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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934.

THE UNKNOWN BLONDE

CHAPTER XXXVII From his chair in the shadows Bannister at looking at Juliet Franco, She was sitting on a low footstool, drawn up near his aunt's chair, The tight from the fireplace fell on

her air and it gleamed as brightly us the flames. Her head was turned so that he could seo her face in pretio and the lovely line of her toront. She was listening to what the older woman was saying.

What sort of girl was she, Ban- nister asked himself. Hore in the Arclight she might be any pretty girl reared in surroundings of moderato luxury. An hour before, out in the snow storm./she had seemed little more than a child, He thought of the Arst time he had seen her a white-faced young woman with a revolver In her hand- bag. He remembered her behind prison bars, defiant and hostilo.

And all of these were Juliet Franoc. But that was impossiblel One of them must be the real Juliet and the others play-acting. Which was the real girl?

McNeal thought she was work ing for Mug Logan and his gang- aters. Bannister remembered what McNeal had said, "Just because she's got a pretty face don't let that fool you. Did you ever see a gunman's doll who wasn't pretty? The swellest dressed and best look- ing and most ladylike neting dame

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the living room heard his sharp ex-[dong_-with-n man's silk scarf, Į o'clock and went upstairs.. Ho saw. clamation. He went on speaking black and white. It was dropped as sister lying back in her chair but they could not hear his words on the floor beside her. She wasnd thought at first sno was sick. cicarly.

sitting in a chair facing the winnen hu realized

what had hap Almost immediately ho reap dow

ened and ran down to get the peared in the doorway, wearing bis "Who found hor?" Gaincy asked. „ork.". That's his story, anyhow.........”” · hat and coat. He said, "Don't wait "Her brother." dinner for me, Aunt Kite.

I've got to go down town."

Hia nunt was on her fect. "David!" she exclaimed. "What is it? What's happened?

"Somebody hurt out at the Shelby Arms," he told her. "I've got to go out there. Don't get excited It's nothing to worry about--"

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Did anyone in the building hear anything?"

"What time was that"? "Just before the call reached headquarters. A little after fin The woman who lives across o'clock. The brother claims b. the hall," McNeal fold them, "said "went_out for a walk about three she thought she heard -someone- o'clock. When he left; his siste talking to Miss Hollister about four was writing a letter. The desh o'clock. She didn't understand was open where she might have anything that was said or recon- been using it but there wasn't any | nize the other voice. Couldn't say And then he was gone. Ho had lotter in sight. Hollister clajma whether it was a man's or a wom- neglected to call a can but, tortu-ho came back a little after five in's. Aside from that, nobody nately, was able to hail one half way down the block. "Shelby Arma," he told the driver. **** in a hurry!"

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The snow had made the street treacherous but the taxi-driver took Bannister at his word. In minutes, after skidding perilously on two corners, they naited berore the door of the hotel.

Bannister thrust a bill in the driver's hand and ran up the steps of the hotel. In the lobby he on- countered Gainey and Fleming,

"We can't go up yet," they told him. "McNeil's there now and Doc Burris."

"Then it's true?" Bannister de {manded.

"Of course it's true."

The coroner's report stated that

I ever saw was with Big Boy Mi-Melvinn Hollister, aged 53, spinster, land-"

But perhaps McNeal's judgment about girls who were "awell look- Ing and Jady-like neting" wasn't to be relied upon. Bannister straightened. He asked, "Has any- body seen the ovening paper?"

"It's on the table," Kate Hewlett told him, "or maybe I left it in the dining room. 1. remember--”

The ringing of the telephone cut off her words. Bannister who was on his feet said, "I'll answer it."

had come to her death by means of violence some time between the hours of three and five o'clock that afternoon. Death had been caused by atrangulation.

But it was some time before Ban- nister and Gainey and the other reporters saw, that report. They waited in the hotel lobby until the clerk at the desk asked them to step into a smaller, adjoining room. It was almost an hour before Me- Noal came down stalra.

He went into the hall and picked They gathered around him, nsk-

up

the instrument. "Hello," heing questions.

salt, "David Bannister speaking,” "Yes, she was strangled," he told

A moment later the women in them. “We found

Baby Loroy has been obliged to have his finger prints taken as a precaution against kidnapping. He played with Maurice Chevalier in "A Bedtime Story."

what it

Was

Churchgoers on their way to the Christmas service in the pictursaque setting

of Davor;

Two, little, girls, too eager to wait until Father and Mother have completed the decorations of the Christmas tres. A happy picture from Home.

