The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-18

holy leer on his craggy viSage,
"ya sure hand me q laugh in
dem clothes. Reminds me of a
teacher wot usta loin me logger
fly in Public School hummer
Two Hunnert n Twenny-Sev-
en-"
IF any teacher ever taught
you anything" Meath said caus-
tically, they ought to stick her
in the Smithsonian Institution"
"Ya don't look much like ola
Goitie Swan / see foist in da Sc
cond row of ola chorus" observ-
ed the Cracker.
Front row, you lug. But skip
it. Listen, Joe, I've got a job fol-
you today
Yeah" The Cracker evinced
interest. "Wul, lead me to ds
i~ce-house." To give Mr.. Slycnis.
XII his due, there was not a lazy
joint in his fingers.
1T isn't a safe this time
Meath said. "You know the gen.
eral layout at Wildover by now
don't you, Cracker"
"Soitingly," averred Mr.. Slyn-
cniski. II got it all in me head
when / was up dere da udder
day casin' ola jernt."
We'll, do you know anything
about horses?"
Hoses? va mean da ponies?'
mot precisely. What / near
Is, can you handle a horse"
kin l handle a hoss?" The
Cracker spoke scathingly. "Why
Goitie, when l wuz young an sc
dumb | woiked fer a Twin, l us
Ia be on a milk route"
That's perfect, then" sale
Meath. Now, Joe, get this into
your thick head. :"
A few minutes later wher
Miss Gertrude Swan, alias Meath
left the dilapidated hideout, Joe
the Cracker was a somewhat
wiser man. He was not, however
wise to a certain diamond tiara
Miss Meath had proceeded or
the theory that what safe-blow.
ers do not know will not hur,
them.
Mr.. Chester Saxon sat on 4
bench at the Larchville Airpor
and surveyed the two gentlemen
before him in puzzled fashion
Mr.. Saxon was, indeed, tall ano
handsome. But handsome, Jonah
Logan decided, in a superficial
way. The Saxon countenance
lacked character. There was 9
let's = give = up = the = ghost lool
about the chin that even the
deering = do in Chefs flashing
black eyes could not completely
camouflage.
What you've told me- Chez
said now, rs the dopiest thing
I've ever heard
His tone also implied doubt Of
Jonah as an accredited ennis
sary. And Jonah resented it.
Il can't help that" he said
keeping control. ITS exactly
what she told me to tell YOU"
Then she must have gone
off her rocker" MIR. Saxon said
Because the whole idea is jus
plain nuts. Even Maloney, here
could see that"
Ever since introductions Mr.
Saxon had referred to Mahoney
in pardonable error, as "Malo'
ney." Further than that he hac
seemed, for some inexplicablt
reason, to derive some little
amusement from the very pres.
ence of Mahoney.
"Mahoney,' said Mahoney
now, making the correction &
trifle fiercely. Not Maloney."
"Okay. Mahoney." Chef grin
ned, then became serious again
But, as l say, even Maloney
could see the weakness of this
-Mahoney muttered darkly
Jonah took up the theme again
Listen" he said, lit isn't fol
me to tell you what Hildy's like
After all, she's your GAL" Thi!
cost him a pang. THAT being tn
case you ought to know that she
has a strong romantic side to hel
nature. She wants her marriage
to be memorable. Distinguished
by something out of the ordi'
nary. And she looks upon you a:
a kind of-of we'll, mech
anized Lochinvar."
"Oh, she does?" said Chef
Nov you listen, Mr.. Logan. L
I get this, Hildy wants me t
make a landing on the Charming
place at midnight Saturday. She
Or somebody else-will pu'
out a flare for me. Then we're t
take off from there, fly tc
Greenwich, rout out a j. p. anc
get married. And nobody's sup.
posed to know about it. Well,
ask you. Does it make sense?"
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