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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY JANUARY 12, 1934.

THE UNKNOWN BLONDE BY LAURA LOU GOODBYE TO ALL THAT

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(Continued from Page 6.) knowledge. His concern is to apply

CHAPTER XLI

son for anyone to harm his sister. Į They'd have to be sure who it was scientific method to discover the mental ability, the, general intelli- Then you haven't any. idea who He seamed completely broken who fired the bullet" Bannister abandoned his dis- the other person could have been?" | up--" -

The girl sighed. "I suppore. sogance, of the boy or girl' under ex-

amination. Saa What is the brother like? the she said.. +covery almost as soon as he had

Sho shook her head. "No. I made it. Even if he were right haven't.”

girl asked, "Tell me more about about it, he didn't see how he could Bannister waited, hoping shohim." possibly roconcile his suppletons would go on. He wanted her story with the facts. The photograph, to be plausible, wanted to believe ho decided, had nothing to do with every word she said. And, Illeg Tracy King's murder and all the ically, it was because she did not time he had spent trying to And a defend herself that he said sud hidden meaning in it was simply denly. wasted. He gave his attention to what Juliet Franco was saying.

He does this by methods not un- "Whoever killed Tracy King was smart about it." Buonister assured like the physician's by finding out her. He managed to get into the how the subject reacts to standard Shelby Arms without being seen tests that have been applied to in-

Juliet France raised questioning numerable boys and girls.

"You're sure it was a man?”. eyes. she asked:

He tried to describo, Matthew Hollister. He told her what he had learned about the Hollister fortune

Parents who have before them and the frugal way in which the

the Important problem of deciding brother and sister had lived. Then he went on to the photograph - he "I'm not sure who it was. But on a child's career might inquire of the school authorities whether the "Listen, you're right about the had shown her, told how he had there are no women-" He stop- police. They let you come here found it on the floor of Tracy ped in confusion. There. Was a boy or girl, when compared with "I don't blaine you for not be but they've been watching you all King's bedroom and sent it away to woman-suspected of the murder. children of the same age, la (a) Having me," she went on, "because the time. They think-oh, it 800 if the figures could be identiJuliet France herself. And there much above the average in general some of the things I told you doesn't matter what they think! I fled. He showed har the letter with were others who had played parts intelligence: (b) a little above the weren't true." She was not look-want you to know I believe you. which the photograph had been re-in the mysterious drama. Molvina average; (c) average: (d) a little Hollister and the pretty, dark-eyed bolow the average, or (e) much ing at him now; her eyes were, I've known from the very first you turned. on the slender toe of her slipper, couldn't have anything to do with

"At first," he said, "I thought movie usher, Carlotta Scuriach. below average.

It may be for the beneft of the "I didn't go to Tracy King's apart this murder."

perhaps I ought to turn it over to What a world of difference there

between those the polico. But there wasn't any was

two! And race that all parents regard their ment that night to ask for a job. What I told you about losing a The girl said. "I'll never forget thing I could say. Just here's a Denisa Lang. Suddenly Bannister own "ducks" as "swan," but the 'memorandum there--that wasn't that you said that!"

picture I found. McNeal would remembered Daisy Connor, the question under consideration is so true, either. I wont there to get "It was because I was so sure laugh at met Thon I decided to house maid, and her story that important that an unbiased opinion

of it" Bannister went on, "that I keep it and see what I could do Denise had telephoned Parker Cole- is always desirable. 'some lotters-"

Lastly, parents can begin a little There was an instant's pauas decided to work on the case-to with it alone. Well, that's that! man twice on the evening of King's. and then she hurried on. The let-see what I could find out. Oh, it It's like everything else in this death. He thought of the hun-Investigation of their own by con- tere were some I had to have! 1 hasn't been much. I'll admit"

case. Looks important but it dred of women and girls who had sidering what is the boy's pre- give them to me "I was afraid that was the rea- doesn't lend anywhere." asked him to

alled the movie theatre each week dominant interest. (a) Is he in- and he refused. But they were son," Juliet interrupted.. "That's

to hear Tracy King sing, who had terested in books, and does he read there in the apartment. I know why I naked you to give it up. I've

