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The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder: TRAVEL SERVICE
CHAPTER XXXI
By CARLETON KENDRAKE
Grit told the enh driver to walt and he and Blecker appronched tho house, house which had at one time been a pretentious private residence but was now given över to furnished
rooms.
"Shall we," Bleeker asked' as they entered the door, "got the landlady and inquire for Blanche Stanway?"
"I doubt," Griff told him, "If it's
necessary.
Ile led the way up one flight of stairs, pauses to listen in the hall-
way.
talking. This is none of your damn { phasis, "but because I'm going to get |Businone!"
à lawyer to do my talking for me."
"Who, naked Griff, "is your lawyer?"
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-Griff smiled screnely.
"Racine," he anid, “you are a man who knows the law. Perhaps you also know the penalty for compounding ai felony."
"I don't know," she said. "I'm going to get one."
"The police," said Griff, "Ay want to know something about
"The police," she retorted calmly, "can keep on wanting."
Mr. Cathay surveyed the men this." with tired eyes, eyes, which seemed hopelessly weary of it all. from
"I'm going to ask you just once which hope had vanished. There re- mained only the grim tenacity of amore," Mrs. Cathay said, "to con-
sider my position." fighting breed.
woman's eyes swopt Mrs. Cathay in hostile appraisal,
"You went to a lot of trouble to find me,
didn't you?" she said. "Just because you thought I could
The Carl Racise moved ominously for
ward.
to get out. This is a private con- "I'm telling you fellows," he said,
The sound of swift, excited voices came from a room toward the rear:ference." Griff nodded toward that room. think," he said, "that what we want In in there."
eyon
Dan Blecker, 30 pounds lighter than the big detective, and 10 years older, pushed aggresslyly forward.
"Try and pet us out, he snapped. Sidney Griff spoke in tones that were calmly suave.
do you some good. How about the long years before? You didn't take any trouble to And me then? You didn't enre what I was doing. If you want to know, I was scrubbing doors in office buildings. Think of "It happens," he said, "that Mr.that! Down on my hands and lenees. Bleeker represents The Blade, It Crawling around, scrubbing floors, also happens that The Blade is in-cleaning spliteons, my hands in dirty terested in this interview, as doubt-soap suda, scrubbing, scrubbing, scrub- [bing! Always scrubbing! While you' less the police will be."
were powdered and perfumed, painted and manicured, riding around with a a shiny automobile, reclining on soft cushions, baying maids to do your hair and keep your face beautiful.
Racine glowered at Bleeker, his manner truculent, but his eyes aud denly shifted to those of the crim inologist as Griff finished aperking.
He walked noiselessly down the corridor, paused before a closed door. On the other side of that door woman was talking. Her voice was audible, but not her words. Griff placed his hand of the knob, turned it noiselessly, shoved the door open. A fleshy woman with hard, green and stringy, lock-lustre hair which had been cut in a square bob a chair, a mocking
chauffeur in sented smile playing about her lips,
Standing near the window, clnd in black, was Mrs. Frank Cathay. Her Mr. Cathay, white-lipped, her Ince was white and trugle. There nostrils diinted, regarded Griff with was a huffed look of hopeless dlùfont «yes that were dark with emotion.
presume," she said, "you want In her eyes,
Nearer the doorway, standing with me to beg and ringe. I won't do his side to the door, bis big shoulders it," squared, his face flushed with rage, was Carl Racing, the detective.
WiA
on
Griff's voice was cheerful, "Do we int rude?" he asked.
"How," asked Racine, "did you find out about this?"
Griff smiled at him. "How did you And out about it 7′′ Cathay's he countered."
Kucine's Mrs. Cathay whirled to the hard- anger. faced woman who sat in the chair, with glittering sp- regarding them
They stared at him. "Mrs. face, showed bewilderment. lace was white with cokl The woman who was sented in the chair shifted her hard, green eyes to regard the visitors with a curiosity which seemed almost casuni,
"We want very much?" GrIT went on, to interview Mrs. Blanche Stan way, or perhaps she might prefer to he enlled Mrs. Blanche Malone,"
The smile faded from the lins of
the womna,
"I don't know any Blanche Ma- lone," she said. "My name is Blanche Stanway, Tell me what you want." "You," Racine said to Griff in
voice that quivered with age, "car wait in the corridor until we get done
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"If you talk," she anid, “you're not- going to do yourself any good."
Griff swung to her instantly, "If you don't talk," he said, "you're going to put yourself in a very qurationable position.”
The woman laughed. Her laugh was harsh, rasping and discordant.
"My, my," she said, "how impor. tunt I seem to be getting all of a sudden? Well, I'm not going to talk
not beenuse she told me not tu," and the woman spat out the full pronoun with a bitter, senrnful em-
to her previous success, however great. Fredele March gives Robert Browning the dash and fire that is in manner. With Norma Shearer
unce
She broke off abruptly and more gave that harsh, scornful laugh, "I will, may this," she said, "the world has bandest me enough knocka. know enough now to look out for myself and Ti going to look out for myself."
“Will you,” naked firiff, "make any atatement 7"
"My statement," she said, "will be made through my attorney.**
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Griff turned 10 Blecker shrugged his shoulders.
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the eyes watched criminologist with stark terror ap- penzing in their depths.
"Will you," she asked, "please con- by the window jumped to her feet CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
Her face was livid with Cury. iler
fists,
sider my side of this case??*
Baclné spoke to her in a rumbling girled hands were clatelieri Bionetore.
"They're newspaper men," he said.: "Don't talk to them."
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(To Be Continued), Racine, the detective, makes a hasty departure in the next instalment,
"Damn you!" she said, "And," went on Griff, his Instened upon the face of Mrs. Cathay, if you want to see her, you'll find that she isn't In her apartment. "Remember," he said, "we've got You'll need a pass from the police if other places to go and other things you're going to visit her. At the present moment she's at jullee head- "You won't find her!" shrilled the quarters where she's booked on a womna, who remained rested In the picion of murdering Churles Morden,; he pinys three of the most exquisite thair by the window. "Go ahead and reporter for The Blade."
try all you want to--you can't find love scenes ever to be recorded by her."
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