Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1927, Page 19

The Starter. OY SNYDER was a bus driver, in love with Ella’ Charters, the pretty little information clerk who sat in the glass .Y box office at the service sta- tlon,- Roy was a dear with merry blue eyes and a mouth that seldom drooped at the corners—that is, it had seidom drooped until along about June, 1924. Then it threatened to de- velop a perpetual slant when Ella re- fused to go to the altar on Roy's salary of $100 per. “That monstrous fabrication that two can live as cheaply as one is nothing but . . . homey boy.” Ella avowed when Roy tried to persuade her to chuck her fob and start house keeping for two in a three-room flat 5 a month all my own, I my laundry at night and -afeterias to make it do."” “You wouldn’t if you didn’t want 80 many dresses, silk stockings and . ubbornly protested Roy. “But I want 'em—such as they are. vou knew anything, you'd under- stand I'm pretty clever to make any sort of a showing on what's left after paying for eats and the room rent.” “Oh, 1 know you're clever. That's the whole darn rub! You manage to look so durn nifty you attract the Johnmies even over the You'd think people in this town who want to use the bus line couldn’t read by the way they flock around your window and call up for information. What's the company run a daily ad in the newspapers for, I'd like to know? But you got to marry me, Ella, you just got to.” “All right, I'm willing enough, once you get the little starter. That three- room flat, in my case, must be an apartment, and they are still $45 a month for rear ones. “I know they are—on the boule- vard or any of the swell avenues. But if you loved me, you'd be content to make a home for me some place where rent wasn't so high. A hall bedroom is the largest size castle I've known so far, and I'll tell the world any place that spells home with you 1n it will look like a palace to me!” Then Roy began to study ways and means of putting my more of his sal- ary to fatten the starter Ella de- manded. He discovered that the dairy lunchrooms and hotdog counters were cheaper than cafeterias, and the sav- ings went to swell the bank account. “What's the big idea working eve- nings?” Ella complained when Roy began taking the 6 p.m. hours for men who wanted those hours off. “You, my dear! I've only $500 of that $1,000 on having to be- gin the housekeeping game on, and TI'm trying to get the other $500 pronto. “Dan't s vou think I ever want to “You don’t act like it.” And Ella argued, scolded and pouted about being lonesome, though she was secretly pleased at her lover's deter- mination. Ella decided to work evenings, too, and she asked the manager to let her write up the reports after regular working hours. Roy didn't like that. The service station, with a parking garage attached, was no place for a girl after dark. “No one will bother me,” Ella de- clared when Roy objected. “It adds $10 to my pay, and with you working so frequently I'd rather be at the sta- tion than sitting out evenings alone.” Roy couldn't persuade her to abandon the overtime work, so he had to content himself by asking Donegan, the policeman on the beat, to keep an eye on the station the nights Ella was on duty. He made up his mind to punch anybody's face who tried to start anything with Ella. A week later the first cyclonic storm that had vigited the city in 10 vears hoganwé r during the ru: hour for thé Fyolts. 1t was terrific while it lasted, but, like all cyclonic storms, was quickly over, leaving wet, debris-strewn streets. Roy took a chance on leaving his route for a block, to run by the service station to see if Ella was safe. Her smiling countenance in the glass box office re- assured him, and he speeded up as Donegan appeared and shook his ¢lub at him. A block farther up the street lie was hailed by two men, one carry- ing a black bag. Passengers for the depot, thought Roy, and paid no more -attention to them. He had enough to do to watch for the wreckage in the street, and soon he came to a block where a house had beep unroofed. Nonme of the family had been at home. Roy’s passengers left the bus with a murmured, “It's an ill wind that doesn’t blow somebody good. This is going to be an easy one.” On' his next trip up town, great ex- citement prevailed in that block and the crowd was fast becoming a throng in and around the damaged house. Roy’s passengers all wanted 10 learn what the excitement was, and Roy, himself, left the bus and joined the erowd. There had been a robbery, $5,000 hidden in the attic had been stolen. Roy heard the owner tell a policeman he would give $1,000 to recover the bonds. He rushed back to his b himself for a fool. Wh stuck around on his first trip up town and watched those men with the black bag?- TI had learned, robbers lhave & of learning such things, that the man had taken those bonds home that afternoon, and one of them had probably been watching the house 1o see if the family left it At that moment Roy's attention was attracted, and he nearly reeled from his seat. Right in front of the depot, he was again hailed by two men, one carrying a black bag. Roy's heart began to pound with s cursing telephone. | a hadn’t he | |as “Pape’s Cold Compound,” which I | paralyzing force, then it dragged with fear of their recognizing him. He pulled his cap far down over his eyes and bent his face over the steering gear as the fare was dropped into the | box. When the door was closed on them as passengers he sent the bus | forward with more speed than usual and avolded seeing any other persons who hailed him. In the neighborhood of his service station he left his route in the hope of seeing Donegan, but that individ- | ual had gone into the office for a drink | of water. Roy had to begin circling the block the second time, then he | glimpsed the man carrying the bag peering out of the wind@y and press- ing the buzzer. Roy jammed his brakes and shot the bus across the street with terrific speed. Then he made a dangerous | skidding circle, winding and twisting his wheel as if trying to get control of it. “Let us out, you damn fool!” bel- lowed the man with the bag, spring-| ing from his seat, followed by his companion. Roy paid no attention to | anything except the bus until he saw Donegan coming toward him on the run, then he plunged straight across the street with a mighty grinding of s and lunge against the curb. “What's the matter, kid, did she run with you?” o, arrest these men,” he com- manded, throwing open the door of the bus. 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