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CHAPTER XXVI.

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sincere twist who, by their professionally prob-giving his action It was nearly noon when Bonnie ipe questions, betrayed themselves that Lakes it away from any flavour Emerve Fund Dundee left police headquarters, as reporters taking this method of

of slapstick. Take a look at after a short session with Ser getting петн and, "human in- "Speedy" for instance, now show- geant Turner of the homicide terest" angles on the sensational ing at the Majestic Theatro, Kow- loon. This is Lloyd's Intest picture, Belton. chlef during Strawn's absence in At the long table in the centre and one of the fastest moving in

his lexicon of great comedies. Because it was still considered of the house, he found Mr. Sharp, of the room, devoted to inmates

Lloyd has a broader- action in of vital importance that Dundes booming away cheerfully to the de-this picture than in any, he has at- remain in the Rhodes House in light of the nearby reporters; tempted for some years, but he lifta cognito, it was Sergeant Turner Walter Styles and Norma Paige, it to an elevation of the highest who would receive the newspaper both very silent; Bert Magnus, merit because he has motivated reporters, and Sergeant Turner whose cheerfulness could be ac every single piece of business with who would relay Dundee's orders counted Ter by the fact that Coraplausibility and sincerity. to uniformed and plainclothesmen, Barker was no longer in jail; and whenever he required their ser- Henry Dowd, whose eyes were. vices.

The telephone company had loomily fixed upon his plate. He been given a rush order for a sence from the meal, nor at the was not surprised at Cora's ab- direct line to be installed from explanation which Mr. Sharp im--- Dundee's third-floor room in the mediately volunteered: Rhodes House do police · hend-

Greelings, Dundee! Is it not quarters. And Turner had given enough for you? Sorry his promise that nothing at all weren't here. to welcome Cora should be given out to the press home. She came In 'not' without Dundee's sanction.

minutes ago, after a long talk with Not a syllable concerning Dan

Ther Griffin or the Sally Graves mutil. Having a tray in her room," lawyer. She's all in, poor der was to get into the papers, lest Dundee was mormuring a sym- the murderer, if he was Atill in pahtelie commonplace when Hamilton and possibly in

very much, made-up and, overdress. Rhodes House itself, be frightened little blonde dashed into the ed away.

[room and flung herself, panting, into a vacant chair at the hoarders table.

the

As Bonnie ran lightly down the stone steps of the old building which housed police headquarters,

"Hello. Jewel " Mr.

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Sharp. a camela was aimed at him, and boomed.. "You've been missing revorter sprinted to join him.

things. Meet our new board- "You live at the Rhoden House, er, Mr. Dundee, Jewel... Miss don't you?" the reporter askini.Jewel Briggs. Hamilton's most "Can you tell me why Strawn has beautiful stenographer, Mr. Dan- had you up on the carpet so long dee!" this morning? We know that he enlled in Police Commissioner her elbows on the table and rested The diminutived blonde, propped. O'Brien, too, to help question her little pointed chin on

you."

The bespectacled comedian has done more for the comedy art than any 'other one performer before the camera," He does not throw any business into the picture just for a laugh. Unless it is part and parcel of his story, it doen, not break into the picture. Lloyd dis- Capita cords more, gaga than most comics | TA; use, because they are illogical, and

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"Speedy" in an hour of great mirth, and is a worthy addition to his list of comedies Lloyd has been producing through these years.

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"Do you?" Dundee vrinned, clasped hands as she gazed with exagerated aouffulness upon "Sorry, but I'm afraid I can't tell

Bonnie Dundee. "' tell the CAIRN'S RISE TO FAME: TIAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF you anything."

"Just a minute!" the reporter cock-eyed world I've been missing pleaded. "What's the altitude of things!" she agreed, her voice an arch drawl. "Where have you been the other boarders at the Rhodes all my life, Precious?". House toward Cora Barker? I

"Looking

for you," Dundee suppose you know she has been re-laughed, though he coloured to the leased on bail, furnished by Hart- man, manager of the Little roots of his hair.

Then we must muke up for lost Queen ?"

"I'm glad to hear it," Dundee lime," the guduefous little manit

factured benuty took him up said heartily. "All of us feel sin-promptly. "Now-tell me every cere sympathy for Mina Barker thing, people! Simply everything! and a complete belief in her inno-Isn't it just my rotten luck to have cence of any connexion whatever been away when all this gorgeous. with the case. Is that an extra excitement was going on? But I you have there?.. Thanks!" he didn't miss it all? You know! added, as the reporter presented went straight from the train to the him with the paper.

hotel-I'm a public stenographer Bonnie scanned the front at the Grandview Hotel, Precious," "Well, with intense interest as he stroll she explained to Dunder. ed down Chestnut avenue foward there was a grand big flatfoot wait- boarding-house."Hogarth ing to ask me all sorts of thrilling Witness Out on Bail" the questions. tried to make him b

Was Flieve sneaked home from Corey- streamer headline.

According to the newspaper acville to rob Mrs. Hogarth Saturday count, the preliminary hearing night, but he woulda"; so much an had been extremely brief, suff arrest me and me simply dying cient only to justify Cora's being for some good publicity so I can granted bail as a material witness get in the movies or in vaudeville gainst Emil Sevier, still regarded at least! Bert's going to write by the press as the favourite sus-cenario especially for

aren't you, darling 7"

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But if there was little news, thei "No," Bert Magnus answered un- staff photographers had not been smilingly. idle. There were snapskola of all the boarders taken separately, ex- copt in the case of Norma Paige and Walter Styles, as they left for work that morning.

