Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1928, Page 28

i MARSH MURDER Copyright, 1928, by Bell Syndicate, Ine (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) _ THE STORY THUS FAR. Don Elisworth’s wife, formerly the famous sctress, Sheila -O'Shay, disappears. leaving 0 trace. Dr. Cavanaugh, the great crim- psychologist. learns that their married has been very unhappy. Beter Biber. reporier on the Herald, 10 get an interview with Dr. Cavanaugh / ad he meets Barbara Cavanaugh. the attractive dsughter. and finds that she was engaged to Don Eilswoith before his mar- sge. An_unidentified body is found in the tule arsh outside the city. It has been burned ¥ & fire in the marsh until it is entirely uarecognizable except for the fact that it I & woman. Dr. Cavanaugh is called in to with the identification. e has only a small piece of scalp from the. body to work on. Don_ Ellsworth to give him a hair of Sheila O'Sha: he secures one unknown and afier ation tclls Peter Piper that the body olind in the marsh is that of Sheila O'Shay. . in whom Piper has become inter- ed. faints when -he hears this. Peter. is already half {1 Iove with her. is torn eeling and his suspicion that ¢ the ~ murder, 5 . Sheila 1s ‘arrested in the case interview her. He fearns that Shella O'Shav forcs n_Ellsworth to marry her by threatening a breach of promise suit. CHAPTER XXI. ETER PIPER stood with his finger hovering over the Coor- bell, in a state of acute and unaccustomed ~embarrassment. Peter's finger usually attacked door-bells without _hesitancy. He cocked his head slightly to one side and observed that tentative member with detachment, as if it did not belong 0, Bicks!” he_admonished it with a shake of the head which tilted his disreputable soft felt hat even farther over one eyebrow. “Punch, you idiot, ch! You can only get kicked out, and Heaven knows, that’s no novelty. The doorway where Peter stood was rather impressive, as doorways go; but Peter was unimpressed by grandeur. Too many mahogany doors had swung | open to him—swung open upon suicide, | murder, embezzlement, the downfall of | ambition, the price of folly. The| damour and the awe of wealth *had | ,fim; ago lost all power to affect him— | he had followed the same story too of across Khorassan carpets and lintery bare boards. Yet for some Teason Peter was undeniably nervous. But then, Peter had never before at- tempted a formal social call on a 1In Peter's set, you did not make calls. It you Jiked a girl you said casually: 7 t do you say we stay downtown to dinner tonight and do a show? Then you.“bummed” two tickets from the drama editor, and that was that. But Barbara bothered him. You couldn’t say a thing like that to Bar- bara. Barbara probably went to her shows in box parties, without the in- tervention of a drama editor. as- uncertain of Barbara as if she be- longed to a strange and probably hostile savage tribe. He had no particular respect for her bal customs, whatever they were—in he had an extreme;y upstanding ‘board of a car in a dead faint. the etiquette book which hadn't read, or the novels which had, provided for a situation just She'd bly take him for . Maybe he was! her. out. She kept imagit 2843 Fggsg g>54§§55§§ ;AERE 1 i 3;%2%3??5 were printed, with Old English 1t " He looked haughtily past shining tray, damning it into i it'’s Peter Piper of the .” His tone challenged the In- ink-and-Chinese-white automation make the most of it. The tilt of his long chin even indicated that for 2 cents he'd knock her block off. The automaton stood her ground, undeterred by this display of arrogance. “I don't think——" she began. 2 wit . “Suppose you put it up to her? T'll bet you two bits see’s me. Are you on?” ‘The Tfaintest flicker of responsive ess across the automa- ton’s face. “Will you come in and wait, sir?” Peter dropped into the nearest chair ing plane. Piper of the Herald” had slid from his lips by habit. What did he want that for? It sounded unbe- silly, like “Lord Raven of Ravenswood.” ‘What had he come for, anyway? He and this girl had absolutely nothing in common. Curiosity—that = was it! Curlosity was said to be fatal to cats. “Cats-bats-bats-cats.” Alice in Won- derland. The immortal wonder-child of Lewis Carroll's imagination. Was she really like that—Alice in Wonder- land growp up? Or was he betrayed by that trick of drawing her fair hair straight back from her round forehead? The real Alice probably grew up quite differently. She wasn't mixed up in a murder, anyway! Lewis Carroll made fools of us all—he made you love his || Alice so. Peter Piper brought himself up with a start. That word was dangerous. H2 was walking straight into a danger—a . | tray winked up at him from a small an | ful health builder. was the Herald that was turned out— just Peter Piper of the Herald. But this time it would be Peter Piper, him- self. Aghast at his own egoism, it| dawned—with curses—on Peter -that | there wasn't a chance in the world that Barbara had been consumed with any | curiosity about him! He wiped his hands on his handker- | chief—they were cold and damp with perspiration—and bunched the hand- | kerchief into his already sagging coat pocket. He snatched his hat from the bench beside him. She'd know what a fool he'd been—it was too late to help | that now—but he'd salvage the rem-i nants of his folly. He'd get out be- | fore she turned him out. He had already taken a step to- ward the door when he remembered the | esutomaton and hastily clawed two dimes and a nickel from the chewing | gum, rubber bands and paper clips ln" his trousers pocket. The little shining table. 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