Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1939 — Page 23

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Yesterday: Quait, disguised; visits entrance to Goldcrest, learns who is- rune. Le KUMPH } ! ning the place. Then he prepares’ to return for his money. Meanwhile, he steals a gun from the Kingman hotel.

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: LARRAWAY, under | { protest,“was standing on a rock | by the highway turnoff, singing an ( ‘old Western ballad in a genuinely good” baritone, He finished with a dramatic| |} - flourish on a high note and theap-| | plause was enthusiastic. A dozen J or so travelers waited with’ Rose- \ ; : We : Z, * lee, Christine, Dick and the three | >=, \ A Rn : - «© £ R-MIND “THE : ] yr NK OX PALATES, CHARLIE=

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one-time cow hands whom they had hired as part of the “atmosphere” for Goldcrest. As were ths

others, Franklin was attired this morning | in cowboy costume. He had borrowed a guitar from one of the cowboys-to accompany him- * self singing and Christine Palmer had gazed happily at him while he sang. It was her idea that he help entertain the waiting crowd, and ¢7 It had proved to be an excellent | - idea. } A'coupe slowed down and stopped. Roselee greeted the two women wha were indjt. “Good morning. Were you interested in seeing Goldcrest?” “Yes. Can we go right on over?” “No, ma'am. But if you will § please wait for a few minutes—we {are having a lot of fun—we will all go in together. You see, we have all our guides here this morning to eo 8reet a special bus party at 10 o’clock. Theyre due any time. We're having songs.” : Roselee smiled at them, and her § . elusive left dimple flashed, and the . ®' two women in the car smiled back and said they'd wait. “More than a hundred college students and some faculty members a from a New York university are coming,” Roselee went on. Christine called out then. come the busses, Roselee!” The five large busses took 20 minutes in arriving because they had been separated on the highway. Two or three more private cars pulled up during that interval, too. Dick % Bancroft greeted them. Franklin and the two girls were busy with the college crowd, but when the last bus came Dick and Roselee, riding | + In their light service truck, led the caravan over the rough two miles: to the ghost -town. Franklin and Christine rode with the visitors, trying to show as much hospitality as 1 ® they.could. For one thing they en-

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joyed being hospitable, - especially since this was a group of collegians approximately their own age, but » aside from that was the salient fact that this morning’s callers represented a money “take” which would approach $200 all told.

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HEN they had all alighted again at the edge of GoldJotess to walk slowly through the ‘now routine routing worked out by ¥ [Dick and Franklin and Roselee and Christine, the crowd was mare like a picnic assembly or a crowd before a football game. Youth dominated ® ithe guests this morning. Bays and jis were making the inevitable | wisecracks and asking upward of |a million. questions. More sedate adults could only follow and look on, but the good spirits there were | contagious. / | They saw the old abandoned resi|dences. The corrals and -black- ‘. | smith shops: . {with a bell which they rang and heard echo powerfully in the great rocky canyon there—the interests« ing old graveyard, the bank and barbershops and other business places were all visited. Then escorted the guests at last to Mrs. ® Hogan's place in the Ace Hotel for lunch, ordered in advance. Christine and : Franklin, alert, showed courteous attention: to the

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present. Quite near a beared imbrella. v “Are you in the faculty, too, sir?” Christine asked him. “Why—uh—yes, I am. Professor York—that’s my name.” He stuck out his hand and Christine! took it His voice and

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his looks, For one thing, a professor almost never calls himself “Pro- , fessor,” Christine knew, | having been in college only recently herself. He had surprised her, and she caught Franklin Larraway’s eye 4 appraising the man curiously, too. ' ¥ But then, college faculty men some- | times are eccentric. Christine made on point of being especially cordial to him, then passed on.

S™= forgot the incident until most of the group were sitting . down to eat. Then, in her hurried * survey of the crowd just to be sure no guest was being neglected, Christine saw Prof. York quietly wa. away from the-hotel. »' Also she noted that Franklin— looking strangely serious of face— had edged over toward the door of the hotel lobby and was peering o 5 o at Prof. York too. Doubtless Fr **lin would call him, she told herself. But Franklin didn’t call, and in spite of the bustle and the laughter and the constant happy hum of *» voices around her, something made Christine glance out again to check "up on eccentric Prof. York. Maybe she ought to go bring him in, the 4 0ld dear, she thought kindly. Roselee and Dick were very busy with the younger folk in the big dining hall, she noted. or She saw Professor York unob-

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gazing here and there, then suddenly cross over. Moreover, he was going | directly toward the Gold- » crest Bank! That itself needn't have been alarming. And yet—something froze Christine Palmer to attention there. Some nameless inner fear, . ? The fear. was heightened when she saw Professor York look aurriedly around, then disappear in- , side the bank’ door. She glanced at Franklin Larraway, caught the awed look of recognition row that young mags, countenan

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crowd to join Franklin, but in that moment he left the hotel and himself ran hurriedly across and down the street to enter the Golderest Bank. (To Be Continued)

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