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DARLING FOOL
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MABEL ПCELLIOTT
TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1933.
with the lot of them at the Inn?" |firm-of Kerrigan and Cory.
"No."The monosyllable Wha She found the judge in his dusty wrenched from Bill "No-But" offico above the First National The big - man cut him off Bank. 1rembling, she told him her abruptly. "None of our buts, story. The old man looked at her young feller."
shrewdly out of rheumy blue ayes. ***Tl go down to see him. Don't you worry. Did they say anything about furnishing, bail?"
"I didn't know them. They just sat down at my table," Bill flung across at him. "I swear I didn't
| Absurd of course it was absurd, get away. Maybe you don't know MONICA O'DARE. 76 and beautiful, is to Bill O'Dare under arrest! Why, we have positive evidence he con Kys with DAN CARDIGAN, one of the he'd lived in Belvedere all his 22 nived with them payroll thieves know"
Monnie threw out her, hands, town's rich young, min. Al « local dairing place where she has gone with Dan she meets years." He was honest as the day The voina in Bill's forehend were His eyes found his mother's hng-"We haven't any money, judge. I bez friend, BANDRA, LAWRENCE, with ⚫ was long! Everybody knew that, swollen painfully. His scornful gard face, implored-her to belleve didn't dare ask about it even." handene and mysterious newcomer, CHARLER The big man who dominated the blue eyes flashed defiance. Was it him. A
“No, No, I s'pose not.” . He BANDILA Immediately taken charge of scene found speech. He glowed at fear that lurked baling those bluc "Then when they drove up, brave contemplated the problem, stroking Dane Mounke hurt, allows Charles to escort Monnio. har-home, When, Monnie's
eyon? No, Monnio would not enter as you please, at 11 o'clock didn't his white beard. There isn't any- older brother,
"And who, may I ask, are you?" to!
"Absurd, is it?" he bellowed. tain that thought for a single min- you fill up their gas tanks and pass one, I suppose—”
the time o'day with them as happy Monnie flushed. She know what "I'm his sister," Monica said,! """What evidence 7′′ she ́degianded na you ploźne?"; went on the big he must be thinking. Everyone in bringing the full battery ofher staunchly.---
man. "When the says “hands-up, town-kupposed-har-to-bot engaged flashing amber eyes to rest upon "He was scon at Black Tree lon didn't you let them get away with to Dan Cardigan. Wouldn't the him. "Would you mind telling me with the Ict of them Inst night." It? Don't tell me you aren't part Cardigans help her out-that was what this is all about?"
sald the big man, enjoying the and parcel, bf the gang!"
what Judge Cory, meant. drama of this announcement. "He knew them. He was in it. Ho left there carly and who he was with. Guess that sounds guilty, don't it?" Bill said thickly, fiercely, "That's allo!"
"It's not a lie you were drinkin'
CHAPTER V- Something in the policeman's tone stiffened Monica's trembling backbone. She actually managed n laugh. "Bill arrested?" she echoed
"But that's absurd."
Several people began to tolk at once. The big man silenced them.
“Maybe you don't know,” he be Bill's dark frown relaxed the gan truculently, "that there's been merest trifle and Monnie had the a robbery down at the gas station Batisfaction of being her mother-an' a big one. Maybe you don't straighten, look about her bracely.know this young feller let them
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Mounie said a low clear voice, [ "Don't worry, Bill. We bellove you, We'll get a lawyer."......
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"No ono," she said with decision. What the proud Cardigans would think when they heard that Bil But Bill had been at Black Tres O'Dare was in fall she did not dare Inn. That alono counted againat to consider. It was Bill she had to him. Her heart was pounding fight for now. painfully. No matter what he had "I'll go right down and see the done the O'Dares would stand by boy." The old man stood up, reach- him. But how dreadful it all was.ing for his battered Panama,
"I The tag-end of a verso she had al- do the 'best I can." ways loved came into her mind She had to be content with that. Just then.
"Tho men of my own stock. Bitter bad they may be, But at least they hear the things
I bear,
They see the things I see " Bill looked oddly like their dead father at this moment. Daddy, the most honest man who'd ever lived. No, Bill O'Dare wasn't-couldn't be a thief. There must be a way out of this nightmare and Monnie would have to find it.
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Somehow ale managed a smilo for her mother, waiting down- stairs. "He's going right over. Don't worry. I'm sure everything's going to be all right."
"Monnic, I'm sorry," the older woman said in a low yolce, "but I'm not feeling very well"
She swayed against the girl, her face lighted with a deadly pallor. Mounle felt the world swimming around her for one dreadful mo- ment. Then she heard a friendly voice. Charles Bustace's.
Of all the townsfolk she could think of only one friend to ap- "Let me carry her to the car, peal to. Judge Cory, Miss An-Miss O'Dare." stico's father. He had been her She saw him awing the slight grandfather's partner in the law (Continued on Page 9.)
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