Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1929, Page 35

SYNOPSIS. Rhoda McFarland calls herself Rhoda White, after the deat! h of her father, whose were clouded by misfortune and [l She meets Martin Forbes, a re- porter, who has seen in the papers an ad asking for information regarding a Rhoda McFarland, He has heard a man named Max Lewis talking to & woman about Rhoda and he feels certain that her real name is McPariand. Rhoda finally admits that it is. Her apartrient is burglarized and. while sne s wondering what next, & stranger. Claire at her Cleveland, writes her,’ saving father at his death had cert pers be- s Ehoda saye all her as to W believes it to be the work of a man who was an _enemy of .' When Rhoda arrives home led trunk is gone. She goes at once ire’s spartment, certain the trunk is fhere. , But it isnt. - She wishes she had istened 1o Martin when he urged her not to see Claire. She had resented his advi d ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT. ARTIN had got one thing out of his encounter with Rhoda that morning, and this was his day's story for the paper. At least, he wouldn't have got if he hadn't been standing at the curb to see the limousine that Babe and Rhoda arrived in drive up. The license plate on that car caught his eye and fixed itself in his mind by virtue of @ small oddity that he noted about it. It was a four-number arrangement of nines and eights which would make just as good sense upside down as right side up, only it would make different sense. Probably it was his exasperated de- termination to dismiss Rhoda and her wrong-headedness and her red hair completely from his mind that caused this notion of an inverted license plate to fructify into the amusing sort of tale, of misadventure that he sg:cllllud in. He typed away at it industriously. ‘When it was done he found himsel able to turn back to the Rhoda incident and consider dispassionately what had gone wrong with it. She'd certainly begun treating him in @ cold and disdainful manner before he’'d said a word to her. What right had she to be annoyed? She had al- lowed herself to be picked up for a ride downtown just as much as Babe had. He hadn’t asked her for an excuse, to be sure, but had he looked as if he wanted one? Well, perhaps he had. Anyhow, the result of the silly little flare-up had been that Rhoda was going off to her lunch with that woman— bly had already gone by now—en- ly unprovided with the facts she'd asked him for. She'd said 12 o'clock,| hadn't she? It was already 20 minutes past. Too late for his information to do her any good. This conclusion, though, didn’t keep him from trying to puzzie out the prob- lem for himself. The two problems, for it seemed to him that they were prob- ably separate. What was the woman up to, and what_advantage was she trying to get over Forster? And, in the second place, what was Forster up to himself? Under his eye, as he sat musing, was the scribbled sheet of scratch paper on which he’d drawn the license plate right side up and upside down in fig- uring out his story. It had been a me car, all right, that the girls had had a ride in. He was still staring at the license number of that car. Suddenly, under an impulse too fanciful to bear arguing about, he decided to look up the owner. It wouldn't do any to find who the old bloke was. ‘When he found a few minutes later that the car was registered as the prop- erty of C. J. Forster he felt for a few out ALLTHE WORK RHODA A Red-Headed Girl 3 By Henry Kitchell Webster Copyright 1929, North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. seconds as if he must be a victim of a practical joke. He telephoned !:? to Rhoda's depart- ment to find out if or when she’'d gone out to lunch and when, if they knew, she was expected back. When they told him she wasn't cuminf back that after- r_{_uonxn all, he s out for the Tip- nn. O'Fhls‘ as may be inferred from its name, is reached by riding up in an elevator. It comprises, really, & num- ber of separate restaurants all opening into a central lobby, where you may walt for the person who is coming for lunch with you. Martin, considering his plan of action on the way over, had decided to wait in this lobby until Rhoda came out. He had thought of having her d, but this course, though it would have served his impatience better, had two serious disadvantages. One was that it 2 [ would rouse the woman's curiosity and might make her more actively danger- ous than she was now. The other was that, if Rhoda came out from the table to hear his news she'd stay only a min- ute or two and then go back to her companion. What he wanted was to carry her off. He could give their en- counter at the elevator gate the ap- pearance of being casual. He could ap- pear to be in the act of