Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1934, Page 28

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1934. DAILY SHORT STORY. ‘ GREEN CHIFFON || Murder Will Out, and So Will Faithlessness as Paula Dis- covered to Her Horror. BY PAUL MAURICE VEST. AULA greeted her husband with a per- functory kiss. “Late again, Aas usual,” she com- plained, “and you know we are ex- pecting guests im- mediately afcer dinner.” “Sorry.” he re- plied, patting her arm. “Had a dif- ficult analysis at the laborato crime - dete case. Won't let it happen again.” A bit of green chiffon protruding from his coat pocket attracted her attention. Her eyes narrowed. Be- fore he was aware of what she was doing she had grasped the bit of cloth and removed jt. It was a woman's trailing green chiffon handkerchief, such as is worn with an evening gown. “Well!” she cried accusingly. step- ping back from hun and flaunting the handkerchief in his face. “May I ask just what you are doing with this?” He from her his pocket. irritated. “Paula, find you and your “OH FORGET IT." snatched the bit of chiffon and stuffed it back into He appeared the least bit I'm beginning to you reason to b faithful to you My ve enough worries with one jealous woman. I think I should go mad with two. Come, don't be a silly little goose.” Her eyes were two green slits. “I demand that you tell me where you got that handkerchief,” she stac- catoed in a shrill voice “Well, well,” he raised his eye-| brows quizzically. “I don’t know as I like that word ‘demand.’ I told | you I was entirely innocent—that | should be sufficient. You know a | chemist in making analyses some-} times has stranger things in his pos- | session than & woman's handker- | chief.” | “Don’t try to evade the issue” | she cried hotly. “I am still waiting for you to tell me whose this is.” | He did not speak for a moment, | but seemed to be studying her. “Do you know, Paula.” he said quietly at last. “It seems to me that you are always a bit too eager to attach | suspicion on me. Sometimes it makes | me wonder if you haven't something | to hide yourself. Perhaps were you | to find me guilty of an indiscretion your own guilt might seem to be less. She bit her lip. but did not reply. | “Now let's forget all about it,” he gaid. “I'll tell you about the hand- kerchief after our guests have gone. | In the meantime keep vour pretty hands off it—one never can tell when one is playing with dynamite, you know.” He pulled off his coat and tossed it on the bed and commenced untying his tie. “Oh, by the way,” he said casually, “I suppose Hal Brom- ley is among the guests this evening, | isn't he?” Her eyes followed as he strode to the bath room for his shower. “Why— of course,” she faltered. | “Yes,” he replied, closing the door. | “Of course.” | From the bath room came the sound of running water. For a moment she stood undecided by the bed. Then with a quick movement her deft | poison used in & murder case. fingers dipped in- side the pocket of the coat on the bed. fished out the green chiffon handkerchief and thrust it into her bosom. The guests were gathered in the living room, talk- ing. Paula could sec them from the music room, where she was softly play- ing a Chopin noc- turne on the piano. Hal Bromley was standing beside her, leaning over the piano. He looked down at her and smiled. When she had finished the num- ber she stood up.! “I'm as dry as a cactus,” she cried gayly to her guests. “I'm sure every one else is, too—Hal is going to teach me to concoct his famous Martini.” “Splendid,” her husband laughed. “No one can make a Martini like Hal—it's his second-best accomplish- HAL LAUGHED. chenette door swung shut on Paula and Hal. She looked up at him quickly. “Did you hear that?” ed. “I'm sure he is beginning g her words in a kiss to be so near to you and not have you in my arms.” | “We mustn't, not here” she whis- | pered. frightened. pushing him from | her ome, hurry, help me with the | cocktails.” She thrust a bottle of olives into his hands. He pulled and twisted at the pat- ented metal top of the jar. “Damn!” he exclaimed suddenly and grasped his finger, which was dripping blood. She ran to him. “Oh, it’s bleeding she exclaimed. Thrust- hand into the bosom of her ss. she pulled out the green chiffon \andkerchief. “Here” she cried “Wrap this around your hand until I get a bandage.” He wrapped the bit of chiffon about his bleeding finger. She ran to the | medicipe chest in the bath room. | With a roll of gauze in her hand | she pushed open the kitchen door: dropped the gauze and stood sfixed. “Hal!” she screamed. He was lying on the kitchen floor beside | the table, his eyes wide open and | staring. She ran and knelt by his side. The guests had heard her scream | and were crowding out into the kitch- | enette. “Call a doctor—quick.” she cried. “He's ill. She raised her frantic eyes and saw her husband staring at Hal. His eyes were focused on the green chiffon handkerchief. “It's too late for a doctor,” he said heavily, “Hal | Bromley is dead.” i The guests looked at each other, | startled. “Oh, no! no!” Paula screamed. “I say he's dead!" her husband repeated dully, still staring fascinated at the green chiffon handkerchief wrapped around the man's finger. “I told you to leave that handkerchief | alone. It was saturated with a deadly | I was | to make an analysis from the hand- kerchief.” (Copyright. 1934.) Tomorrow: “Laugh Wrinkles,” by Randlyn Caylor, deals with a| loquacious beauty parlor expert who gave out love advice too freely for | her own good fortu: KNOX VIEWS 1935 “YEAR OF RECOVERY” Chicago Publisher Says Immedi- ate Future Depends on Trend in Washington. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 5. — Col. Frank Knox, editor and publisher of ] the Chicago Daily News, yesterday en- visioned 1935 as “the year of re- covery” if the national administration charts a conservative course. The immediate future, he told mem- bers of the Chicago Rotary Club, is dependent wholly upon whether the trend in Washington is toward the side of a balanced budget, a stabilized dollar, restoration of competition in business, elimination of restrictions on agricultural production and re- establishment of business confidence, or whether it is toward legislation in- Lansbu By Appo volving greater expenditures, control of business and further cur- tailment of farm output. “If the former course be the one pursued,” he stated, “the ensuing con- fidence plus the natural forces of re- covery will make of 1935 the year of recovery. 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