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SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

CHAPTER XXV

date of the telephone conversation is the day following Morden's murder." While Bleeker was telephoning, Griff studied the letter, with his Sidney Gri paced restlessly up and forehead in furrows of scowling con- down the apartment. His head was centrallen,

Him thrust forward.

суса жекс "If," Blocker and, "we only had squinted in thought, seemed some way of locating, this Kenneth utterly oblivious. Dan Blocker and Boone we could of the telephoned instructions Blecker "If Griff interrupted impatiently, was giving to his newspaper. When "you had followed my Instructions by Bleeker had hung up the telephone placing your man on duty at the Elite and returned to his chair Griff sudden- Apartment you would have known all ly whirled on him.

about Kenneth Boone by this time." Bleeker stared steadily at criminologist.

"How about putting them on that Elite Apartment to shadow whoever came out? Did you do 17" Bleeker looked crestfallen

*Do

I did it too late. I didn't consider. I know what I'm saying," Griff

It was of prime importance. I sont sald, continuing to

men out there. After all, you know, cheques we're running a newspaper and while I'm going to move heaven and earth to get this thing cleared up, we haven't got men to scatter around the city, just on the hope something .av turn un."

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disappear. It was also, for certain rennons, either impossible or unwise for Esther Ordway to give up her apartment and flen. Therefore, sho simply took the name of a mysterious Allee Lorton and told us the story about the disappearance of her fiet!- tious roommate,'

the examine

his

ac-

"But surely." Blecker said, "she couldn't have expected to have such a story stand up. Under a rigid police investigation the deception the would have been noted almost im-

Sho couldn't have mediatels. you," he said, "know what counted for herself.

"Don't he too certain about that," "I did it," he said, "but I'm afraid you're saying or are you just talk-

ing?"

Alico дл

Lorton. Alico Lorton Griff said. "There undoubtedly was of merged her identity Into that Esther Ordway for certain purposes. Then, when it became apparent that letter from the Ordway Identity was going to get Bleeker took a

her into trouble, she switched back pocket.

"There's a letter," he said, "sent to the identity of Allee Larton. She to Eather Ordway. Apparently it's could have given the police a fairly something in the nature of a love accurate history up to approximately lotter. It's algned Robert Chelton.the time that Esther Ordway entered It's sent from Summerville. It was the apartment." "Not Esther Ordway," said Blecker. went out Sunday--that's yesterday "She'd gone already. There was no and arrived on the early mail this use watching the place after she'd left, morning. It's rather ardent in its except to get a fine on someone who term of affection. One gathers that might come there and I couldn't see Misa Ordway has been the recipient of how we could find out just who was several proposals of marriage from going to her apartment and who was Robert Chelton but she has remained going to the apartment of some other firm in her conclusion to live a single person. At any rate, the apartment life. Apparently she's been divorced I still there and the man la watching.unce before and is finished with all It's Alice Lorton who has left. My forms of matrimonial venture."

The criminologist turned the letter men report thero's no one in the

over slowly in his fingers, apartment."

Sidney Griff made a snorting, ex- plosive sound.

"S" said Griff softly and with an ominous calm, "you let her get away from you. Is that right?"

"Well," he said, "we'll let 12 pans, I tell you more about that after a while. What else have you got?"

"The mail." Bleeker said. "I can't understand it."

"What about IT"

"We made a wonderful catch," ho aid. "I'm afraid we're going to have trouble about it. There's going to be trouble with the postal authorities."

"That's all a matter of history now, It's been done. Griff said impatiently. "What did you get?"

Griff,

"You have, of course, taken stepal to find out about the writer of this letter?" he asked.

"I've taken the steps, yes," Bleaker wald. It's too early, as yet, to get a report."

"When you got a report," Griff said slowly, "you will find that Robert in a hotel Chelton registered at Summerville: that the address which he gave was either so general it is of no assistance or that it was ficti- tlous; that he remained long enough write and mail this letter and that to then checked out of the hotel and

no one knows where he wont."

"You've already checked him?" naked Blecker

"We got Esther Ordway's banking statement with the cancelled cheques. It had been mailed to her by her bank,

"No," Grit sald. "I know who he apparently in response to a request

was and why the letter was written' ahe had telephoned in."

"Ah,"sald Sidney

and bts and, without reading the letter, I am tone contained the purring satisfac-willing to wager there is some refer- tion of some huge cat that has just ence in It to her room-mate,

liver. Lurton," been given a dish of raw "Ah-h-h-h." he said again, and rubber his hands together,

Bleeker pulled a long envelope from his pocket, took from it the stiff yellow paper statement of a bank balance, with machine stamped figures on the margin.

the

Alice

"There is," Blecker said. "He has a paragraph about how charmed be was to meet bliss Lorton and how pleased he is that Esther Ordway has so delightful and charming a roo mate."

Griff nodded slowly.

"But aren't you going to read the letter?" asked Bleeker,

Griff shook his hend and tossed tha

Griff reached forward, took cheques and the folded statement from Bleeker's hands, crossed to a table, letter to the desk. sat down and spread out the cheques. His face it with satisfaction.

"Ah," he said, "a young woman who is out of work, and yet she makes rather large deposits. A deposit of $500. Then one of $750! And here's one of $2,0001

He picked up the cheques one by one, suddenly stared at one of them, Bleeker spoke impatiently. "That's the only one that counts," he said. "It's a cheque payable to Kenneth Boone, for the entire balance on hand. It cleans out the account."

bis

Griff nedded slowly. "The cheque," he said, "la dated on the day Charles Morden was mordered.

a letter from Bleeker took packet.

"Here," he said, "is a letter from the bank. stating that in pursuaneo of telephoned instructions they are sending her her cancelled checks and statement showing that the account had been cleaned out."

"There is no need," he said. "It was a red herring drawn across our Haw- trail, but it arrived too late. ever, one thing is certain. An at tempt will be made on the part of Alice-Lorton to get the mail from the apartment some time this morn- ing. She will either return to the apartment or send some young man there with a key to the mall box. She will be anxious to get this letter with the cheques."

"You mean Esther Ordway?" asked ' Blecker.

"No," said the criminologist, "I mean Alice Lorton. Although Esther Ordway is probably her real name."

"They're one and the same?" asked Becker.

"They're one and the same," Sidney Griff told him. "Beyond any doubt," "But why should Allee Lorton re- of Esther the disappearance nort

Ordway 7"

"Because," Griff said slowly, "it was "And," Bleeker pointed out, "the imperative that Esther Ordway should

Grit took the letter.

"But the police could have con- fronted her with the peopic in the apartment and

"And would have got no place," Griff interrupted. "The police would have found that persons in the apart ment had seen her coming and going.

tha

They living in

apartment They would have known that she was wouldn't have known whether she was The Enther Ordway or Alice Lorton

her only persons who might have given testimony that would clinch Identity were the persons in the bank. For that reason she wanted to get her bank account closed and sent to her before there was any possibility of police Interference. The fact that mail in not delivered on Saturday afternoon nor on Sunday brought about the downfall of the scheme.

Then this Ordway woman, or Alice Lorton-an she calls herself, la probably the woman in the case."

"You forget," Griff pointed out, "that we have, as yet, to account for the mysterious Mrs. Blanche Malone who is being eagerly sought by the bereaved widow.'

(To Be Continued.j

"The key witness," announces Sid- ney Griff in the next instalment, "la going to be Mr. Blanche Malone if

find her while she is wo can alive."

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