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SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

CHAPTER XXXVI

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

of a smile. He came over and woj"Your real namo, was the one that got to talking. He seemed a very you woro registered under at the The girl did not look up as Fisher fine fellow. The more I talked with hotel, Edith Nevers, The name,

"I want went on speak want the whole lonely myself.. I'd been going with a was merely an alias you thought up! the him, the more I liked him. I was Mary Briggs, that you gave the police: truth," he said. truth. I want it told without any steady and ho'd stepped out on me. on the spur of the moment. Tho attenipt to may further that your self and I may I was on the loose, This man sug-namo Stella Mockley, that you assum gentlemen also gested dinner. I ate with him thereed when you came to this hotel, was want the truth. They, too, are in at the hotel. Then he suggested also an affas.” terested in the case and they will be ride. He said he had a car parked She nodded, witnessed to every word that you say, near the hotel. If you depart from the truth in the "lle didn't acom to know much alightest degree I shall see that you about the town. After a while we aro prosecuted and there gentlemen stopped at a place and had something will see that you are prosecuted." to drink. He wanted to take

He turned to Blacker. "That is righi, gentlemen?" ho naked.

Bleeker nodded,

"And your now-found friend," he said, "was the ers who paid the bill."

"No," she said. "I did it myself," "Don't lie to me," thundered Fisher, bottle with him but I was a little bit "I've told you what's going to nervous about getting in an auto-happen if you ile. I am telling you mobile with a new acquaintance and that the man who posed ne Frank D. The lawyer turned back to the girl a bottle of whisky, so I talked him Cathay is the one who footed the with the lushing fury of a pouncing out of it. We talked about going to bill." cat returning to the attack upon a

n dance and then he spoke of the tip of her shoe.

She lowered her eyes and regarded crippled mouse.

appointment that he had-something Tell us, he said, "what happened." that he'd come to town to do to he The girl's voice was weak and law. went back to the hotel to keep his pitched, bet came steallly. The appointment. We were on the way words were uttered with lonso, ner-back to the hotel when the officer vous rapidity.

stopped because of Rome traffic "I told the police the truth about violation. The officer amelled booze ting somewhere." one thing," she said, "It was a pick on the man's breath and then the man She said nothing, but there was a up, I don't want you to think that started talking back to the officer and little shiver that rippled her I'm the type of girl who falls for a the next thing I knew the officer shoulders. pick-up. I don't ordinarily, but this climbed on the runningboard and told was exceptional. I don't know how It happened.

"It happened there at the hotel The mon Was registered as Mr. Cathay, Frank B.. Cathay of River- elow. I didn't know at the time who

us to drive him to police headquarters.

"Isn't it a fact?" Fisher insisted, his forefinger once more pointing at the girl's face.

at the said in a low voice.

he said. "Now we're

Fisker sneered.

got-

"You wuld want to stop there,"

He said we were going to be inter- he said. "You would want us to be rogated about some stick-ups of sertleve that was all. Now go ahead vice stations.

and tell us all of it. Tell us the sordid part of it. Don't try to spare "Right away I had visions of my picture being in the paper, and yourself, or if you do so help me he was, or even whether he was whispered to this anan, Remember another hour has passed."

heaven, I'll have you in a cell before staying at the hotel. It started as I'm hitch-hiker pick-ups. You don't an accident. I brushed against loven know my nanie.''

in the elevator when the cage gave).

an unexpected start. 1 · apologized. Just one of those routine Pardon e's. He said. 'Not at all, and his fingers clored for a moment about my arin.

voice

"I don't know what it was about the physical contact that thrilled me. It was something. Then his bud something to do with it.

He had a beautiful voice.

"I got off at my floor and he got off at the some floor. I think he was trying to pick me up. I thought so at the time, but I'm free, white and 21, and, after all, I didn't see uny reason why I shouldn't pursue thel acquaintance big a little farther if! I wanted to. But I wasn't ensy. didn't give him even a glance as i went into any roon, and closed and locked the door. He got the number of my room and, of course, found out who I was.

