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Billings busts out,
by
Ahlene Fitch
much as blow his
his meat and gro
an deck.
bell er, when I get
of him, “what is
A New Serial Story
CHAPTER xn
“Midget!” I choke out, trying to
buckle onto a star ♦ for pupport.
“Midget!”
‘‘She ain’t big,” agrees Paunchy,
but she’s powerful. Ain’t so, baby?”
“So,” laughs Midget right up
into his greasy ma*p, and I have
got a good notion to ignore that
toinmygun trained on my vitals, '
“Well,” puffs on Paunchy, “we
ain’t .got time to renew old friend
ships, boys, The whole gang is
right' back here in the shadows, but1
we all got work to do. So, Mugs!
Chopper! (Step up here,
your aim.”
“Just a minute!”
Judas is out in front
promised me that this
target practice, darling.”
“Angel!” beeps Paunchy, and
then thumbs the two ice-guys
away. “Anything you ask, it is
yours, Queenie.”
“Tie ’em up tight.” Midget in
dexes Runt and me. “Then toss ’em
into the back of the car. After that
go right on in and .clean out the
bank. I’ll be -waiting around where
I’ve planned for you. We’ll stop
some place out of town and do in i
•these rats.’’ And, believe it or not,
I am one of the rats she is meaning.
“Love!” I snort, while Chopper
and Mugs are doing me up like a
maypole.
They throw us in the car.
“So long, Nice Guys,” chortles
Paunchy, very merry, “and we will
he back later.” Then an engine
roars, there is a jerk, and we move
off. And maybe, I work out with-
' out paper arid pencil, that black-
eyed devil of a Midget is up under
■the w.heel and hauling us out some
where to croak us before Chopper
gets a pop at us.
In a few shakes we stop rolling
again. The- front car door
It closes. I prepare to die.
snores,
minutes
nothing happens. The gag is cut
ting my mouth. My mitts ache from
the lashes. Suddenly I buckle into
the job of working loose.
Comes the dawn, I am still work
ing. Runt is still snoring. Then 1
give one final plow, and zip! My
• hands are free! Out come my gag
and my hoofs are a close second. I
peek over the seat.
“Runt!” I explode, when I have
thawed out! “it ain’t possibe! This
is -our garage! This is our car! We
are parked in our own back yard!”
“Maybe,” he suggests, hopeful,
‘it it nearly breakfast time.” Then
this morning
up yourself.
7Now, take
The female
again. “You
could be my
Nothing happens,
tear by like' lead.
opens.
Runt
Ten
Still
/he clouds up. “Only
we have .got to mix it
Midget is .gone.”
’ “Midget is gone,” I ______
“and maybe this morning is stirring
up breakfast for Paunchy and what
is more I do not give a damm, and
what she can see* in that human
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The town is agog. Even Billings,
who cannot so,
nose away from
eery business, is
“Billings!” I
in wave length
up?”
“The bank!”
chopping the air in shreds,
“It is rob! It is rob last night!’
“How much did they get away
with?” I am excited to know,
“Ach!” Billings rolls on, stretch
ing out a smile;* “~
is fine already, The
What you cajl a tip.”
“What!.'” I erupt,
were tipped! Then
It is nottings. Dot
police have—
“The dicks
the gtickup
bunch-the stickup bunch, Billings?’
“Caught,” murmurs Billings, pat
ting his bay window cheerfully.
“Apd in the jailhouse already,”
“Any dames in the .crowd?”
choke out. AntJ if he says my wife,
because he ain’t < never been wised
up she ain’t, has been pulled, too,
maybe I am still headed for‘ stir
by remote control. Which I can
take on the icliin, but Midget going
up . the river behind bars! ___ JI
even if she is rotten as a slaughter
house. .
“No women,” come my lease on
life. “All men. Well,” Billings bun
dles around, “I have yet to make
der shop open.” He billows on up
the pavement. Then a thought
tangles with him, and he slides his
chin over his left pinion.
“The frau she has a nice trip, 1
hope.”
“What!” I burn up the fifteen
fedt between us. “My frau! A trip.’
The frau,” he retraces, slinging
me a puzzled outline. “It is no
more than. thirty miuntes I am
standing here to see the excitement
when Mrs. Whitmore dashes by me
and a valise she has
mit her. And when
making for the train
little trip.”
“Train station!” I
♦I
is different. Midget
Such a nice skirt,
along included
I ask, she is
station for the
yip, and take
a toe hold. “Track!” I beller at
Runt, and then start pasting my
self to the cement so rapid that in
nothing flat I am back in ou’r gar
age and in'the shay , and under the
steering wheel. ,
“Speed!” T whirl at Runt, who
is flying in just to my ’rear.
“Oh,” concludes Runt, happy, “a
ride. Nice, Rippy.” ..
