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To Ricky. emerging into Wall ltreet. it seemed as ii she had done a good day's work. after all. For Bing, tor Sam, and who could tell? perlllipS for herself. But as she stood outside looking around tor | taxi. it occurred to her that she didn't know what she was going to do now. ¢

This end was finished up. She might go back to Bar Harbor and Lucille ‘ii she chose, but she did not choose.

Well. she'd'g0 back to the hotel and make her plans when she got there. Again she glanced around ior a taxi. but Wall Street was all but deserted this morning. she de- cidod the best thing to do was to [o back inside and phone tor one and was just about to retrace her-

‘That place, is lt o en t mo?" he uireo. p ow’

It was obvioumthat he was an Italian and as obvious that he was bl!- Wll he by any chance the one that Jﬂﬂﬂwy had mentioned in her wire? She thought oi that instant- ly. Oi course that might be pyg- ilmlerous: there were probably a 1°! 01 bi! Italians in the world. But it was odd that this one lhmlld llillear at this place. Jt this instant on a Sunday. w" he sgak- lng new! 9' m"! here? Ii so there ﬂllﬂht be trouble.

So. Smiling her best smile a; a matter oi pure instinct. Ricky said, "N0. it's not open today. not for business. Was there something special you wanted?"

"Pﬂqlllls there is something there I M" lust ask one question." he explained obliquely.

"You mean about Bing?" Bﬂwd- directly.

m! law fell open and Ricky knew that she had scored even before he demanded. "You _you knew that guy; Blng?"

"Very well indeed," Ricky n- lured him. "Is there something You want to sce him about?"

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It struck Ricky that the strcci was not deserted. after all. People seemed to be popping up I10!" be" tween the pavements. all interest- ed in what appeared to them to have the earmarks oi some sort oi an altercation. _

“No. he's not." sold Ricky quick- ly. "I can tell you where he is, but first you must tell me what you want to see him about."

“I'll tell him what I want when I sec him." he assured her loud-

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"Sshhi" said Ricky sternly "You know very well that Jonosey wouldn't like you to behave like this."

His brown Latin eyes became al- most round. "You _you know Jonesey too?" he gasped.

Ricky did not answer him. ‘There was now a policeman coming tn- ward them. He seemed to be quick- enlng hi-s steps with an eye to in» ierventlon. and that was. one thing Ricky didn't want just the-t, ccr- tainly, If there were only a taxi- hcoven be praised, there was one! She slgnalcd it swiftly. and as tho driver caught sight oi her and swung toward the curb she turn- ed to the big Italian.

“Have you had your lunch” she asked him.

He shook his head. puzﬂed by the question.

"Then you can tnkc me in lunch —as a special favor." sh" assured him quickly. one eye on the police- man. '

"You mean you and me. we. go to lunch together?" he asked

"Some nice Italian place,” she elaborated. "I adore spaghetti, and we can talk about Bing and Jonesey as we eat." -

And that. she calmly informed Sam and Bing in Boston tho: night. was exactly what she and Tony had done, and she insisted it showed very good ﬁiudgment on her part. They both ltclieved otherwise and told her so. Sam and Bin)" had met her at thc station "mi the three oi them had gone to Sam's apartment. .

"You mean to say you got into a taxi with a perfectly strange mun you knew nothing about?" Sam scolded.

"Well. we had mutual nkiuaint- ances. didn't we?" she retorted. "And you let him take you

lunch?"

"You mean I insisted upon it. And we went to the duckiest gun- men's hangout."

"You might have been murdered." "Don't be ridiculous. It wasn't ,1 he was gunning for-just Bing. ,Tonv -—hls name ls Tony iorrento, by the way —is really a lamb. The iponr man all but kissed mo." I "Kissed you!" exploded Sum.

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"Metaphorically. I mean. But. ‘you see, he'd been in New York for two days trying to locate Sing. .He'd tried the town house and found it closed, naturally. Then he'd gone on a wild goose chase to Long Island and iound that house closed too. That baiiied him; he really ls an innocent in some ways. He had really thought that all he'd have to do would be to look up Bing in the directory ' and-J‘ I She stopped short. glanced apolo- ‘getlcally at Bing. "Don't worry. |Blng," she pleaded. "I can get. jdonesey’: address from him thc minute he gets bark to Boston l

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"South now tempted the fates by laying down the ace oi trumps and continuing with the queen! West was very happy t0 take Ithe brick, and equally happy to lead back the nine 0.! diamonds. forcing out South's Jack. South saw his danger and shifted to clubs, but West came up with the ace and drew my partner's last trump.

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all. West led a club to his partner's king, and dummy was squeezed! Dummy held the queen oi spades and the jack-ten of hearts. Ii he discarded the spade, East would cash a. low spade; and if dummy ported with s, heart, East would re- turn a heart to West's king, where- upon West would take a low heart also. "South made only three tricks, so we were set i400 points! Can anything be done about this sort of thing?"

Very little can be (lone. li a player takes a loss oi i400 points on a hand in which his opponents might not even score a non-vulner- ﬂible iZBmw-and ii he then says he is just unlucky, the case is pretty hopeless. But perhaps other players will profit irom this horrible ex- ample.

course I'll admit it was something o! an anticlimax to discover that he hadn't intended to put Bing on the spot. You see, he explaljied that this Jonesey was a swell girl and that he just wanted to sec to it that Bing did right by her even ii he had to use force. I was n bit upliited i9 discover that he was prepared to wave a‘ gun under Bing’; nose ii necessary." "You mean that's all he had in mind?" Sam put in skepticully. Ricky avoided his eyes. "That's all," she said. “I'll admit he was something oi a flop that way. I ek- pected he'd turn out to be a gang- ster at least, but all he is Is a big iruit and produce man with s heart oi gold. Well, I told him that he had Bing all wrong‘; that ‘Bing “is trying to find Jonesey." -

"But how did he know anything about me?" demanded Bing

"I gathered that he had propos- ed to Jonesey and that it hail iin- ally come out that she was already married Or perhaps I should say it popped out. She had on a locket that slipped oii and burst open. and there was a ring in it and vour picture. something she had cut out of a. rotagravure section, It gave your name and-J’

"A picture oi me from 1 rola- ‘gravure section?" echoed Bing.

Then abruptly his thoughts wont back to Sam's camp. There had been a rotagravure section thrust into the stove, be remembered.

"You were right," he told Ricky. "She did discover who I was at Sam's comp. she was building the ilre and she saw the picture —and that explains everything." He pans‘- ed, filled with a new admiration for Ricky. "The man who gets you." he assured her. "is going to get-J‘ he stopped there. Good Lord, how dumb he was being. sticking around "I think I'll get my car amt rim out to Sorrentds hone»- seo ii he's back," he announced sudden-

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