Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1929, Page 24

THE EVENING STAR WASHINGT! P. -0, 'DH A Red-Headed Girl By Henry '(Etchell Webster Ccryilgnt 1929, North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. Rhoda McFarland calls herself a White after the death vhose last vears were clouded by misfortu d | She meets Martin Forbes, a re- porter, who hew seen in the pépers an ad asking for information regarding a Rhoda McFarland. He had heard a man named Max Lewis talking to a woman about Rhoda and he feels certain that her real name is McFarland. “Rhoda finally admits that it is. Her apartment is burglarized when she her housemate, Babe Jennings. and just prior to who says he is a city directory employe. while she is wondering what next Claire Cleveland. writes her. say. her father at his death had certain longing to her (Claire). Rhoda her father's papers are in a scaled s. and warns Rhoda against answer- ad inquiring as to her whereabouts, She savs that she believes it to be the work her not to see sented his advice and also his amazement that morning when she reached the office in an_automobile. having accepted a_lift from an old man who saw her and Babe waiting for a_car. Meanwhile Martin has called_at Rhoda’s apartment in time to see Max Lewis leave it with a trunk. = With Babe's help he gets it back, but Rhoda_does not know this. She has followed Claire from her apartment to the hotel where Forster lives. FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT. | expected, as far as she'd expected a thing, had been to see Claire at the desk inquiring for Mr. Forster. ¥ The Worcester appeared to be a very rich hotel and the lobby confused her a little, so that it cost her another minute to get her bearings. By that time Clairc was nowhere to be seen. Very likely she hadn’t had to ask at the desk, but had ridden straight up in one of the ele- vators. Having lost contact with her quarry, Rhoda sat down to think things out a little. ‘What ground had she for assuming that Claire had come here to sce Forster? Well, it was quite reasonable when you considered it. Whatever Claire had been told over the telephone while she’d had Rhoda locked up in the | bath room had evidently been a blow to her; a blow, judging from her anger dealt by the hand of an enemy. Out of the lies she'd told at lunch the onc emergent truth had been the genuine- ness of her hatred of Forster and her belief that he hated her. Out at her flat she'd been expecting Max’s arrival with the trunk. The tele- phone message which had convulsed her with fury had come instead. What was more likely than that she'd learned that Max's uncle had somehow fore- stalled them, perhaps by carrying off the trunk himself? He might be, Rhoda perceived, just true. He couldn't be dangerous—not physically dangerous—if he couldn't even walk without the aid of two canes. And, if he was the man who had brought her and Babe downtown' this morning, as she didn’t doubt he was, he now knew where she worked, if not where she lived, and this meant she couldn't avoid him unless she moved out of the studio and got a new job. If she was going to see him, what bettcr strategic opportunity coutd she have for the visit than while , Clare was there quarreling with him? | It was Napoleonic, almost. She was aware that Martin wouldn't | have argued it out that way. Martin would have urged that the place to talk with an at best doubtful character :like this would have been on her own i ground, not his, and in the presence of some trustworthy friend of her own. And yet it was the thought of Martin that started her across the lobby toward the desk to ask if Mr. C. J. Forster lived there. She wanted some small success to confront Martin with, to compensate for his having been so mad- deningly right in his predictions about her lunch with Claire. She needn’t actually go up to Mr. Forster's apart- ment unless she w/anted to. An in- quiry at the desk wouldn't commit her to anything. But, in the strangest way, it did. ‘The clerk didn't directly answer her question whether Mr. C. J. Forster lived there. He asked for her name instead. But the moment she gave it (as Rhoda ‘White) his manner became alert and deferential. “‘Oh, yes, Miss White,” he said, and nodded to a bellboy. = - His manner so strongly suggested that he knew all about her and had been eagerly awaiting her arrival, both mani- fest impossibilities, that she felt like backing away and saying it was all a mistake. She was amused and faintly frightened, but more than either she was curious to follow the adventure through and see what happened. The clerk had probably mixed her up with some