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Rocky King’s assistant, Hart, breezed into Rocky’s office and started to de¬ scribe the case when Rocky’s wife, Mabel, called to report that their son, Junior, had gone to school without his overshoes. Hart was telling Rocky the missing girl was Susan Schmidt, a nurse at Municipal Hospital, when Mabel called again to say she had made a mistake. Junior did wear his over¬ shoes. The ones in the closet belonged to the Jones boy—“You know, dear, that nice lad who stayed with Junior last weekend.” Rocky started for the door, tripped over his lines and fell. When he got up, Mabel called again to say that it was not the Jones boy, but Jackie Watson who had stayed with Junior last weekend. The Jones boy was the one who stopped by last Tuesday. Rocky put his hat on the back of his head and accompanied Hart to the hospital. When they got there Mabel called to ask Rocky to bring home a pound of butter. Rocky fired some fast questions at hospital personnel and learned that the missing girl had been threatened by one of the doctors. He and Hart put on their hats and went to the doctor’s home. They got there as the doctor was about to shoot the girl. The telephone rang as Rocky moved to grab him. The caller was Mabel, who wanted to know how the case was coming. While they talked, the doctor shot and killed the nurse. Steve Wilson got the word while he was dictating an editorial to his girl Friday,Lorelei Kilbourne. The miss¬ ing girl was sweet young Susan Schmidt Jackson, wife of Eddie, sweet young mechanic. Eddie told Steve that Susan had been kidnaped by a numbers writer because she had threatened to tell the police when the numbers writer refused to pay off. Steve called the district attorney, who demanded more evidence before he would act. This angered Steve, who started to dictate another editorial. With that completed, he called Pete, the pressroom fore¬ man, and told him to get ready to break up the front page. Lorelei, irked by the delay, stomped out. She followed a trail of torn-up numbers slips to an abandoned ice house. She found Susan bound and gagged in an abandoned packing case. She was about to rescue Susan when the numbers writers came along and shoved her in an abandoned closet. An hour later, Steve looked up and noticed Lorelei was gone. He followed a trail of pages from her shorthand notebook to the abandoned ice house. There he found the girls just as the numbers writer and a pal returned. Steve kayoed the pal with an aban¬ doned ice cube, disarmed the num¬ bers writer with a smile and demanded he pay Susan. When he refused, Steve threatened another editorial. The rack¬ eteer gave in. There in the ice house, he paid off in cold cash.— Chas. Shapiro. 19