Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1935, Page 32

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Whites Back. =1 reatuer (oo | EwRE Close Home In Virginia Many Washingtonians Return From Vacations. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Stanley White bave closed their Loudoun County, Va., home and have returned to their yesidence in Washington. Their son, Mr. Charles Staaley White, jr.. en- ined over the week end Mr. Nich- olas Gill, Mr. Gilbert Edson and Mr. Oliver Hayes, who, with their host, attended the Thomas Baich Library | Penefit dance Friday evening. *Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hummer, jr., ose marriage took’ place May 13, | now at home at the Penfield Apartments ca Twentieth street. Mrs. Hummer was formerly Miss Mary Vir- ginia Middleton, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. John W. Middleton. Mr. and Mrs. Webster Holmes, who have been spending the Summer at Lake Saranac, N. Y. returned to Washington last week aod opened their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel for the Winter season. They have with them their three daughters, the Misses Josephine, Mar- Jorie and Barbara Holmes. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mitchell White are now at home at 214 Prince street, Alexandria, Va. Mrs. White, before her marriage June 12 at Elkton, Md,, was Miss Dorothy Alberta Norton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert G.| Norton. Mr. and Mrs. John Hasbrouck Dent are at home at the Lamont, Where they have taken an apartment. Mrs. Dent was formerly Miss Lois Marion Smith of Greensboro, N. C. The wedd:ag of Miss Smith and Mr. Dent took place February 22 in Baltimore. ¢ Mr. Dent is the son of Mr. and @Mrs. W. Gilbert Dent of St. Marys County, Md. Mrs. Dent is the daugh- | fer of Mr. E. Prank Smith of North | Carolina and Philadelphia and the Jate Mrs. Nora Hedrick Smith. % Miss Ruth Marlow, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Morris E. Marlow, has re- turned for her junior year at Russell alge College, having spent her vaca- 161 n visiting friends in Massachusetts | and on Long Island, and with her parents in the Pocono Mountains of Penusylvania and at Skyland, Vd. Miss Anita Schade, her sister and niece, Mrs. and Miss Mueller. have Yeturned to their home, 1529 Rhode | Island avenue, after spending two months in the Berkshires and the Aliegheny Mountaus in Pennsylvania. . Miss Janet L. Cameron and Miss Margaret Leet Innes of Blacksburg, Va., are week end guests at the Dodge. Miss Blanche Aline Grubb. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Grubb, has re- turned to Washington after an ex- tended stay in the West. Miss Grubb s the sister of the late Mrs. Maud J. Grubb Butler and the late Miss Louise ¥. Grubb. Alice Louise Hunter has returned from a four-week stay at Journey's End, Lisa Gardiner’s new Summer | home, near Acworth, N. H. While there Miss Hunter studied dancing with Michael Nicholoff, who has been giving special work at the Gardiner place through July and August. Miss Hunter leaves for Florida to- morrow and will visit Daytcna Beach and St. Petersburg before returning to reopen her studio October 7. Mr. and Mrs. J. Boland of England. who are on an extended tour of the United States and Canada, are guests &t the Dodge while in the Capital. Miss Eunice Harriet Avery of Lorg- meadow, Mass., is at the Dodge for a week's stay. ‘Miss Bertha L. Dana and her sister. Mrs. B. H. Brockway of Allison street northwest, have returned from Atlantic City. N. J.. where they have been #pending their vacations at the Chal- font Hotel. . Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Dorman of 2800 Connecticut avenue northwest, Who recently returned from a Carib- bean cruise on the steamship Colombia, (Continued From Saturday.) But before Carl could speak Bill drewled: “If Fuhrman Wells' impli- cations meant anything, he suspects a woman , . . A woman who was in this room last night.” | Ann remembered Fuhrman's two | pointed questions to Mollie and she | made a hasty mental check of the | women in the room at the time.' He had not included the two girls he had never seen before, certainly. And that left Mollie and Selma Runbrecker. She asked Bill, in all innocence: “Do you suppose he meant Mollie . . . ?” Bill snorted. “It wasn’t Mollie who | had a bad case of weeps the minute Fuhrman left, was {t?” he asked, sar- donically. | “Selma ... !" The word was off Rita’s lips before she realized she had spoken. “Oh, I didn’t mean that,” she said quickly. “I just—" But Carl saved her from her embar- rassment by saying, ‘Fuhrman was unquestionably pointing the finger at Selma. The interesting question is, why did he?” He turned to Bill | “What I was about to tell you may | answer the question. The Senator has | given Fuhrman his notice.” “You're not serious?” Bill said, in- | eredulous. “That's why the Senator sent for me this afternoon,” Carl explained. “I had to do the dirty work—give Fuhrman his notice, escort him off the estate and advise him to stay away from all members of the family Runbrecker. “They had a row, then?” Bill asked, rather eagerly. This was Bill Hud- “son, the newspaper man now—hot af- | ter a story he knew he would never | publish. Carl hesitated a moment. then: “In | confidence—yes. He and Deane had |a run-in. I didn't get the details.” “But why should Fubrman Wells ! call Mollie and report his own mur- | der?” Ann wanted to know. “1 don't know that he did” Carl replied, with caution. | sake of argument, let’s assume that | Fuhrman is another Dr. Chezzlee and that he plans to put Deane Run- brecker out of the way . . . Wouldn't it be a shrewd move to create the im- | pression that he, too, was an intended victim?