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From: The Shadow, The North Woods Mystery, 2/15/36





Hit the Baby

by Roswell Brown



Grace "Redsie" Culver didn't know much about the movie business-but when

a director cried



HIT THE BABY!

she knew it was time to go for a gun!





"Blue Monday?" The redhead yawned, stretched, looked up from her desk in

the quiet office of the Noonan Detective Agency. "Who started that whoop-de-da

about Mondays being blue? You got a whole new week's work ahead of you on a

Monday morning. Saturdays, it's all over. Nothing but a picnic in the country or

washing out your stockings to look forward to."

Young, good-looking Jerry Riker straightened from the filing cabinet where

he was culling routine entries. He grinned at the girl who sat scowling on the

other side of the desk sign reading: "Miss Culver, secretary." "Bored, huh?"

"Alongside of me," said Grace Culver, drearily, "a guy in the last stages of

sleeping sickness feels as spry as a kangaroo. Saturdays! Whoever invented

'em?"

Jerry saw an opening and dove into it. They came few and far between with a