Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1922, Page 30

“The Silent Bullet” One of the Phree-Pdrt Stories of i THE STAR’S WEEK-END FICTION The Last Installment of This Story Appears story so far: Parker, largely interested in Mexiean | with much difficulty, and he was| Beavx roup, of ~capitalists. | when he noticed something sticking b eguinat him. Ruvs | ¢ the side of the baskoet. It looked pt O o ottt war in the direc. |Mliie & mass of wet paper, and tha L hie atliea” whon 'he soddenly | W@ precisely what It was. De at's queer.” sald Kenedy, pick- open on both sides, and, theugh | ng it loose. Then he wrapped it up d of a siot. the doc- | enrefully and put it in_ his pocket. “Inspector, can you lend me one of your men for a couple of days?”’ he asked, as we were preparing to leave. “I shall want to send him out of tonight, and shall probably | ryices when he gets back.” as 4t the hea Mr. Bruce, at his side. Mrs. adies who were his clients were At room. Bruce had left the table | need hi 3 to go speak to Mrs. Parker and Parker had [ “Very well, Riley will be just the Just received a delivery letter when | fellow. We'll g0 back to headquar- iie was Killed. Bruce had told Do to | ters and I11. pat. him under your eeler o ke o - It was not until late in the fol- her 1 don't believe the scandal. lowing day ‘h.b‘ 1 sab“, K;nnedy AY'S INSTALLMENT. again. It had been a busy day on s “, INSTA = = the Star. We had gone to work that | res EOUT that message,” asked | morning expecting to see the very Kennedy, ignoring what to | financial heavens fall. But just about me seemed to be the most | five minutes to 10, before “the stock | 2 exchange opened. the news came in important feature of the|over the wire from our financial man case. the mystery of the silent bullet. | on Broad street: [The: Ssstem has .| S i lorce: ames Bruce, partner o T Didn't you see it after all was g, “(he dead banker. to sell his| b Lo railroad. steamship and rubber hold- “No, sir; in fact. T had forgotten |ings to it. On this condition It prom- about it till this moment when you unlimited support to the mar- asked me to reconstruct the circum- Forced!” muttered the managing stances exactly. No, sir, 1 don't|editor, as he waited on the office know a thi ean't say it|phone to get the composing room, so Know alithingatautit § Ecanicissy ll\as to hurry up the few lines in red | impressed itself on my mind at the | #5,t9 BOTRY B 00 SOV nd beat our time, either. Irivals on the streets with the first “What did Mrs. Parker do when|extras. “Why, he's been working to o . {bring that_about for, axe weeks. What that d as I have never seen | control isn't worth having—it edits before. He was dead | the news before our men get it, and that time, of course. Mr. Bruce|as for grist for the divorce courts d I saw her down in the elevator!and tragedies. well—Hello, Jenkins, to her car. In fact, the doctor, who | yes, a special extra. Change the big had arrived. said that the sooner she { heads—copy is on the way up—rush en home_the better she would | it She was quite hysterical.” So you think: this Parker case is a mess?™ I asked. it. Downey.” said the| “I know it. That's a prettv What did she say as she | bunch of females that have been spec: | ulating at Kerr Parker & Co’s. I understand there's one Titian-haired I'l arrest you if You|young lady—who, by the way, has at least one husband who hasn't vet ing about the murder, on my | been divorced—who is & sort of ring- protested Downey. leader, though She rarely goes per- ned over suddenly and|sonally to her broker's offices. She's shot a . “Then It was|one of those uptown plungers, and about the | the story is that she has a whole Downey was surprised, but not|string of scalps of alleged Sunday quickly enoush. Still he seemed to|school superintendents at her belt be considering something, and in a|She can make Bruce do pretty nearly moment he said: anything, they say. He's the latest “I don’t know what it was about,|conquest. I got the story on pretty | but 1 feel it is my duty. after all, to | good authority, but until I verified 1 heard her say ‘I wonder | the names, dates and places, of course, 2 I wouldn't dare print a line of it “Out with inspector. was going dow i The story goes that her husband is a hanger-on of the System, and that's been working In their interest. too. That was why he was so complacent | over the whole affair. They put her We entered the ladies’ department. up to capturing Bruce, and after he No one was there. A Woman's auto- mobile coat was thrown over a chair | had acquired an influence over him Mr. Bruce picked it up.|{they worked it so that she made him Parker's” he said. He|make love to Mrs. Parker. It" . apd rang for | story, but that isn’t all of point was, you see, that by did he send it>" vious route they hoped to worm out ! arker. 1 suppose. I dldn't | of Mrs. Parker some Inside informa- | dd: 3 tion about Parker’'s rubber suhemos.i t went over the whole suite ; which he hadn’t divulged, even to his of oflices, conducted by Mr. Downey. | partners in business. It was a deep 1 noted how carefully Kennedy look- 1and carefully planned plot, and some ed into the directors’ room through |of the conspirators were pretty deeply the open door from the ladies’ de- in the mire, I guess, I wish I'd had all the facts about who this red: that had he been the haired female Machiavelli was—what | could scarcely have been seen ex-|a piece of muckraking it would have cept by those sitting immediately | made! Oh, here comes the rest of next Mr. Parker at the directors’|the news story over the wire. By table. The street windows were di- | jove, it is said on good authority that rectly in front of him, and back of | Bruce will be taken In as one of the him was the chair on which the|board of directors. What do you motor coat had been found. think of that>’ In Parker's own office we spent| So that was how the wind lay— some time, as well as jn Bruce's. | Bruce making love to Mrs. Parker| Kennedy made 2 search for the note, | and she, presumably, betraying her but finding nothing ift either