™ Ann stared at Carl with parted dips, but Bill seemed unimpressed. He sud- | denly wheeled around, picked up his | | hat and moved toward the door. “Let’s | go. Carl. It's late and these girls need time to powder their pretty noses.” When Rita came back from the door she found Ann leaning in the bed room doorway, staring at the floor. “By the wav" Rita said, “Boy Friend Lee came on schedule time and I gave him a song and dan-e about your having an important business appointment. I also said you counted on seeing him at Runbrecker’s tonight. Now say I'm not a pal” Ann gave her head a little toss to express her lack of appreciation of such a demonstration of friendship. Rita went’ into the bed room began to unhook her froek. ‘When she looked up Ann was still standing in the doorway. | “Say—" Rita demanded. “What's wrong with you, anyway? You can't let all this talk of murder get on your nerves, Ann.” |” Not moving. Ann said: “It's not the talk, Rita. It's something inside me. T've felt it all day.” Abruptly she turned and moved toward her friend. | “Let’s pass up this dinner at Run- | brecker’s, Rita.” Rita laughed. “Not even for yo darling. If Selma wants a battle, she’ going to have it.” i (To be continued.) I scn was prepared to admit he had probably been unfair in suspecting Selma of an unworthy mo- tive. She was quite the model hostess and her greeting to Rita, he reflected, had been just cordial enough, with- out restraint, not overdone. And her explanation, confided to Ann and | presently relayed to Bill, was un- | answerable: “I simply couldn’t go_through the INSTALLMENT VL EN minutes after his arrival with Ann and Rita, Bill Hud- “But for the| FEATHER INHER HAT JULIE ANNE MOORE Lee Monday alone had failed to ar- rive. Selma had invited Lee for her- self. To annoy Carl, obviously. And for this she had arranged the dinner. “What do you suppose has happened to Lee?” Ann said. “Wish I knew.” Bill replied. “He isn't the sort to break an engagement without a good reason.” In view of the fact that Ann’s ques- tion had been uppermost in the mind of every one present, it was not so much a coincidence that at that mo- ment Deane Runbrecker hazarded an answer. Under the stimulus of too many cocktails, his high-pitched voice was loud and challenging. Osten- sibly addressing a young Dr. Gardner across the table, his words reached every ear in the room: “I'll tell you why Lee Monday isn't here. He either ran into a pretty girl or he discovered somebody with a stock of good liquor.” Senator Runbrecker glared at his inebriated son and after a moment's shocked silence the subdued conversa- tional murmur resumed in a gallant pretense of ignoring Deane’s outburst. It was some moments before Ann could get Bill's attention, but when at last he looked at her she said in a barely audible voice: “T've always said that where there’s too much money there’s a compensat- ing weakness of character . . . funny you didn’t mention women or whisky when you were selling Lee's stock this £ The corners of Bill's mouth u}m- ened and his right eye half closed. Ann could see that he was a little angry. “Dope,” he murmured. “Can't,you see the fool's ready to slide under the table!” “Some people never tell the truth | unless they're drunk.” | Bill turned to the girl on his left ‘and appeared to be much interested in what she was saying, so much | interested in fact that he was prob- ably the only person at the table who | was unaware of Selma’s sudden exit | from the room and her immediate re- turn with Lee Monday. The first he knew of Lee’s arrival was when Sena- | tor Runbrecker rose from his chair | and energetically clapped his hands. With two exceptions, every one at | the table followed the Senator's ex- ample. Bill rose, grinning, but his | hands remained at his sides. Ann did not rise. got into her in moments like this, | she still could not overcome her dis- approval of what she saw as a cheap | theatrical pretense. What did these people know, or care, about Lee's flight across the country in a séaled | cabin? If they felt anything at all, |1t was not admiration for what he | had done. They were moved, rather, Ann told herself, by a sense of their own good fortune in having this inti- mate contact with a young man whose ! name had been in headlines since he !was & small boy. Though her be- havior made her the most conspicuous | person in the room, she remained seated. ‘They were still standing, still ap- | plauding when Lee Monday came to a point behind the chair reserved for ihlm‘ and Ann, her face iflushed. looked up to find his eyes | fixed upon her. Her color deepened but she managed to nod in response to his pleasant smile. Bill scowled at her when he had resumed his seat. “Say, what kind of woman are you, anyway? wouldn’t have cost you anything to stand up for a minute.” “No,” said Ann, “and it wouldn't Hating herself for the devil that' slightly | It| | withdraw. its flippers. I observed that you did nothing of the kind.” “I had a reason,” Bill mumbled in reply. “You were simply feeding s prejudice.”