•

ta

She paused for a moment and red pathetically at the attorney, though legging him with her eyes believe her.

Fisher, however, roamined stern- visaged, and uncompromising. "Tell it all," he said. "Every bit of it." "That's all," she said. "You know the rest,"

Fisher shook his head impatiently. "This man had given you a name, he said, "when you met him?"

"Of course,” she said, "What was that name?" "Frank B. Cathay."

"Did he tell you was from! Riverview?"

"YES"

"Dul you know Its cashed chequo?

"Only a small cheque. I think

350 cheque. He got some money before we went out."

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"And that's nli?" asked Fisher. "That's all," she said, Fisher turned to Griff, then looked

Bleeker.

"Satisfied?" he asked.

"You know the rest," she anfil in whimpering manner,

"Go ahend," he said. "Tell it to me. I may surmise the rest or I may know it. That's neither here nor there. You tell me."

"He put me in this hotel," she said. "Ile told me that It had been just a prank, that he had a wife and that he couldn't afford to havo me inter- viewed by the newspapers. Than after the newspapers came out I knew that he wasn't Cathay at all. The newspapers said he was a pick- pocket."

"You discussed that matter with him

"Of course."

"What did he say

"He said that the impersonation

was

› entirely innocent,” she said, "that ahe, was trying to help a man get a good position. That this person had to have first-class references from Afr. Cathay and it was necessary for Mr. Cathay to sign sonse sort of a bond, He said that Cathay wouldn't do it. He would give references but ha wouldn't give the kind of references that were required, and he wouldn't sign the band."

Griff shook his head slightly, "Neither am 1," said Fisher. Fisher whirled once more to the after that,"

"Then later on, in the lobby before dinner, I saw him again. He didn't seems at all fresh. Didn't seem In- clined to take undus advantage of at what had happened, but I could see that he was lonely. Apparently he 'didn't know what to do with himself. He'd read for a white and then he'd throw the magazine dway and amoke attack. "Immediately a cigarette, and then he'd throw the he suld, "you left the hotel. You cigarette away and pace around the cas here. You registered under. lobby a little bit. I was reading the name of, Stella Mockley." Jagazine. 1 lived there in the hotel, you know. I presume that's the way you located nie,

"I let him catch my eye finally, and gave him just the faintest suggestion

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"Yes." she said.

"Why did you do that?"

"I didn't want to be traced," she

said.

"So this AN was impersonating Cathay and was going to sep that his friend got the job?"

Yes.

"Who was his friend?" "I don't know. called Frank."

It was someone he

(To Be Continued.)

Fisher makes a threat in the next instalment and Stella remembers an

"It wasn't your name."-Fisher anist--address.

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uncanny mystory and horror

ganga. The picture shows vividly the

of various social ateata within crookdom, for the British screen, appearing in "Frankenstein" and "Dracula," plus The potty thieves and pick-pockets six productions before she answered

the Hollywood call. the added thrills supplied by those aro seen in cheap rooming konser In two creators of rerie roles, Kartoil and! |the foreign quarter of a largo city, Bela Lugosi, has been announced for while the big racketeers live a lite ul luxury it not security, in the showing at the King's Theatre on, swankter residential sections. The Wednesday. It's Universal's master story deals with the rise of a gangster thriller, "The Black Cat," suggested named Rico, played by Edward G. from a stury by Edgar Allan Poe.to a position

ktoumon, from the level of a thug bend of a powerful

ACCIDENTAL DEATH

INQUIRY, CONCLUDED AT KOWLOON YESTERDAY

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that all goods are being landed st a daring photoplay been attempted, j Eadie Chapman was determined to Fairburn (Foreman), I: M. Campos Wharf whence and/or

The jury comprised Messrs. T. C. their risk into the hazardous and/or bringing together the screen's two marry a nonaire and to remain and P. M. da Silva, Jnr.

extra-hazardous godowns of the Holt's from the great portrayera of horror roles, lady. And Jean Harlow, as Endle, Karloff and Lugosi. An expectancy accomplished her mature, stated that on October 27, he saw a December, 1934, 4 p.m. will be sub

Lai Fook, a vegetable hawker.

wharves delivery may be obtained.

