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CHAPTER XXVIII The securing of the paaskey from

"But of actual evidence against Mrs: Rhodes was an act of cour tesy rather than of necessity, for him I have. none," Dundee remind- ed himself ruefully, "unicas · Drin Bonnie Dundre

borrowed Griffin's description happens to fit BRANCHES - Basdburmaeln. Strawn's very complete collection of If it does, then we can add motive skeleton keys before the detective to opportunity-" He broke off to chief had departed for Belton, Mo..Raten, then hastily scrambled out of on the trail of Dan Griffin.

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In, asking for the keys Dundee hnd "safd to Strawn: "I want to make another search for that money--and for other things, - as. well."

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entrusted his stolen money to his 1924. Profession, bookkeeper. Are wife, that she and her mother be 34, Weight about 170, height 5 feet Bateria emme panley and "fled with the inches. Dark-brown hair, grey Bombay money just before the theft became eyes, red moustache. Wears glasses. (Temporarily Los Angila known at the bank 7 Griffin, accord-Family in regular correspondence ing to the Belton chief of police, with him. Father, questioned, has to

Calcite risked arrest to return to his house read newspaper account of Ho- Changchan NARUTA with the poller on the trail. Hearth murder and is worried lest paires (Delay) News AR would scarcely have done that for son involved. If so, wants to go to: any other reason than to get his him.... Get all that, Dundee ?" stelen money..

"Every word,” Dundee assured "But he found that his wife and the man who was now technically mother-in-law had flown, in the nick in chargé of the case, “Please Wire of time. If he found that his money the Riverside chief of police our was gone, too, can't you see him thanks and tell him Magnus is not searching for them" for five years in the least involved, and that there with hatred and revenge in hid is no.necesssity of his father's mak- heart? Yes, it most decidedlying the trip, that our Inquiry was seems to me that what Dan Griffin merdy routine. Anything new on was after was that $10,000. If Mrs. |Sevier, Sergeant?" Hogarth did have the money it "Half a dozen false leads," Ser-BFECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN. must have been a sore burden to geant Turner replied. "You know TIAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF her. She could not return it to the how it is when you set the news- bank without laying herself and papers and the publie on a man's her daughter open to arrest, and trail. Any number of helpful citi-red Capital she could not use a penny of it)zens think they have seen him, all Reserva Funda with a clear conscience--and the way from here to Chicago, and firmly believe in Mra. Hogarth's] from here to Cleveland.” own honesty. But she may have "Has the motorist who turned felt justified in willing it to ajhis lights on the running màn in favourite fellow-boarder. Her the alley come forward yet?" daughter probably felt the same "Not a peep out of him. Looks way about the money as did old Mrs. to me like them lights musta been Hogarth-regarded it with feurin signal," the sergeant growled, and loathing. That would certainly | then, added, “though I guck my account for the fact that Mrs, Ho-opinion' ain't asked for." garth never made a will in her Back on the second. Abor and daughter's, favour,"

ready to resume his unpleasant Every description of Banking busine

uty of snooping in his fellow-rated. was borders' rooms, Dundge was about special faciliting for Home Exchange And now Ronnie Dundee going to make a serious 'effort to para by Bört. Majtnin' door when *** to find that much-discussed "hidden ja sudden thought made him pause. hoard." He realized, fully, as well He had become se enamoured of his as, the scuptical Strawn, that the lunch that the Hogarth murder chances were about 50 to one had been a direct outcome of the against its being concealed in this Sally Graves murder, and that Dán hause, but in the profession he had Griffin must eventually answer for chosen not even such a long chance both, that he had almost overlooked as that could be overlvakeď And possibility which the thorough- as Dundee had told himself a short yoling Strawn would undoubtedly time before, Henry Dowd had eer-have pointed out to him. tainly invited his earnest consid-) It was certain now that Bert eration.

Magnus was not Dan Griffin, for In The room was singularly bare of February, 1924, Dun Crifin bad evidences of Dowd's occupancy, been a clerk in the First National With the exception of a cheap black Bank of Belton, Mo. And on June comb and a pair of cheap new mill-2, 1922, Dan Griin had certainly colocales Tary brushed on the chiffonter, and been a resident of Belton, since he all two magazines devoted to adventure had married Sally Harkness on that stories which lay on a small bed-date. But-What if the two mur side table, there was nothing inders had not been committed by sight to indicate that the room was the same man, after all? What if ventei.

