Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1922, Page 15

REAL ESTATE. . B o THE. EVENING Brides Will Be Brides By Lucille Van Slyke. “HE_ PUT R IN A PUMPKIN SHELL WHERE HE KEPT HER VERY WELL." N a Dblowy, biustery February g Merriam Lindsay, | wrapped old coat of Nan Bl . paced wear- and forth on the long south the Blaisdell's country house. Most of the house was board- ed up for the winter, the shrubbery swathed in burlap and straw, but a ! caretaker and his wife were staying in the south wing of the house. Nan had brought Merriam and the faith- ful Susan Sue down in the Blaisdell car five days before, when Merriam was still hysterical from a really se- rious quarrel with her once-beloved John. The girl had insisted vehementls that she wanted to be left alone, that she never wanted to sce John again. and Mrs. Dlaisdell had taken her at her word. Never in her sociable life had Mer- Ty been so completely shut off from the world. Even Susan Sue seemed to have deserted her, for she staved| with the caretakers escept when Mer-, back gallery riam called her. She made very brief answers to Merry's questions. : Once a da Nan telephoned herj from town, cheerful and brisk, but with never a hint of news or a word about the little group of persons whom Merry thought ought to be muca interested in her disappearance. One thing Nan did promi; “Don't keep asking if Leila has| heard from Richard, my darling. be- cause it hurts you to ask and it hurts me to have to say no. But the mo- ment that his cable comes, I'll send | you word. And you must try not to worry about your dad: because if he really hasn't any memories, why, then, he hasn’t anything to be unhap- py about.” ““Or—to be happy about——" Merry sighed. What Merriam™ could not under- stand was why John was making no effort to see her. She was far too proud to ask Nan about him, and It never dawned upon her that Nan had not told John where Merriam was. The ‘hird day Nan told her ¢ ‘:[ Richard had cabled, briefly, “Starting north, eight-day journey.” It seemed to Merriam that she could never en- dure eight days, the three days ho been so awful. But, surprisingly enough, the next two days were some- how not so bad. She was beginning 1o be a little hungry from her long walks in that sunny porch; she was sleeping “like a baby.” Susan Sue re- ported to Mrs. Blaisdell. “But she's not herself at all,” Susan Sue had added mournfully. “Yesterday she said to me. ‘I don't supp I shall ever find my temper again, I lost so much of it that night——" But that morning on the porch was particularly hard. It was her birthday, and mobody in the world had remem- bered it. she thought. But toward noon she saw some one coming—Thorne Blaisdell, white-haired and ruddy, climbing out of his car with a great box of Sowers under his arm and a young man at his side. Merry’s heart gave a quick leap, but the next minute she leaned weakly against the veranda pil- lar. for the young man was not John. In the sunny morning room she open- 2d her flowers rather listlessly, burying her face in the mass of fresias and pale Yellow rosebuds. Rags, her last year's present from John, scampered at her heels, joyousiy welcoming Mr Blaisdell. “This is Mr Anderson,” Thorne pre- sented the voung man casually, but ie kept ar arm across Merriam's shoul- ders. “He is from a Rosedale real es- tate firm. That delicatessen w there—what's her name, Tes: to buy yours and John's equity in your stucco hous- and, of course, you'll both haye to sign the deed: Merriam's hand flew to her throat. 1t seemed to her that she could mot speak. She was not angry; she was crushed. Uncle Thorne, does John want to?” “My dear child,” Thorne seemed very much surprised, “of course he does. What in the world do either of you want of it? You say you're never going to see John again, and certainly you don’t want to live in it, and most decidedly he doesn’t want to. I think vou're lucky to find a customer so quickly. You haven't a very big equity anyhow; after the commission’s out you'll each have— let about eight or nine hundred apiece I'd say. John has | slipped through his, signed—here's where you put your John Hancock——" Merriam's chin lifted proudly. Her Leart was breaking, but she must not let this stranger see. She signed the deeds with a trembling pen. “Briggs will take you to the sta- Thorne lighted a cigar cas- 1ly after he handed over the deeds. “Good girl,” he commented after the man was out of the room. “Ke her temper like a lady, her did!"” She was in his arms. “Uncle Thorne, there isn’t any tem- per left in me: there's just nothing —I—feel like a big, empty, aching tooth.” & o feet left?" he joked. “because ¢ got to go down to look at the fences below red apple orchard, and I thought you'd go along.” She went along listlessly, her arm stumbling over the ‘crusty snow, saying nothing at a “You've had a pretty rough time.”” he was_cheerful. “You've got a rough time ahead yet, he added more gently. “But don''t ‘worry, because Nan and I will do your worrving for you. You may not like what we have