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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1934,

SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

ARGIN HERE TO-BAY

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

When DAN ULEEKER, Junior publisher of The Blads, learns that CHARLES MORDEN, police reportar, has been mys.eriously killed ho determines to employ HIDNEY GRIFT", famus crtminologist. iu solve the inuider.

Morden had been anxlared to learn all ko end about FRANK I CATHAY, wealthy and prominent, who had threatened to a The Dinds because the pewspaper reported Cathay had been arrested, "lanter, # proved that the man arrested, giving' the Rama of Cathay atul Recompas:ext by a girl ened MAY BRINGA. ** an impostor. ARS, CATHAY MO Heeker her husband will drop the charges If The Bhule publishes A retraction, whd thie im done,

A day inter Marden to found dead, Bleeker trezires a telephone call from the editor of the Riverview Chmniein. As he puta down the telephone KENNEY, chy editor, aska, "What did you And out!"

CHAPTER VIII

Dan Bleeker's face gave no hint of excitement. "Frank B. Cathay," he said. "died about 20 minutes ago. For some reason they were trying to bush up the news of his death Beckley nout a veteran reporter out to the house. The reporter got wire to it. There were two doctors and there's going to be a scandal. One of the doctors зауа Cathay WAR poisoned."

Kenney stared at Bleeker with wide, startled eyes. "Polsoned!" he raid.

Bleeker nodded.

"That," said Kenney, "unaite, things look a little tough for his wifo, presume there was a lot of property." "Around two million," Biceker sald, "How long had Cathay Deon alck?"

"LI WHA taken sick Yesterday morning. Apparently there's no question about the illness. He was stricken at his offler. He was taken home and put to bed. As usual, the doctors fooled around with a lot of funny ideas, and then Cathay lost con ariousness, That was about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, lic's been un-

"Then his wife," wald Kenny, "must have known he was seriousty }},"

Blocker nodded his head in slow acquiescence.

"There's a womùa mixed up in the case somewhere,” Griff said,

conscious ever since, He died without pick Guthay's packet. Now he was paid. “I've alrendy figured she might regaining consciousness,”

Feither a professional pickpocket orla a key witness.”

An amateur.

"All right, no mvch for that." Bleeker regarded the outstretched | Griff said. "We'll let that wait a arm.

moment. Now we come to the fact "My God!" he said, "that makes me that Marden fuld you he was contact- nervous too."

lage a woman, but didn't want to men. Griff sighed and dropped the arm tion her name.” back to his lap.

"I don't think there's any question," "It's a habit of mine," he said. | Bleeker said, "but what that woman "when I'm thinking, I don't know was one who was connected directly why I do it. It seems to give me with Cathay." some nicяure contact with the people I'm thinking about. Are you interested in any of that sort of

"And," Kenney went or, "the man was on his deathbed when she and the lawyer made such a hurried trip down here to quash that bel case. Why did they do that if Cathng was going to die? Dead men can't bring bel suits. And it's not likely that their reputations will be blasted."

"Perhapa," Blecker remarked, "they didn't know how serioits the illness was when they came down."

Kenney gave a cynice! laugh.

If she gave him poison." he said. "she knew how serious the illness WA,"

stuff?"

"What sort of stuff?" naked Bleeker.

"Mental telepathy, hypnotisin, and all that," Grit said. “You know There's something peculiar about our personalities. They're filed with life. Life is vibration. Vibrations are sent out and received. Every man's brain fis, to a certain extent, á,broadensting Bleeker's tone was impatient.

station. There's too much interfers! "You use a lot of if's," he said. ence in the receiving stations, Too. "As a matter of fact, if she did have much static to bring It in clearly, anything to do with giving him the particularly with the conscious mind. poison, she couldn't have given herself The subconscious mind gels a lot of

any better break than by coming down that, that the conseinus mind doesn't 呼

here with the family lawyer. comprehend."

shows that she was loyal to her hus-)

band's interests, that she bought his

Bleeker tamped the tobacco in the

of his right forefinger.

,""be_sald, "I'm not interested i in that stuff."

sickness was the result of a nervous fowl of his pipe with a quick thrust collapse from worrying over what we might do to his reputation. And sho coudn't have possibly made a better gesture that would show she regarded the illness of her husband as relative- ly trivint."

Kenney stared thoughtfully at the Junior publisher,

There was silence for a munient. "What were you saying about the 'pickpocket ?” asked Bleeker.

IT Be Continueď.),

Sidney Griff starte work on the Cathay case in the next instalment. Find Mary Briggs," Iw tells Bleeker.

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"He was either a professional pick- pocket or an amateur pickpocket," "But, he said, "if Cathay wasdriff said. "If he'd been an amateur, murdered, then the person who pei-it's hardly possible that he'd have soned Him knew that Cathay was go managed to pick Cathay's pocket Against Coughs And Colds. ing to die. If he knew Cathay was without Cathy knowing it. ori going to die, what was the object in rourse, he might. Billing Charles Morden?"

a professional pickpocket invariably rehost, one thing me before they net "I told you," said Bleeker ex-strips the wallet of money and throws forth in the chill damp morning nir, losively, "that you're jumping at the wallet itself away. Obviquely give them a Respiroid each as a pre- conclusions without knowing enough there's nothing that' more

in- ventative against coughs, sore throat about the facts. You get the facts.criminating than to be caught with a aut colds, The aromatic, antiseptic Then we'll put them together."

man's wallet in your possession, porti- vapours released in these pleasant "I'm getting the facts all right," cularly when that wallet contains tasting oval lozenges dissolve slowly, Kenney told him grimly.

"Get more then," said Bleeker andards and other means of identifien- in the mouth, provide an antidote to

tion."

the germs which cause bronchial and banged, the door behind him as he

"That doesn't mean very much as ansal affections, sirode into the corridor.

far as the solution of the mystery is concerned," Bleeker pointed out.

For grown-ups, too, Respirokla are "It may and it may not," Griff said. invahzable as prompt, effective Sidney C. Griff was in his late) thirties. A woollen bathrobe stretch. He was on his feet nunin. "Now, remely for cough, bronchitis, sore ed to his ankles, slapped about his women mixed up in the case some the whole bronchla! system. At all a diruat, colds, and us a protective of here's something else. There's lega ng he walked. He was pacing whers. The Mary Briggs, the bitch- medicine dealers, or poxt free, 76 the floor with a restless rhythm.

hiker. She must know something cents per bottle, from the Dr. Wil Dan Bleeker sat in an overstuffed about the man who posed as Cathay Haus Medicine Co., 151 Kiungso leather chair, his teeth clamped on

"We're going to And her," Bleeker Road, Shanghai

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

"You've naked Griff.

tok me everything?"

"Everything," said Bleeker. "And I wish you wouldn't keep pacing the floor. You're making me nervous,"

"Sorry," said Griff with a grin and dropped into a big chair. He pulled up an upholstered stool and thrust his. legs out in front of him, wrapping the bathrobe around the legs. He settled | back in the chair and lit a cigarette.

"I'm a restless cuas," he said. "I know it." Blecker told him, "but su am . What do you make of this business?"

Sidney Griff was long-armed and long-legged. Ho reached out withi ie right hand, spread the extended fingers apart and made little wavy motions with his arm, though he might be feeling the texture of the

Laic.

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

"Have you any klens about it?" Bleeker inquired.

"Yer."

"Let's hear them."

"To The Best ploen,” Grif said. “I} can't understand why the man who was arrested took the name of Franki B. Cathay. Of course, he'd taken the wallet, Let's suppose that he did

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