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Perhaps twenty-
five or thirty persons visit the place each day. It is run by a
man known as 'Big Jack' Clendenin who was once an actor and, I
believe, met and fascinated Miss Curtis during her brief career on
the stage. He has an attendant there, a Jap, named Nichi Moto, who
is a perfect enigma. I can't understand him on any reasonable
theory. A long time ago we raided the place and packed up a lot of
opium, pipes, material and other stuff. We found Clendenin there,
this girl, several others, and the Jap. I never understood just
how it was but somehow Clendenin got off with a nominal fine and a
few days later opened up again. We were watching the place,
getting ready to raid it again and present such evidence that
Clendenin couldn't possibly beat it, when all of a sudden along
came this--this tragedy."
We had at last arrived at the private establishment which was
doing duty as a morgue. The bedraggled form that had been bandied
about by the tides all night lay covered up in the cold damp
basement. Bertha Curtis had been a girl of striking beauty once.


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