Show TANGLED taink N ogled WIVES by PEGGY SHANE copyright by peggy shane shana service CHAPTER X continued 17 on the stage what shows have you been in ID lately ive seen you before seems like it was in the movies though I 1 recognize you that day on account of those dark glasses but I 1 could swear beatrice rose im afraid were wasting a lot of your time I 1 am awfully busy myself too I 1 have an idea that rocky will be quite willing to give doris a divorce but that Is only my own opinion and it the slightest weight really as I 1 know all ah sol nothing about it this woman Is hardly a fly by night sweet heart of as you seem to suppose she happens to be a friend of mine hom rocky has helped out of a n rather tight scrape molly rose she whistled as she did to so what a sap ive been I 1 doris stared blankly beatrice bit her lip this Is interesting continued molly 1 I knew id seen you in the movies in the news reel it was beatrice found her voice youre mistaken am I 1 really she turned to beatrice what part will you play in the big biff scene young lady there some law about concealing a criminal 1 I wouldn be in your shoes for the world miss st gardens I 1 really 1 I think better go said beatrice after ive telephoned the police boy will this be a sensation I 1 am I 1 lucky ican I 1 can see my picture in every paper in the country along with yours of course she inclined her head to doris mockingly 1 I see it all now schoolgirls together rocky the big galahad nobody would ever think of looking here for diane merrell no wonder you want to see me beatrice bentz fee turned to doris rocky ought glit to be here soon perhaps he can talk some sense into her im a woman of impulse said molly and I 1 feel a strange whim rushing over me to call up the police beatrice closed her eyes then she said in a calm tone let tile me show you yon the telephone molly with a small sneer on her pretty mouth took a last look tit at doris and ana followed beatrice beatrice opened a door it led to a small clothes clot lies closet before molly quite knew what was happening beatrice had bad pushed her in she locked the door it will give you time to get away doris my roadster Is right outside doris clutched beatrice by the hand all right only im going to give mi self reif up in tile the nearest town no dont walt wait ill give you some money drive toward canada and rocky will overtake you at at let nie me see sec at burlington no beatrice its too late anti and tell rocky it if he comes ill swear ive never soen seen him before no doris darls no ko yes please youe done so much I 1 cant stand it it would break my heart if you got in trouble beatrice had biad found her purse she gave it to doris the key to the cars inside doris ran through the door on the screened porch and out over abe lie lawn hawn to the side road she slid into tile the seat and inserted the key the car started iler her hands were on the wheel her ber feet at home on clutch and brake she did not stop to think that she knew liow flow to run a car she drove she came out on tile highway and hesitated for the fraction of an instant to the right lay the town st cardens town the place where rocky was known she must go the other way then A car was coming from tile the town it might be bringing rocky from the train she could not resist a fleeting glance it was not car ant and he be would bo be in his own car because he had driven it to the train she drew a deep breath did she hopp hop rocky would come and save her she must not allow herself to think that she turned away from the approaching car a mud spattered black sedan sed in she had riot not seen who was driving if it roky rocky it much matter now the elie wits was on oll the smooth cement and finding that BeatrI beatrices CLIS car could certainly go 90 she was doing seventy arid tup speedometer was soly slowly mounting perhaps she would be arrested for speeding all the better then sha glie would be able to tell tile the cop who arrested her herself she even have to think about bivil gilna ig herself up at A she drove she caught sight of another car in the mirror was r slie he bein finx pursued after all iler her loot foot on tile the accelerator sui sho su i soon lost sight of the car behind now the signs of a town were appearing at last and here was waa tile the little lidden road she bad hoped for she bhe turned sharply find and began pumping over a dirt road toward a broad bend here shim she brought tile the car to a standstill and left it IL it that sedan was really pursuing her this ought to throw it oft off the track she climbed a fence and found herself in a cemetery A small sighed gently the odor of white phlox came from behind a white stone it was time to find end an officer of the law time to give herself up she must do it if she molly would do it and involve beatrice and rocky she had bad come out on the road by now and was approaching three half grown men who were standing under tinder at large elm tree and staring at ler ber curiously she stopped before th boys can you tell me where I 1 ran can find a policeman the boys looked harder than ever perhaps they had already guessed why slie she hall had come A dark eyed stocky boy jerked his head sideways you want the constable him under a nearby tree a lanky old man wits was stretched out with a police mans cap tilted down over his face iley vance someone wants want to see you it seemed a long time before the tall skinny constable roused himself As begot to his feet slowly doris saw that he be was a very old man with a stoop in his thin shoulders lie ile straightened his hat and blinked for a minute inquiringly doris hurried flurried toward him wa al now said the old fellow amiri bly as she