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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1933.

THE UNKNOWN BLONDE

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

offers her a lits in the cab in which he ha

reviver Inalde,

(All Rights Reserved).

BY LAURA LOUN

BROOKMAN

"Suppose she wore something ciso?"

"Id know her anyway," tho-ho- tel clork declared emphatically. “Id. know. her the minute I saw her!"

There seemed to be so much in the open. Bannister dropped the ab "They're at the rear."

Bannister explored the room for HANNISTER the pretty blond wir and several of them pulled out and later Link, the hotel clerk, papers on the desk. "If it was the little to be gained thers, he thought,

On a stormy November evening DAVID room; a bed; a chest of drawers Ject inside his pocket. An instant

Bannister was poking about the another 10 minutes. There was. riding. Jer handbag opana and he spilling their contenta; two chairs, peared in the bedroom doorway.

one of white leather of modernis- Sorry to be gone so long," he girl who shot him," he said sud- but he wanted to fix certain de Nest morning Bannister reads that TACY tic design; a night table holding & apologized. "I thought It would denly, "how do you figure that she tails in his mind. Then he said, KING, orchestra lender, has been found dead

"Well, I guess I'm through here." In his apartment Police are searching for an, carafe and empty glass; a ward-only be a moment but there are so got away?" "unknown blond," who visited King the suht robe trunk tilted on and a small many things" He did not com- "There's a stairway," Link ex- They rode down to the first floor. before, Bangkler, remembering the giri in radio. Golf clubs sprawled in one plate the sentence. The place is plained. It's just back of the clo-Bannister thanked the clerk and the taxicab, le puisled.

fle see her again that morning. The air corner. There was a stack of music upset," he went on. "Nothing goca vator. She could have gone down took his leave. But he was less wear the know nothing of the murder on the radiator and a pile of mag; right: It's been that way since the stairway and into the laundry. than half way across the lobby Kho begu funnlater to help her and he zines on the floor. There seemed last night."

Then she could have crossed the when a voice stopped him, "I can imagine," Bannister sald | hall to the tradesmen's entrance." He go to are his old friend, JIM TAXTON, to be ever so many smaller articles editor of the Tremont l'oil, and arranges to il the room, too-brushes and dryly. "Mind showing me just how work on the King murder case for the Fort, toilet articles on top of the chest King was lying when you found "And gone out the rear way" Later he returns to the hotel to a Juliet France and learns she has disappeared.

Bannister to see the room in which King died. As he stands in the doorway something lande on his back.

tells him her name la, JULIET FRANDE and

agters.

CHAPTER IX

him?"

"You saw her, did you?"

girl,"

only

of drawers; a large mirror above

Bannister nodded solemnly. "Oh, I it; a photograph in a silver_frame

The clerk agreed willingly but see!" showing a pretty girl smiling his description-even the demon- "It must have been the Denise Lang; a cocktail shaker on the trunk; a sweater and suit of stration he attempted was not Link insisted. "She was the clothes hanging across the back of very clear. Bannister decided that one who came up here." one of the chairs. On the wall he would have to have a look at Bannister noted a large framed the police photographs.

Suddenly the cat on the window. photograph of Tracy King himself.

which ledge jumped down. Link saw it There were some othora Bannister assumed to be theatri-and sald. "Oh, there's Rajah! teal acquaintances. One he recog- don't know what's to become of nized as a Broadway star. Most him! Mr. King thought the world A cat! It must be a cat. Ban-of these photographs had inscrip-of that eat. Used to bring people here especially to see him. I told nister twisted about, reaching for tions written across one corner.

The pain in his inck was sharp and knife-like. Bannister's face twisted in agony but he did not cry out, it was his assailant that became vocal with a sharp, angry, "Mo-row!" and then repeated again, "Me-row! me-row["

valuable. What's to become of it now I'm sure I don't know!"

"How about King's relatives?"

the animal. The ent evidently did Yes, the place was certainly the mald to see that Rajah got his not like such handling and object-chaotic. And yet there was noth-incat this morning. Mr. King al- ed. Its claws dug deeper, as it Ing with what Bannister had ways had it sent in regularly. It's tried to maintain ita precarious learned about Tracy King. A vain valuable cat, you know. Very position. At last Bannister had the man, no doubt. Extravagant or he aninaal in a firm grip; pulled it would not have been living at the about in front of him.

