Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1929, Page 35

] , THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY., DECEMBER 11. 1999. A Red-Headed Girl By Henry Kitchell Webster Copyright 1920, North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. After the death of her father, whose last ars were cl by Roverty and disgrace: 0da McFarland calls herself Rhoda White, oping to escape the guardianship of her uncle,, Williara Royce. An effort is made to find her through the medium of newspaper ads. Martin Forbes, a reporter, tells her that X Lewis is trying to prove she is Rhoda McFarland. Later & stranger, Claire Cléveland, comes to Rhoda claiming to have known' her father. She gays that be had certain papers belonging kst them_returned. er's papers are rtment. When 3 d Claire, O uncle, and who. d atre, had been Mr. McFarland's d 15 the person responsible for She tells him of thc theft of the her meeting with Clefre. He is & . Forbes, acting hotel and find: which they are has wall that affords a_view of Forster's private . 'They see Claire enter and talk to . He threatens her with a revolver. the scuffie that follows. she is . Conley. Forster's guard, rushes into the study. Unnerved by the situation. Forster confesies to Rhoda his part in the plot that ruined her father. TWENTY-SEVENTH INSTALLMENT. | OWN in the lobby Martin and Rhoda paused. She seemed & Jong way off from him, some- how. Knowing what a storm | she'd been through, he felt that he couldn’t bear to tell her she must come with him now to the railway | station, in the hope that they wouldn’t | be too late to prevent Max from making | off with her trunk. | Luckily she spoke first. “I don't want | go home,” she said. “So I'd better telephone Babe and let her know we'rs all right.” This was an obvious duty, and as five | minutes wasn't likely to ter much, | now, one way or the other at the rail- | way station, Martin assented. | Rhoda gave him something else to| think about when she paused outside the door of a booth she’d been on the point of entering and asked him to tele- | phone instead. She looked awfully ‘white. “Rhoda, are you all right?” he de- manded earnestly, He must have shout- ed it rather, for a man turning the leaves of a directory at the desk looked up curiously at them. He went on speaking lower, “I mean, are you faint or anything?” She said she wasn't. She just didn't feel like talking to Babe. The promptness with which Babe an- swered the call suggested that she'd been sitting within hands’ reach of the instrument_ever since Martin had left her, and indeed she assured him pas- slonately that this had been the case. She was furious with him for not having called sooner and wasn't easily to be convinced that this was his first opportunity. She'd been having a per- fectly rotten evening, she said. Max Lewis had come and really acted rough. She'd had to threaten to telephone for the police to get rid of him. “What did he want with you?"” Mar- tin demanded. “Naturally,” said Babe, “he wanted his ticket and his trunk check.” “But he had them,” Martin told her. “He took the envelope out of my pocket an hour age, after he'd knocked me cold with a crack on the jaw.” “Well, he didn’t think he had them 15 minutes ago when he left here,” she assured him. ’ “Wait a minutes,” Martin said, and laid down the receiver for a search of his pockets. “It's all right,” he told Babe a minute later. “I've got them. ‘What he got out of my pocket was your dummy envelope, the one we fooled him with the in the first place. I don't won- de- he looked sick. Well, don’t worry about us any more,” he concluded, “and don't expect us till we turn up.” “So I'm to go to bed and not wait uj for the young folks,” Babe .ommented. She sounded rather annoyed, though Martin couldn't see why she should be. “How long is it,” he asked Rhoda, ‘when he went back to her, “since you've had anything to eat?” “I don't know,” she told him ab- y. ‘Well, then, that's the first thing to attend to,” he announced. “I'm going to take you somewhere and get you a good dinner.” “Rhoda, how did you know what Claire was saying to Forster? We couldn't hear a sound through the glass. + smile flickered across her face, the first he'd seen there in a long while. “I forgot,” she explained. “It séemed like listening to me. I can read lips, you see. Martin, dear, don't you remember Jong ago at the Alhambra, how I saw you ask me if I didn’t want to be res- cued? And you asked me afterward I lost some of their conversation, of course, when they turned their faces away. But, whenever I could see their faces, I could hear just as well as if T'd been in the room.” He sat silent for a while after that, not exactly thinking, but enjoying the savor of the term of endearment she got back on the rails, he took up the kink in Forster’s explanation, which he had been conscious of not straightening out at the time Forster made it. What the old man had said about the ST Special Excursion HARPERS FERRY Martinsburg, Hancock and Cumberland Sunday, December 15 A glorious trip through the Valley of the Potomac where oncerolled the tides of war. Tickets good in day-coaches on ‘train indicated Lv. Washington .