Dan Grifa Bad found what he was Mindful of his promise to Mrs. looking for in his wife's apartment, Rhodes to leave everything as he und had had no reason to journey found it, Dundee turned, rapidly to Hamilton to kill and rob his Fixed Deposite at fatos that AF DE RECHT through the meagre piles of gar-mother-in-law? Certainly this pos- strong ments in the chiffonier. On shirts, sibility existed, and was soft collars and underwear, all enough so that every inmate of the rather badly worn, he found the Rhodes use on the night of Sal- faundry mark, "H. D." and when urday, June 29, was still open to he used one of his skeleton keys to suspicion, since greed is the com-tically empty; but the young detec- Commercial and Travellers' Lot-

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unlock the closet he found the same monest of all murder motives. initials on un imitation leather

every inch of space before he aban-ters: of Credit, Travellers' Cheques suitcase, which was empty. But his "Even so, Bert Magnus has an doned his search for the stolen Bills of Exchange and Cable suspicion that Henry. Dowd-orfalibi," Dundee argued with himself money. Scattered upon the desk Transfers bought and sold. Cur- whatever his real name was-had against his distaste for searching | top were pages of the manuscript; rent accounts and Savings Bank something to conceal was confirmed the room of a man he both liked and "More To Be Pitied," the scenario accounts "opened and Fixed De by the fact that clothiers' labels pitied. "Four people heard him for which the gullible amateur him- poslts in local and foreign currøn- had been ripped from the topcoat typing in his room at the very time self was more to be pitied than cen-cies taken at rates that may be ma- and the coat to Dowd's "other suit," Mrs. Hogarth was being murdered sured; a stack of cheap yellow copy certained on application to the which were neatly disposed on and robbed. But there still re- paper, and three letters. The return Bank hangers in the closet.

mains two very faint possibilities: addresses told Dundee that Bert's We are also able to offer our But there was nothing else-not first, that he had an accomplice typ- correspondents were his father, his Customers the services of the of the International even a scrap of paper bearing aing in his room while he himself sister and his Philadelphia land- Branches sample of Dowd's handwriting. If slipped out of his window and did Indy, Mrs. Christine Starrett, A Banking Corporation in San Fran the man had received any letters the job; second,. that, knowing he romance there, possibly? since his arrival in Hamilton he had an Iron-clad alibi for himself, Memoranda and notes on the see-cisco, Spain and the Philippins Islands, and also of The National was carrying them or had destroyed he could take a chance on acting as naria also afforded several speci-City Bank of New York (France) them. Satished upon this point, an accomplice for comcone else, in mens af Bert's rather cramped B., in Paris and Nice. Dundee entered the closet and the capacity of receiver of stolen handwriting-the awkward script. pressed upon the wide board to goods. Which Is tommyrot and 1 of a man who had been-forced to. which Cora Barker had called Lien- know it, but here goca!" And he change from right hand to left: tenant Strawn's attention. It yield used Mrs. Rhodes' passkey to unlock Out of curiosity, Dundee compared the left-handed writing with; the ed easily, with only a faint whining Bert's door.

The big-roll-top desk, the chif- only available sample of Bert'e of the naily at the top, Yes, it made: a wide enough hole to permit a fonier and. the clothes closet were right-handed script-the signature Elim mun's entry into Mrs. Ho-all unlocked, Dundeo turned his on the flyleaf of the textbook on "garth's closet.

attention first to the closet, Bert's scenario writing which" he`-had Emil Sevier had contrived that clothes were very good but not ex-briefly examined on his visit to illegal entry into Mrs. Hogarth's pensive, and the clothiers labels Magnus room the day before. room, but he had kindly left it were intact. Indeed, a well-worn The two samples matched as well authorised. Capital available to the next tenant of his winter overcoat still bore the label as could be expected.

Fal4-Up Fond room! Was it not entirely possible of a Riverside, California, haber- The young detective was about to Be Fand BRANCHKI 1- that Henry Dowd, whether or not dashery. A pocket of the coat held leave the room, glad to be finished he was Dan Griffin, had discovered pair of solled brown leather with that part of his ugly duty, that ready-made passage and had gloves, but Dundee's commonsense when his eyes caught sight of a LONDON, BANKERS made use of it on the night of us not so submerged in suspicion small army trunk pushed far back Jiley's Bank, June 2972 1

that he could fail to realize that an beneath the desk, against the wall. Correspondente in all Pelast Henry Dowd had no alibi for the overcoat pocket was the most nat He stooped, dragged it forward, and | world. time of the murder, beyond his own ural place in the world for a pair opened it, for it was not locked. very description: wam statement that he was in bed in of winter gloves.

At what he saw he uttered a sharp safe: Dupont Bass) exclamation of surprise and then stal of from he grinned broadly, Ad

SEAN LOOK POONG

his own room. Alid, with that loose After satisfying himself that the board, between the two-closets, he closet afforded no hiding place for could have committed the murder a large sum of money, Dundee and robbery without having once turned to the desk. Its numerous

(To be Continued),

F. MCD, COURTNEY,

Hongkong, 2nd July, 1929,

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