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a the sound of footsteps. “No use, Grupp! They’ve both powdered!” yelled Kinahan. “Get yer light and the riot gun thera by the vault door!” Fiax crouched: behind a crate and un- knotted his shoelaces. He shoved the bro- grans into a heap of sacking. A beam, of light stabbed into his hiding place, He hugged the floor. “Work around both sides,” Kinahan’s voice growled. “I’ll take the other. We'll never hear the last of this if the Looten- ant finds out!” Flax slid away across the plank floor. He hit the east wall of the lounge and followed it toward the far end. From time to time he ducked as a police light came his way. He found, unlocked the door and eased it open. The hinges creaked until his back hair stood on end. Buckshot from a riot gun, could be nasty. He wanted to be else- where when that blast of hot lead whiffed by. With the door shut he felt his way acroas the new room. It was small, dusty smelling, cluttered with objects that puzzled him. He dug his manacled hands into a pocket and pulled out a match. The spurt of flame brought his hair up stiffly. A human skeleton grinned at him with jaws agape. It reared up, chalky fingers dangling, in the darkness. For a long instant his breath froze in his lungs. Then his heart resumed pound- ing. A coffin, a stack of spanking paddles. The match went out, leaving a sulphur- ous stink in the Stygian darkness. This must have been the Club’s initia- tion room. That door over there... He tried it. It led fo the cloakroom all right. Flax didn’t dare light a match in the long room. He could hear Kinahan and Grupp knocking about among boxes and bales out in the lounge. They might hit on his hiding place any second, He fumbled from one end of the nar- row cloakroom to the other without finding any clue as to where the door to the roulette room might have been. “What’s this over here?” growled Kinahan’s voice, It seemed to come from the darkness at his elbow. He expected the glare of a flashlight to pick him up any instant for the blast of buckshot that would follow. Desperately he ran down the room in his stocking feet, tugging at each of = | Please v:cntiom Ace Fiorton Group when answering advertisements Ring pac = Ai ne gp oui fa faint with cna azn lated lisa ian KNO KOUT? a Shoe shank of GUARANTEED 20 YEARS Supply wBagernee ‘sees nowt SEND NO MONEY with order, just a . Pay on arrival, 20% tax included, ONLY $5.98, Pome coabanten for anythingt Return in five days foo refund if not delighted. Address: AMERICAN JEWELRY CO., wnostinc, W. va. BOOKKEEPERS - Farn anes at home posting journal en- tries. Interesting. Permanent. Profi ELLIS BUSINESS SERVICE, Box 104, Cedar Grove, N. C. Bakers make good money! Now 7th wre ang = Ba ag t Nearly Se hae s10N -procf. New homeletad qualifies ramon school eduea tion suiliclent, ambitious, y writefor FREE BOOK, ' ‘Opportynities ka National Baking Schoo!, 1315 Michigan, Dept. 1227, =, CARD TRICKS Si 5 Most all Playing Cards a marked in making. TELL ANY CARD FROM BACK. . Send $1.00 eer Key-marks ag TEN different popular decks with com- plete instructions. No Gamblers THE TELLURIUM CO. Walta Bex 678-AF, ce, ae An pertme © of trresistible allure, toy Romye s with Sore is Full size i= cei 980 ‘prepaid, or $1.32 C.O. ounce’ tr ta irections f One bottle FREE if two are avitan yg REXBELL, Box 124. Huntington Station, New York RUPTURED : cltess Pate Needless Pain » FRE SEE THIS NEW PATENT INVENTION YOU'LL BE AMAZED AT RESULTS Discover how you too can avoid the CONSTANT DANGER of a truss that doexn’t hold and makes life miscrable. Send for FREE Thooklet “"NEWLY PATENTED RUPTURE CARE.” Telts att about VITA-PNEUMATIC NATURE-ADE* U. S. Keg. appliance. Positively no obligation to buy. Just Hl in and r— ———MAIL COUPON rer ot | 4 PREDEARC APPLIANCE, 163 Park Ave.. WEW YORK 17, ee Dept. 327. Send me free 1 and w apper bookiet j PATENTED UrruRE cane” No obiig obligation to Ri SD RRG _ ,.nchczben ol clrcdie ri @eaescalibnkarndeibanameintiancinth quinkdbaneibbiiinsaaer ie i Address Spiccciedbaeleiatmiasbiass bates ceeegugpheeeseavvagenecttasathadtesktscihe i 1 os tate coup main Gite Gann tml Gat Gut Gilg Unt dee Oe Gan ened ae anne cComicbooks