Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-25
Daily Short Story
When the Dumbbell Rang
BY ALMA and PAUL ELLERBT

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BY ALMA and Paul ELLERBI
81 DON'T like H." old Philip
Stanley s8il. Yturc There
az the desk o. his office sud
looking az the younger man.
~ don't like ANYTHING. about IL.
Nobody can tell me ANYTHING
positive against these people,
hut the hole set-up looks bad
I wouldn't take a. George. ia
wait for something else io turn
up"
George Gresham walked 90 tae
window and looked ont
"See the city down there Nr.
Stanley: I've been up il and
I've been down IT. 7iaing 60
turn something mp. and It's no
1aap. I've been trying for
.--anths. now, and cant wait
--and"-at the look CD has oIU
friend : taCc-"I'm not going 20
borrow any more money. that's
fiat. I've got to have "A job and
have IL now. I've got a choice
hetu cen two OF 'em---scCrctary
10 this GustafsOn bird and wash
ing dishes and
Come now" old Stanley said.
"There are some thing
but George interrupted hum.
DIDN'T WANT TO TELL
TT didn't want IN trtf YOU. ne
cause I've loaded 50 darned
much onto YOU already, hut ! do
want youH TO get me about this
--ielen's got 10 have an
operation. \ serious one-And-
have IL Immediately. And I've
got 10 earn. not borrow. the
money for 1t. hate Ia have
anything 10 do with fellow
who may be crook, but, Oh
the other hand, IL may not he
anything but the looks and
manners OF the man, and his
friends.
'And so IL You haven't heard
anything positive against him
before fhen-Im- going to xaEk-
for him at . o'clock Wednesday
morning, and II YOU have, I'm
taking the dish-washing Job
But IL you hear anything
against him it's got to be posi-
tive 10 stop me. I'm not holding
Oft just because he's not my
type"
On Tuesday night:
mo. it's not positive" Stanley
said Nobody will talk against
the man--especially the fellows
know In the FBI. They cant.
But
Well. Philip Stanley had been a
criminal lawyer ail ms life and ne
made a good talk, but there wasn't
any evidence. The diShwaShing
job paid SIS a week and the one
with GustafSon 40, and called into
play. at least a few of George
GreSham's considerable abilities
And so, on his way back 10 his
hail bedroom.
SENDS TELEGRAM
GOT A JOB" George wired
his wife. who had gone home 10
her mother. FORTY A WEEK
MAKE ARRANGEMENTS HOS
PITAL IMMEDIATELY WRIT
ING FULLY"
And the next morning he went
TO work for GuStafson.
And he did write his wife. Helen.
but not fully. Gustafson and his
plugugly associates. IN his letter
were just a downtown firm en-
gagged in a general brokerage bust
ness. The truth IS. he didn't
know what they were. and hie
most fervent hope was that he
could leave before he found out
His interest in them was $40 q
week He meant 10 earn il. KEEP
his mouth shut and get another
job as soon as he could 20
But that proved just as hard as
II had even been, and in IN,
meantime Philip Stanley investi.
gated further and warned hun
more specifically.
THEY'RE ALL CROOKS
"Gustafson and all his associ-
ates are crooks. and in big
way. It's worse than ! thought.
III you stay I'm that office, the
moment will come when youIl
get the goods on them and
know you ought To expose them.
and IL you do you'll he on the
spot. ] strongly urge YOU Ia
quit while the quitting is good"
George went a little pale
We'll, I'm not crooked" he
said desperately. land I'm not
scared" tBut ne was "Helen's
had that operation, and II was
success. I'm not sorry vet.
Just what did your friend In the
EBI tell YOU against this bord ."
Not much, hut he SAYS he
knows great deal. He saws IL
will all be I'm the papers some
day hut that now he can't talk.
Gusiafson is part Of q ring and
ApVfRTIsENTST
NOW III