Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1936, Page 44

WOMEN’S FEATURES. INSTALLMENT XIIL DON'T know what my thou',hts were at the minute I saw you, Riley,” Zelda Lansing confessed. “I'd just gone in I hadn't had a chance to ssk any questions. I had no idea what I was going to find out. And there you were—on the pavement.” “What did you do?” “I grabbed that Hindu by the arm and told him to hide me quick. ‘And 1f a man comes in and asks about me,’ I said, ‘I'm not here. I've never been here’ He was a sport, and so—you missed me.” “No doubt it paid him well,” said Blackwood dryly. “Five dollars,” she agreed and add- ed: “All for nothing.” Blackwood was annoyed. It was all very plausible, he admitted. The sort of thing a silly female would do. “I'm sorry you didn’t trust me,” he said aloud. “We might have got some- where with O'Hara Singh, if I had stayed.” “I doubt it.” She shook her head. “I think he's telling the truth. There ‘was another Hindu, last night, Riley— if there was a Hindu, at all.” “Did you know this fellow was there?” She hesitated. “I'd seen his sign. I wasn't sure of the place—but I found it.” She hesitated again and asked her own question: “You believe me, don’t you?” Riley Blackwood shrugged in what he hoped was dubious fashion. “I've got to—provisionally, anyway,” he replied. “The Hindu is the stick- ing point, You found him rather promptly. Almost as if you knew just where to look—as, indeed, you did. To imagine another one, in the cir- cumstances, is a bit thick.” “That's nonsense, You found this one yourself pretty speedily.” “I know. Don't expect me to be consistent. But, having found this one, you joined forces with him to de- ceive me. A highly suspicious ma- neuver. Your explanation is fairly plausible, I confess. I half expected something of the sort,” he lied. “But you can't expect me to take it with- out blinking.” The waiter returned with their or- ders and for some moments they pecked at them in silence. “You have expressed doubts con- cerning Percy’s alibi,” continued Blackwood, after a time. “But I hap- pen to know there was a kitten.” She stared at him amazed. “You've found a blue Persian kitten>” “A kitten,” said Blackwood. “I'm not a specialist, and I wouldn’t know one kitten from another. Also, I'm slightly color blind. It may.” he add- myself. ed, as if conceding a point, “have been | blue.” “And then what?” said Zelda Lan- sing. “It gets wilder and wilder. Where was it?” “I'll make a trade with you. Where | 1s Percy?” “You think I'm hiding him? what I've told you?” He decided to tell her anyway. After tually see the kitten. I deduced it from the saucer.” She thought it over, then nodded agreement. “You're probably right. ‘Then he was there, Saturday night, and she was with him! When, I wonder—and how long! “You don't know who she is—or may be?” “Honestly, I don’t.” “Ever hear of a redhead named Anne Gray?” “Never. Who is she?” “Percy's fiancee, I think.” Her cheeks crimsoned. ‘That's— not so. Percy and I were practically engaged to be married. I don't be- lieve it!” “You don’t want to believe it,” amended Blackwood. “Are you and Percy still on good terms you see,” he concluded, “I didn’t ac- | “Good enough.” Miss Lansing's an- swer was abrupt. “But -there is another—er—young woman?” *‘Several, I should imagine.” “H'm! Did he know this Rita ‘Wingfield?” “I think so—I'm fairly certain of it.” Her eyes lifted. “Oh, I know he did!” “Have you reproached him about her?” “I suppose so—yes!” He thought again of the letters Dal- writing, possibly?” “Possibly.” “It’s a sweet mess,” admitted Black- wood. “You may have thought you had a motive for abolishing Rita yourself. Well, stick tight to the story you told Dallas Saturday night—for I think he’s found your letters to Percy.” Her cheeks went pale for a mo- ment, then reddened again. “He couldn’t think that I—" unkindly, “you have no idea what thoughts that bulldozing policeman can think, For all T know, you may really have killed the girl—though I think you were almighty quick about it, if you did. Your story hasn't helped to clear things for me. I sup=~ pose you are convinced, at any rate, that there is a connection between the murder of Rita Wingfield and | Percy's disappearance?” She smiled faintly. “I'm afraid I am. It's what started me to investi- | gating. But I didn’t kill her myself, Riley! Probably because I never had an opportunity. I'd just as soon.” “I know,” said Riley Blackwood, “but don't tell Dallas that. Just go home and wait for him to arrest you, if that's what's on his mind. And stick to what you've already told him— that you don’t know anything