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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1934.

SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

CHAPTER ONE (Continued:} Tom Carsons, of the detective bureau, was killing time until thu mon from the service station would Arrive to

identification: make the He looked up as Mordon entered the room and nodded. Then he turned back to the tall, somewhat paunchy individual who sat on a wooden bench, his shoulders alightly stooped, his eyes nervously, flickering about the room. On a chair nearby sat a giri with eyta that ware dark, wary and watchful

Morden nwept. the girl with an ap prociative eye, waited until her glance rested upon his face, and smiled.

After a moment she returned the

smile,

man

Tom Catrons, looked over at the volce, and said in a weary "You're talking just the way they all of them talk. If I had a nickel for every guy who claimed he was going to break me for holding him, I wouldn't have to work. You say your address is 732 Maple avenue. Then, when we prove you don't live there, you say you're John Smith of Iliverview, and that you gave us a fake name and address because you

well, ho's Just being hold for of her.. ... How do I know he's questioning, that's sil. Thanks .......... going to buy his way out? Heut 1 wee uh huh all right- | Mow do I know this call is costing thanks."

mo a nickoi? If you want him her long enough to get a photographer over here you've got to bring some pressure to bear on Caraons and do it right now."

He hung up the telephone and looked at the man on the bench with

now-found respect. "Why the hell didn't you come clean!

the first pince?" he asked. "I couldn't afford to. I can't afford 1o get mixed into this, I can't afford to get any notoriety."

Carsona nodded.

"You should have come clean in the first place," he said. "You were only picked up on suspicion. Let's just check your identity. What's your address in Riverview?"

Morden slipped the receiver back into pince, it the telophone booth and started down the corridor toward the room where Carsons was holding Frank B. Cathay. He had taken loss than half a nozen steps from tho telephone booth when Whipple of The Planet emerged.

"Where you been, guy?" he asked. "Just fooling around, stretching my legs," Morden" told him.

Whipple's gabe became more nua-

on. Merden had neglected to screw

The man spoke without hesitation. "My addrees is at 280 Walnut picious. He walked past Morten door shut. The switch avenue, My telephone number indirectly to the telephone booths and Main 0831. My office is in the First Jerked the National Bank building. I havo aulte tilcked, but the light, did not come da ste of of the ninth floor, the bulb back into position. Whipple the entire front of

"What do you do?" asked Carsons. reached up, twisted the globe, and "supervise my investments.", the the light came on. man said with dignity.

Charles Morden aanlered from the At the doorway he paused room.

just a crack. "Do me a favour, be said.

Whipple jerked open the door and ran down the corridor to the press room. He picked up his telephone and shauled into it, "Hold everything!

didn't want to be involved in a lot with the door open Tom. will you?" Morden of The Biade has picked up

of scandal. The girl claims she's a hitch-hiker and. hasn't any home; that you picked her up, and

something hot.

I don't know what it Let me find out." Morden, standing in the door of the press room, lit a elgarette and grinnedt "You're sure a suspicious cuns," lie said. "My city editor would enn me for that."

Tom Carsons turned his head undi. raised his eyebrows.

"Bold him for 16 ininutes," Morden aid, and stammed the door before mockingly." Carsons could say

anything. He raced down the corridor to the press room, throat his head in the door and saw that Whipple of The Planct

seated at his desk, kept was

cutered

"For what?" asked Whipple. "Holding up the paper on a bun steer," Mordea salt.

"That's right," sald the mari, "Sh up," Chrapos said. "I'll nak you questions when I want you to

The man

wet his lips nervously with the tip of his tongue and shifted his eyes to the girl. The girl fidgeted in her chair, suddenly looked over to Carsons and correctly interpreted the cool humour of his gaze.

"If "Honest to God!" she said. know anything about him I'd tell you, I'm telling you the God's own truth. I was just walking and wasn't even giving the drivers a tumble when this flow pulled his roadster in nlong-tered in through the glass which Morden, afraid to leave the room, Aide the curb and asked me if I didn't partitioned the top of the door to dropped into his chair, put his feet want a lift. I told him I didn't, and enable him to drop the coin and dial up on the battered desk and smoked

placidly. and the number of The Blade. be put the cur in low gear

"Listen, cutie," he said, “put me cnwled along

ari with Roy yenh. 1 know. Never mind that stuff.

The lelephone rang. Cursons held the receiver to his ear, nodded his hand and then looked across at the man on the bench.

"Now," he said. "we're getting somewhere."

He spoke into the transmitter, "That's all the dope you've gat?"

He nodded, slipped the receiver back Into place, wrote rapidly on

sheet

going down the corridor until he came to a telephons booth, le

"I'm not so certain it's a bum one," the booth, and, as he pulled the door Whipple told him. He called the shut, the light clicked on. Mordan desk sergeant, called the radle broad- reached up nudd extinguished the light caster, even called the various pre- by unscrewing the globe a half turn. cinct houses, without learning any- There remained enough light which thing.

Sure, the invitation is good, but forget 1. This IN buxiness. I'm using lekel af my own

money.

case has ininted wide open. I'm tefe Hello, Ray, this John Sinth phoning from a booth in the corridor. Whipple of The Planet 14 un duty in the press room. He's just got: the memo that was handed out from

of paper, then looked up at the man, the desk, and the thing has gone into The Planet as an ordinary John "All right, Mr. Frank B. Cathy Smith, suspicion of riving while in suppose you tell us the truth?"

man. Isn't Jolin The man

the bench did not toxicated, but the

Smith at he's a big shot in wince. His eyes sfilted lightly, as though concentrating in swift thought, Riverview, a man by the name of that's right "You got that name from the place Cathay-in-t-h-a-y

Frank B. Cathdy of Riverview, where I rented the car, didn't you?"ile lives at 280 Walnut avenue, has Carsons' manner was the mannerlices in the First National Bank building, is a banker and candidate of a cat torturing a mouse,

"Why?" he asked with smirking for city council. innocence. "Was that the name you gave when you rented the car?"

he said.

can

"Tom Carsons is handling the in- The man or the bench: nodded. vestigation, and Tom has fallen like "All right," he said, "there's no use a ton of brick for the big banking keeping up the pretence any more, business. Tom figures the man's get I' Frunk B. Cathny of Riverview." political connections here he

He got to his feet, took a card work if he wants to. Cathay i go- cake frum his hip pocket, opened the ing to pay about a hundred bucks to curri case, khowed driving eenees, get eased out the back door and have lodge card membershilpa, golf club the whole thing dropped. Carson

ran do it because no charge was made. cords.

guy was just picked up on The telephone rang again. Carsons The pressed the receiver against his left suspicion, mostly suspicion of being enr, propped his left elbow on the mixed up in the service station stick- desk.

ups sure, I'm certain

of my "Yeah, this in hendquarters. Carficts. I heard him when he kicked sans speaking. No, I know now that through and came clean. He's got his it's a bum steer. But how about a card care with him, with his momber- chup named Cathay? Seems to bojship cards, his driving licence and rather n big bug, with membership all of that stuff, and Carsons will in a lot of country clubs, and have him verify the signature that's oh, he is, is he? That's interesting on his lodge cards and operator's candidate for the ofBea of eity licence, just in order to make certain Councilman, huh? President of a he's got the right man ..you can lunchean club, huh? Director in a put in a call for Mrs. Cathay bank, huh? Well, he's held here] Riverview and get a statement out!

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