Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1935, Page 29

» A | 4 (& ~ v n | get her mind clear of whatever it FEATHER INHER HAT JULIE ANNE MOORE INSTALLMENT XV. ty T DEVELOPED that Mollie her-| I self was responsible for the re- | newed interest of the police in | Fuhrman Wells' death. She had been in New York when she read the | suicide stories and had promptly de- cided that somewhere, somehow, the processes of justice had gone askew. On the face of the evidence re- ported in the newspapers the police were justified in recording the case as a suicide. But they could have known nothing of the telephone call she had received, else they would have called her back to Washington im- | mediately. Not havihg heard about | words had been forced out against an | wingjow, that call, they had missed the most | important piece of testimony in the | whole case. When she had received | the call falsely reporting Fuhrman had been murdered, Fuhrman was standing directly behind her and could not, therefore, have been the speaker. | Mollie had almost decided to go | back to Washington at once, but while | she debated the wisdom of this, Lee and Ann had disappeared on their glow of happiness, spent two hours hunting for Bill and finally located him in a place called the Parrakeet. Bill had had more drinks than he cared to admit. Mollie never drank liquor and Bill never insisted. He ordered her a bottle of ginger ale and listened to her jubilant announce- ment with as little evident emotion as it she had informed him of some change in the weather. “Great . . .” he said. Bill's drawled words were spoken in a lifeless voice. It was not the liquor he had drunk. It was as if those almost feeling. It was a thoroughly sobered Mollie overpowering revulsion o | who said after a troubled silence; “I wish you could tell me what it is, Bill. ‘You can’t go on this way indefinitely. You're eating your heart out about something and if you don't get it off your chest, you'll turn up in the morgue one of these days.” He looked it, too. He was thin, “Yes, sir, | that's fine. That's perfectly splendid.” | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, is that's bothering her. Then, if you really lové her, you can come back and make a fresh start.” “If I really love her—?" Lee said. So Mollie, the self-appointed mother of a difficult brood, continued to worry over her favorite chick—con- cern for Ann had momentarily less- ened her anxiety over the increas- ingly troublesome Rita-Carl-Selma triangle—and it was not until the week after Thanksgiving that she went | back to police headquarters. Without | divulging her source of information, | she repeated what Bill had told her. “Selma Runbrecker is a rather pe- culiar girl,” she told the officer, “and | it isn't inconceivable that she may have manufactured the whole story. | But if it happens that she did pla such a thrill for her guests and dis put the dummy ‘corpse’ in the re- | grimly. | fiecting pool—" | “Exactly,” said the officer, nodding, | ! following her reasoning. “A very | important piece of information, Miss | I'll have a talk with all he Runbreckers tomorrow, including the Senator.” From police headquarters Mollie | went to Bill's office and, to her frank astonishment, found him in. “I want you to come up to the apartment | tonight, Bill. No nonsense now; this is important . . . Let’s have a phone a minute, please.” She called Selma Runbrecker and when Selma de- murred she said, quietly, “Be there flight from Elmville, and it was not | there was telltale patches under his | apout 8, honey, or wish you had. until two weeks after her return to | éves and much of his usual fine color | Anq I'm depending on you to get the Capital that she finally walked | into police headquarters, asked for a | had gone. “I've thought about the morgue | | hold of Carl and bring him along.” And into this sober gathering in high police officer she had known for | angle,” Bill said, gravely. “Some peo- | yfq)lie’s apartment came Ann, smiling, several years and told him her story. | Ple can do that sort of thing. I can't. | hyi uneasy and, perhaps for the first | When she had finished, the officer | said: ‘ “We'll have to look around for an accomplice.” Mollie was amused. “You still think Fuhrman killed himself?” “And you won't tell me what's wrong 50 I can help?” Bill's head moved slowly. “Nothing to tell, Moll.” And then, perhaps to get her off the | time in her life, painfully self-con- | scious. | e By tacit agreement, no one men- tioned Lee's name in Ann's presence | subject, Bill told Mollie about Selma’s | ang, though she had regretted a thou- “If I'd seen it, I couldn't be any | Professed confesslon about her little | sanq times that she had not followed surer, Miss Winslow. . | thing you don’t know. We discovered | & dfary in Wells' effects. He planned originally to wipe out the entire Run- l brecker family. Apparently he changed his mind and decided to kill himself to throw suspicion on the Senator. If you know Wells didn’t make that | first phone call, then somebody else is involved, and we'd like to know who it is. But an accomplice is the | most you can hope for. Beyond the | shadow of a doubt, Wells ended .his | own life. If you learn anything of | importance, I'll appreciate it if youj will get in touch with me.” | The weeks passed and Mollie heard nothing more about the new investi- gation. Her work at the Globe was keeping her very busy. Bill Hudson had developed a curious case of melan- | cholia, avoided the crowd, sulked | when cornered and refused to offer any explanation of his strange con- | duct. The case between Carl and Rita | had developed to the point where trou- ble threatened unless he made a clean cut with Selma, which, until now, he | had carefully refrained from doing. | And Ann— | “The one member of the gang I'd expect to keep her life free of mm-i plication,” Mollie told herself in one | of her reflective moods, “and she | turns out to be the most vexing prob- | lem I have.” No sooner had Ann left the hospital after letting Lee slip the engagement | ring on her finger than she had taken 1t off and tucked it away in her purse. She had sworn Rita to secrecy, know- | ing that Lee would say nothing until he had heard it from other quarters, and for three weeks Rita had gone around in a fever of suppressed ex- citement. Then one night when Ann had gone to the library she whis- that's what's eating on me.” he said, with a wry grin. “The Runbrecker female is out to hang a charge of murder on some poor sap. Perhaps I'm worrying myself to death for fear she’ll hang it on me.” Mollie was careful not to let Bill see that she attached any importance to Selma’s story. The next evening Mollie casually picked up Ann's purse and began to dig around in it. “What, no lipstick?” she said, still probing. Instantly Ann started toward her, but by that time Mollie had found the ring and was holding the diamond up against the light. _“Darling,” said Mollie, “engagement rings are made to be worn—not buried in purses” And suddenly she had caught Ann in her arms and kissed her, and since there was nothing else she could do, Ann admitted Lee Mon- day was the man. “I don’t want to stir up a lot of publicity,” she said plaintively. “I wear it when I go to the hospital and I wear it when I go to bed. Later, perhaps—" .. There's one | Joke at the reflecting pool. “Maybe Mzrs, Monday into Lee's room and ‘given her an opportunity to recant | her arbitrary judgment, Ann tried, ! and in a degree succeeded, in restrict- | ing Lee to a tiny corner of her mind. | Sometimes, however, he beat his way | out of the narrow limits she assigned | him and earnestly protested the in- | justice of what she had done, and | once she dreamed they were again | lying on the grass beside the little | stream at the foot of the mountain | on which they had cracked up and | she awoke to find her pillow wet with tears. | November was torn from the cal- | endar and early in December life had | settled down to a quiet routine. If there had been any developments in the police probe, not even Mollie had been apprised of the fact. Rita was going out with Carl as often as he could get away from Selma, and when he could not, he usually man- aged to bring Selma by the apart- ment for a few minutes. Ann did not like these visits, and Mollie told Carl bluntly she preferred that he either come alone or bring Selma up Weeks later, when Ann disappeared | from the apartment, and Rita had reported that Ann was at work as usual but asked that no one try to get in touch with her, Mollie guessed immediately that Ann and Lee had quarreled. She went straight to the hospital to talk with Lee. “I don’t know what happened,” Lee lied. “She just walked in, handed me the ring and walked out . . . I wish you could get hold of her, Mollie.” Mollie shook her head. I wouldn't, Lee. And you mustn't. “I can, but | We've got to let her work it out for | herself. When you get out of here, my advice is that you go on back pered it to Mollie, and Mollie, in a to California and give her time to LAST 2 DAYS To SAVE $20 on This CHAMBER GAS RANG Miss Margaret Mitchell has selected this range for her “Wear-Ever” Cooking School— Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 2 PM. NO DOWN —Hurry . .. 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