Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1935, Page 28

FEATHER INHERHAT 7 JULIE ANNE MOORE OF PRECEEDING TALLMENTS k i “ ‘Senator Runbrecker at first re- fused to accept the theory of suicide, THE when at last Ann looked up from the paper. Ann was almost afraid to let her- self think anything at all. Last night she would have laughed at the sug- gestion that Fuhrman Wells had killed himself. Yet now, with the informa- tion provided as a result of & feverish midnight investigation, it was as plain as day the man had planned every move of last night's gruesome farce. And no one, certainly, had manu- | factured evidence simply as an ac- Ann Regers and Rits Manley, back In |\, " 0y agreed there Was no other | comodation to & United States Sena. le from college Imville ol s EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, And still there's something inside me that says, ‘Pay no attention to facts . . . Fuhrman Wells was mur- dered.’” “I know,” Ann said. She pushed the paper aside and lay across the bed. “Which probably proves we're both too stubborn for our own good. Having decided it was murder—and heaven knows it looked like murder— we resent having our minds changed for us, facts or no facts.” Ann and Rita had, without actually thinking about it, taken it for granted D. C, they were still at the pool. They all talked at once, excitedly. Some 20 minutes later, when ‘they went out to the street, there were two cars. Ann turned questioning eyes to Bill, but he had already slipped his arm through Rita’s and was moving away toward his own machine. “We're to meet at the Everglades at 7:30,” Lee said when he was under the wheel. “Any place you want to go, particularly?” Ann smiled. “As far away from this town as possible, if you don't TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1835. don’t think I'd choose Los Angeles, anyway. Elmville's nearer and, if you want the truth, I'm homesick.” “Elmville’s the home town?” “Hmm. And it was never more attractive to me than it has been since last night. That's the baby in me. The minute something hap- pens I want to run home to my mother and father.” “Elmville . . .” Lee repeated the word several times, thoughtfully. “That's west of Hartford, isn't 1t?" “Northwest. About 350 miles {rom here, I believe.” girl who, socially, rated zero minus and whose only claim upon his time was that accidental meeting in Mollie's apartment the night before last. “Don’t mind if we drop by the airport for a minute, do you?” Lee asked her. “I'd like to have a look at the sardine can that brought me across the country.” Another time Ann would have been elated by the prospect of inspecting the sealed-cabin plane with its cele- brated pilot as her guide; but now she could not free her mind of the | lap I might propose that you take me up for a bird's-eye view of the city.” Lee turned his head, smiling. His eyes shone. Ann was to come to | know that look of mysterious promise, but now the combination of half~ | suppressed amile and bright, laug ing eyes meant only that Lee Mond: | was revealing himself as & most at- | tractive afid interesting young man. (To be continued.) i e o Christians 3lamed. n Washington. Rita kn Hidson: | explanation possible. Wells, the Sena- | tor who whished to avold unpleasant | that Bill Hudson would stop in some correspondent there for a New ¥ork epeli| tor said, had been suffering from a| publicity. time during the day, but if Ann had Kfiter ‘on the Giobe with hom the Sivaes | mental disorder. The forged note,| But while Ann's reason accepted | expected Lee Monday as well, she had o sty temporarily. | Mollie receltes | oo ether with the fact that the clothes | what was obviously true, she said in|said nothing about it. When they Senator Runbreckers secrelsrs, 1t | on the dummy “corpse” were found to | answer to Rita's question: arrived together Ann asked if they & n 1" Hhe next day the belong to the Senator's son, Deane,| “It makes sense, and it doesn’t.” | felt any 1l effects from their drench- Tame voice phones thiat Runbrecker's son | ¢yrmed the substance of the con-| “That” Rita nodded, “exactly ex-|ing in the reflecting pool. And the eBenn, it dead in ihe, SPERKCTS, 8 Tt"olck | viction that Wells committed suicide | presses my feeling about it. _After | unofficial inquest was on . . . Lee Iin hig heart. A third message Stales Il in an effort to incriminate the Sena- | reading that, I have a doubt Fuhrman | admitted he had been surprised to #the Senator jumped off the WasRREED | or some member of the Senator's| was responsible for all the fake tele- | learn Fuhrman Wells had committed | “that Rita and I begin our careers sirport for the arzival phone calls, for the dummy ‘corpse,’ | suicide. Bill insisted he had half | as Government clerks tomorfow morn- onday. wealthy young | family.” * Saking & blind fight from | “What do you think?” Rita asked |and the bomb—and for his own death. | suspected as much last night when|ing . Just at the moment I 0 1 There is nobody in the apart- they return. Bill seems about then abruptly says good night. locse ends of last night's tragedy and Lee nodded and Ann, studying | she felt no interest in anything beyond In early Christian times the Roman his profile out the corner of her |the immediate possibility of getting rabble blamed the Christians for eye, wondered if he were really in- | out into the country, away from | every untoward event that happened, terested in her—and, if so, why? Not | everything even passingly familiar. even that “Christians dominate the in all the City of Washington, very | However, courtesy demanded some- 5tate and that they are everywhere.” likely, was there a girl who would | thing more than an honest answer For every damage done, the Christians not have considered it a signal honor | and she said, pleasantly enough: were