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tide. He'd leave no trail, and the
police. even if they decided he got
awav by boat, wouldn't be likely tc
look into the warehouse. It's toe
close, and by the time they looked
ST it the next day the piles would
be standing in mud, and e y
wouldn't think of it as a hiding
place for a boat"
Then the diamond sale was just
a bait for some thing bigger"
"Maybe. Let me 60 on. If I got
my dope straight, anyone sneaking
into the rose arbor from the south
would pass the stool before he
came to Markham. I think the stool
was used as a weapon, striking the
ieweler to the ground. Then it was
thrown into the river.
MARKHAM fell where the GRO
uet mallet lay. That's why there
was blood on it. The police tested
it to see if there was any hair
sticking in the blood, as there
ought to have been if he was hi
over the head with a mallet'
There wasn't"
I'm learning things" I admit.
ted.
The guy who hit Markham
probably had ropes in his boat, but
the wire was handler. He tore 1t
down to wrap around h m, but
Markham woke up too quick. May
be he grabbed the mallet. The kid
naper had to knife him before ne
yelled for help"
"Why did he drag him along the
walk instead of toward the river?'
'That's easy. He would have lef'
a trail any other way. The grave
walk leads to the north wing OF the
building, where there's a SHARP
step, covered by the high tide
Tuesday night. A fiat bottom row
boat could have been brought RICH
up against the step. Markham
would have disappeared without
single footprint being Left
you've thought of everything
| admitted.
Belzer shook his, head. Nope
There's something wrong. Why
was Markham dragged instead O.
carried? If he was killed by the
man who kidnapped you, he would
have been carried. He was killec
by a small man.
l had no answer for that.
The taxicab stopped in front o.
q gray stone building. Here we
are Belzer said. q see more
trouble waiting for YOU"
There were two young women or
the step. I saw with a thrill O
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quarrel purposely-to get you to
leave him?"
Tim sure I can't answer
that"
well, I'm pretty sure I cam
Belzer said, swinging the boat In
toward one of the city Wharves. Il
don't know anything against Mark
ham. l understand he was a pretty
swell fellow. But he had made a
lot of money, so he must have been
clever. He got you to go back INTO
! the clubhouse without actually tell
ing you to go. He was going to
make a deal with someone, with
diamonds"
MY God, Belzer! Why didn't
someone think of that before
Belzer grimaced as he put the
motor into reverse and eased the
boat to its mooring. He cut the
switch and the motor stopped.
Captain Mcdonald is working on
that line, "he said. Come on. Let's
call a cab" He removed the small
gadget from the magnetic again.
We climbed the stone steps to the
street level. .
In the taxicab Belzer continued
to explain his version of Mark
hams death.
After you went into the club
house Markham stood in the rose
aIbor, looking up at the sky. 1t was
almost time for his appointment.
The sound of the piano and the
singing as you opened the door
may have covered the quiet foot
steps that sneaked up behind him.
Remember, also, that the lights
strung across the garden overhead
had been turned off a short time
before-Which also indicates a
carefully thought out plan. The at
tacker intended to be a few min
Ltes early, and to take Markham
by surprise-because he had no in
tention of paying for the diamonds.
Then it was a mistake to pick
out a moonlight night for the
c1ime,' I suggested. 4 should
think he would have planned"
mot at all. Maybe the moon
light was bad for him, but he had
10 have the high tide. That's why
he picked Tuesday night. He was
going to kidnap Markham and take
him by roWboat into that old ware
Rouse, where the water is too shall
low for a boat except at the highest
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CHAPTER

