The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1930, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930. JACQU ON HE ELINE R OWN) by RICHARD STARR, SYNOPSIS: For the first time in her life Jacqueline views the world through troubl- ed eyes. Newspaper headlines informed her that she was be- ing sought by Scotland Yard in connection with the theft of a £10,000 diamond necklace dur- ing the raid upon Circo's night club from which she made a spectacular escape. Teddy e strives unsuccessfully y her fears. He staunch- 1y declares his faith in her in- nocence of any wrongdoing and Jacqueline, glad for his friend- ship, finds some solace in that. She returns to her hotel room and idly handles Mrs. Mason’s fan and silk bag she had giv- en her to hold during the raid. She empties the contents. A diamond necidace falls to the floor. WANTE aduated diamond they lay or he; unted carpet W o} maliciou; jiamond pendant for up at doub tring 0 stolen from lady, or a the nigh co’s nigh diamond the neck of least all in jowel th Jacqueline Grey, vd carried the the very noses of police. And here they were. What did it mean? What could it mean but one thing? Mrs. Porter Mason had given he: the fan and the little satin bag at tached to it by a en cord, and ir that bag was the stolen diamonds. Did she know the jewels werc there? She must have known. It all came back to Jacquelinc with horrible distinction She remembered the shriek of the police s and the banging of the <. Then the lights had gone out. In the midst of the hubbub she had found Mrs. Porter Mason at her side. She had heard her voice rather strained and excited “Hold this a minute, dear,” she had said, “while I go and see what | s the matt Jacqueline had taken the fan, thinking nothing of the request at | the time. Viewed in the light nt‘ subsequent developments she T jzed that the request was a ridicu- Jous one. W had rs, Porter Mason found it sary to relieve her- self of the fan before she went l\)' find out what was the matter? | Why could she not have taken it with her? It could mean only one thing— that Mrs. Porter Mason had taken the diamonds and had passed them to her in order that she might run the risk of getting them past Lho-[ police. What was Mrs. Porter Mason? Was it possible that she was a practiced thief? i She saw through the miserable| plot only too clearly. But that} did not help her. Her position was simply appalling, and any minute | now she might be haled off to the police station. 5 Already her description was in the papers. It was only a mat-| ter of time before the police found | her. Teddy Montrose had said so.| They would find the diamonds in | her possession, and what defense| had she to offer? | Jgnorant as she was of such | things as the value of evidence, even she could see that her story would sound the most pal i wvention. All she could say was that she had risked her life to get| away from the night club, because she was under the impression that she would be arrested if caught| there by the police, and perhaps imprisoned. As to the dmmomh_ —they had been given to her by a friend to hold And she could not even produce the friend. 1t all sounded deplorably weak | and unconvincing. Meanwhile, what was she to do with the diamonds? That was the| most urgent question of the mo- ment. At any minute the police might come down on her with handcuffs and things. She was like a child lost in a wood. was half-distracted with fear. She | once, was in a terrible position. She longed for a chance to talk things over with Teddy. He would un- derstand. She was having her swift whirl- wind rush into life with a capital L, and it had brought her a cer- tain amount of excitement and sailing date. breathless pleasure. It had brought her some good things—among others the friend- ship of Teddy Montrose. And this ghe felt was a very beautiful thing, though it could not last for lonz.| It could not, for instance, possibly| last longer than her money lasted.| When that was gone she must go; also, and Teddy must know of her o more, except as a memory. _-But it seemed now that things had gone entirely wrong. Now she | faced arrest, disgrace, imprison- one wild grab at those wicked | would e to snaica ynem up and thrust them into what she called her V. when she heard the door open She stood literally petrified with Her heart seemed to drop fear. out of her body. The police! She dared not turn around “If you please, ma'am——" She whirled round. It small boy in buttons—the page-boy with the red hair. The sense of relief made her I(\“l: faint. for long. “If you please, ma'am, there’s a tentleman down below what's ask- He says can he| ome up here because he wants to| s ng to see you ee you private?” Her first wild thought was that t was Teddy Montrose. But 1ad only left Teddy about half an our ago. Perhaps he had come rack. “Is he a very tall man with sroad shoulders, fair hair cut very short, and blue eyes? A handsome man?” The red-haired boy ma'am. He's dark and rible big. He's gaqt ort of piercing.” Jacqueline’s heart sank. “Bring 1im up here,” she said wearily and esigned her to the ordeal of acin a Scotland Yard detective or she was convinced it was no one Ise. She did some quick thinking. In ier view there was only one chance of escape. To hide nd deny everything. Forcing herself to be cool, Jac- \ueline looked around for a hiding Vlace. She knew all about these letectives from much' promiscuous eading, and a more or less regular wtendance at the cinemas. And he knew that there was very ittle that escaped the hawk-eye. As or secreted jewels, it was uncanny the way these detectives walked straight to them as if by scent. She had only a few seconds to make up her mind A couple of minutes at the most before the red-headed boy would return with the hawk-eyed one. She stood perfectly still in the middle of her pledsant sitting- room looking slowly around. Who would have thought, a few days ago that she would be in this de- lightful room, trying to hide the fruits of her innocent crime from the eager eyes of Scotland Yard? What a life! No ordinary place would do. She thought of one hiding after another. The clock, the vases n the mantelpi the coal scut- under the carpet; under the mattress in her bedroom. None of them would do. were ordinary. A film detective see through them in the twinkle of an eye; and surely a real detective would be much more clever. She heard the clatter of the iron gate of the lift outside. Panic came—and then, calmness. She went to a rather anaemic- looking palm which stood in a pot on a pedestal She had noticed before that it was in need of water, and had promised herself to give it some. She took the plant firmly by the stem and jerked it out. » It was thoroughly root-bound, and it came away from the pot per- fectly clean, with all the earth neatly attached, as neglected plants frequently will. She dropped” the string of dia- grinned. “No, not so ter- black ey place tle; | monds in the bottom of the pot, re- placed the plant and pressed the arth firmly down. door came. She opened it. spectfully in the background. who has been tipped. (Copyright, 1930, Richard Starr) Mr. Carew’s strange behav- ior arouses Jacqueline’s suspic- jons in tomorrow’s installment. —————— ATTENTION DRIVERS Ordinance No. 202, City of Juneau. GEORGE A. 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