Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1931, Page 27

" SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING | INSTALLMENTS, | As Peter Wavne sat on the chilly roof | & building in the East Fifties. wait- to be admitted to the pent h | apartment of the Thavers, whers In. | spector 'Connolly and_Assistant District Attorney Barclay w | | of a bi he_stumbled across an allov industrial corporation that made few months later. she had phoned him | Detween 3 and 4 in the morning that | Teck had been murdered e sat As outside the pent house he recalled their INSTALLMENT 1L first meeting. T wasn't easy for Peter afterward, even very soon afterward, to re- call the impression Martha made on him at sight. He didn't, though, | think of her at first as being beautiful. She was a sullen, graceful girl: he did think, even then, that she had a distinction, both of mind and body, that no woman in that room could match. It wasn't strange that he didn't see her beauty; she was hiding _it. alm-st deliberately: it couldn't ' shine through her sullen, brooding look. He was to come to know, later, that her beauty always did depend upon her mood. and her mood. just then, was bitter and savage and discontented | She wore a very plain black evening drecs; her wrap was slipping from her shoulders as she walked toward the bar. Her arms and shoulders and hands attracted Peter; they were what drew his eyes, rather than her face They were lovely; there was a mar- velous grace about them. He had a way of judging people by their hands, anyway; he was always enormously in- | fluenced in his first quick. instinctive reactions toward new people by the y their hands looked and how they uted them | Marthe's hands weren't dainty, or | emall, cr fragile; they looked as if she could and did uce them vigorously. | But they were beautifully shaped and the had long, sensitive, plastic fingers. | She didn’t make gestures: the way che employed her hands and her fingers | to accentuate what she said was some- thing much subtler and much more | delicate than that. “Tack's tight again,” said Betty | Rogers. That made Peter realize that this girl hadn't come in alone: he be- | came aware, with & silly feeling of re- | sentment, of the big, good-looking chap | who ved her “Tack?” said Peter, inquiringly with a vague stirring of memory. | “Tack Thayer—you must have known | him. She was Martha Cameron.’ | That placed the boy for Peter. znd he Jooked at him more closely. What he | saw was rather shocking. Tack had | begun, Peter thought, to go to seed, and | he was too young, and much too fine | en animal, ‘for that. There wes no| disputing the fact. though. It was manifest in the pouchy look under his eyes, in the sagging of the muscles of | his jaw, in the slack, weak look of his hands. As Petr sat on the roof, look- ing at the mist on the river, he hated remembering that impression Tack had given him at Emma’s. But facts are stubborn things, cccasionally when, like Peter, you have been trained to look at them scientifically, with neither pas- #on nor prejudice. Nearly every one in Emma’s bar that morning spoke to the Thayers. But Tack was too far gone to notic:, and Martha, though she wasn't rude, was obviously indifferent. She nodded to Zahn, though: that struck Peter as odd He seemed to matter more to her than any one there; she smiled at him, and her smile lit up her face for a moment. | and brought beauty, real beauty, int it for the. first.time.- Then -she. and-| Tack found stools at the bar, and Tack began at once to drink, hard and: fast Martha, though, only took an occa- | t-minded sip from her glass. | purposeful ook about her, | Peter thought; as if she were waiting | for something to happen, or, more | probably, for some one to appear. All | &t once she turned and looked at the | door, and following her eyes, Peter saw a man who'd just come in: a tall, dark, | scowling boy, with a weak mouth but | | he tried. once or twice, THE " EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 193T. for Tack, though he wasn't, as a rule, one to waste much sympathy on men who drank more than they could carry. But, to Peter's surprise, .Tack didn't ¢4 pass him, but stopped; he could feel fl | him looking at him, until it became | easter to face him than to keep his eyes averted. “Hello!” said Tack, thickly. “I know you! Wait—I got it! Peter Wayne— “I thought s0,” said Betty. “There's | Sheff, weren't you? It's a long time I the boy friend. Stop watching Martha don't see you How: the hell are you, er, . She'd eat you for break- | Pete ;‘;’.‘::.yl:m?w s ‘ “Fine," said Peter. .“I didnt think Peter grinned, but he didn’t' stop | you'd know me. How're they breaking watching Martha. Not that she knew |for you, Tack? e that: her eyes were all for the new- | ‘“Fair to rotten—" His voice broke, comer. with the appalling suggestion of com- * 's Evan Ross going over to|ing tears, sometimes, in the voice of a id Betty. “Damn it, T wish|man whos been drinking hard for Martha'd snap out of Tack's going | days. . “Here—come along. tMnac::wn Fivah some day.” BOINE | 2% feached for Peter's arm and pulled Some cne from another table asked [ him to his feet. 5 Betty to dance just then; and that| ‘“Look.out—what goes on?" said Pe- stirred up the rest of Peter's crowd to | ter. laughing and trying to pull away. activity so that, pretty soon, he was |But, though Tack might be going to left alone. He could have found some | seed. there was enough of him left to one to dance with. but he was glad of | handle Peter. Even so Peter might have a chance to sit, quietly, and watch the | put up an argument if he'd guessed group at the bar. Ross had joined the | What the other meant to do. As DD Thayers, now: joined Martha, Yather, ‘f,hnl(’fi?;\. Th:(nfv:::r{;" lhl:v Ll e D "Sfi','{’”,‘f,‘,’, tha's angry eves, and her tight. scornful their talk, Martha silenced him, pretty YOUng& lips - sharply, each time, . Q?;;fezhg\'""mm" He didn't seem to resent that at first, | y ~UPoSUEE e POS o2 R but then, abruptly. in the way of a|pawpier AL VAYECT N Ross, M. drunken man. he did. He sent his|yyayne He lowered his voice, “Have to newly filled glass flying, with a sudden | waton Rocs, Pete. He's a regular son of gesture, 50 that Martha had to draw |, female dog, Ross is." back to save her dress. Then he slid | ™ .Taok you beast!” said Martha. “Will down from his stool, and stood. IATING | yoy g0 home.