Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-03
w. RIsToRPs-continued.

B.
'Better tell 'em, kid" Red counseled |
uneasily. "You got to come clean"
Like hi I have!" Once more the
flames of rage leapt 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 I'm on the level. Most |
of you'd be up the river today If it |
wasn't for me-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 on Einstein's
hook shop? Did any of you get
pinched for that? Who figured out
how to get those bonds away from the
Chemical Trusts messenger? Was
anybody Jagged for that? 8. And
because l 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 dolled up on
Fifth avenue yesterday-or thinks he
did"
'It, was you, all right" Harry af-
flrmed coolly.
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 lightninglike
stroke of intuition.
eff 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
bulging 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 jumped up, guilt stamped upon
his countenance of sudden pallor,
glinting fearfully 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, haggard, his face
, livid, eyes terrified, hatless, and will
, clothing disheveled, Leo Bielinsky
, alias Leo the Blood, sank back agains
= the door, one hand pressed to hi
side just below his laboring heart. Tn
|, other, holding an automatic pistol, de
: scribed a gesture Of suppHcation. Re,
. snapped over-shoulder a profsne de
= mand for silence. Leo's broke
= phrases became audible.
Croaked bull down tn
y street coming out of Bennie'
;, place, Corbin and Ennis tried to jun
6 me Corbin got it." He ges
. ticulated meaningly with the pisto
q Ennis took after me Look
= like a frame-up -. cops every
: where 1 turned ;. -
Red demanded furiously: "What /
9 hid you come here for?"
.'No place else to go CO.
D. nered, tell you Listen" Th
= Russian held up a hand and, bendin
- an ear to the door, heard sounds belo
= inaudible to the others. ''There the
come now! For Gods sake, get n
= out of thisi''
Sire escape" Red indicated with
!, Jerk of his head. Somebody thru
- open the shutters Of one window. II
- - murderer pulled himself togethe
- - reeled across the room, and lurcht
w out upon an iron platform gratin
20 Immediately he disappeared.
- Now the rumor was loud in the hs
~ below, the shrill protestations of Il
"a walters rising above yet dominated
- the deeper voices Of the police. Aft
brief but violent alteration, hea-
~ ~ feet came pounding up the stail
=. Then panic fastened upon the wits
all those in the private dining roc
and stampeded them toward the f
escape. Primitively in their frig
ks men fought with women for first pla
le- at the window. Stifed screams
ge pain and anger mingled with mutter
blasphemies; but the noise of milli
ed. feet alone would have been enough
ne- betray them. Not more than two h
Ter managed to fight out to the iron pl
of form before the police were clamori
and hammering at the door. Leono
7as thrust brutally to one side, saw |
les futility Of trying to escape before |
re- maddened men, and, resigned, ste
- clear of the crush, watching the pan
of the door tremble under a storm
kicks and blows.
Fear was absent from her temp
ing but she was shaken by impotent
nd asperation and sad with regrets. T
,ht- meant an end to everything,
on alone to these associations VIII
"a barely an hour since she herself
OF planned to forsake, but to all her b
bed of happiness with Mario. For
ege had not the remotest doubt but t
per- she, with at least a majority Of
ods others, would be arrested, jailed 6
on the evidence of completely in I
exploits which the police spy, Ha
tne the Nut, would be able to lay bel