Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1929, Page 42

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929. e _ CHRISTMAS, 1929 NOW—_MAIL EARLY—FOR BETTER SERVICE RHODA A Red-Headed Girl Happy Will Be Those Who Receive A “Matchless” Gift By Henry Kitchell Webster Copyright 1029, North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper BService. SYNOPSIS. After the death of her father. whose last qara were clouded by poverty and disgrace. hoda McFarland calls herselt Rhoda White, the guardianship of her yce. An eflort is made to d her through the medium of newspaper ads. Martin Forbes. a reporter, and one of Rhoda’s friends, tells her that a man named Max Lewis is trying to prove that she is| Rhoda McFarlan ter & stranger, Claire Cleveland. comes to Rhoda claiming to have | known her father. She says that he had | certain papers belonging to her. and asks to have them returned. Rhoda favs that all her father's papers are in a sealed trunk in her apartment. When the trunk is stolen. she accuses Claire. who denies any knowl: eage of the matter. With the aid of Babe Jennings. Rhoda's house mate, Forbes re- trieves the trunk. which was stolen by Max and Claire, but, before he can tell Rhoda of is feat. & self hung up, “thanks to that chest trick of yours she knows how we framed her and Max this afternoon. But she hasn't got Rhoda, or she wouldn't have called up here to ask for her. That makes the ‘Worcester our best bet. I'm going there now and try to find her. You stick— tight, you understand—to that tele- | phone so that you can answer the sec- ond she calls, if she does call again. Tl call up myself as soon as I get to the Worcester to find out if you've heard from her. So long, and don't go to sleep at the switch.” ‘With that he snatched his hat and fled. Fifteen minutes later, from a tele- phone booth in the lobby of the Wor- - | cester Hotel, he called the studio and He is frantic. and denounces Claire as a blackmaler and the cause of Mr. McFar- land’s disgrace. He even savs that he does not_believe Rhoda's statement that she is | oda McFarland. 5 | Rhoda " to wonder s all | | leave at once. S s al- | pher apartment to let Babe | where she is, but Lewis snatches the telephone from her. Forbes is in the apart- | ment at the time. TWENTIETH INSTALLMENT. | ABE and Martin stood staring at | each other across a dead tele- | phone. “She’ll try again in a minute,” he said, “—— unless something’s wrong.” “Well, don't send for the undertaker yet,” Babe snapped at him. “What would be wrong? Give the kid a chance.” But in the next breath she added, Inconsequently, “What do you suppose made her voice sound so funny?” “Sure it was hers, are you?” he shot | her. “Oh,” cried Babe disgustedly, “don’t | T know her voice? Look here, have you | really got anything on your mind, or are you just generally cuckoo—about her, I mean?” “I've got that Cleveland woman on my mind,” he answered, not bothering to stop to parry her thrust at him, “and & man named C. J. Forster, who wants to get hold of Rhoda pretty badly, and I don't know why. He's been advertis- ing for her and has managed to find . er.’ Babe asked, rather tensely, how he ew. “It was Forster,” he told her, “who | brought you two down to work this| morning in his limousine. Where did | he pick you up? _Just as you were leav- | ing the building here?” She answered with a nod, but he noted that she looked rather dazed. = “Well,” he demanded sharply, “what's en your mind?” “I guess it's my fault, then, if any- thing’s happened,” she said. “I know how he found her. You see, I answered his ad myself. He telephoned one in, the morning after Max had brought me home. Max had asked me that night if her real name wasn't Rhoda McFarland. | I took the adl over the phone and got Forster's name and address. I'd tried to get Rhoda to answer it the night be- fore, but she wouldn’t. It said ‘some- thing to her advantage’ and I thought it probably was. So I called him up at lunch time at the Worcester and told him, it he'd write her a letter, care of me, T'd forward it to her. I didn't see how that gave her away, but it must| have, somehow. I suppose you'd like to at said. “I'm glad you told me. tween him and the Cleveland woman, then. They are fighting each other, that's one good thing. But one of them has got her, somehow. If that had been | & plain broken connection, she'd have called again. . . .” | The telephone bell interrupted him. | Babe was nearer and caught up the in- strument before he could get it. “Rhoda,” she cried, “is that you?” But it wasn't Rh Babe was look- | ing rather puzzled. * " Martin heard | her say. “She hasn't come back yet. | We're expecting her. . . . s is l‘fl;{s,f:lend‘ Babe Jennings. Say, who is | Martin started over to take the tele- hone away from her, but she clung to it, pressing the mouthpiece