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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., NOV. 24, 1938 <^ok DICK TRACY FANS! "Sportsman Flies High" by Lawrence Keating /ell of the Synopsis: Detective Dan Coll Graber-Vael private detective agency is assigned the job or shadowing McDonald whose wife fears gangster enemies are plotting to murder him. McDonald is killed in spile of Colwell's watchfulness. Now, with McDonald dead, the smuggling ring which he led has become disorganized. Colwell risks his life to gather evidence by playing one against another. CHAPTER IX The two exchanged looks. "Never mind--they ain't really so im-poitant, Colwell, only I thought maybe you'd have them, see? What's this slip mean?" "Just my car license. In case it would be stolen, I'd know, see? Most people don't know their own license number?" Quillen sneered. Suddenly he hiwered his gun and became friendly. "I'll make it worth your while, Colwell. Guess you don't make more than forty-five a week, do you? How would fifty bucks extra look? Maybe you got those numbers stuck away somewhere. There's fifty in it if you come across. But I'll know the right ones!" he warned. Colwell shrugged. "You gave them to Graber!" Lefty charged. "Of course not. I don't know what you're talking about." Quillen sprang to his feet in new rage. "Then you had 'em! Or you know 'em--that it? Say, what's your game anyhow?" Dan held his ground. From his two inch advantage he looked down at the killer. "I'd be a fool to give you something you want so bad when you figure to bump me off next minute because of what I know about those mur- Lefty drew back. A malevolent smirk came over his face. He nodded comprehendingly. "Smart guy, eh? Trying to make a deal with me?" Without moving his gaze he jerked his head. "I'll call Thiessen in. Guess he can make this bozo talk, eh, Helen?" Angry Scratch The girl stood close to Colwell. Of a sudden he flinched, clutching his cheek. His eyes blazed at her but she blazed back with twice the fury. Deliberately she had raised her hand and in a quick flip made a long, -angBjej scratch down his "You don't need Thiessen. We can handle this smart aleck alone. Come on, Quillen, let's start. We'll get it out of him! "Now you," the charming Mrs. McDonald spat at Dan, "you come through with those numbers, the right ones, or you're going out of here in a basket. Understand?" Quillen jabbed his gun into Dan's stomach. "Sit down!" He sat down. Over Lefty's shoulder he saw Helen go pale. Quillen reversed the weapon. He clipped Colwell lightly over the head. The blow made stars shower in his brain and gave -him a sudden weakness. He clenched his teeth, clenched his big hands on the arms of the chair. He blinked up at Quillen with unsteadily rolling eyes. "You better, not go on with this. You'll pay--double!" It brought a sneer. "Tough, YOUR LAST CHANCE $10 in Prizes For the Best CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR'S DINNER MENU Mrs. H. M. 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What the numbers-- Again Lefty struck with his gun butt. Every fibre screamed the command to fight back. The self-preservation instinct in a man was all-powerful the instant those nerve telegraph wires whirled the news to his brain that something But he bore it stoically. They hit him, slapped him, lambasted him, kicked him. Dan hoped he was hard enough to stand it without being crippled. He kept his mind on one thing: he had to stand it. If he could last it was going to mean seventy, eighty perhaps a hundred thousand dollars. Of which Quillen was going to pay a fat half! His sense became foggy. "Gimme those license numbers!" dred and seventy-six pounds. The fellow was an ox for strength. He staggered to the bedroom and flopped Colwell unceremoniously on the pink taffeta covered bedstead where Dan lay with eyes closed. Quillen shut the door and sat down in a rocker, listening. There was a slam of the corridor door. Then a torrent of abuse in the harsh tones of Otto Graber of the Graber - Vael Detective Agency, who, appeared, was not hunting in r =jng, Pennsylvania. He wrenched Helen Fane's arm and made her wince. A chair crashed and heavy objects struck the floor. "Where's the Snow?" "Where is he? I betcha he's here!" He must have bored the bedroom door with his eyes, wrenched out a gun, and stepped wrathfully for it. Suddenly Quillen yanked the door open. The pair faced each other over levelled automatics. Graber sucked breath. He must have straightened in dismay. "Wh-- what!" he yelled. "What's that dam' gun poked at me for? Take it away, Quillen, you rat! Where's that snow? You think you can give Mac the works and snatch thirty thousand and never hear from me? Me, Otto Graber?" Lefty's ire boiled anew. "Shut up, you big goat! What do you think made me try it, eh? You and Mac workin' to < squeeze me out! Yeah, me and others, too." "You didn't have to kill him, did you? Why didn't you waii^ What the devil makes you think we meant to give you the air?" Graber's heat subsided a little as though cooled by the equal wrath of Lefty. He lowered his gun. He preferred a chance to shout when nothing was aimed at him. "Listen, you jumped at conclusions. What's eatin' you? Come on, come on," he urged placating-ly, "put up your rod. Say, we A Laura Wheeler Three Piece Set That's Tops In Style And Warmth Some little girl is going to be mighty proud of her cap, scarf and muff-purse set. An easy picot stitch trims the plain crochet. Pattern 1864 contains directions for making the set in 5-12 year sizes; illustrations of them and of stitches; material required. Patterns, 20c each. Write Wilson Needlecraft Dept., 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. Print your own name and address plainly. screamed Lefty. "Gimme 'em, you rat!" Shocked, Colwell's mind functioned dimly. License numbers! That was it. That was what the slip bore that he had snatched from the running board of McDonald's taxi! He had that much. He needed a little more: the when and how of the quarter million dollar shipment of snow. . . . The buzzer of the corridor door jerked Quillen upright. Helen Fane's face was chalky. Her brown eyes that could be so alluring swept to Lefty, then to the door. "Graber!" Quillen gulped, "Otto Graber!" She nodded, swallowing and looking furtively at Colwell. Dan felt himself going unconscious. His last remembrance was of Quillen's voice far away. And he seemed to be lifted. "I'll take him to the bedroom. Listen, get rid of Otto quick, you understand? If he finds me here. . . . You get rid of that louse quick as you can--and don't let on I been around!" Quillen shouldered Dan's hun- KOMOL had i give you boys the run around! "And you go out and bump Mac off," he pursued aggrievedly, "and set the whole town on fire. Yeahu.-and Soup's found in the alley. 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