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THUBSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, t THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER 194 Uncle Sam's Training Bombers Ready To Go Osborne Nrm Director Of N. C Guernsey Group ' m HIGHNESS u. mwuu vBuurne, of CtJ as named a director of the vj JOHN A.MOROSO . . "reeaeri' eociation at their recent meeti Greensboro. CHAPTER VIII "Well, Danny, raise me fifty dol lars for a retainer," said Maxie, fencing to avoid the "touch" he saw coming, "and I'll gro ahead." "Fifty dollars I" screamed Dan ny, his long face livid with rage. "Fifty, me eyel You hand me fifty for lending you this sucker suit." "We gotta eat," pleaded Lizzie. "Well, here," Maxie smiled be nevolently as he reached into a pocket. "Take this and don't come back for a week. Run along now. Come on. I've got an important case to look after. Good-bye. One week from today." ... He herded them clear to the sidewalk, turned swiftly and rushed back to cover. "How much is it?" demanded the bride. Danny smoothed out the crumpled certificate. "Whoops!" he exclaimed. "Lemme see!" demanded Lizzie. "Take your hands off me!" warned the bridegroom. "I'll scream," she warned. "Re member, we're lawful married. And that means I get half. How much is it?" Fifty, all right," Danny said slowly. "Say, Maxie must be figer in' on something big to hand us this much in advance." "Baby, we're in soft. Now Danny, let's go and touch the old boy at the brewery." Pop was so lonely that he would have admitted anybody when Dan ny and Lizzie knocked at the pos tern. "Sure," he said with a broad grin. "Come right in. There's nothin finer to behold than a hap py young couple starting out as man and wife. But I'll get the dog tied up first Terry don't know a thing about matrimony." What Pop was thinking was an other matter. It might have been summed up in two words: "Watch out." He offered his visitors a bench in the yard near the door to the street and retired to his den long enough to slip a blackjack in his coat pocket Seated on a keg, Pod was prepared for anything, "I came to ask about Minnie," began Danny. "Is she okay?" "She's fine." "We can easy take care of her now," ventured Lizzie. "I got a job in sifi-ht and Danny might find something." "That's certainly good ol you young people," said Pop. "But Min is all fixed now." Dannv, suspicious of this cheer ful and polite reception, came right flown to brass tacks. "But the court matters ain't fixed, Pop." "Mister Dolan, to you," corrected Pop. "f)nr lawver is attending to that," stressed Lizzie. "0, he is?" "I'm her guardian, her own brother and " "Suppose I adopt her?" asked Pop.' "That might be all right, too, Mr. Dolan, except if the court should happen to know you're in the bootleggin' racket it wouldn't sound so good." Pop rose from the keg, his face purple. "Set still " warned JJanny. "You rap-scal-lion!" retorted Pop slowly. "Who told you I was bootleggin'?" "I smelled the still when you had me locked in downstairs.' said Danny with a sickly laugh. "And I got eyes. I spotted the boat that comes up with the mash and takes awav the finished stuff. You must be makin' a lot of dough, Mr. Do lan. And don't get mad; every thin's all right Me and Lizzie got to eat, Mr. Dolan. Is it right that Min should be livin' with million aires and her family starvin'? I OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS for Boy Scout Uniforms & Supplies Uniforms Hatchets Knives First-Aid Kits - Toilet Kits Cooking Kits Canteens And Other Official Supplies Outfit Your Scout Correctly and Help Him Become A Better Scout Congratulation to Haywood Scouts and Their Leaders for Their Successful Record WE ARE 100 BEHIND BOY SCOUTING Massie's Dept. Store C. J. REECE, Owner. MAIN STREET WAYNESVILLE ask you." There was murder in Pop's glare as he stood over Danny, his right hand gripping the flexible, blunt in strument in his pocket. But Danny slipped from the bench, his right hand in pocket. To him human life meant little. If he but knew where he could put his hands on Pop's liquor money, he would have fin ished him there and then, safely behind the high brick walls at the end of the street, so near the river, too. , It was a stand-off. "We ain't askin' much, Mr. Do lan." Lizzie broke the tension. What's a few dollars to you and Min? The Wessels, if they like the