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The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:
By CARLETON KENDRAKE
'CHAPTER XXVI "Perhaps," suggested Dan Bleeker, "Mra. Malone is nieraly a friend of the family with whom Mrs. Calbay ilcaires communicate."
Griff's tonu was filled with doubt,
"Perhaps," he said.
Thate was as interval of silence. Then the telephone rang. Griff scoop. ed up the receiver, listened for a moment, nodded to Bleekor. "For you," he said.
facts to give us the key clue that characters. The things that you find we want. There is something that's picked upon so often in detective right under our eyes, something big, stories as clues aren't clues at all something that we're overlooking." They are circumstances and circum-
Ils paced the floor in silence, his et pounding rhythmically upon the
rug.
Bleeker ventured a suggestion. "Do you suppose," he asked, "that it's something about the girl's con- nection with Cathay T
stances can be interpreted in almost any light you want to interpret thom Take, for instance, the case of statis ties. You frequently hear people taking opposite sides of an argument and bolstering their cose with the. same set of statistics."
Blocker listened while the receiver made a succession of rasping noises, then looked up at Griff and nodded. He said, "A check-up on the Bummer ville. end.shown that Robert, Chalton did just what you said he would do, or rather what you said he had done." Griff waved his hands in a gesture of dismissal.
"Should I give them any further instructions 7 asked Blueker.
"No" Griff said, "toll them to drop it. It's unimportant now."
Bleeker relayed the instructions that we know about. Wo haven't run adopted had he been "committing over the wire, hung up the telephone then frowned thoughtfully at criminologist,
tho
"It seems to me," he said, "that it's a matter of major importance, If what you say is true, this man Ob- Chalton must be an accessory. viously some man figured in the mur- der, particularly in connection with. moving the body. If Esther Ordway and Alles Lorton are one and the same person, and this man writes a letter in which he refers to them both, he must have done ao for a very definite purpose. That purpose was to baffle the investigating authorities. Therefore, it would seem to me
Griff's Lone was flat, cold and final. "It's unimportant," he repeated, and his eyes were staring in pro- occupied concentration at a spot on the carpet as he spoke.
Blecker frowned Impatiently. said, "You're a criminologist," he "I'm a newspaper man. I've solved a few mysteries myself. ·3 isn't unimportant."
May it
Griff stood facing the newspaper man, his eyes slitted in concentra- tion, his face preoccupied. But his tune was as crisply effective as the nervously explosive words of the newspaper publisher.
"I tell you," Gelf said slowly, "Cathay didn't commit suicide. He wasn't in a position where he had to commit suicide.. He had no reason for committing suicide. Moreover, the method wasn't one he would have nuicide. Ho
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Griff sald slowly, "It's something "But if Cathay knew he was about. bigger than that, something that's to be disgraced," objected Blocker, staring us right in the face. It's not "If he didn't know that he wife and an inanimate clue. It's big vital his lawyer could call off the newa- cluo-something that's a now anglo paper, what more reasonable than to of the case,
Вирроло he'd become despondent and "Obviously, the connection of this land his own life?" girl has something to do with it. Obviously, the impersonation of Cathay by this so-called pickpocket us something to do with it. Ob viously, the connection between Kan- neth Boone and this girl has some thing to do with it. Those are things them down yet, but we know about them. But this is something bigger; something that's a new angle of the case; something that's right under our noses and yet we haven't seen flo fell to pacing the floor again.
"That big fact that's been staring The telephone rang,
us in the Taco all this time," tho Griff scowled impatiently, hesitated criminologist said slowly. "It just moment, then picked up the re- crashed home to me. It's so weird, Celver, listened for n memment and so utterly bizarre that it's absolutely incredible, and yet it's so logical that nadded to Bleeker.
"Your newspaper," he said, "cull-It must be the keynote of the case. ing you. They say it's important." That's the thing that Morden blunder-
I told them not to call this numbered into the thing that mado unless it was connected with the case death inevitable." and very important," Bleeker naid by way of explanation.
it."
He took the telephone, atened for nearly half a minute, then asked, "Did you get anything else?"
13
The receiver made metallic noses and Bleeker grunted a reply and hung ***Well," Blucker sold, staring steadi- ly at Sidney Griff, “here's one you can play with. Cathay committed suicide."
Griff broke or in the middle of his sentence, staring at Blecker with wide, unsecing eyes.
"By heaven!" he said after moment.
"What?" asked Blocker.
his
Grlf whirled and started pacing the room once more.
"Well," Bleeker gaid Irritably, "what is it??!
"You remember," Griff, told him, "that on the night when Abruptly he broke off, narrowed his eyes and shook his hond slowly. "No," he ani, "we're dealing with a clever mind. It won't do to think about it, much less talk about | it, unill we've got definite proof."
Bleeker frowned irritably, then bo- como dignified and distoni,
aven
"After all," he pointed out, "I have retained you and I'm entitled to the
"Did what?" Griff demanded. "Committed nuleide. They've held up making any announcement until they could get a complete analysis of
There was enough! "It's unimportant," he said, "be- the vital organs.
"You'll get it." Griff sald, his man- cause I know all about that angle of polson in them to have accounted for benefit of your investigation." the ease. Robert Chelton is the same his death a dozen times over. Moroner preoccupied, "when the time person as Kenneth Boone. Kenneth over, from the nature and quantity comes. Good heavens, we've just been Boone has been located. Alice Lor-of the poiron taken, the doctors are running around in circles. We've ton, alias Esther Ordway is with him. unanimous in deciding that the polson overlooked the logical starting point They're under
right must have been taken voluntarily, both of us.!! now."
Burveillance
Blecker's expression was oho enger enthusiasm.
of
"You've anticipated all of this?"; he said. "You've uncovered all of thin information 7"
Griff nodded.
"Good heavens! flow did you do it?" Blocker asked.
"I did it," Grit said slowly, "by doing what I told you to do and what I know you wouldn't do-putting a shadow on the Elite Apartment house to check up who came in and who went out."
fle whirled abruptly, started pacing
the fluor.
"But I didn't think," Bleeker said, "that
"Don't interrupt me," Griff - told him. "I'm thinking. Lell you, we've got the facts of the case in our hands. That is, we've got enough
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until she suddenly seems to grow cold
In other words, it wasn't something that could have been given him in his food or administered to him without his knowledge."
Griff shook his head slowly. "No," he said, "Cathay didn't com- mit suicide. Ho couldn't have. It doesn't check in with the facts as we know them."
Bleeker's tone was impatient, "But, he said, "the physicians are positive upon that point. It couldn't have been a case of accidental death by poisoning, or of poisoning that was. administered in food."
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that characteristic dinging of his hands, and was made with the great. ent Impatience.
"All of these so-called 'clues," he anid,-"'eren't cluos at all. The only facts that count are the animate facts the facts having to do with motive, with opportunity, with the conflict of
Blecker spoke with nervous rapidi- ty. "We are trying," he said. "to locate the young woman who gave the name of Mary Briggs. We have made some search and
."
Griff interrupted, "I've got a live lend on her. I'll have her located noon. She wasn't the logical starting paint."
"I thought she was the key witness in the case," Bleeker remarked.
Griff stood staring at him thought- fully.
"The key witness in the case," he said, "when we can and her can find her while she is still alive is going to be Mrs. Hlanche Malone."
(To Be Continued.)
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