Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1928, Page 39

THE EVENING BAQi7p\i/0) /¢ THE TULE MARSH MURDER Copyright, 1928, by Bell Syndicate, Inc THE STORY THUS FAR. Don Ellsworth’s wife, foymerly the famous actress, Sheila O'Shay. disappears. leaving no trace. Dr. Cavanaugh. the great crim- inal psvchologist. learns that their married life has been very unhappy. Peter Piper. a reporter on the trieg to see Dr _Cavanaugh. Inste meets Barbara Cavanaugh. t! daughter, and finds that she was engaged to Don Ellsworth before his marriase. . v An_unidentified body is found in 1t is burned beyond end Kknows something about the murder and his to protect her. > Sheila O'Shay's waiting wom- ted and admits that her mis- Yorced Don Ellsworth to marry her by threatening & breach of promise suit Peter and Dr. Cevanaugh ~search the noudoir of the murdered woman. The breach of promise papers have been taken, but they & threatening letter signed “David % Peter goes on the trail of Orme. an. tress s Star.) (Continued from Ye CHAPTER XXX. “If he has any sense he’ll have beat it away from here into other spots and left no forwarding address,” Peter in- formed “Bossy” severely as he swung into the boulevard leading to the camp grounds. But despite his efforts to batten down his enthusiasm with stern common sense, excitement prickled up and down his spine and tightened his hands on the wheel. It did not so much as occur to him that he had set out, un- armed and alone, to pursue a possible murderer. He did not even wonder how he would induce Orme to give himself up if he found him. Peter was a profound believer in the futility of crossing bridges before he came to them—the bridges were so very likely not to be where you expected them, or be missing altogether. Despite his lack of sleep, he was buoyed up beyond the reach of fatigue; his head felt a little light, but un- ccmmonly clear., “Bossy” seemed to dip and skim along the highway like a gull coasting down the lanes of air. His cep blew off and rolled hoopwise to the side of the road, but he did not pause to retrieve it. There was no veal need for hurry—if Orme had not | I left long since he was unlikely to get | away in the course of an hour—but sveed gave him the illusion of pressing on in an obscure race with fate. “Gee, if the luck only holds!" he| raurmured once, and for a moment his Herald, | A®L whitewash in the city jail. Never! If it came to the worst, he would drive her himself to the Mexican border. He didn't know what he would do. But they should not get Barbara—never —no matter what she had done. With a squeal of brakes and a drag- ging of wheels on the pavement Peter brought “Bossy” to an abrupt halt. had almost driven past the entrance to the automobile camp. “Bossy” looked by no means out of place in the scattered company of derelict cars parked in a fleld worn 't';) dusty smoothness by innumerable res. A hot dog stand on wheels filled one corner and a strip of unpainted cabins at the rear offered shelter at 25 cents a night. But most of the campers were content with tent-like roofs stretched from the frames of their cars to stakes thrust into the ground. A number had only rolls of tattered bedding spread beside the running board. Thin lines of gray smoke | wavered upward from rusted camp stovies squatting here and there about the enclosure. | Peter stretched his cramped legs and, | tossing his pipe into a corner of the seat, lighted a cigarette. “And the romance of gypsying has come to this!” he mused, his gaze drift- hair cutting thick slices of bread with a clasp knife, to a girl in grease-spat- tered khaki army breeches and high- | heeled patent leather pumps, to a group of quarreling, djrt-smeared chil- dren. | Gypsying! Green dells and wander- | ing tinkers, the singing freedom of the countrysidc. Perhaps it had always | been like this, really, just as Barbara's blessed by plumbing. These were the modern vagabonds, the unemployed, the drifters, the petty thieves, the incompe- | tents, who bundled their families and scant possessions into ramshackle Fords grounds until they were periodically | their gas would take them—without ope. without plan, without beauty, without even the clean crash of- real disaster. ‘ong face took on the look of one who | A has uttered a prayer. | “If this man Orme was mixed up in | +, Barbara wasn't. Perhaps she was | trying to shield Ellsworth—loyalty, the ‘mpractical, incorruptible virtues. Hecht Co. There were things about Ellsworth | ° that certainly weren't clear, but Orme | was another line altogether. There | ¥as no connection between the two | men that Peter could see. It looked | as if the mystery of Sheila O'Shay's | death might be further complicated by the mystery of her life. If there were | things that she herself had wanted to conceal, digging them out would not | 2 so simple. Peter's eyes darkeped as his mind ~cered from Sheila’s picturesqus and salychromatic career to Barbara, fight- ng her was so gallantly, so !oollshly,f through shadows. | “Gosh, I'll bet that woman had a mast as checkered as a Scotch plaid,” he told the wheeling landscape with 2 half grin. Then his wide mouth set in 2 grim line. “If I'd had the chancs to marry a girl like Barbara, I'd have bumped off the old girl myself before T'd have let her bulldoze me into mar- rying her. Ellsworth is the fool of the world—unless it's Peter Piper.” X For Peter was coldly, dismally con- -cious that if he got Orme, and if Orme ‘cared Ellsworth, he himself might be ‘saring the way for Ellsworth to marry Barbara. “Well. it can't be helped,” he mut- *ored through clenched teeth. Bar- ~ra, in the numbing chill of her or- 1an asylum childhood, had found the ‘ory of life in the vision of another ||, rld, where honor gleamed above | il, where loyalty fluttered like a | nted banner at a spear-head, where n rode into death with the scarves their ladies bound to the sleeves | their coats of mail. There was nothing very knightly ~bout the battered “Bossy” careering Features ATWATER KENT RADIO Another Nationally Known Product Latest Model ATWATER | KENT Complete With Tubes and Speaker 1172 $20.00 Down $10.50 Monthly He | | arettes and forced his stiff lips to a | ing from a man stretched in stertorous | | slumber to a woman with draggled gray | knights had ridden out of castles un- | and roosted, rent free, at public camp- | weeded out. to rattle on again as far as | ! Like most buoyant persons, Peter i drowned periodicaily in depths of mo- | tiveless depression. He was sure that ! h> would not find Orme. He was sure | thet Jimmy would fire him, that he could not find another job and that he | would slide step by step down hill until he and the last fragments of the chug- ging “Bossy” would come to roost some- { where in a public campground. He was | sure that in some crazy, heroic, inex- plicable moment Barbara had herself S killed Sheila O'Shay and that he would have to stand by, helpless, and watch | that shining head betrayed to the gray turreted walls—not unlike a medieval castle, in their way—of the State's | prison. That thought roused him to action. “Not till I'm dead, anyway,” he said |aloud, and dragged his steps drearily, ihnpelessly across the field to a corner where a young man sat on the running board of a mud-spattered runabout, | munching a hamburger sandwich. Peter held out his package of- cig- companionable grin. dy?” he asked, as a conversational opening. “Rotten,” the young man answered laconically. *There ain't no work for nobody no more. 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