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SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

CHAPTER XXXII

ward Griff.

By CARLETON ÈENDRAKE

"You lol” she screamed. “You're

dered on it."

to follow the direction of those straws make any statement?" asked Blocker to their logical conclusion-unless, abruptly. "Why couldn't you Mrs. Cathay loud perfectly still,

Kat her head thrown back, her chin ir perhaps, it was this man Morden. her to talk ?!

F'in going the air.

regret all my life that Her manner was that of I never, had the chance to talk to "She is, beyond doubt," ho szrood, The amilo faded from Griff's fate, having steeled herself against show-him. I'm never going to be able to a woman of great determination, ing ony emation.

The woman who had given her find out whether he reasoned his but you, too, my friend, would have name as Blanche Stanway atrodo to way to the correct solution or blundetermination if you had scrubbed floors for years. There is nothing. perhaps, that makes more for deter- Bleeker objected, "I still don't acemination, so far as one's rights wro that he did anything that was so concerned, then kneeling and scrub- remarkable. Let's admit be bowed bing, scrubbing and kneeling, forever resourcefulness in locating the garage rubbing through a routine of drud- in which Cathay's car had been stored. gery. She was, perhaps, at one time It probably, however, was more a beautiful. In fact, I think we may matter of luck that someone in the safely assume that she was beauti Karage was able to direct him to the ful. Her beauty was not the fragile, apartment where Cathay was call- aristocratic beauty of Mrs. Cathay but it was perhaps a warmer, more

a dirty llar!"

Griff continued to watch Mra, Cathny

Itacina had tiptoed to the door of the room.lle Jerked it open, said to Mrs. Cathay, "Come on. Let's get out of here. ile's trying to keep us here. He's stalling for time."

Blanche Stanway stopped within couple of feet of Griff. Iter Ince Ing." WALN twisting with emotion. The corners of her kard, defiant mouth mitted readily enough. "I agree with lured men away from the realm of "That's true, of course," Griff ad-vital beauty; a beauty that was filled with fire and spirit; a beauty which turned down. Tears came to her you on that, Bleeker." сусп. She broke into harsh sobя.

thought and into the emotional realm of the senses."

H

Mrs. Cathay swept toward the door which Raeine was holding open, but! the detective did not wait for heri to join him. He turned toward the corridor, took half a dozen rapid steps and then broke into a run. His feet could be heard thudding down the corridor.

Griff and in a law voice to Mrs. Stanway, "I'm sorry."

She looked at him through tear flooded eyes, took a groping step to ward him, dropped her head to his shoulder and clung to his cont with the work bent Angers of leathery hands,

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Kuringly.

"Thery, there," he ing to be all right."

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"But," Bleeker went on, "that was all he did"

Griff shook his head.

overlook the evidence. You overlook "No, my friend," he said, "you the facts."

"facts that I know?"

"Are they demanded Bleeker,

"I suppose." Bleeker said, "that

revertheless the mother of the girl?" you're intimating she was his wife, perhaps д unmarried wife, but

(To Be Continued.)

Fisher, the lawyer; discloses some Interesting facts about Frank Cathay'a Insurance policles in the next instal-

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"Facts that you yourself told me with your own lips," Griff said. "The that all of this case hinges upon, and dendly significant facts. The thing yet no one has ever mispected." Bleeker's tone was savage. "What the devil are

you trying to do?" he asked, "Impress me with! omething? Do you want to make a grandstand fiulch like a magician,

a rabbit out of lat politog genuse if you do, "I'm here to tell you

me worth a damn that that stull doesn't go across with! "No." Griff told him. "There will de nome of that, In waiting in order to get all of the facts in my hands before I make a move and "killer"the ferocious mountain ilon,

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In the Taxical Griff seemed in high spirits.

