Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1929, Page 31

A Red-Headed Girl | & By Henry Kitchell Webster Copyright 1929, North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. Martin Forbes, a_reporter, meets. Rhoda McFarland, who is known as Rhoda White. | Re recalls’ an_ad in the personal columns of a mcwspaper asking for {njormation re- garding a_Rhoda arl After over. hearing a conversation between a man ealled Maz Lewis and a woman, Forbes is sure that Rhoda White is Rhoda McFarland and that these people think so. t00. and have a special interest in verifying this belief. He tells Rhoda of this. She finally admits that ‘she is Rhoda McFarland. The incident re- calls vividly the scenes of a few vears ago, when her father's sudden misfortune and disorace set them apart from other people. After his death she had changed her mame and found work. She shared an apartment with Babe Jennings and was fairly happy. But rmow the incident in the dance hali disturbs her. And Babe adds to her com- Tusion by sayiny that Lewis hqs asked her Rhoda’s real name isn't McFariand. | in the excitement she letters that have just been delivered. SIXTH INSTALLMENT, HODA forgot the letters again when she came home from the Alhambra, but Martin remem- bered them and went down- stairs to bring them up. When he came back with the letters he’d merely said. after looking at her a minute, “Good-night, Rhoda,” and gone away, although the idea of a kiss had | hung palpably between them for an in- | stant. Then she turned to her letters. One of them was addressed, in an angular feminine hand she didn’t know, to her, “Miss Rhoda White.” It was with a rather indifferent feeling that she sliced open the envelope. But, with her first incredulous stare at what was written on the sheets of notepaper it contained she felt a frightened wish that Martin hadn’t gone home, for the thing began: “Dear Miss McFarland.” She was trembling so that she went over and sat down on the couch before she read any further. She felt as it things were closing in on her somehow. the way a bird feels, perhaps, when the beaters are driving it toward the wall, behind which a man is waiting | with a gun. “I hope 1 haven't frightened you, be- gnnmg like that,” she read, “but you 0 not know me—you may never have even heard of me—and I-wanted to make sure that you would read this let- ter, because it is important to me, ‘whether it is to you or not. “I am going to ask you a great favor. It has got nothing to do with money. I have got money enough, thank heav- ens, to put this through, even if it costs a whole lot. But I am simplye des- g:nte for something I am sure you can lp me find. It was a paper that I | asked your father to take care of for me | when I was working for him in his lab- | oratory over on Erfe street. I was no longer with him at the time of his pass- ing away, and, when I went to the hotel to see you after I heard of it you were gone.1 saw you there once when you | were just a ‘kiddie’ but I am sure you would not remember me. I think I would know you, though, even though you must have grown up by this time. You were like your father then, and if vou are kind, like he invariably was, you will do anything in your power to help me to the thing it is necessary for me to have. “It makes too long a story to tell this way and I want you should have my whole confidence in this matter. Will you come to lunch with me tomorrow in | the Tip-Top Inn? I will be there from’ 12 o'clock on, at the table to the right of the door in the Dutch room. I will be wearing a black hat and a dark blue dress. ““Yours most sincerely, “CLAIRE CLEVELAND.” “P. S.—T want to say this in addition. I think it will be as much for your ad- vantage as mine if you come. The man who treated me so shamefully is the | same man who played a mean and | treacherous trick on your father and practically ruined his life, iin order to | make himself rich; and I think, if you and T work together, we can force him to make things right for you as well as for me—at least, as far as money can make anything right. Let me warn you of one more thing, and I hops it is not too late. Do not answer any communi- cation of any sort from any stranger until you and I have had our talk. have reason to believe he now has de- signs on you. too. You may not have found out yet what some men can be like, but “believe me (not slang), know! “Yours, CLAIRE.” Rhoda read the thing straight through, and it wasn't until she got to the post- script that the false note began to sound loud enough to arouse her suspicion. It annoyed her to be spoken of as a “kid- die,” and the phrases “kind, like he in- variably was” and “I want you should have my whole confidence in this mat- ter,” grated on her. But down to the first signature she never thought of doubting that the woman had worked for her father and had given him a pa- per to take care of for her. She knew that the place he went to work every day had been somewhere on Eri> street, and it was natural that it should have been a laboratory, since