Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1926, Page 41

D. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1926. > | stepmother in Santa Barbara. doosfnm to mention the matter.do young Gaines repeated slowly. ““Well. | Reynolds.” RS has gone pretty ' far, hasn't fou can depend upon me ah‘t\ * promised Hiyatt, unspeaka his train and felt spre that you |tude, Gaines? T don't like to ques- |Quite a smash, isn't it? How old is|our aces well up the sleeve!” wouldn't come on his say so! That's | tion him too much.” Reynolds, anyway?" “Oh. rot! Have it your own way. I|he?”’ all there is to that! He sent vou that “He is inclined to think the man “Old enough to know better! I ask-|don't have to know, but as vou say.| well—it wire when he changed ‘rains at the |died a natural death, being robbed |ed you who she was, Gaines. Come |voung Reynolds is hard hit: I'm h | {1y “What was the dead man to her? [lief in his tone ° i M | junction.” first, but I happen to know that he |now. you know everybody ing a time to make him see r on. | e v | * «\Where did he go?" asked Frank, |has sent out trailers after Reynolds| you asked me if she .were ansad- He wants to ta s+ home to his | Why won't she tell” Where is she| “Mr. ines and Mr. Hyatt, sah' s and his wife.” stepmother in Santa Barbara, but |going?” {the negro porter from the Pulimar Do vou know that the conductor of { venturess or a movie star! Do T look u i L his train has a copy of the messages | “What s his reaction to the little | as if T dealt in those commodities? My | what he proposes to do with her i “You're making a good many ‘ques- | came rushing in. “de boss done wa he sent from there? That is how he | South American? Jsn't she telling a | line is investigation, not heart throbs -|Lns Angeles in the early hours of t0- | tjons, Hyatt: sorr can't answer | ¥ou bof in the cyah sah. right quick | mow sah. suthin’ awful done r BY ELLA WISTER HAINES 3 Reyniolh and pretiy tall story?” | "“You're keeping something back:" | morrow's dawn is another question!” | hem all. but I can satisfy you about " (oosishtitnRe) “Young Reynolds doesn't chink so! profession we have to ks‘r\pl “He want{ to take her home to his ' ast one if 1 can depend upon you (Continued in e hini desperately, “can’t you be human | o | for half a second and put yourself in | ouvent 18 ling Tos | this child's place? Would you aban- at, the command of her suardian. idon her under the circumstances. her ‘Sournes ! would you?" ) Siddenty “I'd ‘hand her over to those Salva he curtaine of the | jon Army lasses I saw In your car. - ! She already knows them, they are her ural protectors under the circum 0| stances. The conductor will be will-| “Ame on amer | ing, and your responsibility, entirely Goan mun S | imaginary, T assure you, my boy, will | "o 3 became }(-eass' Now let's go back to the tele- | thetrain. laims | gram from Mrs. Reynolds. Do vou ) i fonnd | think Walter sent it as a hoax?" But rotect, Carolita, |y " \vas speaking to empty air, for Tetum it o the girl | Carolita had arisen precipitately from hers. and Jater he | her seat and hurried from the diner. mpanion | Paul in wake. “Oh, Lord!” with | Frank o , adding one small ft the trats | oypressive word: “Hell™ Then gath- T v’ tien | ering up what remained of his dinner Brown it | he proceeded to join Gaines at the ad v it 5 : . I nthe evening after bed carned a the & ievagh other of Paul | oining table N due t quarrel Walter [~ “Hello,” he said casually, “looking 4 ; " Taicred many vears | for vou.” Frank Hyva b A wife. | 771 saw vou get on.” Gaines return- Reynolds”™ i 4 asually, “T was just wait AN orot i s | ing to catch you alone. What's going e Their | en here?” | 1 & | bout that than T | ¥ b “You know more a t R becom ! Who are you trailing?” 1o him and bacause his brother was { “That man’s death was most u e X with the dead man | fortunate for the Reynold: wued from Yesterday's Star) | he commented. “espeeial A X | were hoth traveling under . names ron T. Gaines. “comie now, Gaines. don't stall! tated : You know all about Paul: he’s abso- > said at length, “you are | ugely A-1, and Edmund Reynolds was | ght place—you might as | ety q to you always, and paid | he worst. you well for what vou did for him!