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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933.

THE UNKNOWN BLONDE BY LAURA LOU

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Un stormy November evening DAVID HANNISTER meets pesity blond wirt and offer her a lift to the cab in which he riding, iter handbag opens and he sees revolver inalde,

Next morning Bannister read that TRACY in his appartment Police are searching for an "unknown blonds, whe visited King the

KING, orthwira lender, has been found dead

night before. Bannlater, remembering the wir in the taxicab, le puzzled.

lo lees her again that morning. The giri!

-wear she knows nothing of the murder.

multor of the Tremont Font, and arranges to

and learna, she has disappeared."

It the hotel, tells itanniter about the violent arre King had recently with MELVINA Etent below King's. Hannister takes CAT I found in Xing's room,

HOLLISTER, spinster, who Hires is the spart downtown, puit from his pocket the object

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ing Blonde." There was nothing new beneath that headline either. A description of the girl wanted in connection with the King raur". der, so the account rend, had been) such details as the bridal bouquet agreeable neighbour but if she was or Cunningham could tell him what thorities throughout nearby states, broadcast to city, and county au- or the sprig of orange blossoms anne enough to manage business he wanted to know.. pinned in the young woman's affairs, as Mrs. Kennebec had ad-

Her apprehension could be only a coiffure. In the self-conscious mitted she did, she wasn't so crazy street. Shop windows were alwas not the slightest clue of her The car turned into a wider matter of hours now. Still-there there was written, as plainly as cause of a ровев

both the man and woman that she would commit murdor bo-ready lighted and made the sky whereabouts. though It had been lettored, "I am Furthermore, Rajah was thoroughed with the turn of that corner. minded himself, and thought that

dead canary bird. aoom darker. Night had descend- the bride," and "I am the bridely alive. If Miss Hollister wanted This was down town Tremont the hollow feeling that came over "She's a slick one," Bannister re- groom."

vengeance for her precious bird's thoroughfare on tells him her name is JULIET FRANCE a picture. A curious thing to find natural to kill the cat

Yes, an old-fashioned wedding demise why wouldn't it be more several small dress shops; & fur- must be due to going without

which ranged She bege Bannister to help her and he sets with the golf clubs and cocktail

7 niture store; a chain grocery store

his lunch. Ha toes to see his old frland, JIM PAXTON, shaker and stack of "bluca" songs reasoned, the story might have its ed green; a second-rate hotel and night so he climbed the stairs. On the other hand, Bannister with a red front and another paint building. The elevator was not in He turned into the Evening Post work on the King murder case for the Post in the bedroom of the dead orches importance. It helped to plece to a huge vacant building. Ahead Two flights. His breath was com Later he returns to the hotel to a Jullestra leader. Bannister studied the gether the background of Tracy brighter lights and large electric ing in deep puffs when he reached Bannister goes to see the room in which faces in the photograph. Neither, King's life during the past few signs indicatod mora prosperous the top. After all, he certainly King died, and Ands an object which he put no far as he could see, resembled days, Practical detectives, he concerns." In la pocket. KA. KENNEDEC, who Tracy King.

khow, always tried to do that.

wasn't as young as he had been Bannister rodo two more blocks, He did not know why he had put Thoy considered overy detall, nl- then left the car. The newsboy on erected to keep bothersome vis- the photograph in his pocket ex-most as though they were fingering the nearest corner

He pushed through the gato cept that he wanted to study it pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, then unintelligible cries from which the The place was half in darkness, shoutingitors from the editorial department. further and Link's coming had pro-went to work, fitting the details word "murder" could be dla lighted only by two law-hung, vented that. He looked at the bot-together. Bannister folt rather tinguished. Bannister bought tom of the card and read, "Swann proud of himself. Ho had some Post and walked on.

green-shaded lamps. For a moment Studio," In flowing gilt script. Be thing with which he could go to

he thought there was no one there. low in smaller letters was the name Captain McNeal

The black type across the first Then he made out two figures- of a town he had never heard of,"fleie's a tip I picked up that may "Seurlach Donles King Murder." fountain in the corner and, at a now and say. page of the newspaper declared, man bending over the drinking located in another state.

be worth looking into-" A wedding pleturo made 30 years ago by the photographic on the other hand, wasn't worth ing his face so that it could not Gainey!

