The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-19
Up for Love
By NINA SLOAN SMELL
(Released by Mcclure Syndicate
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"V GU gotta girl outside. buddy?"
GleaSon's voice was ingratiat-

magazine. Il haven't, but it's a
cinch you have" he mumbled, re-
signedly. ''You been stalling for an
opening to talk about her ever since
| came. Go ahead, brother. Get
it over"
Gleason laughed sheepishly. II
guess it was your coming from her
town started me thinking about
her." he said. mot that don't do
that a good deal, anyhow. It's
what's kept me from blowing my
top these nine years"
That long? You are, an old-tim-
er. Does your girl visit you often?"
well, buddy, she amt been to
see me-yet. | amt encouraged her
to. / figured it wouldn't look too
good for a rich, society lady like
her to be running up here all the
time"
A skeptical smoker came from
the bunk Whats the idea of rib
bing me?"
Il amt" he protested, earnestly.
MY girls among the highest. Hon.
est! Why she's SO up in society
they put her picture in the papers
sometimes. cut one out last week.
Waltz" He rose and went to shelf,
returning with newspaper portrait
of beautiful woman.
The new prisoner took the picture.
He squinted down at it moment,
then handed it back. ''Uh-huh," he
assented, grinning, this here
DANES a swell all right. But SOS
Mrs. Roosevelt and the queen of
Greece. Why didn'ja pick on one
of them stead of Katherine VAN
stone?"
Because they amt neither of
them my girl and Katherine is,
Gleason avowed firmly. How'd
yuh come to recognize herr" he
asked Have you seen her face
before?"
"A hundred times. Whatever
Mrs. Vanstone does is front-page
stuff l guess it's partly because
of the talk there was about her at
the time her husband was muir
dered."
Gleason swallowed. Queer you'd
remember" he murmured
Il don't. Not all the facts"
"You never knew all the facts.
Nor anybody else didn't. I kept
my mouth corked. And I reckon
/ better keep on keeping it corked."
"Pshaw! shoot the works, brother.
This is getting hot. I'm interested.
And won't let it go no farther.
Let's see-wasn't you the Van
stones gardener"
Their chauffeur" the older man
corrected. I'D been working there
few months. And it was funny"
he went on, musingly, that 1
didn't have an inkling Katherine had
fell for me until the-the night of
this-this trouble Gosh! was
dumb
Hadn't she said nothing to let
you on?"
She never spoke to me, except
to give an order. Then, this par
ticular evening, she called to me
over the house phone. She wanted
her car brought around. Said she'd
be waiting at the porte cochere.
And she was But / didn't hardly
recognize her, at first"
Why"
''She looked younger, somehow
and smaller, and-well, sort Of pitt
full"
"Well, she put her head down On
nv shoulder and commenced to cry.
II couldn't hardly believe l was
awake.
We'll, after while Katherine let
out that she and Vanstone had quar-
reled-about me. She'd told him
straight that she loved me, and it
sent him off his nut. The row ended
by his rushing out of the house
threatening to get even with her.
Which he did The skunk
The young convict made a ges-
ture of protest. You're going too
fast for me, brother" he objected.
Lets turn back to the page where
you and Mrs Vanstone are driving
around
discussing plans for our fu-
ture," Gleason resumed. Think
of it, buddy She was willing to
ditch her rich husband and give up
her fine place in society and all her
heightened friends, just to marry
me- / could have listened all night;
but she finally decided we'd best
60 home. And it was after We did
that the works got gummed."
Il don't sabe.'
you will. II was the servants
night out and the house was dark.
katherine asked me TO 60 In with
her; because she was afraid. It
was good she asked it. For the
first thing we seen, after ! snapped
on the lights, was vanstOne's body.
The dirty coward had shot himself
Al the inquest, they said it happened
three hours before we found him.
''Obl So yOu took the rap."
What else -cCuld ! do, buddy?
VsHstoDe had used aris wife's gun.
He'd fixed things SO sbe would have
mad tranbfe proving her Innocence
If somebody hadn't took the blame.
An look what she'd been willing to
do for mel"
I'm not forgetting. brother. But
did she really give you-weil, SO