Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1936, Page 17

DAILY SHORT STOR' HOUNDED By Harry A. Beck. WHEN Percival A bernethy hit town, arriving blind baggage on one of the more pretentious and fast trains from the last town he had been run out of, Percival no doubt was broke. Or at least he was s0 nearly deflated financially that there was no hu- mor in the situa- tion. The fact did not fail to reg- ister upon Perci- val, as he heard the faint jingling ©of a few coins when he slid with prac- ticed grace onto the gravel of the darkened upper stretches of the Tailroad yard. It must be understood at the be- binning that Percival was not all that the name might conjure up in the imagination. In fact, for quite a num- ber of years the name Percival had | been supplanted for a coarser but more serviceable cognomen, “Slim” n those intervals when a number had not been more practical. Having sprung from a more or less | distinguished line, the name is un- derstandable. But it is also under- standable that a black sheep without benefit of an immediate family has distinctly no use whatever for a fancy name. What Slim really had need of was shelter, clothing and food. with perhaps enough money thrown in along with it to satisfy & gentlemanly craving for participa- | tion in various games of chance. He rarely lost any money—long years of practice took care of that! Slim knew where he could pro- eure all these things. turns moocher, confidence man or whatever best suit- ed his welfare, yet withal he was a very likable chap. The education he had absorbed before he turned out to be a rogue of sorts stood him in good gtead in many an emergency. which serves to show what sort of per- son Slim was. He hadn't been in town a week | before he realized that conditions were not what they might have been. * T WAS a condition which called for thought. and at that Slim was | very adept. Like a great many peo- ple, Slim was fond of having money— the more the better—but likewise had an inherent aversion to working for it. For two days Slim mulled over a great many schemes whereby he might repienish his depleted capital, and on the second day a grand idea smote him with the suddenness and clarity of a bolt from the blue. He had a wealthy elderly maiden aunt living right in town. He remem- bered hearing his father speak of her. And here he was going around mooch- ing meals and a flop from grudging friends! Hastily he sought out a tele- phone directory and feverishly looked up her address. The old girl should be good for a lot more than he was getting by his present tactics! The same afternoon Slim rang the | door bell of the old-fashioned man- sion, actually looking presentable in | his borrowed suit, a fresh haircut and shave and a suave air. The old lady received him fcily; but Slim went to work on her in earnest when he per- ceived that she was due for not many more months on this earth. He cast about for some method by which to break the ice of her reserve. Actually looki He was by | petty thief, gambler, | All of | ject of dogs, espe- lially the bulging- eyed Peke, which was her sole com- panion, outside of the butler and the cook. He petted the mutt, praised i, remarked on how fortunate Auntie was to possess such & paragon of ca- nine pulchritude. And Auntie fell for it*like a ton of bricks. Before he left, Slim had a promise of & job— taking care of the pooch in return for his food and lodg- ing! He gagged fn- wardly. He hated dogs, but this was a golden oppor- tunity to get in solid with the old girl before she ing presentable. left the earth. And who could tell? Auntie had no ‘relatncs that Slim could discover, .oulede of himself. After all, it was worth a few months of detestable work to run the chance of being cut in on all, or at least a goodly portion, | of Auntie's dough after it was all over. Slim went to work, and what I mean, he really slaved! * Xk x HE TOOK full advantage of the fact that, aside from her nu- | merous ailments, the Pekingese was | | her only weak spot. Early in the morn- ‘mg Slim began his duties with the dog. Under Auntie's fond supervision | from her wheel chair, he petted the | creature, washed it, took it for airings, | combed and brushed its straggling | | hair, treated it as though it were a | very treasure. Which it really was, ac- cording to Slim's line of thought. The expected few months until he should reap the just rewards of | all this detested and unaccustomed | toil stretched into a year, a year and a half. But Slim never relaxed his won- derful care of the hound — while Auntie was around. If he booted the mutt a few times when he | wasn't observed, maybe he could be | excused. To Slim’s vast relief, the day ar- rived when Auntie had him telephone to her lawyer. It seemed that Auntie felt that she hadn't much longer to live and wished to revise her will. | | Slim's heart bounded when she shyly mentioned that she wanted to leave | him something to repay all his kind services. Slim protested that she must be needlessly alarmed, that he hoped she would live for another 10 years, which pleased Auntie. Slim had his fingers crossed. | * x x ¥ | HE old lady proved to be a good | prophet. Slim sat in the musty | parlor after the funeral, drying his | eves while the lawyer began reading the last will and testament of dear old Auntie. The tears stopped flowing miraculously when the lawyer brought out the startling news that Aunties | money was to go to & dog and cat hospital! The lawyer cleared his throat and began afresh. Slim heard, “To my dearly beloved nephew, Percival Aber- nethy, I leave my most dearly loved possession, because he is the only ene who will appreciate it!” Slim leaned forward. This was more | like it! Visions of a valuable collection of jewels or bonds flitted across his mind and he smiled complacently to himself. The lawyer resumed read- ing, and then Slim almost fainted. Auntie had indeed left him her THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936. 12 MEN ARE FREED INHOTEL SLAYING New York Police Without Clue in Killing of For- mer Virginian. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 3.—Police said today they had freed 12 men after questioning them in connection with the slaying of R. Walton Ford, 35, an interior decorator whose body, bound with a lamp cord, wire and belt, was found on his in a fashionable midtown hotel yesterday. His sister, Miss Inez Ford, came here from Roanoke, Va. where he once lived, to identify the body in the Bellevue Hospital morgue. The medi- cal examiner said Ford died of strangulation. Police were without a suspect, al- though they were studying many clues Tune in the AP Band Wagon Tonite ~—8t09 PM—WISV left by two men who were intercepted by the hotel clerk as they left Ford's hotel, carrying with them two suit- cases of Ford's clothing and belong- ings. The two disappeared after the unsuspecting clerk insisted on their leaving the suitcases. ROOSEVELT IN TRIM President Roosevelt will go back to tb;nwmw House in excellent physical trim. Buch is the verdict of Dr. Ross Mc- Intire, White House physician. There may be a few more seams in the face and a bit more gray at the temples of the 54-year-old Chief Ex- ecutive, but otherwise he appears about the same as the day in March, 1933, when he took office, Engagement Announced. LONDON, November 5 () —The engagement was announced today of Miss Margaret Drummond, eldest daughter of Sir James Eric Drum- mond, British Ambassador to Rome, and John Walker of Pittsburgh, Pa. Sir James is heir presumptive to the fifteenth Earl of Perth. FANCY LONG ISLAND DUCKLINGS. - - - FRESH HOME-DRESSED TURKEYS ARMOUR’S MELROSE SMOKED CAB DRIVER GUILTY OF ROBBERY EFFORT Court Told Toy Pistol Used to Rob Meadows Merchant of 25 Cents. By & Btaft Correspondent ot The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Ma., Novem- ber 5, —Mark H. Dulin, 26, Washing- ton cab driver, yesterday was found guilty in Circuit Court here of at- tempted robbery, Sentence will be pronounced later by Judge Joseph C. Mattingly. Francls White, Meadows, Md., res- taurant owner, testified that the man robed him of 25 cents at gun point JEWELRY REPAIRED lll' ll_ trust. led work- -.Il I. Eaey credit terms. CASTELBERG’S 1004 F St N.W. on August 14. 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