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Actress-To-Divorce-Fifth-Husband interview. And she hadn't seen the old gang in

weeksЧBurton and Clancy and the rest. Time for a check-up.

The familiar store-fronts that lined the way to the newspaper's block-square

building whipped past with remarkable speed as the girl's trim figure swung

forward through the sidewalk crowd.

Her pointed little chin was lifted eagerly and her nostrils were quivering

already in anticipation of the smell of the city desk. Printers' ink! She loved it.

The only thing in the world that could have made her toss up her reporter's job

was the one to which she had gone with "Big Tim" Noonan's outfit. Her father

had died in action on the city force, and it had taken five bullets to drop him. The

tracking of malefactors, the swift action of cornering them and the thrill of

bringing them in for justice, were as much in her blood as is speed in that of a

finely-bred race horse.

Burton, the Banner's city editor, had liked her father. Partly because Sergeant

Culver's official activities were pretty sure to be headline copy; partly because he

was amused by the endless gadgets the police officer's mechanical brain was

forever devising in his spare moments.

Trick keyrings, a knife with six blades, a combination bottle-opener-and-

ice-pick. Burton had plenty of souvenirs of his friendship with the father of his

former star reporter, andЧ A sign loomed up in front of Grace:

DAILY BANNER

She swung out of the sidewalk traffic, stepped under the arch where the two

words were cut deep in an oblong granite block, and plunged into the building's

cool interior,