Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1941 — Page 17

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TODAY'S SHORT STORY, Little Things "By "WESLEY, GEORGE

r A glance from the stairway told him that the hotel corridor was

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empty, safe. He strolled along it) §

pasually, The stub of a cigar com-

fortably wedged between his lips combined with the careless drape of

his tweeds to give him the appear-

anee of a vacationing businessman. He found the door he sought.

It was opened to his rap by af

young lady in a dressing gown, a girl whose blond curls danced exgitedly at the sight of him. “Harry!” she exclaimed.

He stepped swiftly into the apart- EB

ment and closed the door behind him. “Take it easy,” he cautioned. “I've been, in town all week. I couldn't. get in touch with you because I. didn’t want to take any

here,” he added rapidly. “To get you straight on your end of it. “When I leave here, I'm going straight to our place on the lake. Ill keep under cover at the cottage . there. You follow in two weeks.” “But suppose you were seen coming in here?” He smiled easily. “No one saw me. I take care of little things like that. Rode the elevator to three floors above and walked back down.” 2 “And at the canning factory?” “Nothing to worry about there. Nice, clean job. Gloves. No fingerprints, no. witnesses. But th “be locking me up, anyway, because there’s not many yeggmen in this

. country could pull a job like that.

In this game, baby, you have to give the other guy credit for a few more brains than he’s got. .That’s what I mean by watching out for the little things.” £

CHUCKLING in satisfaction, he

thrust an arm around her and brought her face to his. As he did so, the muffled rattle of the elevator door rang down the hall, Heavy, deliberate steps Sounded on the carpet outside. -He sprang away from her. “Those are cops,” he declared hoarsely. “I'd know that flat-footed walk anywhere. . . . There’s another door to this apartment, isn’t there?” In the hallway, the f shuffled to a halt Knuckles drummed upon the door panel with a low

insistence. _ " “To your left, through the bedroom. . : . = ~ 2 “ox, k., baby. Keep them here a while. I'll sneak out while they're in this room. Have I forgotten anything?” : : “No that cigar butt in

LR yes, the ashtray.” “Atta girl,” he approved, “one of

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room, The knock upon the door ated-—loud Her, TnpaLently. He

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to be slightly more difficult. That fellow slouched against the desk near the door symbolized a plainclothesman in every aspect of his big body. He would have to walk past him on his way out. : Well, it could be done. A dew of perspiration had gathered upon his forehead, and he was not a man given to nervous fear. The lobby was genuinely warm. So warm: that it would be entire« ly permissible for a man to mop his

thereby effectively concealing his features, just in case. ...

Up in the apartment the leader of the two men said, “Well, Miss, I guess you don't know anything about this. Sorry we had to disturb you.” His hand was on the doorknob when the phone rang. The blond

reached. it. first “It’s probably for)

«Pega? he said into the phone. Sis that?” You bet, I'll be right

. Turning to his companion; he said, “Something dick just td a guy and found all his pockets full of greenbacks. Wants us to look into it.” They discovered that it was funny

indeed. For a yeg , who always remembered he. ttle things, had whipped * out. a handkerchief and flung a stolen feet of the hotel d tow! Real life drama on a

girl took a stép toward it, but hej,

oT “I left word I'd lig. take a notion to fingerprint me; he apologized

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1941; W. G. T. U, SAYS

Times Special s EBANSTON, Ill, June 9.—People

period a year ago, according to a report issued today by the National W.C.T. U. : They drank 7,017,442 more gallons of alcoholic beverages and spent $6,244,003 more than their drink bill for the first quarter of 1949, the report said. The ‘composite American highball amounted to 360,105,194 gallons for

for beer and wine.

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