"He don't love me no me'," Jowel mourned, her rouged lips pouting. "But what do I care-now?" and she gave Dundee another soulful glance out of her yellow-green eyes, "But hurry, hurry! Tell me every- thing!

Mr. Lawrence Sharp had posed smilingly for the camera, as if he enjoyed the limelight, but if it had not been for the caption Dundee Mr. Lovrence Sharp was still could not have recognized the pic- endeavouring to obey her, down to ture of Henry Dowd, for that par-the minutest detail, when Dundee ticular inmate of the Rhodes made an excuse to leave the table House apparently had sa little before dessert was served, He had relish for publicity that he had heard boy's" soprano piping: used his straw hat to sereen his "Telegram," and had seen Mrs. face from the camera.

Rhodes leave the dining room to On Magnus's face there was a receive the wire. It might be for deprecating smile as he had, här-him---

ries pust the camera, bit the like- "No, sir la for" Mr. Shurp, ness was very good,"

Fram Mrs. Sharp, suppose," Mrs. Daisy Shepherd, as the only | Rhodes told him. hoarder who had fled from the He detained her for a moment to house of tragedy had rated an in-ask her, in a low volce, if she kept terview and a flattering "studioja register of her guests. portrait," but the story she had "Only of the house guests, Mr. obligingly given to the press told Dundee. There are so many meal Dundee nothing more than he al-ers' coming and going that I don't ready knew. There, too, were try to keep up with them. But I Dusty Rhodes, Mrs. Rhodes, and do take, déwn the name and the stolid Tilda Brown, the combina- last address of every house boarder. tion waitress and chambermaid. would have asked you to sign in In the very centre of the picture on Sunday, if things hadn't got so layofit was a pen drawing of upset. Here it is, air, and I hope "Cap'n, the murdered woman' you can read the different hand parrot, tie only eyewitness to the writings in It. Some of 'em you'd.. atrocious crime." But to Dun-think never went to school—” dee's vast relief there was not a Thanks, Mr. Rhodes. May I word concerning Cup'n's startling take charge of this for the pres revelation-the cryptie "Bad ent? That's fine! I certainly penny, which, the young detec-appreciate your co-operation." tive believed, would eventually He took the register to his room bring Dun, Griffin to the death on the third floor, and found that house,

his telephone had already been in- As he folded. the paper and stalled Ho tested it, and was an thrust it into his pocket Bonnie swered immediately by a voice at Dundee again quoted softly: police headquarters.

"I've lived a life of strut and

'strife;

I die by treacherie;

"If any.wires.come for me, have them sent here immediately," he instructed, and then devoted him-

It burns my heart I must depart, self to a perusal of the rather solled

And not aveng-ed; be.""

inky pages of the Rhodes House

He drew a deep breath, realiz-register.

•

ing his new responsibility for the For the moment he was Inter- first time. "We shan't let her goested only in non-who had come to unavenged, shall we, Cap'n?". board here since: June 2, the date of Bally Graves' murder in New "When he entered the dining York. The first name he encount room a few minutes after 12, ered after that dato, was Herbert Dundee found it crowded with S, Magnus, who registered on Jane "moalers," among them- a half-6; from Philadelphia. That was no

This organisation, which hald its first open show in Bloomsbury recently, and in which there were 260 entries, has as its president Baroness Burton, the pioneer breeder who ingin in Inverness shire pearly 40 years ago.

"They are everybody'a dog be- cause they are good-tempered, sociable and very faithful," whe said to a Press representative. "I cannot breed them fast enough."

The Prince's Favourite,

The sudden rise to fame of these terriera dutes from the de- quisition of a Cairn from the Baroness by the Prince of Wales a few years ago. At present the Prince has three, Cora, Hamish and Jaggers, and he intends to be- come a breeder,'

One of Cara's puppies was given to Princess Elizabeth, and may be seen playing with her in the gar den behind 145, Piccadilly.

Princias Arthur of Connaught, Princess Mary, and Lady Maud Carnegie have, on the Prince's nd- : Vice,, also acquired Cairns.

Cora, the Prince of Wales's favourite, will not go to anyone but her, Royal master. She sleeps in his bedroom, and sits on the seat beside him in his car,

The Prince bought a special portable folding kennel for her puppies last summer, so that he 'could take them to. Sunningdale

for the week-ends..

All the Prince's Cairns regular- ly attend a West-end dog parlour for shampooing and trimming.

more, however, than Dundee al- ready knew, for Magnus had wil lingly volunteered the information.

Philadelphia was only two hours from New York, and Now York only 19 hours from Hamilton, Dundee reflected. Certainly n check-up on Herbert S. Magnus' past and upon his moveménta since June 2 was indicated, but until he had a de- scription of Dan Griffin there was no sense in jumping to conclusions, in suspecting everyone helter- skelter

As if drawn by a magnot, the young detective's eyes returned to la demure Uttle signature preceding the date of June 1. Norma Eliza beth Palge. Styles called her

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And then his eyes, making com- parisons so wholly favourable to Norma Paige's handwriting, as they ran down the remainder of the col umn, widened with surprise, then slowly narrowed to gleaming

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