Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1929 — Page 8

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THIS HAS HAPPENED MILDRED LAWRENCE fails it; 10-" Filth STEPHEN ARMITAOE. who Is lured ay from hr by PAMELA JUD60N *hen whe tHls him that Mildred Is trying to marry her brother HAROLD, tor his money. Harold fears HUCK CONNOR because he :,olds a checlc hlch he forged Huck Is infatuated Tlth Pamela, who plays him to make Rtephen Jealous When Pamela ir.tr.eu•or, Stephen into an engagement. H.;ck frames him for the then of an auto ad causes his arrest. Pamela breaks tre.r engagement, but Mildred goes to a r e him Tr. Jail and promi:'- help. Harold had once confessed his fear rs Huck to Mildred and said that he threatened to get Armliage to keep him from marrying Pamela. W’ith this as a cle*. she determines to force Harold to aid Stephen and Is shocked to hear of his death apparently accidental Then she tells Stephen her suspicions. but they have not proof and things seem hopeless. In desperation. Mildred goes to P .tela and tells her story, Pamel asends her to MR JUDSON. who is impressed hy what she says and takes her to headt uarters where she repeats her suspicions about Huck. Mr. .Judson puts lip bail for Stephens release and Pamela goes to see him and asks forgiveness. She ai-.o plans her wedding and picks out her ring. NOW CO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXVII A FEW seconds before the shot - that was meant to kill Mildred was fired, an incoming train disgorged its passengers for that station and the first of the stream, hurrying toward the street, saw her pitch forward in a headlong fall down the stairs. One of them, a young man with a cauliflower ear and a quick eye, sprang forward to catch her. He succeeded in breaking the fall, but they both went down together. Others came to his assistance, but in attempting to get Mildred on her feet they say that she was unconscious. By this time a guard had appeared upon the scene. He took instant and efficient command of the situation. The passengers, all but a few of the more curious, went on their way. not one of them suspecting that the girl had been shot. New York listens to her noises with half an ear. A pistol shot, muffled in this case, would be unheard except by those who chanced to be at close range. And Mildred's would-be assassin although his nerves were unsteady and his shoulders jerked spasmodically in a queer twitching motion, had still enough command of his judgemnt to choose an instant that would give him all the advantage w hen he pulled the trigger. His right hand was on his side to the building. To any one approaching from the rear he was hidden from view by the piled-up boxes. He would scarcely be notic’d by fnv one coming toward him as he faced the subway entrance, which would prevent him from being in the direct line of vision of all but those coming up the street. BBS t'p'HAT was the chance he had to J- take, but shooting a young girl on a busy New York street could not be without its hazards. The thing was to “get her on a spot.” He'd been told to pick the first opportunity. As there was no one near at the instant. Mildred paused to get out her change, he decided the time was ripe to obey orders. Mildred was no more to him than a wooden target would have been. His mind was filled with the promise of immediate transport to his private heaven when the job was finished. He needed no other inducement to have it done as soon as possible. His half-satisfied craving for drugs was sufficient to prime him for the murderous deed he'd undertaken, although the man who waited to know the result was well aware of the fact that the priming Itself was a factor against success.

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Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, was a day of hectic excitement and bustle, for Cherry suddenly had decided on Monday to Invite the entire family to eat Thanksgiving dinner with her. Bubbling over with one of her rare but irresistible attacks of generosity, she had telephoned her invitations and battered down all opposition. "It's a shame you won't be here to help eat all the gorgeous things you're helping to cook, Hony," she sympathized at luncheon on Wednesday. "Do you really have to go to Rosses' tomorrow? There'd be plenty of room at table for you and your father." "Sorry, but I promised Mrs. Ross." Tony answered. "Are there really fourteen of you? It must be gorgeous to be one of such a big family ” "Fourteen, nto counting the three babies." Cherry assured her proudly. *'l used to think it was anything but a blessing to be one of a big family. when there were six of us coped up in that dismal shack of ours on Myrtle street. We were forever stepping on each other's actual and spiritual corns, but when you can take your family or leave it alone It's rather fun to belong to a clan. "Just think —in less than three years that family of six has turned into a family of seventeen and it would be eighteen if Muggy were still with us. only if she were Dad wouldn't be married to Kate Lundy would he?" Because her blithe voice trembled on the pet name by which she had always called her dead mother, her husband hastened to inquire casually: "How do you make it seventeen, honey? I've been casting up accounts, and I can make it come cut only sixteen. Have you been holding out a relative on me. Missus Jenson?" “Idiot!” Cherry grinned at him. her tears instantly dried in the flame of love which his slightest endearment could kindle in her topaz eyes. "Here's the list, tucked away with housewifely efficiency, in my pocket. Grandpa and Grandma Lane, of course . . . You mustn't forget to start early in the morning lor them, and to drive back at a funeral pace, darling. You'll have a swell time hearing Grandma tell gow the world is going to the dogs and what Thanksgiving was like in her day. . . . Aunt Hattie. . . .

