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LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
Hope Springs Eternal
BY HAROLD GRAY
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CHAPTER X' .
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Ukar Mid. "It's suburb, and as
?. list's concorned I won't accept
. i a-u a in nine nn
L. nan at an i""" .
Pj. . .nster, or a erook.
Kf. oM thtot tou find c-nt from
p Kit aln a
Li hi tne newspaper
MfiVe a cruuiwvi . ' -
t .m newanantr man,
Fw il man Hathav
bMiv naopie. "
lood to be true, ana
LYidMt of the luncheon club, the
Cident of the chamber of com
ETc. director of the bank, candidate
city councilman m ...-. -
hi hit wife nd rear in oer
Tsar aajtra
Pr" repeated Bleekr.
....--.
"Afraid of me mMvmire- ,
IJ '!.. If
"Paraans. tjietfhtyr oa. uv
tn ms as though she was too
feint at coveriDe up the fear to have
LestlT acquired it. I would say It
Li something ahe had been llrai
th for week or months."
"And there was some ism annul
Ltkav's death being due to poison?"
Mnturentlv there was," Bleeker
lit "but It's being hushed up. Ca
ity wis an influential man In Rir
Jrieir. The family have influential
Mends. There were two doctora on
le rate. One of the doctora thought
Itre were circumstances surrounding
It death that mode It resemble poia-
Inf. The other doctor attributed
te natural causes, tie s signing a
kith certificate."
"There 11 be no autopsy?' asked
m m
There's going to be an autopsy,"
kbsker aaid grimly. "I'm going up
taterriew Beckley, the editor of
Be Rlrerriew Chronicle. That was
aewtpaper that was on the op
bilte side of the political fence from
ft Cathay side. Beckley and I have
tunes favors in tne past. He
larttd Investigating the Cathay
path and then telephoned me that
k was going to have to lay off be-
of pressure that waa belnc
eight to bear on him by members
tae usmoer of commerce, of the
tebeon club and rarions banking tames."
"la other words," Griff aaid, "Ca-
MJ's friends are trying to etcm a
Hndsl."
Bleeksr nodded.
"Subject, of course," Griff went on.
lo tbe fact that there's a strong
osibillty that this wsa due to nat-
fil nnies, and that the vounni- dor.
r linphr msde a mistake In rilar.
fells."
Tost, of course. I. nna.iMll..
Nkr uld.
'Oetrlag hack to thia woman .n.L "
Wff told him, "I tske It you feel
prdea was murdered because he waa
piaa trau of some woman who had
a barinr an affair sHth Path., t.
st right?"
That's right."
Then ohrlonslT." r.Ali
Ns woman wonM not ),. k..-
i ef th. murder."
ker sUred at him.
Nflgnre that out?" he asked.
wwe simple, k woman'a good
IS, Of Course, an Imnnttant .
rea to her. But a woman of th
Who Could parr .rr.
.... mu niinir
P s man of the aocisl prominence
Trk B. Cathay la probably the
. rvman won does very much
i pleases. She'a nrnk.M. .
feisaB who has sn innrtmnt .e i...
Pa. Who COmefl anrf mnmm .k.
Pses sad doesn't hare to account to
last's reasonable," Bleaker
Therefori," Griff went '.. .
woosn would hsrdly oommlt mur
f Protect her n.mllrf
m.' on
Ci m ""Olres poliUcal prestige,
rprsstige and rich financial re-
IJl Me what you're getting at,"
iswr remarked.
r sot certain that you do," Griff
told him. "Here'a the point I had
in mind. Let us suppoae that Morden
waa about to contact or had contacted
some woman who offered him an op
portunlty to gat some information
concerning Cathay. And we'll further
suppose that that information waa of
nature which would be derogatory
to Cathay character.
"Obviously, if Morden waa to eon'
tact a woman, he expected to get some
miormation from the woman. If he
waa murdered because of that eon
tact, he waa murdered by someone
who waa anxious to keep Morden from
getting that miormation. Now then.
let ua put ourselves in the position
of the murderer. Having eliminated
Morden from the picture, what would
oe nia logical next step?"
"Tou mean the woman?" Bleeker
naked.
"Exactly," Griff aaid. "He would
see that tbe woman was removed
from the picture. Either by seeing
tnat her Hps were silenced, or by see
ing that she waa placed in a position
where she was not readily accessible
to tnose who were investigating Mor
den's death. Remember this, that the
murderer knew that Morden waa
working for the newspaper. He knew
that Morden was working to uncover
evidence against Oathay. He doubt,
less surmised that Morden waa mak
ing daily reporta. He didn't know
the nature of those reports. Morden
told you over the telephone that he
didn't wish to mention any namea but
the man who murdered him and the
crime indicates tnat it waa a man
didn t know how much Morden had
told you."
Bleeker nodded thoughtfully,
"Therefore," Griff aaid, "I would
suggest that you do two things. That
you concentrate upon finding Mary
uriggs and that you make a complete
investigation of every disappearance
case where the party who disappeared
waa a woman, and that the time of
dlaappearar.ee was within the last 4S
hours.
Bleeker'a eyea glinted with appre.
ciation.
"That," he said, "is an idea."
There waa a moment of silence.
Bleeker took the pipe from his mouth,
scraped out the aebea and dropped
tne pipe into his pocket.
"Tou understand. Griff," he said,
"this la the first time we've ever had
occasion to employ yon. I know
something of your work from a atand
point of results, but I don't know
how you work. Now just how much
of this investigation will yon take
over, and just how much are we ex
pected to do?"
"Let's not have any misunderstand
ing." Griff said. "You're to do it all."
"All?" aaked Bleeker.
"Every bit of it," Griff aaid. "All
I do la furnish ideaa and correlate
information. You get the facts. I
fit them together and direct the
search for additional facts."
"It virtually . amounts," Bleeker
said, "to putting our men at your
disposal.
"You can hire private detectives if
yon wish," Griff said.
"Our men are better than private
deteetivea.
"Then you can nae them if it's
economically advantageoua for you to
oo ao. aat I don't gather anv facta,
All I do Is interpret the facts that
are gathered and suggest the direc
tion in which a search ahould be
prosecuted for additional facts. Also,
I play human checkers."
"Human checkers?" Bleeker asked.
"That's what I call It," Griff aaid.
"A lot of detectives monkey around
with dead clews. They take some
inanimate object and attach a great
deal of importance to it. I don't.
I feel that the aolution of every crime
dependa upon the animate, rather
than the inanimate. Not that I over
look inanimate clewe. I try to notice
such clewa and to give them due Im
portance, but I don t attach an undue
importance to them.
On the other hand, I don't try to
follow a cold trail while our quarry
sits still. I try to devise waya and
meana of keeping the quarry restless,
keeping It moving around. Then it's
alwaya leaving a fresh trail. In
other words, I play checkers with
them. I keep moving my men ao that
they are forced to make some move.
if you ve ever hunted deer, you
know what I mean. The hunter who
triea to follow a cold trail doesn't
get his bucks as regularly aa the man
who aits down some place on a rock
and makes the deer keep moving."
(To Be Continued)
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