SERIAL STORY
PLAY BY PLAY
BY PAUL DAVID PRESTON
CHAPTER XXVIII
"AUICK! Straighten things up!
X Oh, hurry, everybody, hurryl
The dinner table I had every
thing set The chain my clothes
Ohl"
Nancy Hale was Incoherent but
he was working furiously now.
Automatically the others pitched
In. The living room looked like
a wreck one moment and looked
neat again the next. In spite of
Blythe's and Duane's fight with
the .two detectives, things hadn't
been broken. The detective called
Ed went over to the window and
peeked out.
"So that's them, ehl he said.
"I know them two. By gosht
"I don't get it," Duane Hogan
began. "So you mean to tell me,
Nancy, or Bly, that you"
Nancy looked desperate. "I tell
you we haven't time to talk nowl
Duane, dump those clothes back
in the closet. And Scooter's toys.
I've got to get an apron on and
look calml Don't you understand?
Calm!"
"But how can"
The detective spoke again. "Mrs.
Hale's right Help her go through
with it. We got to have proof!
Evidence, see."
"Yes! Oh, Duane yon and
Blythe. Come with mel"
Frantically now she began to
herd all of them right back into
that same clothes closet
First she pushed Duane In. Then
Nancy. Next the two detectives
themselves. All the while she was
stage-whispering instructions to
them.
"You must be absolutely quiet!
I they're coming around the
building. They'll be careful so no
body will see them start up the
stairs. You get back in the closet
Way back! Ifs big. They used
to store gym equipment there.
Back against the wall, all of youl
Remember the gamblers were to
hide in there, too, and they may
coma snooping, so you"
"Mrs. Hale, you make 'em talk
again, see!" a detective asked.
"Make 'em repeat what they said
to you before. Everything! And
don't give 'em no chance to harm
you. They'll have guns that alnt
loaded with blanks!"
k "Sh-h-h-h-hl" warned Nancy.
Next moment the closet door
Hosed.
DLYTHE could feel the utter
strangeness here. For the sec
ond time in 15 minutes she was in
(this place, this time not with two
but three men. She could sense
their presence even if she could
see nothing. She could hear Nancy
tripping around outside, obviously
In last-second arranging of de
jtails. Her own thumping pulse
Was likely to give everything
iway, Bly felt
All at once, then, everything
pise went still.
Nancy could be heard no more.
The detective named Ed was still
breathing a little heavily from his
exertion with Duane. But Duane
himself, backed against the closet
(wall, was like a man of iron.
oiowiy, surprisingly una ur-
ightfuUyl Blythe realized that
uanes arm was completely
around her! She could feel the
and ebb of his own slow
ireathing as he held her to his
iide. His muscles were tense. A
century dragged by it may ac
tually have been two minutes
land then she felt Duane stirring,
i "You all right?." he whispered,
Ight at her ear.
i For answer she squeezed back
on the hand that held hers.
I "I couldn't have stood it," he
whispered, "if you hadn't been.
it any harm had come to you!"
Good old Duane! The best
friend a girl ever had. ""VI
"Bly." -ii
"Yes, Duane?"
"They I don't hear them yet"
"No." .
"I want to say Bly it seems
(to me the time has come for me
for me to say what I've wanted
to say. I have to ask you some
thing." "Nancy was Innocent, Duane!
Don't you understand? She was!
didn't know it either for ever
so long. It was horrible. But she
(wasn't trying to do anything mean.
Instead, she was "
"t wasn't talking about Nancy."
"What?"
Nancy's footstens again were
gripping nervously around outside.
Una of the detectives felt back
through the darkness and touched
glythe in warning to be still. But
Duane didn't know that
'Bly," said he, whispering ever
feo low, right at her cheek, "You
had the courage ... to come up
)iere alone! To try to !"
; "Sh-h-h-h!" the detective ven
tured, just in time,
i A LL four of the people here In
r the closet were suddenly tense
again. Nancy was opening her
front doorl
"Hello," they heard Nancy say,
flat tone. "Come in."