It was a risk the man was compelled to take. He hadn't anyone at hand to send out on such cold-blooded task except this lost creature. This was not a gang war—he could get help from Duke and his men only up to a certain point. When it came to murdering a girl Huck had to do his own fixing, he was told. £o he sent for Snifty—even Huck didn't know’ his surname. One glance at him and Huck saw that Snifty would promise anything he asked. But he couldn’t send him out as he was; he’d flunk it sure. It was necessary for Huck’s purpose to satisfy Snifty’s craving just enough to bolster his nerve up to the point where murder was no more to him than the price of a few hours of happy oblivion to torture, and yet stop short of giving him enough of his drug to make him forget what he was sent out to do. Snifty had picked up the trail shortly before Mildred left Mr. Judson. When he fired and saw her fall he turned and walked away with no thought in his mind but to get back to Huck and collect his pay. From across the street came a man who had seen Mildred go toppling forward, but even he had no suspicion that she’d been shot. He did not notice Snifty, who was cunning enough not to run. When the man saw that Mildred was receiving aid he want back to his fruit stand. His gallantry in going to her assistance was rewarded by the loss of an apple apiece to a couple of street urchins who made of! in haste when they saw him returning. His interest in Mildred died right then, and although he was an observant man, he failed to see Snifty hasten toward a parked taxicab as his nerve began to fail him. B B B WHEN it was discovered that Mildred had been shot she was carried into a nearby drug store, where she revived before the ambulance which had been hastily summoned arrived. The ambulance surgeon decided to take her to the hospital, though he told her the wound was superficial—“just a tiny splinter ofl the acromion. You'll be able to go home tonight.” As it was her shoulder that burned like fire Mildred assumed that it was her “acromion.” Before she was helped out to the ambulance she answered a number of questions put to her by a policeman. She said she did not know who had shot her, mindful that Inspector Markeson was not ready to make public the developments in the Judson case. But she w r as almost overcome with terror. She knew now that Huck, should he be caught and charged with murder, never would let her tell what she knew on the witness stand if he could prevent it. “He knows I've been to headquarters with Mr. Judson,” was the thought that ran through her mind with a fearful significance back of it. At the hospital, after her wound was dressed, she asked to be allowed to telephone. She was told to rest a w’hile first, but her nervous anxiety was so apparent the nurse relented and called the number she gave for her. “Ask for Mr. Judson, please,” Mildred directed excitedly. In a moment the nurse handed her the receiver. “Here’s your party,” she said, “but don’t talk long.”

She’ll put you wise to what a little hellion you’ve married and tell you what rotten luck you had not to get Faith instead of me. . . . Faith and Bob and Robin. “Faith insists on coming over early this afternoon, bringing her dark treasure, Beulah, to help with the dinner. I fear she doesn’t trust your wife. Nils, but she might put her trust in our Rhoda. . . . Let’s see now. . . Oh. yes, the ‘Long’ Lane. Juniors—” "Long Lane?" Tony puzzled. "Oh, yes. that’s a nickname your brother Jimmy got in school because he was so tall. I remember now. Is their baby a boy or girl?" “Girl, name of Harriet, after Aunt Hattie," Cherry replied. . . . "Now, who else?. . Dad and Joy. and Kate, of course. You knew Dad married Faith’s housekeeper. Kate Lundy, didn't you. Tony? She’s an old peach, really, and marvelous to Dad and Joy. . . . Well, counting us Jensons—Nils and me and Rhoda and Hope, that makes sixteen and Crystal brings the grand total up to seventeen. If we get through the day without a grand and glorious iamily row. i'll be surprised.” (To Be Continued.)

