Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1938 — Page 16

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By Edwin Rutt

CAST OF CHARACTERS KINKAID PARKER—hero. Handsome, jobless, he has just inherited half-in-terest in a vacant Connecticut home. SALLY PENNINGTON-—heroine, Blond, pretty, she has inherited the other half of the home. Together they turn it into a “Restatorium.”

Yesterday: Shooting their way into the ||

Restatorium, Bull Griffin and Tony Spai-

dini announce they are going to stay for |

the night.

CHAPTER NINE

\ COMPLETE silence greeted Mr. Griffin’s announcement. Kinks finally broke: it. “Well, gee,” he began, “I don’t know whether. ...” Sally stopped him. Sally was a _girl who missed none of the tricks. And since she’d been chivied into the hotel business, she was going fp be in it. ] “Very well,” Sally said, in a busi-ness-like voice. “You can stay here. Our rates are $6 a day per persons.” “Six. ... huh?” : Sally saw that an explanation was in order. - “You may not be aware of it,” she said, “but you and your friend have stumbled into a hotel. We give the finest service. But we charge for it.” Kinks Parker looked at her with worship in his eyes. What magnificent composure she had! What calm! What finesse in dealing with the unexpected! In short, what a woman! Mr. Bull Griffin was still wrestling with the idea that he had blundered into a hotel. : “Hey,” he brought forth at last, “wot is dis layout, anyhow?” “This,” said Sally, “is the Penn-ington-Parker Restatorium. A place’—she threw Kinks a severe glance—“for the rest and relaxation.” “Huh?” * = = ALLY repeated it. Mr. Griffin stared at her. Mr. Tony Spal.dini removed his hat and scratched his close-cropped, lopsided head in perplexity. “Well,” Mr. Griffin decided, “it’s oke wit’ me. I could go fer some rest. In a big way.” . “Our rates,” said Sally, who nadn’t taken her eye off the ball, “are $6 a day per person.” But if she thought that this was going to throw Bull Griffin for a loss, she had mistaken her man. Mr. Griffin expertly shifted his gun from his right hand to his left, dug into his pocket and produced a roll of money that would have choked a hippopotamus. He peeled Off a $100 bill. : “Dere you are,” he said. “Dat’s fer da two of us fer a week. Keep da change an’ buy yourself a aeroplane.” Sally took the money dazedly. “You—you mean youre actually going to pay us?” she gasped. “Without a—a fuss?”

8 ” tJ R. GRIFFIN was insulted. “Sure,” he said. “Wotcha

t'ink I am, a deadbeat?” “But I don’t see why you should want to stay in a place like this.” “Well now look, lady,” said: Bull,

in the voice of one who addresses |:

the primary grades. “It’s like dis: Me an’ da Little Cheese usta be pals. to wot a dirty, lyin’, double-crossin’, little weasel he is. But two weeks ago I'm wised.” “What wised you?” said Sally, who was beginning to learn the patter. “Aw, said Buli, “me an’ da Little Cheese is in da .same rack—er—line of business. Only his territory's Queens an’ I got da Bronx. An’ everyting was okie-doke till two weeks ago he comes up to da Bronx an’ tries tc cut in on me. Well, dat makes me boin.” “I get it,” said Kinks. “You and the Little Cheese are having a war.” “Dat’s right,” said Bull. “I'm gittin’ him an’ he’s gittin’ me. Only he ain't, see? But tonight me an’ Tony has business in Noo Haven. Well, a couple of da Cheese's boys is hangin’ around da Bronx an’ dey sees us go. So dey follies us. “An’ da only reason dey ain’t still shodtin’ at dis house is we hit one of ’em t’rough da winder. Dat leaves two against one so dey takes- it on da lam. Get it, lady?’ “Yes,” said Sally. “But if they've gone why do you want to stay? And why did you say at first that it was to be for just overnight and then pay us for a week?”

2 = = La A CRAFTY expression appeared . upon Bull’s rugged face. : “Well,” he said, “I got to t'inkin’. Dem guys is gonna beat it back to da Cheese an’ spill wot’s happened. Da Cheese is never gonna figger us to stay here: So wot do we do? We lays low here an’ da Cheese don’t know where we are. Den, after a little, Tony an’ me takes a trip to Queens. Da Cheese ain’t suspectin’ nuttin’ an’ dey ain’t nuttin’ to it. We pulls our rods an’—bam!” Sally noded. “I think that’s a very brilliant plan, Mr. Griffin. Stay here just as long as you want. Come along now, I'll show you your room.” When Sally came down ‘again Kink swooped on her. “Do you mean to say,” he said, “that you're actually going to put those chimpanzees up?”

“I most certainly am. You of !

all people should know that we're running a “business, I'm not turning away anybody. Particularly a couple of charming gentlemen who p=« in advance.” On the following afternoon there was a little trouble with Mrs. Harkness. Mrs. Harkness was not pareal to Mr. Griffin and Mr. Spal-

“We're leaving tonight,” she told Sally. “I don’t know what kind of a place this is. Those men are rough, loud and coarse.”

HE had elected to deliver this kd edict in the living room where Mr. Harkness was tampering contentedly with a light wire. And before Sally could reply Mr. Harkness spoke, most unexpectedly. “I refuse to leave this house,” he said,

Mrs. Harkness whirled on him. |

Were her ears betraying her? “Alvin Harkness, what do you mean?” “Just,” said Mr. Harkness, splicing wire expertly, “that I'm not going anywhere else. I like Mr. Griffin. He's interested in my idea for a revolver that shoots by electricity. My mind is made up, Elfleeta, We stay. That is final.”

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD

By William Ferguson

Two quiet days followed. _ On the afternoon of the third day Kinks sat in the kitchen watching Sally make biscuits. : “All is well on the Rappahannock,” he said.: “Peace and seren-

ity walk the land. Which seems a propifious moment, Miss Penning-

to marry me?”

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ton, to ask .you when you intend ;

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