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The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

REQIN HERE TO-DAT

Bu CARLETON KENDRAKE

* 1934.

dead

atmospheres with the tang of a; some shrewd attorney would twist. When DAN ULEEKER, publisher of The salty sea breeze.

and distort the little incidents, the Blide. learns that CHARLES MORDEN, I The butior led the way to a smaller minor matters, so as to make them pokles reporter, has been myatarlouny bed room back of the living room. Birs seen big and important." be determine to employ HIDNEY ON Cathay was there, wiretched in a ro funjour criminologist, to solve the murdar,

Morden had been a DATHAY, wealthy about hor. Her face was white and to limen all be clining chair. A robo WRI drawn

could about FRANK

"What little incident?. What minor matior 7" pressod Griff.

She said nothing. The corners of| and prominant, who had threatened to the eyes. were dark-rimmed. Her her lips quivered. The Bande because the newspaper reported -Cathay had been arrested, inter it was hands seemed like white wax and

"Please," she said. "You didn't proven that the man, arrwied, giving the there was something pitoovaly patho- come here to halt me, but to ask me name of Cathy and accompanied by ir tie in the woman's eyes as she stared something or to tell me something exiled MARY BRUGGH, was a Impostor. The inde publiabad a reissetion,

at the criminologist. They were eyes Please get it over with and go,” Than Morden la found dead and a few that hold curiosity, grief, tragedy,) hours later consol news that Cathay is dead, and--more than all-the dark lustre confidential.

sibly palazzed,

Sida Grift underiakes the case. He to a CHARLES FISHER, Cathar's lawyer, and then to Cathay's hume. There he waợn CARL RACINE, private detection, leaving Is Cathay's car. The chauffeur aaya houilly to Grit, "You can't see, Mrs. Cathay,"

CHAPTER XIV

of fear.

"Please be seated," she said. Sidney Griff thanked her, dropped to chair.

"Believe me, Mrs, Cathay," he said, "I had no wish to intrude upon your grief. I came to make a suggestion and

uggestion moroly." "What is it?" she asked. "That you will not," he said, "op pose an astopay."

Griff's volco was low-pitched and

"I want to ask you," he said, “if you knew that the reporter who had been sent by the newspaper to in- vestigate your husband's reputation was murdered, and kis body found yesterday afternoon 7′′

WAS

Had momo alectric current gal- The chauffour wormed back behind

vanized her to sudden activity, she the wheel of the big car. The goarj

could not have reacted more quickly shift lever snapped home and the

or violently to his words. She at automobile, with Racine, the detec She shuddered and said nothing bolt upright. The firmy negligee fell; live, Inside, slid smoothly down tho "I have, said the criminologist, open in the front and away from one driveway, progressing as effortlessly "discussed certain phases of the case shoulder. The dark panic of her eyes as a trout gliding through the dark with your attorney, Mr. Charles was now Intenalled. Her bloodless depths a forest pool.

Fisher,

He tells me that a hurried lips quivered before they managed to Sidney Griff watched the car until gottlement was completed with The mouth the one word "Murdered!" it had turned the corner of the block. Blais because your husband was: "Yos," he said. "You hadn't heard Then he stepped to the doorbell and taken seriously ill, and you both at about it 7"

a moment later was handing his card tributed that illness to mental anxiety "Murdered1" she said. "Oh my to a solemn-faced butler who assured, caused by the article which had been Gndi" him that Mrs. Cathay was receiving published"

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She dropped back against the chair "Not because of the article," said and lay very still and very motion- "You will tell her," said Sidney Mrs. Cathay. "Not because of that less. Griff, "that I have no whh to intrudoj alone but because of the_tactics_of| Griff went to her side, felt of her upon her grief. It is, however, im- the newspaper people. They word pulse, wont to the door of the room portant that I see her. You will going to blacken Frank's reputation and jerked it open. A maid explain to her that I am a criminolo- by every means in their power and standing within a few feel of the gist and that if she can grant me an' Frank's reputation was all that he

"Your mistress," said Griff, "bas Inconvenience later,"

audlener now it may save her much, had to live for. Money meant but door, her face flushed.

little to him. That which he prized fainted: See what you can do for

The butler took his card, showed more than all was his reputation and him into reception hallway. As standing in the community." Griff walted he looked about him, noting the Chinese rug on the floor,

her.”

The maid alared at him accusingly. "I think," said GriT, "you had bet→ ter telephone for a physiclan,"

He raised his voice slightly as ko made the suggestion, and then turned to regard the still form which re- clined in the overstuffed chair. That

the dark wood table and chairs of ifer volce was weak and toneless, solid. Tudor design, the maroon silk without animus, without enthusiasm, draperies renching to the floor. without vigour. She spoke as ora Through the doorway he could see would speak of a thunder shower the living room and caught a glimpse which had passed after doing damage form stirred. A wenk voice said, "No, of a fireplace with a mirror above the to some prize bed of flowers.

I don't want a physician. Get me mantle. The furnishings looked ex-! ・ "Did you,” naked Griff, "let your home brandy, Marie." pensive. Everything about the house husband know that you were going looked expensive and characterless to the city to negotiate a settlement?"

the typical home turned out by a fashionable interior decorator who knew how to please wealthy clients.,

It was only a few moments before

Griff.

She stared at him steadily. "Why do you want me to answer that question?" she asked.

he

Gri faced the maid once more, "Under the circumstances.” waid. "I will not make any farewells to your mistress. Please tell her that

I have gone and that I am grateful "Let it go." ho told her, his eyes for the interview."

The maid maid nothing but stared:

the butter was back with the informa- now focused upon her palo lps. It tion that Mrs. Cathay would see Mr. is, perhaps, of no matter. But would at him with hostile, sullen eyes sa you mind telling me, why you and Grift found his way out of the house, The Interior of the house was your husband became so greatly con- The butler reached the front door hushed and there was about it the cerned over the fact that a reporter just as Grit had stepped to the porch. aura of death. A musty smell; was making an Investigation for the The butler extended a Jiveried arm, struggled with the cloying odour of purpose of determining facts about grasped the knob of the door and flowers that were dying, and, in turn, Mr. Cathay's reputation?"

Almed it shut. were used to ornament death. Griff How a maid in the next room, noled that the servants walked about on Uptoe, with strained, not faces,

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"How do you mean?" she naked. Griff walked rapidly down the "Was there," ho asked. "ome cement to the place where his taxicab specifte fact that you were afraid the was waiting. reporter would uncover?"

"Gel me," he said to the driver, “to "Certainly not. My husband's life) a public telephone where I can put has been an open book."

in a long distance call Don't lose :

¡To Be Continued.)

Griff followed the butler. In the "Then why were you so afraid of any time." midst of the atmosphere of hushed what the reporter might uncover?") rostriction the healthy thudding of "It wasn't what. he might uncover." the criminologist's footfalls were as she said. "It was, the iden of the the influx of an outside life, pushing thing: the loss of prestige; the loss next instalment and gives these in- anide decaying tissues, dissipating of dignity; the certain knowledge that atructions, "Trail Carl-Racine,"

Griff makes a telephone call in the

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