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From: The Shadow, The House That Vanished, 10/15/35





"Redsie" Culver ironed out a laundry racket,

but to do so she had to prove she was a



BOMBPROOF BABY

by Roswell Brown



It's summer fever," the redhead yawned, stretching like a cat and knocking

a file of finger-print cards off one corner of her desk with the sweeping

gesture.

"Huh?" Jerry Riker muttered.

He had been looking at the backs of her bright curls for a long time and

thinking thoughts of his own. When she came suddenly to life, it startled him. But

"Redsie" Culver was always startling him.

"Summer fever," Grace repeated distinctly."Spring fever grown up. I'm

sleepy. I'm bored. Nothing happens. Life is too smooth."

Jerry looked hopeful.

"How about a movie to-night?"

"A movie? You would!" Disconsolately, "Big Tim" Noonan's secretary and

right hand began to gather up her scattered cards. "A movie I'd even rather sit

here like I am, till I'm old and gray, trying to prove that the mug that broke

into Mrs. Rabinovitz's store and tuck the till for eight bucks fifty hasn't got a

double-whorled thumb like Rocco C. Bragatelli's. And that says little."