The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-24
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"No, we're going to get them But, frankly, Griff, it, seems to me you're using up a lot of energs on a blind lead"
 Gfiff stareG steadily at the pub | fisher.
 "ft wasn't a blind lead" he said
 sswhen 1 told you to check up or the women who had disappeared Now I'm telling you want tc | check up tn the men who come tt that apartment. There's man fl the case somewhere. We've got te
 find out who he is and then we've got to find him"
 "But he wouldn'v come to the | apartment after the girl had dis appeared" Blocker objected. Grin shrugged his shoulders i'm patiently.
 "Either," he, said, ''you're 9oina to work with me on this thing or I'm not going to work with you You can get some detective agency l to put on men to do the mechan. ical shadowing work if you want 1 to. told you that before 1T think" Blocker said slowly. "I'll have to ask you more about your theory before we put men watching that apartment. It seems utterly useless to me" Griff flung off his bathrobel strode toward the bedroom and was stripping of his silk loungitG suit as he walked.
 All right,'' he said, 'we'll so to the apartment. I've got a theory: I want to check it thers anyway" e
 In less than three minutes he rAr appeareti, clothed in a tweed sult and tan rubber-soled shoes. He strode into the room, jerked open the door of closet and struggled
 Come on.a' he said. wen take a look at thats apartment. By the way, what are the police doins about this Esther ordway who's missing? Are they interested in the thing? Are they looking for herr"
 'They're treating it as a casual disappearance so far" Blocker said.
 eve haven't told them about the fingerprints we found in Alice Lor- tons apartment-Morden's finger prints. I wanted to get your re- actions to 1t before we did any, thing with the police"
 II think" Grife told him, "we'll continue to forget the police for a little while, until we've done some experimenting of our own. Come on. We're going to see Alice Lor- ton. In the meantime want you to telephone your paper to publish the best photograph of Charles Afr- a Cty particularly if any taxicab driver who remembers being hired by the hour by this person will communi- cate with the paper.
 "You see,". Griff went on, "that big taxi entry is far. more likely to mean that he engaged a cab by the hour for lots of short trips than that he took one long trip. He could have taken long ride much more expjeditiously and cheaply than in a taxicab. But II he was fighting against time, trying to do something in a hurry, as his reports indicated that he was, and if he had uncovered red-hot trail he would have rented a cab by the hour. In that way he wouldn't have lost any time while he went from place to place-places that prob- ably were not in districts where he could pick up cabs easily"
 Blocker nodded.
 "That," he said. 'is logical. We'll SC that the morning news paper carries the photograph and we'll ask anyone who might have any information about Morden to get in touch with The Blade. Blocker picked up the telephone: (TO Be Contlnued) Pretty Alice LOrton cOnfides 1 some information about her miss ing roommate in the next install ment. N