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·HONGKONG | TELEGRAPEL. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1934.

SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

DEDIN HERE TO-DAY

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

When DAN BLEEKER, pablisher of The nade.

MOLDEN. learn that CHARLES

like been mysteriously killed

police NEY GRIFF, famous crimina

be employs Jo solve the murder.

aims

Morden had been investigating the of PRANK 1. CATHAY, wealthy and pro minent, who had threatened i que The Hade brenna the newspaper reported Cashug bad been arrested. The man arrested was an impostor xiring the name of Cathay #rol accompanied by a jiri entled MARY DRIGGS, But after Horilen is found dead comes now that Catling la dende possible paisonal. Medena fingerprints a fond in the *partment of a air) named ALICE LORTON | who has reported the diappearance of her roommate. ESTHER ORDWAY, GH and Bleeker questka Allee Lairton.

Griff Juni thas CAHL RACISE, detective emplarest by MRR, CATHAY, 14 trying to ents a MRS. BLANCHE MALONE H

alney dlanovers that the man who registered at the letest hotel the night of the arrest was the importor and not Cathay.

CHAPTER XX

"Did you know him?" asked Griff, j'apartment in her own name and made She shook her head.

"Never saw him before

"No," she said, "Why?" "We have reason to believe that he was, here in the apartment the day he was murdered."

She licked at him with wille, startled eyes. She made a fist with her right hand and pressed it against her up.

"O" she said in

a suppressed voice,

"And you're certain you'd never seen him?" asked Griff.

"I'm certain," she said. Griff stared searchingly at her. Her fact, now dovolj of make-up, showed a pasty, white. Her lips were taut and pale. Her eyes were dark with panic.

me have my mail sent in her care, and all that sort of stuff. But know it was some peculiar quirk of her character. It wasn't because sho had anything to conceal."

•

Griff regarded her with a stare which was not unkindly.

"Don't you think," he said, "you have carried this quite far enough, Mins Ordway 7*

he

"What are you talking about?” 'she xusped.

"You know what I'm talking about,"

mid. "You're Esther Ordway. There sover was any Alice Lorton. You just took that name in order to give Enther Ordway a chance to dis- appear. You betrayed yourself just now, and you've betrayed yourself by half a dozen little things since I first came to the apartment, but, mainly, you showed your relief when 1 meg- "Even," he said, "If it should ap-loned that the name of Alice Larton pour that Mordon knew you, you was written in Mordon's notebook. would stil insist that you didn't know | You knew that it couldn't have been,

Grid's eyes focused steadily upon her lips.

Alice Lorian answered Griff's third ring at the doorbell. She was attired in pajamas, alippers, and a-kimona. I Her wide, innocent, blue eyes stared him?" at Griff in startled appraisal, and then her lips broke into a smile.

"Oh." she said in a throaty tone, "It's you."

"Yes," Griff muld, "I'm sorry disturbed you, but I've got to ask you a few more

questions

"Come in," she said.

She tried to epenk twice before words cane.

"Know me?" she asked, "But how (enuld he, when I don't know him?" { Suppose I should tell you," said Griff, that your name was entered in his notebook, tagether with this address 7"

"My name?" she asked. "Yes," he anid

"Alice Lorton, Elite Apartments, 310 Robinson street. How would you explain that?"

because the name of Alice Lorton was one that you had made up on the spar of the moment after Morden had been killed,"

She took the cigarette from her Ups. tried to knock off the ashes. The hand quivered. The cigarette dropped from the nerveless fingers to the carpeted floor. Her face was a dead- white, her lips pale, the eyen wide and startled,·

Griff picked up the cigarette, pinch- ed out the end and dropped it into the ash tray.

"Are you he asked, "going to come clean?"

"Why," she gasped, "I never heard of any such thing! What..

What makes you think that I'm Enther Ordway?"

She looked at him, and the fear fied from her face as hot chocolate syrup, slips from a ball of ice cream, "Oh," she said, laughing, "you're just trying to pump me, aren't you? No, really, Mr. Grla, I didn't know The fact that you've been living him. You startled me for a moment in the apartment several months, for with those statements. But I'm teli-one thing, without having a single ing you the truth. I didn't know the belonging that you could identify as man. I never saw him in my life."

Griff's eyes remained fastened upon her ips.

Gri entered the apartment. The windows were open and a night wind whipped the Incr curtains about. Allee Larton went in the windows, closed them, shivered slightly and droppet into averstuffed chair, curling her feet up in under her. "What time is it?" she asked. "Not very late,"

." he told her. "Somewhere around midnight."

