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CHAPTER XLVII

CARLETON KENDRAKE

Sergeant Mahoney stopped the car in front of the apartment house. "I has been thinking," he said, "about Gentry. You may that he tried a key to apartment 309 and it wouldn't work

"That's right."

"Then, until he got to apartment 209 he must have thought the key was

to work." Yes.

Why?"

"In that event," he said, "he must ave used the key to get into the apartment house. In other words, he misest have opened the outer lour with that key."

She stared at him, her forehead showing lines of bewilderment.

She nodded. "Good luck," he told her, stepped from the elevator and let the door close.

until I've got some incriminating again. Something struck her in the side with numbing force. She heard evillence,

a terrific roar, felt ick Gentry grow suddenly limp. Sergeant Mahoney's wake u move and you'll get the same sounding deadly ominous, said, As the closing door made the elec dose, Stick 'em up!"

Millicent brake free as Dick Gentry trical contact, the elevator lurched up-

floor. She JUDW stop at the third collapsed to the ward. It jolted to

Nor- floor. Millicent saw a deserted cor- Sergeant Mahoney cutting at ridor. She screamed, "Norman, Nor-man's bonds with a clasp knife, saw man! Where are you?" and ran the the strange man with his hands high

above his hend, length of the corridor.

Some man shouted through closed door, "Pipe down. I want to sleep."

•

*

Milllcent ran to Norman, screaming, "Are you hurt?" le grinned at her A door opened. A strange man and said, "No. Why didn't you run when I warned, you? Gentry was stepped into the corridor."

"Are you looking for the man who holding a gun on me. He said he'd was hurt in apatment 3007" he shoot if I didn't lie perfectly still, I Want asked.

"In other words," Mahoney said,

"Yes," Millicent said, and such was ed to get you in here. "Aomeone gave Gentry a key to apari

309. That someone had meal

aher eagerness to nente Norman that shouted I dove forward to dodge the tment in the house and for the moment the entirely forget bullet. A woman was with him. She other apartment ntust have given Gentry the key to she was brit for a death trap.

that apartment instead of apartment "I found him in the corridor," the

309.

open the door

AUT-

*

Both keys would of the apartment house itself. The man all. "lie was unconscious. peculiar kuocks were merely a signal Look him in here and have been waiting for him to regain conscious- so the conspirators couldn't be

ness so I could find out what happened, prised by anyone with a pass-key.

Millicent recognized the logic of his He's not badly hurt."

$ remarks. "Good heavens, yus! And

Millicent ran swiftly to the door of perhaps that other apartment is

The man stood to one the apartment. where

Looking past him. Millicent "Now kide. he interupted. that apartment must be on the third saw a couch. On the couch, covered

from by floor. Norman

carried

a blanket, lay Norman Happ. He would never have! There was a gash on his forehend on apartment 309, Jeft it voluntarily. They would which dry blood hal encrusted. Ils hardly have taken him up or down eyes were closed.

Exactly."

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"Norman!" Millicent screamed, Norman

"Run.

screamed

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I couldn't see her clearly." "He straightened, rubbing his wrists.

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Flepped over to Sergeant Mahe

he said. "I'm sorry, boys,"

"I had Dick Gentry, slowly shook his head. to do it. He'd have got the girl."

Millicent looked up then and saw that grim, silent figures had filed in- to the room, figures who moved with swift effeteney, jerking down the hands of the man who had lured her into the apartment, shopping hand. calls around his wrists,

"What happened, Norman?"

asked.

she

Sergeant Mahoney sat down besides Norman Happ. " important," he said, "for us to get everything you know and get it fast. Give us tho bare facts and give them quickly."

I was

Sergeant Mahonry stepped from the! ear, rang the bell of the apartment

A Woman's voice

went to 300, Norman Happ anid. marked, "MANAGER" At the third

"I knocked. No one answered. I ring speaking tube whistled. A epithet, a gun roareil.

This Norman Tapp and flung himself started toward the elevator. woman's voice said, "If this is a ten- ant who's forgotten a key, I'll open off the couch as he called his warn, man," nodding his head toward the the door. If it's tumeone who wants Ing. Millicent saw that his hands handcuffed prisoner, "stopped into an apartment, come luck at a decent were tied behind his back as he dove, the hallway. He naked me if

hond first, to the floor. A bullet a friend of Phyllis Faulconer. lle "It's the police," Sergeant Mahoney ripped the davenport where his head said she had instructed him to let said. "Open the door and meet us in had been. Another bullets tore her friend into the apartment. It

ripping

a trap. I fell for it and through the upholstering,

said, the corridor with a pass-key."

