Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1929, Page 35

THE EV. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 19%8. - | At that Rhoda managed to drag her | order a taxi. I can't take you anywhere | hypnotized eyes away and turn them | in it, can 12" She hadn't quite said her e e ea e | on_her empty coffee cup. say, though, for as she rose to leave the | | _ “Of course, to hear people talk—dirty | table she added, “You won't forget to By Henry Kitchell chster Copyright 1929, North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. meets Martin Forbes. a reporter. who has seen in'the papers an ad a tion regarding a Rhoda M He has | v heard a man named Max Lewis talking 10 a woman_ about Rhoda and he feels certain that her real name is McFarland. Rhoda finally admits that it {s. She receives a Ietter from a stranger, Claire Cleveland. who | coy claims fo have worked for her father and savs that at his death certain valuable papers belonging to her were in his Pos- session. | disturbed, but at that time, preoccupied the loss of her $300, she hadn't | thought much about it. - HEN Claire returned from| bSne'd got a much worse jolt when making her phone call, she | Martin, in the course of a burlesque e EIGHTH INSTALLMENT. | talked between and during|burglar hunt after he'd brought her mouthfuls all through the | home that night. had encountered it, Test of the meal, about any-|and having, no doubt, thought it coi thing or nothing—about food, the spe- | tained hats, had tried to move it and | clalties of this and other restaurants, | been patently perplexed by its great | welght. If she'd tried to explain that | The meal seemed interminable, but| sharp emotion—which she didn't do— | the explanation would have been that having set down her empty demi-tasse, | she didn't want Martin to have any | Rhoda moved back her chair a little as | contact, however unconscious, with the | s;c;x“ t!m[; hndnglnu%!dul,he last years | s he had | ©f her father’s life, the thing that had | Ol altnly TOndR Shes abe driven him into hiding and made & broken man of him. | And yet, up to now, until she heard | Claire Cleveland pronounce the word California, she'd been able in her se sible‘moments to remind herself that she'd ever seen in the trunk had been laboratory notes and diagrams, to argue that in all probability it contained | rvothing else, ‘and to promise herself that some day she would open it up, go | through it methodically, and make an eng (Zf her n:(;lh!ml‘re once and for all - . ) htmare was true. you wouldn't answer him until yowd |, cub Tow the mnig 3y L " ot o | S people—certainly Claire, and >4 b had this talk with me. You haven't| oo PRRGC TG TY Naphew—had A 4 win cafes, prohibition, night clubs, men. it dragged to an end at last. But when, a preliminary to saying she must go, something left to say. “You know, dearie, there was one thing in my letter that I haven't told you about, and I want to before you go. There isn't any rush, is there? T hope not. Because it might sound kind of foolish unless I could tell you all| about it.” “No,” Rhoda had to admit, “I'm not | special hurry.” “I said in my letter,” .Claire began, | “that if any stranger tried to com- | municate with you in any way I hoped | have you?" as she could. munication?” “You haven't seen it then” Claire sald, with a sigh of relief, “or you'd| know. It was just a guess of mine, and | maybe I'm all wrong. This dirty old| goat that I've been telling you about, | the one that made me all my trouble— | I've sort of got him on the brain, I guess. . . .” This much of what she was saying, Rhoda reflected, was prob- ably true. The hatred in the woman’s| voice sounded genuine, anyhow. “Maybe he.isn't doing it,” Claire went on, “but it's exactly the kind of | thing he would do. He's old and he’s got rheumatism so bad he can't walk | without two canes.” Rhoda found herself getting fright- ened. The old man who have given her and Babe a lift this morning had two canes with him in the car. There was some horrifying admixture of truth in the lies the woman was telling her. “He must know about you, Claire went on smoothly, “because he was in business, in a- way, with your father. I don't know very much about that, ex- cept that he played your father about the dirtiest trick fhat a man could play ‘on another man. For anything I know he may think your father left you gomething that "he wants—something among papers—but I don't believe it’s that. I think it's because he knows you're young and pretty and have no one to look after you. Anyhow, when I saw the ad in the paper for Rhoda