—if you're going?” b A “Home?" said Tack “I'm going home,” he announced, $0 | home. Who rays T haven't? loudly that for a moment every one | pome pul-buwark o' nation! stopped talking to stare, and there was | prance!" one of those beastly silences in Which |~ Anq then he went an angry volce lingers in the air of 2 yord room as smok> does after a shot. Then | “T'h sorry, Mr Wayne," said Martha the talk breke out again. “Take Tack's stool and have a drink, “All right, Tack.’ won't you?" And, so low that only quietly 5 Peter could hear: “Please!” "You coming?” Peter staved, of course. Any one “Not now. no. Go ahead if you want | hearing the urgent. pl-ading note in her to, Tack. Il get home all right.” voice must have staved A drink ap- Tack stood there, swaying a little, peared before him. but neither he nor baffled, too drunk to know what to do | Martha were giving the prohibition peo- next. Ross, Peter saw. was watching | ple anything to worry about that morn- him with wary, hostlle eves, and 1ips ing: both had other things to think tightly compressed. | about “Well—all right sald Tack, after ‘Get me some a moment, and turned away. He Evan' said Martha lurched as he walked, and his uncer- | “Oh, wait!” he said tain progress toward the door brought | around in a minute him toward Peter's table. Peter looked But I.want some now,” said Martha, away: he found himself fesling"sorry gently. Peter offered his. but she shook “Puttin’ nt Mr. him said Tack v I—1 p I got American Vive la without another Martha' said, cigarettes, please. _“The girlll be Sore THROAT The daily press tells of increasing numbers of cases of sore throat.. A sore throat is a menace to the person who has it, and to those around him. Don’t negleet the condition.” Check the soreness and the infection with Bayer Aspirin! ~ Crush three tablets in 14 tumbler- ful of water and gargle well. 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You see—I haven't—I can't ‘explain, now, but I need some one, quite terribly. to do something for me, and there just isn't time for us to make friends first. We can do all that Iater, can't we?" “Yes," said Peter. He thought that was pretty inadequate, but Martha told him later that it wasn't, at all; that it just made her feel he knew enough to know when to be monosyllabic “Good,” she sad. hen—will you take me homg? Now? If Tack really has gone home and T turn up with Evan there'll be a frightful row.” She slipped down from her stool and took his arm, and they started for the door. They met Ross, coming back, as they passed through, and Peter saw that while he did look annoyed, he wasn't at all surprised. “I'm leaving," said Martha. “Give me the cigaretfes, please. Thanks. Go back and pay the check-and stay a while, will you? Tl call you in the morning. Good night.” Ross nodded, after a mioment “All right. Good night.’ he said went on back to the bar. He was used to Martha, Peter supposed. Peter wasn't, and she went to his head. There was something thrilling and exciting about | her: about her voice, and the way she moved, and her way of issuing com- mands. He turned to the check room for his things, and when he looked |around Martha was talking to Benny the fat man who stood by the elevator door and separated the sheep, who had to put up with the dancing room, from the goats, who were privileged to en- ter the bar | “Peter had never liked that man's | looks, and he liked them less than ever just then. Have you ever found vour- ) STEAK / l He Tender, juicy and moderately thick. A dish for the gods when served with ) 'liEkAnsl'N B SAUCE | |ground where many, | Caesar and Pompey had a battle since an insurrection was British authorities at the BURMESE REBELS KILLED !‘“:'“m_:d nl"“'" January. On February 21 self short of cash in such a place and| been obliged to arrange to cash a check | or have something charged? The man tary police %% B—IT 25 villagers of Zainghwe, near TH waddy, were killed in a clash with L 15 Slain in Clash With Soldiers. T Bix Others Wounded. RANGOON, Burma, February 26 (#) —Fifteen rebel Burmans were killed in a fight with a party of troops from the 15th Punjabl Regiment, in the Hanzada district yesterday. Six rebels were wounded, There were no casualties mong the soldiers A number of Burmese districts in the neighborhood of Tharawaddy have been was_looking at Martha then as Peter would have been prepared to have him look at him in such an event. But the elevator came up just then, and they went down and found a taxi “This is the other thing I want you to do for me,” Martha said in the cab. “Take this, please—" | She slipped a bracelet into his hand, | a lovely, costly thing of diamonds and emeralds he'd noticed earlier, with liftle surprise that she should be wear. ing it in & place like Emma's. (To Be Continued.) 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