S11I11 ~ ~
Belzer refused to describe any
further what it was he had dis
covered in the lower story of the
Did warehouse. I'm not even sure
I'll mention it in the paper tomor-
row morning." he said. This IS
something the police have got to
look into first" He started the
boat at last.
Then you reporters do work
with the police sometimes
Sometimes What do you
mean I'm the best little detective
they've got"
Where do we 60 now
Belzer headed the motorboat
downstream. ITO the inquest he
said. And remember, if the re-
porters question you, you don't re-
member"
I'd forgotten the inquest. l Won
dered what the coroner would nave
thought if | had failed to show up.
Lucky I had Belzer to keep me On
the right side of the law, | decided
You don't have to testify at the
INQUEST" he told me. You can
stand on your constitutional rights
Have YOU talked to your lawyer
about it"
INV lawyer Harvey MCGUIRE
I was going to telephone him, and
forgot"
The reporter looked away and
drew a long, deep breath. When
it comes to crime you're a babe IN
the woods"
rs that why you think I am in
nocent, when the coroner is SO sure
I am mixed up in this
You don't fit into my theory OF
the crime" Belzer told me.
What is your theory
The reporter swung the boat to-
ward the west side Of the channel
as we passed the Rio Vista club,
Sc we would not be recognized by
any of his rivals who might be on
the lob there. In the first place,
he said, Il believe a professional
criminal had something to do with
laying the plot, and you're no pro-
fcssional."
Then you agree with Captain
Mcdonald that it was planned in
advance
Yes, but I don't think it was
MANNED to be a killing. My guess
is that the guy who attacked Mark
ham would be alone in the garden
about that time of night, So if we
wont to find out who that man is,
we might first try to find out why
Markham was out there. Who sug-
gested going into the garden Did
you?"
Why, why" 7 stammered.
caught by surprise. Il don't know.
I think we just went out to get
ame fresh air.
Did he suggest it? Think"
lin not certain. Ye-es, come
to think of it, he was going out,
and I suggested that I go along
with him. He didn't cordial
He made it plain that he wanted
to be alone"
And you went anyway? That's
a point against you. But I'm not
suspicious of you, I'd say he was
going to meet someone out there
and didn't want you to know it."
He didn't say anything about a
meeting" I protested.
NATURALLY he wouldn't, if he
didn't want you to know about it.
How did he finally get you to 60
back into the clubhouse and leave
him there?"
"We-quarreled."
DO you think he started the
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THECHARACTERS

