The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 15

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"My son was kidnaped thi morning," I said. "Saturday Hannah came to my apartment and threatened to kidnap my son if I didn't give her the "It's absurd," he said. "Hannah's in Washington." He seemed to sag, as if too much were piling up on him. He took a step toward the phone on 'his desk and halted. "Wait here," said, and left the study.

I stuck the gun back into my pocket. So far it had been worse than useless. My display of it to Willie Shad and now to Con- Igressman Rahn had turned out ito be downright silly. Ben Helm entered. He took a curved pipe from between his Ups.

"I'm sorry to hear about your he said gravely. He represented the enemy, but I was glad to see him. "So Rahn is your employer," 11 said. Helm sat and unfolded his to- pouch and proceeded to lload his pipe. After a minute I sat and'told him about Joey.

When I finished, he said: "I at once ot Willie Shad, but you eliminated him. The same is true of Rahn." i "Is Hannah Rahn in Washington?" "Her father told me he's just spoken to her by phone." He clicked a flame to his lighter and looked surprised when the full glow ignited satisfactorily. "As a matter ot fact, it's not definite ypur son was kid- naped." He picked up the desk phone. Minutes passed bciorc the connection went, IL "Dr. fay Bruno Fischer Champion?" he said.

"This Is Ben Helm, a private investigator. Has the Flagg boy shown up yet?" Helm turned his head to me and shook it solemnly, and my breath was released in a sobbing gush. do It from your end," he told Dr. Champion. "You know what he's wearing.

Uh-huh. The police will put out an alarm at once. Mr. Flagg is right here. He agrees, of course.

Good by." He hung up and snapped on his lighter. "The police have to be brought in." The door opened. I whirled around, but it waj onlj Russ Handy. marched stiffly over to A Helm. "Rahn phoned the office about the boy and Randolph sent me right over.

He wants to know what Flagg's racket is." "Racket?" Helm said. "I'm only quoting Randolph." Handy turned his wide-spaced eyes to me. They had thawed a little. "I know your kid, Flagg, The D. A.

brought him around to the office one day, "Nice kid," Abruptly his face closed up again. "What are you doing about getting him back?" I wasn't in the mood to argue with anybody I didn't have to. I heard new voices. I raised my head. Rahn had returned, and with him was George Maudson.

I sprang up. If I followed the pattern I had set, I would yank out my gun and demand the return ol my son. He made his face solemn, the way they all did. "Let me give you somb advice, Paul." "I've had your advice. I want my son." "I'm trying to tell you how you get your son back," Maudson said patiently.

"Give us the briefcase. All three of us, here and now. Or tell us where it is and Helm will go for it. We'll make sure that the fact that we possess it gets around. The kidnaper will hear and will no longer have reason to hold your son." "Are you trying to make a deal with me because you kidnaped him?" My voice was still loud, and shrill too.

"You're trying to help me with bribes and threats. You sent a gangster after me. You sent your daughter to say she'd kidnnp my son. "Stop it!" Rahn broke hi sharply. "You have no right to make such an insinuation about my daughter.

You're a murderer and Helm spoke with his pipe in his mouth. "Flagg hasn't the records. He's acted all along as if he hadn't, and especially now. What kind of a father do you think he is? Wouldn't he have brought the records instead of a gun to save his son?" was waiting for me 1 in my apartment. Her angular face looked gnunt, shockingly old.

She sank dowri on my bed and put her palms hard against her cheeks. "Paul, were you going to kill sombcbody." "Willie I didn't." 'The gangster?" she said in horror. "What can he want from you?" "What they all want." And I told her about the two visitors Saturday afternoon and where I had been during Ihc last few hours. "You had no right letting Joey go back to school," she said furiously. "Why didn't you tell me? I would have taken him into my house, stayed with him every moment." "I was sure I'd scared Willie Shad and that Hannah Rahn was bluffing." I was prowling, two steps this way, one slep that, restricted by furniture.

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