The Washington times., 1921-04-15
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The Hundred Dollar Question
SYNOPSIS,

ton with Grecs ana Bob EiiswOrth.
ss secretary 10 Eustibo Alvarez. a Mexi-
San u.i -.0Sh promoter, IN dingy little
Office on g side street In the National
He pays her much attention. gives her
e $500 gold note. after she discovers him
ana a Japanese studying a map.
she discovers her sweetheart, Willard
Saunders. dining with a spanish girl
She is Jealous OF the spanish girl and
her sweetheart is Jealous Of her employer
compliments and swearing her to the ut
most secrecy as to what trsnspires in the
Office, expresses a desire tosbe introduced
Willard swears to Edith that he is not
In love with the Spanish girl. He tells
Edith her employer viii bear watching
luctantly consents. While rummsging
through her employers desk she finds u
picture OF the same Spanish girl with
Later she is further surprised by a re-
quest from her sweetheart for an intro
ductiOn 70 her employer. BY means of a
piece OF carbon paper which she Sc
creted in the typewriter roller. Edith
gets a copy Of cryptic telegram her
employer sent to some one In Mexico.
roadhouse and vainly tries to inveigle
her into taking drink with him. Will
lard hnaliy tells her that Alvarez is an
Texas Tiger" wild and wooliy gen
tleman from the Southwest. breezes in
with z gun In search OF Alvarez. He
out Of $4,000 on . fake oil stock deal.
Edith introduces Texas Tiger" to Will
lard and the visitor Joins their excur-
of George Washington. -,
Returning to Washington Texas
Tiger" recognizes Alvarez and the span
wharf and is only prevented from shoot
ing them by the interference of Will
lard lard Texas TIGER tells Edith he is
withstandtng the fact that Alvarez used
hea fsa a.. as a tool to swindle him out OF
When Edith attempts to introduce Will
lard to Alvarez she learns that they are
Alvarez invites Edith and willard to
motor to Great Falls with him and they
Naturally. was up in the air.
Immediately my overly-industrious
imagination got to work and be-
gan to visualize willard dead
murdered, with a Mexican dagger
through his heart.
/ didn't know what to do. Really
1 didn't know which way to turn.
At first 1 thought would call
Grace and tell her. And then l re-
membered what willard so often
had told me about "not crossing
bridges until / got to them" and |
decided not to worry Grace until !
knew there was something to
worry her about.
Upset as i was over what might
have happened to willard I could
not but feel a certain indignation
at the way he had treated me-eet-
ting me mixed up in this thing and
mo
felt that Willard should have taken
my advice and not tried to put over
so much by himself. And / am
frank to admit that no matter what
had happened to him / was pre-
pared to say II told you So" as any
perfectly normal woman would have
said after having warned and hal
her warning ignored.
Finally i resolved that there was
nothing to do but wait around the
office until / got some message from
or of Willard. ] knew that il any
thing had happened to him l would
find out one way or another, and IL
nothing had happened to him L
knew that he would call me at the
office.
While waiting I went on a tour of
inspection. | opened the door be-
tween the big office in which |
stayed and Mr.. Alvarez's office. I
peeped in-and then l started back
with smothered cry. / have never
seen such a mess.
Both Alvarez's desk and Ochi's
desk had been broken open and
papers were scattered all over the
place. Nothing had been left un-
disturbed. The fling cases had
been ransacked. and IL didn't take
me long to discover that almost all
OF the correspondence had been
taken!
Now, l was really frightened!
Suppose Mr.. Alvarez should come
back, and find that his office had
been looted! He-probably he would
think / had something to do with
1t, especially IL he should find me
there when he came.
i perhaps never could make him
believe that when l left the office
the afternoon before everything