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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1934.

SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

DEN HERE TO-DAY When DAN BLEEKED, pabihher of The

been arrested. The man arrested wa

*

Griff was pacing the floor again.

Årø

some

Įsomething that's storing us in the what are the polles doing about thls |

Eathor Ordway who's missing? face so close that we can't ace it." 1 di, Lemega thiet GARLICS MOUDAN, pallet Bleeker shrugged his shoulders and they interested in the thing? Aro reporter, has been mysteriously killed be said nothing,

they looking for her?" my BIDNEY GRIFF, famosa crimino-

"They're treating it as a casual dis- logint, to move the murder,

so far," Blocker kaid. Monden had been invaleating the affairs. When he went on speaking It was appearance of PRANK B. GATHAT, wealthy and pro-as though he had forgotten the other "We haven't told them about tho minent, who had threatened to see the Binde ran'a presence.

Angerprints we found in Allco Lor- because the kewspaper reported Cathay had "The last time," he said, "that ton's apartment Morden's. Anger- Imposter atving the name of Cathay and sofarden reported to The Blade ofles prints. I wanted to get your reactions companied by a girl called MANY BRIGGS. jhe said he had a live lead. He didn't) to it before we did anything with tho

Boen after Morden is, found drad come want to mention names. He said it police.” news that Cathay is dead-polly polsoned.

"I think." Griff told him, "wo'll Morden's Angerprints are found in the was going to be necessary to cultivate apartment of a girl named ALICE LORTON girl. Almost immediately after continue to forget the police for a who has reported the deappearance of her that call be must have gone to the little while, until we've done zoommaig. KSTHER ORDWAY. Griff Jeans that CARL RACINE, detective eraylograd by apartment occupied by Alice Lorton experimenting of our own. Come on. MIS. CATHAY trying to locate MRS. the one from which Esther Ordway is We're going to see Allee Lorton. In ULANCHE MALONE.

reported to have disappeared. The the meantime I want you to telephone Ordway woman has been gone for two your paper to publish the best photo- days

graph of Charles Morden you can dig Suddenly Griff

stopped short.up and ask particularly if any taxi- Sidney Griff took the cigarette from "We're got to find the man in this cab driver who remembers being hired his lips. "Birs. Blanche Malone," he case," he said, "I want that apart by the haur by this person will com repeated thoughtfully. Hls sought Dan Blecker's. "You don't on this thing from every angle. X

oyenment shadowed. I want a check-up municate with the paper.

"You see," Griff want on, "that big know who she is, do you-what she want a report on everyone who comes taxl entry is far more likely to mean looks like, how old she is, or anything and goes to that apartment. How that engaged a cab by the hour else about her 7"

for lots of short trips than that be quick can you get the men there?"

Bleeker spoke in a voice in which took one long trip. He could have thore was no enthusiasm.

taken a long ride much more 6x- "Remember," he said, "that we're peditiously and cheaply than in a running a newspaper. We can't take taxicab. But if he was fighting all of our men to chase down Morden's against time, trying to do something death. We're doing a lot of work in a hurry, as his reports Indicated now."

that he was, and if he had uncovered

CHAPTER XVI

"No," Blocker said. "All we can' get in the name. Racine is looking for a woman of that name. That's all I know."

"And Rocino is working for Mr. Frank Cathay," Griff reminded him. "Anything else?"

ΟΙ

Griff's voice was cold and ominous "You mean you're laying down on the job?" he asked.

don't mean that," Blocker "No,

"That about sums it all up,” Bleeker said. "The medical examination Morden's body shows that he was kliled

about пооп on Thursday. few minutes after noon. Perhaps a It's impossible to tell. He hadn't had

sald. any lunch. He'd been doing quite a bit of running around. He hadn't kept any notes of what he'd discover ed-I told him not to but there was a notebook in his pocket in which ho'd kept his expense account and he had spent quite a bit for cab 'money."

Griff closed his eyes oner moro. "Do you remember the Items 1" be asked.

"No, I don't," Blecker said. "There were two or three small once and then a bill of $2.50 all at once, as though he'd taken a long trip somewhere in a cab."

Griff frowned for a moment. "Anything else?" he asked.

"No."

!

"You mean you've lost your on- thusiasm for bringing Mordon's mur dorora to justice?"

"No, we're going to get them. But, frankly, Griff, it seems to me you're using up a lot of energy on a blind lend."

Griff stared steadily at the pub-) Ilshor.

"It wasn't a blind lead," he said,

|

red-hot trall he would have rented a cab by the hour. In that way be Wouldn't have lost any time while he went from place to place-places that probably were not in districts where he could pick up cabs canily.”

Bleeker nodded,

"That," he said, "is logical. We'll see that the morning nowspaper carries the photograph and we'll ask anyone who might have any informa

tion about Morden to get in touch with The Blade.

(To Be Continued.)

Pretty Alice Larion conādes some when I told you to check up on Information about her missing room- the women who had disappeared, mete in the next fustalment, Now I'm telling you I want to check up on the men who come to that. apartment. There's a man in the case samowhere. We've got to find out! who he is and then we've got to ind him."

"But

the he wouldn't come to apartment after the girl had appeared," Bleeker objected.

Griff shrugged his shoulders patiently.

Like Magic

dia-}

THIS WONDER PEN

im-

Griff got to his feet, started pacing the floor, the long legs taking swift, nervous strides, the woollea bathrobe finpping against his shins. Once or twice he reached out in front of him with the extended fingers of his hands "Either," he said. "you're going to as though trying to feel his way, work with me on this thing or through the room, giving the impres- I'm not going to work with you. You

sion of stroking the atmosphere with can get some detective agency to pul|

the tips of his fingers.

Blacker watched him' anxiously.

on men to do the mechanical shadow- Ing work if you want to. I told you that before."

"I think," Bleeker said slowly, I'll your have to ask you more about theory before we put men watching that apartment. It seems utter use

Abruptly Griff turned and, when ho spoke, his voice was as rapidly ex- plosive as that of Bleeker himself in fis most driving moments.

This thing is delicate," he said. lers to me."

Criff flung off his bathrobe. strodu the "It's got to be handled with delicacy of a surgeon performing a toward the bedroom and was stripping bruin operation. But the thing is off his silk lounging suit as he walked, here. It's in our grasp. It's all ready

--"All-right" ho-sald, we'll go to to be smashed wide open.

the apartment. I've got a theory. I "The trouble is we're overlooking want to check it there anyway." something komewhore. There's "some point, probably an obvious point, In less than three minutes he re something that's logical as the very appeared, clothed in a tweed suit and devil and yet we aren't getting it. In rubber-soled shoes. He strod I have that feeling. I'm never wrong into the room, jerked open the door when have that feeling. There's of a closet and struggled into an ovel- something that I'm overlooking coat.

something big, something vital, some- "Come on," he said. "We'll take u thing that's already in our minde-look at that apartment. By the way, i

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