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Friday, February 9,1934. WATCH THE BASKET By Henry C. Rowland Published by Special Arrangement with The Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, Inc. Copyright: 1934: By HENRY C. ROWLAND (IN TWO PARTS—PART TWO) With the new idea searing into me like a welding torch I made up my mind to do my last stunt. It might not get us anywhere but it was better than acting as their bell hop and hav ing Hunny wonder always If perhaps I might not be in on the lousy deal. Back yonder I said that we Lost Bat talion flyers learned to think quickly. We learned also to think clearly. While Casey was pointing his gun at me with one hand and reaching for a match to light his cigaret with the other I made up my mind to have a try at Knife face. Whether Casey got me or not didn’t matter, as Knife-face wasn’t so absorbed in his work as to forget that I was there. In a picture where the villain has got the drop on the speedy hero it doesn’t look so hard to distract the bad man’s attention for the split second needed to kick him in the wrist, or something. But with a perfectly sober, cool head ed holdup this couldn’t be done. He doesn’t look up to see the little birdie. Of course, with two of them it’s twice as hard. But here I wasn’t hoping to get away with the pair. I wanted only to get the man that had just made the dirty crack about not wanting to give up Hunny for any hundred thousand bucks. And I wanted Hunny to know that I hadn’t any part of it. What might happen then didn’t seem to mat ter. Stunt flyers are apt to get this sort of blind one track idea . . and of ten for nothing better than to make A yWOjmEjjlw, out a squall, as if he'd /" been kicked. 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Neither of these clear headed busi ness men would be counting on any such outbreak of Insanity on the part of a professional stunt flyer. It’s one thing to belong to a suicide club and another to commit suicide. What they overlooked was that I might be in love with Hunny and would rather have her think that I was a dead fool than a live scoundrel . . or live fool . . . for that matter. That anybody sane could get that way wasn’t in their solar system, or solar plexus, maybe. Hunny had got tired of moving round to let Dinkel unklnk himself and rid his inchworm inside of the evening’s hamburger. He was feeling better physically but still uneasy in his mind. There was plainly something about all this that looked pretty black to him. Hunny had sat down on the flat ground as if it had been as care fully designed for comfort as an air- aisMiw 11 line’s chair. Any woman that can do that, and look It, has nothing to learn from the cat family for supple grace. Dinkel was slewed on his starboard quarter between her knees, with his neck arched a little, and looking at Casey, whose gun kept on looking at me the way any thing or person that has something it wants to get rid of looks at the animated target. Casey was not careless or chummy. He kept a well spaced deadline between us without seeming to think about it. Knife-face was still dismantling the ship a little. He was not leaving my end of the get-rich-quick scheme en tirely to Casey, either. Once or twice I got the feeling that he was pretend ing to be careless. Perhaps he thought that they might be able to swing it without me just as easily after all. And that lonely mesa, shaped like a coffin on top a smaller chest, was a grand place to get rid of anybody you didn’t strictly need. We might have been on the moon. It was plain that he nearly had fin ished his takedown job, as he seemed to be figuring on how long it would THE HARDIN TRIBUNE-HERALD take a handy mechanic to put things back again. Not that It mattered much as that rotten-ripe old moon was gett ing what early writers called “gibbous,” and even in that glittering clear air its light was stale. Five minutes would put their snappy little touring plane fifteen miles away to windward, and they could circle to go on any course they chose. In fact, I couldn’t see the sense In all the trouble he was taking. “Time to go,” I told myself, and had the curious tight feeling that comes always just before trying a new one that may or may not work. All the 11 Knife-face. little bells began to ring in me, if you see what I mean. The wires that kept my workings taut got fine and tense. Everything you live and feel with was getting set, like a line of Olympic rac ers, or a battalion waiting for the zero hour whistle to go over the top. It was a wild, wonderful feeling, like the sense of a tremendous power that helps you work itself instead of being worked entirely by its separate controls. It seemed as if Casey and Knife-face could not help but know what was go ing to break, but they never got so much as a Hertizan ray of it. Their wave length couldn’t get anything like that. The vibrations were too fine Air pilots’ faces are trained to show nothing more than mother’s smiles. When they laugh . . . well, you might as well laugh, too. No, they never got so much as the overtone of it, or harmonic, you might say. But Dinkel did. And almost at the same time it came crashing in on Hunny, as if she’d turned the knob of the radio too far and picked up a Har lem joint when she’d just been listen ing to Dinkel’s hock thumping on the floor as he got exasperated with a flea. AU set to start the pair of them nearly beat me to it. You can explain it as you want; say what you like about animal Instinct and feminine intui tion and mind waves and telepathy and that truck. I never believed in it myself, but stuck to my machines of precision; the pilot guides that tell us what to do, and when, and how sud denly. I don’t believe it now, entirely. Maybe Dinkel got a fresh grip . . . and Hunny had been holding in until her nerves just blew up from strain. But what happened was that aU three of us unhooked together . . . like a carefully rehearsed action shot. If anything, Dinkel got going the frac tion of a mortal second first, with Hun ny second, and myself a close third. The big Uttle dog let out a squeal as if he’d been kicked. Hunny scream ed: “Get him . . ." I dived at Knife face, who was about through. He was not as completely through as he thought. Casey's cannon roared, but I scarcely heard it. The bullet tore through the ship. Dink was hanging from Cas ey’s wrist. Dachshunds were first bred to do down a badger hole and freeze onto the savage beasts and lock their jaws and hang on. Bulldogs