Evening star. [volume], May 17, 1951, Page A-25, Image 25

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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
“I don’t know.” he said.
“I’ve done a lot of thinking,
Tania,” Bill told her. "I always
come back to the idea that it
must have been Nina, not you the
killer was after. It’s the only
explanation that makes sense.
“I told Wilson, and he didn’t
disagree with me. He said he’d
thought of that, too. and maybe
all of us had been barking up the
wrong tree, thinking it was you.
He said he was working on that
angle.”
I “It doesn’t explain Jeremy’s
shooting," she objected.
“No,” he agreed. “But Jeremy
knew her, didn’t he?"
She nodded. “A long time be
fore I met him. He had written
, her letters, too. Probably she’d
been blackmailing him as well as
f the others. That still doesn’t ex
t plain anything.” She frowned.
“Except this, Bill. That night
you followed me, and some one
shot at me in your car, I had
hfion fn .Tfiromv’c onortmon f T
told him I was Tania and bor
rowed some money from him.”
She went on, telling him about the
open bedroom door which had
silently closed.
“If some one had been hiding
In there, they might have killed
Jeremy later to prevent him from
telling you or the police,” Bill
reasoned.
Tania sighed. “Still it doesn’t
make sense. And I’ve been con
stantly worried about Mickey
Rollins. Where is he? Why hasn’t
he turned up? I’m sure he went
to Chicago. He had a notion he’d
find some definite clue there.
Does his disappearance mean the
killer got to Mickey? Wilson
hasn’t been able to find him.” She
buried her face in her hands. Her
shoulders trembled.
Bill stood up, his blue eyes
shadowed by anxiety. He said,
“There were only three people at
Jeremy’s the night he was killed—
George Marlow, Anton Ludovic
and Gloria. Both of us have elim
inated Gloria. Could it possibly
be George or Anton?”
Tania shivered. “What reason
could either of them have?”
Bill started toward the door.
“Anyhow, don’t let either of them
come up here alone,” he warned.
He put on his trench coat, belted
it and picked up his soft-brimmed
felt hat.
Tania looked up at him, her
great brown eyes fearful and
pleading. Suddenly, as if he
couldn’t help himself, he gathered
her into his arms btih
close. She felt his lips brush the
top of her head. Her Ungers
tightened on the lapels of his
coat and she raised her lips to
his.
He kissed her. then, a kiss
meant to be brief and friendly,
but when their lips met all of
their pent-up emotions broke
I loose and drowned them.
For an endless time they stood
there, wrapped in each other’s
arms, their eyes closed, their lips
interlocked with sweet, tender
I ardency.
i When Bill let her go there was
anger in his face, anger at him
I self, for he said: “I didn’t mean
| that to happen, Tania.”
He opened the door and hurried
k out . . .
Closing the door she leaned
} against it. "But it did happen!”
she whispered fiercely. "He did
kiss me! He wanted to as much
as I did!"
During the rest of the day she
alternated between hope and
despair. First she believed that!
Bill did care for her. then she
told herself that he never would
i because she would forever re
mind him of Nina and when she
I considered this, the very idea ofj
his loving her seemed impossible.
It seemed a cruel trick of fate
that her face had to be similar j
I to another girl’s, even though the
girl was dead now. It was like
having an evil twin sister.
Around seven o'clock, as she
finished a light dinner, alone,
George Marlow telephoned. "I
have two tickets for a new ahow
tonight, Tani,” he said. "Would
you like to go with me?”
An icy finger seemed to press
against the nape of her neck. She
thought, “George Marlow and
Anton Ludovic, the only two sus
pects left!” and it did seem strange
George’s invitation. He had never
Invited her anywhere before.
“I’m sorry, George.” she said.
“I’m busy this evening. How did
you happen to call me?”
He sounded embarrassed. “Well
truthfully, my date stood me up
at the last minute, Tani. Then I
thought of you because I realized
you might like to get out for awhile
and take your mind off what’s
happened.” His voice was frank,
so genuine, that she decided it
oouia not be George who had
planned murder. In her mind
she conjured him up—nice gray
•yes. curly fair hair, clean young
face.
“Thanks, George,” she said. I’m
sorry I can't go. rm sure you'll
find some one.”
