Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1935, Page 31

JULIE ANNE MOORE FEATHER M‘iER HAT SYNOPSIS. Ann Rogers and Riia Mauley. back in Pimviile {rom college. get Civil Service jobs in Washington, where they are met by Bill Hudson, correspondent for a New York paper. He stops at the Globe office 1@ pick up Mollie Winslow. writer of & syndicated eolumn. with whom the girls are to stay temporarily. Just before Bill ealls . mysterious voice phones Mollie that Fuhrman Wells, Senator Runbrecker’s secretary. is lving murdered in the re- Tlecting pool st the Lincoln Memorial, but when she hangs up. Wells is at the door of Rer office. She tells him nothing. bu asks him to her apartment that evening. When Mollie's party reach her home they find there Runbrecker's daughter Selma and Carl Balmer. a Department of Jus- fice agent. Wells has pot shown up at midnight when they are leaving foy the airport for the arrival of Lee Monday stand is why you hate so to admit it.” ' Bill's groan was a prolonged exhala- | tion of sound. “This afternoon you wanted to know what it was I didn’t like about you. Now you talk as if you thought I was nuts about you.” He shook his head | |in a gesture of despair. “Of all the | conceited little saps!” Ann did not move, but the smile vanished from her lips. Had she really believed he was in love with her—or | had she let her own feelings speak for them both? | He’said at last: “I don’t want you| THE EVENING man’s uneasiness, for he said, quietly: “There’s Fuhrman now—and very much alive.” The Senator led the procession. Fuhrman Wells remained where he | was. When they came up to him, he | bowed slightly. Senator Runbrecker said: “Fuhr- man, it’s a devilish thing to tell a man, but we just had a call saying you hed been drowned in this pool.” The man nodded siowly. “Yes, I had a call, too, Benator.” He almost smiled. “However” -~ maliciously — “you're not to be cheated of your fun.” He extended a long arm, indicating a point behind him. ‘“There’s a body— | at the bottom—but not mine , . .” Many, many times Ann was to look A Letter of Credit STAR, WASHINGTON, back on those next few minutes and try to produce order out of the chaos of her memory—without success . . . ‘The funeral figure of Fuhrman Wells had led the way, unhurried, followed by the men—with the single excep- tion of Lee, who stayed at Ann’s side; and, finally, drawn by that all-but-ir- | resistable attraction, the others had followed . . . The order of that awed, silent march Ann. would remember distinctly. And this: That at & point midway the pool’s length, Fuhrmhan Wells stopped and stepped up on the pool's edge and pointed down . . . and one by one they had all found places on that shallow pool's edge, crowded to- gether, and shuddered at sight of that D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1935, grotesque and but dimly visible form | Even with that still form lying at the [ took the inert form from Bill's arms | of & man lying face down on the bottom. So much Ann would be able to re- tell with fair accuracy—but no more. ‘The rest was a hopeless conglomera- tion of incredible impressions . . . the deafening blast . . . Selma and Rita screaming in the water . . . her own | slow, sickening fall . . . the first breath of air (memorable that) after | she had landed head first and the | ll'elllmtlon that it was not Bill who| bottom of the pool, it was funny. and pulled it ashore . . . Senator Runbrecker pacing up and down, swearing by all the high gods that he would have the whole Justice Department on the trail of the man that set off that concussion bomb . . . the rest of them shaking themselves, stamping their feet to get rid oi the water, exchanging sheepish and amused glances, grinning, involun- tarily grinning. And then, even as Bill jumped into | But not | until Carl was about to pull Fuhrman Wells over on his face so that he could pump the water out of his lungs did they see the copper wire wound tightly around the dead man's neck. (To Be Continued.) Rat-Eating Natives Warned. ‘Tribes of natives in the vicinity of Bulawayo, South Africa, who regard lifted her to her feet, but Carl Balmer | the pool feet first, they all seemed to rats as a delicacy, have been warned .