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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933.

UNKNOWN BLONDE

BLONDE BY LAURA LOU

Next morning Bannkter read that TRACT MING, arvien habe cares for an "unknown blonde," who visited King the

arebestra leader, been found

Prance and learns she has diasppeared.

HOLLISTER, spinster, he lives in the apart -downtown, pufle from his pocket the object

be found in King's room.

CHAPTER XI

groom."

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BROOKMAN

| log, Blonde," "Thero was nothing new beneath that headling either. A description of the girl wanted In connection with the King mur- der, so the account roid, had boon broadcast to city and county au [such dofails as the bridal bouquet | agreeable neighbour but if she wasfor Cunningham could tell him what thorities throughout nearby states. On a sermy November ermine DAVID or the sprig of orange blossoms sano enough to manage business he wanted to know.

Her apprehension' could be only a DANNISTER mata a pretty blond girl and pinned in the young woman's affairs, as Mrs. Kennebec had ad- effers her life in the cab in which he colfuro. In the

The car turned into a wider matter of hours now. Still-thero Piling. Her handbag opend and he avec n

self-conscious mitted she did, she wasn't so crazy street. Shop windows were al was not the slightest clue of hor revolver inside.

poses of both the man and woman that she would commit murdor be- rendy lighted and made the sky

whereabouts, there was writion, as plainly as cause of a dead canary bird. seem darker. Night had descend "She's a slick one," Bannister re- though it had been lettered. "I am Furthermore, Rajah was thoroughed with the turn of that corner, minded himself, and thought that the bride." and "I am the bridely alive. If Miss Hollister wanted This was down town Tremont the hellow feeling that enmo over night before. Bannister, remembering the git in the taxiend, is pœnaled.

vengoance for her precious bird's thoroughfare on which He sees her again the morning The air!

ranged him must be duo to going without Yes, an old-fashioned wedding demise why wouldn't it be more several small dress shops; a fur- his lunch. tells him her name is JULIET FRANCE and Awer she knows nothing of the murder picture. A curious thing to find natural to kill the cat

? niture store; a chain grocery store She begs Bannister to help her and he sarees with the golf clubs and cocktail On the other hand, Bannister with a red front and another paint building. The elevator was not in Ho turned into the Evening Post He goes to sex his old friend, JIM PAXTON, shaker and stack of "blues songs reasoned, the story might have its ed green; a second-rate hotel and sight so he climbed the stairs, editor of the Tremont Post, and arranges to work on the king murder case for the Post. In the bedroom of the dead orches-importance. It helped to piece to a huge vacant building. Ahead Two flights. His breath was com Later he returns to the hotel to see Jules tra leader. Bannister studied the gether the background of Tracy brighter lights and large electric Ing in deep puffs when he reached Bannister kore to see the room in which faces in the photograph. Neither, King's Ilfe during the past few signs indicated more prosperous the top.. After all, he certainly King died, and Anda an object which be pule so far as he could see, resembled days. Practical in his pocket. MIS, KENNEDEC, where Tracy King.

detectives, he concerns. in the hotel, tella Bannister about the violent

know, always tried to do that.

i wasn't as young as he had been. Bannister rodo two more blocks, quarrel King had recently with MELVINA He did not know why he had put They considered every detall, al- then left the car. The newsboy on erected to keep bothersome vis- He pushed through the gate the photograph in his pocket ex-most as though they were fingering the nearest comer was shouting Itorn from the caftorial department. Jent below Kinks. Dannister taken a

cept that he wanted to study it pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, then unintelligible cries from which the The place was half in darkness, further and Link's coming had pro- went to work, fitting the details wort "murder" could be vented that. He looked at the bot- together. Bannister felt mther tinguished. Bannister bought a green-shinded lampe. For a moment dia-lighted only by two low-hung, tom of the card and read, "Swann proud of himself. He had some- Post and walked on.

he thought there was no one there. Studio," in flowing gilt script. Be thing with which he could go to

The black type across the first Then he made out two Ogures-a low in smaller letters was the name Captain McNeal now and say, page of the of a town he had never heard of, "Here's a tip I picked up that may "Scuriach Denies King Murder." fountain in the corner and, at a newspaper declared, man bending over the drinking located in another state.

be worth looking Into-"

There was a photograph of a man desk, crouching awkwardly behind A wedding picture made 30 The photograph In his pocket, walking beside a policeman, shield the open pages of a newspaper→→ years ago by the photographic on the other hand, wasn't worth ing his face so that it could not Gaincy 1 artist of the Swann studio. Why mentioning. He'd keep that to be seen. That, no doubt, was Scur-

Bannister felt a rush of jubilanco had Tracy King kept such a pic-himself.

