Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1936, Page 27

§ == S INSTALLMENT X. I ND are keeping still about the arrest?” Blackwood A shook his head. “I don’t think so, Miss Gray. It's possible—but I doubt it. I'll find out, of course.” He asked a question with some sharpness. “Is that what you are principally afrald of? That he committed this crime?” “I don’t know.” The answer came slowly. “It—crossed my mind—of course. But I don't believe it. I can't believe it. He may be dead. T've tortured myself with everything it was possible to think.” “Did he ever mention this Wing- fleld girl to you?” “Never.” “Do the police know that you exist?” “I ean't imagine how. Do you mean—did I call them up? I didn't.” “Why did you come to me?” “Your name was in the paper. I heard him—Percy—speak of you. Your interest in—crime.” “Not flatteringly, I should imagine,” smiled Riley Blackwood. “We fainte ly—er—despised each other, I'm afraid.” He began to pace the room. The ghost of the “Habanera” was on his puckered lips; but no sound of that bright melody was heard. He paused in front of her. “Who are &/ VINCENT STARRETT 37 p 33 ‘o‘.' i his notion that they were Rita's. “I suppose you ought to go to see them— the police, I mean. However, there’s no rush about it! I'm-—er—slightly looking into things myself. And, after all, you may hear from Percy before long. More likely you than any one else.” “Mr. Blackwood,” she cried, “where is he? Where can he be?” Mr. Blackwood endeavored to or- ganize his thought. His ideas, he realized, were somewhat raddled. “I don't know,” he confessed. “If you hear from him you must let me know at once. You've given me a number of things to think about. I've never believed that he committed the mur- der, if it's any comfort to you.” As he looked at her now the light was shining in her upturned face and striking with lambent radiance upon her braw. Mr. Blackwood ex- perienced on ugly shock. “Um—er—Miss Gray!” he finally said, “is it possible that you have red hair?” She seemed surprised and troubled, and her hand pushed upward to touch the tawny masses under her ridiculous hat. “Why,” she replied, “I suppose I have, Mr. Blackwood—if you can call it red. But it isn't so very red, you know. And what difference does it make?” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Mr. Balckwood was dismayed. He took himself in hand with earnest discipline. “Forgive me!” he begged. “I have an appalling sense of humor. It is simply that I adore red hair. Be quite certain that I am as eager to find Percy Jones as you are. And thank you very much for coming to me.” But he knew that she was suspicious of him when she went away. No more suspicious, however, than he was of her, Did she know that also? If she were not as innocent as she ap- peared to be, there was no doubt ‘whatever that she did. “If she's the redhead who drove off with him in her car, I'm willing to admit she may have private informa- tion. If she isn't, she's simply fright- ened.” “Percy may even have jumped in the lake! That wasn't what she meant, of course, but—" “He may,” admitted Blackwood, “but it strikes me as slightly unlikely. Percy isn't the sort to take his own life—in any circumstances. He values it too highly. One thing seems fairly certain, .though. Either Percy's guilty or he's beimg framed. I don't believe those matches were an accident— without bearing on the murder. And considering all the circumstances, in- cluding this last one, his disappear- ance is fairly well established.” “He may have been kidnaped,” ‘Widdowson suggested. “He may,” agreed Blackwood, “But he may also be keeping out of sight, and doing it deliberately. He didn't commit the murder, but he’s in- volved by it—somehow! He's been framed, and he knows it.” Blackwood shrugged. ‘“Anyway, Tony, as usual, I want something. You're a hotel man. I want you to look into a hotel for me” - “yes?” “The Wyoming. Will you do it?” “Oh yes,” said Widdowson, “I'll do it. But I wish you'd leave these mat- ters alone, Riley, when they don't concern you. For the love of Mike, what do you care what's happened to Percy Jones?"” “Not & hoot,” admitted Blackwood cheerily. “If he's been silenced, then he's the first of his tribe. And his silencer should receive a medal. ‘Pub- lico consilio pro re in camera gesta’— eh? By public acclaim for a deed ac- complished in private! I hope you re- member your Latin.” “Why not drop it, then?” Widdow- son ignored the persifiage. “Just the old hound of justice on the trail again. The old puzale- solver, Tony. I'm adding this case to my collection.” “And the redhead, too, perhaps?” “What a disreputable mind you have, Mr. Widdowson!” “She may be the redhead, at that, D. C, you know.” NEW STORE HOURS Effective October 5th “You mean Miss Gray? I recognize that possibility, my dear man.” “What about Zelda Lansing?” “Well, what about her? Are you suggesting that she, too, may be the redhead? It isn% possible. She was around at Janice Hume's party most of the time. She doesn't fit into the time schedule.” ‘Widdowson looked at him over the rim of his cup. “Her appointment with the Hindu is surely very sus- picious.” “Very, indeed!” “She may very well have had a paper of Percy’s matches,” continued ‘Widdowson, “and if she did—" Blackwood interrupted with some violence. “Of course, Tony!” he ex- claimed. “What an ass I've been! Of course she may. She may have furnished them for the purposes of the frame-up. I was so proud of my confounded deduction that the red- head got them in the car that I over- looked it.” Tony Widdowson was pleased with himself. “Any other little thing that you would like to have explained,” Neighborhood Stores of ® Low Prices Quality Foods Courteous Service Convenience MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1936. he began, “just call on the old hotel man. In addition to my other duties, 1 may find time occasionally to in- struct you s little in——" He put up an elbow in self- “All right, all right! I'll see what I can find out for you. You want to know, of course, anything at all that I can discover about Miss Gray.” “That’s it, precisely. Where was she after 7 o'clock last night? That's the imporiant question. Even more im- t: Where was she bztween 11:30 and 1? Do you want to see & show tonight?” ~“I do not,” said Widdowson. He added, “Of course, you reslize that in only one possible circumstance can Percy have been the victim of a frame-up. That is, if the matches were placed there deliberately. There are a hundred other explanations of their presence, sll perfectly innocent.” “A thousand, at least” amended Blackwood. “But the indications are that none of the circumstances sur- rounding this affair are innocent. For that matter, there is only one possible circumstance in which Percy can be believed guilty of the murder—that 1s, that after committing it he accident- ally left the matches there himself, Let it's precisely what the police be- ve.” In excellent spirits he took himself off to the studio and listened while some singularly obnoxious entertain- ment was dished up for a multitude of invisible citizens, who, upon the whole, deserved no better, (To Be Tontinued.) Three-Week Strike Settled. SAN FRANCISCO, September 21 (P).—The Warehouse Men’s Union yesterday announced settlement of a three-weeks’ strike against the F. W. “Talk about values, look at these | LJ Early Aircraft. One hundred years ago, in Prance, an airship was built with an en- velope of 98,000 cubic feet gas ca~ pacity. Suspended beneath the en- velope by ropes was a long car, to be rowed through the air by as many as 20 oars worked by manpower, They never got that far though, for it proved too heavy to rise, REAL HELP FOR EXTERNALLY CAUSED IMPLES Relief comes fast for unsightly pimples, rashes, itch and tor. ment of eczema and other skin irritations, Start treatmen tonight. Ointment25c, Soap25c. cUTICURA SOAP cnd OINTMEN you, Miss Gray?” he asked. “I mean —what do you do? How did you meet Percy? And 30 on2” “I am a student—at the Art In- stitute. But my home is in Indiana. I live at & hotel here—the Wyoming. I write a little, too. I wanted to do some work for the radio, if I could. So I wrote a letter to Percy—to Mr. Jones—and he invited me to meet him at the studio one evening. 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