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1934.

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

CHAPTER XXIX

· By CARLETON KENDRAKE

a Saturday afternoon and a Sunday! intervened enabled us to

get the cheques when they were ready for delivery.

"You searched his pockets?" "No."

Grift's smile was cold and cynical. "I'm not entirely certain just who you think you're protecting, Miss Ordway," he said, "but 1 want to assure you that your attempted pro- tection is simply going to make things harder for both of you. Why don't, you tell the truth?"

Dan Bleeker's voko was strained and hatch. "Drop, that gun," he said, "or I'll make a slave, out of you." "That gives us all we need. We Boone hesitated. Blecker's gunean got the bank to identify Eather was covering him. Boone's gun was Ordway as being this young woman. covering the criminologist. Griff was We can show from her algnature cool and smiling.

that she is, Wo can Identify the "You don't want to do that, you letter from Summerville as having know, Boone," Griff said. "The place been posted by Robert Chelton. The is surrounded. We took that precau-hotel men can identify him.

"1. am telling you the truth." Wo can "You haven't," he said, "told me tion before we came up. There are show that Kenneth Boone was in the truth at any time since I've come

detectives down-stairs. two

You direct communication with Esther in contact with you. You lled to me can't possibly kill us both. You may Ordway, by the cheque made in his most dramatically and almost con- atand some chance of beating the favour and this endorsement on the vincingly. other murder case but you stand na back of that cheque, Alau, the bank chance of beating this,

will remember cashing it,

"I

The door of the closet burst open.

"Now suppose you people net sen- Allee Lorton pushed her way into sibly and tell us the truth. Why did the room. disregarding Griffey didn't kill him!" she flared.

kif Morden, Esther?" Bleeker, running straight to Bootie.

Don't do it. Kenny" she said. "I'll take the responsiblilty for

Boone and sullenly. Don't let

screamed. "Don't I'll take any that! You don't know. what

(you're talking about!”

Griff stared stendily at the young woman. "Sup

he said, "you

Please don't do it. Please drop the thonny!" she

gun

1 got you into this. me get you in any deeper. my medicine."

The man's extended arm dropped.

"Now drop the gun?" Griff

a kindly tane,

slowly

said Intell me the

She made a gesture of resignation, Boone let the gun stip to the car-There were, however, no icars in her pet.

eyes. She stood stim, straight andl witte-faced.

"Now,” Griff sald, "let's come down to earth. Bonne, you took Marden's bly out to the place where it was found and planted it. Personally, I don't think you killed him. I think the girl killed him and you did it to protect her."

"I'm not making any statements.” Bound said.

The girl started to say something, Griff silenced her with a motion of

h

brand.

"I didn't kill him," she said, "but Kenny thinks 1 killed him."

"Aw, Esther," he muttered re- preachtuily.

"Don't interrupt, Kenny," she said. "You keep out of this." She turned to face the criminologist with dry- eyed dennee. "You can believe it or not," she said. "I found Morden in my apartment and found him dead.

"Only about not being Exther Ord- way," she said.

"About Esther's disappearance, with all of the weird story about ber having taken her pictures, the photo. graph album, and the way she was dressed when she left. About how she happened to pick you up when you were down and out, and all of that stuff."

•

She remained silent. "Lay off of her," Kenneth Boone muttered thickly. "You can't ple a murder rap on her.”

"Shot up" Griff snapped.

There was an Interval of silence. The eyes of all three men were

focused upon the girl's face, a face which was as white as the back of an Invalid's hand. The orange make-

her cheeks flared into crimson rilliance against the contrast of the dead-white skin.

"I think," said Griff slowly, "that you're trying to protect Mr. Frank B. Cathay, aren't you?"

Her lips, quivered. She tried to ay something, hut the words did

nat come.

don't know how he got there. "What's the use of lying 7" he said, should have telephoned the police. "You're just going to make things but I lost my head and telephoned worse. Let me sum up the case the for Kenny instead. Lie said there way it stands Morden is murdered, was no reason why I should get mized His body is found in an abandoned up in a scandals that we could leave sublivision. It had been taken there him. there until dark and then dump, Cathay to you

in an automobilio and dumped, the body some place." Obviously, a woman wouldn't have!

had the strength to carry the body!

That," said the criminologist, "is

to the automobile and dump it. We alt right so far as it goes. It doesn't know something of Morden's movego far enough." ments on the day he was killed. We have absolute proof that he was in the apartment of Esther Ordway. We locate that apartment and find a

"What do you mean?”

Boone glowered at her with sudden suspicion distorting his features.

"Say," he said, "am I a sucker in this thing? What the hell is Frank

The girl made no answer. It was

the criminologist who answered the question, speaking in low tones. his eyes boring steadily into the girl's C face.

"I think," he said softly, "that he's her father.

"I mean," he said, “that your ren, son for not telling the police isn't She looked at him, her eyes dark

young woman there who swears that i credible. Even Kenneth Bone, who with pain. Slotely her head drooped

she is Allee Larton, a roommate of this mysterions Esther Ordway.

"She can't make her story quite convincing enough until after she's planted n few more alibin, so she gets you, lane, to su down to Sum- merville and write a letter to Esther Ordway to which you sign the name of Robert Chelton and in which you mention Alice Lortan. Sho thinks the authorities will get that letter and that it may help establish her secondary identity. The weak point In her whole alibi is the bank account that is kept under the name of Esther Ordway. She tries to clean that account out and get the cheques de livered as

accoon is toon as the closed out and balanced It took a day or two to do that. The fact that

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is infatuated with you, ilidn't believe') forward. She pressed her bands

11. You can't expect is to believe aguinat her eyes. Her shoulders | it and you can't expect the police to shook with soba,

believe it."

Boone put a comforting hand on } her shoulder.

She shook off the hand savagely. "Don't touch me, you beast!" she

She was silent, white-lipped. "Go on," Grin kald, "tell us the truth."

She shook her hend in mute, white-screamed. faced negation. "You can question me all you want to," she said, "but you won't ranke me change my story. That's the only reason that I did what I did. I didn't want the news paper notoriety."

Boone's jaw sagged. He touched her again, only his fingertips contact- ing her shoulder.

She gave a shrill scream and then burst into high-pitched, hysterienl Taughter.

Gri picked up the telephone re-

"Police Headquarters," (To Be Continued).

Huid.

Griff's eyes were staring atendily and appraisingly at her lips as shef teiver, talked.

"Did you," he asked, "knew who Morden was when you saw him?”

"No" she said.

"Dht you have any léa ?***

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