to Suggest, but Nan says it's quite a while before i that baby of yours is due to arrive ip this 1d, and you say you want to be alone. Tt's—it's rather queer being alone. ‘Were you ever alone five whole days and nights? “‘My stars, no. stuff. But if you like it—well. there's the very spot for you,” he suggested. Under the apple tree stood a tiny cottage. Merriam saw it through a blur of tears. “I hate vellow houses:" But, the next moment she was flying toward it. For from out the doorway was running her beloved John. What they had ouarreled about mattered not at all—had they ever quarreled. she wondered as, safe in his arms, she lis- tened to his eager— locum cabled—he's found your dad —he—you—Merry, I love vou!" After a_long time they could hear Thorne whistling for them. i “He put her in a pumpkin shell— fluted over the orchard. Merriam laughed. “That's what we'll call it—oh. Thorne, I adore little yellow houses Another ‘episode of this story In tomorrow’s Star. The Seismograph Adventure. (Continued from Fifth Page.) dem_into my Imitation hall of the Vandam mansion. I want each of you in turn to tiptoe up that hall to a spot indicated on the wall, back of the cabinet. and strike that spot several sharp blows with your knuckles.” 1 did as Craig. instructed, tiptoeing up myself first so that they could not mistake his meaning. The rest fol- lowed separately, and after a moment we returned silently in suppressed ex- citement to the room. Craig was still standing by the ta- ble, but now the pendulums with the magnets and needles and the drums worked by clockwork were before him, - 2 “Another person outside the Van- _—Another person outside the Taw Massachusetts Avenue Park Massachusetts Avenue, west of Sheridan Circle to near Connecticut Avenue Bridge. Rock Creek Park * to 32d and Cathedral ave- nue. Washington’s best home ‘section. Wooded lots and villa sites. Some as low as $2,000. Booklet. Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Woodward Bldg., 15th and H Main 6935. cle This new group of Attr: Homes is without equal. thoroughfares. Note the many important Six rooms and bath. Three large porches. tically decorated; oak floors—an The kitchen is large and wel The sleeping rooms have lar, hall—sleeping porch. uses. Price: $7 514K Street N.W. They face on Massachusetts Avenue and Fif- teenth Street—Southeast Washington’s two best Sample Houses--246 15th St. S.E. Qpen for inspection every day and evening. Living room and dining room are of pleasing size—artis- type of gas range and enamel sink. The basement is absolutely D t water heating system—and separate heater for bath and kitchen Kite construction throughout. Harry. A. Kite Owner and Builder . * Member Washington Real Estate Board active Six Room and Bath details : d effective fixtures. | lighted; with big dresser, best ge closets; linen closet in upper dry; equipped with best hot- Convenient Terms ,90 Phone Main 4846 T'm too folksy for lhltl dam family had a key to the Vandam mansion,” "he began gravely. “That person, by the way, was the one who Waited night by night until Mrs. Van- dam took the fatal capsule, and then, when she had taken it, apprised the old man of the fact and strengthened 2n already blind faith in the shadow world.” You could have heard a pin drop. In fact you could almost have felt t drop. “That other person who, unob- served, had free access to the house,” he continued in the breathless silence, “is in this room now.’ He was looking at O'Connor as it for corroboration. O'Connor nodded. Information derived from the but- ler,” he muttered. 1 ,did not know this until yester- day,"” Kennedy continued, “but I sus- pected that something of the sort ex- isted when 1 was first told by Dr. Hanson of the rappings. I deter- mined to hear those rappings and make a record of them. So, the night Mr. Jameson and e visited Mr. Van- dam I carried this little instrument with me.” Almost lovingly he touched the pendulums on the table. They were now at rest and kept so by means of a lever that prevent:d all vibration whatever. “See, I release this lever—now, let no one in the room move. Watch the needies on the paper ag the clockworl | that toy s golng to convince the —_— | olves e drums. ake a step— | world that Henry Vandam has been Sver so lightly. The pendultms ¥1- | geceived and that e spiric which| HOOVER DECLINES BIG JOB brate and the needles trace a broken e line on the paper on each drum. I stop; the lines are practically, straight. 