Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-26

TWenty-hlnth installment
Then he began apologixing TO
Martin He was afraid his man
last night when he had been
quite I'm the dark as 10 who Mar
tin really was, he having merely
been told that he was 3 reporter,
hadn't been quite appropriate.
but" said Rhoda blankly, he
Ia q reporter"
Yes. Of course" Uncle william
agreed uneasily at a sudden move
ment or impotence ON Martins
part, "but / want to acknowledge
that my momentary suspicion that
his interest FIN you was heightened
by his knowledge Of the possibility
that you might turn out TO Be. 70
10 speak, an helresS became gro
tesQue as soon ms I looked up what
he spoke OF on the way home rs
his reference and learned that he
had an independent fortune Of his
own.
She turned q bewildered look on
Martin.
It's nothing to bother about, dar-
ling he said II wasn't keeping
anything dark I'd have told you IL
there'd been time But there's al
ways been something important TO
talk about As d matter OF fact,
there Is now. Forster win be get
ting here any minute. Rhoda, what
was the date Of your fathers
death7 Do you remember exactly? r
She did and she told him.
he looked down az the papers
again with an intensity OF concen-
tration.
After perhaps n minute he drew
a long breath Look here. dar-
ling he said Look at the date
on these sheetR They're carbons,
you see, OF the last notes he ever
made. See what he's written on
the bottom Of this page It's the last
page OF all Try this tomorrow.
Think it's right at last Wen, II
was right. Those few hours he
begged the doctor for were all he
needed, but the doctor couldn't give
them DO him
Down nc the foct " the long
fight of stairs they heard the street
door open Martin turned sudden
" to Uncle william ~Have you
got that contract with you, sir?
Right here In your pocket 7 meant
Because IL that's Forster coming
up the stairs were going 70 need
it,
Uncle william, speeches. for
once, felt in his pocket and nodded.
Martin went out into the entry
snd looked down the stairs. TITS
Forster he said MS he came back
into the studin -Conleys carry
ing him up"
No one spoke sfter mat and the
wait while Conley struggled with
his burden up those long straight
flights OF stairs seemed endless.
Forster, by the time he'd been
deposited N q biz chair, was as
breathleSs and ~ nearly exhausted
with terror that he'd be dropped,
most Iikeiy-as the man who car
ried him
well" he painted, I've come
on some FOOLS errand I expect 7
can't think OF anything among the
professors papers that I'd be espe-
cially interested In. now" But his
look. darting rat4ike about the
studio, belied his words, and when
II lighted upon the little hat trunk
surrounded BY the heaps or yellow
sheets. u remained fired. fas-
ciraked-
4 thought Martin observed.
that you'd be interested In those
notes. You must have seen some
thing very like them before-in
the laboratory just after Professor
Mcfarland died"
Possibly" Forster admitted
I'D been financing him for four
years while he was trying 10 dis
cover an oil process He died with
out getting anywhere with II. 7
hired another man and be dIscov-
cred the thing almost Ak once II
was q very valuable discovery and
I've made q great deal or money
on H. The professor didn't make
t. He tried 90 and he failed.
I don't be1beve that these papers
you've got here are worth any
thing. But M they are worth any
thing ard tase pmufemB0r held them
cut they're uzy property. He was
working under contract with me
and he had mo right ~ hold any
thing cut"