Evening star., 1935-09-10
INsTALLMENT I (Continued.)

stupid, and let's get started" she
urged. Selma and Carl have been
there for over an hour"
Ann rode with Mollie in the rumble.
"You said something about plans,
she suggested. bill hasn't told us
anything"
HE wouldn't" Mollie said agree
ably. The plans were simply that
Ann and Rita we're to share Mollies
apartment until they had an oppor-
tunity to look around for place OF
their own. There's a world OF
room" Mollie declared, land Ill
probably be away all next week,
anyway"
Ann and Rita were delighted and
grateful and said so. Ann added,
you're sweet, Mollie.'
IT don't know any one I'd rather
have say it," Mollie laughed. Be
cause you are, too. Ann
"Old home week." Bill growled from
the front seat. He was playing with
the radio dial and presently a voice
doomed:
q" Expected to land at the
Washington Airport shortly after mid
night. This is the first tranScontl-
mental blind fight ever attempted and
while the flyer himself insists that
1t is simply a routine experiment,
aviation authorities look on it as a
venture of the first Importance"
Molhe pounded on Bills shoulder
until he finally turned the radio off.
Il forgot to tell you, Bill. It's
Lee Monday :. ="
Good boy!" Bill beamed. "Well
all have to go down and see him come
in He switched on the radio once
more and found a musical program.
Does Bill know Lee Monday?" Ann
asked Mollie.
Mollie smiled. my dear. Bill Hud-
son knows everybody. He and Lee
met up in Nassau or Bermuda or
somewhere and came home on the same
boat and the boat was wrecked or
burned and Bill and Lee saved lot
of people and then themselves and
we'll, it was something like that. You
see what good reporter I am. Would
you like to go down and get good
look at several million dollars walk
ing around on two legS?'
You don't mean Lee Monday?"
THE same, Ann. Lee Monday, the
famous flyer. is fairly recent develop
ment. Before he was out of knickers
he was page one copy. The headline
writers used to call him the richest
boy in the world. He wasn't quite
that, of course, but he had plenty,
and it had an impressive sound"
Many blocks beyond Thomas Circle
the roadster came to stop before a
U-shaped apartment building and Bill
pointed to two lighted windows in
the right wing.
The great lovers doing their stuff -
He turned to Ann and Rita. You
don't know these two, do you?
Selma is the great Senator Run
brecker's daughter. She has a brother
slugged Deane, but he's practically
non-eXistent Carl Balmer's some
thing mysterious in the Justice De-
partment. He and Selma think the
great illusion is upon them"
Bill closed the elevator door and
pushed button.
Selma and Carl were entwined at
one end of the long couch.
Just minute, folks" Bill cried,
running forward. I'll untangle this
and see what it is" He pulled Selma
up and introduced her. She was a
pale blond with round baby face
and curiously cold gray eyes.
And this" said Bill, lis Sherlock
Holmes disguised as Tarzan"
Carl Balmer bowed and Ann and
Rita were treated to a closeup view
of one of the finest physical specimens
they had ever seen. He was tall and
powerfully built and though there was
subtle suggestion of effeminacy in
the line of his mouth, this defect
II it was defect-waS quickly for
gotten in admiration of his magnifi-
cent physique
If you're sample of the service"
Rita Informed Carl, ''it's no wonder
the Justice Department is getting its
man"
Carl smiled and Ann saw in his
eyes what she had often seen in the
eyes OF other men when they had
come face to face with Rita's beauty.
And then happening to glance across
the room, she discovered Selma stand
Ing before q wall mirror, pretending
to fuss with her hair, actually watch
Ing Rita in the glass. Ann found
something disturbing in those small
gray eyes and she was relieved when
Mollie called to Selma to come to the
kitchen and help with the sandwiches.
Rita and Carl drifted off to a front
window and stood looking down at the
street, talking quietly. Ann started
TO the kitchen, but Bill met her and
pulled her back to the couch. She
sat down beside him and tried to hold
up her end Of flippant conversation.
put she was so weary she had to give
1t up. Riding all day on the train
Is a new experience for me, Bill. I've
never been places before. Not even
TO New York"
You haven't missed anything"
"Sure &. e. :? I might have met you
sooner. Bill"
He looked down at her, head cooked
on one side. You aren't trying to
make me, I hope"
Certainly" Ann laughed. ANY
reason why shouldn't?"
I'll let you answer that one"
"Well," said Ann. "all I know is what
] pick up here and there. For one
thing, I hear you don't take your
women seriously
Bill looked at his watch, pretending
not to hear. "Say-we've got to hurry
this up. It's getting late" He got up
then and stalked off to the kitchen.
Ann looked after him, grinning. Rita
was right: he was spoiled, that man.
And he still persisted in treating her
as if she were schoolgirl. Ann re-
sented that most Of all.
Through the kitchen door came
Mollie, slice of salami in one hand
and a long carving knife in the other.
II want you all to listen to me a
~,;n,,+ao Che waited until Rita and