"I guess I'd just dropped off to Aleep

she said and yawned. Griff took a cigarette case from his pocket, extended it to her. She hes- itated for a moment, then took a *cigarette. Griff took one and held a

yours. The further fact that the match to the tip of the girl's cigarette.

clothes you claim are, Eather Ord- Just as the lame luminated her

way' are the type of clothes that countenance, he said casually, "You "You don't seem to attach' much would be worn by a blond and not know Cathay was dead, of course?" importance to the fact that your the ones that would be worn by a

The girl's face stiffened into rigid name was in his notebook."

brunette. The further fact that you've Immobility. She remained perfectly "It couldn't have been," she said, taken such elaborate pains to still, the flame from the match "unless Esther had given it to him. vince us that under no circumstances blackening the paper tip of the cig- Of course, that might have happened, could you possibly have been acquaint arelte. She did not inhale the smake. He might have mentioned to Esthered with any boy friend of Esther Grift watched her with, narrowed that he had a friend, and that he'd Ordway. The fact that the apar.. like to make a foursome. some night. ment is registered in the name of Then Esther might have given him Esther Ordway; that the name of my name. But I think she'd have Alice Lorton doesn't appear upon the spoken to about it if she had

directory .... do you suppose, Mr. Griff, there's any possibility that Esther's dia- appearance had anything to do with the fact that this reporter was here on The day he was murdered?"

"That," Griff sald grimly, "is what I'm trying to find out."

yes.

After a moment she sucked deep inhalation and expelled & eload of moke, drew back from the name of the match and settled down in the chair.

"Who," she asked, "Is Cathay?" "A man in Riverview," Griff said. "I didn't know him," whe Anid. "What did he die of? Was he a friend of Esther'a?"

"And then, of course," Grift went on, "Morden is dead,"

"Oh," she said, "I know that. He's the newspaper reporter. I read about him in the newspapers."

"Oh." she said, "I'm sure it couldn't have. Exther was mysterious, very 'mysterious. She liked to keep her affairs to herself. She wanted to be secretive about everything. She was a grent individualist. She carried the

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"Rut," she said, "I've explained all that. I've told you just how it hap pened."

"Yes," he said, "it's a good explana- tion--just a little bit too good, Mins Ordway. Don't you think you'd bet ter give me complete story before I call in the police?"

(To Be Continued.)

Allee Lorton revises her story about her missing roommate in the next instalment,

suspected, Detective Tho Scarlet Empresa"-- hes -John Inspector Rolls (Peter Gawthorne) Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Olive Tell, Gavin fartening at last upon him. He, how-Gordan, C. Aubrey Smith and Ruthel- ever, is quite innocent but even Eisma Stevens in the imposing support. friend Mortimer thinks he has this ing cast, time formaken his code, namely, never

to steal jewels, his alm being bonds

“Sadie McKee"

Jonn Crawford has delighted you

""Trouble"

Sydney Howard goes back to sea in

and money. The end is unexpected have one criticism to make of ready

and amazing, all the more to the al-hin latest British and Dominions nic. puzzledi Inspector. "Just ture, “Trouble," which is now showing your picture, "The Cat's Paw Smith" is an adaptation of Frederick at the King's Theatre. "Trouble you will just cut off the heads of some Lonsdale's stage play "Nover Come was directed by Maclean Rogers, and those of the gangsters in your picture, and his friend. The subtlety of the steward on

our local politicians, along with Back" and the honours go to Smith Introduces Sydney Howard as a ship's pleasure cruise,boat it would be just perfect." This cum dialogue is refreshing and the film has which has among its holiday-makers ment on his latest comedy, "The Cat's been produced by Tom Walls with all board a pair of astute jewel Par which comes to the King's his talent for English light-comedy, thieves. It is the steward's innocent Theatre on Saturday, was found by The supporting cast includes Carol complicity in their theft and his sub- Harold Lloyd in his mail several days Goodner, Anne Grey, Leslie Perrins sequent unmasking of the crooks that after the first preview showing of his and Reginald Gardiner, all of whom causes all the fun. Now although picture in a Southern California elty. contribute fue performances.

