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CAST OF CHARACTERS KATHLEEN O'SHAN—heroine. of greeting card verse.
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BOB M'TAVISH—hero, detective story |
writer, PAT—the Janitor who played Cupid. The DUCHESS—patron of surrealist art, FROF. BRACEY—Egvyptologist.
Bob and the professor. The professor kicks Schmatz, whe runs through the Duchess’ surrealist picture.
CHAPTER SEVEN
N a minute everyone was talking at once and craning their necks to see. Bob turned to the Duchess.
“You can’t think how sorry am this had to happen,” he began.
Prof. Bracey righted the vase. “If your writer friend insists on | bringing his dog with him, my dear Duchess, you can expect to have things happen. That is, if MecTavish is a writer,” he added pointedly. Bob took a quick step forward as though he was going to drive his fist hard into the other man’s dark, taunting face, then he turned and snapped his fingers to Schmatz. | “If you want me about this, you'll know where to find me,” he told | the Duchess. “It wasn’t your fault, Bob dear,” | she replied. | “It really was an accident, | Duchess,” the professor interrupted | with a shrug. “Besides, that | wasn't the picture you should ex- | hibit anyway. It didn't compare with that ‘City at Midnight.” He pointed at a murky canvas showing a tangled mass of lines and | corners. Immediately the Duchess’ atten- | tion was distracted from the catastrophe to the other painting, and Bob and his dog made their | escape. ” Eo) » HAT night for the first time since she left home Kathleen could not sleep. The affair in the studio affected her more than she cared to admit. All those queer people—Prof. Bracey, and the Duchess —rushing to Bob's defense. Just who were they all and how did they fit into the puzzle? She had been thinking more about Bob McTavish than she had realized, and always it gave her a warm glowing feeling to know he was so near she could call him if she wished. And Schmatz —he was cunning. The jolly little supper they had had in her studio, and the walks they had taken in the park with the dog at their heels. She had been so happy lately she hadn't had time to worry because her pay was small for her long hours of work. Almost she had forgotten the possibility of having to go back to Glo- | versville and Aunt Hattie and Joe | Williams. | Yet she was almost certain she | was not in love with Bob. Not if | what Aunt Hattie had told her was | true. Aunt Hattie had known Uncle | Henrw, for years and vears, and her | affection for him had gradually deepened into something big and broad and sacred. Really nice people never fell in love suddenly. It wasn’'t—well, like the measles, for | instance. She didn’t actually know anything about Bob, except that he had the very nicest smile she had ever seen, and when she was with him nothing else really mattered. Everything seemed gay and young and hopeful. xn n ”
that disturbing Prof. |
AYBE Bracey was the one she might | really love. If only he hadn't] kicked the dog. He certainly In-! spired a feeling of awe and un- | certainty that was possibly what Aunt Hattie had meant. But she wondered why Schmatz had attacked him, why she, herself, | cringed whenever he touched her. | She almost dreaded the time when she would see him again. Bob hated |
him after what happened at pu, |
party. She was sure of that. But after Bob had gone, the professor had turned it all off so easily.
Yet, why had the Duchess been
so quick to try to lay the blame on someone else? Most certainly | Bob had given their hostess all his, attention during the time he Was! there. She had watched him laugh- | ing with her and looking down at her when they sat so long on that secluded couch. What possible | chance could a Gloversville girl have with such a woman? That was the thought that had hardened her heart, and that was] what made her speak so distantly to | Bob the next day, when she mei him coming up the steps. He had | been talking to Pat, who was puttering around as usual with his broom and dust-mop. Bob looked up eag- | erly when Kathleen came out the coor. But because she did not stop, | he turned and whistled for Schmatz | and went quickly up to his own
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AT looked after him with a puzzied frown. He leaned on his broom for a minute in deep | thought, then nodded his head | sagely. “Something happened at | that jamboree o’ the Duchess’ now. Ye can't git that many loonies togither and not have something pop. Miss Kathy oughin’t a gone. Jist whin thim youngsters were gettin’ along roine and dandy, too.” He worried about it all the time Kathleen vas gone, and found | every kind of excuse to be near the front hall when she came in again. He had made up his mind fo try talking to her to find out what had iappened. The Duchess had not come down to her studio that morning, so there was no reason for him in go up there. Besides, Pat al- | ways took anything she said with a whole peck of sait. Accordingly when Kathleen did come back with 2 loaf of bread under her arm, Pat was tacking | down a bit of the carpet near her! door. “Eh, and it's back ye are. thought I'd git this all done while ye was gone.” Hc hefted his ham- | mer as he asked casually. “Have 2 good time at the party now? Ye and Bob McTavish?” | “I had an interosting afternoon.” | Kathleen rep 1 stifiy “I don't know about Mr. McTavish.
