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BEGIN HERE TODAY Bolitho Blane, British financier, disap pears from yacht owned by his princi pal competitor, Carlton Rocksavage, off Miami. A note found in Blane's cabin, addressed to his secretary, Nicholas Stodart, indicates suicide since he faced bankruptcy. A memo written by Stodart thows Blane’'s company stock, Argus Suds, closing at a new low that dav. Other passengers aboard the yacht Golden Gull are Miss Ferri Rocksavage, Rocksavage's daughter; Lady Regirald Jocelyn, Mrs. Jocelyn, Lady Welter’s daughter and Inosuke Hayashi. Detective Officer Kettering, the yacht at Miami, finds strange marks on Blane's cabin carpet and blood en the curtain, He orders examination of all. Rocksavage, contending Blane is an obvious suicide, admits inviting Blane on yacht to effect amalgamation of companies, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER FIVE

Detective Officer Neame’s shorthand notes of Detective Officer Kettering’s examination of Cabin Steward Silas Ringbottom. K ~'Morning, Ringbottom. R.—Good morning, sir. K.—Have you been on board this ship long? R.—Yes, sir; ever since Mr. Rock=

savage bought her, and before that, |

too, with the previous owner, Lord Foulkes. I am an ex-navy man and this was my first job on leaving the service. K.—Good.

night. me then, after you had been to Mr.

Blane’s suite to inquire if he wanted vou to unpack, you went straight | back to your pantry, did a few odd | jobs there, and then read a boox | bugle sounded. |

until the dinner Now, is that correct? R.—Yes, sir, that's correct. K.—You're quite sure you never left that pantry of yours? I'm not trying to pin anything on you, don’t think that, but I want you to be quite certain that youre not maxing any mistakes. R.—Wait a minute, sir; leave it just once, to slip up to the writing room to get some sheets of notepaper for the Japanese gentleman. He'd asked for it earlier

Welter; |

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Well, there are just | one or two things I want to ask you | about ‘this affair that occurred last | According to what you told |

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starboard side, just across from the for'ard companionway. K.—Was the companionway in your view the whole time? J.—Yes, sir. : K.—Did you see anyone go up or down it during the time you were working there? J—Lady Welter's maid went be- | low just after I set to work. K.—Just after 7:30, eh? J—Yes, sir. Then Nellie Orde, Miss Rocksavage’'s maid, came up to dress her mistress much later on, about ten past eight I should say. K.—Anyone else? J. —No, sir, K.—Could you see the entrance | of the steward's pantry from where | you were? J—Yes, sir. It was just across | the companionway on the portside.

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~Was anyone know? J—Yes, sir. The cabin steward, Mr. Ringbottom. K.—Was he in his pantry the whole time you were at your job? [ J—Yes, sir, except when he went to answer the Japanese gentleman's bell, and then off to the chief | stewart to get some notepaper from him out of the store. He remarked, I remember, about the slackness of the lounge steward in letting it run out in the writing room because someone else had asked for some | earlier on in the afternoon, when

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| the chief stewart was ashore, and |

there wasn’t none. K.—What time was that? J—I'm afraid I couldn't say, sir.

K.—Can you give me any idea. |dence to help you solve the crime.

\ \ J—I'd hardly like say the time, you see I didn't notice partic’lar, being busy on my job, K.—Was is before, or after eight? J.—~Oh, before eight. Maybe about a quarter to, but I wouldn't like to say for certain. Ringbottom was away about five minutes, then, but all the rest of the time he was in his pantry because, although we couldn't see each other, every now and then we exchanged remarks. K.—Did you see anybody else in the passageway during the time you were working there? J.—Only the bishop, sir, when he went up. That was at 8 o'clock, because I heard the ship’s bell strike immediately after. K.—But various other people must have been coming down from the lounge or going back up to it, during that time. J.—That’s true, of course, but the companionway to the lounge is way aft, nowhere near where I was. I heard cabin doors shutting now and then, but you see I had my back to the passageway most of the time and I didn’t take much notice what happened behind me, being busy with my job. K.—What time did you stop work? J—Just after the dinner bugle

sounded at 8:30. K.—Right. That all I want to know. Thank you, Jenks. J.—You're welcome, sir,

