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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934.
SERIAL STORY
The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:
CHAPTER XXXIII
· By CARLETON KENDRAKE
Griff frowned at Bleeker. “You continually revert to the material," he said. "You see things objectively. 1 profer to see them subjectively, prefer to turn back the hands of time and to reason what is going to hep pen from a philosophle contemplation of what has happened. I repeat that Blanche Malone was beautiful, that her beauty was of the type that make for misery. It is the lame in which the moth singes himself and it is such a pathetic thing that usually the Blame from this beauty singes the wings of the beauty self.
Mockley and the name that she gave | the police was one which was as) sumed for the occasion.”
"At least," Bleeker sald with more than a trace of impatience in his tone as he thrust a bill into the out- stretched hand of the cab driver. "wo will get something definite here, not merely a mass of philosophies and
theories,"
The elevator boy wild the door shut.
"Ninth floor," said the inwyer. "Ninth for us," Griff said. The elevator shot upward. "What brings you to the city?" asked Grif.
"Oh, just a matter of routine busi ness. I've got to see about taking the deposition of a witness in a will ease, Wasn't it unfortunate about poor Frank... Cathay, you know 7" "Indeed it was," Griff said. "An- narently there was polson adminis tered."
The lawyer shook his head. "I'm afraid." he said, "it is a very serious matter."
"You don't think it was suicido 7" askrs Griff.
I Prim's foun
"We are," Griff admitted, "ap- pronching the end of our chase, Soon we will have all of the straws in our hands and then we can see the direction in which those straws aro pointed direction which Morden must have deduced from only the "Ilad she been, perhaps, a little single straw which we know was in more discreet, had it not been for his possession. It in uncanny thin uncontrolled flame which swept It is, in short, unbelievable. through her very being, she could 31 think there, must have been have gone, for. Ilad she not gone] something of lurk that entered i The elevator alid to a smooth ston through suffering she might have re-into it, although, when one sees it, it at the ninth floor. The onerator tained her beauty. Women do that is no absolutely simple that one won apered the door. The lawyer was you know-women who have that
ders it did not crash home to the sneaking as he stopped into the cor- sensual, physical type of beauty. It consciousness long before. That is ridor. in retained and with the passing of the way with vital things. They aro
"0" bo anid slowly." "I don't years and the gathering of Wiadom naually simple, usually plainly viable, think that it was suicide. However, It ripens into a warm vitality which camouflaged only by the lack of i am rank to any than Insts them well into middle age. But vision in the mind of the bo- just what it was and I doubt if we so often that type of beauty, reek holder
enn over prove that it was not sul- ing nothing of consequences, sweeps
Bleeker, apparently without acide."
"You'll make the attemnt?" Grif all before it in its mad rush to have tening, pushed on pant the crim- the demands of youth, and there thologist and barged through the asked, standing in the corridor.
"It depends," Fisher raid with al com.es suffering.
frank There's winging door of the hotel.
"Caution," Griff whispered. "Let hurt of
particular accret about it. The feel- us not rush in here, my friend ...
ings of the widow, of course, are con- ah, it is too late!"
corned. There is, an_to_speak.. the honour of the family. Those things are gentimental matters but, more. A big man with stooped shoulders than that, there may be a very man at material cash consideration Involved. was standing talking with the desk. Blecker's eyes aquinted for There was fe Insurance of something a moment in an attempt to refresh his like $500.000. The insurance policies memory. Then he muttered in an un- provided that in the event of a death dertone, "It's Charles Fisher-Mrs. by nerdental manes the amount of Cathay's lawyer."
the policles would be doubled."
"And mark you this, my friend. Suffering and beauty do not go to gether. There is a certain type of ethereal beauty which is perhaps developed by suffering rather it is a cold, spiritual something, the type of beauty which one admires in a is illumi- snow-capped peak which Bated by moonlight. But it is not the type of beauty one embraces, and, after all, since woman is what aha is, the only type of beauty that she cares for is the beauty that is em braced. Na, my friend, suffering and benuty do not go together."
Bleeker's tone was unsympathetic "Go on," he said. "Show yourself A good time. You think you've dis covered something I've overlooked. It makes you feel superior. You're nervous and your nervousness naken you want to talk and keep on talking. I'm just a target for your talk. Go ahend sind talk! Don't mind me. Hell, I'm just the guy who hired you! I don't cant.”
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Grid paused by the doorway. Blecker looked, followed the direction! of his gaze, and also paused.
"Over this way quickly," said the criminologist.
hasn't "Perhaps he seen us."
He stepped behind a potted palm, dragging the publisher with him.
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"You mens." Gelf naked. "If it should annear Cathay took, poison accidentally it would make a difer ence of $500,000 to his extato?"
(To Be Continued).
*** Flüher caplains the term.
"death by accidental means," in the
The two men stood motionless, Fisher did not ones glance in their direction but finished his conversation next instalment. with the man at the de k. He Mood for a moment, apparently undecided. Then, tinging his chin up as une dues when renching a decision to plunge boldly into some unwelcome situation, he strode toward the elevators.
Grün aqueezed the. publisher's elbow,
„Griff's tone was printed.
"Please," he said, "belleve me. I am not talking for the anke of talk- ing. You cannot understand murder unless you can understand the things which have led to that murder. "Quick," he said. "We can't give) There is nothing an important as an him the advantage." appreciation of molive, By that I menn appreciation of the emotional backgrounds of all the persons con- cerned. You cannot detect murder until you can judge it. You cannot Judge it until you can understand it. That which might well incite one per- on to murder would cause only a mild irritation in another."
"AROEMANIS"
THE MANGO OF MANCOES.
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Bolder
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feet pounding the fand and Electrle. Manag lobby, their
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An elevator door slid open. Two wonen and a man got out. Fixheri stepped in. The elevator operator looked out toward the lobby in a per- functory survey and then placed his left hand on the door, preparatory to sliding it shut.
Griff ceased speaking and Bleeker frowned and turned away. Bleeker's manner was that of one who de- | Grill gave a shrill whistle. The liberately ignores n situation he can startled elevator operator looked at not control. After several moments The two men hurrying-neroas-the he spoke.
lobby. "When
"Hold it," said Griff." are ready to talk
The elevator boy held the door fnels," he said, "I want to listen. In: the meantime, consider you're talking open. to yourself, not to me. I don't give a damn about your philosophy. I want
faci."
you
Gri sighed. the sigh of one who has bared his innermost thoughts in an attempt to make an explanation, which, when it is expressed has he- come no explanation at all, but mere. ly a further ground of misunder- standing,
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The cab came to a stop. "This," said Griff, "Is where Mary Briggs is under the name of Stella Or perhaps her real name
Fither, who had been staring at the toes of his shoes in frowning con. centration, looked up with annoyance. tamped on his countenance. The annoyance gave place to surprise, the surprise to a friendly smile, and then the smile faded, as an expression of nnuoyance once more came across his features.
"Well, well," he said, "It's Mr. Griff and Blecker, publisher of The Blade, How are you gentlemen? the hotel You're going up?" registered "Yes," said Griff, and pushed his Mackley. I way in the elevator, shaking hands is Stella with the attorney.
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