leaving himself, and could very likely walk off with Rhoda without giving the woman any- thing much to feel suspicious about. He hadn't yet settled down to his wait—he was at the cigar-stand buy- ing some cigarettes—when a woman came up beside him and bought a tele- phone slug. He repressed the start her voice gave him, though it was a voice he knew, and he checked his impulse to turn and look at her, much as he'd have liked to. He never had had a really good look at her. Luckily, she'd never seen him at all, nor heard his volce. On the strength of that reflec- tion, he bought a slug, too, went into the booth next to hers, drepped his nickel and called his own number, f [ which, of course, didn’t answer. He hoped he'd be able to hear what she sald. If she'd left Rhoda in the middle of their lunch to come out and telephone it was likely to be something interesting. He was reassured by the first half-dozen words she spoke. She was t!'yln{mw speak low, of voice she had right through the thin partition wall of the telephone He hadn’t got there in time to hear what number she called; indeed, Tie was barely in time for the beginning of her conversation, for she'd got her party at once. Some one, he guessed, who'd been walting for the call at the rument. “Yes, of course it's Claire,” Martin heard her say. ‘‘Were you expecting a call from somebody else? Now listen, Max: you'll have to get it yourself. The other thing wouldn't work in a thou- sand years. . . . Well, because it won't, that's all. She's too cagey—like you said. So now it's up to you. . . . Why not? You were crazy to do it yes- terday. . . . Yes, and it's a good thing I did, too. Because now I can tell you how to find it. Listen. It's in a trunk. Every- thing; all the dope. . . . Idon’t know, but you can tell, because it's sealed up. Sealed. Get that? Sealed—like sealing wax. Don't try to open it. Bring it right along. The whole thing. And don’t take your own car; get a taxi. Bring it right up to the flat and wait for me, if I ain't there. I'll see that you have plenty of time, but don’t want to waste any. ., . . Why, of course, you'll do it. It's easier now than it would have been yesterday, be- cause you know what to look for. . . . Listen! You know you can't argue with me and you know why you can't. Don't you know it? . . . Oh, don't be silly. Of course, I wasn't threatening you. Only, don't go yellow now when | time 'making any false moves. THE EVENING T'm putting it right in your hands. All Tight,. Good-by." Martin stayed in his booth until he'd seen her go back into the restaurant. Then he came out and turned a little uncertainly to the teleplione directory. he knew, rord he'd him the woman's last name: Cleveland, that was it. Probably Max was in her apartment now. His thoughts were racing: as turned the pages of the . He'd have to be quick, but he mustn’t 'I.!};E e couldn’t have misunderstood the pur- port of the woman's message. Heavens, he'd seen the trunk himself. That little hat trunk, with the lid gummed down with strips of paper—to keep the moths out, he'd thought. Here the address was—Claire Cleve- land. That was one of those streets out near the Alhambra. That's how she'd happened to see Rhoda turning in. Lucky, just now, it was so far out. He could get Rhoda’s flat before Max could, provided Max was starting from out there. And Rhoda’s flat was the place for him to go. Just what he'd do when he got there wanted a little thinking about. But he could decide that in the taxi. He wondered if that lock would be easy to open with a knife. It might turn out a little awkward if he were digging away at the lock when Max came up the stairs. It might not be any too pleasant, even after he was fully established inside. Max was & powerful looking brute. Martin remem- bered the solidity of that arm of his. And it ®would be just like him to come armed with a gun, and, if he were desperate enough, to use it. ‘They'd sounded rather desperate—at least, the woman had—both night be- fore last at the Alhambra and over the telephone today—relentless, any- how—and Max would try to carry out her orders. She was holding something over him. “You know you can’t argue with me and you know why.” He was too much afraid of her probably to be afraid of any one else. Would he be shrewd enough to guess, the question was, that Martin was as much a lawbreaker in that flat as he was? It might turn out an ugly sort of encounter if he did. Was there any way to avold it? Suppose he stole the trunk himself? Got clean away with it before Max arrived and left him to search in vain. No, that wouldn't do. He couldn't be sure of getting clean away. He might meet Max on the sairs. And even if he did get away he'd have no means of guarding or of warn- ing Rhoda. She might come in and but the sort|his