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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1930 PAGE SIX THE CAPITAL' JOWtNAL. SALKM. OREGON m big SHOT $J 6y FRANK L PACKARD-' Chapter IS BEHIND THE CURTAIN Cautiously Enid opened the door of her bedroom, inch by inch, and quietly stepped out into the dimly lighted hall. She peered down the hall toward the Iront of the house. There was a door which was closed and near er her was another, wide open and apparently dark as no (learn of light came from it. Again she heard the sound of voices and concluded that they cams from the further room but at the same time seemed to reach, her through the open door. Suspecting that .they were con necting rooms, Enid stealthily made her way to the open doorway. Light filtered into the darkened room through portieres that separated the two. Standing well back, herself se cure from observation, she could not only hear distinctly but, where the hangings feU a little apart, could see Into the room beyond: Iszy Myers! That was why the man's voice had sounded familiar. He had flung himself Into a chair and was twisting a cigar around in his mouth. He looked flushed, ex cited, and uiilv. She could not see Mrs. Kane so well but she caught M glimpse of angry black eyes and a clenched hand. It was Mrs. Kane who was talking and there was no mistaking the passion in the woman's voice. . . No, of course he don't believe her. but he don't think she's nutty or anything like that. He thinks she's straight and that she believes what she says, and that he looks like her brother: but, being only kid when she saw him last, he thinks her mistake Is natural enough." "Sure!" grunted Izzy Myers. "Well that's all there Is to It, ain't It?" "No; It isn't!" said Mrs. Kane savagely. "It won't end there. She's dangerous! I'm afraid of her and I'm afraid of her because I know she's straight. She Is going to cling to Norry like a leech on that bro ther stuff, and what's going to hap pen, with Norry letting her hang around him If our honest little bun- day-school miss get to know too much? I'm asking you, what's going to happen then to you and me ana all the rest of us? I'll tell you I Sing Sing I She's going to spilt because her baby conscience wouldn't let her do anything else! Does that reels ter?" Izzy Myers scowled. "Wei!, what's the answer? "Get rid of herl" snapped Mrs. Kane. "Well, why don't you go ahead and do It, then? You've got her handv enough here, aln t you?1 "I can't do it while she's in this house, you fooll" retorted Mrs. Kane. "But once she leaves this house the less time that's lost the better. I guess It's up to you, isn't It? And I guess you don't need to be told how to put it across, either, do you, so that Norry won't get next?".. Enid shivered as sher passed her hand across her eyes as she ltstned to them discuss her end. I get you!" said Izzy Myers, de livering his verdict with an unpleas ant smile. "Leave it to me. 1 dont know what kind of an accident it'll be, but I'll fix it so's Norry'U never tumble. Forget her then until you read about it in the papers." "Now I've got to find the Big Shot," Myers continued. "I told you, didn't I, that Maloch's got the spot, and that we've got that newspaper bird!" Yes. but you didn't tell me any thing else about It, Who bumped Maloch off?" Izzy Myers burst Into a torrent of fervent blasphemy. "Who 'you think after last night! Twisty Morgan's crowd, of course I They plugged him in the back room of French Charlie's about half an hour ago." Mrs. Kane drew in her breath sharply. "I don't like that I" she said. "That means trouble." "You've said a mouthful I' he snarled. "There's going to be a lot of hearses gumming up the traffic for this, blast 'em!" "I dont like it. I tell you I This will only end up In us or them get ting wiped out." "Yehl" growled Izzy Myers. "That is what I said I That's what we're going to do to 'em wipe 'em out." Mrs. Kane stamped her loot, "you are fools!" she flung out furiously. All of you I this gang-war stuff is mad! And what about this news paper num? Butting in there, too, are you? Asking for more trouble My God the newspapers! What about this fellow Martin?" "He's tied up and gaged down in the 'bird cage' on Eighty-third street, and Batty Rose la looking after him." "You surely don't mean that same old place near Avenue A?" Mrs. Kane's voice rose accusingly, chal-lengingly. Yes, that's what I do mean and don't fly off toe handle again if you can help it!" Izzy Myers laughed shortly. "What you need tonight is dose of soothing syrup! I know all about not being able to get by with a To Let' sign forever, and that we'd decided our time was up there, and that we'd make a shift at once; but it ain't so easy to find the right place, and it ain't so easy to fix up the deal, either. We ain't" Enid heard no more. Swiftly, si lently, she gained the hall, entered her own room, and closed the door. He was alive! Phil was alive I And she knew where he was. He was alive alive alive but there was no time to lose! Her handbag the unloaded auto matic! She would need that, and it would not always be unloaded. She crossed the room in the darkness, se cured the handbag, and, going then to the window, began to raise it cautiously. A house "to let" on Eignty-tnird street near Avenue A. Pray God there was not more than one vacant house in that vicinity. The window was up now. She swung herself quickly over the sill to the ground and the next instant was running across the yard toward the gate that opened on the lane. (To be Continued) WORKER IS ENRICHED BY WORLD WAR FEAT Furtwangen, Bavaria (IP) A legacy of 35,000 marks has fallen to Franz Hein, a poor laborer, as a reward for aid to a wounded and entooiber officer in the world war. After a search of many years the local notary office spotted Heln as one of three soldiers who, under murderous lire, dug a wounded major from the debris of a shelled dugout and carried him to a first aid station. A few years later the major died, bequeathing 105,000 marks to his rescuers. Hein is the first to be identified. FINED FOR SERVICE Kingman, Kas. (IP) J. F. Cheat--up, who owns a string of gasoline! service stations in this city, believes in giving the public what they want. Motorists asked his attend ants If they had aspirin tablets for sale. When the demand In creased he placed them . on sale. State officers investigated and found he had no license to 'sell drugs. His fine was $1,000. GOOSE GUARDS AUTO Martlnsburg, Mo. UP) A giant gander, given to Dr. U. S. O. Ar nold of this city 20 years ago as a part payment for his services, is his household pet and guardian of his automobile. 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