one else. Anyhow, Mr. Forster must be an important person to evoke a zeal like that, even though it was mistaken. There must be some mistake upon the captain conducted her to an [upon her she wasn't meant to be aware “Right up,” he said to the elevator boy; “all the way.” boy followed her in and the car ran all the way to the twenty-fourth floor, re- gardless of signals. ‘The twenty-fourth floor appeared to be the topmost. There were red “down” lights only over all the elevator doors. It didn't appear to be a regular hotel floor. either: at least not the whole of it, for the broad corridor was cut off by a transverse partition of oak and ground glass, as in an office building. On a door in the middle of it was painted the name “C. J. Forster,” but it wasn't to this door that the bellboy conducted her. “No, that's just the office,” he said as he pressed the button beside a solid door which had no legend nor numerals ‘whatever upon its panel. immediate response. “Where are you taking me?” Rhoda asked, hiding her nervousness as well} | her for some one else would no longer There was no He seemed surprised at the question. “Mr. Forster doesn't come down to his office much,” he said. “He's got a house on the roof of the hotel. This little private elevator takes you up to it. It'll be down in a minute.” The door opened upon a small pri- vate elevator with a big man in it. He was dressed in a blue. serge suit. Rhoda stared. Where had she seen | him_before? | “Miss White,” the bell boy said. | “It’s all right, Miss,” the man said, | for she’d involuntarily backed away at | the sight of him. “Mr. Forster's ex- pecting you.” { Reluctantly, beginning now to tremble | a little, she stepped into the elevator, | denouncing to herself as she did so| the impulse to exclaim that it was all a mistake and to run. There wasn't anywhere to run to, for one thing. But she might have tried it anyhow, if she'd remembered two seconds sooner Wwho ! the man in blue serge was. He was, the man who'd come to her apartment | last night pretending to be a name- | taker for the new city directory. | His manner remained perfectly civil as he led her out of the elevator and ushered her across a broad hall into a room, where he asked her if she would of them yet. the door they had come in by, and she noted, in her first glance about the gladly accepted, and incidentally, found room, that its other doors were closed | out where they worked. That seemed to Re e it rou| with the Teflection that it wouldn't o | in 'the Blie serge st detscrive b any good. If they wanted her they had guard, valet, whichever he was, or per- | trunk for his uncle and not for Claire? ps & combination of all three—to the | Was that the purport of the message ha they have known she'd come here when | studio last night? also. There was a complete silence. She checked her impulse to flight her. How had it happened? How could she had only turned into the hotel on the spur of the moment, in pursuit of Claire. Her notion that the hotel clerk and all the rest of them had mistaken serve as an explanation. The man in the blue sergesuit must have recognized her, though he had not betrayed the fact. It had been as Mr. Forster's agent that he had come to her apartment last night to see whether she lived there. It | had been on the strength of his report that Mr. Forster himself in his limousine had followed her and Babe this morn- He closed after him as he went out | jng, offered them the lift Babe had so NOVEMBER 28, , 1929, lved! g Who besides Babe | Claire had received over the telephone? 1,000 NEW HATS Midwinter Vogues and Martin knew that the. Rhoda Mc- Farland, Mr. Forster was advertising for lived there? Why, Claire had guessed who she was the night before that, and Max Lewis had discovered where she Had Max changed sides and gone over to his uncle? Had he stolen the Were they all here now in one of those other rooms fighting over it? She thought now of the thing she ought to have done before she went over to the desk to inquire for Mr. She ought to have telehoned to Martin and told him' what she meant She began to look about for a telephone, but there was none, then she noticed that the room had no windows! Forster. to do. Continued in_Tomorrow's Star). Metal Trimmed Felts Gold and Silver Hats Black Satin Hats High Colored Silks Friday and Saturday $9.69—$4.69 —Smart, chic new hats, priced absurdly low considering' their beautiful quality and finish, Tailored styles, contour types, new brim effects, jewel-trimmed, veiled ideas. Even the difficult-to-find large head sizes will be in plentiful evi- dence. 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