have no HOMI FREE Hw ta Tioot Blmpto AllnMnti at Hama STANDARD HOMDQPATNI« » 817 Wart Shth Stroat, LA copyright on that stunt. The badger hunter hauls out the long dog by his hind legs with the badger at his bow end, and as the two are built on the same lines they look like one long double ended animal with their ears rigged to go ahead or astern. Perhaps Casey had always been afraid of hydrophobia, just as Knife face might have been afraid of Insane people. In that case their handicap was heavy, because Casey could not get clear of Dinkel and Knife-face could not get clear of me . . until I had slipped my arms up under his and got a double handful of his thick hair and jerked his head back in a grip shown me some time before by a jiu-jitsu ex pert on the lot. There was a sharp click, and that was all. Casey had dropped his gun and grab bed Dinkel and knelt on him while he tried to choke him with his other hand. While he was making a bungle of it Hunny picked up the gun and whaled him over the head. Then I dropped Knife-face and took the gun away from her and showed her the proper way to use it if she should ever want to get rid of a kidnaper or director or critic or any other pest that might try to spoil her stride to the winning post. After a while I stuck the ship to gether again and looked over, the ground. Hunny was babbling some thing about the horror of having had to take a pair of human lives. “Forget it,” I said. “They weren't human. Not even lower animals.” “No," she agreed, “or they’d have sensed that you were on the verge of an attack." “Like Dinkel,” I said. “He was a split second ahead of me . . . and you weren’t that much later. How did you know?” Dinkel saw you brimming over. I felt him shiver and stiffen. I had felt all along that you were going to take any chance, however hopeless, rather than let them fly off with me.” “How did you know I was going to bust loose right then?” “It showed in your eyes. They blaz ed in the dark.” “That Dinkel dog reasoned,” I said, “to grab for his gun wrist instead of at his other arm, or leg.” “He grabbed at what was nearest him. and most dangerous. He knew all along that they were holdups . . .” Hunny fetched up, as if something hadn’t meshed right. She repeated slowly to herself: “Holdups . . . . holdups?" "Call it ‘holdups,’” I suggested. "It was a good break for us that Casey’s weak spot happened to be dog bite. It might have been black cats or . . " “Bacteria,” she supplied. “Check. There’s always something. Two years ago when I was running a shuttle over the Andes we had a fight ing macaw that would knock our ocelot off the fence. But Cocky was scared to death of bats.” “So am I,” said Hunny. All this time I was working like a mail pilot forced down in the cyclone season and a bum forecast when he took off. I kept the dialogue running to hold Hunny’s mind away from what the vulture would soon be spotting when it got light. It didn’t take me long to hitch things up, and that mesa was an easy place to leave. This pah had studied out all the details but Din kel and Hunny and me. “Miracle could use some of this stuff,” I said, "and it wouldn’t cost the ten hundreds they’ve been saved.” “My starring career is nearly over,” Hunny told me, "and so is your stunt ing, Jack.” “Got anything else in mind for us?” I asked. “Because if you have and it’s what I hope then I wouldn’t do a barrel roll for a kiss from the Queen of Sheba. I wouldn’t need to.” "If you really feel that way about it you wouldn’t,” she agreed. “It’s better for me to resign before they dis cover that as an actress I’m a fraud.” “How can they find that out?” I asked. "Somebody’s bound to see sooner or later that I never really act.” “Then what’s your formula?” I ask ed, and hardened down the last nut. "Well, you see all I ever do is to study the part, then imagine I’m the character they cast me for and do what she would be bound to do: It can’t help but be convincing.” “So it’s like that,” I said. “And to think that nobody ever guessed." She gave me a suspicious look. "They are not so clever. Nobody has ever guessed in the love scenes I’ve had to have shot over why I’ve shown so much more feeling.” "And why was that?” I asked, trying to hold the note and making a flop of it. "Just another piece of fraud,” said Hunny. "All I had to do was to tell myself that the silly fool who had me in his arms was a crazy Lost Battalion stunter named . . " “That was as far as she got. For the second time in the last hour I burst into flame . . . but in a different way. This time Dinkel acted sleepy instead of savage. He stretched his long streamlike another yard and yawned wide enough to fetch out a squeak. When she got her breath again, Hunny said: “Besides, I don’t want to be a list of imitation people, but a single real one.” “Let’s say a married real one,” I suggested, “and I’ll be another.” CHILDRENS COLDS SUPREME COURT RULES ON CASE MONTANA SUPREME TRIBUNAL SUSTAINS VERDICT FOR BROWN OIL COMPANY The Montana supreme court re cently upheld the district court for Yellowstone county in directing a verdict for the Brown Oil company of Billings in a suit involving the sale and cancellation of filling station coupon books. Under the name of the C. & Q. Bus iness Builders, C. H. Cooke and John R. Quinlivan entered into a contract with Harold Sayer of Billings, a lessee of one of the oil company’s stations, to sell coupon books to be used in payment of purchases at the station. The oil company required Sayer to sever connections with the C. & Q. firm and to refuse to redeem the coupons, holding that the arrangement was a violation of his contract with the Brown company and resulted in discrimination against other filling stations. The C. & Q. firm subsequently filed suit. “And keep on staying alive,” she ap proved. "That’s the chief reason for my wanting to retire. I know that if I kept on playing you would keep on stunting, Jack.” I finished my job. A nice little ground breeze was freshening. The sky was paling in the east. Pretty soon I asked: "All set, Honey sweet . . . ?” “Forever and ever and ever . . . ” Hunny answered. Youth Ordered to Leave State A suspended jail sentence of 90 days was imposed in justice court at Pas adena, Calif., recently on William Har rison Olsen, 19, former Pasadena stu dent, after he pleaded guilty of sending a threatening letter in connection with mysterious killing of Dr. Leonard Siever, “society dentist,” last Decem ber. 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