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PHIL MAITLAND has been the boat and then Somers could go
Journal's court reporter for seventeen years. He has tried sever- al times to quit, because he hates rou tine, but the Journal hasn't let him quit. They've always raised his pay and offered other ir ducements to keep him on the job. There is, of course, a good reason. Phil has a sense of drama. He puts a zip into the most commonplace routine stories. He also delves. He digs up things that give reality to his drama.
"Somers proceeded to carry this suggestion. He was, in the act of siphoning when a deputy sheriff materialized out of the gloom and
ve arrested him.
Last night I read a routine item on the Journal's court news page about a man named Somers who had, accord- ing to the records, been arrested and Later fined for stealing gasoline, that evening I met Phil at the Press club and he gave me the facts, pehind
the yarn.
"I was in court," I told him,⠀⠀ heard the case and listened to aen tence being imposed. How is it that you didn't get a dramatic bang into this yarn, like you have others?
"Did you notice who paid Somers' fine?" Phil asked.
"No. What difference does that make?":
"Spencer Jones paid it." "Spencer Jones?" I stared. he was the man who preferred charges against Somers."
"Why
the
"Spencer Jones, returning from a business trip sooner than he expected,
•had seen Somers; siphoning the gas from his boat and summoned the de- puty.
off "Everything would have gone
dis. smoothly except that Spencer covered that the girl, who had been Was his, boat riding with Somers Spencer's wife. This distressed him no would end. He hated scandal and have dropped the gas-stealing charges and dealt with his wife in his own way, except that just then Harold Mayfair and another deputy, bruising by the Jones' camp, noticed the stolen Mayfair boat, and put into the Jones' wharf to investigate.
"Somers tried to explain to May fair that he had only borrowed the boat, but Mayfair wasn't satisfied. He said he was going to prefer charges against him, and thought Jones ought to, too.
"Jones' pride forbade him from ad- mitting that his wife could be disloy "Exactly. It was from Jones' boat al to him, and so he pleaded with
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that Somers was caught stealing the Mayfair in Somers' behalf; and finally gas. And the funny part was, Somers persuaded him to drop the boat-steal- was driving Harold Mayfair's boat."- ing charge, but only after promising "I didn't know that, It wasn't to prosecute on the gas-stealing mentioned in the trial."
charge. You see, Mayfair had a sense "There's no reason why it should be. of pride too. He didn't want to go Somers came up from New York and home and tell his friends he had caHed on the Mayfairs, whom he only cauge boat thief and let him, go knew slightly. The Mayfairs were Scott toster
themight have settled the whole. away from their camp at the moment
Sõmereld but the boat was ready for use in the busineexcept that: slip
Jones it if he prosecuted he fell wife being Somers wrote a note, advising that everyone about Jones' he had borrowed the boat to go to disloya
girl. Beatcamp island the call or a
"So Jenes promised to pay. Somers' who was working for one of the cam fine and give him a hundred dollars
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Bested a strong came up and besides. If Somers' would agree to say departed, a and nothing that would get into the court 'blew the note away. o hours later record about the wife business.
found the Mayfairs returned home.
"So that's why It looked in court саве, the like just another petty thief their boat missing and notified
drama police.
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In the meantime, Somers had came when Jones paid Somers the $100 Horace Heidt and his orchcalled on his girl friend; and invited last night. They say that Somers
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to go for a ride. They cruised nd the lake for awhile, returning Spencer Jones' wharf after dark. They were within a hundred yards the wharf when the motor sputter ed died. Investigation proved they haul out of gas.
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"What a swell story!" I exclaimed. "Why in the world didn't you make. something out of it for the Journal?”
Phil Maitland sighed. "I couldn't," he said: Spencer Jones owns the Journal."
"Somers' companion suggested that they paddle Into Spencer Jones (Copyright, 1988, By The AB
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