Show the rf fiction UPSTREAM NEMESIS by richard H wilkinson corner OHN WAS ONLY 29 and already J JOHN life haq wa bitter today with the rain lashing indis face wetting the newspapers bare before he could pass them ton customers from beneath the oil skin covering c hilled chilled to the bone envying 8 those who filed 63 minute into the subway fiction entrance with their sleek con tented well fed looks he hated life he hated people hated the world Pay parel pare Pay parel I 1 wealthy society woman woma n slays hu husband 3 and runs off with sul suitor torl aux tr aral a lo 10 life had been unkind t to 0 him life given him the breaks it it was lifes fault either you were born into the easy yay way or jou you have a chance this stuff about fighting your way to the top overcoming obstacles being a whooping self made success you cant fight when life is against you when the crowd is way out ahe ahead ad and throwing dust into your face rich society woman knocks oft off her spouse buy a pay parc pare sir air A thousand smackers smacker sm ackers sl hat hal fat chancel not when the breaks were against you A roan mari was a fooloo tool to try and buck the crowds when they were against him like that guy in the green hat look achim trying to tight fight his way up those stairs the know that it was just after 5 and h hundreds q of people would be corn coming ng down the stairs on their way ho home 07 hey gilme a news there was a man at johns elbow lookin looking gim impatient and irritated john jerked himself back to earth sure evening news here you are mister thanks Pay parel aux aral aux john stopped abruptly A shot had sounded above the pounding of jain rain and the rumble of traffic it n V k x V ill III johnnel look you must have seen who did it standing here like that you had a view came from rom the direction dir cUon ol oi the stairs there was a stir a wild scrambling shrieks curses the sea of humanity came tumbling down pausing shrinking away hor rifled staring at iome something thing on the ground john glimpsed the figure lying there grotesquely sprawled across aar oss the steps he heard the name of silas berry mentioned ljuldj judge silas sila s berry hey newsy N aws y how ho w about a paper pera 11 john Johnt turned umed it was the he man la in the green hat bat john felt his heart pound then stand still nice stand you got here sonny must make a lot of dough must mast s see ee abot a lot that happens facing upstream earn like that happen to see what occurred just now on the eld elevator steps did lyou GULPED 1 I heard beard a shot j what happened was somebody killed I 1 see a thing I 1 wa was 3 selling a paper who do yuh bulf suppose done it the cold coid light dimmed in the eyes of the man with the green hat he smiled sm lIedA A siren sounded the crowd scattered john saw officer mike clancey elbowing his wily way towards him hi johnnel look you must have seen who wh 0 did it standing here like that you h had a d a vi view ew you w were er e the only one who did facing upstream like that see who done it johnn johnny johnny glanced at the man in the green hat bat the man maps 9 hand was inside his coat sn sure re he said asure sure ausaw I 1 saw it all it was that guy gu there then he jumped he HC heard the muffled ix explosion of a revolver saw clancey leap heard shouts and swearing and knew that other cops were co coming ming then lie he heard moia mor s shots he felt a stinging pain in his arm he f felt e lt something hot running his sleeve steeve things began to reel he knew he wai was fainting officer clancey was bending over film when he came to youre all right kid just a scratch and what a break that was moe consoletti Consol ettl he had threatened to get old silas thayre Th They byre reboth both dead and you get the reward kid one thousand smack earsl ers 1 Is that a i break or is that a break |