blamed. When the Tiber overe to be invited out for a ride with the| “Of course, I don't mind.” And, | flowed its banks, drought came, an famous young fiyer, to be seen with | feeling that this had been less than | earthquake, a famine, the cry al him in public. But here he was, dodg- | convincing, she added: “If I didn't |arose: “Throw the Christians to the ing his own crowd to go out with & | have to carry that gas tank in my | lons.” mind. I need a chance to pull myself together.” “11,” said Lee, “you don't mind riding in a sealed cabin with an aux- {liary gas tank in your lap. I'll have you in Los Angeles in time for break- fast tomorrow morning.” “You forget,” Ann said, laughing, . s st T - ” - WOODWARD 10 I™F AnD G STREETS ee wakes he does not rouse Ann : T rehids.C Selma. Runbrecker's T 15 iealous of the attention shown by Carl Balmer. Department of The Senator discharges t A dinner - PHoNE DlstricT 5300 ‘and wells dden explosion he {5 dead in | th wire twisted about his neck. A—An amusingly plump pouch threads its handle 2 :l:lfiouc’fgm;’r:?:h e 4 Fall frocks to plan—and Woodward & Lothrop's Fabric Sections are teeming fastener. In suede. $3. with all that is the newest—glowing with rich colors—surprising you with i ! clever new weaves—and delighting you with their variety. You will find here, for instance, these— Notable Fabric Fashions In Silk and Synthetics—Fashion Futures Colors Four vibrant new jewel-tones—selected by the Fashion Jury of Fashion Futures of 1935, the important showing of costume trends, last week, at the Hotel Astor in New York. INSTALLMENT VIIL lT WAS 4 o'clock Sunday morning when Ann got out of bed. went into the living room and turned on the light. She hadn't been | able to go to sleep and it was useless :tn try any longer. She paced the floor | for & time. As she turned on one of “her rounds she saw Rita standing in “the bed room doorway in wrinkled pale ¢ pink pajamas. “ Rita was rubbing her eyes. She “yawned and finally crossed the room and curled up at one end of the ~couch. “I suppose.” she said, “you've | been reconstructing the crim | “Something like that” Ann ad- mitted. “Why did we have to walk into such a mess, I'd like to know. If| . we'd come a day earlier or a day later, or if Bill hadn't met us at the sta- | tion and Mollie hadn't had a welcome party and invited Selma—." | « Ann was walking again, restlessly. | It was not so much what she knew that troubled her as what she did # not know, for no sooner had they dis- ‘ # covered the wire around Fuhrman | “ Wells' neck than Senator Runbrecker » had announced that every one but | # himself and Carl would leave the scene # immediately. Bill had protested at 4 first, but had finally agreed that it , would be worth the risk to save the girls the embarrassment of seeing “ their names and, possibly, their pic- ¥ tures spread over the first pages of the newspapers. So Deane Runbrecker had gone off with his sister, Rita had crawled into Bill's car without waiting for an invitation. and Ann had gone with Lee . .. 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Each season, well-dressed Washingtonians, :x:‘r:‘rnh\:;r:.}y miserable in both mind { whether they make their own costumes or o e (Y men Wells? have discovered a favorite ‘little dress- ¢ How had he or she managed it so maker”—look to Forstmann woolens for news * quickly, and under their very' eyes? of what is smartest. And, this Fall, they v i’(;".mx;/h& e xg:flzmzly;\:flgn.t?e_l will find engaging new weaves, flattering new A B e e | colors, from the sheerest of the dress wool- » Rita stretched out on the couch and ens all the way through to deep piled coat- - pulled & pillow under her head. “Does ings. Colors include: Pinewood and Box- . it mean anything,” she asked languid- wood Greens, Mogador Brown, Corsair Blue, Parma Purple—and, of course, plenty of Sharmure, & smart silk-and-syn- thetic weave. Yard 5 $2'50 S1Lxs, Szconp FLOOR. blacks. 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Well, happy landing, dar- | lng ..." | Ann awoke at high noon to find| Rita missing, but while she dressed, the living room door opened and Rita dashed in, breathless, a paper under her arm. | “It was all & lovely detective story, | *Rita cried, waving the paper. ’rhe: body in the pool was a dummy and | C—A crystal-clear bar, Fuhrman Wells wasn't murdered!” | rhinestone trimmed, £o hall A ked pumed oA ——— serves as handle of a . Rita came into the bed room and | ' é deep suede envelope, for «spread the paper on the bed. “Read afternoon costumes. $3. «it—and reflect on the far-reaching influence of a United States Senator.” Ann bent over the paper, her eyes “roving over the page until they came to rest on the one-column picture of Fuhrman Wells. Then she saw the incredible heading: SENATOR'S SECRETARY ENDS LIFE IN EFFORT TO INJURE EMPLOYER | Fuhrman Wells Reports Own Death, Then Drowns Self in Re- flecting Pool. LEFT MYSTERY BEHIND Police Unable to Explain Presence of + Dummy “Corpse” Found Be- | side Dead Man. , “Suicide—?" Ann said vaguely. i “They can’t get away with that. Fuhrman Wells was murdered—in “eold blood.” * But when she had read the full re- # port, she was not so positive. . . . the | # telephone call that had brought them | #all hurrying to the reflecting pool had | sbeen traced to the phone in Fuhr- #man’s apartment. In a drawer not #3 feet from that phone had been| found a piece of copper wire exactly ! ,like that twisted around Fuhrman's| ineck. And on a table in Fuhrman | Well's bed room had reposed more than & dozen detective story magazines and 8 copy of the suppressed book, “The ! , Fine Art of Self Destruction. Rita put a finger on the paper. “Listen to this, Ann: * ‘In the dead man’s apartment the police found a note which read: “You know too much to live. 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