Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1931, Page 23

8 INSTALLMENT XIV. AROL had been as good as her word. She and Steve were ‘ both up and dressed, and a sleepy-eyed maid appeared with coffee. Jimmy Watson, who'd brought Peter's two nephews into the world and was a friend as well as a doctor, was there, too; Martha, who'd met_hin® managed a smile for him. = to drink a cup of coffee, Mrs. Thayer,” he said, cheerfully matter of fact. “And I'm going to give you something to lay you out for a while. I don't know who takes care of you, but I'll take a chance on his overlook- ing my butting in. After all, there's not much choice at a time like this.” “Thanks,” said Martha, submissively, in a voice wholly new to Peter. She drank a cup of coffee, took a powder Jimmy Watson handed her and swal- lowed the glass of water he held out to her afterward. Then Carol took her off, and the three men were left alone. “What goes on, Peter?” said Steve ‘Wentworth, and Peter told him the lit- tle he knew about Tack's death. He saw, without surprise, the quick creas- ing of the lawyer’s forehead. In a few minutes Carol came back; Jimmy Wat- son glanced at her inquiringly. “Asleep,” she said. “I scarcely had time to get her undressed.” “T didn’t think you would,” said Wat- son, dryly. “What I gave her, on top of the shock—well, there are times when suspended, animation’s what you want, and this stems to be one of them. She won't stir before evening, and she ‘won't be up to much then. Call me up if she's restless—unless she wants her own doctor, of course. But I rather think she'll wake up and make a pass at some food and then drop of again. Tomorrow'll be the bad day. I'm off. Haley's operating on a patient of mine at half past 8, and I've got to be on deck.” He ‘vent out. “Well!” said Carol. “You might as well have some breakfast with us, Peter—it’s not very much earlier than |to our usual time, as a matter of fact. ‘They’ll be ready soon. This is a fright- tul business, my dear. That poor child!” “Yes,” sald Peter. “It's worse than u know.” Steve Wentworth looked up, sharply. afraid it was” he said. to mix her up in it?" and Carol gave a little, Quickly suppressed exclamation. “I want to talk to you, Steve,” he said. “She’s going to need help, and she’s surprisingly alone.” “It's not my line, of course,” said Steve. “Still—you'd better tell me.” He frowned. “Let's see—if she hasn't a lawyer of her .own, I can get Arthur Bouton for her. He's a friend of mine, and he's as good a criminal lawyer as I know. He happens to be a gentleman, too—and that might help in a case this. “It wm,"__u!d Peter. “It's a good deal of & mess. Peter hesitated for a moment, then made up his mind. This was no time, obviously, for reticence, for delicacy, for distinguishing between what he had Reprinted From the Newark Evening News Monday, March 2 learned more or less in confidence and what any one might know. Tersely, but as fully as he could, he explained the situation that had led up to the quarrel at the Fantomas Club; he stressed the queer sort of armed neu- trality there had been between Martha and Tack and told what he knew of Tack’s mother and her attitude. “The old ladyll blame Martha, of course,” he said. “Oh, naturally!” said Carol, and Steve nodded. He listened attentively to Peter’s account of his own cross- examination by Connolly. “You don't know, of course, what Barclay and Connolly said to her?” Steve asked, and Peter shook his head. “No—except that they'd obviously scared her to death. She got it into her head that they thought Ross had shot_Tack and that she’d been in on it. I didn't ask her any’questions— there wasn't time. And you saw the state she was in.” “Ye-es,” said Wentworth. “That’s Bouton's job, anyway—or the job of whoever she retains.” He frowned. “I wonder why they didn't arrest her right away?” "Th!{ haven't got a case!” sald Peter, indignantly. “I've known of plenty of arrests with less than they've got already,” said Steve, dryly. “You might as well face it, Peter. This is an ugly business. They know she can't get away, of course— but, as a rule, they try for a confession right off the reel. They try to get ln' their work before people can talk and get primed on what to say.” He frowned again, thoughtfully. “You can see how it works—take a woman in her state, put her up against five or six hours’ of grilling in a_police station—well, she’s apt to say almost anything.” He shook his head, doggedly. “Well—they've given us a breathing spell, and that's all to the good,” he sald. “They can't get at her again be- fore tomorrow—Jimmy Watson can stand them off if they try. I'd give a good deal to know what they're doing Ross about now.” “Ross!” said Peter. about him!" To Wake up FIT Tomorrow Take one TONIGHT Quick Relief for CONSTIPATION BILIOUSNESS BLOATING, ETC. “rd forgotten | “You can be pu&gum Connolly hasn't,” said his brof -in-law, drym “Ross- was probably picked up whi aiting over there on the Toof ‘The maid