The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-02-09

copyright on that stunt. The badger
hunter hauls out the long dog by his
iii legs with the badger at his bow
same lines they look like one long
rugged to go ahead OF astern.
Perhaps Casey had always been
afraid of hydrophobia, just as Knife
face might have been afraid Of insane
people. In that case their handicap
was heavy, because Casey could not get
clear Of Dinkel and Knife-face could
not get clear Of me . . until I had
slipped my arms up under his and got
a double handful of his thick hair and
Jerked his head back in a grip shown
me some time before by a jiu- jitsu ex-
pert on the lot. There was a sharp
click, and that was all.
Casey had dropped his gun and grab
bed Dinkel and knelt on him while he
tried to choke him with his other hand.
While he was making a bungle Of it
Hunny picked up the gun and whaled
him over the head.
Then 7 dropped Knife-face and took
the gun away from her and showed her
the proper way to use it if she should
ever want to get rid Of a kidnaper OF
director or critic or any other pest
that might try to spoil her stride to
the winning post.
After a while I stuck the ship to-
gether again and looked over, the
ground. Hunny was babbling some
thing about the horror of having had
to take a pair of human lives.
Forget It," I said. "They weren't
human. Not eve lower animals"
mo" she agreed, Tor they'd have
sensed that you were on the verge of
an attack"
Like Dinkel," I said. HE was a
split second ahead of me and
you weren't that much later. How did
you know"
Dinkel saw you trimming over. I felt
him shiver and stiffen. I had felt
all along that you were going to take
any chance, however hopeless, rather
than let them fly off with me-"
"How did you know I was going to
bust loose right them"
ut showed in your eyes. They blaz-
ed in the dark"
THAT Dinkel dog reasoned" I said,
ito grab for his gun wrist instead Of at
his other arm, or leg"
"He grabbed at what wa nearest
him, and most dangerous. He knew all
along that they were holdups . . :"
Hunny fetched up, as if something
hadn't meshed right. She repeated
slowly to herself: "Holdups .
holdups?"
Call it eholdups,'" I suggested. 1T
was a good break for us that Casey's
weak spot happened to be dog bite.
1t might have been black cats or . "
Bacteria" she supplied.
"Check. There's always something.
Two years ago when I was running a
shuttle over the Andes we had a fight
ing macaw that would knock our ocelot
J off the fence. But Cocky was scared
to death of bats"
$50 am l." said Hunny.
All this time I was working like a
mail pilot forced down in the cyclone
season and a bum forecast when he
took off. I kept the dialogue running
to hold Hunny's mind away from what
the vulture would soon be spotting
when it got light. It didn't take me
long to hitch things up, and that mesa
was an easy place to leave. This pair
had studied out all the details but Din
Kel ana Hunny and me.
Miracle could use some of this stuff"
I said, land it wouldn't cost the ten
hundreds they've been saved"
my starring career is nearly over"
Hunny told me, land so is your stunt
ing, Jack"
SCOT anything else in mind for us?"
I asked. Because if you have and it's
what I hope then I wouldn't do a
barrel roll for a kiss from the Queen
Of Sheba. I wouldn't need to-"
IF you really feel that way about it
you wouldn't" she agreed. tits
better for me to resign before they dis
cover that as an actress I'm a fraud"
How can they find that out?" I
asked.
Somebody's bound to see n or
later that I never really act"
Then what's your formula?" I ask
I ed, and hardened down the last nut.
"Wel, you see all I ever do is to
study the part, then imagine I'm the
| character they cast MT for and do what
she would be bound to do: It can't help
but be convincing"
$50 it's like that" I said. And to
think that nobody ever guessed"
She gave me a suspicious look. "They
are not so clever. Nobody has ever
guessed in the love scenes I've had to
have shot over why I've shown so much
more feeling"
And why was that?" I asked, trying
to hold the note and making a flop of
it.
"Just another piece of fraud" said
Hunny. "All I had to do was to tell
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in his arms was a crazy Lost Battalion
sumter named -"
THAT was as far as she got. For