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SERIAL STORY PLAY BY PLAY bY PAUL DAVID PRESTON COPYRIOHT. IBM. nca service, ma CHAPTER XXIV , TJLYTHE discovered that physl cal action to the matter action of any aort was Infinitely better than the inaction and in- decision of the past few days, This duty before her was not easy to do, but she moved up the stairway to Nancy Hale's loft apartment with a feeling of satis faction at last The stair hall was almost dark. "It's Just a gray day, Is all!" She whispered that by way of self-comfort It was Indeed gray, with autumn snow sifting down at intervals. The snow wasn't enough to be pretty. Its grayness was just enough to cast a kind of pall, at least over her strained nerves and feelings. She had the barest crumb of comfort from holding Pop's starting pistol, a gun the game officials used. The 10th step creaked. Blythe jumped, almost comically. But it was not amusing to her. She stood there for minutes, or so it seemed, her heart pounding. She had to force herself to remember that there was no actual cause yet for alarm. Nancy was out Indeed, gone to her own mother's, to get baby Scooter Hale who was a guest this afternoon of Mom. And there was at least 20 minutes' time before tht gamblers were due to arrive. On the other hand, she couldn't afford to be caught here in the hallway for that would disrupt all of her plans. At the upper landing she silent ly tried the door. "Oh-h-h, darnl" It was locked. Of course It would be. Should be, in fact Bather desperately she looked and felt around there in the gloom. She couldn't locate a light switch, and finally remembered there wasn't any. This apartment had been made over from a literal loft at one time. But her foot did touch something that gave a merry Tinkle-tankle-ttok." This was a pull toy she herself had given baby Scooter, and she remembered Its long handle of twisted wire. It lust slipped into notches of the toy by spring ac tion. In a moment Blythe had it (tree In her hand. TV7ITH the sharp end she dug at " the door lock. It was an old fashioned square thing, and by hooking the wire end between it end the door jamb, the latch was easily slid back. "N-n-n-n-n!" tier sigh of surprise and relief was audible. She walked into fancy's living room and reclosed the door. . i It was light enough to see well In here, but still gray enough to be depressing. She stood there a moment thinking, holding Pop's stubby gun. Suddenly she was glad the cartridges were blanks. "I'd do something terrible! I'd kill someonel" I This way, she could maybe bluff With it and accomplish her ends Without having to carry a personal fear of the gun. She smelled delicious food cook ing, and saw that Nancy had al ready set her tiny dining table with places for four. Food was in an electric cooker loaned to Nancy by Mom Miller weeks ago. It would be something tangy and good. The table was lovely. It held, dominant a vase of flowers. rather expensive-looking ones. Blythe leaned close to see a card dropped nearby. It had a florist's heading, and handwritten in ink It said: . ; Flower cheer for Nancy and Scoots! (Be sure you cook I ENOUGH!) Norman. Norman! He, not Duane, had sent them to Nancy! Even his note held his breezy, cocky air. Blythe moistened her lips. Odd that the flowers, or rather the note with them, should give her such sabS' faction in this strained moment But she had to admit that it did. She leaned to read the dainty homemade place cards. Each was a little football sketched Scooter's color crayons. They read Duane, Scooter. Norman, Muv. Muv was Scooter's own name for his mother, and so Nancy ob viously had printed it in whimsy there. The whole table was inti mate, cozy, nice. Blythe felt a quick little lump of yearning in her throat, then a horrid feeling that she was about to destroy a beautiful thing. Why in the old Nick, she asked herself, did life have to do people this way? Why was it inescapable for her thus to expose Nancy Hale? She didn't hate Nancy. She couldn't! Not even when knowing that Nancy wanted to marry Duane. "I ought to hate her! I loved him first, and I still do!" A re phrasing of that salient fact still didn't make her course easy. Here before her was a cozy table for four friends quarterback, full back, beloved mascot, adorable jsirl. Why couldn't it all have been as perfect as it looked! Blythe wanted to rail out wildly at fate or something. "TX get the calm that comes from ' physical action again, she opened the cartridge chamber of Pop's gun, inspected it carefully, snapped it bad: shut She pulled the hammer back, then reclosed it carefully, holding the spring mechanism. She knew that it would shoot and scare anybody, even though it did no actual harm, "Here's what I'll do," she prom ised herself, standing there in the twilight "I'll hide away back in the closet behind Nancy's clothes. Fortunately it's a big one. The two gamblers said they'd come there, but they'll have to be near the door to peek out It it 11 be a long wait but I can do itl Halt an hour at most They won't enter the closet surely, until they hear Duane and Norman coming. And when the boys are in the room I can take command. I'll have all the proof I need, then, to convince them. And and may be maybe we can work out a way to turn the gamblers in to the police , . . without letting Nancy get too Involved . . . Nancy . . . and Scooter." It was wishful thinking again, but it was genuine. Knowing that Nancy had agreed to drug the two football stars in order to get $1000 from the gamblers was the cause of lingering, gnawing pain. Nancy who had been an adorable friend. But too Nancy who had fallen for the man Blythe herself loved! It was still a tragic, almost sickening situation for pretty Blythe Miller, a situation that kept her emotions more and more confused. There is no conflict like that within oneself. "I've got to do It!" she whis pered now. "And I better start It won't do to get caught here or be rushed at the last second. Nancy1!! be coming any moment She she will have to be hers ahead of the gamblers." Determinedly, then, with a heightened sense of adventure and alarm, she went to the clothes closet door. It opened without noise. She stepped more confi dently into its darkness it was almost as if she were hiding from trouble here, at least for a short respite and rest She pulled the door closed again. "Okay, sister, who are you?" A man at her side said that! Blythe seemed literally to freeze with terror, and a strong band grasped her arm. (To Be Continued) HOLD EVERYTHING! "ThatV a very clever camou flage. 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