“Sap!” I break-out, never pull
ing either of my windows off the
road. ‘.‘We got to keep that dumb
Midget out’of jail!”
“Jail,” rolls out of the double
brain cell. “Maybe the- cops don’t
wish our help.”
“Idiot!” I wise him up. “I am go
ing to try to keep that half-baked
girl out of stir, not get her in there
She is trying to make her getaway
on this morning train. But she
can’t have much money. And 1 ]
know Paunchy. He ain’t going to.i
rot in the big hous§ and let Midget
who tipped him to-the job go free.’
“Say,”- pulls out Runt, and it is
a thought in any man’s language
too, “if we had pulled that bank job, it wo.uld of been us in stir j
instead of Paunchy’s 'outfit.”
“Right,” I grit out. “And has it
ever hit that think-box of yours
that it was probably us the cops
was tipped off to, not Paunchy?”
Right then we rein up at- the
station, and I am out and up to the
ticket window before the brakes
have been took hold.
' “Look here, guy,”
“did < a‘ black-eyed,
’five-footer of a skirt
on a train?”
“A little black-haired lady,” he
breaks down and confesses, “bought
a ticket for Creston. She’s been
settiri’ here in the station for nearly
two hours. Settin’ and pacin’
took that train out now.”
“Creston, sixty miles away!” }
snort.
We make it! Just as we barge
like a bat- out of Blades into the
Creston station, the morning train
from- Bolton puffs to a halt. Two
seconds more and there is Midget,
her black peepers wide and. shared;
getting off'.*clutching her bag. t
“Midget!” I sliout. “This way!”
And before that dizzy little dame
has got time to let out one yip, I
have snatched her up, bag and all,
and dumped her into the front seat
of our skyrocket. Blazing in under
the wheel, I stand on the gas, and
before even Runt knows for ’sure
if he is along or not, we are ten
miles oitt of Creston,
“Now,” I announce, roping to a
halt, “I have got something to say
to you, you dumb, underhanded
little stool pigeon. And what I have
got to say to you is this! Even after
I snap quick,
black-haired,
buy a ticket
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Golden Wedding
Mr. and Mu?. W. H. Jopes> of
Regina, Sask., celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary on
March 25, 1946. They were married
at Grand Bend by Rey. Carriere and
were attended by Mrs. Jones’ twin
.sister, Mrs, Samuel Schroeder, who
also attended tbeir fiftieth anniver
sary. Mr. Jones is 73 years of age
and Mrs, Jones is 68. Thoy are
former residents ,of Exeter and
moved® to Regina' 36 years ago.
They now five at 974 Argyle St, Mr.
Jones was a carpenter until he re
tired a few years ago. They receiv
ed many lovely cards, gifts and
flowers which they greatly appreci
ated and wish ta thank trie doriors.
They also received a gold brooch
and a gold ring, A lovely reception
by the 'Federation was held, in the
evening in Trinity Lutheran 'base
ment, A gift of money was present
ed to the couple. (At the Federation
party a program of entertainment
was arranged, Refreshments were
served by members of the Women’s
Guild from a table adorned with
tulips. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have
two daughters, Mrs. Ralph Jackson,
of Bralorne, B.C., and Mrs, Good
win Hanson, Barriere, B.C, There
are two grandchildren.
have double-crossed me and
slapped me and busted my heart
wide open, I am still going tp help
you make a getaway. A good clean
getaway,”
“A getaway?” breathes Midget,
“Why should I make a getaway?”
I “Listen, half-wit!” I snap at her,
shutting my glimmers so I cannot
see how little and scared she looks,
“don’t you ken that the coppers’
will soon be wanting your hide for
last night’s bank crack?”
“The coppers?” she queries. Then
she puts two white little mitts up
on my coat lapel, just like she used
to do before she squawked on me.
“Oh, Rippy, you don’t understand
at all, do you? Rippy, you don’t
know even yet who I really am, do
you?”
“You are Paunchy Pilber’s moll,”
I rip out at her. “And somehow you
got a line on me for him and you
played me for the cockeyed fool 1
am.” * r
“Wrong.” The black peepers arc
shot full forbe into mine. “I' am
Madge Dellaway, Tiger Dellaway’s
daughter.” u .
“What!” If I am tied in knots
and heaved to the pigs, I am not
any more limp and lifeless. “What.”
“Yes,” nods Midget, and tears
begin slipping, around all the cor
ners. “Oh, Rippy,” she begs, “let
•me tell you the whole story. Please,
Rippy, may I?” -
“Commence,” I mumble, because
it is the one and single word -I can
wring out. ?
“All my life I’ve hated the South
Side gang,” she shoves off. “That
was why Tiger, my father, sent me
away to school. Like you, Rippy,
I wanted to be straight. I wanted
to be a lady. Then I went home for
my vacation. The very next’week
someone murdered my father.” She
flicks a teai’ or two on its way. “I
loved my father, Rippy.”
