The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
w. RISToRpS-continued.


Better tell 'em, kid" Red counseled
aneasily. "You got to come clean"
Like HI havew 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
hock 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? 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 cooIly.
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 lightninglike
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
NE gets the coin for all his swell
clothes, who he talks to when he's
bulging up to the bars of the big no
tells. Ask him why the cops always
took 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,
gllnting 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
f11r nA
simultaneously and with confused
cries and questions got to its feet.
Slight and under normal height,
painting, sweating, haggard. his face
Avid. eyes terrified. hatless. and with
iclothing disheveled. 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 a gesture of supplication. Red
snapped over-shoulder a profane de.
mand for silence. Leo's broken
phrases became audible,
9" Croaked a bull down the
street coming out of Bennie's
place. Corbin and Ennis tried to jumI
me Corbin got it." He ges
tlculated meaningly with the pistol
ennis took after me Looks
like frame-up cops every
where l turned :"
Red demanded furiously: "What In
hid you come here forT'
"No place else to 60 cor
noroI r foil Won ;cka,~ IN,
Russian held up hand and, ben(lins
an ear to the door, heard sounds below
inaudible to the others. "There the,
come now! For Gods sake, get M,
out of thisp
"Fire escape" Red indicated with .
jerk of his head. Somebody thrus
open the shutters Of one window. TIL,
murderer pulled himself together
reeled across the room, and lurche,
out upon an iron platform grating
Immediately he disappeared.
Now the rumor was loud In the hal
below, the shrill protestations of tn
walters rising above yet dominated b,
the deeper voices of the police. Afte
brief but violent alteration, neay-
feet came pounding up the stairs
Then panic fastened upon the wits O
all those in the private dining room
and stampeded them toward the fir
escape. Primitively In their frigh
men fought with women for first plac
,at the window. Stified screams O
main and anger mingled with muttere
blasphemies but the noise of millin
feet alone would have been enough t
betray them. Not more than two ha
managed to fight out to the iron plat
form before the police were clamorin
and hammering at the door. Leonors
thrust brutally to one side. saw tn
futiIity of trying to escape before tn
mayldened men. and, resigned. stoo
clear of the crush, watching the panel