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Kid Melrose stood at the window Five minutes passed. The yard out- of his prison cell and watched Ruthie, side remained deserted. Long shafts streaming down the sheriff's four-year-old daughter, of sunlight were
playing in the yard outside. Some through the trees in the street beyond times Ruthie would disappear from the jail yard.' Kid Melrose's hand view around the corner of the she- closed over the butt of the automatic. riff's house. But mostly she was in He cocked his head, then suddenly he plain sight.
stiffened as he heard the sheriff's foot- office steps coming. through the jail and along the corridor.
An evil plan developed in Kid Mel- rose's mind. Ruthie was going to be his means of escape. Either that, or he was going to shoot her dead.
Kid Melrose drew out his automatic and laid its blunt nose on the cement If it weren't for the fact that Sheriff sill of the cell window. He wished it Hubbard was a dutiful man, Kid Mel- Ruthie would reappear, but now rose would not be alive to-day, plan- made no difference whether she did ning his fiendish deed. Folks in the or not, A key was rattling in the cell countryside around about somewhat door.
The sheriff came in, kicking open perturbed at Sheriff Hubbard because
he had not shot the kid dead at the the door with his foot as usual, carry- time of his capture. Certainly the ing the tray in one hand, the other Kid deserved to die. He had ruth- resting on the butt of his six-shooter. lessly murdered eight men and three He got one step inside the cell and women in his day. It would have stopped. been a blessing if Sheriff Hubbard had shot him.
"Right there's far enough, Sheriff. I got this gun trained on your kid in One tricky move, the yard outside. and I shoot her full of holes. Kid The sheriff blinked. His body stiffened. But he made no move.
But Sheriff Hubbard was a dutiful man. Despite what folks might think and what he himself thought, Melrose was entitled to a fair trial in a court of law, and Sheriff Hubbard' "What do you want me to do?" he was determined that he should have said. it. Some men are like that. Unhe- Ah, that was better! Kid Melrose. sitatingly he would have* risked his felt relief surge through his blood. He own life in the performance of
his hadn't miscalculated. The sheriff was duty.
forgetting his duty for the first time And right there was the crux
of in his life. Ruthie meant more Kid Melrose's plan. Hidden in the him even than duty.
By Vic Yardman
to
Unbuckle your belt
"Turn around. and drop it to the floor."
his
mattress of his bunk was an automa- tic which one of his cronies has smug-
The sheriff hesitated, and for a min- gled in to him. The only reason Kid Melrose had not used this gun to shoot ute Kid Melrose was afraid his crazy down the sheriff and make good his ideas on duty were going to triumph escape before now was that deep in over the protective instincts for his heart he had too much respect for child. the speed with which Hubbard could Then the law officer made a barely unlimber the heavy .45 six-shooter perceptible resigned shrug and started which always swung at his hip. Kid to turn. He got halfway around, then
Kid He figured something happened.
Melrose Melrose was a coward.
out there was a way to beat Sheriff Hub. didn't live long enough to find bard that involved no element of risk what. His last conscious plcture was to his own hide. Ruthie presented that the heavy six-shooter was in the that way.
sheriff's hand, belching fire and smoke
about
to
Kid Melrose knew from his obser- and giving off a tremendous roar..... vations that Ruthie was the hard-
Sheriff Hubbard went and stood boiled sheriff's very life. She was
He the one weak link in his tough make over the body of the dead man."
thought: "Well, folks around Melrose up. If, for example, Kid stood here by the window and train- will be glad and I reckon this come Then he went ed his gun on Ruthie's small body and in the line of duty."
door Hubbard that unless out, unconsciously locking the GUARANTEED advised Sheriff
behind him and headed for the house he turned around and dropped his
A half hour belt to the ground he'd plug her full to see how Ruthie was. of holes-well,
Kid Melrose figured ago his wife had summoned him Sheriff Hubbard wouldn't be so tough, examine a rash on Ruthie's skin that
looked suspiciously like measles, ́. At any rate it was the only plan Kid. [Released by The Associated Newspapers) Melrose could think of that seemed feasible. Moreover, he was press- ed for time. To-morrow Sheriff Hub- bard was taking him to the state pen, and at the state pen the Kid doubted if he'd get a chance to shoot any little girls.
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Five women are among 400 appli- automatic from the mattress on. his bunk and shoved It inside his shirt. cants for the post of executioner at When he returned to the window, Sing Sing prison. The job has be- Ruthie had disappeared. But this come vacant through the breakdown didn't worry the Kid any. Even if after illness of Robert Elliot, the ve- she didn't re-appear before the she- teran electrocutionist of New York riff came, he knew she'd be around State. the corner of the house where she al-
of ways
Hubbard, was. Sheriff course, wouldn't know this, because even now Sheriff Hubbard was in the kitchen part of the jail getting his prisoner's supper.
Prison officials refused to reveal 'any details about the women's applica- tions. Most of the applicants stated that they required the job because they were destitute.