The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-27

Fops Office and from the foyer
of the gym. Norman Dana
dressed for his dinner date, hao
just come up, and baby Scooter
Hale, the two movie men, Lou,
mann and Natwick, Summers OF
the Journal, all the others. were
witnesses to that last short race
"Hey-y-y-y-y!" N m a r
shouted. Whats cooking, Ho,
GAM"
Sneak play!" Duane yelled
back"
In that same moment, Duane
tackled. His graceful l8e
pounds stretched out horizontal.
ly, took the fleeing gambler
from behind. There was a grun1
and a groan, then a hullabaloo
Duane was lifted off the pros,
trate man. Somebody had to
run for water, and Pops own
emergency kit was brought out
1t took nearly five minutes to
get the gambler back to his
senses.
II thought flying tackles had
been ruled out!" Elmer Sum-
mers piped, jubilantly. Wow
what a show!"
Il want that Hogan, quick!
want him. T. j.! Sign him! Sign
him!"
Listen, Abe, you have to
wait till after the game tomor-
dow"
Somebody else will see him,
T. j. Sign him now! We can
do one feature length before he
goes to war. The Spirit OF
Football! The"
Nobody was paying attention
to the two movie moguls now
Everybody was asking ques-
tons.
Blythe Miller and Nancy Hale
had run out of the building and
both girls were mildly hysterical
until they saw that no harm had
come to Duane. It was Norman
Dana, however, who rushed to
greet Nancy.
Man! >. Mani" He was fran
tic. Tell me what's happen
ed! Are you hurt yourself? Tell
mel"
She told him. She told all the
others at the same time. True,
she had to speak piecemeal, with
many questions jabbed at her,
many frantic, excited Interrupt
tons.
But when did you come into
it, Miss Miller?" Summers, the
newsman, demanded.
IL open Pops mail. They
sent him a threatening letter. /
mean-they tried to bride Pop
first, and he"
II told them to 60 to hell, the
devils!' Pop ground out, angrily.
He was still bandaging one of
the devils.
But they left an envelope IF
money on his desk anyway
Bly, went on. "And when we
didn't lose the Aggie game, they
threatened his life!"
II still got the money-by
George!" Pop sat back on his
heels in surprise, just remember
ing. 81 forgot 1 had that! The
u. S. o. can use it!'
Eyes! l hid it! Oh, Pop, I
was afraid YOU"
How'd you know it was
them, honey? These two?"
II saw the man who called on
you, and then I saw the same
one-this one you've just ban
daged. He came sneaking up
Nancy's stairs. IL trailed him,
l guess. I'm kind of-silly that
way. Duane and I play Indian
lot. Sign talk. Western stor-
les and all. L"
"You followed him, Miss?" a
detective asked.
Eyes. And ! overheard Nam
cy agree to do what he wanted.
Oh, Nancy darling, I thought
you-you-" Blythe went star
ry-eyed then, and her chin was
trembling a little. All the shame
and horror with which she had
been regarding Nancy Hale had
been wiped awayl
1t dawned on Blythe, then,
that Norman Dana now was
standing at Nancy's side, a pro-
tective arm around her should
ers. For no earthly reason
here in the excitement of this
moment-she remembered that
Norman had said Nancy was
beautiful, that Normans flowers
were upstairs on Nancys dinner
table now. She looked around
quickly-and little frantically
for Duane.
He had gone to see about the
other gambler and the detective