clime came near you want ant to see roe me about something the faded haze of his eyes twinkled down at her kindly doris rocked looked at him unable to speak for a minute youre the officer of tile the law in charge in this town 1 I guess you might call me that drawled the old fellow slowly im im it was hard to say who she was war it seemed so ridiculously untrue im dlane diane merrell the M e 1 I 4 4 N 4 M JIM MM I ILY k I 1 1 al 1 I see it all now school girls together ther rocky the big galahad nobody would ever think of 0 looking here for dlane diane merrell girl wanted for murder r ive come to give myself up now now dont be in such a hurry burry but so youre the little girl that done the murder yes you dont look so terrible fierce fic ace please tills ct Is hard for me I 1 she could not make out the old mans attitude lie ile was stooping over on the ground rumbling for something he bad dropped tle lie found it at last and straightened it t was a pipe then lie he began a long search in his trousers lokets for a pouch polich full of tobacco when youve been in this world as long lone as I 1 have tic he said sald slowly learn it dont pay to get your yourself belf excited cut but dont you understand 1 why youre all worked up you come on into my office and well ell see it if we cant straighten tills this thing out dazedly doris was beginning to realize that tile the old man had not taken her seriously perhaps he had bad never heard of dlane diane merrell ile he turned and began walking very slowly toward a ramshackle store that was nearby doris followed him there aa was no one in the gloomy interior of the dark store at the back was a door with constable marked in large black letters it led into a small office where doris followed the old man ile he seated himself in a swivel chair very deliberately bout been in for their mail so I 1 guess we wont be interrupted lie he said im afraid you cant hac taken what I 1 said very seriously constable said doris abruptly wa al now lets talk a little bit about it what makes you think youre dinne binde merrell you know there I 1 have bavo been lots of girls girl found dont you went on the constable owhy why now it if iwas I 1 was to arrest you and send you on up to the bic police in new jersey be about number ten len on the list lie he chuckled dont know a girl should want to be in tier her shoes thou though ill doris felt that she was wasting line lime the office was a blurred jumble how flow was abbe to convince bonvin cc him blin of 0 her carnett ness these smart alee alec cops around here are willingto willing to arrest anybody that they see around wearing skirts why only the other day they arrested the wife of or some young fellow that was up visiting the big artist up Jone jonesboro way fellow the name of st gardens you surely have heard of him film yes I 1 know I 1 tin im going to ask you a few ques bons and if you can prove to me that youre dlane diane merrell darned if I 1 dont arrest you v lie ile grinned showing brown stumps of teeth yes sir rather ni maaen jaan I 1 should say darned it if I 1 dont arrest you lets see now if you are plane diane morrell merrell you can tell mp me a few things about yourself cant you why yes I 1 suppose so but I 1 think wa al first of all your fathers full fill name she racked her brains why she noticed that when she was reading the papers why lets see charles no john merrell its samuel but ill give you an other question ue ile eyed her hu porously ly lets see sec where was it you went to school why I 1 went to look here what Is 11 the use of all these questions it if I 1 give myself up for murder that ought to he enough it the constable swung himself back to his desk wa al next time you give yourself up you better get more information mr name is I 1 samuel lind and I 1 remember you went to vassar now you go on back to your mamma and your papa I 1 expect looking for you right now doris rose she would have to go on to the next nest town find a bigger place there must be hundreds if policemen who were nere willing to arrest her dont k know now as I 1 ought to let you go somebody will be around lookin for you like as not and youre liable to get into trouble lie ile spoke half to himself before lie he could make up his mind doris marched out As she made her way through the empty store she noticed the sign western union she could send a telegram to her father colled sam uel merrell Mc rrell morristown new jersey then if the old man wanted to hold her there let him ile he was pottering lottering pott ering along after her slowly wheres the telegraph operator wa al now you want to send a telegram bycz yrs certainly who you going to telegraph 71 doris looked at him silently sin shil felt that she was being rude to the old man who was being kind tv tu her in his way but her patience was ebben ebbing 1111 ill tell that to the telegraph oper ator im him bu cut t 11 yep im him im the postmaster too and the storekeeper here you see im quite a fellow in ill these parts think it to look at nie me now would you lie ile handed her a tele graph blank spose you want to send it collect yes said bald doris furiously all right write it out let mo me see what it Is doris took hold of the blank angrily an arlly when this old fellow found out the truth be be quite so sure of himself she wrote rapidly samuel merrell Mc rrell morristown new jersey 1 I am here in she interrupted her work to as ask k what Is the name of this town cherry corners vermont doris doria wrote cherry corners vermont I 1 want to give myself up to the police 11 she signed t the he message diane she handed banded it to the aged operator at orho who scrutinized it closely for some seconds TO BB CONTINUED |