Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1929, Page 38

EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON SDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929. RHODA A Red-Headed Girl By Henry Kit chell Webster Copyright 1829, North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS After the d 3 st | ears were 1 e hoda McF: s herself R White, hoping to escape the guardiaisaip of her uncle. William Royce. An effort is made to | medium_ of newspaper ble to her and went on speaking to Mar- tin. “That's what he did. They hired this woman—Stafford found her—to g0 West on the same train my father was going on. She was to cry and pretend she'd lost her ticket and her money and |get him to take pity on her and pay| © | her fare. They must have known how papers are nt. Whel men! Claire, who | bes w w Max _and Claire, but re Rhoda she goes to see a man named Forster, who is Lewis' uncle and who. according to Claire, had been Mr. McFarland’s enemy and is_the person sesponsible for $he ads. She {els him of the theft of the trunk and of R nd there mekes off with | Trunk, When | L URi is | e vie s fvate study. They see | Claire enter and talk to Forster. He threat- ens her with a revol TWENTY-SIXTH INSTALLMENT. HE rteport of the revolver was followed by a scream from | Claire. Rhoda and Martin, after | exchanging one horrified look, followed Conley. | The scene in the big room was | enough to shatter a stronger nerve than Forster's. Claire lay on the floor at his feet, unconscious, her face covered with blood. The revolver lay on the carpet 3 or 4 paces away, Forster had fallen | back in his chair. Evidently he thought he'd killed her, for he was bleating frantically, “I didn't do it! She did it herself! She pulled the trigger!” His voice rose to a yelp as he cried to Con- ley, “Take her away!" Conley picked her up in a matter-of- fact sort of way, which led Martin to think that he’d come to the same con- clusion as his own, that she was not dangerously injured. Martin opened the door for him, but as soon as he'd gone out with his burden closed it and turned back to Forster. It was apparently not until then that Forster realized that Martin and Rhoda were in the room. He looked bewildered and weakly de~‘ manded of Martin, “Who are you? What are you doing here?” “I'm a reporter from the News,” | Martin said, “who wanted an interview from you about the disappearance of Rhoda McFarland. I came up to your apartment and found her here. We happened to be where we could see everything that's gone on in this room since that woman came into it."” “More blackmail!” Forster snarled. *“It's a conspiracy, that's whet it is. You are all in it.” “There is only one conspiracy I know about,” Rhoda said; “that's the con-| spiracy you went into with Claire Cleve- | land—only she was called Clara Bow- | man then—and the man who was your | secretary—I think his name was Staf-| ford.” | “You don't know what you're talk- | ing about,” Forster wheezed. But the | consternation in his face proclaimed | that she did know. | “You had your secretary hire her."' Rhoda went on. “That's why you didn't | know who she was when she came back here and got a job in your office. You didn't know that Stafford had told her who you were. And when he died you thought you were safe. You thought you didn't have to pay the money you'd promised her for ruining my father.” She turned away from him as if the sight of his face had become unendura- —Promotio | b half @ along With ose eact A oldn't steep ““% '{,_\,,w this :’:deurinl position: was ty thin! often the or S;an ‘ot woman 834 SUCH 1. Put a teaspoonful of Instant Postum in a cup. 3. Stir and cious! e | lieve her and set fatl |enough “other peeple believed Tier, so kind he was and how innocent he was or they wouldn't have thought the trick would work. It did work, partly. He paid for her ticket and her berth | and loaned her some money to buy her meals. He never even guesied what she was trying to make him do. But she| | went ahead just the same—I suppose they'd promised her more money—and made her complaint before the district attorney. And she testified against him at the trial, only the jury didn’t be- r free. But that he had to resign from the univer- sity and come out hem.” She whipped around upcn Forster again, her eyes blazing with furious anger. “I wish she had shot you instead!” she told him deliberately. “I wish she'd shot you dead. You de- serve it, if any one ever did.” ere, like a man in| hiding, to go to work, without knowing ' it, for the very man who had ruined | molish him completely. He foppe | thank me for it.” | you mind picking him up, Martin, an knowing it, almost over the revolver,!make his fortune as soon as he had the where she had only to stoop to pick it ; thing on & practical basis. All he had up. Forster knew it, though. He was to do was