Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, August 13, 1942, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextSERIAL STORY LUCKY BY GLORIA KAYE COMMUNITY 8INQ CHAPTER XI JJACK In the office of the Courier next day, Penny checked hur riedly on proofs of the literature ha had prepared (or her Friday night meeting. Circulars, posters for store windows, the newspaper sd all vcrs In resdirrcw. ' No one would suspect, from the innocent wording, the real intent of the mass meeting. "Community Sing" and "Concert" were the big headlines. The men in the mill had been given double notice by ' Penny's friends there. The weathprmnn rrmw? co operative when Friday evening ar rived. The auditorium was filled. The Kirktown Glee Club took Its place on the stage. Rafters echoed to the lusty lilt of their voices. Men predominated in the audience, and their voices lifted : In song as the concert proceeded. - Quietly, before the last refrain died down, Lou MacDonald, Jim Vickers, and Penny seated them selves in their appointed positions : on the stage. With cheers for the glee club stilt ringing, MacDonald stepped forward. "Friends," MacDonald started, "my story is not pleasant, but it must be told. It affects every one of you." He told the audience, simply and truthfully, of the tragic cases that came regularly to the attention of the Humane Society. He laid the blame squarely on Castro's machinations. There was no mirth in the sober faces up lifted to him. When Jim stepped to the speak ers' platform, a spontaneous cheer attested to his popularity. The men admired his courage and re spected his judgment "Fellows," Jim said simply. "Not long ago there was a tragic bridge accident here. You or some mem ber of your family was saved from death only by the will of Providence. A crooked city ad ministration was responsible for the death of two of our best friends. I call it plain, cold blooded murder." Eloquently Jim recited the many factual instances of graft and favoritsm and crook ... edness. - J- V Penny stood before the sea v of faces, displaying no sign of ,r the nervousness she felt . "I haven't known you very long, : but I feel I know you very well," , Penny began. "There isn't a cow- i- ard in the crowd! You have . power! You're strong! Let's show Castro he can't run Kirktown! Tonight together lefs chase him out of town!" There were shouted affirmatives. Men jumped from their seats, ready for action. "Wait! Just a moment!" Penny shouted. "No one wants to start any violence. We are all inter- ested only in peaceful means with which to remedy conditions in I Kirktown. The sheriff is here to i night He has named Bud Walsh and several of your men as depu ties. Let's go as an army of citi zens not as a mob. You won't need to start a fight When Castro sees you, he'll know he has had enough." Bud Walsh was already organiz ing the eager crowd. They were flooding through the . wide-open doors in orderly fashion. Their march to Castro's hangout had begun. Jim was white with anxiety. "What have you done, Penny?" he worried. "The Castro gang won't give up its easy pickings without a fight Someone is sure to get hurt." "Perhaps this will change your mind." Penny handed him the red-lettered warning to leave Kirktown. "It's up to you to make up your mind, Jim. Either Castro goes or I go. Both of us can't stay here." Grimly Jim said, "Come on!" With long strides he reached the head of the column of marching men. Bud Walsh had naturally fallen into leadership. Penny was right. The men were as orderly as a disciplined army and no less tough! "All I want is five minutes alone with Castro," Jim told Bud. "You'll have your five minutes," Bud promised. As they ap proached Central avenue, Bud halted his column. , "Quiet, men," he ordered. "We want to surprise Castro. No one has had a chance to tip him off. We'll all wait while I send a couple of scouts ahead." The men liked this game. "Like the old covered wagon days, looking for Indians," someone whispered. "Let's go," Bud shouted when his scouts signaled him. They pushed through two swinging doors into a back room. There, in a room filled with slot ma chines, gaming tables and gam bling devices, sat Castro and a prize group of city officials. The surprised mayor of Kirktown opened his mouth in a moronic stare. An unllghted cigar dropped from the lips of the safety direc tor. Castro swung around, a vicious revolver in his hand. "Shoot if you dare," Jim in vited througli set teeth. Castro ! hesitated. He studied the silent i crowd, Bud Walsh had a gun. 'So did at least a dozen others. Castro glanced quickly at the I badges they displayed. He dropped his weapon. i . 'THE crowd cleared a space for i the returning men who had rounded up other members of Cas tro's gang. "Take a good look at ' this prize collection of apes," Bud Walsh invited. "This is the last time you'll see such specimens in Kirktown. They're going to be so rare that there will be a reward for their capture, even in slightly damaged condition, within the city PENNY COPYRIOHT. !. NBA SERVICE. INC. limits." Bud turned to the mobsters. "You guys have just two hours to get packed and beat it," he Siirned. "We mean business and le're plenty tough. If you can't understand our nice treatment, we'll have to teach you a lesson." A good movie director would have found a note ot comedy in the way guns, marked cards, extia aces, and a special collection ot crooked dice were piled on the cement floor, awaiting destruction. "Start moving," said Bud, twirl ing his gun menacingly. There was relief in the faces of the gang sters as they left They had ex pected much worse treatment. "I've waited for this for a long time," Jim said soniy. The fight which followed, Bud Walsh always said, was the tough est, noisiest bloodiest battle that had ever raged in Kirktown. Jim had asked for five minutes ac tually. Bud stood guard outside the doors for an hour. Castro tried in every way he could imagine to kill Jim. He bit he kicked, he kneed, he gouged, he punched, he butted. He swung heavy chairs at Jim's head. He narrowly missed Jim with the jagged edge ot a table leg. Jim met each furious attack, each vicious thrust calmly, alertly. In his own heart there was murder. Desperate, Castro drew a mur-der-bladed krnfe from a hidden recess in his trousers. He lunged viciously. Jim felt no pain, but he knew from the red on Castro's weapon that the dagger had found its mark on his shoulder. Cau tiously, he circled out of Castro's reach. The room's unshaded light sin gled out the gangster's knife. Swiftly, painfully, Jim lifted a broken chair and shattered the bulb. 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