| nt of the dan: | The hoy's been involved in a miserable position did much | jcine and lost his head over the| make him look his | gi) = \\ho is she? An adventuress. a predicament : was | fiolivwood star? For goodness sake | obliged 10 admit K had | o me in, you know everybody spoken the bitter . and in addi- | Tavhat's your interest in the case?” il mesh h he had | oy jooking after Paul Reynolds oived hin his heart | xy, then, was the man murdered?” more securely *d than v thing that there is not a wildest dred could imagine. | qoctor rain! 1 examined the deeply, irr 1bly, infatus body ¢l s, 1 was making a It was go be | thorough investi of it when you | & after her while Fra { wame aboard. There is no sign of any i the matter | vlolence, but you can't get away | 1 1. unsympathetic way, | from the broken chain about his neck yet it would be absolutely nee I Something was on that chain! What for him fo watch over the girl for | was it and who took it? That's the with every passing moment he be- | e in a nut shell?” more inced that the What's going to happen?” was her guardian, the mysteri Jothing until the coroner decides pus vings his of identif o cause of death. After that———" Just t axons had <pressive gesture. Paul could not o a in the . but pondered the | 4, hag been thoroug! hed and the more ain he became |, clye of any kind girl must hav somewhere | arched by a train sion. the companion rin, “You mean that they could have weir' it upon her inger | jo0n ‘evaded? the signal already de .. There are any number The first thing to be | o¢ piding places in a Pullman. and be get rid of Frank and you overlook the small detail about the ving, and then | gha ¢ Walter Reynolds and the woman emembered that she had been | yith him loft the train at an early hl rehed at the hands of | poyp this morning ind reported to have no | At this pont entered the il and with Jance around took his place nall table « Carolita. “t'ome now. Gaines, who did it?"” “I'm not y to say; fact is t know. it wasn’'t young Reynolds of course, mnor the little Frank.” P South American girl, nor the Salva- he man [ spoke of o tion Army lasses. Funny thing my aaw Wi and his | meeting Wi djutant Gabrielle, T car aby wiih ihe idead wnin. | KDew il fore she joined the army Here is his card. He n office in | lovely woman. terribly upset now lex. Do vou know him? lover the affair, but it's fortunate T. Gaines | for the that they were in the car, Frank read from th for now there will be somebody to look hings! \Why didn't o 1 . | after her.” \ were going throu . ¥ ms to me that you have elim- aul He's the very . ant verybody except Walter Rey- Who is he nd the woman with him. You Well, in plain language he's one of | a « man who saw them in conver- the cleverest detectives n the coun jon with the dead man?” try. though he doese’t eall himself | es?" hat: H @ professional inyvesti “I'm afraid you have a pretty plain for banks and bizg business in generd » aguinst them: too bad.” list in running down “I'n not so sure. It is going to be could more fortu- [ mighty difficult to prove anything on than our meeting ith him! I'll { anyh v unless the object which was him to join us v the smoker | stolen from the body is found. The when he has tinished dinner IRt has no identification papers to “In Fran I don't care to 1 leave z 'Still, if he was on the steamer “See here, Paul. aren’t yvou lettin H abi he can surely be traced!” vour heart run away with vour head “Possibly. but he's foreigner— What do vou know of this girl they're hard to identify. Have vou sense enough to know | change subject for a moment, what that her story is absolutely impossi kind of a will did old man Reynold h from every point of view? 1 think he was making? Aren't you wren’t innocent in this day id age! | people going to have a law suit on Don’'t you realize that she proved | yvou hands that will bring that mighty ¢l n helpi vou to | skeleton shrieking back to life? T v ¢ » the conducte thought he was more astute!” ords that were | “I think you mistaken,” Hyatt K . 1.9 money and posi- | replied quietly: “the will is entirely | N h v 1 -b 1 —Nnot as: bled V ll y vour good looks, ! »rehensiv | . 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