Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
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FT,HERE was never any "'''"','
J. Tom CIancy's likes and dislik's, ana
w" os oftcu prCmdicCd as other
wise. so far as the reaSo" ''' " -
was concerned. 1or
Immediately after luncheon tnat .E uaE
katherine invited Betty t" rue WIN
nor in her own roadster, whiCm SNc az
r,.rs drove herself, and. telling h'r
a,har cuosts that she would leave th'''
-, tbe;r own devices for an hour OF 'W'
,,.h;lo she and Mrs. Clancy tore h"'e
In the atmosphere, she uro>c NV
directly to the city . ao
Bettv always had shopping 10 no.
Toms ample bank account dld not pre-
vent her from being an invctrrat' D"r
ro;n hunter. and Katherine very easily
fonnd tho means to leave her friend
long enough to drive past the address
that the telephone operator had gwen
her the preceding night.
She sought merely to locate IT, ne'
cause it happened to be in street win
which she was unfamiliar-a street III
the Greenwich Village section.
She knew the fringps of that neigh =
bo;hood we'll enough, for she had. IN the
police days. lived in West Eleventh
street for n time; but the mazeS OF
Greenwich Nillagc-and to a stranger
fbe locality is something of labyrinth
were unknown to her.
She found the address readily enough
Aand drove on past it without stopping:
FOR she was intensely disappointed. and
:, not a little dsgusted. 1t was plain
enough that Roberta did not live
there-although it was not 50 plain
how the woman could make use of tel
ephone from that address at midnight
and after.
The place was a combination of sta
tionery. toy and cigar store and news
stand, and, moreover, it was only one
story high, being a makeShift little
building thrust in between two taller
ones.
Katherine stopped her car at the next
corner. got down, and walked slowly
back to the address.
She occupied a moment or two in
peering in at the window to select some
thing to purchase. and then went inside.
She saw at once that the building was
as shallow as it was low that there
was only very small room at the rear
into which the doorway was wide open
and that the frowsv- headed woman
with the cracked and boery voice wh'
waited upon her quite evidently cooked
and ate and slept in the tiny quarters
But there was telephone of the drop
In nickel type in the store, and it.
number was the one she had sought
Katherine, having returned to her car
summed up the incident thus:
Roberta lives in the neighborhOod
She fees that old woman literally foi
the use of the telephone, and she either
carries a key to the store or rOuSeS tn,
woman to admit her whenever il pcascs
her to go there. The only way to trace
her by that means would he to watcl
and wait Just before midnight-whicl
isn't worth while, since Roberta i,
due to arrive at inquest shortly only
IL l were back at headquarters. I thinl
that would do it Just the same.
wonder she muscd silently Just bcfor,
she came to a stop in front of the stor,
where she had left Betty. ''if it wouIc
not be good idea TO send for Rodne,
Rushton and ask him TO help me. H
could trace that woman for me; h.
could find out all about Conrad Bclknap
and he
Betty appeared on the scene and in
terrupted her train of thought.