Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1937, Page 23

PICTURESQUE By G. C. Coler. "I'VE followed the instructions in your letter, Eddie, and disposed of would find the Co- practically every- lonial mansion thing your mother that sheltered old left, except the few Asa Bennett, the personal things I last of the town's knew you'd want to most prominent keep, being the last family, and his two of the Dolans.” aged fer‘vn?u; The gray-haired lawyer went to the little safe and throbbed with busied himself with anger as he thought the combination, of Asa. The old then returned with g skinflint! He had | a long envelope th run down and| his hand, which he murdered his| laid on the desk mother and brother | before the young because he had man. He smiled been too miserly to sympathetically have decent brakes “I know what put on that ancient you're thinking, car he drove! And, Eddie, and I don't of course, the jury know but what I'd feel the same under the circumstances. But you mustn't | feel so bitter about the death of your | mother and brother. As an old friend | of the family, I can assure you that it was entirely accidental.” | Under the tight clenching of his| mouth the little muscles along Eddie’s | Jjawbones stood out in bold relief. “It | doesn't matter what the jurors at| the inquest said, I'm convinced that | old Bennett is a murderer just as sure as I'm sitting here,” he gritted. | “It's just his influence in this town that got him free The old lawyer came around the | desk and placed a thin, placating | hand on Ed shoulder. “That's | no attitude to any one else it same. 1 " he advised. “With | would have been the t old Bennett's people settl town and that he is very influential and has a lot of people under obligation to him. But, | Eddie, those considerations are value- | less in a serious matter like this, don't | you see?” Eddie stood up and eves probed those of the lawyer. “I'd | ke to believe you, but I can’ he | said, heate “If T had gotten my | harge from the Marines six months | ago when it happened, this would have | been a different story!” * %k x "‘\YO. EDDIE, it would have been <V just the same,” the lawyer said. and then tactfully changed the sub- Ject. “Youll find the money and an itemized list in that envelope. I'm sorry you're not planning to stay in Bennettville, Eddie. If you ever need anything you can count on me.” The younger man thrust the en- | velope into his inner coat pocket, next to the honorable discharge from the Marines. He put out his hand. | “Thanks for all you've done for me.” | he said. “I guess I am able to take care of my own affairs now. Do you know when the next train east stops | here?” | “No. 18 is due at 10 this evening.” | He looked at his watch. “You've got about four hours. Have you anything to do?” “Yes, I have a little business to finish up before I leave. I probably | won't see you before I go, so I'll say | good-by now.” “Good-by, Eddle, and good Iluck.| Don't forget what I said.” Eddie | stepped out into the twilight of Center street and turned toward the end of | town, his eyes taking in every detail | of the still familiar street. Even after eight years the place | was still the same. The houses were unchanged, even to the color of the | paint, and they hid discreetly behind | the identical oaks and catalpas that | his piercing | “Have you any | out the heavy weapon and trained it | Eddie had skirted town by a baclk| | street and was waiting for it, a smile | wonderingly contemplating the life- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937. he remembered. At the end of the street he knew he }lls temples A . ything to do? had let him go free. Trust Asa to have something on each of them! Abruptly Eddie turned and retraced his steps to the business section, his mind seething with an unreasoning hatred of Asa Bennett. At the depot | he bought a ticket and reclaimed his luggage momentarily while he rum- maged through it and found his service automatic. At the little restaurant on Center street he coldly reviewed the situation while he ate dinner. There was no compunction in his mind about his contemplated act. In Nicaragua, and when he was stationed in China, he had found it necessary to snuff out lives, but never had the justification been so great as now. His thoughts stopped swirling about his head and arranged themselves in a logical se- quence now that he had made his decision. . * % ok % T 9:45 a heavy darkness had set- tled, and it would be an hour before moonrise, but Eddie needed no guide across the spacious lawn of | the Bennett mansion. Too well he remembered its every detail from earlier days; the rolled lawn and the clipped yews sheltering the Summer house from the street. Eddie saw that the heavy drapes | had been drawn across the library | windows. A light shone softly through | the fan-shaped panes above the win- | dows, and he knew that old Bennett would be there, in the only lighted room in the whole house. Investigation disclosed that from a | position atop the Summer house he could see into the room. And in the dim glow of a solitary lamp he could see the figure of Asa, sitting motion- less with a book in his lap. Eddie’s heart leaped. It was perfect! With a flip of his hand he brought nervelessly upon the unmoving figure. The light was bad, but at 50 feet he couldnt miss! As the sharp crack | of the shot split the still night air Eddie dropped to the ground. By the time that No. 18 came in | on his face. His score was settled forever with Bennett, and he could feel easy now. . All was pandemonium at the Ben- nett place. The shot and the sound of splintering glass had brought neighbors en masse to the spot. And inside old Asa Bennett stood ruefully, sized portrait of himself which hung | on the library wall. | On its forehead, directly between | the eyes, gaped a large, ragged hole. | (Copyright, 1937.) BANKERS LOSE FIGHT l Detroit Grcup Must Pay 1009 As- sessment on Stock. | A large group of stockholders of the Detroit Bankers' Co, failed yesterday in | the Supreme Court in their effort to escape paying a 100 per cent assess- ment on their proportionate share of | the stock of the First National Bank, Detroit. 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