Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-26

Maybe So" said Harrington, but
suppose we see. Suppose instead OF
guessing, we look at the runabout.
This they did forthwith. The tires
of the Blake car proved to be entirely
free from patches.
about"
But il not the Blake car, why had
it stopped here? Why should a MUIR
der car have called at Editor Blake's
front gate? The deputy sheriff did not
believe it had stopped.
Lets ask Mrs. Blake and find out.
said Harrington.
why, yes" was the reply to the
question. "A friend of Lissie's stop
ped for her last night. Lissie Peters"
she explained. "Lissie's working for
me. She's at the store just now for
groceries: They went out for drive"
She had never seen this friend in a
good light and had never heard his
name. She thought he could be iden-
titled through Lissie. Perhaps they
might watch Lissie's mail. He would
probably write. Could that be done?
Harrington believed that it could.
The murderer was captured in this
manner before the end of the week
through5a letter to Lissie. mailed from
the neighboring town of Weston. and
signed by a garage hand named Wei
ler The murder car-borrowed with
garage. tire and all. The finding Of
the stolen hoard completed the case
against Weller. who had acted rather
stupidity throughout.
The involving by Harrington of LIS
sic in this murder and the bringing
home by him of the crime to her lover.
reused in her the intensest hatred.
She did not attempt during the trial
to disguise this hatred. Every one
who saw her or talked with her knew
h. 10 80 L. s--f,&
and by depth. by right and by wrong.
by gift and by hire. She had no ideas
that were not associated with the pas
sionate desire to bring harm upon
him.
She also hated and with even more
fierceneSs, the woman who had spoken
Of Weiler's call. She had never liked
Mrs. Blake: now she wished only to
bring her to utter ruin. She did not
conceal this feeling any more than she
had concealed her hatred for Harring-
ton. Amy one who looked might read
it in her smoldering black eyes.
The knowledge that Lissie felt this
keen hatred for him troubled Har-
rington, but he understood human ma
ture we'll enough to know that her
mails love the detectives who arrest
them or the judge who sentences
them. He did not resent her hatred.
nor wonder at it. but he wished she
might find the smoother roads before
the rough ones shook her up too hope
lessly.
Both Harrington and the Blakes
would have been glad had she stayed,
but Lissie could not be induced to re-
main in Eden Center after the trial.
A few months later the Eastmans
spoke of seeing her in Chicago in
cafeteria: they were not close enough
to speak to her. Solomon Cook also
had "a glimpse of her in Chicago, but
much later than this. He was the
last to see her..
NOW she was back in Eden Center
The report that Lissie Peters had
gone to work for Mrs. Blake. whom
she had hated SO keenly. aroused Har-
ringtons wonder. He had already seen
her on the street. She had not chang
ed greatly in appearance during the
years. nor could she have greatly
changed her position in the world. She
must be the same Lissie. And yet.
servant though she still was, some
thing about her was not the same.
He wondered what had brought her
back to Eden Center. Not Mrs.
Blake's wages, he was certain.
He saw her often after this. and
always her greetings were friendly.
She seemed to have forgotten the
murder trial. Both her old hatreds
seemed to have disappeared.
He thought he saw the explanation
of her presence six weeks later, when,
in the list Of marriage licenses sup
piled to him by the county clerks
office, he found that a license to wed
had been issued to David Bellew of
Chicago, age fifty-two, and Lissie
Peters OF Eden Center, age twenty
eight.
The item in a sense was unimpor-
tant; Lissie was only a servant; she
had made few friends: nothing that
could happen to her would be subject