LINDA AVERY, receptionlst at a
New York models agency, starts
to rebuild her romance with
RONALD STAFFORD, her child
hood sweetheart, who has "Jus'
swung his way to fame on a
trumpet" but
SARAH MARKLEY, wealthy g1a'
NOR girl, is trying to capture
Ronald for herself. Meanwhile
ROBERT BARTON, young engi'
neer living in the apartment ur
above, meets Linda in an un'
conventional manner.
YESTERDAY: Linda invites Rob-
bert to go with her to a party
given by Sarah Marley for Ron
ME.
CHAPTER THREE
Impulsively as she had asked
Robert Barton, the young engineer
from the apartment above hers, tc
accompany her to Sarah Markley's
party, Linda's voice had been cool,
no huskier than usual.
''That isn't a favor Robert an
swered. You're putting me in you
debt again. White tie or black?"
"Black, 1 guess. It's been a glori-
GUS evening"
Once that night L j n d as tele'
phone rang. She picked it up very
quickly. 1t would be Ronald, think
ing of her somewhere across the
rainy city.
But it wasn't Ronald. It Vas a
woman who wanted an all-night
de%licatessen and had dialed the
wrong number.
But he did call at II the next
day, as she sat at the white desk
in the silver and white reception
room of the Bagley agency.
"Linda?"
eyes, Ronnie."
"Then you haven't forgotten my
telephone voice?"
mo, MOI the cleft in your chin
or the cowlick in your hair" she
thought, as she replied, Il have a
memory for voices"
Are you hungry"
~"Starved!"
"How soon may I pick you up?
About one?"
THAT will be fine"
"T'll be five minutes early"
He was, too, and he slipped her
hand through his quite as though
it weren't an April noon on Fifth
avenue, with the sun shining and
people everywhere.
He took her to a quiet restau.
rant, where the music was muteo
and not many people came. It was
expensive, though, Linda knew.
They picked up the thread of the
events where they had dropped it.
They talked of this boy and thai
girl of the people who had bought
the two old southern mansions
which once had been so exclusively
theirs of the knocking birds, ane
Hamilton's shabby old railroad sta
ton. Finally Ronald said:
"Can you understand someone:
keeping a dream, expecting it tc
wait safely, being a little ashamed
to write because success was g
laggard?"
II can now" she answered soft.
".
He opened his wallet and from il
he took out a snapshot. 1t was {
younger Linda, but the eyes were
as wide and dark and eager, the
curls as tumbling.
Remember the day we won the
doubles? That's a tennis racquet il
your hand-I mean the handle o.
it made the picture" He replaced
the picture carefully. His eyes were
very young but very steady as he
leaned across the table. "I'm glao
I found you, Linda honey. l wa.
afraid l wouldn't"
He took her back to the entrance
of her building when the luncheon
was over, and Linda was aware o
the glances of the girls who passee
as they paused in the lobby.
You're coming tonight, aren'
you, Linz" he asked. I'm no
keen to play-I feel like a trained
seal performing-but it's part o
the game. I'd call for you. but Their,
Bella LANAN-COURT r
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'I'n be watching for you, Ron
ME-"
With winged hands she turned
on the water in the shower,
brushed her shining hair and
coaxed the curls into a coronet
which she bound with a silver rib
bon that matched the silver brace
lets set with amethysts which she
had inherited from her grandmoth'
er. She had intended to wear a
slim black frock which n Of the
models had found for her at a bar
gain price when a famous cou.
turier had a sale. 1t was chic and
smart. Now she discarded it. With
the coming of the flowers, she did
not want to be svelte and sophisti-
Gated. She wanted to be gay, hT.7-
Ply, colorful.
She removed a violet chiffon eve
ing frock from the covered hang
er and slipped into it. 1t nodded
her slim body, but the skirt SWEEP
away into billowing %flounces. The
girdle was wide and a silver thread
glided through its darker purple.
She had worn this dress with Ron
ME twice before he went away,
she ha dhad a happ ytime in it.
Maybe the luck still held. Perhaps
be would remember it. Not likely,
though, for he must have seen sc
many dresses-yellow, orange.
green, rose, blue.
Her evening sandals were the
same silver-threaded material as
the girdle. She touched her lips
with rouge, frightened her cheeks,
busted powder gently across her
nose and face, put on the corsage.
There was a knock at her door
"a gay knock, a knock that
laughed at itself. That would be
Robert. For a few hours she had
forgotten him.
The young engineer from up
stairs was a handsome figure in
his evening clothes, one that made
Linda glance at him appreciative'
ly. His eyes approved the violet
frock, the shining eyes. But when
he had chatted a moment, he said:
by the way, is this Sarah
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is a dinner party first. I could
shake that Markley's girls shout.
ders for leaving you out, but
guess she had her list made out.
There'u be a couple of hundred
around at the party afterward
But I'll be taking you home"
'Is Sarah Markley nice?" Linda
asked suddenly. GAS nice as she
is beautiful"
His eyes were teasing, adoring.
mot half so nice as you are
honey. But nice, definitely"
Coop! And, Ronnie, I've got
young man bringing me to ths
party. 1 was commanded to ge'
one. Remember"
He was silent a moment
"Known him long?" he asked, ane
there was a thread of worry II
his voice.
Not very" Some time she
would explain the mans mysterl
Gus entrance into her life.
Like him?"
"Sort of, but not the way I like
you," she answered laughingly
The sun was laying bright fingers
of light across the avenue, a ped
dler was passing with a tray Of
violets and gardenias, some place
a hu%rdy-gurdy played a gay, new
song. And Ronald had come back
The afternoon went swiftly anc
the hours from the time Linda ar
rived at home until nine O'Clock
when Robert Barton was due
passed even more quickly. At eight
o'clock a florists cool green boz
arrived. She opened it to find ar
orchid corsage. Three flowers, the
same delicate green as the box ir
which they had come, waited fol
her to fasten them at her shoulder
There was an envelope with them
and she opened it with slim fingers
that trembled a little. Ronald OF
Robert Barton? Which would il
be?
If the blossoms came from Rob
ert it would be a charming ges
ture. But if they came from Ron
ME it would be springtime il
heaven with a dream half-true.
She opened the folded note.
Evening star., 1940-08-19

