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MR. FLUPP, OF THE FLUPP REALTY COMPANY SENT ME OUT. HERE -- HE WANTS TO KNOW WHY YOU AIN'T· PAYIN' YOUR RENT!

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THE PLACE!!

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GRASS IS COMING UP

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IN ALL THE ROOMS!

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

IN THE BUD

THERE'S one youngster whose

crime career has been nipped in the bud," Inspector Phil Yeaton re- marked. "Chances are he'll go straight from now on.

He's fed up with crime as a profession." The inspector chuc- kled. "We fed him up," he added.

"He stuck with it, however, and pre- sently was ready to leave. Now this was where he was going to prove how dumb the police were. Instead

of leaving by the window, he was going out the front door, bag in hand, acting as "though he were leaving after pay- ing a visit. It was his theory that do- A moment before I had watched the ing the obvious, appearing unconcerned boy in. question leave police headquar- was what baffled us cops. Cops were ters. He was only a youngster prob- on the lookout for suspicious acting ably 17 or 18. There was a woebegone, persons, not ordinary acting citizens. frightened, beaten look in his eyes. But

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there was eagerness, too. Eagerness : "So Bennie, though his heart was in that became more pronounced as the his teeth, opened the front door and door swung open and he BAW the swaggered down the walk, his knees bright sunshine and smelled the smells trembling. It just happened that a pa- of outdoors and freedom.

trol car was passing at the moment. Tell

me about him," I urged. "What The cops who were in it stopped and happened?"

gave Bennie a ride-right to head- "We just finished giving him. the quarters. Now works," Inspector: Phil said

"Wait a minute! How did they know what the kid had been up to?"

"The works? But I thought were sure of his guilt when brought him in ?!

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"I'll come to that. Down at head- quarters we talked to Bennie and sized him up for what he was. We knew the "We were. But we worked him over type. We knew how to handle him. We just the same." There was a wise, called his folks and gave them sly. look in the inspector's eyes. "Most story and told them what we were go- criminals," he went on, "are kids. They ing to do, and. they had sense enough get an early start. The drama of the not to interfere. game appeals to them. Unfortunately

the

they see only one side of the story, the "Sp Bennie got the works. We as- side that appeals to them that of the sumed the attitude that he was a dyed- daring, adventurous and heroic outlaw in-the-wool criminal..We accused him

By James Freeman

of story-book fame.. We make 'em see of being responsible for other crimes. the other side: whenever possible. It We gave him a mild form of the third sort of dampens their enthusiasm. degree. He was scared. Desperately "Take this kid, this Bennie. Maitland. other crimes, because he hadn't com- scared. He couldn't tell us about the Comes from a good family, well mitted them. We knew it, but we brought up,-good environment, excel- kept after him. lent ancestry. But he'd been reading catraz and San Quentin and Sing Sing, We talked about Al- detective-fiction. He had an imagina- outlining some of the things that hap- tion, a yen for excitement and adven- pened in those places. We staged a ture. He was an only child, and, as is rubber hose act in the next room, with the case in such circumstances, his a guy yelling blue murder.

suppressed his natural Instincts

folks

a bit.

"Bennie did his best to bear up, but "Well, Bennie decided he was going down and wept and yelled for his his best was pretty weak. He broke to be a criminal. A successful crimine mother and decided right then and al. A lone wolf. He decided that the there that the life of an honest man police were dumb and the public B was far more exciting that of a crim- bunch of suckers. He figured he could Inal. Yes, sir, we nipped that criminal pull a job and get away with it clean. career of young Bennie Maitland He'd start easy. In order to prove to the bud, by showing him the other side himself that his theory: was correct of the picture the side he'd never giv- he'd rob his uncle's house.

en any thought to. It's a pity we can't

in

"This uncle-his name was John get them all like that. There would Bramm-was away with his family for not be half the crime there is to-day. You saw Bennie leaving just now.

the summer: Their city place was Were we smart in doing what we did?” located two blocks from where Bennie

lived. Bonnie knew the house well. So

he bought himself a mask, borrowed his father's gun, took his school bag and one night set out on his big ad- venture.

nodded. “It's a good idea, all right

if you can catch 'em as easy as you caught Bennie."!

The inspector sighed wearlly. "That's "Gaining admission wasn't so easy the trouble. We can't, with Bennie, we as he expected. He had a screw driver got a break. You see, Bennie was so and several other small tools, but the excited when he came out of his un- Bramms had installed burglar proof cle's house and down the walk, he'd locks on the windows. The screw driv. forgotten to remove his mask.”, or, wouldn't hoist them up the way Benile read they always did. Finally hathail to breskvanpane of glass, reach inside, zunlock the fastenere and thus raise the windows.

LiOnce inålde hé donned his mask, | though it wasn't necessary of course, with his Aunt's Jewellery. It was a more scary. business than he had anticipated. Every little sound or rustle or passing" made him jump,

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