Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1935, Page 34

FEATHER INHER HAT JULIE ANNE MOORE INSTALLMENT XXV. €€ J 'VE pever before run into a case with so many apparent contra=- dictions,” Mollie's friend at po- lice headquarters told her. “To date we've pushed the investigation in two directions, first to trace Well's | movements before he came to Wash- | fngton. In this we have completely | Zailed. 5 “And tnen we've tried to Check the story in this thing you've just read about. The Cairo police insist that| angle of the story is nonsense, and the authorities at Oxford scoff at the §dea that any one answering Wells' description was a student there. Which Jeaves us with just two established facts: The two books mentioned as being the work of Wells, “The Police Are Puppets” and “The Strange Case ©f Dr. Chezzlee,” were published in Yondon at about the time this diary thing says that Wells was there— and the identity of the author was hever discovered.” ¥ ok % X Mollie found Carl waiting at the office. He said Senator Runbrecker had received a ransom note. “Fifty thousand smackers,” smd: «Carl. “The note said they would| gend him instructions as to where, | when and how in the next few days . . . What do you think about it, | Mollie?" “Me?" asked Mollie, shrugging. *I'm like Ann. I don't think any more, but I can't quite get it into my head that Selma was kidnaped.” “And I can't either,” Carl agreed. *Personally, I think the Senator is off his nut.” ™N-As Mollie told Bill when he came | aunexpectedly to the apartment Wed- | nesday evening, things were popping. | Senator Runbrecker had received a Fecond note raising the ransom to 75.000 and advising that he would receive specific instructions before the end of the week. | Carl, who had been on the go night and day since Selma's disappearance, had finally collapsed and been rushed | 10 a hospital suffering from what was yourself. If I've any regret at all, it is that Ann didn’t fall in love with you . . . I think she would have if you'd ever given her half & chance.” * ok ¥ X Lee's telegram, relayed by Mollie, saying that he had been called to Washington to attend a “hearing” and would probably reach the Capital late Saturday afternoon, was delivered to Ann Thursday morning while she was at breakfast. Twice she read the message through, then laid it beside her father's plate, abruptly got up | from. the table and hurried from the room. Ann’s father found her lying face down across her bed. “How come?” he asked, dropping down beside her. “One day you spend a good hour tell- ing me how much you love your fa- | mous young man; the next day you get | a message from him and you blow up. Better tell your old dad about it, hadn't you? Or aren't we pals any longer?” Ann's hand felt around for his and slid into it, but it was many minutes before she sat up and dried her eyes ... there was nothing to tell. She just felt like crying, that was all. Her father got up from the bed. “Then we're all washed up—is that it? From now on there are secrets your dad mustn't know.” Ann sud- denly pulled him down beside her, snuggled into his arms and between sobs told him what was in her heart. She told him of all those things “No Foot Too Hard to Fit"® Wilbur THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935. which had complicated her life during her six months in Washington, of Mollie and Carl and Selma and of Rita's affair with Carl. She told him of her engagement to Lee and how and why she had broken it—and how she had let Lee give her the lovely ring & second time. And last of all, hesitantly and with much difficulty, she told him about Bill Hudson. “Now that I've got it out of my system, let’s forget about it, riad.” She smiled up at him. “You can’t live my life for me, you know. Lee's been marvelous and he—he loves me. There's no out!” Mr. Rogers said after a moment, “This Bill fellow must be an awful boob.” He watched the color rising in her cheeks. “No redzblooded man would stand by and see another man walk off with the girl he loved.” | “Don’t you see, dad” Ann sald | gently, “it's impossible for you to understand unless you knew him. That's why I didn't want to tell you about it.” The day passed and Ann did not tell her mother she must leave on the ILOITOW. “Don’t suppose I could persuade you to go back to Washington tomorrow instead of Sunday, baby?"” her father | said with a grin when he returned from his office. There was to be a | House committee hearing on a bill in which his concern was keenly in- | terested. The hearing was set for Friday afternoon and he had been asked to appear . . . Ann never sus- pected he was improvising as he went | along. “But we can't leave mother here alone,” Ann said. Mrs. Rogers smiled. “When your father says ‘he,’ he means ‘we’ He hasn't been away from home without me since we were married.” Ann’s father took his wife ig his Coon Shoes arms and kissed her and held her off laughing. * ok k *x ‘When the telephone rang early Fri- day morning Rita answered it. Her heart jumped when she heard Carl's voice. “Darling! . . . They said you wouldn't be able to leave the hospital for two or three days. Are you quite "all right?” Carl said he hadn't asked permis- sion to leave, he had simply notified them he was leaving. I'm starting for Chicago with the Senator in a few minutes, Rita,” he sald “It's about Selma, of course, but Il have to ex- plain when I see you. We expect to be back some time tomorrow.” A quiet excitement was in his voice and after he had hung up Rita recalled petu- lantly that he hadn't even sald good-by. “He's probably had instructions to bring the ransom money there,” Mol- lie said when Rita repeated Carl's ‘Too bad you didn't warn WOODWARD 10™IMF om G Smeers Carl to watch his step. I wouldn't care to be shut up in the same air- plane cabin with Senator Runbrecker. If he isn't mad I never saw any one who was.” I imagine Carl can take care of himself,” Rita said, musingly. “You can't possibly think the Senator killed Mollie cut in: “You and I were warned that two persons were to die —and both of them are now -dead. That’s all I know.” “But aren't you forgetting that the | third warning was that Senator Run- “brecker would be killed by falling from the top of the Washington Monu- | ment?” “That was plain nonsense,” Mollie declared. “Have you ever been up in the Washington Monument? 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A truck driver | and his helper told detectives that | they had taken the boxes from a | plane and were given to understand | they had just been flown down from Boston by Lee Monday. The truck- ing company surrendered the letter which had served as their order to do the hauling. The letter was on #tationery of the Senate Military Af- | fairs Committee and bore, as signa- | ture, the name of Senator Run- brecker. Sickened by the thought that Lee may have brought Deane Runbrecker, dead, from Boston, Mollie said. “They’ll want to question Lee now, ‘of course.” “Naturally,” “said Bill. “They're already wired and got a reply. He promised to land at the airport not later than Saturday evening.” | Mollie groaned. “Poor Ann! I sup- Pose we ought to let her know Lee's | coming ahead of schedule.” “For what?” Bill demanded. “She’s etoming back from Elmville Sunday, mnyway. Let her alone. She needn't know anything about this. 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