The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-29
The Clevw of the
 -s>.sss .ss:,..s .s.s.--. Forgotten Murder

V 38 Ay@ 00~ II Her face, now devoid of makeup, showed a pasty white. Her lips were taut and pale. Her eyes were dark with panic.
 Even" he said, eff it should ap- pear that Morden knew you, you would still insist that you didn't know him?"
 | She tried to speak twice before words came.
 "Knew me?' she asked. But how could he, when don't know fhim?'
 Suppose I should tell you," said Griff, that your name was entered in his notebook, together with this address ?"
 My name?Y she asked.
 "Yes," he said. "Alice Lorton, Elite Apartments, 319 Robinson street. How would you explain that?"
 She looked at him, and the fear fled from her face as hot chocolate syrup slips from a ball of ice cream.
 "Oh," she said, laughing, you're just trying to pump me, aren't you? No, really, MT Griff, I didn't know him. You startled me for moment with those statements. But I'm telling you the truth. didn't know the man. I never, saw him in my life"
 Grifrs eyes remained fastened upon her lips.
 You don't seem to attach much l importance to the fact that your name was in his notebook" Tt couldn't have been," she said, | "unless Esther had given it to him Of course, that might have hap pened. He might have mentioned to Esther that he had a friend, and {, that he'd like to make a foursome | some night. Then Esther might have happened. He might have mentioned to Esther that he had 1 a friend. and that he'd like to | make foursome some night. Then Esther might have given him my name. But I think she's have spoken to me apout 1t if she had =. do you suppose, MT Griff, | there's any possibility that Esther's l AAoaPpOoIollC6 Aldu lO uO 1 with the fact that this reporter was here on the day he was mur- dered ?"
 That" Griff said grimly, "is what I'm trying to find out.' | "Oh," shessaid, I'm sure it couldn't have. Esther was myster- ious, very mysterious. She liked to keep her affairs to herself. She wanted to be secretive about every thing. She was a great individual ist. She carried the apartment in her own name and made me have my mail sent in her care, and all | that sort of stuff. But l know it was just some peculiar quirk of her character. It wasn't because she had anything to conceal" | Griff regarded her with a stare which was not unkindly. | Don't you think he said, you have carried this quite far enough, Miss Ordway?"
 What are you talking about?" she gasped.
 You know what I'm talking about he said. You're Esther l Ordway. There never was any Alice Lorton. You just took that name in order to give Esther Ordway a chance to disappear. You betrayed yourself just now, and you've be- trayed yourself by half dozen little things since I first came to the apartment, but, mainly, you showed your relief when I men tioned that the name of Alice Lor- ton was written in Morden's note- book. You knew that it couldn't have been, because the name of Alice Lorton was one that you had made up on the spur of the mo- ment after Morden had been kill ed"
 She took the cigaret from her lips. tried to knock off the ashes The hand quivered. The cigaret dropped from the nerveless fingers to the carpeted floor. Her face was a dead white, her lips pale, the eyes wide and startled. | Griff picked up the cigaret, pinched out the end and dropped it into the ash tray. | Are you" he asked, ..going to come clean?"
 Why" she gasped. T never heard of any such thing! What what !. .. makes you think that I'm Esther Ordway?" 'The fact that you've been living in the apartment several months. for one thing, without having a single belonging that you could identify as yours. The further fact that the clothes you claim are Es- ther Ordway's are the type of clothes that would be worn by a blond and not the ones that would be worn by brunei. The further fact that you've taken such elabo- rate pains to convince us that ] under no circumstances could you possibly have been acquainted with any boy friend of Esther Ordway. The fact that the apartment is reg | istered in the name of Esther Ord way; that the name of Alice Lor- ton doesn't appear upon the direc- tory :"
 But" she said, i've explained all that. I've told you just how it happened"
 "Yes," he said, tits a good ex- planation--just little bit too good Miss Ordway. Don't you think you'd better give me the complete story before l call in the police?" < (To Be COntinued)