Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1929, Page 30

s > HE RAG P RINCES THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, ARCH 26, 1929. By Edgar Wallace GED S Copyright, 1925. by Continued from Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER XLI R. STORMER arrived at his of- fice at an unusually early hour. before any of his clerks or his manager put in an appearance, and Willitt was amazed to hear the buzzer sounding as he came into his He found his chief lying on a sofa, looking something of a wreck. ““Are you ill, sir?” he asked in alarm. ot ill, but dying.” growled Stormer. of phenacetin. Oh, my head!” He touched his scalp gingerly and winced. : “My brain capacity has increased to He was on the premiscs long own bureau. “Get me some strong coffee and a keg the extent of one cubic foot,” he said. “There's a lump here as big as an egg, | and no chicken's egg, either. And talk- ing of chickens, go after that girl Bed- 1 | No, sir, this is an ostrich’s or & dinosaur's.’ % “Did you get into trouble last night?" “Did 1 get into trouble last night?” repeated his chief wearily. “Would 1 be iying here like a sick cow if I hadn't been in trouble? heartedness grow eggs on a man's head? Do gayety and light- | Chicago Daily News | with a tale of failure; I'm that il I'd | be_very offensive to you.” It was a novel experience for Audrey Ito find herself “going to work”: to be | one of the crowd that fringed the sub- way platform, to struggle for her strap | or to fight for a place on a bus already | overcrowded. The novelty of it did not quite compensata for its discomfort, but |she had a very satisfactory feeling when she eventually reached the out- of-the-way office of the little paper |and found herself established in a cor- | ner of the editorial sanctum. Mr. Hepps gave her a cold and per- | functory greeting and flung over a heap of letters that had evidently ac- cumulated on his desk for weeks. He was a gaunt, somewhat uncleanly look- ing man, and, she was to discover. a confirmed grumbler. Apparently he was one of those men who believed that praise given to subordinates would arouse in their bosoms a passionate de- ire for increase of wages. Indeed, the | Mr. Hepps she had interveiwed the day before and the Mr. Hepps who now barked his instructions and wrangled about the length of her paragraphs were two entirely different persons. She found also that she was expected to werk into every answer a small boost Yes, sir, 1 was in_trouble. Get me to e some vinegar. And listen! You're in a | f°F, a0 advertiser. TR RO secret. Nobody is to know that this| < Chippers Peed nothing!” he snap- affliction has come upon me, and if anybody makes inquiries 1 am in the Uzited States—where I ought to be.” Willitt hastened out and brought ali his chief required. “Now phone up a barber: go round to the nearest collar shop and get | soraething to make me look respect-| able | he roared. “Is it cut?” “No, sir, it isn't cut. 1 have concus- | si)n of the brain, but I am not cut.” He winced as he sat up and took the Chipper's Feed for? They don't adver- tise with us. Cut that out, and tell ‘em to use Lowker's,” | *“Lowker's is poison and death to young chickens,” said Audrey firmly. would sooner feed them on sawdust.’ “What you'd rather do and what I tell you to do are two different things," | ker goes in!" Audrey looked the back of his head. There was a jar of paste with- “I tell you Lowker's—Low- ' In prison?” he gasped. “What for?” ‘Chicken stealing,” she said prompt- |1v, and here ended her first day's em- ployment. * She reached the street, feeling fam- 1lsth. and went straight across the il’oad to the popular teashop, at which jshe had iooked longingly through the | window of her office many times dur- Iing the course of the day. A man | waited while she bought a newspaper | |and followed her in, sitting down at | | the same marble-topped table. Glanc- | | ing at him out of the corner of her | eye, she thought she had met him be- | fore, but was immediately absorbed in | the newspaper account of “The Strange AfTair at the Regency Hotel,” and there |learned that the police had been un- able to trace a guest who had been | 1 wounded in what had been accurately | described as “a midnight affray.” Her lown name, she was glad to see, was not mentioned. She was referred to as | “a young lady of wealth,” a descrip- tion which tickled her. “Excuse me. Miss Bedford.” | She looked up with a start. It was | the man who had followed her into the teashop. “I think we have met before. My name is Willitt; I came down to Font- | well to make a few inquiries.” “Oh, I remembe she smiled. “Tt wasn't a long interview, was it? I was leaving for London. “That's right, miss, mer’s Detective Agency. heard of it?” She nodded. Stormer’s was one of the best known and best respected of these private agencies, which are not very greatly encouraged by the police and receive little patronage except at the hands of suspiclous husbands and wives “Mr. Stormer sent me along to have a talk with you.” “With me?”" she said in surprise. | “Yes. Miss Bedford. You've heard of our agency? It stands pretty high in the matter of credit and respectability.” 