(To Be Continued)

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By Henry

Bannister’'s sharp, thin-lipped | face as he saw the portly sheriff sink into a chair across the little hotel lobby. When things had become a little ‘too hot for Bannister in New York, {he had come here to Gainesburg to | lie low for a while. Like most big-

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| record.” “What have you got on me?” | Bannister stormed. | The sheriff chuckled. “Well, you {dug your own trap when you | started to talk about shoes and showed me yours, because I had {no clue whatever as to who com- | mitted that robbery until I looked

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| at the sole of your shoe. What I

on, but I found the racks were city crooks, he had only contempt saw there, combined with your be-

empty and, as the chief steward had been ashore at Miami, room was locked. When the Jap rang for me again later, though, the

the store- |

for small-town law officers. That he was justified in this contempt seemed to be proved at this | very minute. For here he was,

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chief steward was back again in his seated across the lobby from the | cabin and he gave me some from Sheriff, and that official hadn't the the store. | remotest idea that he, Bannister, | K.—~What time was that? was the fellow who had burglarized | R.—A bit before eight bells, sir. a local stationery store last week. | K.—Just before 8 o'clock, eh? And, Bannister smiled again. | floor.

THIS, Punk! I WAS LED TO BELIEVE IT WAS THE RIGHT HALF AND BLOCK: | | LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION OF JA [7 READY TO ONE WHO HAD A DATE WITH TONI TONIGHT! ING BACK ON THE ELMWOOD MILITARY Ay FINISH ANY J vs CHAMPIONSHIP SHADY: | | ACADEMY! AND WHAT 22) [| THINS TOU ot SIDE FOOTBALL TEAM! | | DOES THAT MAKE Ll 5

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away, you knocked a lot of stuff off a table, and among that stuff were some little boxes that flew open | and spilled their contents on the In those boxes were thumb

CHASING A KID I GUESS NAMED SID ( YOU DON'T WICKLEY, AND I KNOW GUESS 1 CAN WHO 1 >

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apart from that, you never left your pantry? R.—No, that's the truth, sir. K.—Who else was on duty at that time? R.—Only me, sir. The other. stewards who help me with the cabins was at their job of laying up for dinner then: and the stewardess, Maud Briggs, what would have been on duty, went down with shingles two days ago, so she's in the sick bay. Fortunately. there's only three ladies aboard, and two of them has

their own maids, so they're looking!

after the other lady between them. on n n K ~—Can you bring anybody to prove that you were in your pantry during all that time? R.—Well, maybe it's lucky for me, sir. In the ordinary way I wouldn't be able to, the stewardess being ill, but, as it happens, I can. Syd Jenks, the ship's carpenter, was doing a job of work in the passageway during the whole of that time and we passed the time of day. as you might say, quite frequently, while he was at it. He knows I never

left my pantry, except to get the |

Jap his notepaper, not before the

dinner bugle went. K.—Did it strike you as unusual that Mr. Blanes cabin door was locked when you went to tidy it up? R.—No, sir, not particular. Visitors varies, some’s open-handed, some’s not. Some’'s suspicicus, some’'s not. Visitors who haven't sailed with us before sometimes locks their cabin doors for the first day or two out, then they don't bother no more. I didn't think nothing of it. I just unlocked the door with my master key and went straight into the room. W.—That's good. Now, from your pantry you can't see the door of Mr. Blane's suite, can you? R.—No, sir. You see my pantry’s an inside cabin, so I can't see round the corner along the passage way. K.—No. That's quite obvious from the ship's plans I've got in front of me. So you wouldn't he able to see if anyone approached Mr. Blane's cabin from the lounge, would you? R.—No, sir. K.—But you would be able to see anybody who came the other way, from the forward companionway, which leads to the upper and lower decks, wouldn't you? R.—I would that, sir. K.—Was your pantry door open during this time? R.—Yes, sir. K.—Now, think carefully, Ringbottom. Did you see any member of the crew, or any other person, come either up or down the companionway and pass your door, go-

ing in the direction of Mr. Blane’s |

cabin, between 7:45 and 8:30 last night?

