New Britain herald., 1927-03-11


 plying When Le spoke his shrcWd brown eyes were iisad with an ln- tent gaze on the face of his friend.
 Charley" he said without pre- face, you and l Were mighty close pals over there You told me q lo,ta things about yourself. Among other things you said you had be- longed 10 th' sam N,aola sauz. Everybody in this city, Of cOursc, knows or tn ieui between tn Neuo- Ia and Nalltu followers - there's been q hundred Killings at least Well, I've reason 10 think some Of tn Nalet,i gang have been hired for this kidnapping Of Mr. Brooks ] don't know, you understand; l just suspect
 T knew you, Charley, as q soldier in France and I know you're not afraid of th' devil himself, let alone Nick Naletti, I've got a badge be- longing 10 th' Gus Company We could represent ourselves as gas meier inspectors. That would give Us an excuse for getting inside those buildings on K-- street. Are you game 10 come along
 Charley Costello Erinncd and pushed out his right hand.
 "Not only game, but tickled 10 death at tb' uhancc," he said and that cIenchcd the compact
 You spoke of me having be- longod to ,h' gang" went on the ,.,,,,,, I+.rt..r. ..4.+., t,rgr4,.rrf s'I"t- that matter l belong yet, l spUse. At that. sam Nenoia isn't what you'd call q 'gangster'-tnat is, what tn police class as 'gangstcr.' lies no crook. Neither am l. though I'll admit I've pulled of a job or TWO that wasn't just exactly vii hin tn 'aw'
 But tn Na}rt'i bunch are crooks ont and out crooks Of tn stick-Up blend. some of those guys don't care any more for q human life than rat,lesnake cares, And they're just about as co!d-bloodcd as q rattlosnaI","
 They had come to a halt for q moment iu their walk toward !. K street, held up at crossing 10 wait for the traffic signal 10 rc- verse.
 Then again that day did the jade, : Circumstances, wave her hand in the . face of Donald Neeue. The figure . she materialized out of the ether on this occasion was that of the little sob sister, Teddy Farrell. She was on her kvay, she informed Donald to get the data for 2 human inter est" story. The assignment hal been given her that morning by the Sun day editor of the Times. Donald introduced his little ward to Charley Costello
 Have you heard anything new"
 II had become virtually d stock question among members of the Times editorial staff. Local inter est in the case was swelling as each hour went by with the editor still Rumors Were developing and spreading wildly, and that aft ernoon the opposition paper gave first page attention to the matter which so Vitally concerned its con- temporary.
 Don outlined to Teddy the pur- pose he had in mind with Charley in approvingy
 "Oh, Don" breathcr the tmpuls- i've Teddy, let me go along. too, won't you? I'm just crazy to be in on this. May I go with you. Don? Please" She saw doubt in his eyes and a pleading note entered her voice.
 It had not nor did 1t then occur to Donald Kcene that actual dan ger lmked in inc execution Of his plan for roscuing Pop. Had he even thought of such thing little Ted 1y would not have gone along that afternoon. In which event, but
 He turned to the young Italian on his left.
 Were not likely to get roughcd up any, are we Charley?" he asked
 "Oh, guess not" replied the other careIessly. 'Of course" be added as if it were an afterthought and shooting a swift, speculative glance at the girl reporter, If we SC" things look anyways had, why, Miss Farrell can stay outside. shen have to run along out of sight any way if We have to work this gas inspector gag"
 So Teddy went qICng
 The four buildings in K street from 6S4 to 6SS. which were their objective, were of red brick three stories high and designed originally for stores with the two upper floors cut Up into small apartments. All four. apparently.