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SERIAL STORY

1934.

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

CHAPTER XXIII Griff read the lottar slowly. Then he said, "That's Cathay's signature all right. At any rate It looks ko ." "Certainly, Fancher replied. "The letter came through the mail in res ponse to one I sent to Bir. Cathay."

"Have you the envelope?" Griff asked,

The Inventor handed him the en. volopa. Griff regarded it thoughtful-

ly.

"I wonder," he said, "if I might keep this letter and the envelope for a few days just long enough to have photographs made? "I'll return them to you."

Fancher's face showed surpriza. "Perhaps," Griff told him, "you haven't heard that Mr. Cathay died Inte Friday, afternoon,"

ed.

"Good heavenal" Fancher exclaim-

Griff nodded, "Now," he went on, "would you mind telling me exactly? what happened? You can *ce that It's important."

"Why, there was nothing happened," said, "except that Mr. Cathay Fancher didn't keep his appointment. I was very much put out about it."

"Did you," naked Griff, "telephone! him about it or get in touch with him in any way ""

hitch-hiker that was with him.i can't understand what he expected to That was the young woman who profit by doing so." had dinner with him. They seemed to know each other quite well.”

"Have you," asked Griff, "any Idea whether the woman was register od at the hotel or not? Did you I notice whether she had strent clothes that she checked at the entrance to the hotel dining room 7"

"I don't think she had street clothes," Fancher said. "You mean a coat and hat-things like that?"

"Yes,"

"No, I don't think she had them. I remember they came out of the dining room while I was *tanding in the lobby. They walked elevators."

"They both went up!" "Both went up."

to the

"She may have left her things in Cathay's room," Griff suggested.

"Sho may have."

"Did you c. hima come out again?"

"Yes. 1.saw them go out of the hotel and get in a Chrysler roadster and drive away,"

"I presume, of course, he intended to cash a cheque later on at the hotel," Fancher_said. “But_what_I_ can't understand la why the impostor should have chosen the Hillcrest hotel which was the place real Mr. Cathay had chosen to meet me."

"A fur that's concerned."

Griff said, "why should Cathay have neglected to keep his appointment with you?"

and

"I feel that Mr. Cathay probably changed his mind in regard to the desirability of the investment simply failed to notify me," Fanchor said. "Gentlemen who have finances usually become exceedingly arrogant."

Griff nodded,

"You have a telephone?" he asked, "I may want to talk with you

distance." long

on

him,

tem-

can't

be

"I'm sorry." Fancher told "but the telephone has been porarily disconnected. I enlled. I'm very sorry.'

(To Be Continued.)

In the next instalment Dan Blocker a telephones Grid that he has important

"The woman murt have had hat and coat when she came down news, to the lobby," Griff hald,

him.

told "Doubtless," Fancher

suppose she did. I don't remem

I noticed! her very much about her.

it was the same young woman, and that was all, I'm quite certain-

that I think now

had of it-ale

FORTUNE WON IN RACING SEASON

"Certainly not,"

4" Fancher remarked, "The appointment was definite enough When Cathay didn't keep it and didn't make any effort to communicate on a long coat. I was more interest- (Continued from Page G.) with me, I considered that I had beened in Me. Cathay," Insulted enough. I returned to my

"But you still didn't say anything son Victor, but almost every deinli plude here in Millvale and deelded that to him?

call for the thought and super- Mr. Cathay, for all of his money, "No, of course not. My appoint-vision of the trainer. Time must wasn't a particularly good business ment was for 10 o'clock. He wouldn't be found for consultations with man. I think a good business man have liked it if I had butted in ahead the veterinary surgeon, and when keeps his appointments, don't you?"

of that time and told him who 1} the Aga Khan is not present to see "He was registered in the hotel," was." Grid enid.