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“This is Mildred Lawrence,” Mildred said when she heard Mr. Jud- ! son's voice. “I’m in a hospital. Can 1 you come here right away?” “What has happened? Where are you?” Mildred told him. “Please don’t say anything to Stephen,” she begged. “He hasn't got here,” Mr. Judson replied. “But I’ve telephoned the jail; everything’s all right.” “Is Pamela with him?” “No, she’s here.” “Don't let her go out. and please hurry. The nurse says I mustn’t , talk any more now’.” “I’ll be over directly,” Mr. Judson promised and hung up. a b b MILDRED waited for him in a fever of anxiety. “Did you send a policeman to the jail with your lawyer?” was the first thing she said when he entered the 1 v;ard where they had put her to bed. Mr. Judson nodded. “What happened?” he asked. Mildred told him briefly. Mr Judson’s face blanched as he listened. He realized then to the fullest Huck Connor’s implacable nature. “I sent for you so you’d see that you’ve got to believe Huck Connor will do anything,” she said.* “And there was a policeman at the drug store w r ho asked me a lot of questions. I didn’t tell him any more than I had to because I was afraid it would get into the papers and Huck w’ould find out how much Inspector Markeson knows.” “You’re a very brave girl,” Mr. Judson commented. “But w’e won't let you take any more chances. I’ll tell Markeson of this at once. He’ll see that nothing gets into the papers through the police.” Mildred relaxed with a sigh of relief. Then her face clouded over again. “I suppose I can’t keep it from my mother,” she said. “You might if w’e can keep the police reporters from getting it.” “She's so worried about me,” Mildred explained, “and I’m scared, too, Mr. Judson. I’m sure Huck knows he's suspected. If he didn’t know it he wouldn’t have disappeared.” “We'll find him,” Mr. Judson returned grimly. “We have the advantage, for w’hatever he may believe you have told us he does not know that we have his thumbprint—if it is his. That will make him less cautious.” “I hope we won’t find out before he’s caught,” Mildred returned earnestly. an a MR. JUDSON understood the unspoken thought behind the words. He, too, felt that if Huck knew of the evidence against the murderer that was now in the possession of the police he would take . swift vengenance on the girl whose disclosures had linked his name with the crime. “How long are they keeping you here?” he asked, speaking as though it were a matter of small importance. “I'm going home tonight,” Mildred told him. “after I’ve telephoned mother that I’ve met with, a slight accident.” Mr. Judson's face became grave in spite of his efforts to appear unconcerned with the answer. “Don't you think it would be advisable for you to remain here for a few days?” he asked, and added hastily: “Where you can have better care.” Mildred smiled. “You don't know what a wonderful mother I’ve got. Besides, I’m not really hurt. The bullet just clipped the tip of my shoulder. “It will require dressing, and a hospital is the proper place,” Mr. Judson began firmly, but Mildred interrupted him. “It would worry my mother needlessly to have me here,” she said quietly. Mr. Judson stopped beating around the bush. “But it may be dangerous for you to place yourself where Huck Connor can reach you,” he pointed out. “I don't think he’ll bother with me,” Mildred answered. “Now that he knows I've been to Inspector Markeson he'll be too busy keeping himself from getting caught to have any time for me.” “You're just talking to keep up your courage.” Mr. Judson remarked. “but there is something in what you say. “Having made one attempt upon your life, the man probably would consider it too dangerous to try again. He will expect us to guard you. which we most certainly shall do well.” Mildred plainlv showed the relief felt at his .words. “You’ll go home in my car and there will be a plainclothes man with you wherever vou go from now until Connor is lodged in jail.” Mr. Judson went on. but if he could have known at the moment as a result of Huck’s orders he would have been less confident of lodging Huck in jail. * (To Be Continued.)

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