New Britain herald., 1930-02-08
IiiI.. LAIR

First avenue was very qWrt a& f,nid made her way toward her dc5- nation. There were not many pc |, strians about. but Enid was twice obliged 10 pass the unlightcd win lows and closed front door Of lay Myers junk shop before the way l.as clear to explore the lane, or driveway. that, flanking one side of inc junk shop, obviously led 10 the [, ar of the premises. Then satisfied that there was no longer anyone ar enough to observe her move Hcnts, she slipped quickly into .hc iano.
 And, then, instinctivcIN, she halted. Here, q few paccs in from the street it was as though she ha1 boon suddenly confronted with an mpenctrable wall of blacknc5S. She could sec nothing and th2 nlackncss was ugly. Her heart WIS beating furiously. She told herself -hc was not very brave. The fro3t ., the junk shop was shut and darl
 Disappointed Enid turned iowa "1 the rear of the house. It was pitch llack. To guide herself, she felt long the wall of the house with one hand. She walked cautiously striving to make no noise.
 She came 10 an abrupt stop. She lad reached the end of the wall aN% Lad mechanically turned the corner rt the house. Someone was her. Ter heart began to pound again, hut it was with excitement nov. tot fear. She could sec chinks of light from the shuttered windows Jn the ground floor.
 She glanced swiftly around her. IL was not so dark here as 1t h id been in the lane. She was in un Hpcn space the yard, of courso-- he junk yard. Voices reached her, nuf(lod, the words indistinguish- ,nlc, She drew the automatic from her bag.
 tlutchin- Inc weapon tightly n hor right hand she tiptocd to in. window and pccrcd in through th" sats where they were out Of align I.'' It. l I'ti V " U lN llN | I'l' IT il''1l'i there throwing dice against raised bourd on a table. That was thu rttling and humping sound sh had heard. Craps. her education had gone that far-thanks, in thi: particular. 10 Phil Martin, who ha. explained the game to her,
 The five men were in shir sleeves, not a sant-loollina rrowd, though most of them We"' young. One of them had a thin ali, amost abnormally pasty-whitc fac' "a drug addict, she decided. Her eyes swept around the room what she could see of it. As |, hangout it lad the appearance 0 nothing but a storeroom for junk, There were two doors in ,h' room, one at either end. Both wec, rlosed The one at the lower en, opened, of course, on the yard an patently the door at the upps end opened into an inner loom.
 She nodded her head sharply That was the other room throug. 1 whose shuttered windows she ha also seen chinks of light What va ir there?
 She moved stcathily along th side of the wall and reached tn second window. Her view her vas even less obstructed than be fore. This window also was open
 Izzy Myers himself. She hl, never seen him. but there was n nlstaking the proprietor of tn i,nli shop in the present surroun,i ires. He was speaking excited L irto telephone that stood on tn srimc- -strcaked, flat-toppcd desk J which he was seated.
 ". Sure. they are! Yrs both Of 'cm. Oh, he's all rigi!! 20 worse than usual. Wha,
 Then followed the sharp. sibila ] sound Of lazy Myors's breath bcin drawn grccdily in through hi bearded lips.
 Enid stared in through the slat'
 She inspected the room - 1z4 Myers probably dignificd it by th