Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-29

him that JOY. 80 ne stepped up
on the running board and barked
at the man sitting in the drivers
seat.
GROWLS PROTEST
Just then two other men came
out of the bank. One pulled open
the door of the car and dislodged
Josiah, who protested vigorously
in the only way he knew how, by
a growl and a snap - not that
Josiah really would have bitten
the man, as he was a gentlemanly
dog. But no respectable dog can
let a slight go absolutely I'M
noticed.
The Josiah got the surprise of
his life. For one of the men lifted
an angry foot and kicked the dog
Iviciously. Josiah instinctively
lodged. but even at that, he yelped
agonizingly at the pain of the
contact.
This was too much for Aunt
Kitty. She leaned out of the win
dow and shook her finger at the
man.
"How dare you touch that
dog? You-you-brute. I'll have
you arrested"
The man turned. She saw his
grim. dark face upturned. the cigar
dangling from one corner of his
mouth. the CLINT of his narrow
dark eyes. He lifted one hand and
waved it away from himself with
peculiar tense gesture.
''Out!" he said contemptu-
ously and aimed another kick at
Josiah.
The man flung himself into the
car, it was swung into the street
and was gone at high speed. The
whole episode had not consumed
10 seconds.
Aunt Kitty was still leaning out
OF the window. Josiah was still
nursing his hurts, the dust from
the car was still whirling. when
the door of the bank opened in a
rush and people came pouring out.
1t looked like a throng, but il
was only the banker himself, Carl
ton Hughes, the two tellers, and a
customer. The bank had been
robbed.
Luckily the men had not got
very much, as although the weekly
pay rolls OF the two ( a torie S
which were the life force of the
town had come in. that money was
safely in the vault with a time
lock on that would not open until
the next morning.
ALARM SENT OUT
No one had seen the license
number. although when the chief
of police came he said that might
not have been much help, as moth
ing is easier TO put on car than
a wrong number.
A call was put out Immediately.
but not even the police car could
match the high powered auto of
the robbers and Houghtonville was
a little hub from which radiated a
half dozen roads going in TO pop
ulous centers.
In all the excitement, Aunt Kitty
thought only of Josiah. She had
run down the stairs. gathered him
up. carried him back and gone
over him lovingly.
Slim Weaver forgot all about
the dog before the car had cleared
town. He and his two companions
were too disgruntled over their
failure TO connect with the pay
rolls they knew had been in the
bank. But they took it in their
stride.
So when Slim and woman
companion were motoring through
the country six months later when
Autumn was beginning TO paint
the countryside in rich yellows and
browns and red, and Sims COM
panion suggested stopping at the
next town for their lunch. Slim
completely forgot he ever had been
there before.
He might have remembered, had
his mind not been too engrosSed
with his companions charms. But
he slowed the machine as il rolled
into the main streeLnf- Houghton--
willie and kept place.
This was the wide porch OF the
best hotel of the two the town
boosted. Slim stopped the car and
he and his companion got out and
started toward the hotel.
He did not notice an erect little
old lady, trim and neat and self
confident as she walked along. q
sober. alert terrier walking beside
her. Aunt Kitty was on her way
10 see her niece, and of course,
Josiah was with her.
But Josiah knew Slim. He rec
ogniZed the scent of the only
human who ever had been mean to
him.
His fur rose. he growled. he
showed his teeth, he settled back
in a stiff-legged half crouch and
then he sprang at Slim worrying
his trouser leg.
Aunt Kitty ioc.;eG aghast. This