find Max there. No, he'd have to break in, and then he'd have to trust to luck to being able to bluff Max out. Max hadn't liked the job very well, himself. That had been lain enough from the way the woman talked to him. Then, she’d spoken of his being yellow, as if it were a phenomenon she was acquainted with. But why had Max been eager to do the job yesterday? Martin sat forward on his seat and thumped his knee with fist. Max had tried it yesterday, that was why. He'd gone there in de- flance of Claire's orders looking for '—whatever it was. He hadn’t found it, and he'd been afraid to tell Claire. But then it was he who had found Rhoda’s money and taken it. That was & queer_ thing for a rich man to'do. jut how did he know that Max was rich? He was a rich man's nephew. It might be quite a different ing, especially if his uncle had quarreled with him. Three hundred dollars might make & tremendous difference to & man in a really deep hole and held down in it under the thumb of a harpy like that Cleveland woman. His taxi turned the corner of Rhoda’s street and he dismissed this train of thoughet with a jerk, though he was aware he hadn't quite got to the termi- nus. A hundred yards up the long block and, as well as he could guess, right in front of Rhoda's number, an- other taxi was pulled up at the curb. Had Max got here ahead of him after all? He couldn’t have come all the way in from Claire Cleveland's flat as quick- ly as that, but it was no more than an unscrutinized assumption of Martin's that he had started from there. “Pull up here and wait a minute,” Martin told his chauffeur. It was not, he was aware, the heroic order to give, but, being no hero, only a thoroughly lt’l:.ln'f“uc reporter, he required time to If Max was already in the flat there ‘was nothing to be gained by followh him. Even unarmed, Max could bei done the day before FOR THIS THANKSGIVING STAR, WASHINGTON, him to & pulp and would be able to identify him, besides, as one of Rhoda’s allies. Call a policeman? That was no good elther. lice intervention meant ublicity. And this, for some season e could only half guess, was & horror to_Rhoda. But was that Max’s taxi? There was no chauffeur in it, though the motor had been left running. The obvious inference was that the chauffeur had been tipped to go in and carry out lug- gage, such as a trunk. ‘Would Max have the nerve to ask a taxi driver to assist him in his burglary? Well, he might, if he were smart enough. If he was zesurday‘s burglar, and espe- clally if he'd noted the Iittle trunk sealed up with gummed paper and re- membered just where it was, he could feel in his kets, say, casually, “I've come off without my key again,” and spring the lock confidently and unex- perimentally without arousing any sus- pision in the chauffeur's mind. Martin had just reached that point in his speculations when they were con- firmed by Max's emergence from the doorway, accompanied by the chauffeur lugging the trunk. (Continued in tomorrow's Star.) LYNCHBURG MUST GET NEW MUNICIPAL HALL Federal Government Taking Over Present Structure for New Post Office. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., November 25.— ‘The Treasury Department at Washing~ ton, through Postmaster J. M. B. Lewis here, has advised City Manager R. W. B. Hart that the Government will re- quire the municipal building site not later than March 1, when the Federat Government will begin work on clear- ing the site for the new $750,000 Fea- eral Bullding. This means that the city will be under necessity during the next three months of providing a new fire station at Fifth and Church streets and a new central station for the fire alarm and police telegraph systems, this later to be located in the rear of the present post office. The city and Government have ex- changed sites, but the city will not get possession of the present post office, which 1t will remodel for city hall pur< poses, until the new bullding is com- pleted. Meanwhile the city will use the remodeled Pledmont Club, Tenth ana g:urcn streets, for a temporary city Special Dispatch D. C, MONDAY, WET BRAKES BLAMED IN TRUCK-BUS CRASH |causing the serious injury to Asthur Virginia State Legislator Escapes Injury in Accident on Slip- pery Streets. ALEXANDRIA, Wet streets and wet brakes are blamed TWO FOUND SHORT CUT REM is quicker. Clings to the throat. Starts Immediately NOVEMBER 25, 1929. for a collision between a light truck ana & bus of the A. B. & W. linie Saturday, Purvis of Del Ray, who was a passen- ger in the truck. J. Fred Birrell, State Representative from this city, and French Groves, who was driving the truck, escaped injury. to The Star. Purvis was taken to the Alexandria Va., November 25.— | Hospital by O. W. 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