Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1935, Page 25

DAILY SHO GUILTY RT STORY- SCENT THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1935. INTERFEDERATION days because congestion makes it too dangerous. Yesterday members of the Prince Georges County Federation of Repub- forts to have death traps uonl t.heI highway eliminated. T ot Only two ministers covering a span WOODWARD & LOTHROP 10™I[™F axp G STREETS PHONE DIstRICT 5300 | lican Women, meeting at the home of | of 10 years is the record of the Third Mrs. B. F. Wade, in College Heights, | Presbyterian congregation of Cooks- | expressed approval of The Star’s ef- town, Ireland. ARTHUR JORDAN PIANO COMPANY IS AlLL YOU NEED $1 WEEKLY PAYS! By Lucia Rausch: IT ALL happened so quickly that I'm still not sure what did happen. 1 was dusting my counter—the per- fume counter in Maplehill's one big department store— as I have done six mornings a week for the last seven years. Before I'd quite finished, the news came Wwhis- pering through the store, from lip to lip, from counter to counter. Mrs. Dufty had been robbed! Mrs. Duffy was the most dearly be- loved old lady in Mabplehill, and she Chickerfng New and Used Marshall & Wendell Like New I controlled my- e Sontrolled ms-| Defense nghway Fight Wil | Here was & mys- Here was o mys-| Be Laid Before Body trating. “I'd have i fathe STl at Next Meeting. s Officer Donavan,”| The combined weight of all civic | I 'nid carefully.| groups in the Washington area may | “I'll let you know| soon be thrown behind the drive for this evening if I|a wider, safer, more adequate Defense | can.” i Highway. Iam glad to re-| molding the present dangerous con- | ;!l;l:::: ;fi;":’ :: dition of the road is a matter of vital concern to residents of the entire ment doubted Mil-| metropolitan district, Stephen James, mxd' She‘wu the| the Montgomery County delegate to only girl in toWn| the Interfederation Conference, said that bought that| he would bring the matter to that Eenr!tv\:meh ;hl'zm: groups’ &ifention at its next meeting. : Mr. James is employed by the Highway Huntington Schubert one in town had| Education Board and is an authority £ committed that|on highways. robbery — walked| The conference at present is com- ntraizht‘ into the|posed of delegates representing the old lady’s bed room| Civic Federations of Arlington and Choose Any New or was blind. There was no one of us who did not feel a chill of dismay down the backbone! at thought of the outrage. Trade was slow that morning, so when Mildred Gary came in for a fresh supply of her characteristic per- fume we had time to chat. Girls don’t come any straighter and friend- | lier than Mildred, if she does live in| the big white house on our {amous‘ maple hill and have the president oi\ the bank for her father. I alufl}s liked to wait on her. { * koK % | “HALF‘ ounce of the usual, Sadie please,” she said, dropping her bag and gloves on the counter. “Have you heard about Mrs. Duffy?” ‘ She began to tell me the story as she had heard it, while I reached down the. square bottle of perfume from the top shelf, where I kept it be- cause it was quality and never used, except when Mildred asked for it. It was a famous French brand, piquant | and faintly lemony, and the price tag| was too much for Maplehill. ‘ I corked the little bottle carefully| as Mildred finished her story. “Any clues?” I asked, hungrily. “One—a plain white hanky—per- fumed, too. Donavan and O'Reilly are quite excited about it all. They'rs going to catch that thief if it takes them all Summer.” “What does Jean think about it?” I| called after Mildred as she started down the aisle. Jean was Mrs. Duf-| fy's granddaughter. | “I haven't seen her today. She stopped in last night to borrow a | wrap. Big date with Harry. She did look sweet. I always think it's such & pity that Mrs. Duffy can’t see he: d she was gone, you was talking girl at cosmetics across the aisle. “He's in jail, you know. Yes,” as I exclaimed, “got run in last night. Lost a good piece of money gambling and there was a fight.” “Any clues,’ * ok | 1 ATE my lunch in record time that day and was running up Mrs. Duf- fy's front steps before my hour