Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1925, Page 35

Double Cross BY A. E. THOMA! A Mystery Story of Dramatic Power. Copyright, 1026, by Dodd, Mesd & Co. _(Continued from Yesterday’s § “Oh, now and then, when I come ba with a smile, “you shall an accounting of your Good-night, Dorls, dear. Rollin, old boy. their hands again. the door he turned once more beamed upon them. people,” he said mayoe, stewartship. Good-night As he reached Waterman turned uncomfortably to ward the girl Rollin, « Rollin, Rollin,” whispered brokenly, she into his arms can't be e it. 1 can’t belleve it CHAPTER VI s plunged down the steps as v door closed behind him. hurried blindly across the Av Tt had begun to rain turned up his collar, thrust his hands deep into his pockets, and bej walk beneath the elms th eastward border of the park. There was tumult in his brain. He had not expected defeat. Not that he nourished any overween- ing estimate of his personal attrac- tions, or that he regarded them 1S I any way his friend. On the Waterman wa: contr. quit cauad most always been to ing that was kind and ind understanding. is true, made love to her vet she must have known, ght, what he thought of her, nd being uncommonly inteiligent, she must have guessed that before very long he would ask her to be his wite. Yet, knowing this, yes, and knowing that on that very evening she was he had nevertheless, with most at_her door, accepted his rival and his friend. Yes, it way . deliberate choice—there could be o possible doubt of that—deliberate and final. He had no suspicion whatever of the truth. By no conceivable means could o possibly have guessed the devious » by which Waterman's success had been achieved. He could not know the sudde ock to which the girl's whole nature had been subjected, nor how much she suffered at the convic- tion of his turpitude. He could not know that Doris in her suffering had unconsclously, blindly, put out her hand, yearning for comfort, and had taken, almost without knowing ft, the only comfors that offered itself. Few things are so difficult to ex- Plain in this world of inexplicable things & the ties which bind men and women together. But a large per- centage of otherwise obscure alllances are undoubtedly the result we muy cail the rebound. Many a sor- r is so swiftly remar- hat the tears of mourning are dried upon his cheeks. 3is shocked. He has so soon he truth is t s second is not the result of swift f too deeply and too is an in tance, t agreeab sym class example of what medical literature ation the obscuration of one emo- application of another. picion of all this crossed or could eross the mind of the cken anlex His nature was of the sim. plest and most direct. Life had been for him. Evervthing had lain safling. This was the first great shock of his life an him to the core of his soul. Tt must be admitted tha crossed his mind Iy beneath th fdea of this Too easy Teen blind dripping elms that the puble proposal might have been a trifle too quixotic. He wondered whether, if he had neve suggested it, he might not even no have becn the accepted, not the re jected, suitor. But this idea he promptly put aside. The result would have been the same in any event Doris was not the sort of girl to be won or lost by any trivia v, cons as he strode He would bu A1l his Immed ¥ to be gone. He wave ing taxi whose driver p that his rear wheels skidded ainst the curb. Ten minutes in his own apartment, he was telephoning: “Ia that you, Wilson?—Yes, to find you in on a 3 night. Something unexpected has come up. I've got to make many plans of importance with a good deal of speed. Were you planning to leave town over No? You're quite sure? Good,” then I shall ask you for once to give up your day of rest and mect me ‘at the office in the moruing at 11 o'clock.