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NA MAIL, MARCH 17, 1989

By BUD FISHER

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

Fact Of Love

Jimmie wasn't fool enough to think that he could ever stand a chance with Juno Standish, and he was bright en- ough to give no inkling to anyone" of the fact that he loved her, Why, shucks, if the boys in the city room' ever guessed how he felt he'd have to quit his newspaper job for their kid-

ding...

Jimmie was a natural for kidding; He was small and not handsome and good-natured and not quick to catch onto subtle remarks. No, Jimmie wasn't the type to appeal to a girl like June Standish, who had worked for the News for a year and had al- ready won herself a couple of by-lines as a reward for grabbing some swell' stories from under the nose of the Journal, which was the News' biggest competitor.

AND FORTNIGHTLY THEREAFTER

June had blue eyes and a trim figure and smooth, dark hair and a way of SAILS-MAR. 17th at 12 Noon

smiling that set Jimmie's heart to MAR. 19th at 200-AIM,

He was going like a trip-hammer. MAR 31st at 9.00 P.M.

dis always afraid that she might APR. 14th at 6.00 P.M.'

cover how he felt, about her and that worried him, because then, trying to be kind, she might rease being nice to him. The fact that she was nice to him made life worth living.,

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So Jimmie was always careful to do his worshipping from distance, even gloating over the fact that it looked as though one day June and Lon Bailey might hit it off together. Lon was big and handsome with an abundance

the one chance to put Rozzetti where he belongs. You going to pass it up?".

"Like hell I am!" Bradford snapped.. "Let me think!"

phone!" "Get Chief Allen on the Lon said, and his voice was high- pitched, "Send a squad down there.”

The savage

"Don't be a fool, Bailey." managing editor's face was "They'd knock June off in a minute." He chewed a cigår,”

Jimmie found his voice. "You gotta retract it, chief You gotta. There's no other way. June she's in dan ger"

He remembered how they had all -looked at him quberly, he was follow- ing Bradford and Lon across the floor and into the elevator, They got into a taxi and went up town and picked up Inspector Joe Rogers, who was a friend of Bradford and whom they be- could trust. Jimmie only heard snat. ches of what they talked about, cause he was thinking of June. June in the hands of those fiends!

A queor feeling came over him as the taxi roared down into Market street and stopped before a restaurant. They all went inside and sat down and a man came and sat down with them, Jimmie knew the man.

He was Nick name was. Roscoe. Rozzetti's first Heutenant.

His

Nothing that happened in those next few minutes was ever: very clear-in- Jimmie's mind. The men at the table

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

some

of personality. He was the News' star and Bradford mentioned a huge sum reporter. He had a careless manner of money and Roscoe shook his head of abandon which made Jimmie a little and Jimmie thought of June. envious, but at the same time made him,

No one noticed when he left the proud, too, for the knew that Lon was the type for June... She deserved table. He got up and strolled toward the men's wash room, but instead of and the best,

going into it he opened a door ́Things might have continued on this went into a back hall and up way, if June hadn't written the story stairs, He came to a door with a about Nick Rozzetti, the gang leader. -rat-faced individual leaning against it She found out things about Rozzett! Cunning, born of desperation, came to He reeled as though drunk, that the Journal and the police had Jimmie. been trying to find out for years, and lurched against the man. by the door, she told the world about it in the grappled with him, somehow got free, columns of the News, It all proved opened the door, and banged it closed. to be very bad medicine, and it was June was in the room, bound to a chair to her, a pity June hadn't had a talk with in the far corner. He got some older and wiser head before she whipped out his knife and slashed her wrote her story..

bonds. They started for the door. It opened. The ratfaced man appeared. He had a gun. Jimmie leaped at him, muffling the report of the gun with his body.

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At any rate, the call from Rozzetti came in two days later. Jimmie and Lon Balley were both in the city room when Phil Saunders, the city editor,

Beside the nurse was another swee- answered the phone. Phil cupped his hand over the mouthpiece and. said ter, prettier face. It belonged to June, quiatly: "Rozzetti's, got June. He. She leaned over him. You're better?” says to retract all that stuff we prin-

ted about him a couple of days ago,

or else."

"Good God!" said Lon, and Jimmie

amiled. “Sure, I'm O.K.

Jimppened?'

was too excited and cold-feeling it

happened three days ago,"

been here ever since and I've

They finally

notice that Lon's face was pale been here with you. Everyone, including Clark Bradford, got: Rozzett! behind bars, and—and, the managing editor, who had drifted oh, Jimmie, in your aleup you told me up and heard what Phil had said, you loved me every hour for three realised the horrible significance of the days," situation;

What'll I tell him, boast"

Jimmie looked at the sweet face of Phi hers, and what he, saw puzzled “him, bewilderment dia. said. "And Clark anapped: "Tell but presently

appeared and bu kuwwithat what he

him, 0. K. We'll retract."-

Timmle felt" rellaf surging through Baw. was roul aridigening and lasting. him'like warmth from a good steam He saw it in her og wadiator after the biting cold of Janu... he'd never

ary. Phil. Saunders, with both hands hor the fat! gripping the telephone, was saying:

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