Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1936, Page 49

e --'f INSTA!LMENT XIX. HIRTY seconds ticked slowly away while Philip Constantine stared at his companion. His face had gone stiff, like & mask. When he spoke, he gaid: . “You can’t mean it—Riley! Janice Hume murdefed! But, of course, you do.” “Oh, yes. She's quite dead—mur- dered! I've seen the body. Zelda almost saw the woman who did it. 80 did I, for that matter.” “It's horrible,” said Constantine. “Shot, did you say? Like Rita was? Bui why under the sun should any- body—" “She was shot, though I didn’t say s0. No, not exactly as Rita was. But the reason seems fairly apparent. She simply knew too much—or her murderess thought she did. It amount- ed to the same thing as far as Jan- ice was concerned.” He gave the novelist a sketchy his- tory of the crime, together with a summary of his own adventures. In the middle of the recital their tea and sandwiches were brought in. Constantine'’s .eyes were filled with pity. “Poor Janice!” he said. “So I wasn't able to help her—after alll” He was silent for several minutes, while both men sipped, thoughtfully. “Then you already knew it was Janice’s gun,” the novelist continued, reproachfully, as the thought came home to him. “But why did you let me go on with my story of Janice’s appeal to me for advice before telling me of her—murder?” “I knew just that—no more. The vest of your information is new and valuable. Particularly that Janice loaned Rita the weapon that very aft- erncon—just before Rita was shot. ‘We know now that it was on Satur- day that Rita Wingfield met the person she was afraid of.” “Do we?” Constantine drew his brows together. “She didn’t say so. At least, Janice didn’t tell me she said so. You may be right, of course.” “It's obvious. Her nervousness when she met Janice in the elevator, her tears, her feeling that she needed pro- tection. Something had happened to her, just a little while before. Pos- sibly within the hour. Now I won- der,” said Riley Blackwood, “what the devil it could have been!” ‘The novelist was thinking also. “Zelda?” he questioned at last, in a low voice. “She’ll be arrested for it, at any rate—probably has been by this time,” edmitted Blackwood. “She could have murdered Janice. And like any of the rest of us—as you have appre- hended—she might conceivably have murdered Rita. If she did, Percy’s matches are explained quite easily, and even his disappearance. He may simply be taking the rap for her. Oh, yes! Dallas will figure all that out. Personally, I don't believe either one of them had a thing to do with either murder.” The novelist’s lip curled slightly. *The pattern forbids it?” he suggest- ed, quizzically, thinking of their dis- cussion of Rita’s murder after they left Janice’s apartment that night. Blackwood only grinned. “It wasn't Zelda who was in the Wingfleld apart- ment tonight,” he retorted. It wasnt Zelds who ran out on me with that photograph! That woman was the ‘nkrmml redhead, Mr, Constantine, " “You may be right” agreed the novelist. “It's an odd business—that photograph! Well, I'm happy i I have been helpful in any way. I was going to ask you to say nothing to Janice about my handing on her story—but now—"_He shrugged and rose to his feet. “Speaking of red-, heads,” he added with a little smile, “I saw one tonight who would have pleased you. She was at the Cuca- racha with that fellow Colbath, and she was a beauty.” Blackwood’s head jerked around in surprise. “Colbath?” he echoed. “A redhead? By Jove, Constantine! Did she hap- pen to be wearing a white quilted taffeta evening dress and a jade green dinner dress?” The novelist stared. “That's pre- cisely what she was wearing,” he an- swered. “Do you mean that you know her? I met her for only a moment, and I wasn't introduced, but—-" “I'll introduce you,” said Riley Blackwood. He laughed with sudden explosiveness. “Her name is Anne Gray, and she is the reputed fiancee of our missing announcer. I hav been wondering about that young woman for several hours.” “Percy’s flancee!” Blackwood was starting for the entry, but he swung back to ask an- other question. “What time was it when you saw them? They were at the theater when I left it.” “Then they left early, for they came in about 10:30, I think. They were