1 take another step and another ever|insult me, to take advantage of a lone, | 3o lighly. Sce the delicate pendu-|defenseless woman surrounded by Sesqul-Centennial, ms Vi e? ee, e lines ey trace | hostile men? Shame on vou,” she i are jagged lines. B e ptasusiy.” “ton emi| Declaring President Harding had He stripped the paper off the drums and laid it flat on the table before| s him. with two other similar pieces of paper. ! wust before the time of the rapping I placed this instrument in the corner of the Vandam cabinet, just as I placed it in this cabinet after Mr. Jameson conducted you from the STAR. ‘ghost's’ walk the other night,” he sald, holding up two of them in his left ‘hand. two other longer sheets, I have rec- ords of the vibrations set up by those in_this room walking tonight. “Here {8 Mr, Jameson's—his is not a bit.like the ghost's. Vandam’s. son's and Inspector O'Connor's, they are heavy men. “Now, here is Mr. he bent down closely— man, and the ghost was Hght." Cralg_was playing with his victim like a cat with a mouse. Suddenly 1 felt something brush by me, and with a swish of air and of garments I saw Mrs. herself wildly at the table that bore the incriminating records. instant Farrington was on his feet and made a wild leap in the same direction. It was done so quickly that I must have acted first and thought after- ward. a melee with my hand at his throat ana_his at mine. Jlu-jitsu movement bent Farrington's other arms until he released me with a cry of pain. In front of me I saw Cralg grasp- ing Mrs. Popper's wrists as in a vise. | She was glaring at him like a tigress. “Do you suppose for a moment that visited him was a fraud? Is that why you have lured me here under false pretense: yourself a gentleman, but I call you I ) this one forged. D. for you. . Don't forget the evidence of | the ink. It was your ink. Don't for- get that Henry Vandam will not any longer conceal that he has altered his will in favor of you. Tonight he goes from here to his lawyer's to draw up a new will altogether. Don’'t forget that you have caused the Vandams separately to have the prescription fiiled, and that you are now caught in the act of dowble murder. Don't forget that you had access to the Van- mansion, that you substituted the deadly for the harmless capsules. Don’t forget that your rappings an nounced the death of one of your vic- tims and urged the other. a eruelly wronged and credulous old man, to leave millions to you who had de- ed and would have killed him. No, the record of the ghost on the| selsmograph was 1ot Mr. Farring- ton's, as 1 implied at the moment when you so kindly furnished this| additional proof of your guilt by try- ing to destroy the evidence. The ghost was you, Mrs. Popper. and you are at liberty to examine the mark- ings as minutely as you please, but you must not destroy them. You are an astute criminal, Mrs. Popper, but tonight you are under arrest for the murder of Mary Vandam and the at- tempted murder of Henry Vandam.” WASHINGTOX. “Here on the table, on Nor is Mr. Least of all are Dr. Ha for Farrington's"— “he I8 a light Popper fling | ¢ In another 1 found myself in the midst of O'Connor with a The End. to play on my feelings. to|ETefers Cabinet to Philadelphia “strongly expressed the wish” that he remain in the cabinet, Secretary Hoover today informed Mayor J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia he could not accept the director gener- | alship of the sesqui-centennlal ex- position to be held in Philadelphia in 1926. = always calm and collect- the tirade. His v steel as he said: 00d, Mrs. Popper, to destroy link in the chain I The other links are too heavy room. In neither case were suspicions aroused. Everything in both cases was perfectly normal—I mean the ‘ghost’ was in ignorance of the pres- ence, if not the very existence, of this; instrument. | ‘This is an improved seismograph,” ! he explained, “one after a very re- cent model by Prince Galitzin of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg. The seismograph, as you know, was devised to register earthquakes at a distance. This one not only meas-! ures the size of a distant earthquake, | but the actual direction from which ' the earth tremors come. That Is why there are two pendulums and two drums. “The magnetic arrangement is to cut short the vibrations set up in the pendulums, to prevent them from con- tinuing to vibrate after the first shock. Thus they are ready in an in- stant to record another tremor. Other seismographs continue to vi- brate for a long time as a result of one tremor only. Besides. they give little indication of tine direction from ‘which the tremors come. | “I think you must all appreciate that your tiptoeing up the hall must cause a far greater disturbance in this delicate seismograph than even 8, Very severe earthquake thousands of mifes away, which it was built to record.” He paused and examined the papers sharply. “This_is the record made by the Exhibit 2733 Conn. Ave. Bet. Woodley Rd. & Cathedral Ave. Price, $20,000 Two stories, attic, library, two fireplaees, two baths, breakfast and sleeping porches, chauffeur’s room with bath; single or double garage atscost. Built by Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Woodward Bldg., 15th & H ‘No Place Like Home; No Home Like Ours® INSPECT SUNDAY 3616 and 3618 Park Place N.W. Detache Homes Cpen on 3 Sides $1,000 CASH Balance, $75 Monthly INCLUDING ALL INTEREST SATURDAY, MARCH 11. 1922 FOR SALE Garage Sites Central Northwest— West of Conn. Ave. For particulars, price and terms, THOMAS J. FISHER & Co. 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