to g0 on &s he'd been going, staring at_the thing in terror. Rhoda |but keep it dark. followed the direction of his stare and| “I never saw anybody as stubborn as lanced down, too, to see what he was|he was. He'd hardly listen. He said looking at. Ithedualveu‘n.z l;-ed a"n".x'”"'fduz"m"""'i‘-{" v . | an WO oyal em. e That glance was all it needed h; gfn! ;&‘gtgne idea zfi{n a unlv:n::y:u u;’ let of his chair and sprawled on the car- | Ll . no e pet, holding out his pelsied hands, im- | dark. It didn’t do any good to talk big ploting mercy. “Wait!” he pleaded. | figures to him. I was about ready to “Wait!” T1l tell you all about it. It|quit, but Stafford had an idea. isn't what you think. I didn’t mean| I don’t say it was a very nice idea, him any real harm. I thought he'd but your father hadn’t left us anything 5 else we could do. Stafford said if there “pp | should happen to be some scandal out 3!at the university so that McFarland would resign, he'd probably come back {to ‘és' Heth?“d Ltmxwls always easy to Martin managed to haul the poor old start something about a professor. 4% < chair again, 1t must, “Well, thats all. He went ahead with ruin back into his chair again. It must | “Welt WAt B Fe went abead with have been a minute before the million- | aire could find breath enough to speak | to_do. He went too far; further than Rhoda_turned her face away. putting him back in his chair?” she asked. | With, but when he did it was, strangely | I meant to. I didn’t think there’d be a i the' volcs o an with a ' trial. I thought McFarland would real- grievance. o i jlze there was something on him and " vas st — | get _out quietly. Only, you see, he was \\«:M‘;:H;l-‘\:-\:‘ B e e | 2 (OoE o QUi EORERTELETY. N istry of pelroleum as any man in umg;':afi;y e o o A’r:d, when the :.hu{u world; more in som~ ways. And he was Al , it was too late to nothing but a college professor, work: 4‘;0“ aidn't make Hils fortune, o ing for § y X n ' he was | , though. g dor '?,:‘(:V" Ul \‘\‘i’f"}mi’.‘,\l?;?(i i {\1’31"‘;:‘ srnd.t--v(vgyg not? How did you Chemisiar Institute, I went to heor him, | Sqmrered: I gave him a fair contract, Luckily he hadn't got far enough with | ;i rl(’“_ e lmoivndor" 3 a u?m his discoveries to give anything really | ;" ooy 1 “‘;fl il hlsl e nm practicaly away, but he came near . 1k personal ex- enough to it to make me sweat. I saw | %“5?' ept that up for four years. Jim ‘sfter the meeting and talked 10 | ot S50 00 e mhe altogether $40,000 B % Had Stafford with me and we | S-350,000. He was always just going to ;%?;Tr:v br‘n:n‘?:“i'f"«Ri"h?&?g;;fgf:fi?gg‘ T him to listen to reason. e = o é?,‘;:n:{ ot epsanaty to ORGANIZED soy mothing of Anyeods edeist 1. 1| = RESPONSIBILITY wanted him to leave the university and e Bt him up & 1sboratory. 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You told her to send any | messenger she liked; you told her to | send your nephew, Max. You said he'd | been doing odd jobs for her lately. You | were trying to make her angry, but you | held your breath while you waited to see wh-ther she would send for the trunk or not.” | Forster turned to Martin as one who | makes another appeal to reason. “Why | would I hold my breath? I knew she | hadn't any contract. I knew the man | who did have it. I'd seen him just this IHeadaches INSTANT RELIEF FOR SALE | AT ALL | DRUGGISTS 25¢ afternoon. I told him it wasn't worth a nickel, just like I told her.” straighten it out. Rhoda’s reference to her trunk and to Max recalled to his mind something urgent that he'd for- gotten about for the past hour or so. He turned to Rhoda, meaning to suggest casually that there was no point in their staying here any longer, but she looked 8o white and limp, now that the fire of anger had burned down, that he put his arm around her, instead. Her head dropped down on his chest, and he heard her say, “Take me away, Martin.” “All right, dearest,” Martin said, and, without a glance at Forster, started lead- ing her toward the door. Just before they reached it Conley he didn't, as Martin for an instant feared he would, offer to hinder their going. He had something else on his | mind. “The woman's all right,” they Sor Coughs Successfully used for past65ycars. Pleasant, soothing and healing. Contains no opiates. 35c and 60c sizes. QUICK RELIEF There was & kink in this, Martin per- | ceived, but he hadn’c time now to try to | opened it and came into the room. But | | heard him say to his employer, as they | left the room. “She’s got a bullet-hole through her cheek and she's lost a couple of teeth, but that's all the dam- age.” . “That means more blackmail,” Forster wailed. “Where's Max? He'll have to get me out of this.” (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) Bank Head Kills Self. NEWPORT, Tenn., December 10 (#).— J. A. 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