Show Sandy by b ys Ays A Me ilfe DX 1 i CHAPTER CIL 9 89 91 A pair ot o eyes shaded with very long lashes and straight fine black brows that that curved slightly slightly- and unexpectedly upward at the tho temples just the eyes eye and a portion n of ot the nose noso looking up tram front an enlarged photograph A snapshot o ot of these eyes had been found In a a tiny gold frame socked locked away ny In Ramons Ramon's desk With it was a a paragraph clipped from a Utter written by a wom- wom woman woman an Douglas Dougia knew It for tor Sandys Sandy's writing and ad cringed see see- seeIng see log Ing a fellow ha he h despised picking up the message and grinning u uhe a ahe ashe he read You have hn taught me the beau beau- beauty beauty beauty ty there might be In life lite Ramon Bamon and nd how tine and tender great love like yours your can an be You Youve given mo me a thing sweeter and better than Ive I've ever known I dont don't regret now and Im I'm never going to regret what Ive I've been to ou S S The Mystery Womans Woman's eyes and the Mystery Womans Woman's letter The The photograph and a II reproduction reproduction reproduction tion ot oC the paragraph were to ap appear appear pear In the morning morning- paper New New- Newton Newton Newton ton had an an- exclusive story of ot this find He was wa exultant ant exult nt Wheres the rest rest- resto o ot of her face Douglas now asked staring at the lino IIno ot freckles running across the bridge ot of the nose noce and light light- lightly lightly ly under the th eyes for tor him bim a clear Identification Hed He'd seen the snapshots taken In the Islands and recognized now these old never freckles freckles never saw any other marked In such a piquant way These might bo be any ony ones one's eyes Yes Yes but It makes a good tea fen fea feature ture Some woman killed Worth orth May Ida just a as well ell be her Douglas laid the picture down lit a a cl cigarette arette with painstaking slowness Not much evidence to prove a woman was there What have they got be besides be- be besides sides aides a few tew beads Newton was wall charmed to havea havo a fresh tresh audience Everyone else In the office had heard his hili ver- ver verdon don slon two or or three t ree times He now shrugged assumed a II a non com noncommittal noncommittal air They e plenty Remember be before be- be before fore toro Monday night no one was wall in that office orico tor for u a a year The per per- person per person son lion whose blood was In that cor cor- cor corner ner ncr crept to the door There are finger prints along the linoleum and against the panel as though that person reached u up two or three times struggling to turn the knob The finger prints ar are are extreme extreme- extremely extremely ly 11 slender thoSe slender those of ot a woman with a small delicate hand So a woman was In the office that night and she appears to have been shot The police say she sho went ent thereto there thereto thereto to get g-et Worth They had a scuttle scuffle over OTer the tho pistol That That's That'll when she got got wounded wounded perhaps not se seriously se- se seriously Seriously She came back and got Mm Its It's a clear case o ot of murder That pistol couldn't possibly have dropped from the tho hand of ot a deadman dead deadman deadman man Once let them get her and they can put Jt It tt on her on-her her cold Newton ton pulled a slouchy hat over hi his bright bricht snappy eyes He was II p a fellow tellow about 40 with a rak rak- rak rakish rak-l rak Ish h young look and the jaunty air of ot a a boy Thought you were in Los Angel Angeles lI Heard you were going to winter there mind changed No No changed my Pretty soft Keith I wish I had ad TALENT Id I'd like to pick tnT my own hours and my own geog geog- geog- geog geography geography raphy raph and my own salary Then you wouldn't wouldn't- be Working on this pip ot of a yarn S Say it Is 18 good Isn't It It Best story In In in a month ot of Sundays Lots Lois Lotsof ot of class clus to Worth and It the rest of at the girls girl's face tace matches her eyes Id I'd take a chance chanco at a bull myself I Been In Worth's room Newt Sure ure have hae Looked like a cy- cy cyclone clone clone clona when wo first got there flung hither and yon Ion lIe must have been In a regular Werther despondence Odd he didn't leave an j other letters Oh he be was a pretty cagey guy Quite 0 a boy with the la- la ladies la ladles dies seeing he had a u cottage In Carmel and a studio here lie scenic to have ha played the class so naturally he wasn't leaving little mementoes about to to t get him Into a pinch At that the police have bave more than they're giving out I think they've got a line on the man Once they get can cnn call call- easily callUy fly ily