tight against her chest. “Martin!” she cried excitedly, * think it's the woman at the station— | the Cleveland woman! Listen and see | if she sounds like she did when you ! telephoned to her this afternoon.” | He'd been motioning at her frantically | to take the transmitter away: “She | can hear every word you say when you | hold it like that. Talk to her! Ask her | where she is. Give me the receiver so | I can hear what she says.” But all he was in time to hear was Claire had the click of disconnection. hung up on them. “Well,” Martin remarked as he him- i BEAUTY C Gifts That Every Wo hopping be- daughters and sweet never have “too many” toilet uisites. And with this sug- gestion may we remind you that Face Powder Vanishing Cream Cleansing Cream Rouge Compacts Beauty Bleach Skin Soap Brilliantine Plough’s Beauty Creations & obtainable et deslers eve: teed, unsurpassed in velue. inexpensively priced. = Plough, Inc. ¢ MEMPHIS ° | said irritably. asked Babe if she's heard anything from Rhoda. She hadn't and she was on the point of mutiny. She wanted to 0 out and try to do something herself. When he'd dissuaded her from this, she a:n&undsd to be told what he was going o. “I can't tell you over the phone,” he “I'll find her all right.” But he was feeling rather small and disingenuous as he hung up, for the fact was that he'd as yet formed nothing that deserved to be called a plan. Rhoda needed help and she'd called to him for it—or tried to. Whatever her plight, he believed Forster was re- sponsible for it. So he meant to get at Forster and put the screws on him, though just what his resources were, in the way of screws application to the crippled old millionaire, he hadn't tried to reckon in detail. It struck him now, as he was on the E:int of leaving the booth, that it might e better strategy to try to make his appointment for an interview over an outside line than by going to the hotel desk and asking for him. So he looked up Forster's number in the book, went back into the booth, and telephoned | from there. When a man's voice answered with a “Hello? Who is this?” he said that he was a reporter from the News and he wanted a personal interview with Mr. J. C. Forster. The rather su answer came back, “This is Mr. Forster speaking. What was it you wanted to speak to me about?” Apart from the fact that you wouldn't have expected Forster to answer his own phone, there were two queer things about this. The rhythm of his talk wasn't right. The man wasn't speaking | 7% 4 for himself. He was being grompud. This meant, of course, that he wasn't Forster, but was impersonating him un- der orders from some one else. The rising ! e E % other strange thing was that his voice | 7 4 was one that Martin half-recognized; felt, at least, that he ought to be able to recognize. “I don't much want to talk about it over the telephone,” Martin said, and then added casually, “—— and I don't believe you do either.” Evidently they—whoever they were at the other end—had to go into confer- ence over this remark, for it produced quite & silence. Finally the man who said he was Forster asked “Who are you? What is your name?” On Mar- tin’s telling him he asked “Where are you talking from? How long would it take you to get here?” Over that question Martin paused a moment. But even so he answered without having quite thought out the consequences of his reply. “I think I can be at the Worcester within 15 min- utes,” he said. There might be some strategic advantage in not letting them know that he was already in the hotel. “If you've really got anything to say, you can have your interview. But you'll have to tell me what it's about.” “It's about,” said Martin, “the disap- pearance of Miss Rhoda McFarland. Do I get my interview?” There was a long silence at that. Evidently they were having an argu- ment about it. “Nothing doing,” the voice said at last. “I don't know that she's disap- peared. I don't know that there’s any such person.” | “You don't want to say then why you've been advertising for her?” The only answer he got to that ques- tion was a click, which meant that the | 2 other receiver had been slammed down on the hook. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) e Wife Sues Edward B. Swink. Absolute divorce is asked in a suit filed in the District Supreme Court by Mrs. Julia Swink, 25 Third street north- east, against Edward B. Swink, 600 A street northeast. They were married December 24, 1925, and have no chil- dren. The wife charges that her hus- band deserted her February 15 and has transferred his affections to another woman. She is represented by Attorney Vivian O. Hill. m RB\TIDNS\1 man Will Appreciate Plough's Beauty Creations, used and recommended by lovely wo- men everywhere, are the kind of gifts that every woman will appreciate. 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