N. j., until September I. Accom-
panying them are their daughter,
Mrs. Thomas Gorsuch Young. jr., of
Baltimore and Cockeysville. Md, the
former Miss Ann Tyler Peach. and
Mrs. Peach's sister, Mrs. William T.
Hayden, and her daughter. Miss
Mary Page Hayden, of Baltimore.
Mrs. Young recently passed some
time with her parents in Hyattsville.
Evening star., 1940-08-19

tions. She carried white sweet peas
and orchids in a bridal bouquet
Miss Futh Felstiner. the maid of
honor, wore pale blue organdy cos
tune and carried delphinium flow-
ers The brides twin cousins, David
and Billy Simon of Washington,
acted as pages, and Mr.. William H.
White of Brookline was best man for
Mr.. Gussman.
A dinner party was held after the
wedding. Guests attended from
Washington, New York. Portland,
Me, and various parts of Massa-
chusetts.
For travelling. the bride chose a
light blue dress with hat. bag and
gloves of dusty rose. Mr.. and Mrs
Gussman will reside in Washington.
The bride is graduate of George
Washington University, class OF 1910,
and a member of Phi Sigma Simga
Sorority. Mr.. Gussman received his
masters degree from Columbia Uni
versitv in 1893.
Evening star., 1940-08-19
Mrs. NJ. r. Wilkes
Will Entertain for
SiSter.in.Law

Mrs. Marion R. Wilkes will en-
tertain at bridge tomorrow after
noon in honor of her sister-in-
law, Mrs Booth M. Gray of Laur-
ems, S. C. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilkes.
after visiting relatives in South
Carolina, accompanied by Mrs.
Gray motored through the noun
tains en- route home, stopping at
the Mayview Manor in Blowing
Rock and Greystone Inn in Roar
ing Gap.
Previous to this trip Mrs.
Wilkes spent three weeks at Fall
mouth. Mass, with her sister,
Mrs. Wilbur Emmons Forbes, the
former Marie Bernadette Hacker
of this city and Tennessee. The
engagement of Mr.. and Mrs.
Forbes eldest daughter, Miss
Anne Katharine Forbes, to Mr..
Proctor Howe Avon, son of Mr..
Victor Avon and the late Bertha
P. Avon of Cambridge, Mass. was
announced recently at an after
noon tea at the Forbes summer
home in the Moors, attended by
about so guests, many of them
from Taunton. Each guest
received a miniature nosegay to
which was attached a small card
with the name of Miss Forbes
and her fiance.
Miss Forbes is a graduate of the
Greenwood School at Ruxton,
Md, and of Briarcliff Junior Col
lege. She also attended Miss
Wheelock's School in Boston.
Mr.. Avon prepared at Beacon
School and was graduated from
Harvard College in 1887.
Evening star., 1940-08-19

matron of honor was dressed in gray
and white print with which she wore
a white hat. and her corsage bou-
uuet was of white gardenias.
Wedding Breakfast
Is Given.
The wedding breakfast was held in
the home of the brides mother, whose
costume was of rose-color lace made
after a tailored model, white hat
and a spray of gardenias.
Mr.. and Mrs Cooper will leave
later in the day for a motor trip to
the Middle West, and on their re-
turn will be at home at 1862 CONDUIT
road, in Shady Brook, where they
have taken an apartment. Mr.
Cooper is a scientific illustrator with
the ordnance branch of the War
Department. His bride is a graduate
of George Washington University, a
member of the Sigma Kappa So
rority and its official delegate to the
washington Panhellenic Association
She is a social worker with the Child
Welfare Division of the District OF
Columbia.
Mrs. Arthur c. Carly came from
her Philadelphia home for the we'd
ding.
Evening star., 1940-08-19
Suburban Social Notes
DR.. and Mrs. Roscoe McFadden
Will Pay Visit to Mrs. Spalding

