The Washington times., 1936-02-29

Things were certainly happening
fast! it had reached the point
where a new sensation a day was
expected. We would have felt
cheated if we hadn't had it. The
papers ran nothing new for the
next few editions, but when my
father came home for dinner, our
family, at least, got its daily
thrill.
Dad had been retained by Bruce
Lloyd as his lawyer!
I guess I have forgotten up to
now to say much about my own
family as they weren't important.
But how important we became
later! My father was an attorney,
Q prominent one, suppose you
might say, and when the police
started questioning Mr.. Lloyd so
closely, he demanded q lawyer.
Dad was the one called, and he
managed to get him released.
1T was hard work, though" he
said. THE officials are pressing
the thing pretty close. But so many
are involved, itfis hard for them
to hold individuals when they
haven't anything actually on
them"
what about Mslvin?" I asked.
"Well, they apparently can't
prove anything very definite on
him. But they are holding him
on carrying q gun. \ He hasn't got
q lawyer yet, and they can keep
him for q while. - {rs.
do you think. he did .it?"
Julie, eat your supper;" admon-
iShed Mother. ~
I'D like to know, Curly, He
might have, you. know. He has a
nasty dispoSitoin evidently, his
record is none too good! and he
had a motive In her reporting
him first and refusing, to sign his
parole later. Most important Of
all. he had the gun"
"CircumstantiaI, all Of it," was
Aliens first comment.
"YeS. But men have been con-
victed on less"
James, I do wish it were not
necessary to discuss these details!"
exclaimed Mother. Dad smiled at
her.
What about Hymn? Have they
any trace of him?"
None, as yet. It seems" an
swered Dad with an apologetic
look toward Mother. "that he and
Miss Sinclair were not on very
good terms. She had once pro-
tested his familiarity in not only
speaking to her on the street, but
walking along with her until she
Teproved him." aaa,'.*
who told that?"
'Mrs. Sardoni. Miss Sinclair re-
ported it to her; she"gav Hym
quite a Scolding. The Filipino then
apologized, but he evidently resent
ed the insult to his race and pride.
He was very rude to the teacher
again and Mrs. ,Sardoni had given
him notice to leave at the end of
the month. So you see, another
motive is established, and subStan-
tiated by his strange disappear.
ance that night"
did he speak like. an Ameri-
can?" asked Allen.
"I don't know. You are prob
ably thinking Of the phone call.
The police are puzzled by that.
An ordinary murderer would not
set them on his trail so soon in
that fashion; at least, he wouldn't
take the chance of doing so. They
feel. moreover, that Hymn could
Dot have been the man who made
st. I don't know whether he
speaks as an Oriental does or not,
but the voice was that Of a young
man, excited, but well modu-
lated"
g Mother" said Allen, IT have
some work to do. May I be ex-
cIIsed?" 80 2,c
.ztAfter he had gone, Mother
;scolded Dad again: There, you
see! The boy couldn't finish his
dinner. He is so nervous and all
This talk of murder of a woman
che was very fond of is too much
for him" e.
: Dad shrugged his shoulders and
devoted his attention to his food.
knew that he was not through
that he knew more. Mother knew
it, too. and, although she has