Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1935, Page 23

DAILY SHORT STORY SOLITAIRE CHEAT Slim and Bill Both Refused to Rob the Rich Hermit, but Their Motives Wer BY HAL G. LIM HANLON reached for the folded newspaper on the table. As he opened it some- thing fluttered to his lap. Slim looked; it was a $10 bill. Quickly crushing it in his hand, he shoved it into his pocket. Imagine finding * money in a shack -~ ) - like this! Ten bucks! Why, he wouldn't give that for the whole ram- shackle, dilapi- dated house. But there was some- thing funny about that money. Old men living in shacks don't leave dough around where any one can pick it up. Maybe it was a plant! The old bozo had a gun. He had held it in his hand as he opened the door when they kuocked. Sure! He'd find the money gone and then turn Slim over to the police. And the authorities already had Slim’s photograph. No, sir, he didn’t want to do another | stretch—not for 10 lousy bucks. Slim | took the bill out of his pocket regret- fully, flattened the creases and put it back between the pages of the news- paper. He tossed it on the table as his pal, Bill Lambert, and the old | man came in with the supper. He Puzzled Over the Layout. e Vastly Different. . VERMES. warm on the long hike to the city,” he murmured with a smile. As they got ready to leave, he asked for their addresses. “Like to know who my occasional guests are,” he explained. As trudged “Did you notice the money that bozo had layin’ around the house?” “Yes, I found some in my room,” Bill said. “And I borrowed a dollar.” “Youre a fool! ‘That old geezer will have you jug- ged when he finds it out!” Bill kicked at the snow. “Well, it's too late to worry about it now.” It was months later that Slim sat at dinner with a friend. “Here's & funny one,” his friend said, indicating the evening paper. *“‘Aged recluse leaves fortune to honest man,’” he read aloud. “‘Anthony Robbins, who lived in a shack on Lone Mountain road for many years, wills $100,000 to honest stranger. . His attorneys con- ceal identity of heir at request of client. They state that—'" Slim almost choked on his cup of coffee. “Let me have that paper!” he yelled. Tearing it from Al's hands, he hurriedly read the news item. Sure Atterithey, had lenten Slim Sbook ia | enough! It was the old man who had pack of cards out of his pocket and played solitaire. He puzzled over the layout for a while and then moved the jack of diamonds on the queen of hearts. That left him a vacancy so that he was able to continue the play. The old man sat and watched as Sfim deftly slipped the greasy cards from the top of the deck. Bill Lambert sat by the stove and drowsed. About 9 o'clock their host took a candle and led the way to their sep- arate rooms in the attic. He lighted the candles on their dressers and, given Bill Lambert and him a place to sleep the previous Winter. “I'm made!” Slim cried jubilantly. Slim sliped on his coat and opened the door. “I'm going around to see Lambert and spring the good news,” he said as he left. Bill had just gone home when Slim arrived and they went up to his room. Slim spread the newspaper on the bed. “Take a look at that, big boy!” he crowed, pointing at the news item. Bill read it while Slim danced around the room. “Why, that’s where we stopped last Winter!” “You're telling me!” Slim laughed. with a soft-spoken good-night, went |“Didn't I say it was a plant? And downstairs. Bill Lambert undressed slowly, tired from the long day’s hike. His clothes Mr. Slim Hanlon didn’t takc a cent!” “Gee,” Bill said. “I sent back that %dollar rrowed just as soon as I were still wet from the snow and he |got paid.” laid them carefully over the frame of | “But I didn't touch a dime of the the iron bed so they would dry. He noticed a little box on the dresser and opened it. Bill's eyes blinked in sur- prise. There was $21—three $5 bills and six ones. Bill sighed, folded the bilis, tapped the roll and put it back in the box. bozo’s money,” Slim pointed out. ot that I didn't want to. But I was too wise for him and figured it was a frame-up.” Slim pulled on his {capv “Well, so long, Bill,” he yelled |as he went down the stairs. pick up any red hot pennies! 1In bed he tried to sleep, but couldn’t | The next morning there was a letter get the money out of his mind. He needed so little. In the morning he |for Slim from Balcomb & O'Shea, | attorneys. Expecting it, Slim met the would walk the 20 miles to town. Then postman at the door. On the step, he'd get his old room back at Mrs, | heedless of the rain, he opened the Linden’s; she would trust him for a |l while. And he felt sure he could get work shoveling snow after this storm. But he would need money for a few meals until he got paid. At least a dollar. Just a dollar! tter and read it hurriedly. “I have asked my attorneys to send | you this letter after my death,” it ran. “When you see the newspaper stories | about my hunt for an honest man, I know you,will think that I ehose you Bill got out of bed. Getting a stub | instead of Bill Lambert because you of pencil from his coat pocket, he found a scrap of paper and scribbled | a note. “I am borrowing a dollar,” | he wrote, “and will return it within | a week.” Then he took out a bill and put the note in the box. | The snow had stopped falling by | morning. The old man woke them early and gave them plenty of hot coffee and bread. “To help you keep | did not take any of the money I left around to test people. But you lose | because nobody but a crook would cheat at solitaire.” (Copyright. 1035.) Tomorrow: “Cupid’s Calories,” by Paul Maurice Vest, is the tale of an unhappy maiden’s efforts to destroy the results of too many fudge sundaes. ROAD IMPROVEMENTS "SOUGHT IN ARLINGTON ! Citizens Vote to Ask Fund Be Set Aside in Budget to Al- low Work. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON, Va. February 25.— Resolutions asking that a fund of $20,000 be set aside in the next county budget for road improvements in Arlington precinct were passed at a recent meeting of the Arlington Citi- zens’ Association. Improvements especially asked for 1n the resolutions were the establish- ment of a “cut off” over the Round- top property at the intersection of Columbia Pike and Georgetown-Alex- | andria road, and the widening of ! Bingham road from Columbia Pike to Lee Boulevard. The Roads Committee of the Arling- ton association also will look into the cost of suitable safety devices for the widened Bingham road, crossed by school children at various points The county board also will be askec to establish a systematic sidewalk con- | struction program, using the money ! collected in taxes for the purpose. INQUEST IN STUDENT’S DEATH IS ANNOUNCED | Probe Set Wednesday in Case of Youth Who Died After Boxing Bout. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. 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