kid so much, and if she s going to be happy living with the swells, woudn't miss what we want just enough to keep alive." Pop had gotten control of him self. These birds of prey had him in a tight place. If his still was raided the affair would drag in the Wessels as responsible owners of the building. A serious attempt to gain possession of Minnie would mean ugly publicity, the parading of the plight of the other Fogartys, perhaps his own conviction and in carceration. He would have to buy protection, at least for the time being. "I've got fifty dollars and that's all." He reached in his pocket and took out a roll of bills, counting it to the last single dollar. "Here it is, if it'll help you get started. But leave me alone. It's all you can get. Take it and get out." Lizzie grabbed the money. "You ain't got much time," warned Pop. "Better slam that door tight behind you. I'm going to let Terry loose.." So Danny and wife departed hastily. Pop was trembling in mingled rage and despair as he unleashed Terry and sank into his chair in his now neglected little sentry room. There was much for him to think about. Everything would have gone well if the rich Wessels hadn't entered their lives ... if that hid eous fiasco oi tne sweepstaKes hadn't brought them into the lime light. Was Bill Duffy right? Could oil and water mix? For a long time Pop brooded over Danny, senior member of the Fogarty family: Liszie, and the Law and Society. All that he had wanted was to have the affection of the Princess, and the Princess was so happy with him. He had money for her, enough of it. . . . Bill Duffy, the city detective, would have been the man for her when the time came. They were all in the same class. They would have nothing to hide. But if Minnie carried into her future life with the Wessels such bad una as Danny and Lizzie and the relatives in the reforma tory, nothing but misery could re sult. ; The day dragged along miserably and it was with effort that he man aged to feed Terry properly. At midnight Patrolman Cassidy drop ped in for his customary chat and other amenities. "What's the matter, Pop?" he de manded when he caught a good glimpse of hia friend's saggy coun tenance and dull eyes. "You look aU in. Sick?" The blackmailing went on all Summer, either Danny or Lizzie coming once a week to the postern gate of the brewery castle of Prin cess Minnie while their cagy coun sel, Maxie Greenblum, attended to the details of the legal extraction of "big money" from the Wessel family, rejoicing that his clients no longer pestered him for advances. At first a letter came every other day for Pop from Long Island. Pete, the mail carrier, delivered it with a broad smile. Pop would hold it down to the keen nostrils of his IV k Poised for flight in their basic training piano-. the-e Flying Cadets of which David S. Stentz, of Waynesvillefis one, at Uncle Sam's giant "West int of the A.r, at Randolph eld Texas. Completing their second phase of the Advanced Flying -Sdwd Anal ten w. 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This hurt him more than the humiliation of dealing with Min's Vicious brother and even more than the ache of loneliness. He began to feel like a man cling ing to a spar and watching a ship that had come close to him grow dimmer in the distance. He ate but little and drank a great deal. He did not pay the needed atten tion to the still down in the bowels of the old brewery a dangerous dereliction. Finally the time came for chil dren to go back to school. The Wes sels would be rturning to town. With a .mighty effort Pop pulled himself together. He had neglected his invalid wife and her sister up in the Bronx. Weak in the legs and short of breath, he climbed to the treasury in the tank up in the tower and got money enough for them to take them through .the Winter and to cover his obligations of the Summer. He locked Terry within and journeyed by the Third Avenue Elevated northward to the com fortable apartment where he had installed his dependents. An invalid wife was no one to expect cheer from nor could he look for it from a wrinkled old depen dent sister-in-law. He listened awhile to the complaints of the one and the fulsome gratitude of tne other, gave them their money, and spent the afternoon in Bronx Park, one of many old men who had come into the last stretch of life, grate ful for a seat on a bench