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looked around. There in the doorway, his hands against the glass and looking in with wonder¬ ment, was a man in a derby hat. Immediately Riley panicked. He dropped the second fish and fled from the scene. He ran right into a small bush behind the store. Here he stopped for a moment to catch his breath. He had to get away. The man at the door would call the police. They would find his car—trace it to him. Trace him to his rooming house and would get a picture. This the owner of the store would identify and the search would be on. He couldn’t go back to work. He would have to run. What about Maria? He would ask her to marry him. They would run away together, arm in arm, to a distant city where he could start all Cautiously, with the fish clutched in his hand Riley wended his way to Maria’s rooming house Finally, after walking for hours, he walked up Maria’s front porch and rang the bell. It was late now, Maria could pack and they could get out of town. Riley rang the doorbell again. N one came. She must be asleep. He began pounding on the door. Finally, the door opened slightly. A face materialized in the gloom. It was Maria’s landlady. The tired oic woman looked at Riley in wonder. Yes, he knew it was late. Was Maria in? Well, where was she! The landlady didn’t know exactly. Somewhere in the country on her honeymoon. She had eloped with a travelling salesman three days ago. -Ron Bennet, 11- over again. i f 1 § 7 S ' | y J i '
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RILEY ' S FISH le I jRiley was just a mediocre man. Nothing spe¬ cial. Just an ordinary man. He was not hand¬ some, but in the same way he was not ugly. He 2is not fat, but he was not thin. He was des- isRed to be a clerk all his life. He had lived a sheltered life. He was ashamed of nothing in his past, mainly because he had never done anything in his life of which he need be ashamed. In fact, the only fisherman, but true to his character, - he was not a good one. He had spent a small fortune on lures. With these he had some suc¬ cess. However, Riley, as all fishermen do, attri¬ buted his skill to his own ability. Riley had a girlfriend, Maria. She was eurva- cious, nice looking, well-groomed, but she was not very bright. Riley wanted to marry her but he could never bring himself to ask her. He had tried many times, and she, unable to see what he was trying to say, could not help him. In this manner their relationship continued for many months. Each Saturday evening Riley would finger the engagement ring in his pocket, take a deep breath, say two words, and then falter. I And this is Riley. As the story opens, Riley is on his way to tell Maria of his vacation which was starting that day. He planned to give the fish up north some exercise for a week. This idea did not appeal to Maria one bit. She could not appreciate the glory of fighting the catch of a lifetime on the other end of the line. In fact, she was dead set against it. Finally, after Riley had spent a good hour arguing with her. she finally agreed to allow him to go and fight the denizens of the deep at the edge of some stream in some far away north wood. I Three days later Riley was deep in a forest, beside a fast moving stream, setting up his tent. It was the old familiar tent which Riley had used so often. He was used to it. He could put it up in the dark. However, this time the tent would not co-operate. Riley noticed that the ientre pole was not straight up and down. He reached out to put it in place and found the folds of the tent around him. Again he put up the tent. Again the centre pole was crooked. Again the tent fell down. Finally the tent was put up. Riley regarded it with what he thought |was the eye of a woodsman. That night Riley ate be ans. He had brought the beans as a mere precaution for he knew that the fish were as good as caught when he arose in the morning. ■ On the first day, Riley cast in his line and started on his strategic plan for catching his breakfast. Things did not fare well. Not only jdid he not get a bite on his line, but the poor, unsuspecting fish were not even hungry enough to try to nibble a bit. Undaunted, Riley went to bed after dining on pork and beans, feeling that the next day would prove quite disastrous for his finny friends. But the next day did not go as he thought it should have; in fact, he did not catch anything that day either. Undaunted, he went to bed again that night thinking that the fish would be hungry the next day. He was soon to realize that it was not so at all. He threw away all his lures and resorted to worms. His luck changed. He got a nibble that day. On the fourth day he became panicky when he found that the fish had seemed to desert him. On the fifth day he remembered Maria’s con¬ cession and the fish that he owed her in return for her belief in him. When he could no longer stay in order to get back by Sunday morning to meet Maria at her boarding house at the time which she had specified, he loaded all his gear into his ancient coupe and drove furiously back to the city. On the way, he pondered the fact that he had no fish to prove his sincerity. Maria would not believe him when he told her that he had not caught anything. He had bragged too much of his ability as a fisherman. He had to have a fish. Where? Then it hit him — the fish market! He bent over the steering wheel in a frenzy to get back into the city. He arrived about six o’clock Saturday night. He pulled up to the fish store that he passed all the time on his way to work. Many times he had driven past it and laughed. He would feel sorry for those people who had to buy their fish. Now he was there and he was thankful for its existence. He leaped out of his coupe and up to the door. Too late! The owner was just locking up the shop. Riley hurried up to the man and implored him to re-open the shop for the sale of just one more fish. It was no use. The owner, a small person, exercised his only prerogative and remained steadfast in his right to keep his shop closed. Pushing a beaten Riley aside, the man walked past him and drove away in a prewar Ford. Riley just stood there watching the car drive away. What could he do? Break into the store? Was one fish worth all the trouble? Better still, was Maria worth all the danger entailed in this robbery? Riley firmly decided that she was not. With this final decision still in his mind, he walked around to the back of the store and pro¬ ceeded to jimmy open the door with a jack-knife. Once inside, he had no trouble finding what he wanted. A fish caught his eye and Riley pick¬ ed it up. A second one, thought Riley, just for insurance. The moment he put his hand on this second fish, he felt that something or someone was watching him. He straightened up and
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