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Duchess saw to it he was entertained. Why did you ask?” | “Nothing,” answered the janitor evasively. “Only a good-lookin’ { young feller now, all the gurls are | likely to swarm around like bees | about a honey-pot.” | “Well, here's one girl who doesn’t | do any swarming,” Kathleen told | him. “I met several other men who [are much more interesting. Very | cultured, traveled men.” Pat grinned. “A bunch o’ lions | maybe? The Duchess always tries to | git herself any stray one what ven- | tures into town. I'm minded now o’ the time we knocked a chunk off the ceilin’ hoistin’ in a grand piano, |
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because she was goin’ to have some opery singer. Thin whin he come he wouldn't pipe a note unless he was paid for it.” “Well, Prof. Bracey isn't that kind of a celebrity,” answered Kathleen “He's very pleasant and cordial and I like him very much.” She fitted her key into the lock and went into her room. Pat selected a tack, then pounded it so hard he drove it entirely out of sight. “And I'm wishin’ I could do that to some folks’ heads,” he
grumbled. (To Be Continued)
Daily Short Story
THE COPPER—By Philip Lesly Shapiro
“ ‘There he is!
HE kid was 18, but he looked | younger, He stepped out of his | car and strode toward the cigar store on the corner. But he stopped when he saw Patrolman Robert Cooney approaching. His mouth spread | into a derisive grin. “Hya, copper! Still playin’ the sucker, huh? Why're yuh a beat copper for a bum 40 per when there's lots more on the other side for a guy who knows the ropes?” Cooney stopped. He did not smile; his eyes were grim. He opened his mouth to reply. . . . There was a shout, then a shrill scream that beat against his eardrums. He whirled. A car was disappearing into the alley back toward the river, but there was no other sign of life. He ran toward the river, pulling his police revolver out. He heard the kid's Sieps | behind him. > Cooney turned into a narrow doorway in the building nearest the river. He bolted up a fiight of rickety stairs. He saw an open door and a woman standing near it. She was about 35, but her hair was | mostly gray. Her face was lined, | her dress shabby. her figure stooped. | She was sobbing, wringing her | hands. ” » ” |
OONEY led her to a chair. “My | husband,” she gasped out with | a sob. She pointed to the next | room. Cooney looked in, then | rushed to the man sprawled on the | floor. He felt the pulse; it was unsteady but active. There was a | bump appearing just behind the left | ear: a big bump. In the other room the kid was holding a glass of water to the] woman's mouth. There were three | children, two girls and a boy, stand- | ing together at one side. Cooney | winced when he saw them; {
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and muscleless. their clothes hung in: tatters. They looked on, sadfaced and helpless. The woman was speaking now, | in short, jerky phrases between | sobs. “He—he take our money. | My husband, he work—first time— | eight months. He bring home pay | —8$14. That man, he come—he had gun. He—make my husband give | him—the money.” She burst into' another fit of sobbing. The chil- |
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[ dren began to whimper at the sight |
of their mether’s tears. Cooney
turned to the kid.
” b-4 » 1 * E couldn't go west or north | on acount of the river an’ | the tractor works. An’ he wasn't; Let's try t’ nab 'im!” Thev ran out. piled into the kid's | “I figured he must've headed If he has | hum luck on the lights there's a chance we can get im.” ’ The kid could drive, Cooney ho- | Kids who bummed a.ound | and had cars usuzlly could. Thev were taking a short route to the | busy carline that fed the mill dis- | trict. As they hit the carline Cooney stared ahead, then shouted, “There A hundred yards ahead! It's the green roadster I saw pulling
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The kid accelerated; the distance between the two cars narrowed.
without slowing. Cooney sat tense, | his gun ready. He saw ahead the | tall steel fence of the Outboard | Steel Company. This was a dead-
= n é So green car swerved crazily, and a figure leaped off, running toward that fence. The kid | stopped the car, and he and Cooney hopped out and gave chase. The quarry disappeared suddenly
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behind a tool shack that stood a | few feet before the fence.
Cooney halted. He signaled the kid to keep ! low and ducked behind # pile of ! From there he looked over the situation. The tool hut could not he reached without exposure to the bandit’s bullets. From behind it the hoodlum could sec the entire 250-yard-wide vard on each side; only a! narrow space of about 30 yards! directly in front of the hut was not |
| visible to him. A gate into the
mill grounds was at each side of |
| the yard, and both were open. |
Cooney spoke to the kid tensely.! “Take this and duck over to that | other stack of ingots. He can’t see, vou there any better than here. Then shoot three times into the air | toward the hut.” He pushed the | gun into the Kid's hand and! watched him scamper across the 25 | yards to the other pile of ingots. | Then he was on the opposite side of |
| the space in front of the hut. Three
shots rang olit; Cooney gr'pp2d his night stick. Tha figure of ihe robber dashed
A hundred yards ahead!”
toward the open gate on Cooney’s side of the yard. The patrolman crouched, waited for him to draw near. Then he leaped out and brought his stick down hard on the hoodlum’s head as he passed. Without a sound the robber collapsed on the ground. ” ” n HE kid followed Cooney up the rickety steps. The patrolman stepped into the room, saw the woman, tears running down her cheeks, rubbing a wet cloth over her husband's head. She turned when Cooney entered; she started to speak. Cooney held out his hand and gave her a $10 bill and four singles. “Oh,” she gasped, her face lighting up. She looked at him with wide eyes. “Oh, thank you, officer, thank you! Oh, look, Rudolph, the money! The money!” The man rose, took the bills, his face wreathed in smiles. The children rose, came closer. The face of the eldest was alight, a sign of color in his cheeks. Cooney turned and walked down the steps. He was afraid his emotions might become too evident. The kid followed. Out on the sidewalk Cooney turned to him. “Now,” he said softly, but with a tone of pride, “yuh know why I'm a copper.” THE END
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