DIR. and Mrs. Roscoe McFadden of
Norfolk, Va, are expected to arrive
tomorrow, when Mrs. McFadden and
her young son, Donald Roscoe. will
spend three weeks with her mother,
Mrs. A. w. Spalding. The doctor
will return to Newport News, Va,
where he has a medical residency in
the Newport News General Hospital.
Prof. Spalding is spending about
three weeks in Indiana and Mich
igan. where he is giving a course of
lectures at camp meetings.
Former Hyattsville Md Council
man and Mrs. Arthur C. Moon are
on tour of the New England States
that may extend into Canada. They
plan to return after Labor Day.
Mr.. and Mrs Russell E. Davis
and their children, Mary Katherine.
Martha Ellen and Billy Davis of
Hyattsville. Md. are on motor
trip during which they will visit
relatives in Tennessee and Ohio.
They will return after Labor Day.
Miss Mildred Lee Purdum. daugh-
ter of the Second Assistant Post
master General and Mrs Smith w.
Purdum of Hyattsville. Md, is visit
ing relatives at Ocean City, Md.
Miss Dorothy Monday, daughter
Evening star., 1940-08-19
Kathryn Haynes
Will Be Married

Announcement is made of the en-
eagement of Miss Kathryn w.
Haynes, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Evening star., 1940-08-19
Residential
Washington
News Notes
Mrs. w. N. DOak
Will Make Visit
In Wisconsin

Mrs. William N. Doak. widow Of
the former Secretary of Labor. who
has been at Notre Mid, her place
on the cliff overlooking the Potomac.
through the greater part Of the
summer, will leave there the latter
part of this month. She will 60 to
Neenah, Wis. to visit Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank B. Whiting at their
ranch there. Mrs. Whiting has fire.
quently visited Mrs. Doak here be-
fore her marriage, when, as Miss
Merle Stevens. she came from her
home in England.
Mrs. George H. Dern, widow OF
the former Secretary of War, had
as her guests last week her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Dern, who have returned to
their Chicago home.
Gen. and Mrs. Nathaniel F. Nc
Clure of the Wardman Park Hotel
have left for a visit to the White
Mountains in Bethlehem, N. H., and
tiiCy WILL lCiul III W w dSllillk UOIl lii
mediately after Labor Day.
The Rev. DR.. Howard S. Wilkin-
son, rector of ST. Thomas Church:
Mrs. Wilkinson and Miss Madeleine
Wilkinson are spending the summer
at the Wianno Club on Cape Cod
and expect to return to Washington
soon after Labor Day.
DR.. Wilkinson has preached in
Wianno and Falmouth during his
vacation.
Miss Mildred v. Dryer is spending
a short time in Mexico City and
is at the Hotel Ritz. She will re-
main several days in the Mexican
capital. Miss Dryer is in the State
Department.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester S. Williams
gave a dinner party Friday at their
home in Chevy Chase. in honor
Of Mrs. w. J. Williams and Mr..
James A. Kemp of Los Angeles.
Guests were DR.. and Mrs Henry F.
Grady and DR.. and Mrs. Fred j.
Kelly. Mrs. w. J. Williams ar
rived Tuesday from Los Angeles
to visit her son and family Mr.
James A. Kemp has been visiting
his daughter, Mrs. C. S. Williams,
in Chevy Chase, and another daugh-
ter in Richmond, Va. Mr.. Kemp is
the founder and editor of the Re-
publican Leader of Salem, Ind, and
is the oldest living president of the
Indiana Editorial Association
Mr.. C. S. Williams is the special
ist in conference planning and as
sistant administrator of the Fed
eral forum project in the United
States Office of Education. Mrs.
Williams is on the psychiatric staff
of Gallinger Hospital.
Mrs. w. j. Williams and Mr..
Kemp, accompanying Mr.. and Mrs.
c. S. Williams, will drive to New
Hampshire this week to see their
grandson at Camp Lauroweld-and
then extend their trip to visit
friends in Maine. On returning to
they will stop in New
York to visit the Worlds Fair.
Evening star., 1940-08-19

