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The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder: TRAVEL SERVICE

CHAPTER XXXVIL

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

Fiskar's volco rose Jelligerently. "Go on!" he said. "Como clean-win was that frland?"

It

Frank

"All I know," the girl nald, "is that

WAS BORIcons who was

called

"You're lying."

Fisher fold

"You know more than

that.

her. Who

was that friend 217

"Just Frank."

Her eyes refused to meet

thore

of the attorney,

"Who was

that friont?" Fisher said with slow sistence.

in-

She rained her eyes to his. said "I can tell you this desperately, much, but he told me that he'd find me and kill me if Iver told any- GIAO

"Never mind that," Fisher said. "What in it you're going to tell me?" "I can tell you," she said, "that Frank lived at Riverview."

"That he lived là Riverview 1** "Yes."

"How do you know?" "Because of the telephone calls." "What telephone calls?"

"A telephone call

that the man

in the chair and put her hands to | Pote would say, 'Did you do what I hor face.

suggested, Frank? and then Frank The lawyer continued his aggres-would evidently say 'yes or no and give cross-examination.

Pete would say "Where's the party "Where did this woman live 7" ho we were talking about yesterday f asked.

and Frank would make some reply, and then Pote would say "Do you think

"I don't know," she said. " "None of that," he told her, "or that any suspicion has been aroused ?" or something like that. The conver- it's going to be just too bad."

She dropped her hands from her nations were just like that. I'm not face, jumped to her feet, screamed trying to tell you exactly what they don't were because I can't remember, but at him, "I don't know I know! I don't know! I tell you it was something like that things I don't know! Don't you stand there that no one could understand that had

been listening in." and tell me I liel"

A

Fisher stepped forward, put heavy hand on her shoulder, pushed! her finck into the chale.

"Sit down," he said, "and tell me where this woman lives."

The girl pressed her lips together in stony silence.

Fisher scowled at her moodily. "I'm wondering if you're telling the truth about that," he rald.

"Yes," she said in a tone of voice that indlented all of the resistance hud left her. "I'm telling you the truth about everything now.

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"Go on," the 'Inwyer said. "I'm doesn't stand to reason that they'd let me in on their secrets. If they waiting."

"I told you I don't know," anid doggedly.

"You're either going to tell

whend I'd probably have been killed

by this time."

轻典

"And

what happened to

the attorney asked.

Pate ""*

where that woman lived" said Fisher, "or you're going to go to jail.”

"I think," Bleeker interrupted, "wo miled and clamped his hard and Fete cailed Frank at the Cathay

Griff whirled

"He left. There wote some telo-: phone calls that came in late inst night and one early thin morning,

put through from my room here in on the publisher's arm. the hotel."

residence and said, 'I've done my part of it. Now it's up to you lo staring do yours, or something like that and "You've then he packed his suitcase."

call "Now, did these telephone take place from your room here?" Fisher asked.

"And he called this person Riverview?

"When did he put it through 7** "Just last night,"

?

"Keep out of It," he said. "GO on," Fisher xald, stendily at Stella Mockley. in got your chance either take

leave it."

it or

"Do you know the number 7" "Yes," she said in a voice

that!

"What was that number?”

"Yes!

was last inaudible.

"I've already told you," she said,

"I don't know.

Fisher strode across the room to receiver the telephone, jerked the

"Some of them "did,"

"How about the others?"

off the hook with an air of brink Pete

"The number," abe subl, "was the finality. number of Mr. Cathay's residence,! want,"

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"They were from other pinces.

didn't seem to want to from any one telephone too much.

i sak, "to talk with We'd he out to dinner in restaurants

i took occasion to look it up in the police henibquarters,” book. Then after 1 found it out 1 The girl gave a half scream, stared get frighteneil, I thought that per-Lat him with eyes that were wide and haps it was something that was around. lot more serious than I had at Brat thought. I didn't know what to do. 4 was commencing to gel auspicious! of this man.”

"He didn't continue to go under the name of Cathay after you found ent about the impersonation?" Fisher

"No," she said in a weak vojen, "What was his name?" "Malone," ley said.

asked.

"His first name?" "Petr."

else did

"Whe

he call besides; Frank? Did he seem to have any

other person here in the city

that

"Yes,"

he was reporting to?"

"Who was #?"

"A woman.”

him

"Who was the woman?" "I think,” she said, wER wife."

"What was her first name?" "Her Arst name was Blanche." She gave a sigh, dropped forward

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ls).

"Out on Flat street," she "929 East Bim street."

The attorney spoke suavely he telephone.

and he'd put in calls from the rea- faurants. Or sometime he'd stop in stores an put through the drug

nil.

calls."

"Are you holding out anything on us?" ask d Fisher. "Is there

pny-

into thing else that you know, that you

haven't told us?”

"Never mind," he said. "I wanted

num-

"I've told you every single thing," is try and final yut about a park-he said, raising her eyes ing tag I received, but I guess I had fully, and when Pete finds it out

better en in person."

He dropped the receiver back on it hook and turned to the girl.

"That's letter," he said. "Now I want you to understand one thing. If you hohl out on me on anything 1 don't care how little it is or how trivint it is you're going to go right to Jnil. Do you understand that?"

"Yes," she said, "I do now."

" want to know, he toki her. "who this Peter Malone talked with in the Cathay residence."

"With Frank Bliss, the chauffeur,

she said.

"you

I going to kill me," think that this un. Pete, wouldn't

"Evidently." Fisher said, stop at murder?"

He wontsn't stop at anything,"

said.

with

"There

"Why

old you keep on

him 7"

"I don't know," she said.

was some fascination that he had for me. I don't know what it was. him. Something that palled me to

It

WAR AN attraction at first after that it was fear."

(To Be Continued.)

"Was there any conversation about! medicine or sickness or poison?"

"No," she anid. "They talked about portance in the murder mystery in things that you couldn't understand

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