Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
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"Retter tell 'em, kid" Red counseled
uneasily. "You got to come clean"
Like HI havew Once more the
flames of rage Ieapt high. 81 don't
owe this gang anything, much less an
account of everything do. The shoes
ON the other foot. You all know me,
YOU all know Pm on the level Most
Of you'd he up the river today if it
wasn't for mp-and you know that,
too. How far do you think you'd get
if my brains didn't work for you, tell
YOU what to do and how to get away
with it without the bulls tumbling?
Who planned the raid en- Einstein's
hook shop? Did any Of YOU get
pinched for that? Who figured out
row to get those bonds away from the
Chemical Trusts messenger? Was
anybody Jagged for that? And
because I take the trouble not to lead
a coupla guns right up to you tonight
and because the Nut saw somebody
that looked like me all doled up on
Fifth avenue ycsterday-or thinks he
did"
at was you, all right" Harry af-
firmed cooIIy.
Their glances met and clashed, the
girls hot with challenge and resent
ment, the mans cold with malice. For
the first time she recognized in this
creature an enemy. Then her super
excited intelligence, graphing with the
problem Of how to confute his implicit
accusation, experienced a flash of
memory followed by a lighninglike
stroke of intuition.
"If you want to know who squealed,"
she suggested deliberately, 'why don't
YOU give Harry the office? Ask him
what he does with all his time, where
he gets the coin for all his swell
clothes. who he talks to when he's
bullying up to the bars Of the big hO-
tells. Ask him why the cops always
look the other way when they see him
coming why he amt never pinched-"
With an oath Harry thrust back his
chair. which overturned with a crash,
and juIHpPd up, guilt stamped upon
his cOuntenance of sudden pallor,
glnting feqrfully in his furtive little
eyes. But in the same instant the door
left negligently unlocked after the
entrance Of LeOnOra-was hastily
opened and slammed. The first to
identify the man who had slipped in
and now stood fumbling with the key,
English Addie cried out in shrill dis
may: Leo" The company turned
simultaneously and with confused
cries and questions got to its feet.
Slight and under normal height,
painting, sweating, haggagd, his face
livid, eyes terrified, hatless, and with
clothing disheveled, Leo BielinslIy,
alias Leo the Blood, sank back against
the door, one hand pressed to his
side just below his Iaboring heart. The
other, holding an automatic pistol, de-
scribed gesture Of supplicatiOn. Red
snapped over-shoulder a profane de-
mand for silence. Leo's broken
phrases became audible.
q. Croaked a bull down the
street coming out Of Bennies
place, Corbin and Ennis tried to jump
me Corbin got it," He GEES
ticulated meaningly with the pistol
ennis took after me Looks
like a frame-up cops every
where I turned :" "
Red demanded furiously: "What in
hid you come here for?"
mo place else to 90 cor
nered, | tell you . Listen ~ The
russian held up a hand and, bending
an ear to the door, heard sounds below
inaudible to the others. "There they
come now! For Gods sake, get me
out Of thisw
"Fire escape" Red indicated with a
jerk of his head Somebody thrust
open the shutters of one window The
murderer pulled himself together,
rceled across the room, and lurched
out upon an iron platform grating.
Immediately he disappeared.
Now the rumor was loud in the hall
below, the shFill protestations of the
walters rising above yet dominated by
the deeper voices Of the police After
brief but violent alteration, heavy
feet came pounding up the stairs.
Then panic fastened upon the wits Of
all those in the private dining room