The Glenwood post., 1923-09-13


sort O. made him nervous, hanging
round and getting in with his cronies."
uncle Jerry. you're worse'n wom-
an for not getting at the main point.
You may be star detective, but you'd
never make reporter. Now will you
kindly stay still in your tracks till
you've told me what you wanted him
for?"
"Oh, that" Jerry Winston chuckled.
Yes, mebbe I did overlook that, it's
been In my mind so long. Why, he's
been leader in a ring that's been
supplying drugs to lot of fiends in
exchange for their passing off counter
felt money. Choice circle, and big
one, too! All nations representation
nese and whites! Lettie put me wise
to their money-factory. I was sure
they had one, but"
"Lettie!" Mrs. Penfield came to her
feet. what do you mean?
"Holy smoke, Car'line, don't get so
excited! Lettie didn't know what she
was doing, and 1 hain't never men
toned 1t to her. Catch me quzzing a
kid! No, all is, l overheard her twit-
ting Bosley, bout Sinking into house
next to one Of the vacant lots I
hugged the lean-to and listened: but.
believe me, l did more prowling than
Lettie has fore l found the vacant lot
and the house. Raiding it was part of
last nights work
you see, yesterday I got hold of
one of his dope fiends that was willing
to squeal on him, so last night we
put it through as smooth as silk The
feller bought the stuff with money
we could have identified in Siam One
of our own men was within witnessing
distance, too. Some of the very
powder you were guarding yesterday,
Car'line, Is one of our choicest ex-
hibits today. We sure got Bosley
darn it all, we got hlm"
81 s'pose," said Mrs. Penfield slowly,
that Mrs Bosley's been honoring me
with her packages of counterfeit
money and dope, but seems as If it
wasn't very clever"
Clever" Jerry Winston took the
word out of her mouth. "She was the
life of the ring In the beginning, but
lately she'd lost her nerve, and Bos-
ley's had the devils own time to keep
her from breathing away. She didn't
care if Bosley got caught, so long as
she'd cleared her skirts If the house
was going to be searched. the goods
weren't going to be there See? Amt
any of these folks so clever that they
don't do something foolish fore they're
through
"Poor thingl' commiserated Mrs
Penfield. 81 wonder what'n become of
| her."
well, l can tell you. She'll get a
chance to think it over. We got her
last night, too. She was staging an
| exit of her own, but we trailed her to
Sixteenth street station, just in time
to see her getting on the local for
the mole. That gave her two chances:
| To go on to San Francisco or come
back on a through train. We tele
| graphed the police on the other side to
watch the ferry; then we waited for
| the Shasta limited-and there she
was! Gee, l was glad. The more of
| the trick I could help to turn, the
surer I'd be of building up reputa-
tlon. Well, sir, the little lady went
right up through the roof of the Sleep
er first off; then she came down and
melted into tears. Some confession we
| got out of her. That's how I got hold
| of a lot of things / been telling you.
| Seems twas you tipped her off that
she'd better get out of town.
'I! Why, 1 didn't see her last eve
ming"
He laughed. mo but you tele-
phoned the police from Mrs. Cater
box's and she told Mrs Bosley as a
piece of neighborly gossip. came
around to hunt up Mrs. Gussie and
was Just in time to catch glimpse
of her taking a taxi. I'd ha' caught
her at the station If the darned engine
of the car III rented nndn't stalled
on me block away. ly. was
madl"
'Tm sorry for 'em hoth," declared
Mrs. Pentiei thoughtfully. "Folks that
mix up their lives that way amt real
ly grown up. But, oh, Uncle Jerry.
can't be thankful nOurh that I'm GO
ing to get that money back. You can't
imagine what a weight 1t lifts. 1t was