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do get a storyЧphooeyЧit's a phony!"

He tapped the blue-penciled galleys with a discouraged forefinger, and Grace

let her eyes follow the gesture. "Чsensational arrest in his stateroom on the

Sylvania," stared up at her. Then the blue wordЧ"Kill."

"Go oil," Burton groaned. "Go on and read it. The scoop of the month. Then

I'll tell you."

The redhead's practiced glance darted down the long, smudged columns,

gleaning the highlights of the story and instinctively skipping the frills:

"Hon. John Ribden . . . known to have Tamarov rubies in his possession on

leaving Plymouth . . . failed to declare . . . customs officials made two-hour

search . . . the jewels were discovered hidden in the false top to a cane packed in

one of the... sensational arrest . . . "

"It looks good," she said, at last.

"The "Hon. John' gives it class, and I see you've landed some big-time art for

it. What's wrong?"

"Only one little thing," Burton growled bitterly. "When they dragged this

Ribden number into court, what should the jewels in the cane top turn out to be

but a half-dozen red glass beads! Nothing to declare there. They had to let him go,

of course."

"So?"

"So instead of 'International Crook Caught In Daring Smuggle Arrest,' for

page one, column oneЧwe've got maybe six inches of humorous human-interest

stuff for the second section, on 'Were The Customs Officers' Faces Red?' You

know. And no build-up for the art, so that's out too."

Grace leered at him wickedly.