« . . Ar. Harpers Ferry A%, Martinsburg Ar. Hancock umberland Returning Same Day Lv. Gumberland ~5:30 PM and 1025 PM Lv. Hancock ik RO Lv. Martinsburg 7:35 PM and 12:20 AM Lv. Harpers Ferry . . . 8:09PM ROUND TRIP FARES To Ha Ferry o o To Martinsburg -+ To Hancock . To Cumberiand . 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If Rhoda’s father had died, as apparently he had, before completing his discovery, it was obvious that the contract was of no | value. Claire, though, apparently thought 'H‘. was valuable. There seemed to be no doubt that it was the thing she’d been trying all along to steal. It wasn't in- credible that, if Forster knew she'd failed to get it (since he knew in whose hznds it actually was he might have of- fered her $100,000 for it in pure malice, as he said. But Forster did think it was Claire who'd stolen Rhoda’s trunk, and, unless Rhoda’s observation had been at fault, he had held his breath while he the trunk. But didn't he believe that something else was, something that he wanted very much, something, perhaps, he felt he couldn’t be happy without? ‘That seemed highly probable to Mar- tin. Why, unless there was something among her father's papers that he wanted, had he spent all those weeks advertising for Rhoda? Martin looked up at Rhoda doubt- fully, torn between his impatience to examine the contents of that little trunk tonight and his reluctance, after all she'd been through, to subject her to any more experiences, possibly har- Towing. “I think there must be some way,” he told her hesitatingly, “of setting your for some light on it tomorrow when we go _through that trunk. Rhoda, dear, don’t worry any more about it tonight. You're all in. Let's go home.” “All right,” she agreed, and, when he put his hand into his pocket, he made the disgusting discovery that he was penniless. So he asked Rhoda, rather difidently, if she could lend him any money. He'd given his last cent to the taxi driver who'd brought them here. She insisted on walking home, and her way. As they strolled along, she slipped her hand within his arm, but, even so, she felt a million miles a . By the time they'd got to the door of her apartment building the silence between them had become a “I'll go up with you to your own door | she could see through the doorway, sai anyhow,” he said, and they climbed the | “Here they are,” and Rhoda in a surprising way. She rself upon Martin, like a child There was a light shining through |at the sight of an ogre. Martin heard the crack under the door, and they|her say, in & broken voice, “It's Uncle could hear Babe, Rhoda’s house mate, :v‘gmm! two long flights of stairs, side by side, | life without another word. flung in there talking to somebody. Rhoda had her key in her lnynd and she thrust it into the lock and swung|pulled her closer still, and as he gazed the door open without even a momen- | over her head at Babe's astounded face, tary pause for a private farewell on the | he whispéred to Rhoda, “Don’t you Martin _stepped aside. He | worry, darling He can't do anything tu | hanged if he|you now. You're engaged to me.” landing. wouldn’t go in. He'd be ‘would. But in the instant that Rhoda pushed open the door the man to whom Babe had been talking spoke, and, at the Martin, Martin's arms came around her and (Continued in tomorrow’s Star.) . Mol had unconsciously used. When his mind’ waited to see whether she would rise to his bait or not. Forster knew the contract wasn't in Save Money Buying Your Gifts In Our Stores From a Famous Time - Tested Southern Recipe “Grand Duchess” 3-Lb. Fruit Cake Packed in 6 9 Holiday Box . . o Grand Duchess Fruit Cake is a real South- ern delicacy made in Old Virginia from a fa- mous time-tested recipe. Blended with the choicest fruits of the Orient, aromatic with tropical spices, rich in eggs and butter, it is truly a pleasure to the eye and a tempter to the appetite. This fruit cake sells regularly at $1 per pound. 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