Show DILEMMA I CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson USUAL Basil came home on AS the It was after dark when he arrived in front of his house on 1 I High About to turn in at the 3 g a t e he stopped Fiction dead his I eyes fastened on the automobile that was parked In front of the water hydrant at the A slow but rapidly mounting anger took hold of The automobile was and he knew that his wife had left it In front of the She had left it there despite his repeated warnings and threats and and Three times Pat the officer on their had spoken to him about the I'll be a tag on that car of if you go an leave it before that hydrant once Pat's good will was Basil couldn't afford to be Even a small fine would be sorely And so he had talked to He had pointed out the importance of obeying traffic his inability to pay fines for her the fact that Pat had spoken to him three And she had Even though it was the convenient place In the world to leave the and she thought Pat Kearney was an she promised to be more careful An Idea flashed across his He'd move the car down aft He felt on the I a fair sized stone and without hesitation crashed it against the town and install it In a I Then he'd tell Evelyn that PH I had tagged It and that bee mm I he couldn't pay the fine left the machine at police heal- quarters for That I ought to teach her a thing or Grimly he stepped to the curt inserted his duplicate key into door His anger was at biM he gave the key a twist which snapped It off He felt a little Someno he'd have to move the from in front of the or M meant paying a It would time to fetch a pair of pliers tm call a garage And wouldn't listen to explanations-KB after the third BASIL began to Them just one course He'd to break a reach in md lock the door from the J lease the handbrake and push am vehicle beyond the forbidden ing He hated to resort to a because in the eJ would cost him more than a that was better than Pat Kearney's ire aroused He felt on the fourd fair sized stone and without tion crashed it against the The glass but smacked it there a great Basil worked He ed the quick-lf I around bt embarked and ran He put his I spare tire and began to iW B The car movi-d Digging his into the PM to h-ave MW it was that bil came into direct line beneath the tsu cense plate first he noticed nothing gradually it dawned on something was abruptly it struck him u from the The wasn't red and and Which car that Basil was I car at Though it I his la every some one There Basil straightened alarm and and Without further M the be fM ward his own But a moment he would have the he heard a bou one had come out oi hou- ward and on the h one Pt |