SERIAL 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. Automatically, he lunged
forward as darkness shrouded the
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16 Nobleman.
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religion.
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of Castro's hand. Then he lifted
Castro to his feet
For weeks, Jim would show the
scars of his battle. For months
after the scars were gone, ho
would look back happily to tho
day when the Castro gang left
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ruler.
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the sun.
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