—All right. Good bye.” Looking back upon that after yvears Stanley member exactly how had a confused recollection of the streets of New York gleaming wet and lambent under the lamp—a pano rama of faces at the club, sounds of more or less familtar ve the flick of cards, the tinkle of glasses—a night of troubled dreams and restless sleep, of pacing to and fro, of the pale advent of dawn through his eastward-looking windows, a hasty breakfast scarcely touched, the sound of the early church- bells pealing over the chimney top: automatic donning of his finally the office. Nothing in New York changed In outward aspect business district on Sunda struck Wilson forcibly as leisurely southward from his two-room tpartment in Greenwlich Village on h to keep this most unusual ap- pointment with Lis employer. So still, so sleepy seemed the city, with its Tabyrinth of canyons deep-seated be ath those towering walls! It was like an enchanted clity, created the day before by some magician, made populous by the wave of his wand, and as suddenly at his changing whim stricken into silence and desertion. Such mild reflections passed through Wilson’s mind as he strolled peace- fully down Broadway, meeting only a rare trolley car and an occasional policeman, and now and then a pedes- trian who, ke himself, seemed strange, out of place and impressed with the unfamiliarity of the scene. He found Stanley already at desk, engaged in sorting out a heap of papers. t down fc ready for v moment.” Immedia Wilson knew that somethin 1 had happened. Where Stanley was concerned he had an_extra sense, for Stanley was his god. The younger man some years before had rescued him from the heap of human wreckage wherein he strug- gled, like a sort of human jackstraw, und had given him for the first time in his life a sense of security and peace. It had been done originally upon a whim, but it had been the best thing that had ever happened in Wilson's sordid, unhappy life. and it had also been a very wood thing for Stanley. Few men are so lucky posse ntrated J, unselfish devotion of : r hu man_ bel In Wilson, st po: sessed this jewel. And to do him jus- ice, unobserving though he was in nany ways, he knew it To Wilson, Stanley was just about he whole of life. Stanley was his gulde, philosopher and friend, and as n all his bridges, wits the ed with t night in could never re- it passed. He bit, Frank, I'll be and Rollin,” he added render me He gripped both and “You two dear I love you both and s shall” With that he was gone. she ipped and he an to lined the e of | 1 him | He had | of what | it shook | the notion | clothes— his | such he had | study of that friend. not strange that he could gather in- stantly from Stanley’s volce and man- ner the conviction that was wrong. He sat rather que pushed away the heap of papers. “Frank,” he sald, “I want you to know from me before you hear it from anybody else that to quit the business.” He waited, but Wilson said nothing—he was shocked to speak. “Yes,” said Stanley, “I have had enough of it. It bores me. I want u change, a great big change, and I'm going to get 4t right away. I'm going |to quit the business. \What's more, down to be exact “Indfa?” said Wilson voic Why Indi g “Why not? Anything wrong with India?"”’ “No,” said Wlilson vaguely, “not that 1 know of; I don't know much about {t.” “Neither do I,” sald his employer, ‘but I mean to. One thing I do know finally finding York, and that’s the main idea. “But 1 haven't asked you to give up your Sunday and come down here to the office merely to tell you this. have asked you here to tell you that during my absence I want you to remain in ) onal employ As vou one better—the affairs are but a part of my <hall need some one to | represent me while I um gone, and I have selected 4 Stanley!” gasped Wilson went on the other,” if you will be <o kind. You've been with me for five yvears nc and no man ever had a n intelligent or a more devoted scrvant—I use the word in Its best sense. If it weren't for you I couldn't go away as 1 am going, but I know that with yvou on the |Job T can go in perfect security “But,” objected Wilson, who had now recovered his ability to think “I should fancy that perhaps Mr. | Waterman— | “Not at all Not at all. Not that | under some ctreumstances T might not |have hosen him for this responsibil |ity, vat ts, T think not. You |se€, he will have enough to do to run |this business.” | -h—he’s going to run the busi- | d Stanley been less intent upon | his own affairs he would have found | occasion for reflection in_Wilson's {tone. As it was, he missed the elo quence of the inflection and went on: You see, after tomorrow, the busi {ness of this firm will Belong entirely to Waterman.” | iIndeed? | “Yes. T've arranged with Atherton | & Brownell over the telephone to send their head clerk to the office this |morning. We'll go over all the books with him, o that when the office opens