A view of Bethlehem from the church of the old Judean town. This year the ringing of the bells of Bethlehem was broadcast throughout the world,

Carol"afogars" were;ne numerous". In" Landon's Streats; this your'na svar they wore. The old Christmas custom does

not fade with the passage’of time.

heard anything."

"Is there a way to get into the apartment except the regular on- trance?" Bannister asked.

"There's a sorviče door but it was bolted,"

Anything missing from tho apartment?"

McNeal shook his head. “I don't think so," he said, "Wo had a hard time getting anything out of Hollister but he said the only money in the place would be in his sister's purso. We looked and there were a couple of fivé-dollar bills and some change. He told us she kept her jewellry in a caso. In her bureau – We found the case all right and Hollistor said it was all there some old-fashioned ringa and trinkets. One of the'pins had a good-sized diamond in it-or it looked to me like a diamond. Any- how none of the stuff had been touched, apparently."

"Any signs of struggle?". Gainey wanted to know.

Again MeNcul shook his head. "The room-aho was in the living room-looked just ns it did the other night when I was there. Nothing out of place. Whoever did it, either came in without her sec- ing him or else was someone she had no reason to suspect. He must have stepped up behind her."

"Are you sure she was killed in the chair where you found hor?” Bannister asked.

"No, I'm not sure of it but it looks reasonable. She was sitting fucing the window and away from the door. Anyone who had a key could have come in and slipped up behind her."

"But who also had a key ?"

"No one but her brother, so far as I've been able to find out."

Bannister thought of Matthew.| Hollister with his mild, spectacled blue eyes.

"How about that scarf you mentioned 7" Fleming asked. "Think you'll be able to trace it?"

"We're going to try."

"Where is it" Gainey asked.

"Con we see it?"

"Yes. It's upstairs."

"How about going up

now?"

there

"You can go," McNeal told them, "but you won't find anything more than I've told you." He hesitated. "If you'll wait a minute," he said, I'll go with you. I want to soe the manager first."

McNeal's "minute" lengthened into five and still he did not re- appear.

I'll bet the manager's plenty excited," Fleming volunteered. "Two murders in two weeks this place!"

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"Ho probably isn't any too planned about it," Gainey agreed. "I heard yesterday that five fam- illes have moved out of here late-, ly. There'll be more leaving now.” "And five tenants in these times mean money."

"Five tenants mean money in.) any times," Gainoy corrected him.

They saw McNeal then, coming toward them, and the reporters got to their feet. They rode to the second floor in the elevator and followed the detective captain down a corridor. An oflcer in uniform stood before a dovr ahead:~~Ho stopped aside for them to enter the apartment.

The living room, as McNenj had said, looked exactly as it had the night he and Bannister had paid the Hollisters a visit.. Ban- nister stood just inside the room, glancing around him, when an other door opened,

Matthew Hollister stood on the threshold. He seemed to recog- nizė McNeal ns the person In charge for he hurried forward. His voice rose hysterically. "I've got to have protection!" he cried. "I won't stay here,. I tell you. The police have got to protect mo!"

(To be Continued.)

CONTRACT BRIDGE.

RESULTS OF MATCHES IN THIRD ROUND

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The following are the results matches played in the third round of the Colony Open Contract Bridge Tournament:

J. F. Shea and P. Abesser beat Major. Fiold and M. Edge; Mro. J. L. Litton and Dr. K. W. Chaun beat W. L. Mackenzie and L.E. Stone; M. David and LA.. Tobins bent Mra Ho K and A. Zimmern; P.N. da Silva and H.A. Barros beat Mr IL. Odell and M.N. Rakusen; Major Lockner and Capt. Barry beat PV. Botelho and 'A.A. D'Azavedo; RE. Lindsell and Politi beat J.W. Franks and E.W. Hamilton; Mrs. Carter and Capt. Marshall bent J. Edgar and R. Ohi

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At Table No. 3 Silva and Barros v. Major Lockner and Capt Barry.

At Table No. 4 RE. Lindsell and M.E. Polli v. Mrs. Carter and Capt. Marshall,

· Consolation Tourney. Tho

rosult of the Consolation Tournament in as follows:-A. V. Baker and E. Zimmern beat L. Welli and LS. Komor; M.K. Lo and M.W Le boat Mr and

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