of Mr.. and Mrs Wilbur Monday of
Rockville, Md. is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Louise Burkeholder. and grand
mother, Mrs Ella Ricketts,. in At
lanta. She will return to Rockville
the latter part of this month.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. V. Fleishell of
Sligo Park Hills. Md. have as their
house guests Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton
Beltz and their daughters, Joan and
Geraldine, of Allentown, Pa.
Miss Winifred Hyslop. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hyslop of Silver
Spring, Md. is spending two weeks
in Charlottesville, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew A. Doetsch
and their daughter Jean of Silver
Spring, Md. have left for a vaca-
ton in Rehoboth Beach and At
lantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Marvin Peach of
Hyattsville, Md are in Atlantic CITY.
Evening star., 1940-08-19
Weddings Announced;
Miss Helen Jones Bride
Married to Carroll r. Cooper;
Miss Ruth White Is Wed
IT, Coor6o Crccr,,on
To George Gussman

at the wedding this morning of Miss
daughter the
Carroll of Washington Mr.
wedding
Cooper bridegroom
Paus Lutheran Church Connecticut
the w. Snyder officiating II
Simply arranged white glado and palms added the aac
O. wedding played by
Wlfred Tencken matron of honor and Mr. Leroy c.
Leasue of Silver Spring Md, best
lilies
Evening star., 1940-08-19

and accompanied Mrs. Dale Clark
cousin of the groom. in vocal
solo. "Du bist vie cine Blume."
Mrs. Wellemeyer is a daughter of
the late Prof. Charles Edward Hill
of the George Washington Univer.
sity and Mrs. Hill She is a gradu-
ate of George Washington and CO.
lumbia Universities and is a member
of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity.
Mr. Wellemeyer is a graduate of
Kansas State University and has a
masters degree from the University
Of Geneva, Switzerland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wellemeyer will be
at home to their friends at llO9
Sixteenth street after September 3.
Evening star., 1940-08-19
Margaret Dixon
To Wed Mr.. Hanes

Mr.. and Mrs. William Nelson
Dixon of Winston Salem, N. c.,
announce the engagement OF
their daughter, Miss Margaret
Lucille Dixon. to Mr.. George
Alton Hanes, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George w. Hanes of Washington.
The wedding will take place
early in November at the home
of the brides parents in Winston
Salem,
Evening star., 1940-08-19

Last week lney were nOSJS 10 lIlelI
nieces Miss Margaret Mckenzie
and Miss Mary Gilbert Mckenzie
of North Carolina, who have gone
to New York and expect to stop here
again on their way south.
Mrs. William E. Borah
Returns to Washington.
Mrs. William E Borah, widow of
Senator Borah, who has been at
Poland Springs, Me. for some time,
also has turned her steps homeward.
She stopped en- route for stay of
q few days at the Ritz-Carlton Ho-
tel in New York. and arrived at her
210l Connecticut avenue apartment
yesterday.
Staying in town, but having
guests arrive frequently at their
home are Senator and Mrs. Alex
ander Wiley, who now have with
them for few days their son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
P. D. Bradley, jr, who have been
in Wisconsin for the summer. They
will return to their home in Cam
bridge, Mass, this week preparatory
to the opening of classes at Harvard
University, where Mr.. Bradley is an
instructor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul V. McNutt
Hosts to Formers Parents.
Other stay-at- homes who are en-
tertaining out-of-town visitors are
the Federal Security Administrator
and Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, who have
with them for a fortnight or more
at their Shoreham apartment the
formers parents, Judge and Mrs.
John c. McNutt, who came from
their home in Indiana.
Judge and Mrs. McNutt arrived
over the week end for their first
visit to the Capital since their son
took up residence here.