Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1929, Page 37

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DE 'EMBER 3, 1929, 87 She fled now, as a child would, run- | eny rate. Her interests are in my hands | | She was passing, at the Instant, a door | She wasn't cornered yet, however, for | man switched on the light. and I shall protect them.” ning blindly down one corridor, up an- | which stood ajar. In another two,sec- | another door communicating with the The next moment she heard Max It was siz years since she had heard | other, turning corners at random. There | onds the footsteps would have reached nd.’oln‘len‘; room stood open, too, and she | Lewis demanding angrily, “What the those heavy menacing tones. They had A must be a stairway somewhere, the corner and she'd be seen. Instinc- | retrea through it just before the | deuce are you doing her last come to her ears through the thin | She was just getting over this panic | tively she pushed open the door and walls of their California bungalow. Only | and beginning to try to feel ashamed of | St€pped into the room it gave upon. He hadn't seen her, though; he was speaking to the woman w::‘nt motion- less by the window. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) A Red-Headed Girl By Henry Kitchell Webster | Copyright 1929, North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. After the death of her father, whose last ears were clouded by poverty and disgrace. hode McFarland calls herseif Rhoda Whit hoping to elude the guardianship of an uncle | whom she detested and feared. An ad in the papers asking for information as to the Whereabouts of a Rhoda McFarland catches the eve of Martin Forbes. a reporter and a friend of Rhoda. She tells him part of her story. He says that an_acaaintance, Max Lewis, is also trying to establish her iden- tity. "Later, a stranger, Claire Cleveland. €omes to Rhoda. claiming to have known her father at the fime of his misfortune. She adds that he had certain papers belonging 10 her and asks to have them reiuwned. Rhoda savs that all her fat < are & makes a denial. With the aid of Rho housemate, Babe Jennings. Forbes retri the trunk, which was stolen by Lewis, before he can tell Rh uncle, and. 3 been Mr. McFariand's enemy And the per- 80n responsible for the She tells him | 3 | but nething happencd. In less desper- | W s a stalrway she hoped to find rather | than the elevator, since she knew she'd never have the nerve to press a button and stand waiting for it to come up. | . However, by almost unbelievable good luck, she found the elevator there wait~ ing for her, with both its own door and the outer guard gate standing wide open. There was no attendant there. It was | one of those mysterious little elevators | you were supposed to run yourself. She | hadn't an idea how they worked, but she stepped inside, swiftly scrutinized | thte littl= row of bush-buttons, and | pressed the one marked “Down.” There was a faint, protesting buzz. ate haste she might have reflected that | an automatic elevator which could de- scend its shaft while its guard gate stood open would be a veritable death- | that time her father had been there to | it when it was renewed by the sound of | tell the speaker to g0 away. It was her uncle, Willlam Royce—the | coming briskly along the transverse cor- | and pausing there. The man was com- Nervous?.. say these 22,152* men and women But the footsteps which had frightened | heavy and, to her ears, ogreish footsteps | Rhoda were now just outside the door | ing in, too. | ner which she was approaching. Not now!.. 9k This figure represents the number of Postum users who wrote us within a period of only a few months. ‘We have letters from thousands of other men and ‘women also in our files. Costs so little! #hout the theft of the trunk and about her | tFap, but on the verge of panic as she meeting with Claire. He is frantic with fear | was, she couldn’t think at all. He_d Clai; s a black- ys she was discharsed from his | Then she heard a door open some- R S vus 52 Ui SE e et | where and stepped backinio the cor. uble ‘and, dissa ven oot | ridor, poised for flight but not know- Fhodus" statement that ene 5 Boodor iess | ing which way to flee, The door was one Fariand, "Them b oed awas. leaving fnods | she could see, though 1t was a little way at it is all about” Max Lewls | around the corner. The overgrown page :;'::IIYB and offers her mf)nt! to leave at was holding it open, if she could judge from the glimpse she got of & green NINETEENTH INSTALLMENT. sleeve and brass buttons. 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Even if cold has gained headway, and your temples throb and your very bones ache, these tablets will bring prompt relief. It is better, at Max blankly after he had | at last? What if she stayed where she ‘g]gflifl};;;'m'f‘;;fl‘/:;éEO“()C‘?&T';S; | ¥as and went down in the clevator | that he didn't know that she'd | o gm e Sid Ehe "Vas volmiarly - weitng for him. | 1ogking on. - A — Jum. | But just as she reached that decision hA" “i‘h; o Tl go. But youll | 4 big, booming voice swept over her and | ave to show me the way out. | even before she consciously recognized it He didn't altogether release her, but | or took any meaning from what it said, his grip on her arm relaxed as he start- | all but paralyzed her with childish ter- ed leading her toward the door she had | ™Vs « + Very well, But T warn you, you come in by. | are making a serious mistake. I shall Half-way to it they were halted by | gang ?;rsg‘lt spiftehol o s‘l:mis“ neces- the voice of Conley, Forster’s aid. 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