tomorrow morning the neces sary documents can be drawn up and the whole transter of my fnterests {can be completed before the close of business tomorrow afternoon.” Isn't thi id Wilson feebly “rather rushing it? | (Continued in Tomorrow's Star) Y. W. C. A. NEWS | | _The Tri-City Conference for Young | Business and Professional Women be- |ing held at v . Cherry- | dale, Va., op S ¢ with 18 | delegates” from Baltimore, 3 from Annapolis and 35 from Washington including 12 students from the George Washington ¥. W. C. A. The theme of the conference is em- bodied in the quotation from James | Russell Lowell: | “They must upward still, and onward— Who would keep abreast of Truth.” Miss Harrlet A. Cunningham, na- tional executive of the Young Busi- ness and Professional Women, from { New York City, will lead the girls in the study and appreciation of nature through cross.country hikes and talks on “Autumn Sky.” Miss Imogene Ireland, executive of the National Y. W.'C. A. music committee, will direct the music. A discussion on “When is a person well educated?” will be led by Miss | Marian R. Miller, director of education { of the Washington Y. W. C. A., Sun- day afternoon. Sunday morning serv- fees will be conducted by Miss Harriet A. Cunningham. The education department of the Y. W. C. A. announces the arrival of Miss Minnie V. Sandberg from Kansas City, Mo., who will serve as secretary of religious_education. Miss Sandberg has been principal of a girls' school in Yokohama, Japan, and previously been connected with the industrfal and student depart- ments of the Y. W. C. A. In this Syrups, prepared for Infants | Jt has been in use for more | | Constipation Wind Coli Flatulence Diarrhea Aids in the assimilaf Natural Sleep witho To avoid imitations always look for the signature of o hi to the|every Tuesday, 8 p.m., in the Y. W.| e e e 1t T15 | C. A. gymnasium, Eieventh and M | something feeling In a moment Stanley 1 am going too | 'm going a long way oft—to India,|} about It—it's damn different from New | of THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, country. Last year she studied at Co- lumbia University and_ Union Theo- | logical Seminary, New York City, re-} ceiving her M.A. degree from Columbia. Classes both in Bible study and teachers’ training will be resumed this week under the direction of Miss Sandberg. Classes' in paddle tennis are now | forming at the Y. W. C. A. The course_ conslsts of 15 lessons, one streets. It is planned to prepare the girl for lawn tennis in the Spring. Miss Marion L. Meigs, secretary of physical education, is the instructor. Registrations should be made at the information desk. 614 E street. Miss Ilena Balley, chalrman of the membership committee, has called a meeting for tomorrow evening at 7 o’'clock, 614 E street. Miss Jane Blinn, secretary of the membership depart- ment, will give a report on the N: tional Recreatlon Conference she at- tended last week in Asheville, c The following W. W. C. A. chapter meetings are scheduled for this week Princefon Chapter will meet Monday, 2 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Rudolph Schneider. 629 Quebec place. Bloom- ingdale Chapter will meet Monday, 8 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Martha Jones, 160 Todd place northeast. Chevy Chase Chapter is holding a bazaar Wednesday afternoon and evening at the Chevy Chase Library building. Mrs. Frank Hoadley is chairman. Miss Saida L. Hartman, secretary the industrfal department, an- nounces the following events for this week: Wednesday—Luncheon for the in- dustrial girls working in proximity to the Y. W. C. A. headquarters. Wednesday, 2:30—Meeting of reek Club. Thursday i and supper at V n Lodge employed in hom The Y. W. C. A. ¢ the camp fire for girls A. Girl Reserves of all the senfor and junior high schools in the city left 614 I3 street yesterday at 6:30 for a straw ride. Lansburgh & Bro. furnished the trucks. After a fivemile ride on the Marlboro pike the girls gathered around a camp- fire to sing. Miss Marian Casey, sec- retary of the department, chaperoned the part Ins Leauty Gleamy, Thick, Wavy Hair in a Moment Girls! _Try this! When combing and brushing your hair, just moisten your hair brush with a little “Dan- | derine”_and brush it through your | hair. The effect is startling! 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