Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1928, Page 21

DO THE TULE MARSH MURDER Copyright, 1928, by Bell Syndicate, In> THE STORY THUS FAR. Jon Ellsworth's wife, formerly the famous actress, Sheila O'Shay, disappears, leaving No trace. Dr. Cavanaugh, the g-eat crim- inal psychologist, learns that their married life has been very unhappy. a reporter on the Herald, Dr._Cavanaugh. Instead. he vi h. the attractive daughter. and finds that she was engaged to Don Elisworth before his marriage. An_unidentified body is found in the tule marsh outside the city. It is burned beyond recognition. but from a small patch of scalp Dr. Cavanaugh identifies it as the bods of Sheila O'Shay. ~Barbara faints tel Peter. this to her. is convinced t the murde; or. “"Mrs. Kane, Sheila O'Shay's waiting wom- that she, herself, was responsible for Sheila’s death, but he knew now that he had dever believed it. It had taken the flash of emeralds in the sun to bring that idea into the light where he must face it—face it with all its implications. His mouth set in a hard, grim line. He knew exactly what he was doing. There was no ignorance of the law to blind him. He knew that he was go- ing to suppress his knowledge of ma- terial evidence of a crime. If Barbara was guilty, no wrangling lawyers, no avid press, no stolid jury should tear that bright and gallant spirit to shreds. THE EVE STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1928. who answered the door saw only a tall and rather pale young man whose clothes were badly in need of brush- ing—several twigs and bits of leaf were clinging to them, but who showed no evidence of excitement. She looked up at him with a tentative half-smile of recognition, but he had evidently for- gotten her. He fished a Herald card from his pocket and scribbled a mes- sage on the back: “Please let me see you at once—it is most important.” He paused a mo- ment, and then added: “I am count- *| ing on you—we are friends, remember.” He looked up, as if he had just be- come aware of the figure in the open door. “Oh, it's you! I hope you found the two bits—though you didn't deserve them that time. Will you take this to Miss Cavanaugh, and tell her I'll wait in the room with the marigolds?”- “There aren't any marigolds—the season’s past, sir,” the automaton ex- plained meticulously. “Never mind—we know what we mean. You just cut along.” The automaton obediently “cut,” wondering as she mounted the stairs how Miss Barbara had ever discovered viously did not belong int her own social circle. “He clothes are a sight—but he does have a way with him. And Miss Barbara can afford to like whoever she pleases,” she reflected enviously. Peter stood anxiously waiting in the small room, where daffodils had re- placed the marigolds, but where a little fire still twinkled in the grate. He wished he had warned her to take off that dust-streaked dress before she came down. She might meet any number of servants, and they'd be sure to notice it and wonder. He wished he had tol her to destroy his card— but then, the girl might already have read it on her way up. He had thought only of Barbara while he was writing it—he strcve now to remember the wording. It was non-committal enough, still, it was better out of the way. His brain felt paralyzed with the sense of his own incompetence. There were S0 many things to think of—so many things that he had never had to consider before. Peter found him- self wishing that he had committed any can't have any money—his | po: Suppose he made some horrible blunder. Suppose he could not save her. Sup- se— “You wanted to see me?” She was there, slim and straight and childlike between the folds of the cur- tains. Before entering the room she turned and slid the folding doors shut. She was immaculately dressed in a straight little hlue frock, and she held Peter’s card, twisted in a tube about her slim fingers. “Thank God!" Peter cried. Barbara summoned a wan little smile. “You always do have the most aston- ishing ways of opening a conversation,” she said. “I was afraid you wouldn't change your dress,” Peter explained. “And may I have that please?” He took the card gently from her fingers and dropped it on the glowing coals. She looked up at him, faintly sur- prised, as one who has just passed through an earthquake might be sur- prised at the unexpected falling of a leaf. Unresisting, she allowed him to lead her to a chair and place her in it. Peter towered over her, his elbow on ood to you gmd b‘e‘:ber but I think the first step for you to marry me.” (Continued in other Reports Loss TUnion Station. ater patron and a traveler. latter. theater. The traveler, Fred Union Station by dressed in black."” number of crimes, so that he would have been practiced in technic, would such a very nice young man, who ob- know exactly what ought to be done. the mantel. “Barbara,” whether he said, “God knows the wit to be of much Everett E. Giller, manager. PICKPOCKETS GET $120 IN SUNDAY CROWDS Theater Patron Robbed and An- Pickpockets last night robbed a the- $30 from the former and $90 from the Edward W. Grove of Braddock, Alex- andria, Va., reported to police that his pocket was picked while in a downtown | Miami,” Fla., said he was robbed in “two young men’ The theft from a filling station at Second street and Massachusetts ave- nue northeast of $90 was reported by at They got Regan of nished police with a description of a suspect. 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If Barbara was guilty, he would share her guilt, He squared his shoul- 10 g 11'1‘1-: F B G S TREETS (Continued from Yesterda: accessory after the fact of murder. AN iy 63 = ‘This time therle was no hestl:}:.lm; t}{t KV. the doorstep before he rang the bell. SRS S Peter’s training stood him in good driven to the marsh in Barbara’s ~ car—the one thing Peter had held to be inconceivable had happened. He saw the jaunty through the night with its burden of death. Barbara’s white face of terror above the wheel. Had she searched with frenzied fingers for the missing Had she, in the horror of those dark hours, not even noticed that it had slipped from the gleaming copper of Sheila’s hair—perhaps not even known A groan broke from Peter’s lips. He was dully aware that something was pressing sharply against his forehead. The pain brought him slowly from the consciousness of his surroundings, like one who has plunged into deep water | and rises, by no effort of his own, ml the surface. He found that he was face pressed close to its rough bark. His breath came in sobbing gasps, as if he had been running to the point of ex- haustion. on of a light in a dark room, he was used from the numbness of nightmare = flash of absolute certitude. Bar- bara’s hand might have held a knife not have flung the body of Sheila O'Shay into the marsh and set fire to the grass. She could not have done it, simply because she was Barbara. figure at the wheel, with that other huddled figure beside it, he would still have known that she did not do it— because she was Barbara. He had be- thing she could not do. The physically impossible—or what looked like it—was often enough accomplished, but there were impossibilities that struck deeper. it. Evidence was as nothing, because no outer facts could give the lie to the central fact that was Barbara. With a deep, tremulous sigh Peter slowly up the driveway, where Barbara had run a few minutes—or was it hours?—before, Barbara needed sav- ing, far more than he had dreamed. He fought his way back to self-con- ders as if against the wind. He was HEILA O'SHAY'S body had been | stead; the black-and-white automaton little sports coupe nosing its way comb, not daring to strike a light? that it had ever been there? clutch of that imagined scene to 2 leaning aganist the trunk of a tree, his And then, as suddenly as the turning or jerked a trigger, but Barbara could If he had seen with his own eyes her lieved without evidence that this one He had the evidence now, and he defied moved away from the tree and walked He had admitted, fleetingly, the idea an, is arrested and admits that her mis- tress forced Don Ellsworth to marry her by threatening & breach of promise suit. and Dr. Cavanaugh search the boudoir of the e The breach of promise papers but they find a_threatening letter signed *David Orme.” Peter goes on the trail of rme. He runs him down at an automo- bile tourists’ camp. Orme s an irresponsi= ble, temperamental, artistic and refined man who does not seem capable of com- mitting murder. 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