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SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

CHAPTER XXII

By CARLETÖN KENDRAKE

Sidney Griff returned to his own car ami-sirove at once to the timerose hotel. He got in touch with the bell captain or if sieht nhật not envas him a sú bill by way of introduction,

a man by the name of Cathay who was registered here on Monday nigat

In Room D04,"

"Thero's been two or three people Asking shout him," the boil boy suid.

"Showed you photographs 1" "Yea."

The photographs they showed you weren't the photographs of the man who was here?”

"No."

Sidney Griff looked at his watch. "A hight drive," he said," "would bring no into Millvale-just-about daylight."

The belt boy regarded him Cu- riously.

along

"It would," he said, “be way to go if the man had given a phoney address, Lots of thom do,

"Ile

wrole you?" asked Griff. "Yes.

ayk you ha letter avaliablet" Grid Inquired.

Why, yes, I think so."

"I wonder if I could see it?" Fanchor's slippered feel made shuffling sounds as he crossed to writing desk. He opened the desk you know.**

and turned to the criminologist. worldly wisdom of a youth who has condition of this steak. I haven't The bell boy grinned with the "I'm sorry," he said, "about the made his living in and about hotels. been able to get at my filing, for a Sidney Griff nodded thoughtfully. few days. It's in pretty much of a He went to the telephone, booth and Ho banded the boy another $5 bill.litter."

put through a call for the police headport all right,"

Grift naich bother to apologize." quarters at Millvalo. With In 10 The inventor fumbled around through papers, finally brought out an envelope. From it he took a letter.

"Here it is," he said.

"Can you remember what he look-minuter he had them on the line. od like?

"You have a city directory there, "He was rather a big follow and as well as a register of voters 7" he I think he had blue eyes, I can't re- naked. "This is Sidney Griff, the member enough about him to describe criminologist." him, but I could' tell 'him "if I saw gruff voice at the other end of the "What is it you want?" asked a him again."

line.

"He was paged several timta dur- ing the evening 7′′

"YOR."

"Did he have any sultenees?" "I can't remember, Mister," the ball boy said, "but i think ho dkt, because if he hadn't had any I'd probably have remembered."

Griff examined the letter carefully. Frank B. Cathny, stallonery which It was written on the stationery of rent simply, "FRANK B. CATHAY

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Morning Afternoon Morning

"I want to find out whether you INVESTMENTS-008 First National have a Harry Fancher registered in Bank Building. Riverview," "Who took him up to the room whan town, what his occupation is, and There followed a date line, with he camo in "

where he lives,"

the name of the city and state. "Hold the line," said "I did.".

the volee, letter, which was addressed to Harry with a weary lack of curiosity, en Fancher, at Millvale, read, Rendered by a life that, unde crime

Dear Mr. Fanchor; ! a mero matter of daily routine.

have boon very much After a moment the voice came

interested in per CUP- respondence over tho wire,

lence relating to your newo "Yes, there's a larry Fancher re-ordinarily. I do not finance inven

statie eliminator for radius. While, Kistered. He lives at 3602 Kenwood tions, I would be very glad to have avenue, and he's an

and a discussion with you for the pur machinist."

"Thank you," said Griff, and hung mutually, profitable basis ton can

of ascertaining upen up.

arrange for the manufacture and sale of your device.

"Can you tell me about the calls) he received? Yan paged him during the evening here in the lobby."

•

•

inventor

post

what

"It must have been 15 or 29 times," "Were the calls telephone calls, or Was it someone who was hero in the hotel and wanted to talk with him?"

"Someone here in the hotel a little Harry-Fancher, attired in towselled] Will you please meet me at fill-] guy with gray hair and blue eyes. I pajamas, with his hair in wo - creat Hotel on Monday, the 10th of remember him well. He was mad an array, regarded Sidney Grir with March, at the hour of 10 o'clock p.m.1 a wet cat about something. He had meek brown eyes..

i will be glad to go into matters in an appointment with this guy, Cathay,

"Did I got you up?" asked Griff, detail at that time, as I expect to be that Cathay hadn't kept. He was amiline cordially.

in the city in connection with other some kind of an ov

Harry Fancher nodded his head, business. I would suggest that you and there was some kind of a doal then

added

after a moment, "I'm bring with you your patents and any on that Cathay was to close

data you may have on the cost of Grid raised his eyebrows. Fan-manufacture. ther went on to expla

Very truly yours, (Signed) Frank B. Cathey.

Th

Griff's eyes were thougul

"I wonder if we can find out who that man wan?" he said.

sorry."

"I shouldn't have slept AD late," he saith "sually I'm up earlier but, is being Sunday morning, I stayed in bed."

"I think so," the holl captain told him. "I think the man had a room here ju the hotel, at least for the night, and I think he waited over, Griff regarded the man with cu

It seems to me I saw him checking rious, speculativa eyes. mt about the time. I came on duty Tuesday night.""

"I am the one who should make

"What time was that?"

1)

"Eight o'clock in the nvening." "If he checked out that inte," Griff said, "he either paid for extra day, or else ho had somu unter- atanding with the room clerk,"

"Probably an understanding with the room clerk. We're not particu- larly crowded," the bell captain told

him,

the apologios," he said, "for dis

I

turbing you at this hour. But drove all night in order to get here that is, the best part of the night." "To see me?" Baked Fancher, rati- ing his brown.

"Exactly." Sidney Grift agreed.

Won't you come in ?"

Fancher led the way into the house, bis slippers sliding along the floor. He waved, hamf and indicated "Let's go see if we can find out." & chair in the sitting room, 2 "Okay," the bell boy suid. "You "I'm sorry," he said, "the tooin wait here, chief, and I'll go prowl looks like this. It's just the way 1 around a little bit. I think maybe left it when I went to bed last night. I can find out. 1 toll you what I do quite a bit of reading and think can do. I think I can con- search work, and I'm not always tidy tact one of the boys who took a pin about putting my books back." of whisky up to his room. I re- member, the boy asked me for Яп okay on him."

re-

and picked up one of the trade

Grift surveyed the littered table)

magazines at random.

"You're an inventor, I believe 7" he

(To Be Continued).

Fancher continues his Atory. volring a pretty brunette and a road.

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The bell boy grinned confidentially.id "Of course," he said. "that's just be tween you and me, chief."

Griff nodded. The management strict 7" he asked...

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you could call me that. I'm *inkerer. I like to Linker

things

"They're not strict about what we

"Did you know Frank B. Cathay do," the bell caplain said, "but of Riverview ?" asked Griff. they're awfully strict about wint they know about. They know

when

kerp one eye closed--and when kern both dues plass"

There was a flicker of fire in the tumeek brown eyes,

"lie had me coine on a wild goose "neo," Griff told him. "I'll wait.chase all the way to the city," Fan- You fimt ogarite you cade

cher remarked. "If he didn't want The bell captain departed and was to finance my invention, why didn't back within less than Ave minutes, he any no in the first place?

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