The Washington times., 1930-11-19
GIRL
How a Red Haired Beauty
Overturned a Great City
CHAPTER II

! taxi with the flaming red
head. Annie, his fiancee, Alice
Schuyler, who had been calling
his home, received q telephone
message:
'@This is the operator at the
POST Graduate Hospital came
j soft, evenly modulated voice;
.sMr. Gillespie's nurse asked me
to call you. He is in very seri.
Gus condition, possible fracture
Of the skull, and wants you to
come to see him at once"
Alice, cold, Unconditional by
nature, was fIuttered. She
called her maid and instructed
that her car be brought to the
front door. She had learned
from her father. who was Tall
Tom Gillespie's banker, that
Tommy had been in g street
brawl on the waterfront, and
she was peeved to learn that
Tommy had so lowered himself
as to become involved with the
tougts and thugs along South
Street. And, too, this had been
the first information that he
was working as a driver on his
fathers truck. What would her
friends say?
But now that she realized
. that Tommy was badly hurt,
!. she dressed, rouged her lips and
. powdered her face, and with
studied calmness to forestaH
talk among the servants she
stepped into her car.
Two Cars Cut In
POST Graduate Hospital,
Charles" she instructed, and
lighted a cigarette. The car slid
Z gently from the curb and turned
into Park Avenue South. Along
! through the devious ramp
around Central station and
down into Fourth Avenue. At
Twentieth Street it turned and
{ two. other cars cut in sharply
behind it.
Alice's machine had already
! made the middle Of the block
1 before two silent, mysterious
cars with the. rear curtains
drawn swept by side by side,
and cut in at a sharp angle be-
fore the limousine. Forced to
the curb, Charles jammed on
the brakes. Alice pitched for
ward in the. car, and when she
q had regained her seat she saw
i 9 man who had leaped from
one Of the machines approach
from the left and crash his
Weaponed hand down IN the
head of Charles, who crurnpled
Z with one moan.
Two other men on the right
4 Wrerlched open the door, and
one of them. grasped Alice by
her silk-clad ankles and dragged
her bodily from her seat. AS
she sprawled in an undigni-
] fled attitude in the tonneau
the other whipped q foul-tast-
ing rag around her mouth be-
Z tween her lips, and then tied
3 handkerchief around her
eyes.
Alice Faints.
Rough ihands caught her up
and she felt herself carried
o short distance and thrown
onto an automobile seat. Gears
ground and the car moved
swiftly off. She flopped from
side to side, against the bodies
to the right and left Of her,
as the car cut corners. She
thought at first she had been
going east and then north,
then west. The calmneSS of
her nature, the aStuteness Of
the well-bred woman were grad
ually deSerting her. Then
Alice tainted.
When she came to the gag
and the handkerchief had been
removed. She was lying on a
bed and her first impulse was
to adjust her skirts, which
were above her knees. As she
arose she saw sitting beside
her a brutal-featured, heavy
set man who was watching
her with Sinking countenance.
Feel better sister?" he ask
ed in a husky voice.
She looked into his beady,
vice-laden eyes and shivered.
Where am I and what is
the nearing Of this?" she ask
Cd with chilly dignity.
you're here an there amt
no meanin' as far as / can tell
ye, lady" chuckled the. man
arising and walking to the door.
An IRON Door
Alice looked about her. Gray
fnptctured walls. A room de-
void Of furniture, save for the
fiddleback chair near the bed.
No window, two gaping, rorsad
holes in the wall on the right,
holes through whica soughed
the air as through a ships
yentilator holes which she
Knew not, but which led to the
OutSidethe windows" of silk
Freeman's Park Avenue apart
nnent.
The man had opened the
door and Alice saw that it was
Of iron.
It was far past midnight
when Tommy Gillespie kissed
Polack Annie on her ripe, Grim
son lipS ~ -'-e left the taxi