« . All of it in memory a messy, nau- | realize at the same moment that by the medical office of health to seating muddle of men and women | Fuhrman Wells was no longer one of | forego their rodent diet. He declared floundering in water not more than | 30 inches deep. It was horrible and it them. Carl and Lee were waiting with out- funny. | stretched hands and together they | deadly that parts of the country are now | plague-infested and the rats carry rms. | B—13 Novel Safety Campaign. Sydney's police chief appeals to every Australian girl to make her boy friend drive carefully. MOTORISTS Wx~0 KNOW- BY. ¥ 1MOTOR O11.. BAYERSON OIL WORKS coLuMBIA 5228 The Fountain Bill's friend. who is making a blind f1ight | {5 misunderstand this, Ann. You're | n Los Angeles. and Mollie is telling of | o > the bhoge message when Wells enfers” He | a nice kid and I like you. I like you| asks “Could you swear that voice did NOt | i exactly the same way I like my | t v this room?" = 'i';“’?,‘.‘%.i‘li:“sé’i.‘in "Becomes ‘ysierical | 16-year-old kid sister. Now don't get A takes Tom the air- 5 Dore and leaves. * Monday artives. Both 80V other idea in your head because are ;'o nr;d’x\’uchn asleep nufi on tv‘hp you'll be wrong if you do.” He paused eouch 32 es not rouse Ann when Te Teaves. A voice phones Hita that Run- | 88 Ann slid her feet to the floor and brecker's son Deane is sitting murdered | sat up. “Be as crazy as you like, he‘ said then, “and count on me in the pinches; but remember this—mentally | and emotionally you're an infant,| Tea Room —in the Downstairs Store serves cooling drinks and delicious lunches at moderate prices. WOOL JERSEY For Oneof Your First Fall Frocks ~~— ~—will permit you to buy more and pay from income. Ask about it in the Credit Office, fifth floor. [ ] G.ST. AT I/ s time to putazcay these lighter shadesand getyourself New Darker Shades in Lady Washington TA.G, ™ ILK HOSE C pair 3 pairs, 2.50 in the House of Representatives. and Lee gets a message that Runbrecker has jumped off the Washington Monument At a dinner given by Seima a message is received that Wells is dead in the re- flecting pool. | while I'm an old war-horse with a | s e " good many violent battles to my credit. | INSTATMENT Y Or discredit, 1f you like.” EVER, never. so long as she Offucrs « o lived, Would ‘Ann'forget- thel:: NOW AnD SaL VELy, erecs, hiet eyes| horrors of that night, her sec- fixed on the road ahead, and she was ¥ 2 alternately cold and hot—cold with ond in Washington. - Bure ot with'sh H 1d she | Now, however, there was mo op-| putt DO W u’ch‘m"rwl"wf"“l‘ '“,; portunity for reflection, for Carl had s: cor::“ m’e ;“ m‘r humn‘:ali "";‘;‘ come out on the porch and he and mp oo | she was not even angry. Could not Bill stood a little way off and con- s = | be for it was all too plain that he versed in low tones. | .. | was right. Rita had warned her: Lee Monday put a hand on Ann's ... arm and ssid solicitously, “Youre| Dils been pawed over by too many ERskin: Wi Hannit Ou 'betteru 3 women to take any one girl seriously.” | ’n"d',‘?: 7 y 8% And she. Ann Rogers, & naive small- o | town girl who knew so little of his Ann :“‘_d“;d'! ]; 1:] gl v and get| o4 had let herself believe— | fuy coat.” ehe foMd him. “¥ou Wou'k [ grs foot wes-en the buake pedal. sun '“'_“ Three cars were lined up at the side L Anddu hat, she nsked‘herself as she | o the road. A fourth was just turn- bl‘nrne up ‘the “’pf" could she have ing out. Already the three men in | en thinking about to ask such &|tne Senator's car had alighted and | ridiculous question BBe et |wee moving o | Jected the answer that instantly sug- . Bj) said, “You stay here, Ann,” and gested itself, but she knew it was true. | got out and stalked off. The pressure of Lee's hand on her|wpen Lee and Rita came along, arm had somehow quieted her nerves.