Show t Telegram M Mystery ster Serial fi h Cocaine C 1 i By Cornell Woolrich Read a new mystery serial complete in six days weekly in The rhe Telegram re The ne a story ry to 10 far One al Tom Tom- eda edaa nd nr hint hin ts su lIlT a D a and living with tits hla t sister lister Mildred and sad her bu husband Dmn Denny detective e met meta a man whom hDm be tae knew as a Joe look took him to an apartment here litre there was wai a part party Tommy drunk too much w Indu Induced d by ft to try a miff of cocaine Of 01 Oft t hap happened nd lifter after that than Tommy hat has It N va varue of Of memories of a man with Kith a aWO WO Otte I tear scar of Alone In a room N Ir a man of hearing music II o of stuff x 1 r o bod body dy la III a clout closet of when when s 1 wales e ap In t the nt Rt borne sties iut ut at bi his hi shirt I II splattered with dried blood and aDd there Is 1 an extra key upon Ills 1 ets 1111 key a closet key He It Is cerla eer- eer la b h lie he till has killed a man and hit his tm p Wit IM I U II lo to ran mn away Mildred re restrains l blot 1 and rails caU Denni Denny home homr Denny finds a bloody knife conceited concealed In to Tommys Tommy's Bed blood theres thue possibility an and decides a nt d a damn rood food one that theres there's tome some a stuffed In ft a closet nome somewhere In InI ems I city diy city and that ou killed him last lait under ender the Influence of c cocaine alne He's Hes ea coin lo to be sooner or later to tine el m rA Alli Allien ed were we're en Lo rot of t to 10 find him first Now how ro on en with th the storm CHAPTER TWO ENVY ENNY took out an envelope and a pencil stub He sat down turned over one foot bind d began to use the side of his hoe for r a writing He used ie e back backof of l the envelope to jot on a What Whit are you doing basked all terrified I always plot out my line of ahead of time He me what hed he'd written 1 Joe 2 2 Whereabouts of party flat 3 Man Jan with white scar 4 Location of room with sing sing- ng g walls T See TSee the idea One leads into intoe ie e other consecutively He put the envelope away Now ire e e disregard everything else and on Joe first Until eve isolated Joe Joe none of the ther the factors exist for us Now It t t down a minute and just think bout Joe His whole connection th ith it occurred before you were so 50 it shouldn't t be as as asas asas as what comes later It shouldn't but it was I dredged my mind futilely Dis- Dis snatches were all that rould come back t He said Aw dont don't think youre you're youree ie e e only one who has has troubles ok k at me Im I'm working but I light Ight just as well not be Caged ip p all aU day for a lousy fifteen a eek f. f Well Wellis is that all he said the thc holeway way over i HATS HAT'S all that amounted to thing The rest were just Irrelevant remarks like Did you ou ee Bee that blond that just passed id d d' Boy theres there's a car Id I'd like to tos town town s wn Then when we got to toIs its Is fa place I heard him say W Well ll ere we are and he turned in o a I went in after him without noticing where it was ie e flat fIat turned out to be on the cond floor it was an eleva elevator r wilding but the car was in use or or I remember him say- say ig go g Come on lets let's take the stairs for or a change and he headed for hem lem wJ without out waiting like he was wasa a 8 hurry to get up there f Denny drove fingernails into his air lair Not much there is there a week Caged up all day fell eU have to try to figure him out torn rom those two chance remarks aged up all day teller Bank-teller ey icy get more than that t Caged up up all aU day He kept yang tying it over to himself trying make it click Jit It It might have been just an idle it dont don't have to mean meane meanes meane's ica es e s actually in a cage literally some me sort of bars bais or wicket Lre re you sure you cant can't dig me up else Tommy I couldn't have if it my life depended de de- de- de I end ended d on It Well WeIl it did in a ay ay y a and d even eo so O I couldn't I Just eyed him helplessly LE E RAISED his head alertly ter fter a moment Howd they act it t th the door What'd they say t tat to tom m at the door t Nothing He thumped it and guess it was opened by whoever happened to be standing closest to it a visitor there himself just like ik Ike we were He didn't say a ore o to us and we didn't say a ad vord ord d to him just made our way I Pretty free a and nd easy he ted You say he was kind of ofa ofa a hurry furry to get up there 1 No No not on the street he didn't fern em m to be We Ve just ambled along le e two of us He took pl plenty nty of me e. e a But you said said said- i. i That was after we got in the entrance ante Like I said the eleva eleva- or was in use or at least on its vay ay down to us It would only ave lave taken a minute more for it reach reach us But he didn't seem to ant to bother waiting he said ome orne on well we'll take the stairs for change change- II i That dont don't make sense On the treet set reet hes he's not in a hurry once in ine inie ie e building hes he's in too much of a a eat to wait Suddenly Denny uncoiled I our r unknown friend Joe is an ane levator evator e ator operator Im I'm sure of it teen a 8 week would be bc about ht And he wasn't in a hurry hen he took the stairs inside lat hat building He was just sick riding in elevators glad for an anc c cure to walk up for a change IE E LOOKED at me hopefully Ming for my reaction Well Vell oes it click Now do you place lm He could tell by m my y face sun Still dont don't eh V 1 He took a deep reath Well youve you've evidently den up and down in his car with more than a few times am and at would