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Holdup

Honeymoon By Edwin Rutt

CAST OF CHARACTERS JOSEPH SANDHAM Hero: he thought he was on top of the world until he smacked into KELLY ARCHER thought she was headed for until she smacked into ED, the WEASEL -— thought he was headed somewhere, but affairs somehow got mixed up.

Heroine: she the altar

Gangster; he too,

Yesterdav—Joe wakes up after his wreck, finds himself facing a red-headed gir! who tels him she is on her way to Boston te be married

CHAPTER TWO M* JOSEPH SANDHAM J bounced to a sitting position For some minutes now a great truth had been slowly dawning upon him | With Kelly's words it crystallized In his brain. This red-headed girl with the trick eves was a cold knockout She had evervthing it takes and enough left over for a rainy day And he. Joseph Sandham, was nuts | about het And unless he could | eer her into a church ere many | were passed, life was going | be a total flop And here she | ] nforming him that

a imlv 1 she ) marry some wen named

intended te Gilbert Hey!” “Say that

he shouted

Joe shook his head “All wrong.” What do vou mean, wrong?” Wrong all You can't marry this Gilbert for the simple | <0 you're going to marry | T won't wife going | around committing bigamy.” | Kelly looked at him as if he were | an escaped lunatic Marry you?” she

aid it

Kelly Wrong he said

that's

eason that me have my

repeated in- |

credousiy You've got it.” said She uttered a laugh of pure mer- | Why on earth would I marry vou? Joe took a breath. “Listen, Miss Archer, don’t vou honestly see that | the gods have been building up for | two weeks before Time

Joe

riment

this since hegan?” I perceive,” said Kelly, “that | re an imbecile.” He's no tramp. He's a darling.” | That's what vou think now. | But wait'll vou bask in my society a while.” : I don't intend to bask in your For any longer than it takes irive me to Boston.” “Boston?” 0 If it hadn't been i that crackpot car of vours been in Boston by now ried to Gilbert

oclety vou to moved

for

MN Mean to say vou were oh !

the tomato

marr is terrible » 5 ” > ELLY waved her hand. “Listen See if you can get Last evening I with my family

she said had

well, about Gilbert that I can never So I simply up out I wired Gilbert that I was ready to elope with him IW He's—he's been deviling me for a veat And TI got into mv and started for Cambridge just fast as I could go. And every 1ing would have gone according Hovle if you hadn't been woo!lithering on the wrong side of the i. Well, vou make me break my And if yt

decency,

forgive or forget

and

walked

u've got even a sympyou'll drive me to soon as you feel Because—I haven't enough to take the train, And 1ere’s no car except vours And Gilbert expected me this mornand he'll be worried sick ‘oun sav,” Joe, “that your made remarks about Gilbert? ion't like him, then?’ hey don't know him.”

on scornfuliy

on Just as

other

said

enthusismartest people

Your fami said Joe 1y are the = gver met That's khow about it Ibert is studying to be an arche-

ologist

vou

Joe snapped his fingers. “I'd have on it. Just an inquisitive going arcund excavating things that don't belong to him. Why in Heaven's name is it that the world's most wonderful girls fall for fellows who crawl underground like moles? What utter bilge and what is your business? If I may be so presumptuous as to inquire? I'm a candy salesman,” said Joe. | Kelly wrinkled the charming end of a charmingly tip-tilted nose “Candy salesman? Good grief It sounds too horrible What is horrible about candy? | Think of the joy it brings to little children and old ladies and church socials and . 44 “Oh, for Heaven's sake, you think of it. I'm only interested in knowing whether or you are going to be gentlemanly erough to drive to Boston? that you

bet money

ous

not

me So can marry that gumboil Gilbert? Well, I don't know Of I might be able {o persuade vou to see reason before We

course

got

there ’

try,”

itn

said Kelly. do vou.” Joe thumped the pillow “By gosh,” roared, “I drive you. And I'll pound into red head of mile of the way. 1 over in Meriden or selling a guy a load of Chandler & | Sandham's Triple-Flavored Black | Walnut Crunchies, but that can| wait. Where are my clothes?” | “Neatly folded on the chair by your bed, Excellency “Attababyv.” he said. “You'll make a wonderful wife, Beat it now while I dress.” ~ ” ” minutes later Mr. seph Sandham stood in driveway belonging to Mr Archer and surveved his car was pleased to note that it come through the collision ticallv unscratched. The radiator | was dented a little and the front left fender looked like a discouraged doughnut. Joe got in and drove it a few feet down the driveway. It steered well and the tires were okay Qatisfled. he descended from the driver's seat. From the house came the appetizing aroma of bacon, erisping in a frying pan. Joseph lifted his head | and sniffed. like a hound. And at! this point Kelly vopped her head out of a kitchen window “First and last call for breakfast’ she said Mr. Sandham leaped like =a speared grampus and the leap carried him all the way into the kitchen. Kelly was infesting this place, charming in a sea-green apron | “In there,’ she said. “Go make a |

beast of yourself.”

You can ‘or

all the good

will sense every

he that vours ought to be |

somewhere ! | |

Jo- | the I'vier He had prac-

WENTY

| todav.

By Clyde Lewis

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“What's wrong with the kid sister?” “Mad at her boy-friend—the great puppy-lover's in the doghouse

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“Gee,” said Mr. Sandham, can cook? Fancy that” “Of course, I can Kelly scornfully. “What think I am, an orchid?” Mr. Sandham went into the the breakfast nook and overpowered | a double orange juice. Kelly appeared bearing shredded wheat. [le “would have lived high if I hadn't crumpled this, buried it under sugar, | come along.” drowned it in cream and took it in| his stride. Followed bacon and eggs, | {

the eggs scrambled to a beautiful

| pale-vellow consistency. Mr. Sandham went to work, swooshing this | concoction down with coffee which would have drawn commendation from a pernickety Arab. Kelly stood over him. refilling the cup “This guy Gilbert,” said Joe, with his mouth full of bacon and eggs,

“you

said you

cook.” do

(Te Be Continued) (All events, hames And characters in this story are wholly fictitious)

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