There was a photograph of a man desk, crouching awkwardly behind The photograph in his pocket, walking beside a policeman, shield-the open pages of a newspaper artist of the Swann studio. Why mentioning. He'd keep that to be seen. had Tracy King kept such a pic-¡ himself.

That, no doubt, was Scur- It must have been taken 25 or

Bannister felt a rush of jubliance turo?

Inch. There was a photograph ef, as he crossed the floor. "Hi there, 30 years before. The woman's looked at the two faces. Then hohim when another thaught. inter- Denise Lang and a larger one of ent?"

For several moments Bannister Neal and the tip he had to offer pictures of Carlotta Seurlach and going out to have something to Bannister was thinking of Mc-a letter attd, grouped below, were Gainey!" he called. "How about dress was white, rather elaborate gave it up. dress with ruffled skirt reaching to the floor and lace about the modest, nothing in that old photograph to Nent that had sent Bannister walk-up a good part of the page but at from the table to the floor, varied;

was certainly rupted. It had been a tip for Me Tracy King. The photographs took ly cut neck. A style of dress worn, give him any information about ing down town that morning, the the left in two column measure, the angle of his felt hat. "Sults Bannister thought, in the early, whatever. He slipped the picture tell the detective about the girl in lof Herman Scuriach's arrest and his me." he said without change of ex-

King's murder. Nothing plaguey question whether or not to set in large type, was an account 1900's. In her arm she held a back into his pocket and thought the Inuquet of roses. She was a pretty that, as an amateur detective, he wryly. Well, she had been a slick

taxicab. Bannister woman, young looking.

smiled denial of the crime.

pression. "Where'd you want to was probably the world's worst.

KQ?” The man beside her was older.

ong and he had fallen completely He appeared rather formidable in

At the top of the column were away they found a tablo for two. In a small restaurant two blocks for her gulle! He had fallen so the his black suit which must have Hollister's quarrel

Still he had the story of Melvins completely that, looking about Gainey," Bannister read hastily Gainey, who had had little to say

words, "By J. Randolph 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

with King. Tracy King's rooms an hour or so as he walked. There was nothing 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 Scurlnch was

during the walk to the restaurant, judgment, was badly in need of self considered it important. Pro-jshe lost there. trimming.. Bannister would have bably Mrs. Kennebec had exagger- dispensed with the heavy mustache,nted the whole thing, as women are didn't know every word she has years and that they lived at an a plasterer by trade, that he and What nonsensol As though he 'Carlotta had been married for twe likely to do who have little to spoken was falsel

address on Waverly Ave.

CHAPTER XI

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 altting down, the woman standing, with one hand resting on his shoulder.

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Tracy

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It was, beyond all doubt, a wed-occupy their time except gossip. ling picture. No need to take in Melvinn Hollister might be a dis-nlater berated himself, "I suppose "And if you'd found it," Ban- you'd have kept it for her." Well, there was no note there, Them never had been such a note.

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The car jolted to a halt to let a passenger off. Bannistor noticed that they were on a street lined with low, rather dingy looking! shops. In five 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 i he had not eaten since morning. How long ago that seemed!

"' nye to call Aunt Kate," he told half, "Better do it first thing. I'll tell her not to expect me for dinner."

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 absence Maybe Paxton would be there. He felt the Intense necessity of "chin- ning over" the day's events. He was still behind on many of the de- tails of Trucy King's death and wanted to ask questions. Gainey

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The younger man shifted his leka

"I went out to see that Scurlach dame after you left," he confided. "Did you get a story from hor?" "I'll say I did!" The reporter's face was suddenly animated. "And

read, "Search Continues for Miss-¡

In another column Bannister what a story,"

(To Be Continued)

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