Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1929, Page 26

Speaking of Guns. police force long enough to rec- ognize a hunger case when he § LTHOUGH Officer Fitzallen was A only 27, he hfi been on the | saw cne. He =also knew the sy:nptoms manifested by a “just about geady to give up and go home to the ‘country” case. He thought that the gfl in the neat but shabby dark-blue it, the becoming but shabby dark- biue hat and the small, well fitting but shabby dark-brown was suffer- ing from most of the symptoms of both “the maladies. And when, after standing uncertainly “on the curb a few moments, she walked _=inwly over to him and, lifting her tired “brown eyes so they looked up into his mice, clear, blue-gray ones, said: _“Will ‘you please tell me where to find a store that sells guns?” he knew it was xot only a case of the last days of Tunger before giving up and going hhome to the country, but that in addi- tion there were complications in the form of a touch of “what's the use of going on any longer?” combined with 2 suggestion of “why not finish all my troubles?” “Guns? reaching out a protecting arm as a ca- reening taxi threatened to make an immediate trip to any place but a hos- pital impossible for the slim girl in shabby blue. . “Guns? What kind of guns, miss?” asked Officer Fitzalien. For a moment the girl hesitated, then answered in a weary little voice: “*Revolvers.” { “Oh, revolvers,” Ttemarked Officer TFitzallen in a blank tone which seemed to indicate that the word, though ‘familiar, called up associations of but ithe faintest interest, then added bright- ly, as though a great light had sud- ‘denly dawned upor him, “Oh, yes! Revolvers.” This time he actually took hold ot the shabby suit sleeve to make sure repeated Officer Fitzallen, ‘that the clanging street cars rushing| by at one side would not startle and confuse the girl to the point of caus- ing her to shrink back into the patn of rumbling trucks and whizzing taxis. Such_a thin little arm—a hunger “case, all right, was Officer Fitzallen's ‘mental comment, as quietly, in the “midst of the roar of traffic at one of Mhe busiest of the downtown corners od the drooping, shabby, little dark- dlue figure, close by the stalwart, big chap in trimly tailored olive drab. Stooping down so she might hear him in spite of the roar of the traffic, Officer Fitzallen said very distinctly, quite close to the brim of the becom- ing but shabby, dark-blue hat, and, in- cidentally, quite close to an altogether too thin, altogether too pale cheek, hich blew a tendril of soft %\;fizz: “You said revolvers, o 1 The becoming but shabby dark-blue hat nodded gravely. The small, well “fitting but shabby dark-brown shoes shifted uneasily — cardboard insoles aren't much of a cushion for cobble- stones. The Hunger Case knew, of course, that it was a crime to carry loaded re- wolvers about—she was commencing to wonder if perhaps it wasn't also a crime to make inquiries concerning such weapons, as Officer Fitzallen still held ‘her by one thin, shabby-sleeved arm. Suddenly a still larger uniformed man threaded his way through the ‘maze of cars, stepped up to Officer Fitzallen, saluted him, then looked 'down curiously at the brown-eyed girl beside him. “Young lady wants to know where to find a store that sells revolvers,” ex- plained Officer Fitzallen. The taller man nodded knowingly and muttered something mostly unin- Madame G. Fes: telligible that seemed to be on the sub- ject of hot soup. Officer Fitzallen nod- ded in turn, and grasj blue suit tlllyeevbe-—-mnt flgm lye arm—gen uf way, jonas to the curb and along the side- walk, ‘The girl's brown eyes with momentary panic. Evidently herf fears had been with reason—it was a crim even to ask where revolvers were sold. Gently but firmly Officer Fitzallen pi- loted har toward a restaurant window, then, pausing, remarked untruthfully: “Sometimes I drop in here for a bite to eat on my way back to the stal Better come in with me and perhaps I can think of store.” For a very short moment the girl hesitated. After a three weeks' diet of crackers and milk, for the last week mostly crackers, cne doesn't feel equal to being upstage even to a strange po- liceman, especially when the policeman in question has such nice blue-gray eyes, with little crinkly lines about the, corners, and when there is so much good food in plain sight just the other side of a plate glass window. “All right,” consented a rather limp little voice. “And now tell me all about it, sis- ter,” suggested Officer Fitzallen, a few minutes later, from across the white porcelain-topped table. “You know while there’s life there's hope, but if you go and buy a gat and finish things that’s the end of hope.” “Oh,” exclaimed the not-quite-so- mean that I wanted to buy a gun to shoot myself. I just wanted to find a store that sells guns so I could sell my own revolver to get some money to buy a ticket back to the country.” As she spoke the girl opened her shabby, bulg- ing handbag and taking out a gleam- ing $30 .38-caliber revolver of the very most approved police pattern naively handed it across the table to the as- tonished Officer Fitzallen. “Well, for the love of Mike!” ex- claimed that good Samaritan. o quite a good gun, don't you think?” asked the girl, eagerly. There was just a suggestion of pink in her cheeks—hot soup is really quite mar- velous beautifier when applied to hun- ger cases. “Sure, it's a fine gun,” replied Officer Fitzallen, “but it's a poor notion of | yours to sell it for a ticket to any place. ‘Why, there’s a lot of nice suburbs right near here that are just as good as real country. Now, for instance,” continued Officer Fitzallen, gently but firmly pi- Ioting the not-so-hungry girl out of the restaurant - along the sidewalk toward the police station. “There’s the place where my sister lives. We'll just drop in at headquarters while I sign off for the day and then we'll hop on a trolley and run out to see Norah.” ‘“Has she a garden, a real garden?” ed Brown Eyes wistfully. “Sure she has” answered Officer Fitzallen, still holding fast to the little arm in the shabby blue sleeve as side by side the two young people climbed the stone steps of “headquarters.” “Norah’s a grand gardener. You just | wait and see.” i END. (Copyright, 1929.) —_— At Salzburg recently the archbishop, Mgr. Rieder, proclaimed the ancient Benedictine theological faculty of Salz- burg to be a free German Roman Catholic university in virtue of the Pope’s concession to it of the right to confer academic degrees. “The univer- sity,” said his grace, “shall be {ree from outside influence and shall be German because it is the only Roman Catholic university in the world of the German- speaking worl senden Brown, chairman, and new: tion. | both in the lobby and in the the name of a gun|in hungry girl in amazement, “I didn't |PATRONAGE GROUP IN SECRET MEETING > New Republican Committee of South Carolina, Discussing Future Program, Has Nothing to Disolose. By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBIA, 8. C., Aj 2- shrouded the meeting Jefferson Hotel of the Republican committee in South Carolina,” headed by W. F. men, out- side the door where the committee was session, were told there was nothing to _give out for publication. 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