Shelby Arma. A young man who But was it a cat? Bannister had liked to give parties, Judging from never seen such a creature. For the tall glasses and bottles Bannis- moment he thought it was niter had seen in the living room. monkey. No, it guldn't be. It was A young man, above all, who liked drawing away from him, issuing to have a good time and generally

that were unmis-succeeded, hlaxing noises takably unfriendly, unmistakably feline.

•

The door of the clothes closet All this while Bannister had was ajar. Bannister drew it back. been kneeling. Now he not the then whistled softly to himself. animal on the floor, got to his feet, Tracy King must certainly have had

"Me-row!" cried the cat. and

a weakness for clothes! itows of backed away.

suits hung there-two dozen

Bannister asked. "Haven't they been notified?"

"If they have nobody has tol me about it," the clerk said, father aggrieved. "I suppose someone will have to take care of all these things- *

像

With a wave of his hand he in- dleated the personal possessions of the dead orchestra leader. "Some- body will have to attend to all thle," at he anid. "Until there are nome sort

returned to the

The fur over its eyes and nose least. They were in shades rang of orders everything will be left and covering its chin was very ing from palo belge to black. A here just as it is now." dark-almost bleck-with the de- plushy brown overcont stood out There was, a small bath lending finite outline of a mask. From bulkily and beside it was a tweed off the bedroom. Bannister in- out this mask bright blue

eyes top coat. There were sweaters spected it, then gazed with a sinister leer. The cars and leather jackets and even a slik-living room. were dark, too, and the feet and lined evening capt. A white mess He crossed to the windows and tail. The rest of the body was jacket and a tail coat hung side by loolted down, "No fire escapes brown, shading from rich cafe-au- side. On the floor were shoes around here, are there?" he asked, Init on the back to creamy ivory more than a dozen pair--and on tho on the chest.

shelf above Bannister could several hats.

A cat? Yes. Bannister knew what it was now,

ឥណ្ឌា

Ile closed the door with a mur

The masked face made it look rather like a monkey or a raccoon but it was a cit allmur, half of disgust. It was just right. A Siamese cat, a member of he that cat family known as "royal" living room that the object

floor caught his eye. Bannister

turned to go back to the the

because for centuries they were stooped quickly and picked it up. pets of Blamese royalty,

He was studying it

The cat withdrew still farther, circled uncertainly and then leaped when he heard

agilely to a window ledge. There

it sat, steadily regarding Bannis

ter.

The man

rubbed his bruised!

shoulders. All right," he said, I "we'll call it a truce-so long as you don't try that trick again! Lord, what clawat Keep your dis-! tance and I'll keep mine,'

There were two wings in the bedroom. Ono on the south and ono on the west. Banulster stepped to the nearest of them and looked- out. Nothing below but a smooth plot of grass in the court. Be- yond was the rear wing of the building, jutting out, just as did this central wing. Certainly there was no access to that window from above or below.

He moved to the other window. A two-storey cottage, while with n green roof, stood bolow behind a boxwood hedge. It was a neat cottage, rather old-fashioned. Shades were drawn at the windows, Bannister knew the place. It be- longed to old Judge Price, retired now and living In Florida.

But there was nothing to be seen from that window. to explain the brownish stain on the carpet. That, of course, must be where they had found Tracy King'a body,

Bannlater turned, giving bli at- tention once more to the Interior of the bedroom. It must have been rather untidy even before the de- tectives had made their scavel.

#1 moment Inter the outor door

"Yes, and I'd know her any where again. Couldn't miss that green outfit."

called.

It was a woman's voice. "Just a minute, young man!" it "Just a minute?”

Bannister turned. He faced a ahort woman in a blue and gray sweater sult, hurrying toward him. quite The woman's cheeks word. pink: her hair

slightly faded titian, and her voice was de- termined.

* ĐƯỢC

"I want to see you!" the woman declared.

(To Be Continued)

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