was half over. The “law” was back agam after a morning of tracking dowrs| unfruitful clues. “Well, Sadie,” rumbled Donavan. “Just the lass we're a-needin’. If you’ Just take a sniff of this exhibit A—"| and he held the white handkerchief | under my nose. “Can ve tell us what 1t is and who buys it?" The scent was, by that time, very faint, but spirits of ammonia could not have produced a more violent re- action. The handkerchief was scented with Mildred's French perfume! and extracted the small purse, wad- ded with 10 $10 bills, from her bureau drawer with- | out disturbing another thing. * I asked. not Mildred! There remained only the people to whom I might have given free whiffs| at the store or—wait— And, suddenly, the whole mystery lay clear and I wished that the earth would swallow me and my sleuthing noddle. Jean! Jean had visited Mildred last Gone up to her room for a wrap. Jean loved that perfume, Jean's friend, Harry, was in jail, bail. Jean knew her grandmother’s night. house like her own. * X X X T 5 o'clock I turned again toward | said they make every effort to avoid | Mrs. Duffy’s. As I had feared, the “law” was on hand. “Well, Sadie,” bawled Donavan cheerfully, “have ye solved the case?"” “I've a clue,” I said slowly, spar- ring for time. “Clue, girl! We’ve got the money!”| And, fairly crowing with triumph, he dropped the small stuffed purse into my lap. They told their story, one interrupt- | ing the other all the way through. Jean had come in just as I left. She | had asked if they'd looked care-| fully over the yard. Perhaps the| thief had dropped it making his get-‘ tn\ay | “We reconstructed the crime, Sadle, my lass,” said Donavan, pompously. while O'Reilly stood by making little gestures because he could not get a word in edgewise, “and we found the/ thing in the bushes alongside the porch steps, right where the scoundrel dropped it. And can you believe it Sadie—? Mrs. Duffy here wanted us to drop the whole business. After Jeanie left she says to me, worried- like: ‘Officer Donavan, let's just for- get about it. I don't need the money so much!” Can you fancy Officer Donavan closing an eye till he'd fol- lowed a case to the finish? Well | good-by to you, Sadie! And good-by to you, Mrs. Dufty!” I don't know what was in my mind by that time, but I turned to Mrs. Duffy, who sat very quiet in her leather rocking chair, and took bota her little old hands in mine. “Well, dear,” I said, “Happy again?”| That sweet old lady looked up at| me. Her blinded eyes seemed to be trying to see again as they must have tried in those long ago days when the world had first been blotted out to them. She sighed gently. “Sadie,” she said, “I wish ‘twere | | yesterday.” J (Copyright. 1935.) SEAT PLEASANT TO BUY STREET RIGHT OF WAY Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. SEAT PLEASANT, Md., September 11.—An appropriation was made Mon- day night by the Town Council to pur- chase four building lots from George | E. Redding for a street between First | The purchase | | | | | and Second streets. price will not exceed $250. A number of the property owners were warned to make sewerage con- nections to their homes. Unless the| connections are made in the near| future, legal action will be taken. All poultry owners were warned of a | chicken thief operating in the town. Montgomery Counties and the District of Columbia. The Prince Georges| County Federation, which is an ardent advocate of the "improvement of | “Death Highway,” is scheduled to af-| filiate with the conference this month. The sympathetic attitude toward | the highway project displayed by Dele- gate James is expected to be shared by the remaining Montgomery dele- gates as well as those from the other Jjurisdictions, who, after proper in- vestigation in accordance with -the federation’s rules, are expected to join | the Prince Georges County group in its fight for betterment of the road. Several members of the conference, like hundreds of other metropolitan | area residents, have Summer homes at resorts which can be reached only over | the Defense Highway and are thor- oughly familiar with its perils. 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