Show THE STORY Of Ki A BOOTLEGGERS ui WIFE As Told McBride to Mary Margaret garet Copyright 1926 by Current News s Features Inc IX MASTER IX-MASTER MASTER MIND PASSES OUT When the telephone rang after atter my 01 night of anxious waiting to learn what had called Ben away from Cram dinner r so unceremoniously I 1 Iwas Iwas was shivering so 0 that I 1 could hardly sp speak ak Into the transmitter At first I did not the voice at the other end of ot the wire Then it repeated my name and I l' l lre re realized it was waB Joe B Ben n wanted me to tell you that he cant can't get home tonight Joe said cautiously He is all right but there has nas been a good deal of trou- trou PIe hIe Dont Don't worry Before I could frame a question there was was a click and I knew Joe had hung up Although 1 was nO nd wiser and scarcely more reassured than before I went to bed and tried to sleep At dawn Ben came He looked haggard and worried The boss is dead he whispered without preamble V We e think he le shot himself or else took poison We Ve dont don't know v for tor sure gure It wasn't given ghen out to the newspapers as a suicide We believe the bulls were about to nab him HAD CAUSE FOR WORRY Aside from his natural grief about the boss whom he had liked lilted I could see that Ben was greatly bothered about bout his Own wn prospects If the police had been read ready to grab rab the boss it was quite possible they had hada a line ori on all the others in the ring Ben slept for two hours then went out again in response to a telephone call cail from Steve J 1 1 gave ga Marjorie l her breakfast and tried to act and talk as' as if mysteriously interrupted dinner parties were wele quite in the common run of events She repeated repeat repeat- ed her intention of ot leaving that morning and I let her go gratefully Ive I've never seen her again I donot do 9 not hot want to see her What she sus- sus d I do Clo not know Perhaps she thought we were worse than we vie really were It may be she never ey ev evolved a theory to account for tor our peculiar I should think thin her experience would ha have ve made madEl exciting lag ing dinner table talk for or some time timeto to comeI come I had not much ch chance to think of ot her for we were going doIng through a abad abad abad bad time The story of ot the master masterminds mastermind's masterminds mastermind's masterminds mastermind's minds mind's suicide never nE appeared We Wedo Wedo Wedo do not know foi for certain that it was suicide None of the gang ever knew The theory y was that he had haa gotten n waning the government was wasOn wason wason on his trail and preferred death to exposure ALL IN THE NIGHTS NIGHT'S WORK For a while Ben and the others maintained a stricter guard than be before be- be fore The They were hampered by the lack of ot ready cash but it was not l I long Jong before another well filled purse was drawn into the game Before that however Ben had one experience expert expert- en ence enee e that sent our funds down to zero minus He decided to go In on his own running liquor to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York In touring cars Steve Jo Joe Joeand Joeand and a few others were associated with him and together they hired a big warehouse along the road A watchman was employed to g guard ad the treasure and the cases were ere shipped out to Individuals In small lots One day too many packages were shipped from the same depot and liquor thieves spotted the cache Disguised as policemen they swooped down upon the warehouse and scared the watchman into letting let let- tins ting them enter Steve rushed over to find them loading jostling two trucks with liquor He immediately realized that they were wele fakes and drove them off The next night they came came again overpowered o the watchman and got awa away with the treasure Steve who Is something of at detective himself set out to find them He located their storehouse rented another In Inthe Inthe inthe the Bronx and that night turned the tables on them them He quieted their watchman with chloroform and working from 11 p p. m. m to 4 a. a m. m got all the stuff moved again and went home dead tired but jubilant |