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BLOOD, SWEAT AND JEERS promise of a job from Starr. Your friends must have been a little optimistic about putting her on there.” He watched Jack Terry moisten his lips, try a feeble grin. “Of course,” Ter- ry said, “I suppose that’s possible. I—” Kelly cut him off at his conversational pockets. “Possible, hell!” he said. “It’s a fact. Which brings us to an interesting question. Ellen tells me you were instru- mental in getting Doris a five-hundred- dollar advance against her salary at Starr’s. Since she didn’t have the job, I’d like to know how you worked it.” Jack Terry crossed his long legs, slumped down in his chair. He was per- forming, now, a hundred per cent. He wasn’t bad. He laughed at Wilson’s question. “I’ll tell you about that,” he said. “Doris was in debt to her sister. When this chance for a job out of town came up, she didn’t want to take it. She thought Ellen would be in hot water for money, and we talked it over. She finally let me give her the money to pass on to Ellen. The story of an advance on her salary”—he chuckled —T guess that was just something she made up.” Kelly studied the man across the room from him—the insolent smirk he’d used to tag his last statement. There were ways of breaking a guy like Terry, getting the truth from him but, Kelly de- cided, this wasn’t the time. Not with El- len there. He knew enough, anyway. Sometimes a lie can be too reasonable, too glib, can point to more truth than a confession sobbed out after a beating. Kelly got up, said, “Come on, Ellen.” Jack Terry started to untangle his legs, to see them to the door, but Kelly waved him back. “Don’t bother,” he said. Kelly hammered Ellen’s tired old coupé over the road to the desert. They pulled into Las Palmas just before mid- night. The conversation on the way out had lagged, for Kelly was busy trying to make something of the sixes and sevens he had left over from his talk with Jack Terry. [Turn page] How to buy Ger long wear from the tough materials and rugged sewing that go into Blue Bell work clothes. Blue Bell dungarees are cut full so they don’t bind. They’re Sanforized, and keep their roomy, comfortable fit as long as you wear them. Reinforced with no-scratch copper rivets. Plenty of pockets. Blue Bell Sanforized chambray shirts are cut to body contour for comfort, and topped by a dress-type collar for good looks. For out- standing value in all kinds of work clothva, look for the Blue Bell Qualitag, which guarantees you the best made, best fitting work clothes you can buy—or your money back! BLUE BELL, Inc., Empire State Bidg., New York 1 WORLD‘S LARGEST PRODUCER OF WORK CLOTHES 23 hetter work clothes COMmiclooo