A moment later the door buzzed cloths sending up a shower of dust Yes. He let me into the apartment, struck at me with a blackjack. I was open. Sergeant Mahoney pushed his and exposing wire springs, way

the apartment house. The strange man who had stood stunned but managed to tackle him.

"Dick Gentry came

We fought i17. Millicent saw a big, blond woman within the doorway struck at Millicent's a white, frightened face, hugging a hend with n blackjack. Somehaw all over the apartment but they got she did not know how she avoided me finatly. They dragged me down kimona about herself.

this place and have held me Sergeant Mahoney showed her his that blow and sped toward Norman to

pars-key," he Happ.

prisoner. I think this mat bage. "Give me

the kitchenet she saw Dick Gentry.! "“And, by God!” said the handcuffed

said.

into

third floor.

Through as open dour which led to: thue. That's all I know is a hired

She harded him the pass-key, on automatic in his hand, his lips man."that's all you'll ever find out, Sergeant Mahoney escorted Millentwisted into an evil leer, taking deli- You've killed Gentry. You've got no- to the elevator, slid beck the door of Iwate aim at Norman Happ's strugal- thing on ine. I thought the man was the cage, pressed the button for the cereained, lunged forward.

figure.

a burglar,"

Sergeant Mahoney turned to him When you get to that floor," he The gun roared. She heard the im- purposefully. "You." he said, “know said, "get out and run up and down poet of a ballet striking something wha Phyllis Faulconer is. You know the corridor sereaning. Normne, solid as, with a savagery which sur-where Jarvis upp is. You can where are you? After that, no mnt-prised her, she dang herself upon either talk or we'll take you to head- ter what happens, act naturally that ick Gentry and realized she was quarters, and when we get done with is, be frightened. Don't let un that olding his wrist, struggling with him you know the police have the place for the automatic. surrunnded. For your information, I have men placed where they can come to your rescue whenever I give the enal, but I don't want to do that

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"You little she evil!” he exclaimed, as her teeth sack into his hand, "Take that!"

He kicked at her. The gun roared

emotional impulse this picture

which

you you'll be dam glad to talk."

The man suurled defiance. "Try and make me talk," he said.

"By God." Sergiant Mahoney said, grimly, I will."

(To Be Concluded]

il

family school girl is broken, to the

of the past is the achievement com- cludes John Halliday, always prised in "The Crime Doctor" showing finished actor, who plays the role of a at the Oriental Theatre on Wednesday theatrical Angel and the lover of Miss the and Thursday, Offering a most novel Teasdale; Charles Starrett, as

blue-blooded, aristocratic treatment of the subject-the strange scion of n

whose engagement to the scientific murder-

takes into its confidence from | satisfaction of his the roughly shocked

manner, Barbara Leonard and Virginia Ham- up in this unusual

when suspirian is cun mond. evatred upon an innocent man

The Defense Rests" Lo pay seems destined

the

Jack Holt, hero of eighty-six virile penalty. Affording unother

Every cinema goer will certainly the nine Intense suspense is mother; Pauline True, Jonn Wheeler,

the

thrill to the screen story of carefree youth which will be seen by Thursday built at the Queen's Theatre, "Bachelor of Arts" is the title of this outstanding Fox production-yes, it is adapted whe from the fames John Erskine novel

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which is based on the most greatest quality is its sense of hu-

That, of course, stens dreet-smazing case of a great nunhurter's drama, "The Defense flest

whe misuse of his ability. Judith Wood playing at the Queen's Theatre. The from an original story and its author, the man wrote "The Private Life of Helen of and William Frawley have important new Jo Swerline and was 1r feceru

in-screen play who roles. and and Galabud,"

of the story. Miss Morley, directed by Lambert Hillyer, Sup- # famed

the star in the leading 1. humorist than he AS college pro-as his wife, furnishes the motive for nine role is Jean Arthur, whe Tessor at Columbia. But the same the amazing "perfect erime" of the gay and authentically lively note has picture. Dealing with the paycho- scurt decisively in the recent "Whirl-

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Sarth most important

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Desirable,"

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of the Puthless, sensational popularited the Bill and the Earl Rogers. Mitchell of the Mutt

