Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-06-20

awfully lonesome sometimes, but
claim am straight Is that what you
wanted to know"
Il thought IL was" he told her, ~bul
: I'm interested in finding out some more
> things-n you don't mind2"
For instance2g
We'll, for instance, how about the
notoriety you get2 Your mother must
, read the papers9"
There really isn't any nOtoriety 50
4 far as I'm concerned. Don't you under
stand. sir2 never am dragged to court
10 be identified. My name-my real
name or my assumed name-never come
out in the proceedings. All the two Wit
! neSSes-those detectiveS-do Is to rec
ognize photograph that the lawyer
shows them as being photograph Of
Jane Doe, the unknown correspondent,
and Jane Does photograph Is never
1 given out for publication. Didn't they
tell you, sir2 That's the way it viii be
done when the case against you Is
i tried
20. yes. do recall now. But these
men you meet-men like me- don't
some OF them try to follow you up
date you up afterwards Don't any Of
them try to paw your"
None OF them has yet. They're de-
cent enough. nearly all of them. They're
mostly unhappy, and they show It..
They're anxious as am TO get through
an experience that's bound to be dis
tasteful TO both of us-to get It over
/ and done with as soon as possible"
Speaking Of that, oughtn't those two
gallant sleuths who figure as the heroes
-or maybe they're the villains?-in this
little serio-con1ic dramatic Offering of
ours oughtn't they to be showing up
pretty s0on2"
within the next few minutes, prob
u
utes But they'll be along. They trailed
us here from the corner, going through
the form Of shadowing us. failing the
suspects Is the way they'd put 1t. But
they might call you the subject In
stead Of the suspect They have q
saw them right behind us"
"Al right then. One thing more, and
then I quit bothering you. You don't |
like doing this, do you?"
For the first time her voice betrayed
passion:
Like i'll I hate it-and I hate myself
for doing it.. feel as though were
selling my very soul. Sometimes I
think selling your body can't be much
worse than that"
He sat silent, smoking steadily and
taking occasional sips from his glass.
After while he suddenly burst out
with this:
Damn it, young woman, I believe
every word you tell mel I'm supposed TO
be a man Of the world-whatever that
iS-my Judgment tells me I shouldn't
believe you, but do even though I
can't exactly explain why"
Thank you again." she said, and that
was all that was said for another long
ish space. Finally ne jumped up.
This everlasting waiting waiting !
waiting is getting on my nerves, hon.
estly it is" he snapped violently
What's delaying those flatfset2 Why :
don't they come on and speak their {
little piece and start earning their dirty I
blood money so that you can get out Of Z
here? Lord knows I'll be glad to get it s
over with MYSELF I already feel as 9
though needed a formaldehyde bath z
-aS though III need thorough disin-
Iecting."
Look herel" he exclaimed, did you 2
NOW 1t was five o'clock? That means I
1ou've been cOoped up here In my COM '
0any for better than an hour and a .
lan. I'm going TO find out what thel
ielay Is all about" ;.
Il can't understand why they should, q
,e so late" she said, they never were I
his late before. Probably If youu have v
! little more patience"
mol III Just go have look-see" :,
He issued into the corridor, and at Z.
he turning Of the cross hall hundred =
night be on sentry duty there, q blocky y
Individual In a hard hat. In the same y
moment the other saw him and gave q =
rave Of the arm and came toward him q
IN closer approach he revealed pair :.
I thick soled shoes and the unmis- 81
akably officialesque air Of having, in ~
is time, followed policing pursuits and, =.
or more striking features, revealed q
lso scratched nose and, under one u
ye, like the bulge Of an immature egg y
liant, an elaborated purpiish briise SO
nth green edgings, which painful dec ~
ration obviously was newly acquired, ~
Ince, with q tender finger, the owner so
ingerly fondled the swollen area. Sc
Say, listen" he began, using a husky tos
lace me, but I place you. all right. 50
'ou're Mr. Remington. seen you g
lany's the time goin' in and out the "
Id Hotel Clifford over acrOst on Fit sE
woo. ulster be head house bull There. 70
ow got the same Job here wit these ~
eople. Silverberg's the name--Moe Sill
srberg, formerly In plain clothes down ~
eadquarters. That was before I quit W
he cops for this woik. rlt
well, say, Mr. Remington, piped m,
)u off downstairs the minute you
'me in wit that there little loidy. But re
Iys to myself, Mr.. Reminton's pis
'ntlemun and regular guy wot lows la
p way d1Od9 sA4l5 AkCiE UNARt anu AC
careful and not get the house In no
andal nor no jam nor nothin' and
lyhow,' says, 'wot-t'ell, wot that
lmb clerk don't know won't hurt him
} keep mum, meanin' to see you
ter and tell you wot a swell job I'd
me coverin' up for you. But right be- -
nd you in comes couple of guys that,
tween you and I, didn't like the
oks of neither one of EN-, not the least
tie bit And thew fiddles round the
oby and fiddles round. So I lamps
n, not lettfn' on I'm lampin' 'em. Sol
ats how tbs I'm onto the move when
e both of EN- makes a dive for the
svator without bein' announced to
body upstairs or nothin' They're
ok, all right, and quick, but not no
ECKER and not no slicker than wot Moe
verberg is. Because rides up with l.
n and, when they gets off this floor
gets off, too. And when they heads
! your room I'm right there along
n EN- How do know but wot they're #