Show Chance Telegram Mystery Serial By William Irish TORY roBY THUS IAn FAR G George Grone forte of et this hJ tf tale li Is lila la tn D tt a park when he he rime finds 1 asea a sea and I sees ices a bank advertise advertise- I is unclaimed Select by thanes be he decides toe to toe rc e one of I tho lifted Meted Lee Ito e or whom bom money I Is II held fie Ie and teams learnt het family had bad died In a II fire that their ir house bouM many maDY year yean be be- roes goes to 10 the bank tit U downa sidewalks On hl peddlers wa way bark back backi In i down lIm a sidewalk peddler In apner escape moet c o That T from at tm a reporter hi hi picture rr and the papers He Ile begin a I i and td er trailed liy by a mysterious man him Elm and tarts starts hark hack to hi Ills hta mill to It leave ne town A Ih rook rente In a a tail the peddler has flu befriended LImp LImpy jumps Jump and d warns him him one olle brio brine the man almost almot cornered him In the New aD ro go O on ne B with lIb the story f c. c Chapter rive Five HED BED out and grabbed absently by ty one of at his fn n n y sh shoulders Thanks r real 1 pal If aint t nothing One good goodes g od es another Youve You've been f me me ever since that first 1 b bumped rr p d into inJo me me on the you going to do do rit nt it t know who they are or orre orre re out for tor I lied for his bis ut Im I'm going back there U t tangled up with them ont you g go to the police nt Un 1 jat's f ts t's no good I I. didn't h hy Im g going ing to blow ra a a while I decided sud- sud SD D down at my sock- sock led my toes ruefully eres ere's something I have to tough ugh gh and I cant can't go back If and get it lb Im I'm going i- i chance on n. n you Limpy liy y key Go Go Goback back to my J get me a pair of shoes ie e c clothes closet That's r And the second thing w v that little knee-high knee In ih the serving pantry ft f C up Put your hand Ine In e ice cube tray goes In- In 11 find a flat tin box Sull ull it out and bring it itu u ir tell tell him what was in it 9 roughly eleven thou thou- 18 irain In cash in it Id I'd spent in the past week evat evator r b boys bays ys' ys all nil know Ill I'll phone in to the d desk sk side ide de and tell them Im I'm ju u over to g get t something rooms brooms r oms You tiring cring pit lit over and meet me there i I the Ute last row of benches room against the them themy themy m my my bare feet wont won't be beIll Ill have a newspaper ut aut full tull width in front of ot ofU n ii U n my y identifying call to and arid then I over lion l. l I had enough no gh money person n t to buy my Flier K d of Jeor f time without wait- wait Jim im I picked up a a news news- dIed led into the last row of lin do the waiting room and it It it ito out o out t spread full full 1 before I 1 I JODY ODY coughed In front of paper the paper paper py was sitting there in In front of me His ig g down over the back of toward me An oddly- oddly wrapped ew pap r b bundle a a. pair of ot shoes already the ie floor beside me Theng The Theng ng ig ng of the s strong box also alsor er r wrapped came down em item a moment later from re ere underneath his outer t r I exhaled softly Id I'd never lad to aee see anyone in my ot of on the shoes and the long flat box in n the thed id d of my my trousers up up- my my side I couldn't ing ng him as I st stood od up I did you have any idea In this box K h he said thousand dollars in cash you know help seeing it the b 9 open e while I was wrap- wrap t stared at him foure oure ure what I call an ann ann anin n in Limpy There arent aren't te e you ou E out to the train with me off oft There was less ante left now A day- day been all Id I'd been able at the the thelast last minute like jot ot of aboard found a seat and spoke to him platform outside through oh ch opening left at the the pane bending over d I see lee him The shade had d down wn to match 1 I said eaid Tl Theres rc's a lot ofes of tea es ea and some some of oC them time t to wear yet and Pm m Ica leaving irig behind at the ant you you to l have Dave them a have been paid for until You still sUll have the 7 1 go up there and take takei i you nt t do Nugent F clothes that looked too tood would d kill my way of ot v livelihood But Ill I'll take gorge gings ja over oyer to my place after alter them for you there come back to town Ill I'll my nY address so you'll youn here to find me Just ones nes i got a room on the ther r over at F ODY had dropped heavily seat t beside me mc I lowered so 80 I wouldn't be over oVer- over over- heard Ill Til never forget torget what you I did for forme me tonight Take care of ot yourself Limpy Lots Lota of at luck Mr Nugent he said He turned and drifted away I sank back in my sent seat tilted my my hat hatt well wen down on the bridge of ot my nose to shade my eyes and prepared d t to doze I pushed my hat up off my my eyes eyes again and turned to the theman man beside beide me Pardon me would you rou mind taking yom your elbow o out t of at my ribs Im I'm trying to take a little nap here That aint by elbow was t the casual answer I and d it was a gun Time we were getting off isn't It It In Jl he was wal as as of matter-of-fact about it as as though were we-were fellow tellow commuters You cant can't hijack me me off the middle of a crowded train like this gun or no gun The gun aint the important part he Agreed languidly The tI tinis ls His hand came out of his v vest st and showed it to me me- me put it back again The wheels were starting start start- ing Hold that door conductor two rain checks ch ks And to me Get going I 1 WALKED down the aisle ahead of him made the transfer to the platform beginning to sidle past and he hopped off at at my heels without breaking the twist he had hadon hadon hadon on my arm He