Whispering Walls

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ushes began to move stealthily away. From the car Penny c

etting away!"

e time he had freed himself and struggled through a tangle of v

d he go, Penn

a clump of shrubbery," she replied regretf

e car, and starting

ho it was?" Penny

man. Maybe the Rhett's

od there watching us drive away

rounds. However, the one who had crouched by the fence now was well hi

Penny's thoughts came back to the story which she

Salt asked, stepping ha

es until deadline.

centrated on his driving, avoiding heavy traffic a

iew Star. As Salt pulled up at the curb, Penny leaped out and ran inside. Wi

ne, and, all about him, reporters were

and fixed Penny with a gloomy eye. "Time you got here,

he editor studied an instant, then tossed to his a

tt was in no mood for a lengthy tale, Penny told him only

up that angle. We've already set up everything you gave

tion to a story already set up in type. It was easier to write than a "lead" which contained the

as barking into the telephone again; a reporter on her left side was clicking a pencil against the

are only of the moving ribbon of words on the copy paper. She had writt

rom her machine. A boy snatched it from her hand and carried it to DeWitt, who r

achine, Penny was grinding out more of the story. Word

Again she ripped it from the

DeWitt called: "That's

tory, and usually when reporters had completed an articl

ling back, took a deep breath. DeWitt's chair was empty. He had gone to the composing room,

nteresting of her information into the first part of the story. In any event, everything she had written would be used in the second edition, the Thre

ter with a pencil tucked behind

?" he inquired

r's best reporter, also stood at the v

thatched roof cottage. It took longer to relate all the events than Penny realized, for, before she had finished the story, the Green Streak edition was up, a

the lead?" she a

laughed. "A

the bank. The story had a professional swing she could not have achieved. Her own "add" went into it very smoothl

ed air settled down to enjoy a cigarette. Now that the edition wa

nd toward Penny who went

," he said. "I'll want double coverage, so I'm assign

stead of another reporter. Police work, particularly the checking of routine

eWitt instructed. "Report everything of consequence th

esk with a sheet of copy which had just be

e numbers of those bonds stolen from the First National Bank. According to this Culve

y?" Penny

it was one of the missing ones. Late this afternoon, p

tem carefully his eyes

olice several days ago. Rhett may be half

walked off with the

e is, the police aren't talking. More of those missing bonds may show up. J

inquired, getting up a

that Culver City banker," he instructed. "Find out who

utes. He returned to report: "The bond was turned in by a

escrip

emembers that she was

ck. Her father, she knew, would have left the office nearly an hour earlier. She could catch a bus home, but first

y from the office,

r a bite to eat?" he ask

eplied eagerly. "We can t

ow. I'd rather talk about a dozen

M

your ear. Or the smudge of ca

y, Penny peered at her reflection in a hand mir

Penny and Jerry started to cross the street, one of the lads who

ashed a paper in f

ank!" he exclaimed, pointing to

accurate," Penny laughed. "The story

newsboy insisted. "What's

s a criminal," Penny expla

ace dropp

on?" asked Jerry. "Fi

y admitted. "I saw the

ing another ban

number 'cause when I saw him I didn't think nothin' of it. The Green

peated Penny, frown

went into an old three-story brick building w

use!" Jerry exclaimed. "I can't imagine a bank

. He wore old clothes, b

ective some day," Jerry chuckled. He star

there should be

iled ind

n you saw," Penny urged To

floppy black hat. And the

Rhett had a

ever show you the one I got when I was a ki

you sure the man you saw looked

t was the spitten image! If you ca

," grinned Jerry, pullin

dead in her tracks, Penny announced: "This is where we part c

? You can't go to a

t I shall do, unles

these kids. Tommy read the story

ed. "All the same, I'm going ther

ly at the restaurant

that it's no use arguing with a gal. Le