. “Was I?” Ann smiled at him. “Well, I am a little curious as to why the great aviator was late for the party, if thet's what you mean.” As a matter of fact, she had not given Lee’s tardiness another thought after his arrival, but she knew this reference to Deane’s outburst would | irritate Bill. Immediately after dinner Lee spoke to Bill and Carl and they walked down the hall and shut themselves in the library. Selma was itching with curi- osity as she watched them go, but at the moment had an announcement to make. An orchestra had just ar- rived, she said, and there would be dancing in & few minutes. She sug- gested that while they are waiting for the big dining room to be cleared they go out on the lawn. Selma’s invitations had said nothing about dancing, but this was but one of her little surprises. No sooner had her guests strolled out onto the lawn than three arc lights suddenly came on and focussed on a small portable stage under the trees, and a moment later three bare-legged girls in silk shorts and men's high silk. hats emerged from the darkness and pro- ceeded to prove themselves gxtraordi- | narily good tap dancers. Ann did not join the other guests when they settled on the grass about the stage, but moved off into the shadows beyond. She stood with her back to a tree and thought what a 58 it was to disturb the quiet of this lovely place with a show that had been drawn, obviously, from the city’s night clubs. Presently, while a tall blond young woman with & man’s volce sang “Love’s & Little Liar"—Lee Monaay came up cautiously and struck a match, “Well, how's the little woodiand sprite?” he asked, laughing. The match flickered out. “Isn’t this ter- rible?” “It isn't appropriate to the setting,” Ann said. “How did you like the ova- tion?” She hadn't meant to be ugly, but the question slipped out aimost before she realized she had askea It. Lee chuckled. “What I liked best about it was the discovery that you had the courage to behave rationally. There’s nothing 1 resent s0 much as these little hand-warming acts.” felt his shoulder touch hers, quickiy “I hope you believe that; it’s true.” She did believe it, but even as she accepted his sincerity she retiected that modesty had no place in her preconceived notion of this unusual You Can \ ’ . “Murco’s” time- She | “I'm grateful for that.” “You should be.” She knew he had turned abruptly and was staring at the tiny points of reflected light in her eyes, but she did not stir. "I was afraid you rather enjoyed that sort of thing. And why not? 1If 1 haa your —advantages, I'd probably be a hope- lessly conceited little snob.” She half expected to hear his soft chuckle then, but there was no hint of amusement in his voice when he said & moment later, “By ‘advantages’ 1 suppose;you mean money.” “Money,” said Ann, “in sufficient quantity is an advantage second to none. I suppose I did mean money, primarily.” They watched the deep-voiced blond take her last bow and glide out of the circle of light. A moment later a team of acrobats, two men ana & woman, Tan onto the stage. Lee Monday said, musingly, “You're the first girl I've ever known wno looked on money a&s & hanaicap. Why?” “I have no quarrel with money, Lee.” It was the first time she had used his first name, but it haa come naturally and she knew she would never go back to the formal Mr. Mon- day. “The trouble is, I think, that a man with a great deal more money than he needs eventually tires of the things money can buy. After that, he must either go In for the sumple, wholesome virtues or the dangerous and unwholesome vices.” She sua- denly laughed. *“I shouldn't ever try to explain my prejudices; 1 seem 0 get hopelessly involved.” But Lee Monday sald soberly, know whit you mean. Money's all right, if it's used with gooa sense. | We won't fight over that point oI view. We're in perrect agreement. I won't ask you whether you think 1've tired of the thungs money can buy and have chosen between sunpie virtue and aangerous vice. However, when you know me better, 1'd like to have your opinion.” Ann’s even teeth flashed in the semi-darkness. “We're being terribly serious,” she sald. “Can't we talk about something more interesting?” Rely on tested formula A hundred years ago they made GOOD PAINT from pure white lead, pure linseed oll, pure turpentine and Japan Dryer. Homes so protected defied the years. That formula goes into every can of “MURCO” .. . that is why it, too, is so durable in any weather. Be sure you specify this 1009, Pure product in all Fall painting plans, E. J. Murphy Co,, Inc. 710 12th St. N.W. Natl. 2477 ARTHUR JORDAN PIANO COMPANY "3 will make their home in one of the week end knowing what you and Rita | new residences in the Monroe Warren | must be thinking about my little act | subdivision, at northwest. Miss Mary A. 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