The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-20
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SYNOPSIS

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 Who killed TRACY KING, Or- chcstra leader found dead In his
 DAVID HARVESTER, author. former newspaper reporter, un- dertakes Co find out.
 Police are searching for an eunknOwn hlonds who visited King shortly before his death. Bannistcr has seen the girl, but she hns since disappeared.
 HERMAN SCURLACH, who wrote King Q threatening letter, is fin jail. He declares his inn0- Oence. AL DRUGAN, friend of King, says the orchestra Header has been having trouble with JOE PARROTT, his former vaudeville partner, and accuses ParrOtt of the murder. Police learn that NIELVINA HOLLIS ter, middIe-aged spinster had a violent quarrel with King after his cat Killed her canary. CAP TAIN McNEAL of the detective bureau goes to sec Miss HOilister and her brother, MATTHEW. When he leaves he declares, s'Th0se two will bear watching"
 Next morning Bannister learns that the blond suspect has been arrested. He goes to see her.
 CHAPTER xxx
 The girl who had called herself Juliet France arose from the cot on which she had been sitting and came forward. If Bannister had expected to find her weeping he was mistaken. The gray eyes he had seen filled with tears met his own steadily, disdainfully. There were no tear marks on her cheeks. The girls whole attitude was defiant.
 "so it's you" she said. What a surprise!"
 "I just heard you were here," he told her. Yesterday when l went back to the hotel I couldn't find you"
 "No, suppose you couldn't. wasn't there.' She laughed then and Bannister was sure the de- fiance, the cool aloofness was a pose. The laugh wasn't conYinc- ing. This girl was not hardened; she was frightened. Once more Bannister felt his better judgment leaving him.
 q came," he said, ''to see if there was anything I could do."
 "But there isn't! Nothing at all. And why should you do onything? :? The girl laughed again and this time her lips trembled. Perhaps I should apologize for my appear ance," she went on. "The accom- modations and the service here"
 Don't" Bannister said shortly. He didn't want her to go on like green suit. She had taken off the jacket and he saw that her blouse was of the same shade. It was a silk blouse made with a bow be- meath the chin that gave her a childlike look. Her lovely. honey colored hair was not as smooth as it had been yesterday but it gleamed and glistened. Bannister thought of Denise Lang's crisp, metallic ringlets. The way this girl wore her hair,, he thought, was much more attractive.
 ''What happened?" he asked. ''IIow long have you been here?"
 Since last night"
 "Last night? You mean you were here in this cell"
 The girl nodded. ooh, yes" she said. "The =: lady on your left there snores. There was one here last night who was worse. She kept shrieking the most terrible things. They took her, away awhile ago. Oh, there's been plenty of excitement. The detectives keep asking me question and they've taken my finger prints"
 Her fingers, where they rested against the cell bars were white and gracefully formed.
 "See here!" Bannister inter- rupted. 'There must be something I can do. Someone to get in touch with!"
 The girl shook her head. For an instant the gray eyes held his. "There's-no one," she said. The hand that had rested against the bars fiuttered to her mouth..
 "But there must bel" Bannlster insisted.
 The girl continued to eye him: "Yesterday," she said. you prom ised to help me. was afraid ana ran away. That was a. mistake. Bannister glanced over his shoulder. The woman in the blue uniform was far down the. cori- dor. There was not one to over hear.
 "Where did you go?" he asked.
 She hesitated, then went on slow ly, q thought someone was follow ing me. That frightened me and l Jeff the hotel. I didn't know where to 20 or what to do. Then saw a department store. I wanted to buy something different to wear so went in but thought people were staring at me. went into the rest room and it was quiet there. Not many people came in. I found a magazine and stayed there, trying to read, until time for the store to close.
 "Then I went to the railway sta- tion. I stayed in the women's room for awhile. About o'clock when l went out to buy a ticket a man came to the window and showed me g. police badge. He said he was a detective and that I'd have to come with him. He brought me here and = I've been here ever since."
 mister noticed the grace or her shoulders. It was a grace that IS not acquired, grace lnat speahe of family and breeding. There was boise and dignity in that silght movement.
 Rannister thought, "This is. the last place on earth to find Such grill"
 But she was there nevertheless Rannister shifted uneasily, aware that he was facing a situation TOT which he had no solution. He wanted to help the girl and did not know how. He wanted to be- lieye she was innocent of wrong doing and could not quite man