“Outstanding guy,” I agree, my
windpipe tense.
“When Beef’ and Stuppy phoned
from your north side hangout ’ .
night he was murdered they told
me/’
“That I had bumped him!”’I
out.
“Yes.” Midget "takes a new clutch
on my lapel. “And I swore then to
be revenged on you. My heart was
broken,
to meet
you.”
“You
“Yes.
me once in a cafe., You acted like
a man who was running away from
’-something. And • Runt . spoke your
name.”
“■.Sure,” chips in Runt. “I remem
ber. We passed a frail with a high
coat collar.”
“Yes,” Midget okays. “Then I
trailed you. You got into a box
car. I followed you in-”
,•■* “I lent you my coat,” Runt’ pats| himself on the back.
| "Yes. But first you both’ thought
I was sleeping. I tried to snore a | little. Rippy, you mentioned that
you’d rather die than be sent to
prison for life. That was my cue.
L swore to stick with'you through
I fire and water until I?d seen you
go to.jail.”
“They always told how Tiger’s
daughter was a wildcat,”y remem
bers Runt.
“My first .mistake,” she murmurs
low, ignoring Runt, “was falling in
love with you.”
“You did love me?” I chortle.
“•I do love you,” admits the black
eyed angel. “Oh, but I didn’t admit
it to myself even. I didn’t dare. 1
went .right on plotting for your
ruin.
„the Bolton bank job. Then I tipped
off the state police.”
“You tipped the cops!” I choke.
. “Yes.” She half shuts the black
glimmers. “Oh, it was awful! Aw
ful! Because then yesterday morn
ing Runt told me th'e truth-—that
you did not kill my father. In a
moment it was all so clear. Paunchy
asking my father for ine—father
refusing—then some one killing
father.”
“And then?” prompts Runt.
« “Yes,” Midget stumbles on.. “The
man I loved—about to be sold—
by me. Then I remembered that
Paunchy’s outfit Were all' after you.
I knew that if I could somehow send
them all up the river instead, you
would be free—free to go straight
-—and I would have paid my debt.
“I called Raunchy long-distance
—told him (I had-been trailing you
—told him that I loved him. I told
him to bring the whole gang for
the Bolton bank job. Then
the time at 11, and told the
of the time change. 'I-
thing.” Midget slumps
seat, and wraps hei'
mhp iri her tiny mitts.
“It worked—worked
you came too Soon. It
'been over when you got there. But
you are free, Rippy. |Ahd I—I am
so ashamed. I never "wanted to
you again.”
“Baby!” I breathe. “Baby!” Al
ready uiy arms ate folding her in,
and she is ouddliiig down in place.
“Rippy,” she murmurs, just be
fore I take a generous slice of
heaven. “I am getting $10,000 re
ward for that ‘capture. With it I
have just decided ‘to buy Billings*
Meat and Grocery store, will you
take it—as a Wedding present?”
“Angel!“ I whisper. “Angel! So
much paradise is hilling mo.”
“Well,” murmurs Runt, content*
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You’d been pointed out to
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HENSADR MAN SUFFERS
BROKEN ARM IN FADE
Fred Kennings, of Hensail,
employee at a local warehouse,
over a steel box. X-rays taken at
Exeter revealed a bone fractured in
his left wrist. He was attended by
Dr. J. G. Goddard, of Hensall, 'Mr.
Kennings, while engaged in paint
ing a house some time ago, fell and
fractured both arms.
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MRS. HENRY REICHERT
DIED IN ZURICH
Mrs. Henry Reichert, widow
Henry Reichert, passe daway
Thursday afternoon of last week
her home in Zurich, on her 92nd
year. She was born in Hay Town
ship, on the Bronson line, daughter
of Henry and Mrs. 'Deitz. Surviving
are a son, Edmund, Zurich; three
daughters, Mrs. Henry Steinbach,
Zurich; Mrs. J. Richardson, Hen
sail; Mrs. E. Haberer, Zurich; two
brothers, Rhinehart Deitz, 'Wash
ington State, Albert Deitz, Calgary,
and a sister, Elizabeth, in Washing
ton State; 12 grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren. Private
fnneral was held from her home on
Sunday at 3 o’clock, followed by
a public service in St. (Peter’s (Luth
eran Church. -Interment in Lutheran
Cemetery.
ed, from the back seat, “anyway,
you was a nice guy, Rippy. You
was a nice guy.”