"Observe, Bleeker," he said, "what an which can, at the present tinte, existing

in dangerous for you to have infornm the most dangerous living thing an Interesting thing the truth lead only to suspicions--suspicions American Falsehooda may be built up which which we can, perhaps, prove with generally knwon that the mountain; seem to have the appearance of truth, an absolute certainty, but suspletons on, pumn or panther as it is mome but they have no foundation to hack that must net le voiced. them. They are like mirages, like

times entled, has the widest range of the fronts of structures which are suspicions, I'm even trying not found front

"I am not only telling you of those any game animal in the world, being used mention picture sets. They think of them. We never know us Canndn to the southernmost point in Thrill Hunter." Jones, whose

British Colun,bla In Ing the filming if Bark Jones "The Herbert Mundia, Harry Great and look all right when viewed from one how this strange phenomenon that South America. "Trailing the Killer"

re Henry B. Walthall. James Tinling putation as a rides carned him the directed the Bin. ncle lot have nothing lack of them, we call metal telepathy nets. It le, however, is the first motion picture honour of displaying his horseman- if one will at take paires to view perhaps, the effect of one mrud im ever written around and produced ship, before the King and Queen of them from all sides."

pinging upon the subconscious mind exclusively Blerker's te was gruff.

about this dangerous England, discovered that the studio of another. Perhaps, frequently, such beast.

For all those people who like some- "Those things photograph well beonscious mind is fully atare merely "another wild animal film hins for the first time and chuckled Queen's Theatre has a special treat "Trolling the Killer" is not ciuis intended to use a double for thhuk saucy and scintillating the enough to derelve everyone who sees of the thing which comes na a devasta carefully and skilfully written

while the director sought in vain far from next Sunday in "100% Puro" in them," he sait,

tating surprise to the conscious mind, dramatic story by Jackson Richards, man to take the chance. When which Jean Harlow is triumphantly "Certainly." the criminologist hut, whatever it in, we cannot afford depicting how the ravages of the

plans for the scene were ready to be starred with Fraschot Tene, Lionel agreed, "If one but looks at the photo-to take chances with it. graph. That is why it is always no

"killer" couse havoc among shepherds'

abandoned, Buck quietly announced Barrymore, Lewis Stone and Pater vitally important to look at the object

flocks and throw suspicion on a trap that he would supply his own thrills Keily

as he has invartably done on or off the aim of its kind you have encountered support. It is the cloverart itself and to look at it from all angles of some secret and have told that to take refuge in the woods. Then "Eagle" whose reputation for time comedy leaves you limp with laughter.

"llow nuny times have you known hunted like a wild thing and is forced

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tereen. Buck leaped on his horee in years and the heartiness of its "The truth is like some pingid sheet secret to a friend, only to have the follows a series of thrilling dramatic, ting has almost approached the fame Miss Harlow is seen as Eedle Chap dropped in it and immediately the formation leak out, not because of exciting and even tragic events. The af the more prominent "Silver" and is on the hunt for a millionairo calm surface becomes ruffled, The Luf Ronething you yourself raid, but hunted things of the wild struggle with .camerna grinding staged the husband, in a rate which only Jean

something the friend said because reflections become distorted. There cause you allowed your thoughts for existence, preying and preyed tes." Buck's latest Columbia picture, Harlow could handle. The rich man's are rippling waves which start out upon the matter to in circles and go in every direction words, and those thoughts were pick- Battles between will cats, snakes, Grim battles with fang and as far as there is any surface to theed up by another?

raccoons, dogs aut other animals and Blecker turned to him savagely into bis confidence until his idea is hovering over all. Francis McDonald, The wise inventor takes no une the sinister shadow of the "killer"

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Tant sur doesn't interest me in the least, huid.I want to know perfected and patented. The man Heinic Conklin, Jose de la Cruz, what happened, I think you know, who discusses his incomplete plans Pedro Rigas and Tom London are the I want you to tell me. After all, with a friend is likely to find that only human players, the actual story I'm running a newspaper. I want to some other inventor, acting independ-being told by the animals themselves, avenge the death of one of my men ty and an entirely different part Nearly a year was taken by Herman het incidentally I'm interested in get the ble idea, perhaps in a more the

ret of the country, suddenly pounces upon Raymaker, the director in securing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Plies most of the comedy situations in ting news while it's news. After you

Tavessary material for prow! around here interviewing every advanced form than the first inventor presentation of "Trailing the Killer"

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Griff shook his head and his smilei. "," said Bleeker grimly. "don't held Just a faint trace of superiority, believe in all that stuff."

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