McFarland, it came over me like second sight that that must be Forster up to his old tricks again.” “Forster?” Rhoda asked. Her lips felt stiff, but she seemed able to talk all ht. “Has he been advertising for e? What sort of advertisement?” “Oh, the regular sort that's in the personal columns, saying you'll learn gomething to Jour advantage by app! ing to so and so. That's good, if it Forster who put in the ad. Of course, I don't know that #t's him. It hasn't ot his name on it. That's enough in tself to show that he isn’t on the level. Didn't your father ever tell you about | him? I don't suppose he would, | though.” Rhoda shook her*head. It was under the fascination of terror that she asked, almost involuntarily, the question, ‘What sort of trick was it that he played on my father?” “‘Why, it's my personal opinion,” said Claire, “though, of course, I don’t know anything about it. It happened long before ur her and I got ac- quainted—but it's my private opinion that Forster was somehow or other at the bottom of the whole'thing: your father’s trouble out in California, I ‘mean.” ‘To Rhoda it was as if a buried thing had reared its head, after all these vears, and stared at her. Ever since her father’s death, there’d been an un- acknowledged fear in the bottom of her mind that this would happen—some- thing like this. It had been a fear of finding something that would give form and body to this nightmare that had kept her from going over the papers in the old leather hat trunk the day after her father died. One of the first things | ghe had done, after her flight from the ghe had done. aler ner g oW ¢ Beautiful ‘Enlargements of your own i Print ’We make them from your negatives at very little | cost. A favorite snapshot in a ‘bigger, more beautiful form —that’s an Etchcraft En- largement, Their cost is surprisingly small. Drop in today and see our enlargement exhibit | =on display at our finishing | counter. Brownies as low as $2 Kodaks from $5 up. { | | | Eastman Kodak | Stores, Inc. | 607-14th §eseng, N. W. | hotel, up in the little hall bedroom of | and naturally I couldn't prove one sin- Rhoda McFanand calls herselt Rhots | Ber Arst boarding house, had been to| gle thing about this. But, if there was | Dub. b the time she had climbed n:&'y; White apter ine death ‘of herjainer, whose | seal that trunk with strips of gummed |a nigger in the woodpile, it was this [ (008 TUEDE OO SEUES ARO 1R MEERRR, OR0 | last vears were clouded by disgrace. "She | paner all around the lid. Forster. And you can play that right | the studio with her ‘ateh ey and flown or informa- | Her father's dying reference to his|across the board. Ther}e"f nohwny that | o7 gnd lgoked e th: oy sh:‘ i ~ ‘nrevanted her from destroying | you could get back at him that T can | joft 414, looked Boder the Bed, Bhe WA Y a their connection with her father back No, I guess not” Rhoda told her: | "the days of the horror and for some alert again and answering as casually | b it SRS O the Marror ang for some | don't belleve 1 kNOW | wanteq the thing dug up. what you mean. What sort of com-| “ghe sat there frozen. It was seconds before she could even turn her eyes 0 from the woman's horrible face. if he tries to come around.” i “You know about it, don't you?”| Rhoda heard her move her chair back | Claire was saying “You must know |a little and that broke the spell.: something about it. Why, there wasn't | Glancing up, she saw the woman gazing | hardly -anything else in’the thoughtfully at her watch. | the time—especially the San “Well, I guess T've said my say,” she | | papers. You don't want to t: ncluded. “And I know you must be like that too hard, though, d wanting to run along. I'm going to | hypocrites—you'd think & _thing like | ¢ mine, will you, | that had never h:prnedlM!on. 1| it TR D i appening all the time, only they don't | happen to get caught. 'But your father | Despite her panic, Rhoda was able to i o e a1 LriolSF | note that this hy been a clear after- | what he told me from time to time, | thought. and nerd complete one, elther. ) | But T've a sort of hunch that they put | Cl&ire hadn’t to'd her where She lited. | something over on_him. . Of course,” |, Rhods went home. She diduw’c know to be held to anything I couldn't prove, | ;" cjear expectation of what she'd find. e kept it under her bed. |see, because it was all over and done Iy glimpse of it when she | with lone ago. But there's one thing brd was accompanied, of you can do, and that’s lay off from him H ——— [ANNOUNCING AN trunk was gone. (To Be Continued Tomorrow. 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