He looked at Jullet France. She written him fan letters, sent him whenever he can; or (b) is he fond that." Suddenly the girl raised been so afraid something would was sitting forward in her chair, gifts and went at the news of his of social life, is his chief interest in persone; or (c) is his chief In- The police wouldn't be happen. And something did hap had been listening ongerly to every-death. her eyes.

terest in "things," experiments, lieve me," she said, "but it's true. peni Last night!"

thing he had said.

It tools, manual occupations. Those Suddenly Bannister was talking Don't you see what it means?

"How can you be sure where It Bannister said, "I suppose

the things which decido as he had wanted to talk for days, will icad ?" she asked.

could have been a woman." Her Don't you?"

Bannister sald, "I'm afraid "Yes, something happened last "Oh, I don't suppose I can but looked at the girl. "You've been whether he should go in for "black

night," he said. "The police can't it's beginning to look hopeless, thinking a lot about all this," he coat",or overalls. "The letters wore there," Juliet find any connection between Mel-The police aren't getting anywhere said. "What's your theory about? France Insisted, "but the police vina Hollister's death and Tracy and I don't believe they will." the murder?"

Sho The girl surprised him. didn't find them. That means King's. But I'm sure it's there if

said, straightening. The woman someone else was there after we only knew where to look."

He told her what he know of inst night was strangled with a loft. Someone else came to Tracy King's apartment. It must have Melving Hollister and her brother, silk scarf, wasn't she? And Tracy boon the person who killed him about Melvina's quarrel with Tracy King was killed with a gun. The Bannister said slowly, "You King after her canary's death. He police have never found the gun. mean someone else took the let told about his conversation with have they?"

Matthew a few days later when Matthew had said, "I think Mel- vina knows something she's keep ing to herself. Something that "Were they letters," Bannister happened that night." asked, "that would be of value to Bannister said, "When I re- minded him of that yesterday he anyone else"

The girl did not meet his gaze. I didn't seem to remember at all. "No," she said. "They were-ner-Just said there couldn't be any rea-

don't see."

tors 7"

The girl nodded. "They must have! Otherwise the police would have found them."

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"Oh, 1 don't know. I just thought of it. Are there window boxes at the Shelby Arma?"

"This is November," Bannister reminded here dryly." "If there wore any last summer I imagine they've been removed by this time."

Her voice came slowly. "If were trying to find out who killed Tracy King Ed look for that gun.

"The police have been looking for it!"

"They haven't looked in the right places. I'd hunt for it in the apartment where he was killed." The girl nodded. "I suppose so," Bannister raised his hands. she agreed. "There wouldn't be "They did that," he assured her, any window boxes now. Well then, "ng soon as they found out about I'd look somewhere else. May.. the murder. The whole apartment] be" was searched completely."

She was Interrupted by the ring-

"No." "Do they know what kind it was 7"

"Yea. A 32." He added the namo of the manufacturer.

"If they find it is there any way they can be suro It's the right "I'd look there anyhow," the girling of the door bell. Bannister suid. "The murderer would want said, "Excuse me," and went out Bannister said there was, ex- to get rid of it as soon as he could, into the hall. He opened the door plaining how ballistics experts wouldn't he? Yes, I'd look for it to face a 'man and woman. The identify the weapon from which in the apartment. There are lot of man was well dressed, rather heav-

ullet is shot.

places where you could hide a gun, ily built and dark. The woman IIe might have hidden it in a win- stood at one side and behind him. dow box."

It was the man who spoke.

gun?"

"Then if they found the gun," he girl asked slowly, "they'd know zho the murderer was, wouldn't her?":

"""Well, it would be a big help.

"A window box" exclaimed Ban. nister. What in the world made you suggest that?"

"Is Miss Jullet France' here?" he asked. "We'd like to see her." (To be Continued.)

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