Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-16

even though she did have a kinder
funny name that you wouldn't forgit
easy"
"a LADY," DIR. Hood repeated,
amazed
who's the woman"" Lyons de-
mandcd. whats her name
well, / amt got no idee that
she's mixed up in this case hersel,
20 morc'n the thousands o 1olks
who could a-read bout it in the
rapers," Geon replied cautiously. Il
was Just wonderin' whether you
ever heard tell q a lady named
Dawn-Zoey Dawn" -.
zoe Dawn" The detective
laughed. "She hasn't any police rec
crd, if that's what you mean. but
up to two or three years ago she
managed to keep herself pretty we'll
in the public eye without trying 10;
the spotlight was the last thing III
the world she wanted. There are
different reports about her, some
that she came from y fine, Ola
Southern family and others that she
drifted East from tho Barbary Coast
| got a fash at her once when she
came down to headquarters TO
identify a diamond necklace which
had been stolen from her and she's
some queen! But what made you
ask about her. Peters|
II was kinder Gurus to know what
she looked like. How did she GIT
afore the public? Seems to me l
heard tell she wasn't in what you
might call society,"
mot so you'd notice it since the
last scandal. 1t was about four
years ago when she came to head
s.vht haN hnnn
thirty then, though she didn't look
it; magniflcenuy formed woman,
big like a statue, but not coarse.
"She had masses of red-brown
hair as natural as her complexion
and great hazel eyes with reckless,
laughing devil in them. 1t was her
voice as much as her beauty that
must have made some of the big
gest mcr in the country fall for
her: it was deep and soft and rich.
with Il note like Il bell Lyons
paused. Il don't get any possible
connection between her and this
case: politics was her game. played
from the inside and for big stakes.
She only came to New York when
Washington got too hot for her and
certain foreign Powers threatened
communication with out State De
rartment.'
Il don't read nothn' but our
Weekly Clarion. so she might nc the
Queen o Shelby for all I'd a-hcard
tell" remarked GeoT. lust give me
a genral ldee o what she done and
where she ~ now"
"As | remember, she blew into
Washington about eight years ago
as Il rich young widow. She was well
supplied with money, had smart
= hnlnnt
servants and managed, without max
ing any stir at first to edge in with
the political and diplomatic set.
She was mystery. but no one
could get anything on her until
certain South American envoy COM
! mitted suicide because she refused
him; she had kept him dangling
| after her so closely that his mission
here failed, but nobody could con-
! meet her with those who opposed II.
Then a bill was rushed through the
Senate when the man who had been
put in office to kill it was idling in
her drawing room, and after n few
more little things like that an
Ambassador from a European coun-
try went dippy about her and some
tremendously valuable documents
disappeared. lie was recalled and
the affair hushed up. but it was then
that she moved to New York and
lived very quietly without breath
of personal scandal. She dropped
out of the newspapers except for
that jewel robbery and nothing more
las been heard of her for two or
three years. as I said. I'll have to
! get in touch with our Secret Ser
/ vice to locate her; they will have
kept her under observation of
| course"
There amt nothin' in all that
agin her moral character so far as
| ! kin see" Geoff had listened care
| fully to every word Them for
| eigners and that fool Senator may
! have lost their heads over her, but
| that was their own lookout, and If
| she got n nice little rake-off for
gummin' their games faint been
proved. She lived proper and re-
| specialize you say?"
| Sure. That was part of her tao
tics. | never heard of her falling
| for any of the big guys who for
got their careers for her. But let's
! get down to business. What's she
got to do with either Bernhard or
Lane? You've got something up
| your sleeve, Peters, or you'd never
have spoken OF her. Come clean
and give me the straight dope"
| "'S far as know she amt got
nothin' to do with either o. 'em."
Geoff disclaimed. but he added with
a chuckle: IF this here Secret Ser
vice has a-beeD keepin' an eye on
her. though, they'll likely be able to
tell YOU somethin' couldn't that
might s'prise YOU. and if she dom
live any too far from Lanes garage
and he didn't come back here that
night after all and so amt the man
| were lookfn' for. I got a kinder no.
ton 1t might've been in front o. her
mouse or nigh 1t. that his car stood
most o them four mssif' hours"
| o.