Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
The Truesden Eyebrows.


The Truesdeil Eyebrows.
Maurice Trask looked at Miss Mys-
terry with rapidly growing interest
and curiosity. She seemed so young
and helpless. and she was so pretty
and SO pathetic that he Immediately
decided she could not be mixed UP in
any wrongdoing. He also decided for
he was a man of quick conclusions,
that this was the girl for him. Hav-
ing his new fortune, he wanted a wife
to help him enjoy it. and where could
he find a more utterly desirable girl
than Miss Austin?
StraightforwaTdIy he asked:
Did DR.. Waring make love to you?
Did you love him.
The others looked aghast at these
suggestions, and then Mrs. Adams
SAID:
Yes. she did, I saw her one night
kissing DR.. Warnings picture"
Cray turned on Anita.
Did you love that man." he asked
kill him"
"of course, she didn't kill him." Old
Salt put in. impossible to imagine
such thing. Speak up, little girl
why did you kiss the picture of a
man you had never seem"
Several of those listening waited
breathlessly for a response
Gordon Lockwood. for one, could
scarcely control his impatience to
hear the answer. For only too well
he remembered the letter he had
found in the doctors waste basket
The words We're craven in his brain
Darling Anita: At the first glance
OF your brown eyes love was born in
my heart. Life is worth living-with
you in the world.
If love at first sight had been horn
in the mans heart must 1t not have
found response in the girls? Or, even
If not, could she have killed a man
who felt thus toward her? Truly she
was mystery. For the very fact
that Waring had fallen in love with
clandestine visit to him and her pos
session of the money and jewel
Could it be that the pretty little
thing was merely a sly adventures?
That she cajoled Warning into giving
her the valuables. and them
No. Gordon Lockwood could not and
would not believe any evil of the
girl he loved. Even though she
should admit her love for Waring
he would not lose faith in her.
swer this direct question directly
Did you love DR.. Waring?"
Almost like one hypnotized, Miss
Mystery gave a helpless glance at
her inquisitor and murmured a low
almost inaudible Yes"
Then, why did you kill him." Cray
stormed at her.
II didn't"
You were there, in his study, the
night he-he died
"N-no, I wasn't"
You We're! It's been proved. You
l. Is 49,
snow field, and you went in the study
and you sat on the plush chair, near
the desk. Didn't you?"
The great dark eyes seemed I'M
able to tear themselves from Cray's
face, and again the alf-breathed
whisper was. Yes"
Il protest. said Trask. That girl
shall not be tortured. Whether she's
guilty or not, she's entitled to fairer
treatment. You can't make her say
those things that may be used against
her! Quit it. Cray. I forbid it,"
said, quietly you've no right to
bait Miss Austin-you make her adj
NIT things through sheer fright"
And it was true. Miss Mystery was
trembling, and her face was white
save for the delicate flush on her
cheeks and lips that she had placed
there herself.
Her great eyes, beneath their heavy
dark brows. flew from one face to
and she did not fail to notice
the fact that every man in the room,
Cray perhaps excepted, was in SYM
pathy with her. while every woman
was against her.
This must have comforted her
for she looked about, faint smile
dawning in her eyes.
rs that true?' she said. may / be
excused from this questioning until
oil T
to say-myself-
Her pretty distress and helpless
ness again appealed to the masculine
sympathy, and. realizing this she
ignored the other sex.
A puzzled expression crossed the
face of Maurice Trask.
Who in the world can she be?'
he thought. THAT last fash of those
eyes, as she drew her heavy eyebrows
into a straight line. surely reminded
me of somebody. By heavens! the
Truesdell brows.'
Again he scanned the oval little
face. He shook his head in uncer-
tainly. but again declared to himself.
THE Truesdell eyebrows"
Now look here, all of YOU" Old
lieve this child is guilty Of anything
really wrong. If she caught the fancy
of DR.. Waring, it, may seem pretty
awful to us old fogies. but a pretty
girl like Miss Austin can't help
charming the menfolks. I don't want
to discuss that, but I do say that
it's no crime to go to see a man in
the evening, and. too, she may have
had some errand we know nothing
about Did DR.. Waring give you
that money of his own free will, Miss
Austin?'
YES" said Anita. involuntarily.
and then bit her lip as she added. II
told you he didn't give it to me-"
There. there. don't say any more.
you only contradict yourself. I had
no business to ask that. Now, Mr..
Cray, from now on. I take Miss
Austin under my personal care. I'll
be responsible for her appearance
when you want her" And he looked
at his wife, Mrs. Adams will back
me up. She, too, will shelter and care
for Miss Austin
unless she Is proved guilty" Es-
Their Adams broke in In that
CASE
wait until she is" Old Salt said,
in his calm way. l don't guarantee.
her innocence only want to pre-