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The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

CHAFTER XXVIII.

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

"Blocker eyed the revolver distaste- fully. "What's the idea?" he do manded.

1Put It in repeated,

your pocket,"

Grif

"But why?" "We're going to call on Mr. Kod nath Boone.. The party may get rough."

Look here. Bleeker protested, "aren't you going rather far in this thing without notifying the police 1

"We're going a lot farther." Griff told him. This is one of the cases that the police would fall down on. They'd give out a les of newspaper publicity and get the thing all tangled up. They'd wind up by convicting an Innocent person and letting the guilty

escape,"

"What case aro you talking about?" Decker asked. "This murder

CANOTH

"About the murder of the news paper reporter," Griff said, “and wille we're about it, the death of a man named Frank B. Cathay."

"Don't you think Cathay committed suicido 7" asked Blecker. "Are you contending that he didn't, in vlow of the statements of the doctors who conducted the post-mortem ?"

Griff opened a box of cartridges,

allpped some extra ones into his

pocket and said, "I'll admit this much, He took the poison voluntarily 7"

"You're going to leave me here?" Decker asked.

"Down in the vestibule," Griff told him. "You're going to wait until the nowspaper reporters come and then you're going to tell your story and tell the whole story just as it actually happened."

Decker's face showed relief as he remarked, "Gosh, what a load this i off my mind! Why didn't you show me Lampson's pleture sooner,

Grif?"

"Because I thought it was Lampson until about an hour ago. I thought he must have done the killing."

"How did you find out it wasn't Lampson 7"

Remember

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mobiles In front of the Trent Apart- ments.

"Are they in?" he asked, when he had Identified himself.

Ono of the operatives nodded. "Both of them," he said. "That's the apartment up there. You can ace the window, with the curtains pulled downL"

"No,"

"When was the last time you saw Alice Lorton!"

"I don't know-a' couple of weeks ago, maybe. She and I had a little argument."

"You know where she lived?”

Yes."

"Over in the Elite Apartmente?" "YoR."

"Did you ever meet Esther. Ord-

We're going up," Grid told him. "If you hear a racket, como on up."

Grift led the way to the spart-way 7" mant, pushed his finger on the buzzer, I've seen her a couple of times, There was no answer. He pounded but that's all. She wouldn't stay in with his knuckles on the door, Still the apartment when Alice had com no answer,

pany coming. I met her in the hall- way once or twice and know whe she was, but we never spoke. I don't think she knew who I wAR."

"Opon up!" Griff shouted. know you're in there, Boone. that door!"

"We Open

This time there hounded the rustle of surreptitious mollon from behind

the door.

Griff stapped to one side. Bleeker pulled his gun from his pocket, stared grimly at the door. Griff motioned the publisher to keep the gun out of sight. There was the sound of a raitling chain, the click of a catch. The door opened and a man of about 30 stood staring at them in hostile appraisal.

•

Griff swept his eyes over the dark skin of the face, the snapping black eyes, the conrso black hair which came low on the forehead, the bushy, black eyebrows.

"Boone 7" he asked.

"Yes," said the man in xurty tones. "Who are you?

"Just two men who want to talk with you," Griff told him, and started to push his way through the door,

Walt & minute," Boone said. "I don't want to talk with you."

"How did you know who the was 7" "I saw her coming out of the apart- ment once."

"That's the only way you know who she was?” You,"

•

"Would you recognise her if you saw her again?”

"Yes."

Boone settled in his chair' and, alghed. He seemed much more cor- tain of himself now.

man who WEL

"Ever know a man named Mordon newspaper reporter?" Griff asked. You mean the murdered! The "one whose pleture was in the papera?”

"Yes.

"No, I never saw him." Griff exchanged glances Bleeker.

with

"Get ready. Bleeker," he said, "to use the thing that I gave you." Boone's tone was surplelous. "What's that?" he asked. "Nothing," Griff said.

"Listen," Boone told him, "I don't

"Oh, yes you do," Griff told him, "It might be much better for you to talk here than to talk at head-ke your attitude. You come bust quarters."

ing in here and act as though I was on a hot apot, just because I knew a fane that roomed with a Jano that might have been mixed up in this case you're talking about."

"Are you dicks?" asked the man. "Do you want us to tell the hall way about it?" Griff inquired.

Boone hesitated, seemed to be weighing the chances for a sudden, dash for liberty. Finally he stood to

one side.

Griff pulled from his pocket the cheque payable to Kenneth Boone and signed by Esther Ordway.

Boone's face twisted. His oyds

"All right," he said, "come in."

That your signature?" he asked, "I just happened to think things The two men entered the apart. showing Boone his endorsement un over and decided I'd better check up consisting of a combined sitting room shifted from the cheque to Griff's face.

ment. It was a single apartment, the back of the check. by showing you Lampsen's picture and bedroom, a Amall kitchenet, a

now, Decker, when the

bathroom, and a closet, with a wall then from Griff's face to the watchful newspaper reporters interview you, bed behind mirrored doors. The cur- eyes of the publisher. He shifted un- you aren't telling them where you were hiding during the time the police tains were down and the lights wero toward his hip pocket.

casily in his chair. were looking for you. You're not goYou," said Griff, dropping into a ing to tell anyone that. And, in-chair, "knew a woman named Esther cidentally, the police are going, lo

Ordway." think that Lampson's men bribed

you.'

the

"I don't give a damn what police think. I'm telling the truth," Decker retorted.

"Okay Griff said. "Let's Blecker"

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Hoone knitted his brows thought- fully

"No," he said slowly, "I didn't." "Oh, yes you did," Griff said. "No," Baone ropiled with more con- Kondence. "I know her roommate, Ailce Lorton. I'ldn't know Esther Ord- why."

"Never had anything to do with Esther Ordway."

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His hand moved

here, he said, and strode toward

Griff got to his feet. "We may as wel! have a quorum

the closet.

Boone's hand whipped up in a quick half circle. The light of the room glinted on blued-steel. said, "or I'll blow you apart."

"Get away from that closet," he

(To Be Continued.)

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