Sydney Howard has played in pre- It la indicative of the intense feeling;

vlous films as a soldier (Splinters"), with which the Clarence Budington

a would-be gentleman ("Almost n Kelland story is followed in screen;

Divorce"), a football enthusiast ("Up) form. Lloyd introduces a

new way

for the Cup"), a mayor ("The Mayor's of handling political corruption and before, which is why she is Joan Nest"), a punter ("Up for the racketeers in his first picture in two | Crawford, but never before has the Derby), a monarch ("It's a King"), years, resorting to the wisdom. the star turned in performance to equal and a butler ("Night of the Garter"). Chinese, with whom. he was ralaed, in her characterization of the name role he has never appeared on board ship.. the handling of situations which are in "Sadie McKee" showing at the Yet a subject with a sea background rampant in America to-day. There is Oriental Theatre to-day and to- brings back happy memories to him, nothing of political propaganda in morrow. Whether it is entirely the for it was in the stage show, "Hit the "The Cal's Paw" even though the star, the brilliant supporting cast in-Deck", that he first came into pro- story is set around the adventures of disputably a great motion picture. In minence ar a comedian of unusual a young American missionary, who, the first place, Vine Delmar's story brilliance. "I the Deck" was, in returning from China to find a wife, dramatizing a beautiful young girl of fact, the turning point of Sydney Ho- is thrown into the maelstrom of a humble birth (she is the daughter ward's career, Until then he had been typical American mayoralty plection of a small towncook) is a perfect dogged by luck. campaign. Lloyd set out to make a vehicle for Joan Crawford, whose picture entirely different from his vehicle for Joan Crawford, pretation past routine, and in "The Cai's Paw" of the modern girl. As pretty Sadle all advance criticism indientes that McKee, Jean is indisputably in her warner Bros. This was awarded the he has fulfilled his aim. The pleture right element. She gives the charac- has changed the entire course of the ter life and force and sweet credulity.blonde star Immediately upon com comedian's future activity, and, hence Thren men play significant rolea in ploting work as the feminine lead forth, his fold is the entire realm of her life. They are Franchot Tone, opposite James Cagnoy in "Jimmy the literary efforts where, heretofore, he as Michael, attorney at law: Gone Gent", which comes to the Alhambra confined himself to the territory Raymond as Tommy, charming weak-Theatre to-morrow. It is which he and his staff of gng writers ing and crooner of lush songs; and term contract and was given Bette could cover. There are gags, of Edward Arnold, as Brennan, a role-because of her excellent work in "Jim- course, in "The Cat's Paw", but they terang, drunken millionaire where my the Gent" and previous plotures. all mean something th the treatment privilege it is to be her husband-for- There are two stipulations in this now of the story. Smart dialogue com-a-time. All three give performances agreement, however. One is that she bines with the characterizations and brilliant each in his especial way. situations to creaté 'amusentorit,' and with deams holding an intense part, The Cat's Paw" will be found dis

has dono in the past,

1.

"Jimmy the Gent"

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a long

is to wear her hair long, that is, long enough to comb back Jown over the "The Scarlet Empress"

heck where it turns up with a slight; curl. The new hairdress, an innova- tinctly different from anything Lloyd Saturday at the Queen's Theatre in of 1034" It was so well, liked by Marlene Dietrich, appearing on tion for Betto, was tried in "Fashions Joseph Von Sternberg's Paramount studio executives they decided to make Just Smith"

picture, "The Scarlet Empress", it permanent, hence its place the roached. an Irreducible mininum of new contract. The other stipulation "Just Smith?" now showing at the twenty elaborate costumes in assembl-is that she must not weigh more than Queen's Theatre, presents Tom Walls, ing a wardrobe for har portrayal of 100 it is not believed she will have 120 pounds. As Botte averages about the popular comedian, as a happy-go-Russia's most colourful empress, ly new, but still amusing. With him Court of the middle Eighteenth Centerms of an Insurance policy she will lucky gentlemanly thief, a type hard- Dealing with the Imperial Russian any dieulty in keeping within the Imits. In addition to this, under Hartley Power, an American tury, the picture revives styles which fellow crook who lends him his yacht are deemed to be more beautiful than be immediately placed on diet if she to act the stage for a big robbery of those of any other period in con- reaches 115 pounds. In Jimmy the some valuable bonds, belonging to a tinental history in colour and ine. Gent", Bette is a go-getter business wealthy lady in love with "ilties". In Extremoly voluminous skirts

of woman with a flem of racketeers, ni- order to get an invitation to her dozens of yards of materials feature though she doesn't know it, who hunt country house, Smith gives a party the various gowns in the collection, all up phoney heira

order to collèet aboard the yacht to a titled crowd and of which were, designed for the star unclaimed Inheritances. The picture In turn becomes the guest of the by Travis Banton, Paramount studio is based on fast moving comedy wealthy lady. The fun starts hero, style and fashion export. In addition ronianco by Laird Doyle and Bay A valuable necklace la stolen and to Miss Dietrich and Loulee Dresser,(Continued on Page 11.) ****

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