The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-07-15

cAClIulS tillIlS! we CdIllC Out VI tiiC
Ritz with Bill Gates and Rod Hep
burn and there were two newsboys
just screaming and pushing papers
into our faces, and Rod saw your
name in one of the headlines, IA
Their. So we bought the paper. /
think it's perfectly exciting. Did
you know her? Is she as pretty as
her pictures? love murders,
they're so gruesome Think of hav-
ing one right in the family! Look!"
She opened the paper, read the
headlines aloud: Pretty typist
slain. Police seek missing lover of
dead girl. Robbery and murder"
Her mother said sharply: Bar
bara! After all, it's not right in the
family'!"
"You know what I mean, moth
er!" Barbara protested. II mean
we're-well, probably we'll all be
witnesses at the trial. I know I'll
be scared to death. / wonder if he's
od-looking. Father, did you ever
see him? This Italian?" She came
to sit on the arm of his chair. "You
don't need to pretend you're all so
calm. I'll bet you're as excited as
am, really"
No one spoke for moment. Then
Neil Ray said uncomfortably, II
really must CO."
He rose; and Linda cried as
though relieved: Heavens, it's aft
er six o'clock! So must II"
Mary went with Doctor Ray into
the hall. Barbara looked beseech-
ingly at Linda; but Linda shook her
head, so Barbara and Linda fol-
lowed the others. Mrs. Sentry and
her husband were left alone.
He twirled the cocktail glass in
his hand, looking at it fixedly, not
meeting Mrs. Sentry's eyes. She
heard the good-bys at the door;
heard Mary and Barbara hesitate,
and whisper, and start upstairs.
Then she heard Mary say in low,
indignant tone: you're outrageous,
Barbara! This isn't a joke!"
81 know" Barbara agreed, softly.
''But you all looked so glurn! I
tried to put on an act, cheer you
up"
Their voices trailed away. Mrs.
Sentry thought that was like Bar
bara, to seek to make jest out of
this. And in very poor taste, she
decided. She said to her husband,
ARTHUR, we must just ignore this"
81 don't know why it should hit
me so hard" he confessed. "But-
she looked so little and pitiful, lying
there. And of course there were po-
lice, and photographers, and report
ers around all day. Gus is in New
York, so it all fell on me. It wore
me down."
SIN New York? Mary's going
there to dinner tonight"
''He went over yesterday. Didn't
expect to be back till Sunday"
Oscar came to say that dinner
was served, and Mrs. Sentry re-
membered that an afternoon paper
was delivered to the kitchen, so the
servants already knew; and every
one would know, either tonight or
in the morning. All their friends Is. !.
She said quietly: "Wil you call
the girls, Oscar? They're upstairs!"
He disappeared, and she asked her
husband, "Are you ready, Arthur"
"I'll wash my hands," he decided.
She had not, since returning from
hearing Sarah Glen, had time to
order her hair; and she went to do
so, and she thought she and Arthur
might 60 down to their summer
home in York Harbor in the morn
ing, and stay till this sensation died.
But it would be better not to seem
to run away
Mary sat with them while they
dined, waiting for Jimmy Endle to
call for her. She proposed making
excuses, staying at home; but Mrs.
Sentry said: "Of course not, Mary!
After all, this doesn't touch us! Ger
tainly not any more than it does Mr..
and Mrs. Loran, and they're giving
the dinner"
(TO BE CONTINUED)