There was quite a long pause.
Those in the closet could almost
tee the new arrivals taking in the
living room, so vivid was the
drama in their minds.
' "What about it?" .they heard a
man's voice ask, "Everything
flake?"
"You wanted to see for your
self," Nancy reminded them.
i.Iwo men, slowly entered. hejrj
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room and she closed the door,
careful to conceal the lock that
Duane Hogan had broken. Blythe
recognized the voice of the man.
It was the same brassy gent who
had first called.
"Did you bring the money?"
Nancy was admirably cool now.
- "Nev' mind about the money!
We got it all right We want to
see you finish your act first We
don't intend to get ripped this
time."
"What do you mean?"
"Miller took the money first
then didn't fix the game. You
better fix it! Get me?"
"I understand," Nancy said.
He's got a payoff coming to
him. We ain't had time yet But
you you stick by us, ' see, and
you'll have everything Jake. Get
me? You got what it takes,' Like
I told you, I like you myself."
"Do you?"
"Sur-r-r-e, kid! You got looks.
Know what I mean? Told you,
dldnt I, Hymie?"
"You wasn't lying," said the
man Hymie. "Mmmmm!"
That was Nancy being person
ally appraised again, Blythe knew.
She felt Duane Hogan's muscles
tighten.
"Git this over, you stick with
the boys downtown, kid," Hymie
put in, unctuously. "Now whafs
the layout here?"
The other one explained. "We
stay in that closet She gits the
two football punks up here. Ho
gan and Dana. She feeds 'em. Sha
gives 'em the sleep pills. Makes
'em lazy. We can tell in 20 min
utes. She sends 'em out on -an
errand. We give her the grand,
and then we blow. Nobody seen
us come up here, nobody'll sea
us leave. That's the whole ticket
ain't it Md?"
"That's what you said," Nancy
answered.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
DMF
SCIENTISTS
NOW THINK
NOVA SCOTIA AND
THE BRITISH ISLES
ONCE WERE LINKED
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AMERICA.
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PLANTS, THEY ONIY GET THE
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SWEET SINGER
HORIZONTAL
1,9 Pictured
singer.
9 Game played
on horses. '
10 Age.
11 Ceremony. .
13 Toll.
14 Parent.
15 Behold! .
17 Glen.
19 Rodent.
20 Tumult
22 Governor
(abbr.).
23 Either.
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44 Half an em.
24 Males.
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27 3.1416. 47 Disease.
28 Nut 51 Meadow,
30 Small mallet. 52 Fruit
32 Near. 54 Perform.
33 South America 55 Proceed,
(abbr.). 56 Breathe with
34 She is a effort
actress. 57 Disfigure.
38 She sweet 59 Native metal.
songs. 60 Kick.
41 Hun. ,61 She formerly
42 Golf peg.
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Blythe felt a stirring In front
of her. She thought she heard
the hammer click on a gun.
"Open the door," one detective
murmured to the other. "We got
evidence enough."
(To Be Continued)
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"No, no, Mrs, Twiflle! You
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of happiness.
Puzzle
marry.
13 Type of canoe,
14 Repair.
16 Upon.
18 Wicked.
20 Marsh lam..
21 Child's game.
24 English'
anthem.
26 Water vessel.
29 Spoil.
31 Moving
vehicle,
34 Store.
36 Prison rooms,
36 Long fish.
37 Require.
38 Speak.
39 Gravel.
40 Break short,
46 Water fowl.
48 Impoverished,
49 Molding.
50 Therefore.
51 Path.
53 Fifth month.
56 Plunder of
contents.
98 Right side '
(abbr.).
59 Father.
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Wash
PERM!
62 Exalt.
VERTICAL
1 Animal.
2 Sick.
3 Negative.
4 12 months.
5 Market.
6 Written form
of Mister.
7 Middle.
8 Male deer.
9 Gem.
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