| Show By Bv Love LoveI Trapped tl I J Dbr uen e BEGIN HERE KERE TODAY Until the he an anniversary of her brothers brother's arrest for embezzlement ment two years before Inspired a news new story recalling the famous case Margo Haynes had had a sort of peace The news story recalls to all aU how Eric Haynes had been arrested tried and convicted of embezzlement embezzle embezzle- m ment ment and nt-and and had escaped from jail It does not of c course urse tell teU that Margo knows Eric is innocent or that he hels is isnow now in a steel mill mm in Gavin Gay Gay- i in Il f Pa Of all the persons affected d by the story only Bob Craddock who loves Margo feels relief It explains to him the source source of a mysterious letter let let letter ter ho has received with tho the r request quest that he pass on to Margo a sealed inner note The story unaccountably unaccountably ably irks Gordon Fenwick broker whose assistant Eric was NOW GO ON WITH THE FHE HE STORY Chapter 6 Margo saw law Gordon Fenwick before before before be be- fore he ho saw her and her bcd body stiffened stiffened stif sUf- a little as she sho came closer to him In a moment they would ba bl face to face because the crossIng crossing cross- cross 1 Ing lug was crowded and they were Inthe in inthe 1 the same path He wouldn't r re remember member her of course or if he did he wouldn't speak Why should tho the vice president of Davies Je Jerome Terome ome company remember the sister sis sister sister sis sis- ter of at Eric Haynes Why It If he did remember her should he speak She Sho knew him remembered him and nd was only natural that sh ah she should My boss Eric used to call him Erics boss boss- Margo Marg used to Identify him to herself for Fen Fen- wick ran the local Davies Jerome Jerome Jer Jer- ome house 4 Not So Cordial Margo Marg had been been properly introduced introduced introduced intro intro- to him at the office in days when she called for Eric or stopped in when she was downtown Fenwick Fen Fenwick Fenwick Fen Fen- wick had accepted the introduction courteously and afterward when she met him In the office always spoke to her During the trial he had sat on one side of the courtroom courtroom court court- room and she on the other There was no need of his speakIng speaking speak- speak ing ng or nodding then but he had hadnot not so cordially as in the office but bul politely and rather er distantly Achilly Achilly A A- Achilly chilly morning good when they chanced to meet on their way into tho the courtroom a n. quick jerky nod when their eyes met Mr Fenwick looked older she thought as he ho came closer Two years rears had grayed his hair and lined Jils face The years years' had made him thinner and left darkening pouches under his ey eyes eyes s sharpened his fea fea- tui tures s But ut with the graying hair the pouches and arid the thinness he was still handsome and his c carriage was the same same jaunty jaunty confident A car made ade a left turn and Margo and Fen Fenwick were left on the same street island nd Good morning Good Margo l Margo largo argo I morning Good Mr Mr- Fenwick she replied nervously for the Margo startled her In the old days when Eric was Mr Fenwick's chief assistant he had called her Margo At the trial on the on-the the occasions when he called her by name she was Miss Haynes Nice day day day- he ho was smiling no not only politely but cordially Nice day The car pass passed d and he tie was going west an and she e cast t. t and the encounter was over over The girl breathed a sigh of relief relie when she reached the curb and promptly prompt prompt- ly Iy forgot Mr Fenwick in the arrival of her bus Fenwick however when h he stepped t to the sidewalk looked d back at the girl in the tan polo coat who was dropping her dime in in- inthe the change box on In the back of the bus Now she was was mounting the stairs t to tho the top deck now weaving her way to a seat near the front Then Ihen en she was out of sight behind a a woman in black The bus started up with a jerk and rolled away The man resumed his walk up up th the tho street It wasn't the first time tim time in two years Gordon Fen ha had seen Margo Haynes Since the trial tria he had seen her herat at least half haifa a dozen times Once in an open topless topics roadster beside a haired brown-haired h hatless hatless hat hat- t. t less youth driving dr in the country Once on tho lio dance floor of of th the tho Ambassador r with the same youth the long blue dress she was wearing swirling out like a f fan n when she turned She hadn't seen him either time neither had she recognized him Inthe Inthe in inthe the other brief glimpses hed he'd had of her walking her walking down the street hurrying to lunch two weeks ago ao passing the Davies Jerome offices 1 as he was coming out the door Thought of f. f Her Between the times he had seen her he ho had thought about her Not Nol constantly but occasionally And Anc the vision Ke lie always conjured up of f her when his thoughts turned to her was a ad definite one e. e Margo sitting in the courtroom her kne knees s crossed her right elbow resting on them and her chin resting resting rest rest- ing on her hand Her eyes looking off into space her face faco very pale her lips very very red lovely red lovely lips Ups she had had and and that small sal red toque on n nh h her r head with its tt defiant crimson feather tacked just above her left lef ear Not U the e kind of a hat bat at all al for lor the sister of Eric Haynes to wear wear especially wear especially in a courtroom yet she he had worn it I all al during the triaL Today she was vas wearing a soft sofi brown felt fel brimmed hat cocked down over one ne eye eye Fenwick had se seen n of them in shop win windows dows on the streets street the same kind yet Margo made he hers 3 look smarter than the the others She wore it If with wih the air that i iwas It i was th the only one of ot its kind as if i It belonged to her and nob nobody dy else else He liked that In women women It I was wu the way she had worn worn the long blue dress dres at the Ambassador The Te way she had worn the red hat at the Continued on en Page Faze an Ten HP Trapped II I By Love Continued from Page Pai trial The way she wore won all her clothes When he had first met her althe at al atthe atthe the office she was only Erics Eric's kid kic sister to him a smiling pretty girl rather shy when she came in in embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed em em- as she shook hands with him Ho He didn't didn t give her a passing thought Later he did however the first day Erics Eric's trial opened It ame to him with a shock that she was grown up really a beautiful beautiful beau beau- l girl and Fenwick liked beautiful beautiful beau beau- girls The shyness was gone and in Irr its place was a charming defiance Margo had blossomed out Preoccupied She seemed lovelier today to him than she ever had before before even even on the Ambassador dance floor Lovelier Lovelier Love Love- her lier lier and more and more inaccessible He was forced to drop thoughts of other her when he fie went vent into the First National bank to talk with one of the vice presidents but he resumed them and they lingered with him until Nolan came to drive him home that I evening Nolan thought his employer was was only more preoccupied than usual on th the trip to the for there was hardly a a. word from him and only a c curt rt nod when Fenwick Fenwick Fenwick Fen- Fen wick got out of the car and went into the thel apartment house Kano Kaho was vas puzzled when his master master master mas mas- ter didn't do justice to the dinner h tie he had prepared for although Fenwick's Fenwick's Fenwick's Fen- Fen wicks wick's appetite was light for breakfast breakfast breakfast break break- fast and for tor lunch he usually ate atea a hearty dinner Tonight plate after pl plate te went back almost untouched Headache still the Japanese asked anxiously Headache Ache in head still sUll goes Yes Ye Fenwick lied and gave a ahall half hall smile Too bad But it wasn't a headache it was simply because this morning the Her Herald ld had revived the Haynes Hayne story and nd this afternoon he had seen Margo After he had finished with his coffee he went into the the library which adjoined the living room zoom am and sat down before the fireplace At Athis Athis his right elbow was a phone which If he he- chose he could use to can call Margo without so much as moving He glanced at it contemplatively as |