There was a photograph of as he crossed the floor. "ill there, tura? It must have been taken 25, or

Bannister was thinking of Me-a letter and, grouped below, were Gainey!" he called. "How about 30 years before. The woman's looked at the two faces. Then he him whan another thought Inter- Deniso. Lang and a larger one of ent?"

For several moments Bannister Neal and the tip he had to offer pictures of Carlotta Scurlach and going out to have something to dress was white, rather elaborate dress with ruffled skirt reaching to nothing in that old photograph to Neal that had sent Bannister walk-up a good part of the pago but at from the table to the floor, varied gave it up. There was certainly rupted. It had been a tip for Me Tracy King. The photographs took the floor and lace about the modest-give him any Information about ing down town that morning, the the left in two column measure, the angle of his felt hat. "Suits The younger man shifted his loga A style of dress worn, Tracy King's murder. Nothing plaguey question whether or not to set in large type, was an account me," he said without change of ex- Bannister thought, in the early whatever. He slipped the picture tell the detective about the girl in of Herman Seurlach's arrest and his presalen. "Where'd you want to 1900's. in her arm she held back into his pocket and thought the bouquet of rosEA, She was a pretty that, as an amateur detective, he wryly. Well, she had been a slicki

taxicab. Bannister amiled denial of the

crimo. woman, young looking.

was probably the world's worst, one and he had falleh completely The man beside her was older.

In a small restaurant two blocks At the top of the column word He appeared rather formidable in his binck suit which must have Hollister's

Stil he had the story of Melvinn completely that, looking about Gainey."

for her guile! He had fallen so the words, "By J. Randolph Away they found table for two. Bannister read hastily Gainey, who had had little to any quarrel with been the utmost in elegance for its Apparently the police had not heard earlier, he had actually searched that was new to him in the story

King. Tracy King's rooms an hour or so na he walked. There was nothing during the walk to the restaurant,

leaned forward. day. His dark hair, in Bannister's of that. Not that Bannister him for the memorandum she had said except the facts that Scurlock was Judgment, was badly in need of self considered it important. Pro-sho lost there. trimming. Bannister would have bably Mrs. Kennebec had exagger-

a pinsterer by trade, that he and ispensed with the heavy mustache,nted the whole thing, as women are didn't know every word she had years and that they lived at an What nonsense! As though Carlotta had been married for two kely to do who have little to spoken was false!

address on Waverly Ave.

One side of the cardboard was gray and discoloured. Bannister turned it over and studied the

photograph on the other side. It was a photograph of a man and a woman--the man sitting down, the woman standing, with one hand resting on his shoulder,

ly eut neck.

too.

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It was beyond all doubt, a wed-occupy their time except gossip. ding picture. No need to take in Melving Hollister might be a dis-nister berated himself, "I supporo

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"And if you'd found it," Ban-

you'd have kept it for her." Well, there was no note there. There never had been such a note.

The car jolted to a halt to let a passenger off.. Bannister noticed that they were, on a street lined with low, rather dingy looking shops. In Avo minutes more they would reach the business district. The sky was getting dark now. It must be well after five o'clock.

He glanced at his watch. Right -it was almost 5:30. For the first! time Bannister remembered that ho had not eaten since morning. How long ago that seemed!

"I'll have to call Aunt Kate," he told himself. "Better do it first thing,

me fall toll her not to expect |

Now that he had gotten into this thing he hadn't the faintest notion of stopping. He would go first to the Evening Post office to find out what had happened in his absenco Maybe Paxton would be there. He felt the intense necessity of "chin- ning over the day's events. Ha! waa still behind on many of the do talls of Tracy King's death and wanted to ask questions. Gainey

luch.

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In another column Bannister

read, "Search Continues for Miss-

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dame after you left," he confided.

"I went out to seo that Seurlach

"Did you get a story from hor?" "I'll say I did?" The reporter's 'face was suddenly animated." "And

what a story."

(To Be Continued)

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