European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Anything to Tell today a rousing Story of dark intrigue and High finance along the Marche noir by John shark c fue to j technician fifth Grade Midgeley glanced furtively around the Corner of the Gare de 1est seeing the Way was shouldered his imitation officers Val pack and started across the As he stepped to the opposite a dark looking Man Wear ing clothes overtook him and out of the Side of his anything to Tell Swami Par Bleu muttered reclaim ing a phrase he had left in an old grammar i didst think they recognize me in this i the dark Man smiled we have he said in an unidentifiable accent that might have passed for French on a Busy we know you Are really the great Swami Midgeley of banging Brothers Welcome to he pulled out a dirty postcard and slipped it to a passing i Haven the faintest idea of what youre talking said very Well said the dark walking away and shrugging his shoulders simultaneously As Only the French can i Only thought Moo might have a few fortunes to a few american he added wait a said How much Are fortunes bringing these Days Ca said the dark lapsing into the Midgeley made a grab for his coat sleeve and pulled him some Days the Market for fortunes goes very he some Days it goes a three Hundred he said three Hundred francs said Smid 1 trying to seem Why the last time i saw a Man just about your size offered me three Hundred and but that was for Large ail said Midgeley ill take he realized he should have played the Man along and brought the Price up a but he was thinking about a counterfeit Crystal Ball which some one had passed off on him during a poker game with a few other Fortune tellers and which he had brought along in his Val pack in Hopes of unloading it on the Paris of said the dark counting out the i cannot accept anything but real Greenback weve been having a lot of trouble lately with those phony ten Dollar you said this is genuine i had it shipped Over by a mail order he started to Dunstrap his he As if the idea had just occurred to you be interested in a few Palm would you the dark Man thought it he said i but Palm readings have been moving very slow on the Market you cant pay a broker to take a Palm Reading these said How about some Tea leaves he held out a Small cup from which he had just drained a the real he winking just off the the dark whose name by this time was Shook his too hot to he the Flics would be on my neck the minute i tried to unload never pin anything on said resorting to youve been in this Black Fortune Racket too Long to let the cops bother said ill have to Call my broker and ask him what Price there bring he picked up the fortunes which Smid Geley had counted stuffed them into his pocket and leaving Only a faint Trail of Midgeley put the francs in his pretty Good he told hed probably have lost those fortunes anyway at the next red Cross he hailed a passing taxi and got humming that old Black Market has me in its suddenly a thought interrupted the Damn he muttered under his hed forgotten to Palm off that counterfeit Crystal if they Ever called in the old Type Ball and issued new Redan Blue ones hed really he in this game youve got to take maybe he could pass it off on the desk clerk when he settled his hotel j in the the us Xii reminded youve not to take some Days fortunes to poorly some Days they go a i Ftfe
