Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-30


eve come to ask if you've missed any clothes
you've been cleasing in the last few days"
"Clothes? And what business is it of yours,
to ask that?"
an evening gown of pale coral color with
silver lace trimmings and rhinestone belt.
Also a set of handmade French underwear"
"I have not missed anything" Mime. Artois
sat up very straight and menacing. why you
come ere asking that?~
Because woman wearing those clothes was
found dead last night. She had been shot"
A s one impelled by many small frecrackers.
Mime .Artos bounced to her feet and out
of the room. She gone for 10 minutes.
When she returned. she was putting like one
about to fall of apoplexy.
"Evereee one gonel Just the articles you say.
Nevair before ave we been robbed" Then with
quick sly CLEAN, where you say that woman
was found dead?,
I'm Mr. Section Wells apartment"
Oh! But how could she possibly get there?"
"Thats what we're trying to find out. Have
you been employing a girl with reddish brown
hair. quite pretty. about feet in height, large
gray eyes? She's about Is"
81 knowI" She bit her under lip then SAID.
1.-THE Allison girl"
"TEle Allison girl?"
charlotte Allison. She was a good girl,
think. but very strange in the head I gave her
piece work she could do at -ome. But this
morning expect her in witt 4 job. She did
not come send my Aiece to her place.
Charlotte had not been there last night
think she would go some way like that"
what made you think so, Nine. Artois?"
"She had something on her mind that was
making her crazy. She tell the girls ere that
Gen. Well, who was Section Wells father, stole
a great cityful of real estate from her family.
She say her mother die from hunger and tell
Charlotte that the Well family owe her 10000
600. Only last week think must send Char
lotte away. She read in the papers about this
wedding Section Well expect to have and it make
her talk strange Maybe that man put her up
to things
MAN? What MANI" new character had
entered the case.
"She was married to somebody I do not
know his name. He speaks with cockney
twang."
Madame. I've got to hurry and get all the
information I can" Doll rose and made her
self fOrceful as her slight person would permit
eff I go round to the place where Charlotte
Allison lived and see her room before 1t is dis
turbed think may learn what I want. viii
you take me there?"
"Certainlee"
To the landlady of boarding house just OF
Third avenue, it was necessary for Doll to repre-
sent herself as Charlotte'S sister with an APP
pOintment to wait in Charlotte's room, before
the two were admitted to the little box on the
Poor garments and two shabby dresses in
wardrobe. But in the waste basket were frag-
mentS. A fragment cut from the real estate
page of a newspaper; the engraving of hand
some ofice building, and scrawled across it in
fountain-pen ink the word "ours" Scraps of
letters. torn to bits told nothing But shred
Of letter paper showed few words written in
pencil-a round cramped hand:
Is. can take the car again when he is
having din. :"
These finds seemed to mean nothing, but in
. bureau drawer. Doll found a cheap little note
book. 1t was Charlotte AlliSon's book of ex-
penSeS. Poverty-strieken items were set down
carefully so that her weeks extravagances
would never exceed her weeks earnings. Page
after page the mean figures went on like a
Hmping professions of beggarS Then there
were blanks until two appeared in the very
back Of the book. These were written in the
same hand, but with flourish: Future
Expenses" That was interesting More in
teresting still was the nature Of the expenses
50 uxuriouSly written down. cabin on
Mauritania My clothes in Paris Eds
clothes in London Buy car in Italy
Expenses at Monaco Proposed house in
Paris
"She's been trying to keep account of her
expenses" smiled Doll dropping the jewel Of
price into her handbag. I'm going to phone
the ONCE. Won't you look through all the
clothes? Sometimes you find clues that way
DOLL found drug store booth in Third ave-
nue., and was fortunate in getting Hector
ct Cheevers.
"Hec bring Section Well up here in his own
ear In his own car, understand"
"But, Doll"
"And dump in all the district attorneys and
detectives and cops the thing will hold. And
come like fire wagon"
"AH right, dear"
Doll was at the door of the boarding house
when Wells car stopped at the curb. Mr.