about it He resolved to startle her again, as he had about the kitten. “Listen, Zelda,” he began, signifi- cantly. “Last night I was on the fire escape outside of Rita's apart- ment. Something was going on in- side—in that back bed room occupied by the housekeeper.? She met his eyes with frowning in- terest, but without visible motion. “What do you mean?” she asked. He told her, then watched the ex- citement develop in her eyes. “Janice Hume!” she sald at last. He could almost hear the pieces of & puzzle clicking together in her mind. ‘Then she was paler .than ever he had seen her before and her hand reached | quickly across the table and seized his wrist. “Then she did it, Riley! What time was Rita Wingfield mur- dered?” “Some time between 12:30 and 1 o'clock.” “And Percy came at a quarter of 1! She was on hand when he artived. But, before that, we were dancing— you remember?” “I was with Janice, myself,” said | Blackwood, “for a fw minutes be- fore Percy’'s arrival. What's on your mind?” “Janice was on that fire escape herself that night—after the police arrived—after you had gone down- stairs to join them. I saw her. I even spoke to her. I thought it was just her curiosity. I went into the | kitchen to sneak a drink of good whisky, after that sloppy punch, and she was just coming back.” “Through the window?” “Don’t be silly! Through the rear door. It's only a step from it to the door in the passage. I looked a little guilty, I suppose, and so did she, but she spoke up bold as brass. ‘T've been on the fire escape,’ she said. ‘I think the trouble’s three floors down. I can almost hear their voices.’ " admitted Black- wood, “in view of what I saw last night. 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I've an ‘open- ing’ tonight—‘Mrs. Hathaway’s Pre- dicament’ at the Criterior, Meet me in the lobby gt . “Eight-fifteen,” said Miss Lansing, briskly. “I'll be there.” At 8:20, however, she was still con- spicuously missing; and Blackwood— cursing himself for a sentimental fool —scrawled her name on an envelope and left his second ticket for her at the box office. Then he went striding furiously down the aisle to his seat in the fifth row. The curtain was just rising on “Mrs. Hathaway's Predica- ment” and a brilliant first-night au- dience had assembled to witness the strange going-on in a Long Island guest house or, to be more accurate, swanky Summer hotel. (To be continued.) e Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Leaders. MOST people have the mistaken idea that leaders “get there” on ac- count of their “will to power.” This will to power is naively accepted as an instinct. Those who have this in- stinct “get there.” Those who don’t have it are doomed to hew wood and carry water, Did you ever consider the reverse? You should always con- sider the reverse of any popular notion. In the present case, at any rate, you will find that the so-called will to power is more likely to be found among the ne'er-do-wells than among the great men of action. They waste a lot of energy trying to get it to work. Many breakdowns are thus created. The truth is that those who become great leaders are likely to bide their time rather than force issues with the aid of a will to power. At all events, the biographies of great leaders gen- erally say that the leader in question simply waited for difficulties to elimi- nate one another. The lives of leaders are full of retreats and compromises. In some cases, great leaders are so contradictory in their make-ups that they are never understood in their day. (Copyright, 1936, Kills 15 Lions. F. B. 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The man who can balance the greatest number of factors i the greatest man., ‘Torun & great nation means dealing with more elements than to zun an sutomobile. Yet it takes compromise to either. All the facts have to be taken into consideration. You cannot exercise free will. You must relate your own wishes with the pecularities of the mechanism you deal with. You must compromise. Final accomplishment should be your alm, Arbitrarily disregard the properties of the materials you have to deal with and you have no chance of survival. Give into them completely, and there will be no accomplishment. The two must be balanced. And that means common sense—moderation—compro= mise. As Edmund Burke remarked: “All government — indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.” (Copyrisht, 1936, “Sent for” BY W. CURTIS NICHOLSON. 'REQUENTLY readers become in- volved in arguments in which they are convinced that they are right. 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