Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1928, Page 27

MARSH MURDER Copyright, 1928, by (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) E RY THUS FAR. Don Elworine wite, formerly. the famous actress Sheila O'Shay, disappears, leaving life has been unhappy. Peter Piper, a _reporter on the Herald, tries to get an interview with Dr. Cava- naugh. Insterd he meets Barbara Cava- naugh, the attractive daughter. and finds {hat she was engaged to Don Eilsworth be- fore his marriage. 'An_unidentified body is found in the tule marsh outside the City. has been burned by 8 fire in the marsh until it is entirely unrecognizable except for the fact that it is a woman. Dr. Cavanaugh is called in to_help with the identification. . He has only a small piece of scalp from the body to work on. Don Ellsworth re- fuses to give him a hair of Sheila O'Shay, but he secures one unknown and after ex- amination tells Peter Piper that the body fornd in_the marsh is that of Shelia O'Shay. Barbara, in whom Piper has be- Bell Syndicate, Inc to get into a suit that hangs together a little better than this one.” Jimmy surveyed the hollow-eyed, smiling figure beside him. “Go home and go to bed,” he growled. a |1 guess we can live without you for the rest of the day. If anything breaks, I can let you know.” Peter, however, across the desk. “I say, Jimmy,” he pleaded, “I'd rather follow this up. I've got a hunch about the man who wrote that letter. D'you suppose there'd be any chance of giving me a few days, just to root around on my own? It may not come to anything, of course.” “When you're as old as I am,” Jimmy saild in his gruffest tones, “you’ll have enough sense to take a day off when it's handed you on a silver platter. But continued to lean - | there’s no fool like a young fool. Go susp:- | wherever you durn please. “You can turn in an expense account Peter 16 | for that suit, but I warn you, if you go ise suit. Peter makes a soclal call on Bar- bara Cavanaugh. He is convinced that she knows something. about the murder and his instinct is to protect her. Peter, Watching the Ellsworth house, sees Dr. Cavanaugh g0 in. He climbs up the porch to see what is going on and finds Dr. Cavanaugh in Sheila O'Shay's boudoir. Dr. Gavanaugh discovers him and invites him in. They find that the breach of promise papers With Which Sheila O'Shay forced Ellsworth to marry her have been taken from_the safe. But they find something else. It 15 a threatening letter signed by the name “David Orme. CHAPTER XXVIIL ELL, look what the cat [ brought in!” Jimmy, who prided himself on_being the first of the Herald editorial staff to arrive in the morning, had signaled the freight elevator as usual in the gray light of a 6 o'clock dawn, swung around the jut- ting corner of the photographers’ dark room, and was brought up short in his headlong progress across the local room by the sight of Peter, hunched over his typewriter, the light from a battered green-shaded desk lamp outlining a harsh circle about his slouching shoul- ders. At the moment, Peter's fingers were poised silently over the typewriter Keys, but simultaneously with Jimmy’s greet- ing they resumed action in a clattering burst of sound. “Don’t fuss me,” Peter growled, with a brief glance at the city editor. “Be with you in a minute.” The fanfare of the typewriter keys continued in irregular rapid-fire stac- cato. then ceased with a rattling cadenza as the last sheet of copy paper was ripped from the carriage. Peter strolled with elaborate non- chalance between the empty desks, numbering the pages as he went, and thrust them with a flourish under Jimmy’s nose. “Read 'em and weep,” he said. Jimmy clawed the sheets of copy paper toward him, pushing his eye shade at a rakish angle above his left gettinmnother one slashed up as if you'd been the center of a stiletto con- test, it’s your own lookout. And, if you hang around here another minute try- ing to look bored, you’re going to burst.” But Peter, with a final grip over his ‘sxhoulder. was already half way to the loor. It was a very different Peter who parked Bossy on a side street two hours later and made his way along the drive marked “tradesmen’s entrance” to the back door of the Ellsworth house. He had donned a sweater in place of a coat and buttoned its high collar close around his chin. A wide visored cap was pulled far