find her They say BaY she did ItHe It it ic I-ic just got there In time to carry her off ott S S A line IIno on the man Once they get him they've got her bert Doug Douglas las lall took long pulls at his bis wondered It If he bo dared trust hi his voice But why should the girl kill him Newt Isn't It more likely he he did It since Ince he- he h was as the de- de despondent de despondent one That sounds all right but the location ot of the th bullet of at o his body the blood stains and the pistol all point the other way The theory doesn't hold at all all- all The mind o ot of Douglas Keith felt hot and red like a II a stove with live coals blazing Had Sandy shot Ramon T She had bad none gone to him could never understand that unless she had become suddenly desperate because of ot him She had bad suggested going to 10 Ramon flamon as asU aa U II good out ot of everyone Could It be that In a quarrel she really had fired tired the shot She spoke Sh-spoke spoke about his hi showing her the pistol She Sho tried to seize It It Per Per- Perhaps Perhaps haps hap she had gotten hold o ot of It it lied actually actually perhaps without realizing It pulled It-pulled pulled the trigger So she was vas responsible for tor Ra- Ra months month's death She had no rca rec- recollection of ot Ramon Hamon shooting himself She didn't remember falling tailing S Douglas now listened In a sun still terror to Newtons Newton's the account account true account It might be They figure Worth wouldn't give gl her up He lie had the tho goods goodson goodson goodson on her and to t-o expose her her- herto to the other man This other man may have ha been her husband At least he was her lover and she wanted him not Worth She got frightened and went down to Worth's office to plead or threat threat- threaten threaten threaten en He its us so 80 daft datt about her ho probably made some advance advance advance- tried to t renew old acquaintance I She Sh got excited and and and pulled the gun They The scuttled scuffled for lor this It ItI I went vent off otto giving her a slight I wound but she fired tired again and got him It It wasn't for tor the man shed she'd get away a way alth ith It It How JIow will the man mm give gl her away No Xo one saw MW the girl go Into that office and no one saw her herlean leave lean There'd be on way to trace her except through those finger prints and ond you'd have to get her first before you OU could see If they were hers hera 5 I But three people saw can the man mon Rooney in the cigar store storo Jacks the elevator operator and and- the janitress on the third floor Jacks sa says he could pick lck him out ot of a thOusand Hell He'll run Into him yet therell there'll be a slip some some- somewhere where where either cither they'll trace that handkerchief or they'll find some clue In Worth's quarters Once they nab him him they've they've got her You see she was as wounded so he cant can't have ha taken her very tar far They're probably right here in into Inton to ton n keeping to cover But they'll do something to to arouse suspicion Always hap hap- happens hap happens pens And Its It's astonishing the number of ot cranks on the lookout In a II case like this Woman tele- tele tele telephones phones the police today that II a aman aman man answering the description of at atthe the mysterious K K has a woman In hiding in the top flat across the street from her her- her Do Do they pay any attention to those calls 1 Do they In halt half an hour a plain clothes man has the th layout sized up up- up Douglas went out o ot of the build build- building buildIng building ing his thoughts reeling Three people were ere on the lookout for tor him It If Jie he ie were caught gaught the tho thoI I crime o ot of murder would would-bo would be fast fastened fast tast- fastened ened ened on Sandy Sandy Sandy- In some way she might be guilt guilty They would find her by finding him him- him But they cant can't get me- me me How can they get me S S S SHe He had bad a II reckless notion to go over to the cigar store and talk to buy Rooney-buy Kooney buy some find out It Rooney really could Identity identify him There was only that handkerchief handkerchief chief Might 1 take months to run that down Nothing definite had been found In Ramons Ramon's room room nothing that led to tOe Sandy Sandy nothing nothing that would ever lead to him He squared his shoulders wung along one hand In his pocket At Market and news boys news news- newsboys boys bos were calling an extra He stopped nonchalantly bought It read the tho headline went over toa to toa toa a candy store and stared at ot the chocolates He was afraid to turn his pis is head The headline said laId Net clos cbs closIng closing ing on man woman In mystery deat death I Continued t |