Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1942 — Page 31

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Sporting Blood

By Harry Harrison Kroll

CHAPTER EIGHT WHEN HUNTER DENT came to himseif he was lving on a cot. He ! in various parts of his body. chief local pain was in his He groped at it tentatively, He seemed

ached The head trying hard to remember

to be crudely but competently band-

aged It came to Hunter slowly He sat up. He was 2 cell, He remembered | > and more, how he had opened! to make sure about the! money; how he had been set on by rascals lurking in his office. It must Neal Frazier, and thei of them. aft knocking him him to town and

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he safe

been a or ut, had brought ndged him here. A brown Negro, evidently the! nizht clerk of this public hostelry,! howls. “I isi the colored man stated. “You is Mr

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came at his wild Shady,” not without deference Hunter Dent, isn't vou?” Unlock this door and let me out of here!” : Mr. Dent. ! n he say if vou comes hurting to look after you. t alongside of dat I is to keep

do dat,

had breakfast, then took

He Ander

and Sheriff him to his|

office Frazier and

other hovs,

night

the fetched you in Dent Sweet of “What am Robbery and a

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em.” Dent grumbled I charged with?” resisting arthings like that.| to say for vour-! self?” i to talk, sheriff. I want] lawyer { I ckon that’s your constituBut let's get down to

murder, rest few

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I'm frankly puzzled.| |

hose boys out there at Ballard's| have a pretty good case against you.! ve been talking to Strick Ballard ind he will be here to see you in a v mim It seems as if you| ertain threats against him. Mr. Ballard had a row t some seed corn. and maybe fine walking horse—is that right? constitutional questions unhad a chance to consult

matter.

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will you call

Yho iz vour lsuwver racy Hannings. him for me?

= 5 = ANDERSON looked up the num-| ber and dialed it. “Hunter Dent is here with me, Hannings, This is; Sheriff Anderson. He asks you to come over quick as vou can.| Okay. Thanks” He hung up| turned back to Hunter. i

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Now, look here, Dent. You might asked. a= weil come ciean. We've gone over t

You're mixed! n tha: stick-up. Either you took part in it, or you were an accessory before the fact, or vou are shielding the ones who did the trick. I'm your friend. I could treat you as a rascal and give you the third de-| gree, and make you come clean. | Mavbe I'll do that yet, but only! after I have given you every chance in the world i You listen carefully now while I reconstruct this whole business. | Theres 2 pretty wild bunch of} yvoungsiers that gather out at Bal-| lari’s country home. That red-head! of Baliard’s: the boy Temple, the! banlers son; the twins; the girls that sing over the radio; Mrs. Ballards brother, and several others. Good deal of gambling goes on, too. eh?” “I don't keep up with them”; Hunter said : You dont run with them, no; but new and then you watch, may-! be. ¥nd pick up things. Now, it's! mv theory that the leak of money; movement vas through young Hank Temple. He works in his dad's bank. He would know, perhaps make up the shipment, put it in a bag, give it to the messenger. You heard him sav something indiscreet | All right, you got a partner, perhaps t=o, apd went after the thing. You! r=d Ballard did hive a row, didn't you?” “I'm still not talking.™

his whole business

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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JAMES . JOHNSON,

IN 1881, LEFT HIS HOME NEAR GENEVA, NEW YORK, AND WENT AWAY TO WAR. HE HUNG UP HIS SCYTHE IN THE CROTCH OF A TREE WITH INSTRUCTIONS

BUT HE NEVER CAME BACK, AND J THE TREE GREW ~ AROUND THE SCYTHE, HOLDING IT SAFE AND SECURE,

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QUIRCIObYS

IN MEMORIAM" |I{

T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFK,

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“Well, what started out to be a lark—te put it mildlv—got down You had to do some shooting. You had your get-away in vour We know the ear was parked not far trom the scene. let me show you.” He produced two bromide enlargements, “This is a print of the tread of the car in the road at the back of the estate. Here is a picture of the tread of vour car. See? The same, eh? You did admit you are the only one with- a key to that iron gate: that the car was yours. Miss Ballard heard you, so did the constable out there. It is known that you were not in the place where vou sleep nights that night. We have that on authority that can't be impeached. So you were absent, you have a grouch, you probably have the monev. Come on now and tell me the truth, and let's work this cut so it will be as easy on vou as we can make it. vour friend. Dent.” “You told me that hefore.” “All right, where is the money?” “I wish 1 knew. How is Junior Ballard?” * Rarely alive.” A car drew up in front of the Jail. Strickland Ballard came in. He looked at the two men. “Hello, Anderson.” “Howdy. Mr. Ballard.” “Hello, Dent.” Hunter barelv nodded. Ballard "Could I talk to the young

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man privately, Sheriff?” “Come back to his cell.” Anderson led the way, locked the two up. | Ballard began to bluster. “We have your number, Dent! Everything leads to one conclusion, You shrewdly staged a trick to discredit my folks. You may not have intended going as far as you did. It seems incredible you would stoop to robbery and murder. I shudder {at how I trusted my son and daughter to your care as if you were an older brother. I must say I am glad we discovered your true character before you had time to get thoroughly ingratiated into—well—er— putting it bluntly, married into the family.” = = » THE BLUSTER seemed to go quickly out of Ballard as Hunter sat there watching him, a cynical smile playing at his lips. “How is Junior? Do the doctors ‘hold out any hope?” Ballard became more years than | his 50. He slowly shook his head. “It will be two or three days before | the crisis. Until then we can only {watch and pray.” “You'd better have been doing { your watching and praying earlier,” { Hunter said. | Anderson came down the hall “Telephone call for Mr. Ballard. Call for Dent, too.” (To Be Continued)

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