Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1931, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, MONDAY, INFERENCES. IMMIE HASWELL was tired. He had spent the whole day in the law courts and was by no means sure that he was winning the cause on which he was engaged. | he walked toward his chambers in | holls Inn the young lawyer was himself what the chances were | the cas: would be finished the | %fi day, while dismally contemplating | the prospect that the wretched affair ht have to be adjourned or begun over again. | 4t was no wonder that his annoyance | reased when, upen reaching his | chambers, his clerk told him that a and gentleman were walting to | ‘him, | ¥ “Who are they?” he atked, ,impa- ntly. ?E“‘I"‘Hey said you wouldn't know their ." They come from your cousin, a. Donald Wade.” Not feeling too amiable toward his ousin, Jimmie washed his hands. brushed his obstinate dark hair, ana asked for his visitors to b2 shown into his room. A gir] entered. She was fair and de- ‘eidedly pretty. Her eyes were blue and r coloring good. He put her age at t 33. The man who followed her apparently was a few years older. He | ‘as tall and not bad looking. His fea- | fures were regular and his hair was | “sather long, being brushed back from | s forehead without a parting, ‘in the | «style sometimes affected by artists and | Jetors. "I am Evelyn Blake. We ought not to trouble you, but I live at Walford, 'ar Bedford, and your cousin, Mr. | ‘ade, is our nearest neighbor. He sald 4s I was coming to London I must con- &llt you on a matter that is worrying us_quite a lot.” T Shé had a pleasing voice and she ®miled as she spoke. Jimmie glanced “from her to her compan:on. S| added Jith a slight blush, “This is my flance, | 4AMr. Duckworth. He is a siag .. w. 'Donald was so sure you could help "%, added the girl, eagerly. “I have &mown him all my life, and he and his /Xife came to live near us when they | awere married, six months ago. He hs.s‘v 30ld us of the mysteries you have leared up.” PLAKE infersnces,” Jimmie countered, “for often there are several explanations for the little things we observe. For in- stance, I might suggest that you have just been having a birthday, but I may be_entirely mistaken.” The lovers exchanged a look of sur- prise. the man. “Your gloves are new, your tie is new, and your cufflinks have the peculiar brightness of the jeweler's shop. We all wear new things sometimes, but several new things together suggest a celebration.” “I gave him the cufflinks” said | Evelyn, the rosy color showing again on her cheeks. “Today is my birthday," declared Duckworth. “It proves that Donald Wade was right to send us to you.” “Why do you say that?” l!ked’ undoubtedly a girl who would persevere | with whatever she undertook. Failure and discouragement would not daunt her. Yet there was anxiety in her tone, though what she had to say seemed first hardly to justify it. | Miss Querdling. is a wonderful | woman, with a very strong nature. She has it determination and is entirely indifferent to the opinions of other people. Consequently she is not ex- actly popular, though she is really very kind and a great deal of good. Perhaps she has enemies. Anway she has been recelving threatening letters— | anonymous ones, of course. They are | what we are worrying about. “What exactly do you mean by threatening letters?” asked Jimmie. | “At first they were vague,” answered | the girl. “They sald that she was to be puhished for whac she had done Then they grew more definite and said | that she gz to be ku!ed."h s Her voice dropped as she repea the terrible words. It seemed that they had undoubtedl, - —1I mean it just said that though she hac | No suggestion of exposure—of reveall secrets—unless payment was made?” “No. Nothing like that.” “Have you the letters with you?” “No. My sunt has them.” low does she regard them he does not take them seriously But we—my sister and I—feel that a | | Allen. real danger threatens her and she ought to be protected. “What have you done about #t?” in- | quired Jimmie. | “We have been to the police, although | Aunt Annabelle would not at first allow | us to do that. Of course, we have also | ‘My sister and x&m’e with our aunt. | consulted our friends, Donald Wade | you would be able to suggest some wa; and others. It was Donald who told me to come to you.” “How long has your aunt bsen getting