Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1929, Page 38

A Red-Headed Girl By Henry Kitchell Webster Copyright 1939, North Ametican Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS, we dis Bhe meets M porier, who has seen in asking for intormation regarding McFarland. He has heard a man named Iax Lewis glking (0 & woman abou’ Rhoda ¥ certain that her real name is da fnally admits that 1 i larized and, ié s next, & str re Cleveland, writes her, saving the athr at Bis death had certhin apartme the mij warns Rhoda ! a quiring as to her whereabouts. She lieves it to be the worl namea Forsier, who was an enemy of Rhoda’s father. When Rhoda arrives home, the sealed is_gon e time to see Max Lewis leave it with a trunk. TWELFTH INSTALLMENT ARTIN sald to his chauffeur, “That’s the man I want. And I think I know where he's go- up a little beyond the entrance to the concourse. But the person who left the cab to buy the ticket was the chauffeur. Max apparsntly didn’t want to leave his precious trunk until it was safely checked. His caution simplified things a bit for Martin. He Allg‘ped out of his ¢ab and followed the otl to the ticket window and stood at his elbow while the man bought a ticket ;{nd a lower berth, the number of which rtin noted, to New York on the Penn- in nt. C] e ui | sylvania Limited that afternoon. In order not to give himself away, he paused at the window himself long enough to ask when the next train went to Milwaukee and then returned as in- consicuously as he could to his own taxi. The other cab had already started down the ramp. At a safe distance Martin followed and saw Rhoda’s little hat trunk check- ed, saw Max drive away—unchecked, confound him—with, no” doubt, what was left of her $300 in his pocket. Those identical $20 bills that Martin had seen peid for the ticket had been very likely ing, but I can't be eure enough | §"5a1 0t the hoard in h-r bureau draw- to risk it. Follow him, will you?" It made him feel frightfully cheap to give an order like that. But the heroic alternative offered no chance at all of success. Any attempé of his to get the trunk away from Max by force would look to both witnesses<-his own chaufs voked assault on a law-abiding citizen. He could think of nothing better than to tag along, make sureé where the trunk went, and try to invent some way of bluffing this pair ofconspirators out of their booty up in Claire’s flat, after she'd joined Max there. He had the ingre- dients for a pretty good biuff, He was convinced now that Max had stolen Rhoda’s $300 the day before and that Claire knew nothing about it . Automatically, of course, he'd been watching the other taxi. Now, as the approac! the drive, he was astonish to see it turn south instead of north; down-town instead of up. That wasn't the way to Claire’s flat, Yet her instruc- tions to Max had been explicit that he take it there. Was Meax starting some- thing ‘on his own account?—betraying his ally? Or had he observed that he was being followed and was he trying to_throw off pursuit? Keeping another car in sight in the flood of traffic on the boulevard with its four lanes each way and its stop lights isn't an easy thing to do. Martin noted with satisfaction that his chauffeur was of time, was to Wwhile he could. feur as yell as Max's—like an unpro- | s Beste this noon, withoyt er. And he had stood looking on and not done a mortal thing! Whel, what could he have done? What could he do now? One thing he'd better do, without loss ay off his ow e'd left the PP t some money that he needed. ge! After he'd paid the sum the meter had been adding up so industriously, and tipped the driver a dollar (he couldn't, he figured. do less after taking the man's name on the chance he'd need him as a witness) he had just 60 cents left. e obvious duty before him was to telephone Rhoda at the studio and tell her what he ha in brief, that he'd watched Max Lewis | steal her trunk and check it for New | Zine publisher, York at the Unlon station. seen happen; tell her, She wouldn't ask him what he'd been doing all the while, but the question would be in her mind all the same. She l.nbl:h: nllk him what she could do ut it. ‘The only plan in his mind up to now, was that they go around together to the city hall and swear out & warrant for Lewis' arrest, along with a writ of replevin for t) hand with a plain clothes man when Lewis came to the station to take the train. There was time enough for that and it would be easy enough—except for trunk, and then be on clever at it and decided to take the man in, & little way in, on the game. “I'm a reporter,” he told him, “and that chap with the trunk is a peach of a story if I can glet it. He isn't going T obably soing o OB of m'hugm.'“ “Probably go one isn't h:,d'lfih that trunk,” the chauffeur suggested. “I Dbelieve you're right” agreed. “If he is, the story is even better. But I've got to find out where D ey stawed signs of eir quarry showed no signs of con- sciousness that it was being followed. It pulled into the low lane at Jackson Boulevard and turned west. It cre Dearborn street, eliminating the Polk street station and La Salle, where it would have turned for the New York Central. “It will be the Union if it's anything,” d Martin's chauffeur. “Where will he go with that trunk, if wants to check it?"” Martin asked. 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Or, if he were only an accomplished pickpocket, he could steal Max's dupli- cate of the check. Or, if he knew a re- liable professional pickpocket-whom he ‘cnu]d hire for the Job. . . . This sort of nonsense was getting him nowhere. | Couldn't_he think of something that would work? He had been drifting aimlessly along the streét in the general direction of | his newspaper office, though he had no conscious reason for going back there, and presently he found himself stand- ing outside a little 10-cent movie thea- ter in Madison street, staring in a sort of trance at the lurid poster on its bill- board. A woman was defending the sanctity of her home with & small re- volver and you could see from the way her would-be assailant cowered before her that they recognized of her argument. She ha colored hair as Claire Cleveland—and a little of her look, too. e Martin's_abstration grew deeper and | deeper. Eager patrons shouldered bruskly past him without rousing him. 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