(THE END)
Hay Council
The Council of the Township of
Hay met in the Township Hall, in
Zurich, on Monday, April 1st, at
1.30! p.m., at which time the fol
lowing correspondence was pre
sented and the following motions,
passed: R. O. Staples, I.F.S., re:
formation of Twp. Public School
Areas; J. H. Kinkead, I.P.S., re:
formation of High School Areas in
Huron County; Frank Donnelly,
K.C., re: Haigmeier appeal to
Drainage Referee. Tenders for
crushing and hauling gravel; Dept,
of Highways, 1946 expenditure;
Dept, of Attorney General, re bin
gos, lotteries and raffles.
Motions:- that
crushing, hauling gravel _ .
Township roads as received from
Wm. F. Jennison at 56c per cubic
yard flat rate for hauling and 45c
per cubic yard for crushing, be ac
cepted. Contract to be signed.
That four cords of good wood be
bought from Mr. Seldon of Exeter.
That-a public meeting be held at
8.00 p.m. at each of the centres
named below, for the purpose of
discussing the formation of a Hay
Twp. Public School Area. On Thurs
day, April 11th, at S.S. No. 12,
Hay;’ Monday, April. 15th, at the
Township Hall, Zurich; and Wed
nesday, April 17th, at S.S. No. 10,
Hay. The Ratepayers are invited to
attend these meetings.
That the Welcome Home Commit
tee be notified to meet at the Twp.
Hall,, Zurich, on Monday, 'April 8th
at 8 p.m. to
reception of the service men and
women.
That- the
phone System erect two trunk lines
of No. 12 copper wire from Zurich
to meet the Bell Telephone Co. lines
at the corner of the Zurich Road
and second concession of Hay Twp.,
to give the Hay Municipal System
service to London and Clinton.
That Henry Lawrpnce 'be given
the contract to construct the Tuckey
and Forrest Drain according to the
Engineer’s Report at the estimate
as shown in the said by-laws. Con
tract to be signed.
That payments on Hay Municipal
Telephone System, Roads and Hay
Twp. accounts be paid as per vouch
ers-. -xTownship Roads—Jos. Swartzen-
truber $2.60; Roy Gingerich 3.50;
P. Ducharme 15.35; Philip Masse
3.00; Allan Smith 3.00,; Peter Dei-
cliert Jr., 13.75; Samuel
1.40; Elmore Datars 10.17;
Ortwein 3.15; C.
Jno. Schade 2.80,;
Mose Erb .60;
12.85; Wm. J.
the tender for
on Hay
organize for the final
Hay Municipal Tele-
I set
police
every«
in the
round
thougheven
Should have
see
PLEASE HELP!
Once again there’s a serious
EMPTY BOTTLES
AND CARTONS
Help eliminate this condition by
returning empties as soon as
possible.- If it is inconvenient
for you to return them person
ally phone your nearest
BREWERS’ RETAIL STORE
and bring our home pick-up and
delivery service to your aid.
LATHE
coldaway
SOOTHING mS ™e FUMES OF*
Miller
Jacob
Benerling 5.60;
W. Weston 4.20;
Erb .60; Chas. Aidworth
____, Wm. J. Gould i.50i; (Percy
Campbell 6.OS; James Masse 87.89;
L. Masse 8.80; H. W. Brokenshire
2.00; Howard Klopp 6.t27; Ed. Erb.
4.77; Arnold Merner 13.50; Harry
McAdams 4.50; Eldon Ortwein
3.00; Alfred Meidinger 3.37; Roy
Merner 3.07; Wm. Ziler 1.40; Den-,
nis Ducharme 6.81; Wm. Watson"
16.40; Sam Desjardine 1.70; Adolph
Keller 1.60; 'Rud. Becker 10.31;
Chris Erb .60; Wm. Beckler .60';
Robt. Tinney 2.00; Harold ■■Camp
bell 1.80; Elmer 'Campbell 9.00J
Alphonse Masse 41.40; Bruce Koeh
ler 18,72; Stratford Beacon-Herald
4.32 V. L. Becker .45.
Relief—Mrs. J. Suplat 25.00; Ah
bert Hpideman 3.00; Emma Bas-
sow 8.90* •
Hay Telephone System —■ H. W.
Brokenshire 36.66; Bell Tele. Co.
29 5.74; ’Automatic Electric 49.78;
T. H. Hoffman 235.65; Coll. Cus
toms and Excise 193.71; Docon
Tele. Co. 37.30; Northern Elec. Co.
294.64; H. G. Hess-235.65.
Hay General Accounts-—Ont. As
sociation of Rural Municipalities
5.0'0; Bank of Montreal 12.50'; Mrs.
M. MacKinnon, refund on 'drain
3.15; Hay Municipal Tele. System,
loan 900.00) H. W. Brokenshire
68.00; twp. of Hay, Hillsgreen
Ceftietery Rufid 117,44,
The Council adjourned to meet
again on Monday, May 6th, 1946,
at 1.30 p.m.
H, W* Brokenshire, <Olerk,
Wm. H. Haugh, Reeve.
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