| Ann was standing on the running It had been assurance that in all poard staring back at the last car this excitement she was not for- just coming to a stop. Lee and Rita gotten. She needed some one to be!turned and followed her gaze. | aware of her now, for this ghastly “I thought there were only three thing had come as a seeming con-|cars,” Rita sald. And then a tall, ! firmation of that sense of impending | lithe figure in a ruby-colored taffeta tragedy which had been a gnawing | evening gown jumped to the ground fear all afternoon, and her courage and ran toward them. | had been shaken “It's & party ., . . !” Selma Run- As she passed through the door and | brecker cried. It was for her, it turned toward the stairs, Ann had a | seemed, a party. Her broad smile | glimpse of Selma and Deane Run- said this and more. “Come on, let's brecker standing just inside the draw- | catch up.” She slipped an arm through ing room door. Selma had a hand!Rita’s. “You'll bring Ann, Lee?" | on Deane’s arm and was leaning a Lee and Ann arrived in time to little forward as if whispering. Deane’s | hear Carl protesting to Deane. face was strangely grave and—Ann “It couldn't be another hoax. I'd thought—a little pale. know Bickler's voice anywhere. and “Ann . .. Don't come up. I have Bickler was on that phone. They've your things” Rita had appeared at Probably taken him to the morgue, the head of the stairs, hat and cape but——" Carl's voice suddenly died on, and Ann’s hat and light coat on out and the next moment he was one arm. She came down quickly, a | Pointing. “There’s—who is that . . .2" vision of loveliness peculiarly in har-| They had all been standing in & mony with her luxurious setting. close circle, their attention fixed on “Your hunch wasn't so foolish after Carl; he might have seen a ghost, so all, was it? , . ., Did you hear why Lee markedly did his features change. Yet was late?” it was not for 10 full seconds after Ann nooded. “He told me about they turned that any one of them the message.” She slipped into the I€cognized the tall, thin, motionless coat and followed Rita to the porch. figure standing not more than a dozen o i . yards farther along the pool. | e e el eIl 5814, T ™ Senator Runbrecker shared Carl's R AIR-STEP “Stay here?” Ann repeated and uPrise, he did not share that young suddenly understood that they were _ e Seies not going back to Mollie’s apartment. | They were going with Senator Run- | brecker to identify Fuhrman Wells' | Sleek, dull suede, so flattering to the foot, suede with gleaming patent, and suede with kid are some of the combinations you'll find in these new Air Steps. Sl.lp vour feet into a pair of Air Step Shoes and know what we mean when we say it's like walking on a cushion. The secret all lies in the cellular filler built between the inner and outer sole of every pair of Air-Steps. body! 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K.” he said. “I'll gt my hat.” | Bill said firmly, “Carl's going with the Senator and Deane. That means you'll have to take Rita, Lee.” “‘Of course,” Lee said; but he eould | only stare & moment later when he saw Bill slip an arm through Ann's| and almost drag her off to his car. ! “Shut up,” Bill snapped when Ann tried to protest. “You may be a little coward, but you're not going to ad- ! vertise the fact if I can help it.” He did not wait for her to get in when | they came to the car but picked her up bodily and set her in the seat. Ann told herself that she was furi- ous, that Bill Hudson was an over- bearing brute and that she hated hlm‘ with all the hatred of which she was | eapable. All of which was untrue, for, | unreasonably, she was pleased no end. | Bill would not look at her, but as| they followed the Senator's car out| onto the highway, he told her, “I'll never understand how your mother | could let you come away from home.” He must have taken it for granted | that she was sulking, for when her tinkling laughter quivered above the | roar of the motor, his head came around with a jerk. “And now what's #0 funny?” he demanded. “Oh, Bill—" Laughter was still In her voice as she twisted around in the seat and pulled her legs up ander | her and leaned against him. “You don’t know how funny you are. You disapprove of everything I do—you scowl and growl and quarrel like somebody’s grandfather. 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