Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1936 — Page 18

. BY ROBERT DI N i . BEGIN HERE AY 5 Canfield, daughier of wealthy knows that We neighis buzzing with gossip ever the disappearance, of Frank Ken- , whosp engagement to Marcia has announced. Since his disappear8 shortage in Kendrick's funds been

a Marels is in a restaurant when i is a holdup. Marcia loses a ring * $hat was her mother’s. Learning that Frank is in Chicago, Marcia goes there to try fo persuade him to return and face his financial ob“ligations. Before «he hes him, nk lesves again, © Meanwhile, Tony Stellicel suspects his. _ Brother Carlo of being involved in the i holdup and finds some of the loot in .= Carlo’s home. . Marcia, learning her trip was. in vain, .. fakes a plane home. Storm forces the plane down and passengers seek shelter in a farm house, , Among them is Bruce MeDougall, a stranger whom Marcia has "encountered twice before. News of Marcia’s trip to Chicago \" eauses more gossip in the town in which = she lives. Marcia arrives home, . NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

9g CHAPTER TWELVE : ie N the following day there took * 8.) place another holdup, remark"ble not alone for the amount of Zr involved, but because of its i wholesale character and because it “= was committed by the same four men who had robbed the Dog ‘Wagon and its customers, and who were generally credited with having been the authors of several previous robberies as well. ’ Mrs. Harold Henderson, sister-in-law of the woman who was directing “Half-Acre in Eden” for ihe Stagecraft Guild, was giving a benefit bridge party at her home. Approximately a hundred women of Bobbs Neck had gathered for cards, tea and cakes and the pro- : motion of the Village Welfare So- | ciety budget. . Conversation had reached that . crescendo which indicates that a benefit bridge is«at the zenith when the four men entered the house without benefit of the doorbell, and, taking advantageous positions in the doorways between living roé dining ‘room and sun porch! announced that this was a “stickup.”

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HE husband of Mrs. Henderson’s maid, assisting for the afternoon, had just gone to the back porch to bring in the inevitable ice cream. He was thus permitted the privilege of viewing a hitherto unseen member ‘of the bandit gang, a young man who was lounging at the side of the house and who, at sight of -the Negro, com- © manded him profanely to get back in the house, emphasizing the order with a pistol, quickly revealed and Quickly shoved back into the pocket of his overcoat. The colored man obeyed, too frightened to retain any pression of the man’s appearance. In the house the stripping of valuable property was accomplished within a very few minutes and the four ing prepared to depart, first

cutting the telephone wires. The exci women who crowded to the windows as soon as the thieves left ‘were rewarded by seeing them enter two cars, in each of which a waitdng driver was glimpsed, and drive oft without fuss. The license plates were noted easily.” The women did not see the lookout, for he had deJarten via the alley, as footprints in the snow later disclosed. © The police, when they arrived, ‘Were satisfied, first, that the four en were the Dog Wagon robbers, and, second, that the four had the assistance of three outside men, a fact suspected in that former robbery but not verified. :

2 ARCIA CANFIELD and Helen Waddell had passed the afternoon in more direct, if less social, ‘endeavor for the welfare organization. They had accompanied the & “hurse on her rounds, and by: oc- © Seupying themselves with the new ‘babies and other troubles of the wn'’s less affluent citizens saved the jewelry they wore and the money they carried. © It was not until evening, therefore, that they learned of the up. Mr. Canfield had not reed from Florida, and Marcia isuaded Helen to dine ‘with her. wkins served the crime news the meal, to the intense inLe of both girls. = After dinner they discussed the dea of going to the movies. | = “It suits me,” said Marcia. “I ‘haven't seen a movie in weeks, “and tomorrow night there's re1 again, Let's — thers) goes the phone.” ( 2A 2 =» J : was Joan Bradford, wife of A Mike. Mr. Bradford, she said, brought an old friend from West out to dinner, and v 't Marcia and Helen do her . great favor and drop in for a ghile to help entertain him? Char-

, She avoided a refusal |

y hanging up, - “After all, why shouldn't we?” Md Helen as they drove to house. “She'd do as puch for us if we were stuck.” . Joan admitted them, and they

| With her friend, Helen Waddell, and .

