The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-22
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Morden, police reporter, has beer
mysteriously killed he employ.
Sidney Griff, famous Grimm clog
list, to solve the murder. 'a .~'
! Morden had been investigating
the affairs of Frank B. Cathay
wealthy and prominent, who hae
threatened to sue The Blade be
cause the newspaper reported Ca
thay had been arrested. The
man arrested was an impostol
giving. the name of Cathay ano
accompanied by a girl called
Mary Briggs. .t
Soon after Morden is founo
dead comes news that Cathay is
dead-possibly poisoned.
Morden's fingerprints are founc
in the apartment of a girl named
Alice Lorton who has reported
the disappearance of her room.
mate, Esther Ordway. Griff
learns that Carl Racine, detective
employed by Mrs. Cathay, is try
ing to locate a Mrs. Blanche Ma.
lone. .., ..- - .... -
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
-. CHAPTER XVI
Sidney Griff took the cigaret
from his lips. "Mrs. Blanche Ma,
lone" he repeated thoughtfully
His eyes sought Dan Bleeker's,
"You don't know who she is, do
lyou-what she looks like, how old
she is, or anything else about
herr"
''No," Blocker said. "All we can
get is the name. Racine is look
ing for a woman of that name.
| That's all | know"
And Racine is working for
Mrs. Frank Cathay," Griff re-
minded him. Anything else?"
"That about sums it all up
Blocker said. The medical exam
nation of Morden's body shows
that he was killed about noon on
Thursday. Perhaps a few min
utes after noon, It's impossible
to tell, He hadn't had any lunch.
He'd been doing quite a bit of
running around. He hadn't kept
any notes of what he'd discover
ed told him not to-but there
was a notebook in his pocket in
which he'd kept his expense &C.
count and he had spent quite q
bit for cab money!
! Griff closed his eyes once more
do you remember the items?'
he asked. 49,.
"No, l don't" Becker said
"There were two or three small
ones and then a bill of $3.50 all
at once. as though he'd taken q
long trip somewhere in a cab"
Griff froWned for a moment.
Anywhere else?" he asked.
"No."
Griff got. to his feet, started
! pacing the floor, the long legs
! taking swift. nervous strides, the
| wooden bathrobe Tapping against
his shins. Once or twice he
reached out in front of him with
the extended fingers of his hands
as though trying to feel his way
through the room, giving the i'm
preston. Of stroking the atmos,
phere with the tips of his fingers,
Blocker watched him anXiously
! i *
Abruptly Griff turned and,
when he spoke, his voice. was as
rapidly explosive as that of Bleek-
| er himself in his most driving mo-
ments. ..'...t. r.. -.
"This thing is delicate" he said
"It's got to be handled with the
delicacy of surgeon performing
a brain operation. But the thing
is here. It's in our grasp. It's all
ready to be smashed wide open.
"The trouble is we're overlook
ing something somewhere. There's
some point, probably an obvious
point, something that's logical as
the very devil and yet we aren't
getting it. l have that feeling
Pm never wrong when have that
feeling. There's. something that
Pm Notwithstanding big,
something vital, something that's
already in our minds something
that's staring us in the face so
close that we can't see it."
BECKER shrugged his shoulders
and said nothing. ~ 80
Griff was pacing the floor
again. When he went on speak
ing it was as though he had for,
gotten the other mans presence.
"The last time" he said, "that
Morden reported to The Blade of
flee he said he had a live lead,
He didn't want to mention names,
] He said it was going to be neces-
sary to cultivate girl. Almost
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