down over his eyebrows, casting his face into deep shadow. He had even dis- carded his cigarette in favor of a short curved pipe. The picture thus presented before his mirror had delighted him hugely. “It is ain't the spittin’ image of Sher- lock Holmes on a rampage!” he ad- dressed his reflection enthusiastically. “It shouts ‘disguise’ to the very house- tops. And, of course, the object of a dis- guise is to look as much like a disguise as possible. If not. why go to all the trouble?” Regretfully he abandoned the package of cigarettes on the dresser. “Ethel’s favorite sleuths always smoke pipes—I know they do. And Ethel, my dear, you're going to have the biggest thrill of your young life. It's too bad I can’t make it really good—wait till eve- ning and_then throw pebbles at your window. But I don’t know which win- dow, and I couldn’t hit it, anyhow. Be- sides, I can't wait. You'll just have to be satisfied with thin%s ‘as is.’” As a finishing touch, he pinned his police “Press” badge under the rolled bottom of his sweater, and then devoted half an hour to the composition of a note which, after several scribbled drafts he finally copied in laborious hand-printed capitals. “Urgent and secret,” it began. “If you would be of service to the cause of clear- ing the innocent and bringing the guilty to justice, come at once to the shrubbery at the second bend of the driveway to ear. Peter leaned across the desk in a pose of extreme casualness, listening to the faint slip-slip as each page was read. At last Jimmy looked up. “It's a pretty good yarn,” he said solemnly; and that Peter knew was the supreme accolade bestowed but rarely by the city editor on work well dore. Jimmy marked the first of the sheets, “first run, hed to kum,” and yelled for a copy boy. Then, for the first time, he looked closely at Peter. “Hell's bells!” he exclaimed. “Where have you been all night, anyhow?” “Oh. just around,” Peter waved his hand vaguely in a circle of the horizon. “Well, you look around and over and through,” Jimmy remarked caustically. “Say, there’s no funny business about this, is there? It check, all right?” “Cavanaugh's behind it,” Peter as- sured him. “He gave me the letter to copy.” “And just where did the dog fight come in?” Peter was indeed g disreputable ob- ject. His face and the backs of his hands were scored by long red lines, along with the blood that had con- gealed. His coat was ripped under the arm and several jagged three-cornered tears decorated each trouser leg. His chin showed the need of a morning shave, a black smudge across his forehead gave him a sinister, pirat- as if you'd been | be; the left, and tell no one I am the pri~ vate assistant of C., whom you left in a certain room overlooking the back gar- den, between 10 and 11 o'clock last night. P. P., Investigator.” Peter surveyed this literary produc- tion with beaming pride. “Won’t she just love it, though?” he gloated, “And the funny part is that reduced to plain English, it's true e esiveced ng ves s message to an astonished cook at the kitchen door, Peter retraced his steps along the drive- way as far as the second bend, and half concealed himself in the thick shrub- anybody with any sense comes along, I'm sunk,” he murmured. “I'd send myself to the psychopathic ward for investigation on sight.” The only footsteps, however, were light ones, tip-toeing along the gravel from the direction of the house. Peter waited until they were almost opposite, and then stepped forward from his place of concealment. “Sh!” he hissed loudly and unneces- sarily to the palpitating Ethel, who was far too impressed to open her mouth. “Come behind these bushes, where no one can see us. I have something of the utmost importance to communicate.” Ty, “If (To be continued.) ical expression and his eyes were blood- shot from lack of sleep. Nevertheless, he faced the city editor with an incor- rigible grin. “Oh, there wasn't any trouble—no trouble at all. These are honorable wounds, received in the line of duty— before I got around to the doctor. I guess it's about time I got around to a cup of coffee, though. And if you don’t mind, I'd like to buzz home logg enough Writeifo; Soiidased T You can drink nothing finer than Lipton’s Tea. Acknowledged throughout the world as the most delicious obtainable. Try it. 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