Evening star. [volume], April 15, 1936, Page A-8, Image 8

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. DAILY SHORT STORV .. "
3 ■ MILK BOTTLES
ain
By Lucie Adams O’Brien.
p" HICK RICE p
V* had spoken to S: •
Miss Kent three !i
times in his 22 r
years, although for L
tfl years he had . /
replaced the empty uL.
bottle on her back J
porch in Alexan- —rr
gria with fresh U
Milk. ^
He was surprised
one night, heavy
bottle in hand,
crouching over the
Toman’s dead
body, by Constable
McNeil. The con- y
stable and Coroner \
Holland were re
turning from a ^
lodge initiation in Kg
mother township, fcyj
They had taken |||
ihe lonely shore £
K»ad instead of the
traveled highway.
Passing the Kent
McNeil dangled handcufft.
UCC: x |utw |u.
"Wait, I'll pay
you.”
"Heck. no. ’Bye.”
• • • •
TPWO days later
Chick found a
note in a returned
bottle:
"Bootiful is ca
pering joyously,
thanks to you.”
Chick next met
Miss Kent during
his college fresh
man year. Clad in
an antique dress
ing gown, a night
cap awry on her
wispy hair, the
woman was calling
coaxingly: "Booti
ful, come to Em
mie Anne. Naugh
ty doggie's gone.”
She saw Chick.
"My cat,” she
gasped. "She want
homestead, their attention was drawn
by a disc of light darting about the
kitchen.
"Wait, Doc," advised McNeil, mak
ing for the open window. "Hands
ftp," he called.
.‘“'Lo. constable,” replied Chick,
Straightening up. "Miss Kent's dead.
ZH let you in.”
"How'd she die?” queried McNeil.
"Heart attack, most likely. The
empty bottles weren't put out for two
Mornings—and the full one left un*
touched—so I came back first chance
Z had and busted in."
/'Hold your flashlight on her,” said
McNeil. "Attack is right. Temple's
swollen, discolored.”
* * * *
X jcNEIL lighted the hanging oil
■^'^lamp. Its pallid rays fell on a
folded paper beside a metal box. Miss
Kent's thick glasses lay on the lid.
The constable opened the paper, read
its contents, whistled. Turning te
Chick, he said: “Beats all—another
model young fellow gone wrong
Couldn’t wait for the old dame to go
peaceful—itching to cop her money."
"What money?" asked Chick.
;V "Bluff it out. Sure—you didn’t
know you were Emily Anne's heir—
Yept for a heathen mission donation
Caught with the goods, boy.”
Chick shifted the bottle in his hand
to the drain board.
"No go. Chick. It's good-by to that
model farm you've always yapped
*bout. Glad your father's gone. It'll
finish your mother.”
A gray cat, meowing plaintively
rubbed against Chick's ankle. Chick
picked it up, asking, "Poor Bootiful
Zfungry0”
McNeil dangled handcuffs, saying
fcHate to do this, bov.”
"She's starved." Chick replied
•Take it to my mother.”
Bootiful snuggled against Chick.
Chick recalled their first meeting.
* * * *
<”\NE drizzly dawn he saw Miss Keni
^ in her candle-lit kitchen weepim
forlornly, a kitten cuddled in her arms
He rapped, calling: "Miss Kent
it’s Chick, the milk boy. Want any
thing?”
The door cracked open.
"By Bootiful-” the woman spok
haltingly, as one unaccustomed to cas
ual conversation. "She wasn't hersel
today. I’m afraid she's dying." Thi
spinster's eyes were pools of pain be
hind her thick lenses. "You think I'n
■illy, but she's—all—I've got."
"I had a pup die on me once.” re
plied the lad. "I bawled plenty In mt
room—weeks after. Say, bet it's stom
*che ache. Got any oil?”
"I never thought-” quaverec
Mis* Kent.
They forced oil into the kitten.
•’Cover her up,” ordered Chick
ed- a delicate nusn stained ner
parchment skin—"to go out. There
was a dog in the yard. Bootiful ran
up that tree.”
Chick swung up the branches, dis
lodged the frightened pussy and de
posited her iiF her mistress' waiting
arms.
"Please.” begged Miss Kent, “would
you stop In this afternoon? I’m mak
ing gingerbread—and Bootie will per
form.” •
* * * *
f'HICK acquiesced, inwardly fuming.