Another restless unhappy hour
passed. Her nerves were jump
ing like Mexican beans. From the
street, three floors below, any one
who was curious could tell she
was at home by the lights.
Twice she tried to reach Wilson,
but he was not at the station. Then
at 10 o’clock, when she felt her
nerves would snap, Anton Ludo
vio called.
“Are you alone, Tani?” he
aeked.
“Why—yes,” she said, and
wondered if this was it, the pre
liminary to an attempt on her
life.
"You shouldn’t be,” ha aoolded
*a»ply. “Are your doors locked,
honey?”
“Locked and bolted.”
“Good,” he said. "I haven’t
been able to get you off my mind.
I’m really worried about you,
Tani. Would it help if I came over
and played gin-rummy with you,
or held your hand?”
“Thanks, but not tonight,” she
said evenly. “I’m all right, Anton.
I’m going to go to bed and read
until I’m sleepy.”
“Take care of yourself, Honey.
W check with you tomorrow .. .”
She thought, hanging up, “It
•an’t In Anton. If it were, If he
k,
wanted to get rid of me, why
didn’t he try something when I
was out with him last night?”
And she was ashamed for sus
pecting any one who had been so
thoughtful and as nice.
She turned on the lamps in the
bedroom, then turned out the liv
ing room lights. When the room
was dark, she stood at one of
the wide casement windows and
glanced down at the street. A
slight movement in the doorway
of a building opposite caught her
eyes.
Yes, some one was there.
A bulky shape in the darkness.
The detective.
Then suddenly the figure struck
a match to light a cigarette and
in the brief illuminating flare she
saw it was not the detective. It
was Bill Reynolds.
Her heart leaped with hope.
Surely he wouldn’t be there, keep
ing a vigil, unless he cared about
nerl
(To be continued.)
Man Identified From Photo
Cleared in Narcotics Case
A man who had been accused
of narcotics law violations after he
was identified from a photograph
was cleared yesterday when his
accuser confronted him in per
son and said he was not the man.
The man cleared was Ernest
Walker, 46, colored, for whom no
address was listed. An indictment
had been returned against him
in April some time after a former
narcotic addict identified a police
picture of Walker as that of a
man who had sold him drugs in
December.
The identification was ques
tioned by defense counsel. Ar
rangements then were made by
Assistant United States Attorney
John C. Conliff, jr., for the in
former to look at the defendant in
i cell. When this was done, the
informer said Walker was not the
nan who had sold him the drug.
Mr. Conliff moved to dismiss
the indictment in which Walker
tiad been charged. The motion
was granted by Chief Judge Bo
litha J. Laws.
Alaska has produced $500 mil
lion worth of gold within 50 years.
Dutch Atomic Scientist
To Aid Argentine Project
By the Associated Press
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands,
May 17.—Dr. C. J. Bakker, a lead
ing Dutch atomic scientist, said
yesterday he had been invited to
Argentina to acquaint himself
with atomic experiments going on
there.
Dr. Bakker, who heads the
; Dutch Foundation for Nuclear
! Physical Research, will leave by
plane for Buenos Aires today.
President Juan D. Peron an
nounced in March that Argentine
research Mad found a cheaper way
of producing atomic energy.
Mothers can sit beside their
babies in new sound-proof rooms
of the Wallasey, Scotland, motion
picture house, watching films
through double-glass windows and
hearing through loudspeakers.
West German Machinery Reported in Red Mines
By th« Associated Press
COBURG, Germany, May 17.—
An East German refugee said here
yesterday that machinery made
in West Germany is being used ir
Russian-run uranium mines in the
Soviet zone.
He also declared that Russian
soldiers are being sent to the
mines at Aue, big Saxonian
uranium area, as punishment, and
that the Russian workers live un
der worse conditions than forced
German labor.
His statements were made to a
group of Allied reporters on a tour
sponsored by the United States
High Commission, and taking
them to West Germany’s eastern
border.
The refugee, a 23-year-old Ger
|man miner, fled Aue within the
jpast week.
Allied officials said other refu
gees had made similar reports.
The officials explained that some
machinery could go to East Ger
jmany under interzonal trade
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missions.
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