in the sun. He fell asleep. The chill of late evening awak ened hint and fear struck into his heart. The still! It should have been attended to long ago. And Terry, too. As fast as his old legs could carry him he headed for the 'El," Darkness had come. He Just missed a train and, during the wait for the next, he groped in his mind for a prayer. It wouldn't come. He felt forebodings of disaster. Standing in the vestibule of the front car of the "El" train, beside the motorman's enclosure. Pop strained his eyes for each station ahead. Every stop to let off and take on passengers seemed an eter nity. From the Bronx the train en tered Harlem, the buildings rising higher and higher ahead. Far off to his left the sky between the tow ers of Manhattan seemed a faint pink but the old man had watched many times the play of sunset ra tions in the eastern sky and had seen that soft glow linger even after the coming of the night. But at One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth street the glow had deepened in stead of fading. V If there was a fire down in the Yorkville section, he assured him self, there were many houses to burn, and garages, tenements, shops, warehouses, too. At Ninety-Sixth street the glow became flame which illuminated ris ing, rolling clouds of black smoke. He could smell the burning timbers at Seventy-Second street and the passengers behind him were crowd ing the windows crying out; "It's a big one! A three alarm!" etc., etc. At his station, Sixty-Sixth" street, Pop knew. At the foot of the stairs he yelled for a taxi, got one and shouted, "Never mind the cops! Never mind the cops I Bight through the lines! I'm in charge of that place. It's all right Here. . . . . He pressed a bill into the hand of the driver. The taxi man knew Pop. "It's your old brewery, all right," he shouted back. The waving of night sticks meant little and the shouts of the police men less. The taxi did not stop until it had threaded through the fire apparatus, trucks and engines, to the gate in the wall. Pop staggered out of the ma chine and through the gate. ''Is he out? Is he out?" he shout ed above the orders of battalion chiefs and captains directing the fight, going from one to the other. "My dog! My dog!" "Get back, old man!" he was or dered time and again. "Terry! Terry! Here, boy! Here, boy!" The lower doors and windows had been smashed in, only to release great guots of flame that licked the brick walls to right and left, up ward and downward, as might the tongues of insatiate dragons. The great truck gates in the wall had been thrown wide for the aerial ladders. The huge apparatus rolled in. The strategy of the chief was to pour water in tons downward through the windows of the tower while from the three streets, nozzle- men directed powerful streams into the windows of the second and third stories from which the iron shutters had already been torn by pick and crowbar. From the river fireboats sent streams aloft as soon as the conflagration had burst through the roof. "Terry! Terry! Here, boy! Here, boy!" (To be (Continued) It is great to forget at times: A negro who had achieved some success in the handling of mules was asked how he managed the balky creatures. Negro Well, ; when I'se plowin' an' the mule stops. Ah jest picks up some soil an' puts it in his mouth to taste. Den he goes right along. Questioner What makes you think that affects him? Negro I suah don't know, but I expect it makes him forget what he was thinking about. A SHADY TRANSACTION 'Is this the hosiery department?" came a voice over the wire. "Yes, ma'am," she answered. "Do you have any flesh-colored stockings?" "Yes, ma'am, we have. Whadya want pink, yellow or black." was named president of the It was decided to hold th sale May 8, at either Hendersol - w. iium bi putce a ume yet uD( nana. Travel In Park Shows Gain Over January Of 1940 Travel in the park durim? J.J ary showed a 64 per cent iiicJ uvejr uic saiuv yenoa last yjjj due, according to the official! the milder weather this past Ji uary. The actual count showed 13 ( persons in 5,169 vehicles ento the paric aunng tne first monti the year. Sixty-three per cent of the pj visitors were from North CareM ana Tennessee, tne remainder fcJ 43 states and the District ol (3 ubia. Illinois and Oho followed the t local states. 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