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H 4 I I ! S , SERIAL STORY FRANTIC FESTIVAL BY EDMUND FANCOTT COPYRIOHT. It. NEA CERVICE. INC. CHAPTER XII )EANO'S nerve was gone. Little things one after anotlier had worn it down and now he pan icked. Ho grabbed Leona's hand and pulled her through a side door. For s moment no one real bed what was happening and then It dawned on the boys that Santa was fleeing before he had finished the Job. Like a pack of hounds they were after him with a bed lam of noise. "" After. them poured Ferdy, his aunt, Fay and Ross to herd them back. They were pouring outside without any of . their coats and ii lubbers and they would catch J their deaths of cold. Beano swept Leona Into his fertns and dashed to the garage, jj The front door was shut behind j the two men now inside and he J reached the garage before the hounds emerged from1 the house. Dismay smote him as he rounded J the corner. There, standing before Hhe doors, was a farmer's sleigh with two horses. There was no Hime for maneuvers, ' there was r.enly time for action. ja He dropped Leona on to the pile -ef rugs in the sleigh, Jumped iri .sjnd snatched the whip. fl As the pursuit piled around the corner they saw a wonderful and -Traditional sight, Santa Claus in 'his sleigh driving through the "inow with the Queen of the Fan cies with him. At the gallop it was .spectacular and no one noticed the "disarranged appearance of the JQueen of the' Fairies or her dis ' grim tied expression. The cold was biting through the nightgown and "She was swaying in a struggle to .disentangle the rugs amidst the frantic career of the horses and jyleigh down the steep drive. ,r The pursuit stopped dead in its . tracks. Even the most hard-bitten "cynic among the boys was shaken "to the core by the realization that : Santa Claus was behaving as if he Were real after all. Ferdy's aunt herded them back tato the house. Only Fay and Ross were missing when the others came back to the unhappy Benny, .Who was now the man in the mid--clle, detectives in the hallway and Beano gone, leaving him to face - the music . w. Myra opened the front door ex . bisecting what she -saw. She asked xfhe two men in. ' They were big men and. looked like ex-policemen. They also looked tough. -Wei, boys?" she asked. "Troo . ble?" r' They nodded. "We'd have been here before but the car stuck in drift way back and we had to tent a sleigh from a farmer." "M. "Looking for someone?" "Fellow named McCluskey up iPerer- "He's gone." "Gone?" "Yes," said Myra. "listen." I They. listened. They heard the pnmistakable jangle of sleigh bells training mnousiy. "That's your sleigh," she said rtaimly.. . r- wiui one accord both men . jtumed to dash to the door. Myra rCtopped them. . "Wait," she said. "Maybe I can ."help you. Maybe you don't want nun." ' -. . "What do you mean?" said one "of them. '--"Diamonds interest yon?" she -asked. "What do you know about It?" .said the other suspiciously, t. "Everything," she said. Tm a bit of a detective myself and . . ." ''she whispered this. ". . . Mr. Lor- ton, who owns this place, works for the B. C. M. P. Intelligence De- "partment as a plain-clothes man, , strictly between ourselves." i They were impressed but not 1 convinced. J "Now listen," she said. "Do you , want the ice or the man?" ' "TSTE'RE from the , insurance J company; We want the dia- l monds. 'If we were in the States i we'd take the man as well. But this is Caifhda and it'd be more I trouble to get him out than he's 1 worth." J The other man added his piece. 2 "The diamonds are worth $50,000. i McCluskey's worth nothing." . i "O. K. What about Benny J Brien?" i "Whal about him," said one t man. "Don't know him. Only know this fellow left a mailing I address care of Brien." "O. K.," said Myra. "Bygones 'are bygones if you get the dia ' monds?; Right?" , "Youet." . : "Then come and meet the boys J and don't say a word when you i get a present." i She led them back to the room J where the boys were seated in i decisively around the tree. Benny seemed pale and slightly shrunk, 'tut the two men took no notice of ' Jiim. '-'- . ' Introductions were completed Jwith whispered asides to Ferdy cand his aunt to leave it all to her nd then Myra took charge of the proceedings . from the ailing fenny, but she kept him in the ole of Santa Claus. J "Now, boys," said Myra. "Ow ing to the unexpected departure f Santa Claus to parts unknown Je will ask Mr. Benny Brien to ubstttute and I'll substitute for he Queen of the Fairies. A bit of Sn anticlimax if you get the Joke Jut if you get the presents it's all sine same to you." . I She began to pull parcels from Jhe tree and hand them to the unsuspecting Benny. He read the flames of the recipients and passed hem over. Then Myra casually in he stream of presents leaned lown at the back of the tree and ook a small red parcel. "Why.',' he Mid "If this Jm't : V , ; :' lucky. Wo thought our two guests were going to be disappointed but here I And a little gift they can share between them." She passed it to Benny who felt it, read the inscription and gulped. It read, exactly like the other, "To Leona, with lovo from you know who." He fingered it nervously, feeling the unmistakable hardness of the diamonds. He passed it to the two detec tives as though it wore red hot. One of them took it, pressed it, and nodded to the other and passed it over to him. The other felt it also and tucked it in his pocket A feeling of great relief sud denly came over Benny. He was voluble now, the words pouring out in a hurried stream. "I use to handle all McCluskey's bookings when he was in the big time wrestling. He was good then, but he fell to pieces. Used to come" to me 16 'Tc7pIm,and 1 would, just for old times sake and lo krnn Htm clniftlit 13. ...i.tj - ' ....... B.n. uu, nnuu I have thought he'd do a thing like i.n, t ...... .I.,-,, i . i . . ' .it.,,, a uuiuu iinvc (oiicnra mm if I'd known ho was In on any iunny uusmess. " Benny was all smiles now. "Well, it's a good job I made him leave a forwarding address nt my place and I hope you didn't bust up anything when you wont through my office. Still, the re ward will fix that up. They put a high reward on ice like that, and seeing it was me that put you boys on the right track I guess you'll be seeing I get fixed up all right. What was that? There ain't no reward? Well what do you think of that? That's life. That's justice. That's . , ." Benny noticed the menace in the detectives' eyes. "All right. All right. Don't get tough," he finished, lamely. (To Be Continued) SACRAMENTO, Calif. It's to save thinning automobile tires explained Police Chief Alex Mc Allister. 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