Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1923, Page 18

HE MYSTERY GIRL] A Thrilling Detective Story. BY CAROLYN WELLS. (Copyright, by 7. B. Lippinoott Co.) Jofa Waring, newly elected to the presi- denck of Corintn Collere. enerable New Englknd seat of learning, £I8'in v study Aw-he s at {he Difascle career and about to marry Bmily Wt rming and cultured widow, o tmotl for guicide appears. He had no’ kbown ene- mics: Thare was no trace of a weapon, BOF was there any way in which & murderer could Lave left the locked room. The pext morning N ler, 8 missing. pin_ Sworn by the dead ma fo have been in hia private drawer. inaists frm- lcide theory. . the Japanese but- le_ruby stick- Lockwood, Dr. Waring's secretary, v . upon wrumpled bit of paper from the Wi TR dend manls atudy hefore the room had been searched. It is a half-fnished love letter 1o An Anita Austin. “‘the mystery girl.” as_she ns been dubbed by the inmates of Mrs. Adams’ boarding house (because of her silence concerning herself and her businesa in Corinth), s drawn into the traj when it is discov- Al Rows of Dr. Waring Suspicion {s definitely fixed upon Anita by Miss Bascom. & prring old maid, who searches he room and_triumphantly produces from o steau drawer a roll of bills. Out of the nter of this damning evidence rolls the ruby stickpla 1s Miss Mysteryt Mrs. Adams fell limply into a chair, her round eyes staring in horror. Miss Bascom had taken upon her- self the role of dictator, and with an accusing finger pointed at Miss Mys- tery she said: “What have you to say for your- replied Anita, Austin, coolly, “except to insist that you leave “Leave your room, indeed! I am only too glad to! And I know where to go, too.” Mibs Bascom's determined air as she strode out of the door gave a hint of her desperate intentlon, and within five minutes she was out on the road to- ward the village. Mrs. Adams, still almost speechless with surprise and dismay, looked sor- rowfully at Anita. Something in the girl's face stayed the kindly words the woman meant to say, and instead she broke out: “You must leave house: What a¥e 2 thief and a murderer?” “Oh! up her d as If to ward off a physical blow. Then, as if the cruel words had stung_her to a quickened sense of her own danger, she cried piteously: Oh. Mrs.' Adams, help me—protect me—won't you? I don't ll(no' what to_do—I'm all alone—so alone: She sank into a chair and buried her face in her hands. 3 Esther Adams was uncertain what course to pursue. Should she protect this- guilty girl, of whom she really knew nothing, or should she dismisa her at once from her house in the nterests of her other boarders, who must be considered? Surely her first duty was to the others—the people she had known 3o ong_and who looked upon her house s a home and a safeguard. “You must go,” she said, though her coice wavered as she saw the pathetic e Anita raised to look at her. Oh, no! Don't send me away! Where could I go? Even the inn peo- ple wouldn't take me:"” “Of course they wouldn't! Go heme! Haven't you a home? Who are vou, anyway? But I don't care who you are, you must get out of this house today—this morning. Do you s S this A \leantime Miss Bascom on her vir- tuous errand had trotted quickly to 1e office of the prosecuting district attorney. There, however, she was told that Mr. Cray was over at the Waring house, and she concluded to go there. Nor did this displease her. She iong- “d 1o be in the limelight, and the tale she had to tell would surely give her the ¥ight to be there. * Mrs. Peyton received her coldly, for the two were not friends. “I came to see Mr. Cray” Miss Baseom announced, “‘or important busi: ness, “Gh, very well” the housekeeper returned; “take a seat and I'll ask him to see you. Miss Bascom waited In the living ecure in her knowledge of the importance of her news. The attornev welcomed her cordial- l¥v. for he saw at once that she brought news of value. And, expressed in emphatic lan- guage. and interspersed with many 1nd unfavorable personal opinions, Tiza Bascom told of the incident of fnding the money and the ruby in Miss Austin's bureau drawer. “Astonishing!" commented Cray. “Who is she”" “Nobody knows; that's the queer part. We call her Miss Mystery.” “Where did she come from?” “Nobody knows. 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Package Dom't _let “A DIME A DAY STAND ° IN YOUR WAY” For health and complete happiness A Strength-Building Tonic but you never can tell with those sly things. I dare say she makes herself look several years younger than she really is.” “Did she know Dr. Waring?" “How do I know? She came over to this house late Sunday night—for I saw her—" “Good heavens! Are you sure?’ “Well, it was fairly light, with the moon, and the snow all over the ground, you know, and I saw her, all wrapped up in her fur coat, sneaking away from the house—" How late?” "Oh—after everybody had gone up- stairs and the lights were all out at the Adamses.” You saw her come back?” ‘No; I didn’t think much about it at the time—she's & crazy plece any- ‘way—and—-" What do you mean by & crasy y, she's queer—not llke other folks. She won't have anything to do_with any of us over there—-" “That doesn’'t make her out crazy.” Miss Bascom shrugged impatiently. “I don’t mean insane or demented. I only mean sly and secretive. She never speaks to anybody at the table —and though she makes eyes at Gor- don Lockwood, she snubs-Mr. Tyler, who is just as good a young man. They both admire her=—anybody can see that, but she treats them like the dust under her feet.” “Not an adventuress, then?" “I don't know. But I do know she's a thief—or how did she get that money and the ruby?” “Perhaps Dr. Waring gave them to er?” “Then she is = wrong one! Why should he give a strange girl such things ™ 1f he was in love with her- Now, look here, Mr. Cray, do try to show ordinary common sense! Dr. Waring was about to marry Mrs. Bates, a sweet, dear woman, of suit- able age. Is he going to have a little flibbertigibbet coming to see him late at night for any romantic reasons?” Cray hesitated to speak his mind. but he ruminated that he had heard of such things, in the course of his life. Miss Bascom, he thought, was an unsophisticated old mald, but there was certainly a new condition to be investigated, and the case of Miss Anita Austin must be carefully constdered. “Now, Miss Bascom,” he said dlplo- matically, “T'll have to ask vou to keep this whole matter quiet for a time. You must see that we can't work successfully jf we take the whole town into our confidence. Or even this entire household.” “Don’t vou try to bamboozle me. Stephen Cray! T know your sort, You want to keep this matter quiet be- cause you want to get that girl off scot-free!’ I know you men’ Just because she has a pair of big, dark eyes and a slim little shape you are ready to hide her guilt and let her off easy. I won't have it! That girl stole those things, or else she got them from poor John Waring in & way no decent woman would——" re you talking about, Liza way, and though she asked the ques- tion, 1t was fairly evident that she knew the answer, and had been lis- ."* she went on, “I've been lis- tening at the door, and I'm glad I did. First of all, T won't have Dr. Waring's name traduced, and next, if there's a girl implicated in the mat- ter the whole truth about her has got to come out! I know the girl, she was here Sunday .afternoon, and a more brazen-faced, bold-mannered chit, I never want to see!" - “She was here?” asked the bewil- | dered Cray. *You know her?” { “I know all I want to know of her.” ! Mrs. Pevton declared,” . “Yes, she was here—came over. with Emily Bates and Pinky. Wouldn't condescend to be really one-of us, but just acted Mish and.seemed to me about half- | ted. “Don’t be silly,” put in Miss Bas- com. “That's the last thing to say of | her! Whatever that girl may he. ' she's got all her wits about her! I can see that for myself.” i “‘Was Dr. Waring present when Miss | 'Yes,” replled Mrs. Peyton, ‘and that's a strange thing. When he first: saw her—unexpectedly, you know—he dropped his teacup.” ~“Because of_ the meeting?’ asked Ciay. " &I don't know,” Mrs. Peyton said. “He declared afterward he had never Seen. the girl. before—but—oh—I can believe she came back here that nigh ? course she didn’t’ Cray sald. “How could she get in unless some one admitted her? “There's the French window in the study,” Mrr. Peyton suggested, uncer- tainly. “Ds Waring could have let her in that wros —" “Well, he didn’t Miss Bascom de- clared. '“Land! I've known John War- ing ali my life, and he's not the kind of man that had anything to do with flir- tatious young women."” Of a truth, Liza Bascom had known varing for many years and had spent a number of them in desperate effort to persuade him to renounce bachelor- hood in her favor. Yet her words carried little welght with Attorney Cray, who fancled that he knew men better than the inslstent spinster possibly could. “Miss Bascom,” he said, after further thought, “and Mrs. Peyton, too, I'm go- ing to ask you—I'm going to instruct you to keep this matter quiet until after the funeral of Dr. Waring. That occurs tomorrow and I want a day_or so to look into this thing queitly. We would gain nothing by rushing matters. I will eo Miss Austin, of course, and rest as- red if she's gulity of any wrongdoing she shall not escape.. But it matter to accuse a suspect wi ut glv- ing any chance for explanation— “There's no explanation of that ruby pin and all that money, that s not in- criminating to that girl!” Miss Bascom exclaimed. “Nevertheless, T am in authority, and I forbid you to discuss the connection of Miss Austin wtth the case at all.”” Cray knew how to impress beligerent women and he even added a hint of their making trouble for themselves un- less they obeyed his explicit' command. He returned to the study, where Gor- don Lockwood was going over the morn- ing's mail. The secretary was & busy man, for his late employer had had a number of diversified interests, and every mail brought letters, catalogs, ocirculars and newspapers that required careful atten- tion. John Waring had been a collector of rare books and other curios, and was interested in several literary enter- prises. To . many of .thess correspondents Lockwood could merely send a state- ment of the doctor's death. 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