Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-22
CHAPTER 16

grasped in the left. Her eyes looked
haunted, wild. What on earth was she
doing?
Gaby swung around. "Spy!" Her
eyes were fairly glazing out of her
head. She had thrust the box behind
her. "Spy!" she Kissed.
"No! Mop Jean gasped. cts that
- Oh, Gaby, Pm frightened! A man
I met last night-Zeke was his name
he's been murdered!"
"I : saw = it," Gaby put hand
to her heart.
GIN the paper, you meant"
''No! No! I dare not look!"
"Then you heard about it, Gaby?"
81 heard it and - I saw i'll" She
spoke like a woman in trance.
acknowledgement! He'll kill
me-too Jean, save mel"
Jean ran to Gaby and put her arms
about her, leading her to the bed.
"Green? He did it? You were-there?
"LIll-never tell! dare never
leave this housed"
ellie down, Gaby. I'll take care of
you. I'll sleep here with you. Why did
you go there?"
Because needed-the stuff. He
taught me, so I might sell it. But"
grabbing jeans shoulder wildly
"I nev-aire was so wicked as to sell
it"
"You mean glancing fearfully
at the dresser - whats in that
box?"
eyes. I try-nev-aire to touch it!
Oh, Jean, help me! You are my sis
ter! My sister!"
Green was arrested two days later.
In the basement room where the body
had been found, the check-up showed
his finger-prints. The room was a
hide-away for shady characters. For
some time, the police had had their
eyes on it. At his trial, the evidence
being circumstantial as to the muir
der, he was convicted on dope
selling charge land sentenced to "from
five to ten years."
Gaby moved white-faced about the
house these days. Once the trial was
safely over, however, without her
being called, or in any way connected
with it, she became her bright and
charming self.
This, to jeans mind, seemed rather
constituencies, since she was the one
person whose evidence, voluntarily
piven, would have sent Green to the
electric chair.
She couldn't blame Gaby, however,
for keeping her own name fair and
clear.
Weeks passed. It was winter now
Laurel glad to be away from the
strained atmosphere at home, was
at Palm Beach, Florida.
Gaby's singing job had come to a
close. Her following was exhausted.
New society" singers brought fresh
clientele. But what cared Gaby, when
.the announcement of her engage
zment to the wealthy, young Walter
. Mallory seemed imminent?
Jean was heartsore. And yet, I'M
der it all, queer, strained bond of
affection had come into being be-
tween the two girls whose characters
were so widely divergent. Sure that
Gaby was seeing Armand, that she
was embarrassing Walter, although
she denied it. Jean couldn't bring her
self to give Gaby away. :
One Saturday at noon, Jean heard (
over her radio some very disturbing
news. Green, aided by his pals, had {
clevery escaped from Sing-Sing, and S
Sssxs believed to be heading north!
She gasped: "Gaby!" Gaby's safety I
was her first thought! Gaby had
often said that if Green ever broke s
Jail, he'd come after her and kill her!
That she knew too much!
Gaby must be warned at once!
Gaby had feared that Green blam-
ed her for tipping authorities off as
to his dope-selling. That he consid-
cred she had turned stool-pigeon! He [
had tried to get her to peddle the !
stuff when she was working in his
club. And she wouldn't!
Jean had completely weaned Gaby
away from her incipient dope-taking
That wasn't so hard to do as it was
only in the very early stages-and
Gaby herself was afraid of what it
might lead to. :,
Now, with Green escaped from jail,
and headed north, there was pos
sibility that he would head for Gaby's
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