Goods not cleared by the 23rd of something new and different long ture" now showing as the Queen's with the deceased. Some onlookers atutro-Goldwyn-Slayer picture, "100% desired by film patrons is justly Theatre. An

man named "Tao Pei Chai" quarreling ject to rent. promised. David Manners, und Juc

Eadie, Miss Hatio attempted to intervene. Since that All broken, chafed and damagei queline Wolla hend the romantic leads, gives one of her finest performances dry, witness did not foo the woman packages are to be left in tho with Egon Brecker and Lucille Lund a role that is admirably suited to comprising but part of a great "up-which she takes care of the character the police to the stall, and arrested for Revenue Ofleer in attendance her talents. The deft manner inain. On the same day, the younger godowns, where they will be examined

woman, Leung Sung

by Holt' Wharf.

Consignees are requested to apply Bation is very reminiscont of those the wrong man. Witness had carlier succC&RCS that brought her stardentHold Your Man" and "Red Witness did not see the actual push-being examined.

Red een "Too Pei Chui" since that day, when damaged dutiable cargoes are When a wife is faced with un- Dust." This time Miss Harlow. is ing, but now the woman getting up certainty about her husband, what teamed with Franchot Tone, who ap-from the ground.

Claims against the steamer must). should she do? The unusual method pears as the son of Lionel Barrymore,

be presented in writing within ten Ho Kuen, a found by Genevieve Tobin of dealing the very wealthy T. R. Paige, whose that when he first saw the deceased wine they will not be recognized,

street coolle, stated days after arrival of steamer, other. with this situation in "Uncertain political applecart is almost upset by she was bargaining with Ho Wong No Fire Insurance will be effected i Lady," the next change at the Queen's Budio Chapman's campaign. Lewis ut the Wing Tung Hing yegetable by the undersigned in any case what Theatre, in both new and amusing. Ac Stone giver his usual great perform stall. The woman went to another cording to Genevieve's plan, when she ance and Cousins,

millionaire stall and after a discovers her husband is philandering bacholor Jack Conway, who filmed again. She bargained again but did signed by

while came back Bill of Lading will be counter: with another woman, she makes no the eple "Viva Villa!" was the dire not buy anything. Witness saw Ho scene whatsoever. On the contrary, tur. The supporting cast includes Wong push the

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she was furious and wanted to strike outlines a strictly business proposition

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Ho Wong. to her competitor. The details of this "Pat" Paterson, the girl who'start- Further evidence was given by Muk astounding proposition provide one of ed at the top! Meat young actresses, Lok, a Chinese detective. He stated the most hilarious situations yet de on their arrival in Hollywood, are that the deceased did not speak after vised in a motion picture. The exlat-treated to a "course of sprouts." sup she had been sent to the hospital. ing domestic triangle is soon com- porting roles of varied degrees of Witness had made a search for "Tao plicated by the appearance of several importance.

Miss Pal Chal" but could not and him. Almost before ardent admirers of the wife, who in Paterson had had time to unpack her The foreman of the jury in return.

her bewilderment becomes a most un-trunks following, her arrival from, ing their verdiet said; "We find that certain lady, The picture, directed by London, she was placed in the prin- the deceased's death was due to a Karl Freund from the play by Harry cipal feminine role of "Bottoms Up," push Segall, The Behaviour of Mrs. Crang" with Spencer Tracy, John Boler and Taking into consideration. the age of received from Ho Wong has a cast headed by Genevieve Tobin Herbert Mundin. Next she headed the docensed, we return, a verdict of and Edward Everett Horton, while the cast of "Call It Luck" with secidental death. We also find that Renee Gade, Paul Cavanaugh, Mary Mundin and Charles Starrett. And the push was not dallberate"

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