Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1931, Page 24

DUreL] CHAPTER XXIV 1 MARJORIE MARRIED! " IMMIE met Richmond by ap: pointment at_police headquarc and noticed that he looked much happier than when he had last | seen him at the time of Green's| confession. “How is Green?" he in-| quired of the superintendent. “About the same,” he replied, theni adding, “Mr. Haswell, I do want w‘ thank you for your help, for we were ® bit at sea. I am grateful to you. Jimmie smiled his thanks and then told him that he had come to read a Jetter that had just come. After Rich- | mond had dismissed his assistant, Jim- mie unfolded the communication and | xplained. 5 ’EThls," he said, “is from Miss Mll‘-‘ Jorle Blake, or, at least from the lady | we knew was Miss Blake. She is now ; Mrs. Richard Stirling.’ | “Mrs. Stirling? Well, I'm blasted. | Why was she carrying on with Dr.| Netherton?” There was no doubt as | to Richmond's surprise. | “You must not forget that they de-‘ nied what you call their carrying on and I warned you it would explode your case against the doctor if it hap- pened that he and Marjorie did not | want to marry each other.” “So it was Stirling! That - means when he went there that night in his car_he had really come to see her?” | “Perhaps,” suggested Jimmie, “you'd | better hear the letter.” = Richmond agreed and Jimmie unfolded the sev- eral sheets of paper dated from a ho- | tel at Dover. | “Dear Mr. Haswell,” the letter be- gan, “by the time vou get this, I shall be Capt. Stirling's wife. Green's confession has made our marriags pos- | sible, but both Dick and I feel that there are things we should tell you. “My main object is to explain about Dr. Netherton. First, it is necessary| to remember Aunt Annabelle’s views | as to marriage for Evelyn and myself. | That explains why Dick and I had eep our love secret. | Dick was disabled and could not do much to make a home. I always thought that Aunt Annabelle would | provide for Evelyn and myself. Dick and I did not want to lose our hap- piness, yet we did not wish to lose | what she could do for us. “Then, somehow, I thought of Dr. Netherton. I knew that I could not tell Aunt Annabelle of my love for Dickle, but I recalled that his father had been her physician and that he had inherited the professional stand- ing and influence that sometimes give | one the right to speak in matters of | this kind. It was not easy to ask him | 1o intercede for me, but we had alway: been pals, and he knew of Aunt An- nabelle’s views. “On the night that Aunt Annabelle was killed things came to a point. I waited for him while he was seeing Mrs. Frater and then took him into | the garden. Aunt Annabelle’s words made me desperate. Why she said that we should get nothing when we married, I don't know. She may have suspected something between me and Bill, or it might have been only for my benefit. Anyway, it determined me, and I went to the bottom of the garden with Bill and told him every thing, of our love and our desire to marry—but at the same time to avoid | Josing the things that Aunt Annabelle could do for us. Though Bill and Dick had never been good friends, Bill said he would help me. “So that is what Bill and T were talking about. I don't blame the po- liceman for being suspicious, but I did not_feel we could reveal our secret.” “Pretty cunning to get out of it like that,” commented Richmond, “but now we know the truth we can forg.ve them.” | “Then Bill left me” the letter co: tinued. “I did not tell him that I was expecting Dick to come along. After 1 waited a few minutes, I thought I had better see if Aunt Annabelle was ready to go in. You know what I FAMOUS VICKS VAPORUI S | have been an accident. | toward the house. THE EVENING found. Despite her hardness, I was fond of my aunt and it was terrible to discover what had happened to her, although I honestly thought it must “Dick is not a liar, but he did deny that it was his car at the bottom of the garden. That was wrong. It was his car—and he is anxious to put the untruth right. “Dick must have reached the bottom of the garden shortly after I left it, and then, as I did not come, he went He was coming through the Dutch garden and he ac- tually saw Aunt Annabelle lying on the ground with the broken figure be- side her. ‘Then, hearing voices, he slipped into a covered place and could hear me tell Evelyn and the others what I had found. His first impulse was to join us—but how could he ex- | plain his being there? Finally he de- cided it would be best to get away. So | Green saw a car when he crossed the | links and it was gone when he came back. No doubt he made the most of it to divert suspicion from himself. “When I heard a car had been seen, I knew it must have been his, I was horribly frightened, although I would not allow myself to suspect him. Bill was splendid all the time, refusing to say anything that would make things | worse for me, even though his refusal | made them drag him into it. After the | funeral Dick and I decided to marry as soon as possible. I telephoned 'Bill about it, but he advised us to wait un- til things were clearer. I felt happier than in many day: “I was at the Netherton: ‘phoned,” said _Jimmie. after that that she seomed m ful, but I could not guess the exact | reason.” | 1 observed it too,” said Richmond. | “I put it down to the effect of the | will. She stood to get a tidy fortune.” | “She refers to that. Apparently she had left home before it was discov- ered. 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Phone Potomac Morgan told her the conditions would not be binding, she would have at- tained her end some other way, but Green's wicked act prevented her do- ing _so. want you to do what you can to prevent people thinking wrongly about Bill Netherton. I do not mind what is sald about myself. “Give my love to Nancy and Don- ald, and thank you, Mr. Haswell, for g 3 all you did. This long letter has been | written a bit at a time. So now I can sign myself “Sincerely yours, “MARJORIE STIRLING.” “So that's that,” observed Richmond | as Jimmie concluded. “It clears up a | good deal. - However, the talk about Netherton can't amount to much now that we have the guilty party.” “That,” said Jimmie quietly, “that is where you are wrong.” “Wrong, am 1? You suggest we can help Netherton? How is it to be done?” “Where you are wrong,” Jimmie con- tinued, “is in saying you have the guilty party and the truth is known Your view is that Green killed Miss Querdling and that his conf: s the matter bevond doub “Certainly, I suspected him from the fi and his confess only confirms what we already knew “The Iotter I had .just read you is| important | on! part, the much less part, of my reason for comir to you this morning. What I e “MADE-TO ession set- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. to tell you is this—Edward Green did not kill Miss Querdling, and he did not | confess. The confession is a forgery {and he himself is the victim of at- | tempted murder.” | (To be continued.) GEN. FULLER.TO LEAVE ON TOUR OF INSPECTION | Marine Corps Commandant to Sail Monday at Hampton Roads for West Coast Posts. Maj. Gen. Ben H. 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