Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-05
Address, Michael Endicott,
Mo- West 23rd St."

Address, Michael Endlcott,
Mo- West 2srd St"
81 A few days later a begrimed en-
'velope addressed in pencil was
brought to the door by the postn.an.
Michael with sinking heart opened it.
1t read: '"s
milky eff 20 be RELY hym cum to
KelLys karner at 10 tumoroW hite.
! Eff you are MIX youz thee old whissel
an doante bring me n wit yer Eff
70 du I wunt be thar.
Michael seated on his humpy bed
lpuzzled this out, word by word, until
Idhe made fairly good sense of it, He
was Ito. go to Kelly's corner. How
memory stirred at the words. Kelly's
] corner was beyond the first turn OF
the alley it was at the extreme end
of an alley, within an alley, and had
no outlet except through. kelly's sa-
LOOM. Only the gang knew the
.nan.e, |"Kelly's Corner for, it. was
not really a cornerHat all only a sort
of pocket or hiding place so entitled
by9Buck for his @"o and "de kids
private purpose. If Michael had been
| at all inclined to be a coward since
! his recent hard usage in the vicinity
5 OI LHe alley ue WOulu nave AePL away
from Kelly's corner, for once in there
! with enemies, and alone, no police
! mans club, nor hospital ambulance
] would ever come sto help. The things
! that happened at Kellys corner never
!. got into the newspapers.
Z Memory and instinct combined to
make this perfectly clear to Michaers
/ mind, and. if he { needed mo- other
warning. those words: of the Letter,
Don't bring no,o One with you. If you
do, I won't be5there," were sufficient
to make him wise. r.
Yet Michael v Sc much as
thought of not Keeping the appoint
ment. His business was to find Sam,
and it mattered as little to- him now
that danger stood in the way as it
\ had the day when he flung his
neglected little body in, front of Starr
4 assassin's bullet. He.wonld FttSap,ssoof
! course, and go. alone. Neither .-didsatt
/. occur to him to itake the ordinary
: precaution Of leaving hiisSssHa maaand
whereabQAts at the police station Ito
I be searched for iin1fcase he did not
sturn up in r~easdhable time. 1t was
{ all in the days work. and Michael
thought no more about the possible
I peril he was facing than he had
thought of broken limbs and bloody
noses the last hour before a football
! scrimnage. "
4 There was something else in the
letter tina interested Michael and
! stirred the old memories: That old
\ whistle! OF course he had not forf
gotten that, although he had not used
it much among his college compan-
/ IONS 1t was a strange, weird. penc-
= trating sound. between "A call and
whistle. He and Buck had made it
Cup between them. 1t was their old
signal. When Michael Went to COL
Alege he had heldgitf sacred as belong
ing strictly to his old friends, and
& never, unless by himself in the woods
y trees could hear, had he let its echoes
ring. Sometimes he had flung it forth
: and startled the mocking birds. and
once he had let it ring into the midst
y of his astonished comrades in Florida
Y when he vas hidden from their view
6and they knew not who had made the
\ sound. He tried it now softly, and
IIthen louder. and louder, until with
isudden fear he stopped lest his land
lady should happen to come up that
way and think him insane. But UNI
X nal.
q The next night at precisely 10
\ O'Clock Michael'sA finging step sounded
down the alley; firm, decisive, secure.
isSuch assurance must Daniel have
I worn as he faced the den Of lions:
{ and SO went the three Hebrew Chill
.dren into the fiery furnace.
1 tits him! It's the angel!" whis-
&pered old Sal who was watching. "Oi
4 tould veg he'd come fer shure!"
He's got his nerve with hini!'
n m slpnN mad n o1p1 With Mold 49, -