The Washington times., 1930-11-29
GANGSTER GIRL = :
How a Red-Haired Beauty
Overturned a Great City

ran down her cheeks.
"You amt wrong-much.
Tommy boy at this minnit-
I'll tell you that part Of it
Silk is waitin' a call from me
that I've GOT you on a spot
an two killers is waitin' ready
to come up an settle you
where I say"
Young Gillespie jumped up.
What"
Not the Half Of It
"Sit, down, Tommy boy-an'
rest the sore gam. You amt
heard the half Of it. I got
nothin' against Freeman. He's
been on the up-an-up with me.
I wouldn' double-cross him for
dough or for nothin' on earth
except one-an' that's you"
"You admit you're a double
crosser-and you want me to
trust you-with my life the
price OF lC?
"Exac'ly. Your life is the
price Of that trust. If you
don trust me, you'll pay with
it. If you do, I'll buy 1t for
you-with Freeman's life"
"J-just what is your-h'm-
plan?"
"I'm gonna kill Silk Free
mani"
you? Yourself? Why, you
surely"
Never mind, lover. I never
told you before, but it won be
no virgin job for me. I'm
all p'pared."
But why yourself?
can't"
who else can I get to do it?
I can't 60 to Freeman's men.
They'd cut my throat before I
got out O. the room. I can't let
you-because they'd find out
an run you down an bang you
off.
All Set
1--WE laid up nights figgerin'
this all out. I got it set like
clockwork. Remember when I
said I'd kill for you? I had it
all in my noodle then.
I'm gonna croak him for my
Tommy boy in the mornin'
one more night with you-the
last!"
Tommy was bewildered and
why the last? If you love
me"
THE last! I can't do this
wit'out leavin' a trail like a
truck trough sand pile. If
they ketch me they'll take me
for a ride an kill me an weight
my carcass with lead an sink
me in a river. But they won't.
I got my getaway all framed
pretty, too. I can disappear. I
ain got no identity anyway.
You have. Tall Tom Gtllespie's
kid can't disappear. Polack An
nie-yeh, that's my monicker,
lover-can take on a new name
an new racket an a new
country, too-an' what'll hurt
worse'n all the rest'll be-she
can take on new hair!"
"Oh-you Wouldn't"
yep. Got to. I'll be the mos
famous red-head aroun' the
globe an hour after they pick up
Silk Freeman's body. But I'll be
a brunette by then. So look at
the old flamin' top good-it's
givin' it's last show-to an au-
dience O. one"
Tommy stared at her. He was
only a boy. His brief underworld
contacts had not really hardened
him or changed his nature. He
adored this thrilling, astonishing
and electrifying woman who had
the dimpled body of child, the
irresistible beauty of a siren, the
courage and brutality of a
gangster-this girl who could be-
tray and murder and sacrifice
and love-this blend of passion
and romance and treachery and
manslaughter.
No More Doubt
He could no longer seriously
doubt her. She had come clean
to him-had confessed that
there was murder in her heart,
had admitted she had done
murder before, had frankly
granted that she had taken an
assignment from Freeman to
win him and lead him into the
path of the garlic-soaked bull
let's which this time would
pierce him in spots more vital
than his calf.
And she was holding out her
arms to him-whose shapely
white arms born to embrace a
mother and a lover rather than
to support the deadly weight of
gun-metal and lead.
Tommy boy" she whispered,
you're not the first man I ever
loved. I did love one-my Edge
water Kid. They chopped him
down with typewriters because I
loved him. Many a tough guy
went down never to stand up
again over that. But even the