^ He had more to do than eat gin
gerbread full of cream of tartar
chunks and watch a dumb cat do
ding-busted stunts.
The gingerbread and cocoa proved
surprisingly good and Booti/repeated
her tricks. Chick endeared himself to
Miss Kent by putting the tabby
through its stunts. . . .
Remembrance smote Chick.
“Constable,” he exploded. "I’ll show
you who killed Hiss Kent—and how.
Take off these bracelets.”
McNeil cautoined: “No funny busi
ness.”
Dr. Holland said, “It was-” then
stopped.
Chick placed a milk bottle on the
small shelf above the sink.
“Up. Bootie. Something nice for
Bootie if she does her trick.”
* * * *
TJOOTIPUL laboriously reached the
shelf, overturned the bottle with
an apathetic paw.
“Miss Kent taught her that trick.”
“So what?” asked McNeil.
“So this. Miss Kent was near
sighted. See those thick glasses. She
must have gone to the sink. Bootie
knocked the bottle and struck Miss
Kent her death blow.”
“Very convincing,” snorted the con
stable. “Won’t go, fellow.”
"McNeil, wait,” interposed Coroner
Holland. “Here.” He deftly wound
his muffler about the constable's head,
placed him in a certain position, then
told Chick to make Bootiful repeat her
trick. Bootie unwillingly complied,
Anally pushing the bottle which
bounded directly on McNeil’s covered
temple.
“Perhaps,” said Dr. Holland. “Now,
Bootle would have been a spectacular
star witness In a mystery play. As a
matter of fact, the blow was merely
a nasty crack. Miss Kent's heart
failed her. She'd been ailing. It’s the
cat’s Innards which benefit by your
breaking in, Chick.” ,
“It’s cream for you the rest of your
days, old lady,” grinned Chick.
"Prom the model farm, eh, Chick?”
asked Constable McNeil, contentedly
caching his handcuffs.
(Copyright, 19.18.)
PAPERS ARE ISSUED
California Seeka Return of Mrs.
Hewitt From New Jersey
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 15 m.
—The Governor's office yesterday
issued requisition papers on New Jer
sey for return to San Francisco of Mrs.
Maryon Cooper Hewitt, indicted for
mayhem conspiracy in the sterilisa
tion of her heiress daughter, Ann
Cooper Hewitt.
George F. Engler, of the San Fran
cisco Police Department, airmailed
the papers to Jersey City, where Mrs.
Hewitt is ill in a hospital.
VICTORY OF LEAVE
BILLS CELEBRATED
Women Union of Bureau
of Engraving Hears
Ramspeck.
Passage by Congress of the annual
leave bills for Federal employes was
celebrated by the Women’s Union of
the Bureau of Engraving and Print-,
ing. Local No. 105, of the National
Federation of Federal Employes, with
a banquet last night in the Hotel
Washington.
The chief speaker and honor guest
was Representative Ramspeck. chair
man of the House Civil Service Com
mittee. whose efforts were Instru
mental In securing enactment of the
tneasure, which, among othei' fea
tures, provides 26 days’ leave and 15
days' sick leave each year.
The other speakers were Alvin W.
Hall, director of the Bureau of En
Staving and Printing, and Luther C.
Steward, president of the National
Federation of Federal employes. Mias
Belle Trouland. president of the lacal,
presided, with Mias Gertrude M. Mc
Nally as toastmlstress.
The leave bills, Ramspeck said,
will add to the Government’s budget,
but he felt the Federal employes were
entitled to it, for themselves and for
the Interest of good government. The
Federal Government, he contended,
should set the example for private
employment throughout the country.
Urges Accumulated Days.
Ramspeck credited 8teward with
breaking ‘‘the log Jam in the Sen
ate'’ and starting the ball rolling for
passage of the leave bills. He urged
the employes to accumulate, rathei
than squander, their sick leave, and
advocated mors co-operation with
Congress to eliminate what he termed
existing animosity between Congress
and citizens of the District. He ex
pressed opposition to proposals for a
30-year retirement regardlea of the
age of a Federal employe.
Music was furnished by the Bu
reau of Engraving and Printing Band.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 16.
It has been in print so often that you
must know it by heart, yourself: At
sight of her recreant gentleman
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