Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-12-30
Illustrated by
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CoPyr,sht 1920 BY the Author.

If my brains didn't work for you, tell
you what to do and how TO get away
with 1t without the bulls tumbling?
Who planned the raid on Einstein's
hook shop? Did any of you gel
pinched for that? Who figured out
how TO get those bonds away from the
Chemical Trusts messenger? Was
anybody Jagged for that? And
because | 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"
SIT was you. all right" Harry af
firmed coolly.
Their glances met and clashed. the
girls hot with challenge and resent
ment. the mans cold with malice. Fol-
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 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 no
tells. Ask him why the cops always
look the other way when they see him
coming why he amt never Linched ="
With an oath Harry thrust back his
chair which overturned with a crash.
and Jumped up. guilt stamped upon
his countenance of sudden pelior.
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 Adde 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 with
clothing disheve'ed. Leo Bielinsky,
alias Leo the Blood sank back against
the door. one hand pressed to his
side just below his laboring heart. The
other. holding an automatic pistol. de
scribed q gesture Of supplication. Red
snapped over-shoulder profane de
mand for silence. Leo's broken
phrases became audible.
a. Croaked a bull down the
street coming out of Bennie's
place. Corbn and Ennis tried to jump
me Corbin got it." He ges-
ticulated meaningly with the pistol.
Ennis took after me Looks
like frame-up cops every
where | turned :"
Red demanded furiously: 'What in
hid you come here for?"
"NO place else to go cor
Russian held up hand and, bending
an ear to the door. heard sounds below
inaudble TO the others. There they
come nowl For Gods sake. get me
out of thsl'
Sire escape" Red indicated with
Jerk of his head. Somebody thrust
open the shutters of one window. The
murderer pulled himself together.
reeled across the room. and lurched
out upon an iron platform grating.
Immediately he disappeared.
Now the rumor was loud in the hall
below. the shrill protestations of the
walters rising above yet dominated by
the deeper voices of the police. After
brief but violent alteration. heavy
fSet came pounding up the stairs.
Then panic fastened upon the wits of
all those i'm the private dining room
and stampeded them toward the fire
escape Primitively In their fright
men fought with women for first place
Ut the window. Stifled screams of
pain and anger mingled with muttered
but the noise of milling
feet alone would have been enough TO
betray them. Not more than two had
managed 10 fight out TO the iron plat
form before the police were clamoring
and hammering at the door. Leonora.
thrust brutally TO one side. saw the
futility of trying to escape before the
maddened men. and. resigned. stood
clear of the crush, watching the panels
of the door tremble under a storm of
kicks and blows.
Fear was absent from her temper.
but she was shaken by impotent ex-
ASPIRATION and sad with regrets. This
meant an end 10 everything. not
alone TO these associations which
barely an hour since she herself had
planned TO forsake. but TO all her hope
OF happiness with Mario For she
had not the remotest doubt but that
she. with az least a majority of the
others. would be arrested. jailed and.
on the evidence of completely in past
exploits which the police spy. Harry
the Nut. would be able TO lay before
the district attorney. sentenced TO
term OF years I'm one or another of the