Show Zm BEWILDERED BOY CORNER By Willard Olvan Persing MY HANDS came up shoulder I didn't think the kid would use the gun but scared and cold as he was his hand shook so much that I was more than a little I wasn't going to startle him into waking any of the I They would find out plenty 3 soon enough that I had been c aught flat- footed by this teen-age Otto was standing behind the his hands resting easily on its scarred I couldn't figure but he was half smiling ot the boyish face that was half covered with a dirty white Otto was give you the after I fix you a bite to The kid's eyes lit up for a then he frowned and trying to trick me into taking off the Otto shook his head put some sandwiches in a sack so you can take them with He turned his back on the kid and went to work at the sandwich They seemed to have forgotten so I started edging around behind the I figured that was why Otto was but 1 had moved only a few inches when he stopped it you're apt to ruin his At these words from the kid spun I was staring at trying to figure out what in the world he had in There wasn't any writing on the back of Otto's and it was too deep for so Wf i- Hat the first time you've tried Otto was asking the kid with the dirty handkerchief over his I hooked a stool with my toe and pulled it out where I could sit down and still see what was going Otto around with a hamburger in his He reached across the counter and handed It to this will keep you out of mischief for a he grinning at my After he was the one getting so I decided I might aa well go along with whatever he was trying to All I stood to lose was maybe my the first time you've Otto was asking the The kid's head nodded then he frowned and difference does it Hurry up with those T was checking the kid's tion again to see if there was anything I had He had brown eyes and was waving a Luger pistol at His If was hidden under an old cap pulled down over his I was still trying to figure out how much alack there was in the bulky overalls when Otto dumped the cash drawer out on top of the He counted the money Into a paper sack and placed it a couple of feet from the sack of he said to the much pay for the chance you're The kid reached rut and scoops the two socks using both His right hand with the Luger came to rest a few inches from Otto's Otto slammed a huge hand down over the hand and clamping them to the I started to yell at If that gun went he wouldn't have a It both of he told me and the squirming gun Isn't To me he surprised you couldn't tell by looking at the I didn't have any answer for thirty dollars is your next two weeks Otto the you can have all you want to He slipped the gun out of the kid's fist and placed it out of sight under the The kid was you going to tell the Otto grinned and pointed at The kid paled and took all the fight out of I stared at the kid for a then stood up and headed for tha to make my I you should hire soma young fellow to help out in you're getting too old to do It all 1 |