DEATH WRITES THE LAST E
By Adeline McElfresh
THE MAN IN PARKER'S STUDY
CHAPTER XI
MTJAVE, what's wrong? You
sound so queer," Pat's
voice was puzzled, "Has anything
happened?"
Dave hesitated. Pat could pick
the darnedest times to call! He
gripped the telephone tighter and
stared at Myra Rose's retreating
back.
"No, Pat, I you " he flound
ered hopelessly for a moment,
then his tongue straightened itself
out. "Just a little surprise," he
told her. "I'll tell you about it to
night." "That's what I wanted to talk
to you about, Dave," she went on.
"Why don't you ask Clem and
Mary to come with you? We'll
have supper together and spend
a comfy evening, just like old
times."
"Swell, Pat," Dave tried to be
enthusiastic, but his spirits went
Into a tailspin. She didn't, he told
himself, want to spend an evening
with him and him alone.
"Good. Jerry has some sort of
a Scout meeting and Mother is go
ing over to visit Aunt Sarah Har
rington, so you can plan on help
ing with the dishes." She laughed
at his grunt of consternation.
"I knew there'd be a catch to
It," he groaned. "Okay, Pat, we'll
be there with bells on. 'Bye, now."
He hung up and turned to rtie
others.
"Go on, say it," he grinned, a
little of the old excitement re
turning. "Tell me I'm a chump."
"Not chump, Dave," , Mary
' Evans said. "Champ."
"Right you are, honey," Clem
agreed with her before Dave had
a chance to speak. "Congratula
tions, son."
"Mine, too," Elinor piped up,
and Rod Thomas joined in: "You
sure shut the old gal up pronto,
Dave. I'd already started to rack
my brain about another job."
Dave chuckled. "Maybe you'd
better not stop yet, Rod," he said.
"I still have Jo convince the bank
that they should back me."
!
T")AVE hailed a cruising taxi and
went to the big house on Elm
.street that had been home to Joe
Parker for so long. He wanted
to talk to Mrs. Harrington.
"Hello, girl of my dreams." He
bowed low when Aunt Sarah an
swered his knock.
"Go on, now, with your flat
tery, Dave Elson." She laughed
heartily, throwing the door wide.
He followed her into the living
room with its comfortable old
furniture and cheery grate fire.
"What is it, Davey?"
Mrs. Harrington stirred up the
fire and threw on another stick of
corner before she sat down. The
flames leaped, crackiing, up the
cavernous chimney. She waited
patiently until he was ready to
ppeak.
Hesitantly, Dave told her what
, had happened. Of Myra Rose's
arrival and her decision, to sell
the property. Of the coldly mer
cenary view she took of the whole
estate, her announcement that
there was no reason why she
should not have the money now,
regardless of what. had happened.
Only when he told her of his im
petuous offer to buy the Express
did Mrs. Harrington smile.
"I'm glad, Davey," she mur
mured, trying to hide the tears
that made her voice tremble. "Mr.
Parker would be happy, too, If he
could know."
She wiped her eyes with the
corner of her big apron. Dave
reached over and patted her hand.
His own eyes felt suspiciously
moist. ,.
"Maybe," he whispered, "maybe
he does know, Aunt Sarah."
"OME on in," Patricia called
when Dave announced his
arrival with a sharp whistle, and
Clem, Mary and Police Chief Sam
Blair ushered him into the room.
"Why, welcome, Mr. Blair," she
greeted him in surprise, then to
Dave: "What have you done that
you have to have a police escort?"
"He's a public enemy, Pat," the
police chief boomed. "A menace
to the heart of every pretty girl
in town."
"Oooh, Dave, give the man a
quarter," Pat laughed.
When the dishes were done and
they had all gone into the living
room, Pat began to feel uncom
fortable. Something, she could not
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place it, exactly, warned her of a
mounting tension.
"Is there something going on
around here that I don't know
about?" she asked innocently.
"Heavens, I hope not, Pat"
Mary Evans' reply came a little
too quickly. "Why?"
"You're all fidgeting, that's why.
Even you, Maiy." '
Mrs. Evans laughed and the
others joined in, but Pat wasn't
satisfied. She settled back to await
developments, wondering if this,
whatever it was, could be the rea
son for Sam Blair's surprise visit
Certainly, she thought, Dave's an
nouncement that he was going to
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their nervousness.
At 8 o'clock It happened.
Someone knocked and a
dropped pin would have sounded
like a brick.
"I'll get it, Pat." Mary was al-
ready hurrying into the hall.
The brief silence seemed like an
age to Pat as the three men leaned
forward expectantly. But Dave,
she saw, was watching her out of
the corner of his eye.
"I'm George Rand," came the
man's voice. "Is Sam Blair herer
I was told he wanted to see me."
Pat started up, then snt down
again. She threw a frightened
glance at Sam Blair, then at Dave.
"That's him," she whispered
hoarsely. "That's the man who
was in Parker s study, Dave.
(To Be Continued)
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20 Selenium
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85 Honest
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