Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1936 — Page 26

Calling All Dentists

By Grant Milton Sassaman——

| He darted a quick look at the dentist, but the latter was calmly mixing a filling.

R. CHARTER saw that the cavity was very deep, burrowing down to the nerve pulp of the first molar. Ordinarily, he would have extracted such a tooth, being a conscientiots dentist. He told the patient so. The man in the chair was tall and lean, with hard grey eyes and thin, cruel lips, He had come to the dentist's office without making an ap‘pointment. - “That tooth’s drivin’ me nuts!” he said. “But I don’t want it out — understand. Slap.a filling in and let me get outta here! I'm in a hurry!” When Dr. Charter had asked the tient’s name, the thin man’ had hesitated, glanced across the ’ then ‘smirked. “Dunnard’s the name, Doc. Mr. Dunnard.” The address he gave was on the other side of town. | Being an observant man, Charter noticed that his patient was more on edge than an aching tooth should arrant. He also noted that his hair had been dyed a deep black, and his upper lip showed unmistakable signs of having been shorn of a heavy mustache. ’ ” FJ FJ ((EARTER, after completing the drilling, during which the patient winced and groaned, turned to his table. The man in the chair shifted impatiently. For an instant, the gleam of a gun in a shoulder holster wags revealed beneath the blue serge ‘of his coat. He darted a quick Jook at the dentist, but the latter was calmly mixing a filling. | “Can’t ya snap into it, Doc?” the an growled. “I figgured this'd ke only a little while.” At that moment, there came the ound of a door opening in the waiting room, soft footfalls over a Yuck Tug, an a Ses of a chair. HO'S hate” * The patient | sat up with a jerk. Into his hin face leaped a quick suspicion. “My next patient,” said Charter lacidly. o'clock, and it’s almost 4 now.” e turned toward the waiting room. “Perhaps I'd better tell her— “Nix!” The patient’s harsh voice = him before he could take a e

tep. “Get that filling in my tooth, ! I told you I had to get outta rel” i 2 » = HARTER shrugged, furned again « to his mixture, stirred it briskly, and then assembled his instruments on the swing tray. He leaned over the patient. “Open: your mouth wider, please.” The man did so, hut his eyes

“Her appointment is for,

watched every move Charter made, and his right hand lay across his chest, fingers under the lef: lapel. To himself, the dentist said, “I can’t take any chances. This man is ‘Killer’ Bardin, who slipped through the police dragnet this morning. “If I make a false move, it'll be curtains—not only for me, but for that girl outside!”

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OT a tremor showed in the muscles of his face as he packed in the filling and smoothed its surface. He even chitted amiably, asking harmless questions that elicited, unintelligible grunts from the chair. Once he smiled thinly as he glanced across the room, where a huge calendar said in scarlet letters: “Buy Dunnard’s Coal.” Killer Bardin was either very unimaginative or very sardonic. Charter gave the filling a final

cylinders from the man’s mouth. “Now wash out your mouth, and you're all set!” As the patient left the office, Charter went to a window and

street to a car parked at the curb. It was too far to read the license plate. He went to the waiting-room door, smiled at the young girl seated there, and said: “Be with you as soon as I make a telephone call.”

8 fF 2 ” EVERAL hours later, the precinet Inspector came to thank Dr. Charter. “They picked him up in Hamilton —a small town up the line. He was having a tooth pulled under gas. The local cops clapped cuffs on him before he came to. We had a battery of telephone operators calling all dentists from the time you notified us until the report of his capture came in. But how did you know he'd go to another. dentist along the way?” Charter smiled. “Most people who hurt others can’t stand pain themselves. I/fixed that tooth so that it would hurt him plenty!” “But why didn’t you put him under gas?” the inspector asked. “The tooth didn’t bother him enough then. He wouldn’t have let me—and he had a gun. But after I rammed a filling against an exposed nerve, I knew he would be good and ready for gas. That tooth

air struck it!”

THE END (Copyright, 1938, by United Feature Syn-

cate, Inc.) (The characters ho this story are fictitious) §

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