R.—Only Miss Rocksavage’s maid, | sir, going along to dress her; no one |

else. K.—Bu* you would have, if they had? R.—Yes, sir. I couldn't have helped seeing them. K.—Right. That's all I wanted to know. = n n Detective Officer Neame’s shorthand notes of Detective Officer Kettering’s examination of Syd Jenks, ship’s carpenter.

~—Good morning, Jenks, J.~—Good morning, sir. K.—How long have you been on board this ship? J.—Just on two years, sir. Ever since Captain Derringham took over. He brought me with him from his previous ship, the Southern Cross. K.—Right. Now, d'you mind telling me where you were between 7:30 and 8:30 last night. J—I was fitting new skirting boards to the stewardess’ pantry on A deck from just before 7:30, sir,

K.—From where you were work- |

ing could you see the door of Mr. Blane’s suite? J.—No, sir. I was working on the

That job had been a cinch. They |

didn't even have burglar alarms in | these hick towns.

cash register. eting the cash, he had had a bad moment when he had heard a key turn in the lock of the street door and had realized that the proprietor must be coming back for something, (but he had got away all had

| when he stumbled into that

nearly falling down himself. been clumsy—not a credit

(to face without fear. ” ” = HE now watched that officer bend over and laboriously untie the laces of his old-fashioned shoes. He saw him take off one shoe and very tenderly massage his foot. Bannister grinned. Just then, the sheriff looked up and saw him | watching him. “You seem | trouble.” said | natured!ly. | The~ sheriff grinned in | “You would, too, if you had corns: | like me. But then, city fellers don't You're one, zin™ vou?’

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walk much. Bannister suddenly had azn zmusing inspiration. Why not have same fun with this hick sheriff? “Yes,” he replied, “I'm from the | city, and I'm just the fellow you | want. I'm a shoe salesman. Name's | Williams.” The . sheriff's evebrows raised. “Shoe salesman, eh? Then, mavbe vou can tell me what's the matter with my shoes.” | Picking up the shoe he had re- | moved. he rose and hobbled over to |a chair close to Bannister. He { handed him the shoe. “Now then, tell me what causes my foot trouble.”

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ANNISTER tried to appear critical as he examined the big shoe. “This shoe isn't strong enough for {a man of your weight, sheriff. I see | the sole has come loose.” “I guess I ought to spend more | money for my shoes,” said the sheriff. “Those bargain | never fit right.”

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| caressed the sleek, soft | price any day.” The sheriff stared at it.

“Say, young feller, that's just

| what I could use. Mind if I look at |

| it close?” “Not at all.”

|B RISTER extended his foot So that the sheriff could take the shoe in his hand. The officer examined it. He bent a little closer as he looked at the sole. “Merit Shoe, hey?” he read from the arch. “Mind if I copy that hame down so’s I don't forget?” | Bannister smiled in amusement. | “Glad to have you do it. All the better for the sales of our company.” | The sheriff let go of the shoe and fished around in his pocket, apparently for a piece of paper. | Then, in a flash, he brought forth (a pair of handcuffs and snapped (them on Bannister’s wrists. | Bannister, dumfounded, to retain his self-possession. | “Why, sheriff! What's the meaning of this?” he demanded. tJ tJ on { HE sheriff, without replying, began to search him. He found a revolver in a shoulder holster. “This makes it bad for you,” he said slowly. “Now I'm sure you robbed Masters’ stationery store.

| Anyway, I'll fingerprint you and

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right, | though he had almost come to grief |

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tacks—red ones. You must have | stepped on one.” Bannister lifted up his foot. On the sol= of the shoe, was a small red thumb tack.

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