"Didn't It occur to you that per- his horses run he usually has a haps Alr. Cathay might have intend-long telephone conversation from ed to keep your appointment, but his the Continent with his trainer in arrest prevented him from doing se1" the evening. Mr. Butters also man-

"I thought so when I read The ages Sir Alfred Butt's stud Gr mapped to attention. "Oh, Blade the next morning." Fancher Newmarket, which also involves you did?" he asked,

said, "hat subsequently The Blade much work. "Yes, 1 w m and there was said I was mistaken and that Dir. a young woman with him. They; Catliny wasn't the one who was they were drinking." arrested at all, but someone who had "Whern did you n them?" Griff picked his pocket and was using his

"Cortabaly he was registered,

saw him earlier in the evening.**

were

asked.

.

"In the dining room of the hotel," "id you speak to Mr. Cathay?" "No."

"How did you know who he was?" "I saw that he was registered in the hotel and I asked one of the bell boys if he knew Mr. Cathay, He sald that he bad taken him to his roam and that he thought Mr. Cathay was in the dining raum, He painted him out to me."

"But the man you saw was driving A.Chrysler rondster?".

"Yes."

"You're positive of that!! "Of course."

"And he was registered at illcrest hotel?"

"Yes,"

at

When Fairway regained his high reputation by winning the Felipse Stakes after a very dia- appointing performante in the Derby, Mr. Butters's first remark to me wan: "I shall sleep to-night for the first time for weeks." And he bas Hot passed through this remarkably successful season the without many aleepless nights, I

"You made no effort, to communi- cate with Mr. Cathay afterwards?”

"No, sir," said Fancher with dig-

Bin Mure.

No wonder he says that he can- He has not be "bothered to bet." not the time, the inclination, nor

"And you watched him for some nity, I did not. Mr. Cathay made the need to do it seriously.

#ttle time1"

the appointment, and he was tho "Oh, for several minutes, I wanted one to break it. I felt that it was to size him up a little and And up to him out what sort of a man I was doing| My invention” is going to make business with."

"Could you describę kla

someone A

get in touch with me.

PERCOLATING

lot of money. Unfor- slowly down the throat and into the appear-tunately, I haven't the money to put nasal passages and lunga the curative I on the market myself, but Mr.vapoure and essences which comprise "He was a big man, about 47, i Cathay could have added materially guess, and the girl with him was to his millions if he had only kept more than 20 years younger. She his appoingintent." was a brunette."

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"Can you describe better than that?"

"Why, no. That's the beat descrip- tion I can give you of him. I'd know him probably if I saw him again."

"That, was the, first time you've

him?"

"Yes."

"But you made no effort to speak! with him?

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There was a wistful look in the quickly soothe and heal sore throat, meek brown eyes,

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his hand.

"I wanted to talk with you," hei sald. "I'm not going to keep you here in the cold.'

Respiroida are obtamable from uli "Oh, it's warm in here. The fur- Dace is on," Fancher eald, "I wanted chemists, and post free, 78 centu per bottle, from the Dr. Pilliam Medicine "Certainly not. My appolutment to ask you some questions." wasn't unill 10 o'clock. I didn't

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"Oh, I don't know--junt questions to intrude. I gathered that| Mr. Cathay had other business."

about how it happened that Mr. Cathay died; about what brings you duwn here to see mu. You know wo "Yes. I had a room there at the don't have very much to occupy us hotel and waited in the lobby. At other than the daily routine of life) 10 o'clock Mr. Cathay didn't appear.! here in Millvale."

"I nee. So you continued to wait in the lobby?"

I called his room. Ho didn't answer. "There isn't very much to tell

morning. lie

I had him paged. There was no yel," Griff said. "Cathay was taken answer. I had him paged at inter- seriously ill Thursday: vals for muru than an hour, until died Friday afternoon."

Did The Blade ever find the per- almost midnight I guess. Then I got

that was disgusted."

using Mr. on name 7" Funcher asked.

"No, I'm sorry to say they haven't.

a fifficult

Mit you

Blade read The Tuesday morning 7" Griff asked.

aon

been rather

Cathay's

rust.

"You, I read that he had been ar- I's rested, and then I read afterwards We can't understand why, anyone that it wasn't so. But that wasn't should have used the name. 'We}

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