stopped there a moment and frisked me mc in full fun sight of everyone while the train hurtled by this he said when he came to the tin box Mon Money y He transferred it its to his own outside coat pocket All right he said now if you dont don't want the bracelets in front of everyone just walk quietly out through the station with me I began walking A dick Andall And Andall Andall all along Id I'd thought it was a matter of personal vengeance on on the part of the real Lee Nugent it for I I. asked him as we made o our our r way back the across across cross cross' the main rotunda He gave me a halfway smile you trying to do kid me You dont don't know do you You haven't the slightest idea Are you Lee Nugent or arent aren't you 1 What could I do but brazen it out Im Lee Nugent I answered answered answered an an- crisply And that money Is rightfully mine G LAD to hear It it he said dryly talking a about b o 0 u t th the mon money y Youre You're wanted for murder Long time no catch But all that publicity you got a couple days ago sure dropped you in our laps pretty Pictures in ev everything So that explained why the account account account ac ac- count hadn't been claimed The original Nugent had known better than to show up twelve thousand or or no o twelve thousand And I like a fool had walked straight in into to the trap No IINo w wait listen wait listen to me a min min- I ute ute Ill Ill I'll make a aj clean bre breast t pt of it Im I'm not Lee Nugent I crashed that account My right name is is- is He smiled humorlessly So now youre you're not A minute ago you were You sure change fast Keep moving w WED WE'D ED STOPPED beside a car standing near the station There was one other man in fn it it in civilian clothes at the wheel The dick collared me into the back ahead of him and then got in after me Neither he nor the driver said anything anything anything any any- thing to one another and the car started off without any instructions instructions instructions being given Looks Look I began again in another another another an an- other minute or two I tell ten you Im I'm not Lee Nugent Dont tell It to me he said with stony unconcern tell it when we get there there there-If If it'll do you any good I didn't speak for a while while- what was the use use until until a wrong street had ticked by and then a second and a third I looked out sharply and then sharply back to them This isn't the way to headquarters The one beside me relayed it to the driver with satiric emphasis This isn't the way to headquarters Something darker than the overtones overtones overtones over- over tones of the official arrest began to descend on me This was a aO O way one journey Y W HE HEN the car stopped In front of a large hou house e I was hustled inside I I Ivas was vas shoved into a room in which which there was a cobblestone fireplace and wood panelling on the walls Whatever this place was it was fitted up as someone's residence There were two men in it it waiting for us One standing the other negligently balanced across the corner of ot a heavy table The one standing was the man I had given the slip sUp to at the night night- club He He came canle forward and he said Here Y You u forgot some something ing And he le let me me have my own shoes dress full in the face It stunned me fora for a a minute I went back against the table and the ones who had come in with me held me up between tween them I heard one of them say Dont do that till Ed secs him hirn One of ot them thein left lett the room and there was a short wait Then he reappeared followed b by a short set heavy man He appeared tobe to tobe be bein in his early forties and he was probably younger than he looked He walked all around me two or three times looking me up and nd down Uh huh he grunted uh see Seo Page Pago 11 t. t Column 3 s CHANCE r Continued from Page 3 S huh Then he stopped finally directly before me So this Is what youre you're like Im Eddie Donnelly he said Mean anything to you No because Im I'm not not not- It should he overrode me Well it would to your father if he hadn't been smart enough to todie todie todie die before I could get my hands handson on him I haven't any fa faA fa- fa AGAIN A GAIN he bore me down own Maybe May fMay be I should refresh your memory Joe Nugent your father and mine were partners A crooked partner and a partner that was honest The crooked one swindled the honest honest honest hon hon- est one and hundreds of ot other people that trusted the honest one besides Then he disappeared and let the Innocent one take the rap for him My father died In jail jan He never came out alive again It killed him just as surely as a gun or a knife They took me up to tos s see e him near the end I was just justa a kid And his dying words to tome tome tome me were Get even for us la Eddie if it takes all your life I swore I would and I keep my oath to a dying man I His fist came down with a sound like thunder And now Ive I've got his son That's something even better Only you haven't I said I Iwas Iwas Iwas was George Gcorge Palmer I never heard of any Lee Nugent until a few short days ago I picked the name at random out of a newspaper because because because be be- cause I I. saw there was some money waiting to be bc claimed and I went down there and impersonated him Youve You've got the wrong guy Youve You've got a fake take a phony phon To my surprise hed he'd shut up completely I hadn't thought it would be this easy to convince him Suddenly for tor some reason or other he seemed uncertain Its always possible of ot course he said quietly that me and my fellows fellows fel fel- fel- fel lows here have made such Buch a mistake mis mis- take Isn't it boys 1 Continued Tomorrow Copyright 1942 By William Irish Distributed by King Features Syndicate |