Show Telegram Fiction Made Up to Kill KiH By Kelley Roos 5 S CHAPTER 27 Evidently Jeff had had learned S all aU h he wanted wanted to He got up chucking Tommy on the shoulder shoulder shoulder der with his fist So long Tom And thanks A lot Out on the Ule sidewalk again S walking toward Seventh avenue avenue ave aye nue I had trouble keeping up with Jeff Jelf x- x Wh Where re are we going I 1 asked He didn't answer Jeff remember me Im I'm the girl youre you're going to marry S Ye Yeah h when I solve this mo mote more e ethan than slight case of murder He stopped turned and started In hi the opposite direction Haila Im I'm leaving you here Why You cant can't walk fast enough 5 Walk fast enough where Look Ill I'll meet you at your place in about an an hour Keep Carol there till then if you can He stepped off the curb and andS S started across Sixth avenue I watched him thread his way through the traffic up tie-up and then bunching my collar around my neck neck with neck with one hand and holding tight to the brim of my felt hat with the other I el elbowed elbowed elbowed el- el bowed my way to Fifth avenue and started up it It had been a two-faced two day warm and bright with the smell of April in the air and now suddenly it had pulled itself to together together to to- gether with the thern coming of night and gone back to being November November Novem Novem- ber with a vengeance The wind swirling down the wide street took sizable nips through my mythIn mythin mythin thin tw tweed ed coat and andI I I lost no notime notime notime time making it to the sheltering canyon of fourth Fifty-fourth street There was a knot of men in front of my ap apartment building building build build- ing two i in uniforms of the city's finest the others wearing the glum mask that is apparently a for plainclothes men I caught a glimpse of Peterson in deep conversation with the ph photographer whose equipment lay on the step at his feet I said Hi fell fellas as as I walked past the men and went into the lobby where th the tM boy who re relieved relieved re re- Jinx on the day shift a asad asad asad a sad morose-faced morose boy took me the up The apartment was in complete com corn darkness and I reached for forthe forthe forthe the switch and snapped on the ceiling lights Then quickly I turned them off again and felt my way around in the blackness blackness black black- ness pulling down the blinds I had no desire to be a target for any guests of the hotel I locked and bolted the door and wriggled the knob experimentally experimentally mentally in spite of the two detectives stationed outside and then lit the table lamp Over Ovet the yellow jellow shade I saw Carol watching me from front the bedroom door She had been crying and the powder she had smeared over her face in a gallant effort to hide the tearstains was streak streaked d dand and pathetic She must have seen all my pre precautionary measures measures meas meas- ures for there was alarm in her eyes Peeping Toms I explained glibly pointing to the drawn shades I sat on the couch and lit a cigar t resolving to do my to drive the th thought of murder out of her mind for a little while at least Darling I think thin its it's swell ell about you and Steve In fact I Oh Haila Halla keep your fingers crossed Steves Steve's telling his mother moth moth moth- er about me about us Steve and me Shell say yes or Ill I'll mow her down Oh if if she doesn't I I dont don't know what Ill I'll do I wont won't be able to stand it He should be back soon If she says no will that mean that Steve wont Marry me I wouldn't wouldn let et him I Ive I've caused Steve enough trouble I I. I She moved restlessly about the room stopping stopping stop stop- ping at l last st to curl up on t the e couch beside me Haila Halla Carol Plans to Move to a Hotel What Carol Haila Im I'm leaving here heie To To- morrow Leaving here Why Im going to a hotel I I have some money now my check for Gre Green n Apples and if I need needmore needmore needmore more Steve will let me have it I wont won't like that but I guess i its it's s 's an emergency I guess It is but youre you're not leaving Ive got to Haila Halla It'll just be for until Steve and I get married If we do she added and I could almost hear her breathe a a. silent prayer Oh I know its it's wrong pf pi me things being the way they are but I wish we could get married to to- to morrow Well whenever the wedding is youre you're sta staying ing here until it I wont won't have you going to a hotel For a a moment she didn't answer answer an an- then she said softly I Im m afraid to stay atay here But youre you're safer than in a hotel Steve and Jeff and I. I I dont don't mean that Im I'm not afraid for myself Im I'm afraid for you Haila when these things first began to happen I was So terrified and sort of numb about it all that I I was thoughtless thoughtless thought thought- less and selfish It never dawned on me how I. I I was dragging dragging dragging drag drag- ging you into this mess just by living here at your place And Md you were so swell vell about it I just well I just took it for granted Carol dont don't be silly And then at first everything was happening at th the theater and andI I I. I didn't think there was any danger here Then today that shot Haila Halla that bullet could have hit you You might be dead now flow and all because I because of of-me of me So that's why youre you're going I don't dont want anything to happen happen hap hap- pen to you she she said said her words scarcely audible what happened to Eve North II Im I'm 1 all packed Ill I'll leave in the morning Well go in and unpack Youre You're Continued on on Following Page |