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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
the spot. His antipathy to moonshine stills dated several generations back, to a Howard, who was a Methodist minister.
Jed French proceeded to speak of profit, and Jim's quick mind figured out that he might be able to eke out two hundred dollars in a year. But, at the point of decision, he turned abruptly on his heel and walked away.
the existence of a still in the vicinity of Hemlock Ridge. But every effort to learn its location had failed.
Then it was that they decided to send Amy Hayes, the sharpest woman in the Secret Service, on the case.
Jim Howard had been a moonshiner something like two months when Amy arrived in the village of Hemlock Ridge. On account of his dauntless
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At his shack he found little Ted groveling in the agony of a paroxsym. He relieved the child as best he could and then hurried over the hill to Jed's cabin.
He arranged to stand guard by day over the two still-workers, and to purvey the contraband liquor to customers by night.
The Revenue Service was especially active in its efforts to blot out moonshine at this time. For some time past they had had secret information of
intrepidity and persistent energy, the former woodsman had been able to put away nearly fifty dollars already.
Amy rented an old shack, and let it be known that she would endeavor to earn a livelihood from the sale of notions and little odds and ends for women, a fair stock of which she had brought with her. She put up a shingle outside her door which was almost humorous in its flattery of local needs :