be sufficient basis fo for HI acquaintanceship l palmed my forehead hopelessly hopeless josh osh Ive I've been in m so many office elevators all over town tow oking for a job I dont don't think thin Pvc ve missed being in one Well k Well heres here's your part of ot th the and nt and take it fast w we y vent nt g got a a. lot of of time yo you ow You revisit every such place you ou can recall being at within the past few w months months- where you h had hac d to go back two or three three- times Mea Meanwhile while Im I'm going to get to work on this knife slip it in at fb fingerprints as a personal off the record favor and see how heavily it counts against you you you- He took out a fountain pen spa spattered a couple of drops of ink onto ont a piece of paper and made an improvised pad ink-pad by having me stroke it with my fingertips Now press down hard on this clean piece keep them steady Ill I'll make the comparison myself while Im I'm down there here without letting anyone in on ont for it-for t for the present Ill I'll probably i be back here before you are Im I'm Im I'm going to get sick leave until weve we've broken this thing down You call me back here at the house the minute you have any luck with this Ms Joe And dont don't take too long its it's almost already I I COULD remember most of ot the places Id I'd been around to o fairly recently looking for openings I mean the ones where Id I'd been told to come back I revisited them one by one In some places I had hado to o stand where I could command all the doors car-doors and wait until they'd all opened to reveal re the operators operators' faces And then I wasn't satisfied Id I'd ask each starter Is there anyone named Joe working the cars here He Hemi mi might ht be home sick or he might be beon on a later shift Once I got a Joe Marsala that way but he turned out to be an under-sized under looking Latin-looking youth not what I wanted No sign of the vague phantom Joe who had voluntarily voluntarily vol vol- vol led me Into murder Almost Almost Almost Al Al- most an hour after Id I'd left Denny I ran out of places where I could remember having ing been job hunt- hunt ing ng I went back to the employment employment employment employ employ- ment agency where Id I'd been registered registered regis- regis ered for a time to see if a look Jook at their files wouldn't help my memory out outI I phoned Denny from there all winded from excitement I HI got him lim I got him I came back here to the employment agency to get jet a record of more places where I was sent to and to-and and he was here the whole time He runs the car right in n this building W. W WAIT VAIT AIT there where you are he ordered Dont let him see you until I get down there I gave him the address and he hung up Denny came ame fast In here he said aid briefly Y yeah Y I 1st stammered am mer e d. d Theres only one car and hes he's running it right now Stay out here he said curtly Ill ru go in and get him They came out together in about five ive minutes after hed he'd asked the first few preliminary questions It was him all right He looked pretty retty white and shaky I guess the he shock of the badge hadn't worn off yet Denny said This your acquaintance 1 Yeah I said I waited to see seef it f hed he'd deny it He turned and said aid to me querulously you do get me in wrong I didn't mean nothing by taking you there therewith with me last night What happened after I left was there something s swiped w i p e d from the place Denny gave him a shake that started at the shoulder and went rippling down him like a shimmy Cut out the stuff baby-stuff Fraser he ie said Now are you going to talk while were we're waiting for the thevan thevan thevan van van 1 which was just to throw a ascare ascare ascare scare into him D DENNY ENNY took out an envelope with his free hand and showed me methe methe methe the back of it Sorrell Sorrell Alcazar Apt 2 B 2 B hed he'd penciled on it Hed He'd gotten the name and Ion of ot the party-flat party out of Joe How many times tunes had you been up there before last night Only once before Howd you yot happen to go up there in the first place My liMy job before this I was deliveryman de- de liveryman for a liquor store near there I was sent over with a easeful one night and they were having laving a big out blow-out and they invited me mc in tn They're that kind of people they're sort of goofy Every once in awhile they make a abig abig big killing liming on some long shot and then they hold sort of open house People take advantage of them and before they're through they've got people they dont don't even know crashing in on them You make malte fifteen a week that cracker-box cracker in there right How much did they charge you up there I I don dont don't t get you Fraser faltered They didn't charge me anything It isn't a place where you pay admission admission- Denny gave him a twist of the arm Come on you knew what they were passing around up there Did you get yours free for steering newcomers 7 I dont don't know what youre you're talking talking talk taUt ing ng about mister honest I dont don't he quavered YoU didn't know that was a flat dope-flat 1 Denny slashed at him mercilessly J JOES JOE'S J OE OE'S OES S 'S consternation was too evident to be anything bu but genuine Holy smoke smoke- he exhaled I 1 never noticed nothing like that that that-I I saw this girl in green and I took a shine hin to her and nd the two of us blew the place after about fifteen minutes minutes- Denny only asked him one more mor question Who was the guy with the white scar What guy with what white whit scar I didn't see no guy with a aSee aSee aSee See Page 7 I Column 1 |