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BLACK CAT MYSTERY fur-
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with a story spiced with
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CAT MYSTERY, April, No.
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voice grinded our through the telephone.
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“You can depend on me, Nick. The bomb
will go off ar ten. And you won't have to
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“Good boy,” said Nick. “Andwho's going
to suspect me here in Chicago when my wife
is killed in oun home in New York. They'll
think it was intended for me! Now let me
hang up. This long distance call is costing
dough!
“Just puc it om the expense account,” the
Jaughed. But then he said,
Nick bung up the phone and threw him-
self on the bed of his horel zoom, "What a
"he told himself. “Goodbye, dear
» death is Bringing us apart!
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4 fool! he said aloud, “The dough
dough! Ie'll all go up with the house!"
Nick had co do something. You coulda't
just destroy fifty thousand dollars as if it was
=. well, Martha. Buc there was no one Nick
could truse: Certainly not that hoaise-voiced
Killer.
He looked down
got time,” he said.
myselE.”
Nick picked up the phone again, “Get me
4 xeservation for the next plane to New
York,” he shouted.
And an hour later, Nick was looking down
ac the Windy City of Chicago, and winging
his way towards fifty thousand dollars. . .
and New York,
Night was closing in when Nick landed
in the Empire Ciy, burby the time he reached
his house in che suburbs, he looked at his
watch and saw ic was 8:45.
his watch, “I've still
TH juse have to do ic
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himself, “bue Ibetter be careful.
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‘You coulda’t even hear Nick's breathing
as he unlocked the basement door and
worked his way carefully to the safe—and
the fifty thousand dollars — that waited in
the far corner.
He gave out a sigh of relief as he shoved
the bills into his pockee, and took a last look
at his watch,
ine o'clock,” he read, but then his watch
stopped . . . and so did everything else.
For there was a great explosion at thar
moment ... and the house and Martha and
Nick and the fifty thotisand dollars were
blasted into eternity. ‘You see, ic was nine
o'clock Chicago time . . . bue Nick was in
New York!
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