New Britain herald., 1926-03-01

She took few quick steps, as if l she were going to run after him. Then. apparently thinking better Of | it, she slackcncd her pace and ! turned lomeWar1. i
 Li'ut'n"nt O'Day hung up the | t'lrnhone receiver. showed the phone | across his desk and then lifted his , head 10 fad Jimmy Rand facing him.
 "Nhat luck, Lieu;rnanl?"
 Luck Lots Of luck. my lad, but i all ot ii rad." Onay l'anod back ! in his swivel chair and laughed dt his oHu "'i.
 "Sir do"u, Rand" He indicated q chair for ,Ummy,
 'ttrs: Of all. though" said Jimmy. ! ignoring tn" prof.crcd srat, "ha,e yon got q line on Jcnaen""
 u'Day waved his hand, "Tho ,chic)cn," sail inc, has flown the 'coop. But >it down, lad, want to .o'l you about it,
 Jimmy took the chair. "%m0kc"" ha offered q cigarct 10 O'D&y and 1t om" himself.
 No %mohm' on Guty," said tho i'utnant, declining the offer. Be .ii.s, never touched q cigarct in ny ij'", and ifs too late 10 begin"
 "A cigar, then, for after mid "igh',' Jimmy produced two from his poc&'t and laid them on the other mans desk.
 The smell of tobacco smoke was 'oo much for Opay so he decided 10 woo Lady Nicotine in anothrr form. From q desk drawer he pull cd forth q package of "chcwing" the kind commonly known as "s"rar." With his fingers he ex- tracIod an amazing amount of the stuff and thrust it carefully in his mouth. "Thcro now" ho said comfortably. scttiing back in his chair. smoke and he darnpd."
 ! He swung around 10 face his call ! roT "Eand we've looked for Jensen high and low and we're no better off than when we start ed" i "Nou think hc left town?"
 "Eihor that or he's layin' lon, somewhere where we're not apt 10 find him.
 "7'c]I me just how far you've gonc." Jimmy urged,
 "Wcl. 10 begin with, we started at that house where Jensen and the other bird with him got away from you. The house is vacant and has hc"n for some time. It seems the school board has condemned it and sryoral other houses near it. They're going 70 put up q new school build ing pretty soon, That's why we didn't see any for rent sign on fl.
 "If only thore'd hccn somebody living there, we might have got q line on Jensen and his companion, whoever it was, right away. That was tho first piece of hard luck we 'lan into.s
 "Thcn wc got hold of some of the boys Jensen has been known to hang out With-hard boiled eggs. inc lot Of them, too--but they all sWor" they hadn't soon him for a long time. We found the roomins house where he had been living, but he had cleared out Of therc--the very night you saw him--taking all his b"longin's with him."
 "And that's all?"
 "W"h, it's not all We did We watched the railroad stations 10 try 10 keep him from loavin' town. But he might have slipped away in an automobile. It's nothin' for those guys 10 steal q car any time they want to use one"
 And how about thn stolen car they had that night? You said it had been traced 10 a man named s Kennedy" f That's right An I sent for Ken. lnedy. When he came in. I showed
 him lensen's picture an asked hin, S if he had seen him before. No. l he says, I've never laid an eye or e him."
 e When I says, did you lose tn, car? Where was it stolen from?' Il "'Why,' he says the wife an
 were 10 q picture show. When W, came ont it was gone Kcnned, O didn't help us a bit"
 E And where had this man Jensci Q been working? Did you learn that 9 ' Why. he hadn't been workin' a 8 all as far as We could find out. Tn $ woman who runs the roomin' hous
 where he stayed said he came an r went at all hours. He couldn't hav r lad any regular ioh. He had rlent, IS of dough, too--hc must have pulle,
 off a ioh lately. The landlady say
 the last time he paid his room ren D he peeled off a roll Of hills ina
 would choke a horse"
 ,e Jimmy laughed. Evidently h
 finds his game, whatever it is,