office. | husband's secrets. .1 thought I saw | turned out the contents of Brucnln all: the note frgn somebody ex- | scrapbasket. There didp't seem to | posing the scheme,=Parker's incred- be anvthing in it to interest him, | ulity, Bruce sitting By him and catch- however, evan after he Mad pieced | ing site of the note, §is hurrying out Announcement Extraordinary Miss Hope Hampton Dainty star of “Star Dust,” now appearing in person at Crandall’s Met- ropolitan Theater, will read the major prize win- ning jingles and announce all winners in The Velvet Kind Eskimo Pie Jingle Contest from the stage of the theater at 7:30 P. M., SATURDAY T T W W - - - - W w - - - wd After the performance Miss Hampton will meet each prize winner in the office of the theater and present -them with their prize and an autographed photograph' of herself. Announcement of winners will into the ladies’ department, and then |all -;lat. 1 could not guess. the shot. But who fired it? After all, 1 had only picked up another clue. y was not at the apa and an inquiry at the lab- oratory was fruitless also. So I sat down to fidget for a while. Pretty soon the busser on the door sounded | madse end I opened it to find a messenger [It WAs & woman's pongee automobile boy with s large brown paper parcel. | coat. ‘He held it up to the light. The | The r. Bruc ned; at dinner, “Is M phoned for. him that they It, but he guenses it's all rig aps together {Charges are 40 cents. Sign here.” e e e T G ol i 1L Kignea. the book, feeling like a |cal ' coastwise steamship Jines, meets | about to turn the papers back again, | thief, and the boy departed. ‘What it [noon, and traced every one of them |me anything about that note Parker |you, Kennedy? Are you crasy?” “Why, no, he doesn’ checked mysolf and added: be here buna! “Well, this s’ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, up. At last they found one that led Just then I heard a key in the lock, | to Bruce's apartment. None of them led to Mrs. Parker's home. The rest|tor had said that and Kennedy came in, “Is your name Bruce?” T asked “Why?" he replicd, eagerly. anything come?” 1 pointed to the package. Kennedy & dive for it and unwra it. rtment torily acooun| here?” he asked. pocket on the right-hand side wa: ** then T|scorched and burned, and & hole was|ing. me. e parcel he tele-| “How did you get it?" I exclaimed | worked. Hie valet told me to tell | at laBt in surprise. a hard time to find “Th all right. The coat. said Kennedy. “The police at my | scorc! request went over every messenger 1] 1 from Parker's office that after. onically. Not less important than the progress of the arms conference that framed these memorable treaties is their fate at the hands of the tribunals which must enact them into binding compacts; or render them void by refusing ratification. The legislative machinery of our Senate has already been set in motion, and soon will begin the discussions which will be the closing chapters in what has been one of the most remarkable episodes in all diplomatic history. = ;’:lv'lie Editorial Section —is an unique feature in journal- ism.” Men of affairs discuss those affairs entertainly’ and instruc- tively; and men of worth-while opinions give them expression in this weekly forum. Next Sunday, for instance, you will be introduced to the first Chief Justice of the World. 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I reasoned that|of an inch. fs“was the one that involved the| “I had gu arance of the automobile coat. | sort,” he said, m chance worth_taking, o I ney to call up Bruce's valet. | dence. valet, of course, Downery's voice and suspected noth- Downey assumed to know all|all. I wonder whob she is. e will | torn clean through it. I gasped when|about the coat in_the resently. You can leave the |the full significance of it dawned on ?telvedky:-pfl‘w;g-y. He asked to have sen re. “But, Kennedy, do you think she—" where organization comes|I -to:nd. speechless, looking at the “Nothing to say—yet.” he replied, “But if recognized | interests, ackage re- I see the scheme lax my mind.” the back. |l ACLress, u could tell| “Who Accurate Reflections of European Opinion All of us are interested in knowing what the folks on the other side of the water are think- ing and doing and saying these days. 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I'd like & breath of &ir to rs- | Sometimes I think 1 haven't quite|may not be right. ‘We had got no further than the first | think of that sooner? y theater when Kennedy slapped me on | know she 1s the wife of Adolphus 8! back. “By Georg: t courss What's'the matter with|had only to Dut two and two to.| (Coprright. 1922, br Sy 2. ““The red-hairéd person—she must I3 the auburn-haired leading lady in the 2 now, is k"hoeha ¢ who is eon- E1ad 10, cerned in this case I from him. She wasn't playing, but just what Ah, well, {15, couldn't see. and 1 eaid as much. | pothe . Walter, you'd never do as gL detective. _You lack intuition. | Whole thing alread: enough of it, elther. Why didn’t I|fit into it. Don’t you | B9 k that's all.” ambler Jameson, she’s | Hesse, the most inveterate Th 1| morrow’s Star. in stocks in the system? Vhy, gether and the whole thing flashec Messrs. N. O. Messenger and G. 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B2 2 2 o0 s all business calls and satistas. | only raised his eyebrows & fraction | doetarine Blrl o o Rt are | g0 heseily involveds "Il Bave £ ame, yo 2dd her to my list of wuEpects.” cssed somathing of (hat|ya Neige. Well. it ) “Why, you don’t think she did t ely. “I'm gla on’t think she'll | shooting?” I asked, half hoping, find it confirmed even by hearsay evi- |} o 1aving tonight. Let's inquire m|muu admit, for aB assenting This red-haired young 124y | pe hox office.” Not a very definite de- ‘Well,” he answered, &ryly scription, but better than nothing at ii had to do with anything in particu- houldn't let any preconceived i pothesis stand between him and th T've made a guess at ti . It may or Anyhow she And if it's not right T'v. t to be prepared to make a ncw e Silent Bullet” concluded in to- McClure Newspaper )