New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1929, Page 14

Mildred Lawrence meets and falls " in love with Stephen Armitage. He is lured away from her by Pamela . Judson, whe tells ‘him that Mildred is trying to marry her brother, Har- old, for his money. Harold loves Mildred but he is in deadly fear of Huck Connor, who has a check which he forged. Huck is infatuated with Pamela, who plays with him to' make Stephen jealous. Believing that Mildred is a cheap little fortune hunter, Stephen per- mits Pamela to announce their en- | gagement when she tells him that is | the only way she can break ‘Ith‘ Huck. Infuriated, Huck frames Ste- | phen for the theft of an auto und;‘ plants evidence in his room which causes his arrest, Pamela breaks the engagement, but Mildred goes to see him in jail and promises help. Harold has confessed to Mildred once that Huck was the cause of his fear and that he was going to “get Armitage” to keep him from marry- ing Pamela. With thinasa clue after Stephen’s arrest, Mildred determines to force Harold to tell yhat he knows about Huck. Meanwhile, when Huck makes new demands on Harold. he defies him and tries to fight. Huck hurls the bey through an open window to death below. He makes a get- away and the death is called acci- dental. Duke Broggan warns Huck that the police are suspicius. Mildred | tells Stephen what Harold had told her—but they have no proof and things seem hopeless. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) CHAPTER XXXIV Mildred was speechless with ex- citement. 8he watched Stephen with | “There isn't any evidence against him. But we may get it, and when we do I'd like to be the one to go after him.” “If_you weren’t too stubborn to ask your family to bail you out of here you could de some detective work yourself,” Mildred said tricki- ly. “No." Stehen was resolute. “I'm afraid my mother couldn’t stand the shock.” Mildred sighed, and got up to go. “I'm late,” she said, glancing anx- iously at her wrist watch. Back at the office she showed a more cheerful countenance than they'd seen her wear for some time. But as the days passed and Ste- phen’s lawver made no progress in his effort to tie Huck up with the automobile thefts, her lowness of epirit returned. Stephen tried to pretend that there was yet a great deal of hope, but Mildred knew that he was dis- couraged. Nothing had been gearn- ed of Huck except that he had been a heavy spender, Huck never had mixed his low- brow acquaintances with his high- brow victims, And since his depart- ure from the Judson hotel and it was not possible for Stephen’s lawyer to have him shadowed, nothing could be learned of his connection with | Duke Broggan and Ras Poperlin. Finally, because she saw the hopelessness in Stephen’s eyes deep- en, Mildred decided to appeal to Pamela to help him. This time she did not risk a re- buff. She entered the hotel at noon and went up to Pamela's rooms without having herself announced. She rapped firmly on the sitting- room door and set her foot in readi- the parted lips and wide-open eyes |18 to enter as soon as the door of a person utterly overcome.He took a few more strides up and down and | then paused again to go on with his disclosures about Huck Connor. “It waa out in Indmna,” he said; “in my home town. You know 1 worked for a big distributing agency out there. Well, I had some half- baked ideas to get out of my sys- tem.” He looked at Mildred sheep- | ishly, but she nodded sympathetical- ly. He went on then to tell her about the cars that had been stolen from his firm. “But I'll bet your idea helped to | sell a Jot more,” Mildred declared defensively. I can see how it would work. A man buys a car and just because it'a his it's one of the best. By the time he'd driven one of your cars & few miles all by himself he | thought he owned it. T think it was | & marvelous idea, Stephen.” Btephen puffed his chest a bit. “Well,” he said with a trifle of re- luctance, “I thought it was pretty | good: myself, and it worked too, until Connor and his gang . . ." “Huck! “He's a erook all right, Mildred. We didn’t suspect him them, but I'm wise now. A week or two before the big coup was pulled off he drop- ped in to look at our cars and some- one told him about our honor sys- e sald he'd. prefer & demon- :ki. and & man vent along with him. He didn't'buy and T heard the | salesman grousing about fit. T only | ‘got & couple of casual looks at him myself. That's why I didn’t recognize | ‘him when I saw him here in New York,” o o 0 “Can’t he be arrested?” Mildred aske8 breathlessly, i was opened. The maid who answer- her abrupt and almost forceful en- try. “Is Mias Judson in her bedroom 7" Mildred asked, and the maid nodded | ed her summons was taken aback by | before she could collect her wits, Mildred stepped quickly over to |the bedroom door and thrust it wide open. As she had hoped, Pamela was not yet out of hed. She was having her breakfast as usual. She did not look up until Mildred appeared be- sidé her. Then she set her coffee cup hastily back on the saucer and drew herself higher on her silken pilows with a gesture of anger. “Don’t Bother to have a tantrum,” Mildred said coolly. “I've come to talk to you about Stephen.” “Your nerve is * ¢+ Pamela be- | gan, but Mildred stopped her, “Coloseal,” she supplied. “But you'd better listen to me, Pamela, unless you want to go on being r sponsible for an innocent man's be- ing in prison.’ Pamela was too astonished to give the order to have Mildred eject- ed. Mildred had planned her attack with that object inatew. She turned to the maid who had followed her to the connecting door then back to Pamela. - “Dismiss her,” she sald curtly, *“unless you want the whole place to know what I've got to say to you" Pamela waved a hand to the mald and told her to close the door and wait in the next room. She was more than a little afraid of Mil- dred’s determined manner. “Do you know why Stephen is in jail Mildred began at once. i to Mr. Judson . . |agony for years with ailments aris- Pamela shrugged. ‘Because he's a thiet, I presume.” she said sneering- ly. “You know he isn't,” Mildred charged. “He's there because “uck Connor wanted him put out of-the way." “Really?"” Pamela her interest was aroused. “S80 he'd have a clear field with you,” Mildred went on in a rush. “Your conclusions are interesting | but insolent,” Pamela remarked, and daintily picked up a bit of toast. ; “Oh, you fool!" Mildred cried in exasperation. “Did you honestly be- lieve that you could play fast and loose with a man like Huck Con- nor?" “Now see here,” Pamela snapped, “you can cut the rough stuff or get out.” “If the truth hurts I can't help it,” Mildred retorted, “but I didn't come here to quarrel with you. I want you to help Stephen.” “Oh, you want me to help Ste- phen,” Pamela mocked. “Because you're the only ¢ne who can,” Mijldred broke in before she could say anything more, “If you | hadn’t flirted with Huck Connor Stephen wouldn't be in jail and 1 want to tell you that unless he gets out pretty soon you're going to find yourself in trouble.” o . drawled, but now definitely “Are you threatening Pamela asked incredulously, “No. Only warning you. Stephen knows that Huck is a thief and I'm sure that he hasn't gone o far to stop now. He wants you, Pamela, and if I were you I'd want a man like Stephen arourd to protect me.” “Aren't you clever?” Pamela laughed. Mildred bit her lip. She was re- luctant to speak of Harold to Pamela. 8till if she could not lell me?” “I'm not clever, Pamela,” she said quietly, ut I believe that Huck is a dangerous man. A man who would not hesitate to do murde‘lt it suited his purpose.” She was totally unprepared for the effect of her words upon Pamela. The girl's face blanched instantly and Mildred could see the shiver that ran over her slim body. She saw. too, that Pamela’s ey were rimmed with dark circles and that her lips looked pinched. She was staring In surprise when Pamela cried out suddenly: “Murder, oh, my God!" and buried her face in her hands. Mildred rushed to her side. “What is it?” she cried, “Oh, Pamela, do you know 2" Pamela dropped her hands from her tear-filled eyes and nodded. “That's what the police told dad,” she said sobbingly. “They say Har- old didn't jump or fall from the | window as we thought.” Mildred pressed her fingers tight against her own quivering lips. S8he had known it all the time, but to have others say it was true . . . she wanted to shriek, it had become so horrible. She dropped to her knees at Pamela’s bedside and started to cry. Pamela struggled to overcome her own emotion, When she suc- ceeded she wanted Mildred to talk. “How did you know?" she asked and Mildred began, brokenly, to tell her. “I knew that Huck had some terrible hold on Harold,” she said, ‘and I tried to make Harold tell me what it was. Oh, Pamela, T wish I hadn't. I think they killed him so he wouldn't talk.” “Why haven't you told us?" Your father wouldn't see me.'Y didn’t know what to do, I'd no idea the police suspected it was . . . murder. 1 had no proof to take to them." ¢ o 0 “And you think that Huck did 1t Pamela asked in horror. ;. “I'm sure of it,” Mildred stated. “Poor Harold lived-in terror of him, He told me Huck wanted to marry you, Pamela. I think he stood in the way. And he knew that Huck meant, to fix it 8o you wouldn't have anything more to do with Stephen. 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Call or write for more information about this great herbal remedy, added accusingly. “I don't know. T must have _been blind,” ahe urged suddenly. “What doea Stephen-say about me?" Mildred drew back, aghast at Pamel question. Pamela seemed {to have heard enough about her brother, 1t struck Mildred as cal- lous, but in the next moment she told herself that Pamela must love Stephen after all. ‘He doesn’t say anythin, said, “but J know he's breaking his heart over you, Pamela.” “I'll make dad get him out!" Pamela exclaimed. “Won't you go to see him?" Mil. dred urged. “Well,” Pamela hesitated, “I hate to think of going to that awful place. . . .* : “Don’t forget that he's there be- cause he loved you,” Mildred re- minded hel “I'll go,” Pamela said, “bit you ‘:.‘\ft’wv INATIO N must see dad before you scave. 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