he'd been a professor of chemistry before the crash came. She wondered how the woman THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1929 had found her and noted the fact that | this wash’t explained, but ing of the post= to feel suspicion. through to the suddenl “Yours, Claire,” before she let herself begin picking it to pleces. This treacherous trick that some man pened? In itself, it sounded fishy. | father had never told her anything|had happened. But he dids specific about his affairs, but she knew | at all—f to discover or | two qu “What's she been doing since he must have been tring to invent something. e man might have stolen her father's discovery—if he- father had ever succeeded in making it. But he hadn't succeeded. He'd gone on hoping to make it right up to the | dng he dled. ‘ould he have been tricked without ever knowing it? That was possible, but the implication in this letter was that he had told “Claire” all about it. If that was what she meant to imply, she was lying. Rhoda felt that her father would never have told any girl who hnmunad to be working for him that his life had been “practically ruined” by a treacherous friend. Claire Cleveland had, most likely, made up the story out of whole cloth. But why? When Rhoda reread the injunction not to answer any communication of any sort, the heavily underscored words flashed like a danger signal. The “com- munication of any sort” was the adver- tisement for Rhoda McFarland. She knew now that the woman was the per- son Martin had tried to tell her about last night—the one who'd been afraid she would answer the advertisement in the paper before they had time to take whatever steps they meant to take. Who was the man Claire wanted to force to make things right—“as far as money could make anything right?” ‘The slimy hypocrisy of that after- thought turned Rhoda & bit sick. Wasn't he most likely the Mr, Forster whose advertisement she was not on any account to answer? Wasn't he the “C. J.” whom Martin had heard them talking-about? Well, she'd see Martin efore she went to the Tip-Top Inn. If he happened to be waiting again at the foot of the elevated stairs, that would make every~ thing easy. Martin was waiting at the foot of the elevated stairs, but beyond that point everything in Rhoda’s program went as badly as possible. To begin with, she and Babe didn’t come down the stairs, but descended at the curb from a lordly limousine. It was Babe who'd accepted the offered lift, but Rhoda had foliowed gladly enough, since they'd been hurry- ing and had seen thelr elevated train pull out of the station just about a min- ;xte before they got within running dis- ance. Stopping his car for them must have Dbeen an act of benevolence on the part of the owner, an old gentleman with a beard. He took up most of the back seat, and, instead of moving over, he bad had them turn down the two fold~ ing chairs to ride in. A pair of canes in the corner gave Rhoda the idea he couldn’t move about very easily. He asked them where they wanted to go, instructed his chauffeur to drive them | Beip me f. {tiwas & paer that I came.Sbe wondered how the woman instrocted his chaueir to deive then “WMULIUS LANSBURGH FURNITURE CO.—909 F ST. 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There was a let- d you haj to be here,” | ter for me from some ons Who signed Rhoda said to him. “I wanted to ask | herself Claire Cleveland, and I thought she might be the person you told me “I'm glac less, she went on and read it u about the woman you heard talking affectionate fi?m before last at the Alhambra. What she looked like and just what she said to Mr. . If he'd answered her properly, she'd had played upon her father, to make | have forgiven him for looking annoyed himself rich—had such a thing ever hap- | over the limousine. She would have told | Her | him, when she got around to it, how it | did she say she wante: n't answer her | her letter here with ?' She answered them, still trying to be cool about it, in reverse order. “No, naturally not. e O A liked it. about.” ed back at her, instead, with ns of his own. last | ight? Was there a letter from her in that b unch I brought up-stairs?” It was annoying to have her thunder 1f she hadn't still been cross with him, she’d have MNked the swiftness with which his mind worked. He asked three more questions, now, all in a breath. “Why did you think she was? What Why, she that a of Detore ‘myTather died shed B needed thought I might be able help ?}:‘:u:r:t lhedon't /En::ni:lcfl] why I she mi woman you told me lbo\lt."‘w 5 “Well, she is, all right. Anybody could see that.” S 3 This, she reflected, was as much as to say that she was a fool not to have seen it for herself at the first glance. He was staring at her now in a blank abstraction, as if he didn’t know she was there. When he waked up, it was to ask further questions. “What does she ask you to do? Let her come and see you and go over your he sald. “That's what ? Have you got I put it away. 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