there when I left—a little while ago.” The novelist was puzzled. “What do you mean?” he asked. “How do you know she’s—?" “I have her own word for it. But why the devil did she come to me?” “Come to you?” “I mean, if she’s the redhead, why did she come to me? Sorry, old man! I was thinking aloud. You'd better tell me about her, Constantine. Did you say that you met her?” The novelist sighed. “I met her for a moment or two. It was my bad bill that brought it about. I told you they'd given me a bad bill in change. It was a $10 bill. I suppose I oughtn't to have known it, but something in the way the fellow laid it down made me suspicious of it. I looked it over— and it had a phony look. I don’t pre- tend to be an expert, so I merely ques- tioned it—politely! Then the row st,arted Y ere was a row?” “A little one. Perhaps it was just an argument. In the middle of it the manager showed up and seemed to C-R-A-N-E HEATING SYSTEM Installed by B-A-T-E-M-A-N & S-0-N PLUMBING & HEATING 2212 R. 1. Ave. N.E. Phone NOrth 5682 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO: doubt that I had been given the ten. He was polite enough, but he looked dangerous. Colbath—who was at the next table, looking bored—suddenly asked to look at the thing. I passed it over and he scarcely glanced at it. Oh, yes, he said, “it's & bad one—quite bad, indeed!” And he handed it back to me.” “And that was that,” said Black- wood, with deep interest. “That was that. He’s a good cus- tomer, I imagine, for the manager closed up like an oyster. He admitted that there might have been an error. T got another ten—a good one—and the incident ended. Except that I turned to Colbath and thanked him, and the redhead gave me a very beau- tiful smile.” “Amazing!” said Riley Blackwood. “What's amazing about it?” “The whole episode. Colbsth— Anne Gray—the night club—the en- tire pattern of the thing, speaking of patterns! He was there on Saturday, the night of the murder. Some of the ‘members of our own party went thers after the murder. You and I went there. Now it’s Percy’s fiancee! Don't you feel it, Constantine? A sense of tragic rhythm in it all?” “I'm hanged if I do,” retorted Con- stantine. “Although you make it sound very dramatic,” he added with a smile. “One thing’s certain, isn't it? 'Janice Hume was murdered a little after 8 o'clock. And at that time Col- bath and Miss Gray were in the the- ater. You saw them.” plucked his hat and topcoat from the OCTOBER 1, 1936 NEW TAX PROPOSAL GIVEN TO GITIZENS " | Brookland Group Hears Plea for Diversion of Gasoline Levies and Higher Truck Tax. A suggestion that gasoline taxes be diverted to carry out needed civic Commodore Lopez Dies. ALAMEDA, Calif,, October 1 ().— Commodore Robert Files Lopes, 77, U. 8. N, retired, died in a sanatarium here yesterday. Lopez fought with Admiral Dewey in the battle of Manila improvements in the District or that lmhlmtmhlndlnm' heritance tax could supply necessary revenue was made to the Brookland Citizens’ Association Tuesday night by M. M. McLean, president of the group. McLean said he was opposed to an increase in real estate taxes to raise funds for improvements. At the request of Dr. George R. Ellis a resolution was passed com- mending Dr, George C. Ruhland, Dis- trict health officer. The association’s full indorsement was given to his health program. memo}m of the members, the Public Utilities Monroe street northeast a one-way street. A request for an alley running east and west between Kearney and Law- rence streets northeast and extend- ing from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets was heard and referred to the Commitiee on Streets for action. New members received into the as- sociation since the last meeting are Harrison Hunter, S8am Chicari, Ar- thur Kettner, Louis J. Wegimont, Charles C. Woltel, H. L. Rosenberger and Perry F. Riffey. s Centre College Head Dies. DANVILLE, KY., October 1 (#).— Frank L. Rainey, 69, president of Centre College, died here last night following a heart attack. Rainey was named head of the college several months ago after Dr. Charles J. Turck resigned to accept an appointment as & member of the State Tax Come mission, Riley Blackwood resumed his in- terrupted advance upon the door. 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