The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-05-31
CHAPTER XIV
Introducing the Murderer

I'VE have identified six of these
seven keys" Peter continued. indicat-
ing the ring which Kilday was holding
IN his hand zone opens the street
door of Franklfn's apartment building !;
a second opens HIS apartment; another
fits Choo Choo Trains door; the fourth
opens the door of his general offices
and the fifth is to his private office.
That's an end of the large keys. OF
the smaller ones, the first opened his
desk and the last one still remains un.
Identified. CAN Milo Dunbar, will you?
] believe he can help US trace this key.
We should have done II before And
unless I'm clear of the track. well
know who the murderer is when we
succeed in doing that"
Franklin's partner was. located at
his office and promised to come at once.
"Ask him to bring the key to Frank
Inns private compartment OF the SAFE
Peter interrupted to suggest. "We'll
want that, too"
ST think" he continued after Kill
day had replaced the receiver, shat
we can definitely abandon the idea
that Franklin maintained a separate
apartment for this. woman IN blue. IL
he had done SO, why doesn't the key
appear on. this ring7 ALI his other
keys are here There have been times !
have been tempted to abandon this
woman as a clue, for this very reason,
and yet she was the motive for the
crime. I'm sure. No other solution fits
the facts. And since have arrived at
that solution, can see very good rea-
son why franklin had no Key to her
apartment"
"was it the shipley girifr Kflday de-
manded
"pm sure. 1t wasn't She" replied
Peter. "In their effort to protect
others whom they feared were guilty,
a number of people have. deceived US.
That has added to our complications
and that's why you have suspected this
girl"
At this point the attorney arrived.
Peter Cardigan was still contemplating
the slain mans. key-ring when he en-
tered.
did you bring the key?"
sHere." Dunbar handed It to the
novelist, who compared 1t carefully
with the small, unidentified hey on the
ring. His examination completed, he
reached for the nurses pad on the
table beside him, and scrawfed few
hurried notes upon it.
/ -. xy.f> I~n- tvkn khe
case?" Kilday could no longer restrain
his curiosity.
sPm not sure" Peter directed q
significant glance at his friend
"Here,r he handed him the notes hf
had lust written. "Wfth that much Il
60 on, perhaps you can make Ryif'
Carmody talk"
"But thought you said"
sNever mind what said before,
Peter replied earnestly. 81 may have
changed my mind. Look over thes,
notes and follow instructions"
Kiliay shrugged and left the room
"Then you think It was Ryhe Car
mody, after air. suggested Milo Dun
bar. II must confess I don't under
stand how that key had anything t
do with him"
swell soon know" Peter replie
shortly.
The attorney walked to the window
his back to Peter and hummed fe,
bars Of tune. 81 suppose the theor
IL that young Carmody committed tn
murder to prevent Franklip's marriag
to his sister?"
"No. That's no longer the theor!
We now believe that the murdere
killed Franklin because he discovere
the latter's love-affair with the woma
In blue"
aThe woman In bluer Dunba
wheeled and eyed the novelist cur
ously. That's the mysterious visito
, franklin had In the sacristy just b,
i fore the crime. Have you been abb
, TO identify herr"
, sThat all depends on Kilday," d.
, clared Cardigan frankly. @If his e