came in just then to say and Peter cup strong coffee. Queer, the sisted on_going on along its ordinary, commonplace lines, in spite of murder and tragedy and the looming shadow of utter disaster. “111 tell you what you'd better do,” sald Steve to Peter, presently. “Find out anything you can about Martha's people—see whether she has a lawyer. She must have, of course. Let me know who he is and I'll get in touch with him. Chances are he’ll want a crim- inal man to handle this, just as I would, and if he'd rather have some one besides Bouton i1l be ‘all right with me. Only—some one ought to be on the job right away. Time's what counts just now.” Peter agreed with him, especially when he remembered the way Connolly had looked when he flung open the door after the flashlight had gone off. It had been all very well for him to reassure Martha, to tell her that she was crazy to think she might be ar- rested. But, in point of fact, Peter agreed with Steve Wentworth. The very fact that Martha was still at lib- erty struck him now as alarming. He did what he could on the tele- phone from Carol's apartment. Though it went against the grain, he tried to reach Ross, but he was hardly surprised to be told, both at his apartment and at his office, Ross had a job, of sorts, downtown—that he ‘was out, From Marian Bronson he learned that Mar- tha's father was at Palm Beach and. not without difficulty, finally reached him by long distance. It wasn't altogether easy to make Mr. Cameron understand what had happened—nor, for that matter, to identify himself and explain how it was that he was talking to him. - Reupholstering “Poor kid!” he said, when he under- stood. “Is Martha all right? She's with your sister—ah, Mrs. Wentworth—yes. You're being very kind. Now—I can start North tonight—I'm the devil of a long way off to be much use, though.” “Well—" said Peter. “I don’t know that there’s much that you can do. I thought you'd want to be with Mar- the—™ He was handicapped, of course, be- cause he didn't, for any number of rea- sons, want even to st t, over the telephone, that Martha was in any dan- ger of arrest. “Of course—of course,” said Mr. Cameron. “I'll see about getting off at once. Meanwhjle—can you get hold of Prentice, I wonder? My lawyer. He'll know what to do. George Prentice— Prentice, Stone & Gresham. You'll find them in the telephone book. You're very good, taking all this trouble, Mr. ‘Wayne. Do as much for you if I ever get the chance—glad to. And will you ask Pentice to keep in touch with me, my dear fellow? Thanks. I'll see you when I get to town. Good-by—good-by.” It wag all eminently correct, but Peter, h: g up, had a feeling that Mr. Cameron wasn't going to help much. - He understood, rather better than he ever had before, a certain im- pression Martha gave of feeling herself alone in the world. He got Steve, after that, and told him what he'd done. “George Prentice? Oh, first rate!” said Steve. “I know him very well. I'll get in touch with him at once. He'll be all for getting Bouton—TI'll lay odds on that. She couldn't have a better man looking out for her.” He chuc- kled. “I know Cameron—by reputation. You got about what I'd have predicted. All right. There's nothing more for you to do just now. Drop around for din- ner tonight—we're dining alone, I think.” Carol came in then. “I just looked in,” she said. “She’s sleeping like a child. She's sweet, Peter. 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BAMBERGER & CO. “One of America’s Great Stores™ NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Ovwners and Operators of Radio Station WOR, Publishers o"mufll Magazine “You look terrible,” she sald. need a shave—and—oh, go home and let Manuel take care of you!” “I've let you in for a lot of trouble, I'm afrald,” said Peter. “The news- E:Der men don’t seem to know Martha’s re yet, but they’re bound to find out.” Carol’s teeth snapped. “Let them!” she said. “And much good may it do them!” Peter, getting ready to go, looked at himself in a glass. Carol was right. He was an unpleasing object to any eye. And he felt worse than he looked. In Ninth street Peter had his first experience of running the gantlet among the reporters. If he'd seen the early editions of the evening papers, he would have known that his name figured almost as prominently as Mar- tha'’s and Tack's—more prominently, as he was glad, later, to learn, than Ross’, since Connolly had chosen, so far, for reasons of his own, to keep his knowl- edlgreofm‘purtmthocmwmm- self. He shook his pursuers off by main force and went up to his flat to find a distracted and harasséd Manuel. The telephone, it seemed, had been ringing incessantly for an hour, and it kept on doing so, but Manuel was an adept telephone liar, and no one could reach Peter unless the voice was known to Manuel. The house telephone, after five minutes, was simply shut off; Peter gave orders that no one was to be an- nounced. 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