these letters?” | “For two months,” said Evelyn. “They ome at intervals of a week or 10 days. | There have been six altogether up to | Jimmie, the present. They are printed in | rough characters and are all posted in | the neighborhood, though apparently at | different post offices or pillar boxes.” | “Have the nolice no suspicions at all as to who sends them?” “At first they thought they might | come from a young fellow called Joe | He was an undergardener whom | my aunt, discharged shortly before she began to receive them. He~had been | heard in the village to say he Would get | even with her. But he denies every- thing, and nothing “Well,” said the girl, and the color came again to her cheeks, “he might think he had. My aunt caught him love-making with one of the maids, and that is & thing she will not allow.” “Does she not approve of love-mak- ing?" asked Jimmie, with a smile, as he looked from one of them to the other. | No,” answered Evelyn, “she does | not. photographs | clues. He makes h! “She certalrily does not' approve of me, If you mean that- sdded Duck worth. “That is bad luck,” said Jimmie, “but I cannot quite see why Donald sent you to me. What can I do? “He thought,” sald Duckworth, “th: in which the mi who wrote them could be caught belore he does what he reatens to do.” “The man—or the woman, T suppose? ‘Women are perhape more fond of send- ing anonymous letters than men,” said though insinuations rather than threats of violence are generally their line.” “They might, of course, come from a woman” agreed Duckworth, “We had not thought of that.” “Have there been other discharged servants? Or tenants or neighbors with real or fancied grievances’" “There may have been,” said the girl, “but none that we can see real grounds of suspecting.” “It seems to me,” Jimmie said, slowly, that your aunt is taking the wisest view of the matter. Certainly the po- lice should endeavor to find out who sends the letters, and if they continue to come, I expect they will succeed. Otherwise it is best to ignore them.” “You do n.t think my aunt is really in danger?” o " he smiled in reply. “I do not she is. Such letters are gener- ally sent by some one who wants to frighten, but is afraid to strike. That is the only inference I can suggest. A murderer does not spread unnecessary plans in secret, No. 6 of a series of advertisements ap- pearing in The Evening Sar each Mon- day—showing actual of how Sanico Bakery products are made. AUGUST 17, ¢ 1931. | and he strikes without warning. 1t Joe | | Allen or any one like him really meant ' |to injure your aunt, why tell her so | beforehand?” “Then you think” said Duckworth, that Miss Querdling has nothing to | | fear, and Miss Blake need not worry?” | “Let them take Teasonable precau- | tions 1f they like, but trust the police, and certainly not worry.” “I am glad I came,’ murmured the girl in a tone of relief. “Donald said I must, but I quite see what you mean I will tell Marjorie—she is my sister— and we won't let it frighten us any more. “That is very sensible of you. Hand the letters to the police, but otherwisc | ignore them. Your unknown enemy | will; probably soon tire of his foolish amusement. Depressingly tired, Jimmie was glad to see his callers depart, though they |left him to the contemplation of thoughts not pleasant. Such a tiresome day in court! He | frowned at the picture. London gripped | by one of its periodic epidemics of in- | fluenza and the dull court affected by it. There was a flicker of a smile as Jimmie recalled that the learned judge had sneezed so violently that his wig had almost bounded off his forensic | forehead. He could get away from it by accept- ing his Cousin Donald's invitation to visit him and his wife in Yorkshire. A | temptation, indeed, it seemed as Jimmie | debated. Good of Donald and Nancy | to ask him! If only he could leave his business, but it was.out of the question. Yet, how tired he was! A vigorous sneeze jerked him up from his lethargy. He must write the and decline their invitation thanks. He did not know it, but that sneese later was to prove a prophecy. (To be continued.) | Wounded in German Riots. LIPPSTADT, Germany, August 17 A —A domen or more men were | wounded during the night in » strect ‘o.mmco—_m-lml | Socialists. Revolvers were brought inio ! play before police restored pence. 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