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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1934,

SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

REGIN HERE TODAY

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

When DAN BLEEKER, Junior publisher of The Hinda, learna, 1985 CHARLES MORDEN, pillen reporter, has been myelly killed determines to employ HIDNEY GRIPP. Tametia criminologist, to naïve the murder,

Morden had been neigned to learn #1}. Je word about FRANK B. CATHAY, wealthy and promitens, who had thankuned to sur The inde because the newer m

Sport Cathay had been arresteil. later

proved that the man arrested, kiring the Dame of Cathay and accompanied by a Kiri called, MARY. DRIGOS, was an Importer. MRS. "CATHAY aantrek Booker her husband I drop the chxiges it The Wade pozdzilahen

• retraction, sad thie la dure,

A day later Mardens in Found dead. Ileeker eerlves a telephone call from the editor of the Iverview Chronick. As he pote down the telephone KENNEY. ltr elitor, naka, "What did you And out?"

CHAPTER VII

Dan Blerker's face gave no hint of excitement. "Frank 11, Cathay," he said, "dled about 20 minutes ago. For some reason they were trying to hush up the news of his death. Beckley sent a veteran orter out to the house. The reporter got wise to it. There were two doctors and there's going to be a scandal. One of the doctors MAYA Cathay WAR poisoned."

Kenney stared Becker

at

with wide, stórtied eyes, #Poisoned?" 'he wnld.

Blecker nodded.

"That," muid Keaney, “makes things look a le sough for his witu, "i presume there was a lot of property."

"Around two million," Blecker said, "How long had Cathay been sick?"

"10 WON taken sick yesterday murning. Apparently there's 114 question about he illness. He was stricken at his office. He was taken home and put to bed, As usual, thi detors fooled around with a lot of funny klens, and then Cathay lori con- eviousness. That was about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He's been in. conscious ever since, He died without tegnining consciousness,”

Then his wife," anid Kenney, umst have known he was seriousy i."

Bleeker det his head in slow acquiescence.

"There's a wonían mixed up in the case zomewhere,” Gelif said,

pick Cathay's pocket. Now he wani nudd, "I've alrendy figured she might |

ither a professional plekparket or; be a key witness." an amateur."

"All right, no much for that," Becker regarded, the unt-tretched | Griff salid, “We'll let that wait a arm.

mament. "Now we come to the fuel ty Gol he sold, "that makes nie that Marden inlıl you he was contact- nervous tou."

ing a woman, but didn't want to men. Griff sighed and dropped the nem tiot her name.” back to his inp.

"It's

(To Be Continued.)

"And," Kenney went on, the man

"I don't think there's any question," vaa on his deathbed when she and

habit of mine,” he said,] Bleeker said, “hat what that woman the lawyer nude such a hurried trip when I'm thinking. 1. don't know was one who was connected directly down here to quash that Bhel case. why I do it. It seems to give me with Cathay." Why did they do that if Cathny was some mensure of contact with the ing to die? Dead men can't bring neaple I'm thinking about. Are you el mits. And It's not likely that interested in

any e:f that Fort เฟ their reputations will be hinsted."

{«tuff?" "Perhaps." Bleeker remarked, "they. "What nort of "tur?" didn't know how seriaus the illness terker.

asked

war when they came down."

Kenney gave a cynical laugh, "If she gave him polson," he said, "she knew how perious the nexs

58,"

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"Mental telepathy, hypnotizan, and all that," Grift sati." "You know | there's something peculiar about our personalities. They're illed with life. Life is vibration. Vibrations are sent out and received. Every man's brain is, to a certain extent, à broadcasting i Hlecker's tone was impatient. (station. There's too much interfer- "You use a lot of 'if's," he said.ence in the receiving stations. Too} "As a matter of fact, if she did have auch state to bring it in clearly, anything do with giving him the particularly with the conselous mind. tison, the couldn't have given herself The subconscious mind gets a lot of any letter break than by coming down that, Sut the conscious mind doesn't here with the family lawyer, comprehend." shows that she was loyal to her hus- band's interests, that she thought his sickness was the result of a nervous collapse from worrying over what we might do to his reputation. And she. enuidn't have possibly made a better in that stuff." gesture that would show she regarded The illness of her husband relative. ly trivial,"

Kenney stared thoughtfully at thei junior publisher.

Bleeker tamped the tobacco in the bawl of his pie with a quick thrust of his right forefinger.

"No." he anid, "I'm not interested;

There was silence for a moment. "What were you saying about the plekpocket!" naked Bleeker,

Sidney Griff starls work on the

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"He was either a professional pick- pocket or an nmunteur pickpocket," But," he said, "if Cathay was Gri auli. "If he'd been an ninateur. murdered, then the person who pol- it's hardly possible that he'd have oned him knew that Cathay was go-munaged to pick Cathay's pocket ing to die. If he knew Cathay was without Cathay knowing going to die, what was the object in course, be might. On the other hand,

When the children are ready for killing Charles Morden?"

professionni plekpocket Invariably school, one thing unre before they act "I told you," said Bleeker ex-strips the wallet of meney and throws: forth in the chill damp morning air, plosively, that you're jumping at the wallet itself away. Oheiously give them a Respiroid each as a pre conclusions without knowing enough there's

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"I'm getting the facts all right," Kenney told him grimly,

"Get more then." said Bleeker and hanged the, door behind him as he strade into the enrridor.

eularly when that wallet contains man's wallot in your possession, parti- cards and other means of identifien-

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That doesn't mean very much as far as the solution of the mystery is enneerned." Bleeker pointed out.

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Sidney C. Griff won In his late f thirties. A woollen bathrobe stretch-e was on his feet again. "Now,

here's something else. There's ed to his ankles, slapped about his

gs as he walked. He was pacing Wan mixed up in the ease some the whole bronchial system. At all where. This Mary Briggs, the hitch- | medicine dealers, or post free, 75 the floor with a restless rhythmi

Dan Bleeker sat in an overstuffed hiker. She must know son.othing cents per battle, from the Dr. Wil leather chair, his teeth clumped on about the rann who posed as Cathay." Hans Medicine Co

"We're going to fad her," Bleeker: Rond, Shanghai.

the stem of a pipe. His dark eyes watching Griff with an expression of frowning irritation,

"You've told ing everything?" asked Griff.

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"Everything," said Bleeker. "And I wish you wouldn't keep pacing the

You're making me nervous." "Sorry," mid Griff with a grin and drapped Into a big chair. He pulled up an upholstered stool and thrust bis) legs out in front of him, wrapping the bathrobe around the iege. le settled back in the chair and lit a elgarette..

"I'm a restless cuss," he said." "I know . Bleaker told kim, “but so am I. What do you make of this business?"

Sidney Griff was long-armed and long-legged. He reached out with hle right hand, spread the extended fingers apart and made little wavy Buations with his arm, as though ho might be feeling the texture of the air.

"It's something that requires work and thought," he said.

"Have you my Ideas about th Bleeker Inquired.

"Yes."

"Let's hear them."

the first place," Griff snid, "I

can't understand why the man who i was arrested took the name of Frank

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