Show ed cd you in ills business it if true hed certainly be pleased at your going in id like to succeed on m my own well why not we dut dont lieve have to tell harwood arwood ll nho you are not tn in the beginning anyway that Is an idea barry agreed since the row ive been calling myself barry gilbert not a bad pen name jamison winslow declared all right well stick to it ive a hunch bunch that make a good newspaper man 11 what your brother said ten minutes later barry gilbert himself again so to speak was on ills his way may to the globe the globe occupied a new and imposing posing building in thirty ninth street asking for mr harwood barry found himself in the city room men in their shirt sleeves sat at desks smoking gaud and pounding on typewriters and most of the people who had rushed in and out of the elevators rushed in and out of the double doors harwoods IIa I 1 office proved to be a small and comparatively quiet cubbyhole cubby hole just oft off the concourse lie had always been a newspaper man square cut not very tall but with big hands and broad shoulders derr his hair was as red as barrys Us ile had been john clarke bidders city editor when john clarke was a en anu reporter and lie remained john Cl arkes city editor still john clarkes charkes Cl arkes friend too with more real power and ability than any other man on the globe now he glanced at the winslow letter and grunted think you can write I 1 suppose pretty sure I 1 cant 4 then you gonna do on a newspaper 11 get news 91 ernie narwood harwood looked him over how well just now it happens that im a friend alfriend of jay rogers the fellow that killed mike kelly kellye the fellow they say killed him yeah reah ernie squinted into the bowl of his pipe now flow long have you known jimmy winslow he inquired about halt half an hour his brother asked him to get me a job peter winslow yes peter winslow going to defend rogers he snapped yes ernie reached for a telephone peter winslows Win slows defending the rogers boy he barked into the instrument ment it if its straight play it up in the next edition to barry he said now how did you get winslow to take the case for the second time harry barry related his story of meeting the rogers in florida from there lie he jumped to the visit of 0 sirs mrs rogers repeating what she had told him and dilating upon their interview with the boy in the tombs what did he say narward harward asked 1 I dont feel at liberty to repeat that until ive spoken to peter wins low barry answered but its given me two clues that id like to follow 1 up all right ernie said follow em your sa larys fifty dollars a week re ile port straight to me yes sir walt a minute ill put you yon next nest to somebody introduce you yon at pollee police headquarters weve got that angle covered of course but better be in touch there what I 1 want you to do is to follow your own leads bring in something roth come here he called 1 I want you to take sir mr gilbert down to the homicide bureau nothing seemed entirely impossible that bright mid slay may morning as barry swung into broadway up to now be owed everything to his imposture that first stake the clothes he wore vore peter Win winslows slows favor and all that had followed they constituted an amazingly fortuitous chain of circumstances but the chain had lifted him to solid ground its up to me now barry said gald feeling square mith ith himself and the world horld and strangely gay and self confident im going to start right he said by paying those bills and giving peggy the rest of that two hundred im going to figure up my board and room at southampton and give her that too A fellow like me cant afford to be crooked TO BE CONTINUED |