took his carl, showed more than all was his reputation and her." hing into n reception hallway. As standing in the communky." Grit waited he looked about him,i noting the Chinese rug on the fluor,!
-
"I think," said Griff, "you had bet
ter telephone for a physician."
the dark wood table and chairs of Her voice was 'weak and toneless,
Ha raised his voice slightly an ho sold, Tudor design, the maroon silk without animus, without enthusiasm, made the suggestion, and then turned draperies reaching Lo the floor, without vigour. She spoke as one to regard the still form which re- shower lined in the overstuffed chair. That Through the doorway he could see would spenk of a thunder the living room and caught a glimpse which had passed after dosing damage form stirred. A wenk voice said, "Na, of a replace with a mirror above the 10 some prize ted of flowers,
I don't want a physician. Get me home healy, Maric." antle. The furnishings looked ex
"Did you," naked Griff, "let your husband know that you were going to the city to negotiate a settlement?"
She stared at him steadily. "Why do you want me to answer that question?" she asked.
Griff faced the muid once more, "Under the circumstances,"
le nid, I will not make any farewells to your mistress, Please tell her that I have gone and that I am grateful "let it go," he told her, his eyes for the interview," now focused upon her pnie lips. "It
The and said nothing but stared
is, perhaps, of no matter. But would at him with hostile, sullen eyes as you mind telling ing why you and Gris found his way out of the house, your husband became so greally con- The butter reached the front door verned over the fact that a reporter just as Griff had stepped to the porch. was making an investigation for the The hutier extended a liveried arm, purpose of determining facts about reaped the knob of the door and
slammed R shot. Mr. Cathay's reputation?"
pensive. Everything about the house fooled expensive and characterless the typical tone turned out by n fashionalde interior decorator who knew how to please wealthy clients,
It was only a few moments before; the butter was back with the informa tion that Mrs, Cathey would see Mr. Grit.
The interior of the house was hushed and there was about it the burn of death. A musty smell struggled with the cloying deur of flowers that were dying, and, in turn,
"How do you mean?” she asked. were used to ornament death. Griff
Griff walked rapidly down the there," he naked, some beement to the place where his taxicab saw a maid in the next room, ngşted: that the servants walked about on specific fact that you were afraid the was waiting.
"Giet me." he said to the driver, "to reporter would uncover?" tiptoe, with strained, set faces.
"Certainly not. My husband's life public telephone where I can pai has been an open hook,"
in long distance call. Don't lose "Then why were you so afraid of any time." what the reporter might uncover?"
Grit followed the butter. In the midst of the atmosphere of Hushed restriction the healthy thudding of the criminologist's footfalls were as the influx of an outside life, pushing nside decaying tissues, dissipating
W
"It wasn't what he might uncover."|
(To Be Conléntied.)
he anid. "It was the idea of the Griff makes a telephone call in the thing: the loss of prestige; the loss next instalment and gives these in- of dignity; the certain knowledge that, structions, "Trail Carl Racine."
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