Evening star., 1941-04-13

Well, you go to bed and sleep and
when there Is a good solid reason
for your worrying I'll be the first
one over there to tell you"
But she found out soon enough,
going to bed was far different from
going to sleep. She faced another
sleepless night and this time fear
that seemed to be greater than any
she had ever known made the night
place of terror for her. Over and
over again she thought Of the man
with the scar because she was by
now firmly convinced that he had
taken that coat with its hidden gun
as a warning to her to stop linking
his name with the crime. Marks
story of Parker seeing this man add
ed new complication and dam
gerous one.
Why had Parker not told her of
seeing this man in the office? Had
he seen Joes gun lying on the floor?
If he had seen it he must know she
had hidden it all that day from the
police.
So one fear-driven thought after
another came to her as the clock in
the great hall slowly tolled off the
| interninable hours.
Her finger prints were on Joe's
gun. The person who had taken it
that afternoon certainly held her
life in his hands. Was it Parker?
OF course his story corroborated
hers of the man with the scar, but
that was no longer enough. She
must know all that Parker knew
and she must talk to him before
Mark or any one else reached him
in the morning.
Sandra Is Bewildered.
A hot spring sun was filtering
through the drawn Venetian blinds
in her bedroom when Sandra finally
awoke the next morning. She
heard the soft tap, tap of the thin
wooden laths as the breeze brushed
them gently back and forth over the
window sill. Through the swaying
blinds she heard the sound of robins
and the short. sharp calls of other
birds, filling the morning with their
noisy spring songs.
AS she sat up in bed she was
grateful that the night was over.
The first thing was her morning
newspaper. Eagerly she read the
account Of yesterdays inquest. 60
ing more slowly as she reached the
last paragraph.
Many rumors and theories have
| developed over the strange disap-
pearance of DR.. STAIRS gun. In a
statement issued last night from
headquarters, Capt. Jones said that
when the gun was found the mys-
terry surrounding the doctors death
would be cleared up at once. A
state and nation wide search is
being made for the man seen prowl-
ing around the Starr home the night
of the shooting. The police believe
they will round up this man within
the next 48 hours"
Sandra rang for Kate and her
breakfast tray.
| She was bewildered-and fright
ened. Whoever had that gun had
only to hand it over to the police
and she would be Immediately ar
rested for Joe's murder. She must
see Parker at once. He might help
her or-and this she had to face
he might be new danger.
A Shocking Report.
1t occurred to her that her tray
was far too long in coming up. She
rang again and this time long, de-
termined call indicated her i'm
patience. Going to the window she
leaned her hot forehead against the
pane, watching George the gardener
working on the lawn below. her
Suddenly one of the maids ran out
She said something to George, who
Immediately dropped his tools and
started running with her toward the
house. Puzzled she hardly knew
why, Sandra opened the window ano
leaned out. Nothing seemed amisS
and she was just feeling that hel
nerves were little too easily upset
when he saw two men from the
garage round corner of the garden
on dead run for the kitchen door
A premonition that something was
wrong made her step quickly to the
bell and this time she did not have
to wait. Within three minutes the
door burst open and Kate. her face