1 represent Stor- | Maybe you've “I've heard of it, of course; every body has heard of it,” she said. “What does Mr. Stormer want of me?” “Well, Miss Bedford"—Willitt had to proceed cautiously, not knowing how | she would accept the suggestion—‘the | truth is, we're short-handed. A lady | who did a great deal of work for us | got married and left the business, and | we've never been able to replace her. Mr. Stormer wondered whether you would like to come into the office?"” “I1?” she said incredulously. “You | “I don't know how to watch people. Does it mean following them wherever they go? Because I'm afraid I'm un- suitable for that kind of work. Be- sides”—she smiled—"we have one de- tective in the family. And then she went very red. “That's a joke, Mr. Willitt,” she add- ed hurriedly, “I'm in rather a hu- morous mood today, having spent the day in the bright’ atmosphere of a chicken murderer.” She gave a brief but vivid account of Ler day’s work, and in Willitt she found a sympathetic listener. When she came again to his offer he was in a hurry to assure her. “You won't be asked to follow Tor- rington around,” he said. “Your job is much easier than that. You will be ex; pected to get acquainted with him——" “What is he—a burglar? “No," con{vsse.d Willitt, “he’s not ex- " she said, aghast. “Is he a criminal?” “That was an unfortunate expres- sion of mine,” Willitt hastened to as- sure her. “No, miss, he's perfectly hon- est; only we want to keep account of the people who come after him, and we feel that we might get you employed in the same capacity as Mr. Malpas.” “I can do it. I'd love the work—it sounds thrilling, and there would be a certain amount of fun in it for other reasons. He didn't ask the reasons, but he could guess the satisfaction Audrey Bedford would feel in revealing herself to a certain high police official. “Will you consider it?” he begged. ;"At any rate, we want you in the of- ce.” “Can I see Mr. Stormer?” “He’s gone back to America,” said Willitt glibly, “and his last inst‘;- tions were to secure you at any price.® Audrey laughed. “I'll try it.” she said. Mr. Willitt breathed a sigh of relief, for if there vas one thing in the world he didn't wish to do it was to gnake excuses to Stormer. Returnin . he found John Stormer in a more amiable frame | | of mind and reported his success. “So she kicked at the Torrington job? | | T guessed she would, but I knew we'd | | land_her!” | | willitt, to whom his employer's pre- | | science was a standing wonder, ven- | tured to put a question. “You seemed sure of getting her— (how did you know that she wouldn't be satisfied with the job? Hepps treat- ed her badly, bullied and found fault | with her until she couldn't stick it any | longer. The man is a brut “Brute, is he? Well, he's changed | considerably since I knew him last. I got his son out of pretty bad trouble once—the usual vamp case, with letters and poetry and everything. And then {he was mild enough—he doesn't take three baths a day, but he’s mild. I guess he must have been crossed in love—maybe his chickens have turned him down. They're mean creatures. That will do, friend.” When Willitt had gone, he used the | telephone. | “That "you, Mr. Hepps? Stormer speaking. Thank you very much in- deed for your help. “I hated doing it.” said the regretful | ! volce of Hepps he scems a very | nice girl and remarkably capable. I've | lost a very good assistant, and, I am | afraid, got a very bad name for myself. | Personally, T set my face against | ing_advertisers in the news columns, and after my treatment of Miss Bed- | ford I feel I can never look a nice girl | {in the face.” “Maybe they’ll be glad,” said Storm- | ler. | Mr. Hepps evidently missed this | point, for he went on: | “She said she had been in prison—for | chicken stealing. That can't be true, can_it?” | “Yuh—that's so.” said Stormer. | “She’s one large hen-roost brigand. | Yes, sir. Miss anything In your office, | let me know.” | He hung up the receiver with a large | and delighted smile. (Continued in Tomorro Star.) For “Now, Ted dear, please don’t look so glum., All right! You can spoon with me some. But to kiss me, of course You’ll have to use force— “Or else get some TEABERRY Gum.” GOOdman Good Meats mean, become a woman detective?” reach. 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She’s got a job at the Hen's | %i>rald, a paper run in the interests of | job. Where are you going?” he asked | Africa spective fowls, and I guess she's| going to like it. You know her, t you?" , sir, I've met her.” “Well, see her again and offer her a goed job. Any salary that seems to her | on the generous side which may sug- | st itself to you, but you've got to fix g‘r—rou understand?” “Yes, sir.” “Here comes the barber, and after ¥='s gone I'm going to sleep, and it will be death to any man who disturbs me. When does Miss Bedford start | work?” ‘This morning.” ‘Get to her as soon as you can. Ehe'll probably come out to lunch and that'll be yeur opportunity. You can tell her I've got a job that she can do in a cozy chair with her feet on the fender I want her to watch Torring- ton, who calls himself Brown. And, ¥elieve me, that guy wants watching. Make it appealing—get into your mind that you're giving something away. And, say, Willitt, don’t come back here “Java netting is out!” he shouted. that business.” “But they advertise.” “They don’t advertise any more— that's what! Just say wire net. And our paragraphs are too long. And I You've got to smarten up if you want to hold this | In surprise as she rose and took down | Afri her coat from a peg on the wall. “Home, Mr. Hepps,” she said. “You have shaken my faith in chickens. I never thought they could be put tosuch have heard are true.” base uses.” He stared at her. “I close down here at 6.” “I close down at 4,” said Audrey calmly. “I've had no lunch except a glass of milk and a bun and the at- mosphere of this office is stifling. I'd prefer to work in a henhouse.” “If I'd known you were coming,” he sald sardonically, “I'd have had—" “You'd have had the place enlarged —I know. Excuse me if I don't laugh. 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