Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1929, Page 44

TiiE EVENING STAR. L A8 DOCEMN A Red-Headed Girl By Henry Kitchell Webster Copyright 1020, North American Newspaper Alllance and Metropolitan Newspaper Bervice. s¥NoPsIS. | After the death of her father. whose last T R Jonfea by Bovet s and dsgrace. | f»-m MeFariaha ealls hersell Rhoda White. i o eccage the Ruatdianship. of her uncle, William Royce. An effort is made to he medium of new nawr‘ S t hoda McFarl rying to | and. A s to Rhoda elaiming to have kn ¢ father. She | savs that he had certain papers belonging for him, which is what happened. Forster money he promjsed her. And it was her quarrel with him that enabled us to find out about it. That's the bones of the story. It would take an hour to give you all the details, but we've got them and we'll furnish you with them whenever you like—now or later.” Rhoda’s gaze from the time Martin had begun speaking had been fixed upon her uncle's face. She'd seen him wilt: she'd have said he actually sagged | and spread a little, like a partly deflated T and Claire, but. she goes to see a man named Forster. who 15~ Lewis le. and who. according to balloon tire. But, before Forbes had finished speaking, he managed some- how to pump himself up again. He said now, in his booming voice, “I ' don’t want the details at this or at any disgrace. | v, leaving Rhoda a pris- | They see Claire enter and talk to Forste: In_the quarrel that follows he ghoots her. Unnerved by the turn of events e confesses to Rhoda his part in the plot Toat Tuined her father. ‘When Forbes takes Rhoda _home her uncle is there. waiting for er " Forpes Soothes her panic and asks er to marry him as a means of escaping er uncle's guardianship. TWENTY-EIGHTH INSTALLMENT. HODA'S sob of assent to this unique proposal of marriage | marked the end of her moment of panic. She walked into the room steadily enough, though still in the embrace of Martin's right &rm, and under the now startled gaze of their visitor. The really astonishing thing was that he wasn't an_ogre at all. He wasn't much taller than Martin, and he had perfectly normal, human-look ing eyes and teeth. Why had she ever been afraid of him? It wasn't until she heard Martin mur- mur again, “It's all right, darling,” that ghe released herself from his arm, said, “How do you do, Uncle William,” and went up and shook hands with him. She thought he expected to be kissed, but she couldn't manage that. He said, heavily, “How do you do, my T'm very glad to have found you at last. I felt it was important that I sece you at once.” “I'm glad you came,” Rhoda told him, | not in the manner in which one says | something polite, but as if she really | meant it. She dimly remembered some- | thing about him and thought she had an idea. “You're a lawyer, aren’t you?’, she asked. : He seemed a little surprised at the question, but answered stiffly, “Yes, that is my profession.” “Well, then,” said Rhoda, “you're just | the person we want. You see, Martin and 1” . . . She broke off there to remedy an omission by introducing the two men in due form. After they'd shaken hadns, Rhoda went on. ‘“You see, Martin and I have just found out what really happened to my father— before his trial, I mean—that made him leave the university.” Uncle William's reception to this| statement was not encoura?'ln He be- an to look a little more like the ogre hoda remembered. “That is not a matter for discussion,” he boomed. “Certainly not now But Rhoda was no longer a little girl of 12. “It's got to be discussed,” she| contradicted him crisply, “and now is the best time to do it. I'm going to have Mr. Forster arrested.” “Forster” Uncle William exploded. “C. J. Forster? Perfect nonsense! What has Forster to do with it?"” “It won't seem so much like non- sense,” Rhoda said, “when you know what he's got to do with it. Tell him, Martin.” Uncle William's attitude and gesture showed that he meant to protest, but, before he could speak, Martin cut in. “Forster admitted to Rhoda and me this evening that the whole case against her father was a frame-up. The woman was planted on the train and instructed to pretend she’d lost her ticket, in order to trick Prof. McFarland into paying her fare. He fell for the trick, but he didn't fall for her. She admits that herself. But she went ahead, under in- structions, and perjured herself on the stand. Forster's motive was to force Prof. McFarland's resignation from the university, so that come to work time. There's no possible good to be gained by raking up that old story. And it could do harm in more ways than one. The scandal hurt the university at the time. It's forgotten now, and, as president of the board of trustees, which I happen to be, I should be un- willing to see it revived.” “Revived!” Rhoda blazed at him. “We aren't going to revive it; we're going to kill it. We're going to prove that it wasn't true.” “Youre going to attempt to prove that it wasn't true,” Uncle Willlam an- swered, “and that, my dear child, is a very different thing.” Your father is dead. Technically there is no stain on his character, since the jury acquitted him. Any attempt to go beyond that, even if there were no other aspects of the affair to be considered, would be most unwise.” Rhoda didn't know what he could have meant by that. She would hardly have noticed that he'd said it, if she hadn't been aware that Martin looked at him with suddenly sharpened inter- est. She found herself overpowered by hopeless anger, and she knew that in another minute, in spite of herself, she was going to begin to cry. 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The management of the hotel where you had lived informed me that you had gone to live with friends in Den- ver. 1 assumed you were in gooa hands and there seemed to be nothing more for me to do in the matter until I saw recently in a San Prancisco paper an advertisement for your whereabouts. Seeing that, I came to the conclusion that a certain contract which your father had inclosed with his letter might have a value for you, and that you ought to be found.” “Good Heavéns!" Martin exclaimed. “Do you mean to say youwe got the contract that everybody has been try- ing to steal? Did you see Forster this afternoon and tell him you had it?" “I refer,” said Untle William majes- , “to_a contract which my late aw entered into with C Forster. 1 was speaking to my nlece. Rhoaa ‘She vthing that concerns concerns me,” Martin told him. and I are engaged to be married. “Humph!” snorted Uncle William. He was a perfectly terrible person. Martin didn't wonder that poor Rhoan had changed her name and hidden herself away from him like a frighs- ened ‘little rabbit. Martin could see him now, majestically pausing before he hurled a thunderbolt. “If,” he said, “your matrimonial in- tentions toward my niece are in any way predicated upon your konwledge | of the existence of that contract, & | think it only right to tell you that 1 is of small value and doubtful va- lidit; “That's what Forster told us this evening,” Martin observed. “He sala he had told you that it wasn’t wortn & nickel.” “I'll have no more of this im- pertinence,” Uncle William roarea. “You can't marry my niece. She's still a minor, and I shall never con- | sent . . ." “Look here,” Martin interrupted him, “we don’t like each other at all, but there's no good in our quarreling un- less we have something to quarre: about. And, unless you're Rhoda's legal guardian. I can't see that we have. 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