The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-05
THE WOMAN In THE PURPLE VEIL

the bluecoat. Sharply, evidently little
surprised to see her in such presentaoie
trim.
Natter" she repeated innocently.
her histrionic training standing her IN
good stead. why, what should be the
natter"
Haven't yogg. been screaming fit to
s'screaming?'' She shook her head.
Then she burst into q weli-feigned fit
Of immoderate laughter. OH she
cried, you mean when the Mouse
lmped out Of my cracker box a little
while agO2 Is that the cause Of all this
assemblageY' sweeping the thrOnS
about the door with satiric gaze
She looked so cool and self-possessed
that the officer could not we'll doubt
her assertions.
"Only a mouse. eh?" he grunted. dis
gustedly- - Wen you cant blame me
after me UP to the corner and told me
that somebody was being murdered in
here
Ana why shouldn't we think so. too. %
shrilly broke in Mrs Sinks, the. motor
mans wife. who resided on the third
doOrs with shTteSs and groans acorn
ing up the dumb waiter shaft the most
awful I ever heard? Bedsides. I'd Just
seen that friend of YOURS come In. Miss
Elliott. the one that took you out IN
hanson cab one night last week. ana L
wouldn't put nothiu past man with n
face like his'n Mis- NARROW, on the
ton floor, saws she's sure she seen him
playin' the villain I'm q show down 20
tn Academy once, an tole her, says
l. Wei. with that mug, he certain
Iy--'''
But Edythe, seeing that the police
man had turned away. slammed the
door,
Now YOU see" commented Davis,
1.-THE necessity OF the step I was advis-
ing. These people watch and chatter
over your every action, and when YOU
move away from here there Will be a
hundred idle queries and ConjeCtureS as
20 where you're gone. Their mouths
no telling what damage they may
cause"
Edythe. after this representation of
the case, raised no objection to the
proposed mock demise.
But" she puzzled, ''can Il be man
aged successfully. Rslph7 Aren't there
certain regulations or the board Of
health which cannot be evaded2'
'Oh. / have planned for all that" he
assured her 1T will be impossible TO
pull the thing of in New York. but
YOU must 90 away for a week or so.
saying II IS by the doctors orders You
have been looking a bit seedy and rum
down of late so nobody will think any
port announcing your death sent in
from some Out-of-tl way hamlet, a
couple Of hundred miles away. and the
trick viii be turned"
when the vigilant Mrs. Sinks discov-
cred Davis dismantling the little fiat
and descended TO make inquiries. he was
able TO satisfy her curiosity with a
in was a brief not, recOunting the death
copy OF the previous days paper where
of Edythe Elliott, the actress, at Bethle-
hem, y. H, after a short Illness with
pneumonia
"Ah. so she's gone, eh2'' observed
Mrs Skinks. sympathetically. screwlng
the corner of her apron into her eye.
well, I'm not surprised, for II ever
any poor creetur' had death IN her face
T. was her when she went away, and so
I said to Mrs. Elmore."
To the self-same Mrs. Gilmore. how
ever. later in the day Mrs. Sinks
might have been heard remarking dur
ing an interchange OF civiliues across
the fire-escape:
'.wer. pneumonia they may call #.
and like enough she did have weak
lungs, but there's slow p'isins and
things that viii help siczly folks along,
and I wouldn't put him none too good
20 be a'uslng o. them. Certinly he
diGn't seem none cast down over II. He
KEEP a twisting his mustache and a
Sinking. and 1 really believe IL was al
he could do TO save himself from
laughing right out when ne showed me
that piece in the paper. They say muir
der win out, though, and I'm going 20
tell my brOtheT-in-laW. who's down al
the detective bureau. to keep an eve on
that fellow. P'T'aps some day Wen
learn the truth as 20 what really killed
her"
All unconscious OF these dire i'm
aginings. though. and never doubling
the entire success OF his. ruse, Ralph
Completed the task of packing the
actress meager belongings and placing
them in storage. Then he returned u
the big house into which by this time
Edythe had been dug Struggled and
reported to her all that had transpired-
all that had transpired with the single
omission that he had mailed a marked
copy Of the paper containing the death
notice 20 Dorothy Brent.
Yes" he laughed. as he repeated "a
her Mrs. SINKS fearful eulOgy, ~
think we may at last safely regard
Edythe Elliot as relegated TO oblivion
Countess ZiCka holds the boards this
stage Is set and the overture finished
We are ready now fo- the curtain "a
riser'
The Continuation OF This story Will
BE Found in Tomorrow
Issue OF The Times.