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enn't buy and which the Er magazine writer, Mary young people as

cross examination of witnesses, and Albertson. John Arledge and Frank

graduate in

in the per- which Walter Lang directed from a

by Gene Fowler and Bess Inally, the presentation of her own Melton. No wonder ife moves quick- of a young and unrephisticated girl comely Yorkers are is at this film university. An then, who has been secluded from childhood son of Jean Arther comes into his story

top the laughs, Stupin Fatehit in a boarding school by her brilliant life at the height of his career. Iler Meredyth for release through United defence by her lawyer. She never Artists. Adolpho Menjou, Virginia takes the stand, however it being a appears as a slow-motion bellhon in actress mother who fears that public the profession provide a sharp non Bruce, Rochelle Hudson and Janet major part of the defence not to allow

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trast to Holt's cynical materialism Beecher are also prominently cast in his client to utter a daughter will dim her own popularity

behalf. The murder trial, one of the "The Great Hotel Murder"

most elaborate that has been stagod the way for A thrilling Sereen players are much younger Thrust suddenly into the giddy whirl They share arguments with romance, The Mighty Barnum."

"The Case of the Howling Dog" for a motion picture during recent

"The Mighty Barnum"

years, was reproduced virtually in ita entirely.

"Now and Forever"

mystery

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He seems to have over-

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A now starring romantle team is

and better looking to-day than they of New York's social elite, she sends and pave

ил electrical shock up and down the denoueinent. were ten years ago. Many of the spines of custom bound conventional

In theso all talking pictures, no people whose voices are admired for people by her outspoken truths and "The Mighty Barnum," which 20th important player in a production taken their clearness and diction to-day naturalness, George Brent gives the Century britigs to the King's Theatre, part in a scene without having some would have failed to pass the most convincing performance as the is in the nature of a Conternini Cele. thing to say before the scene is over. opinion of Ernest Painter, A.S.C., one ann-about-town, once in love with the bration offering. For it was exactly Mary Astor, however, has the distine-presented to film audiences in Fara- test a few years ago. This is the

rns to the daughter one hundred

tion of being a completely silent mount's "Now and Forever," coming Mr. other, bu

years ago that P. of Fox Film's все camera en.

of or simple charm, and and Palmer photographed "The retinck of affectation. Brent acem more Barnum, played by Wallace Beery, participant in every scene that was to-day to the Star Ilgatre. It is un Now York made for one entire week during the Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard, and Fox Film's

Krocery store maro magnetic and Hotel which comes

and launched his production of the Warner Bros. aro- the picture marks the first time that City's Bowery,

ap as the world's greatest show-duction "The Case of the Howling these two popular players have career us Wednesday to the King's Theatre. u scomingly studied self repres by exhibiting Joice Heth. nn Dog" which is showing for the last peared together as leads. In addition, Lowe is co-featured with Victursion and gives his real seir to the aged negress claimed to be 160 years

ars times to-day at the Alhambra Theatre. five-year-old Shirley Temple, who was Teasdale 18 old and to have nursed George She was on the set in every scene, a seen in "Little Miss Marker," plays a in the screen version of character · role.

popular Red Book mystery

of starring role. Together, these For Murder." They quito as dazzling as Miss Muir as the Washington in his infancy. Whether prominent figure in the foreground of

ail the action that went on, yet for compose one of the most "Recipe portray two rival rleuths in this John actress mother, temperamental, jeal- Joice was actually a Barnum hoax or

cts of her own daughter to the extent not was never determined, but the seven days she never opened her binations seen in films. The charac Eugene of which Stone production,

of the day devoted mouth. The explanation is a simple ters they play are sympathetic, human

Miss Astor playe the role of Forde directed. In the supporting of being willing to ruin her life to newspapers

entirely believable, further her QWI Carcor. Mias flattering amount of editorial space to cast Aro Rosemary Ames, Mary Teasdale gives a fiory portrayal of the the question of her authenticity and the central figure as the defendant in enact a story that is sincere, with Carlisle, Henry O'Nill, C. Henry maddened actress who thrusts a knife even the clergy found her worthy of the murder trial which forms the last loads of heart-tugs Gordon, William Janny, Charles Cinto her daughter's heart, while Miss mention. General Tom Thumb, the and most thrilling part of the play with the smiles and leughs. Sir Guy Wilson, John Wray, and others. Muir rises to the highly emotional and world's smallest man, the Cardiff Accused of murdering her husband, Standing, Charlotta Granville, Gilbert

"Crime Doctor"

cataclysmle scenes with all the Giant, the

Woolly Horse, the FI Miss Astor alle beside her Counse), Emery and Henry Kolker are also in A detective photoplay hailed as a artistry of a seasoned trouper. The Mermaid, the two-headed calf and all Warren William in the role of a bril the cent. "Now and Forever" was di- distinct departure from crime films entire cast is a talented-one and in- the rest of the freaks with which lant criminal attorney, and day after rected by Henry Hathaway.

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