Oh, 4 thought that was a hobby, I guess. I really did like the sketch you gave me.” 3 : “It may look like a hobby, lady, but it’s bread and butter; and sometimes meat dessert to me.” | “Where are you going to work?” “In New York, I thought, ‘but perhaps Bobbs Neck, if all the merits of the town are as genuine as the Bradfords paint them.” “I mean for what magazine, or whatever?” : = » ®

“ SYNDICATE. They. peddle my stuff to the newspapers. I draw a daily feature called ‘Scenes from Life’ ‘I did something like it out. West for one paper. It was so good that a great public clamor arose for wider circulation. I held

“Joan could bring morrow night's rehearsal,” suging to settle down in the village he may as well know us at our worst.” It was pleasant, thought Marcia, to see him again—this young man who was half assured, half naive, and a bit embarrassed at moments. “Well—,” he said, “I really ought

back, modestly, but the call became | not—

too great. I was ‘persualied, andj here Tam... . “Do they have studios to rent

in Bobbs Neck? I ‘mean studios,

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I will,” said MecDougall. :

(To Be Continued)

REVOL

AMES HARMON was a very disgusted young man. He had come to Honduras to find adventure. Now in the midst of a revolution, with fighting going on just across the river, he, along with the 500 other Acme Fruit Co. employes, had been forbidden to leave the settlement.

James’ resentment increased as he thought of Jane Maslin, the company superintendent’s slim, auburnhaired secretary. During the: two months he had been here, they had seen quite a lot of each other. He had thought her the sweetest and most understanding girl in the world. Then, last night, when he had mentioned his desire to slip across the river and get into the thick of things, she had. laughed at him and said that, after hé had been in the tropics a few years, he would get over his ‘green-horn ideas.” This had precipitated their first quarrel.

James strode over the gravel path leading to his office. He had scarcely sat down at his desk, when an office boy came to him, “Mr. Stephens would like to see you right away.” “3

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T= superintendent looked up from his work when James entered. . “Good morning, Harmon. I'm going to have tb ask ‘you to make an important and possibly dangerous trip,” he said. “I want you to go to the -capital—Tegucigalpa. You are to take $15,000 to the Sec retary of the Treasury. It is money’ we owe the government for taxes.

“This revolution has been a pretty expensive business,” Mr. Stephens went .on, “and they are pressed for funds. We can’t afford to take a chance on getting them in a bad humor at this time. They have threatened that, if they don’t receive the cash by 9 o'clock. tomorrow morning, they will hold up our ships in port. That would mean a heavy loss for the company, It's absolutely .imperative that the money be delivered in time, and I'm putting it up to you.” ; ” " » “ OU can depend on me,” James said, secretly elated. He hoped he would run danger, so that he could play the hero before Jane later. He'd show her! :

Stephen arose and opened. his safe. He took out a -gaudily bound copy of a Tourist Guide. “This may seem to you a melodramatic way of doing things,” he said. “But I think it’s better not to take chances in these troubled times. The money is concealed in the binding of this book. Here's $75 for expenses. Take the 10:15

train and I'll expect you back to-|

morrow night.” # # 2

AMES arrived safely in the capital that evening, and took a taxi to a hotel. After dinner, he went for a stroll, carrying the Tourist Guide under his arm.

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on a table, and unbuckled the strap on her slim ankle. “Does it feel better now?” he asked solicitously. “Much better.” She smiled. “But I am still a little faint, I think perhaps I should like a small drink of cognac. You will find it and some glasses in that cabinet.” James measured the amber liquid into two small glasses, and handed one to her. Draining his own glass, he reached forward to replace it on the table. As he did so, he realized that his head+felt very light. The room seemsad to revolve around him. He sank into a chair. As though in a dream, he saw the girl on her feet, moving quickly, with no sign of an injured. nakle. Some one joined her. Hazily he recognized. the man he had seen in the plaza, and struggled to rise.- A fist crashed into his face and he fell back, powerless to move. He felt deft hands going through’ his pockets. Dimly, he saw the man appropriate his wallet and pick up

the Tourist Guide. The girl laughed, Then everything was

blackness, . . . ; : 8 # =n HEN James came to, he was in a hospital room. “How does a laudanum hangover feel?” a nurse asked. “So it was laudanum!” James groaned. “Never mind —- have you seen. anything of a book—ra Tourist Guide?” bok She handed it to him. “When they found you Monday night, you were | lying in the gutter, using the book

as a pillow.”

He examined it hurriedly. The binding had not been tampered with. Thank heaven! ... = &/

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% HAT time is it?” he asked. “Eight a. m.” “Tuesday?” : i “No. Wednesday. You've been unconscious more than 24 hours.” James fell back and grasped his aching head with both hands. “Twenty-four hours iate! What a fool I've been! Quarreled with my girl . . . lost my job . . . looking for adventure!” He laughed wildly. ; He pulled a pillow over his throbbing head. Black despair enveloped

OME time later, a hand removed the pillow and he felt himself kissed on the forehead. He opened his eyes to see Jane's tearstained face above him. “Darling!” she exclaimed. “Thank heaven we've found you! Mr. Stephens and I have been looking everywhere for you!” The superintendent was pumping his hand; and gesturing with the Tourist Guide. “Harmon, my boY, so you've still got the money! Tl see that you get a good promotion out of this! If you had paid out the money, we would have lost it: The revolutionists seized the capital yesterday, and the new government wouldn’t: have recognized any payment made to the other party!” . : (THE END)

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