The Washington times., 1930-09-20
CHAPTER AZ


hope for is lifel" Mr. Allan
said that. 1t kept echoing in
Cathie's ears while they were
on their way downstairs. It
seemed funny, leaving the little
familiar cell and riding down
stairs in an elevator. A po-
liceman with red hair and a
big nose operated the elevator.
Cathie shrank back, close to
Mr.. Allan. She felt shy and
nervous. Hoped there wouldn't
be any people in the halls. I.
Life. she. Cathie Farms
worth, who used to be Cathie
Page, to be shut up in a jail
all her life? For something
she didn't dol 1t was crazy.
Didn't Gordon say he'd have
her out by tomorrow?
Cathie stole another look at
Mr.. Allan. Mr.. Jesse Parting
ton Allan, who was supposed to
be such a big lawyer. Every
body said he wasi wonderful.
He didn't look very wonderful.
just a gross, fat man with a
bald head and a big stomach
Talking about her getting
life for nothingl
That's Her"
The elevator came to a stop
and Cathie tossed her hair
back irnpatiently. Maybe she'd
better get another lawyer. Shed
speak to Gordon about it to-
morrow 49,.
''This way, Mrs. Farnsworth.
pleased"
The room they took her to
was 1llleQ WIFI mSl.
Eyes, that's her!"
Cathie jumped. A funny
looking little man with walrus
whiskers and a high squeaky
voice like a wonan's, was point
ing at her excitedly. That's
herp he cried again. II couldn't
see her face good, but that was
about the build, and her hair.
I'd know her hair, the way 1t
looked In the moonlight"
Cathie looked at the inspec-
tors, and at Mr.. Allan. Nobody
said anything. They just
walked her right through the
room and out again into the
corridor. The elevator door
opened and the policeman with
the red hair and the big nose
tok them upstairs again, TO
the women's quarters.
"Mr. Allan!"
eyes, Mrs. FarnSworth."
"Mr. Allan, do you mean to
tell me that that man / never
saw before in my life Identified
me, and they're going to take
his word for it'll"
Lawyer Rebuked
"Oh, no. We don't take any
ones word for anything. Still.
ii will all help to corroborate
chester Farnsworth's story. AS
/ told you before, ! don't IKE
IT. -. :,
'Don't like It'll It's the silliest
thing I ever heard in my lie!
never saw the man before.
why didn't they give me a
chance to talk! I'd have told
him"
Mr.. Allan smiled. That's
the spirit! Get as mad as you
like. Get some fight in you.
NV why don't YOU get some
fipht?'; Cathie flared, why
didn't you tell him? Oh, this
law-law-law-it makes me
sick why, I'll be an old wo-
man before they let me get up
and say what really happened!
why can't I tell them. oh,
what's the use! A perfectly
strange man walking in and
saving he saw me. >. saw me
doing what? Shooting my hus-
band?"
Allan shook his head, but he
didn't smile. The man is an
elevator operator in an apart
ment house out there in the
Presidio Terrace district. He
was waddling down to the car
line when he passed your house
and heard the shot. He says
he saw woman stick her head
out of the window"
In Own Room
'rWait! Wait-I think did.
I mean I'm sure I did. / heard
the shot, and I thought 1t was
probably a tire blowing out, SO I
got up after a minute and went
to the window"
eyes, but weren't you in your
own room at the time?"
"Of course! And looked out
-diagonally you know, to the
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