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5. New Applications

After Chandlee Stokes

Miriam Storley left the bank at 4:15 exactly. People along Division Street said you could set your watch by Miriam; she always left her job at eh First State Bank of Cannon Falls at this hour, Mond ay through Friday, except on holidays. On Fridays she returned to work the six-to-eight P.M. shift. One this particular day, a Monday, she stopped after closing the front door to the bank in order t o look at the window display.

Miriam had spent the better part of the afternoon arranging gift items in the bank’s window. Fir st State, which is how everyone in town referred to the bank, was having a promotion in order to attract new business. They were offering gifts which ranged in value all the way from a pocket cal ulator to a color TV. The value of a new deposit or’s gift depended on how much was initially depo sited.

The display in the window was attractive, but Miriam wondered where the new business was g oing to come from. Cannon Falls wasn’t a one-stoplight town, but it wasn’t a great metropolis eit her. There just weren’t that many people to warrant an extravagant new business promotion suc h as this. The bank manager, Al Gropin, had even invested in some full-page advertisements in th e local paper and had hired some clowns to perform on the street in from of the bank---all to try t o attract new customers.

But Miriam didn’t linger long in front of the window, and she didn’t waste much time on her tho ughts of Al’s grand schemes. Her mission today was the same as it had been every weekday for th e past several weeks.

She nodded at passers-by, shopkeepers, and neighbors as she walked purposefully along the wi de sidewalk toward The Computer Shack. There was a pleasant expression on her face as she smil ed and said her “hellos” and “good afternoons” and “how are yous” to the people she saw almost every day of her life. Her daily meeting with Officer Quanbeck never failed to amuse her. She smi led to herself as they exchanged greetings and wondered whether he would feel as stupid as he l ooked after she pulled off the crime of the century.

“Right on time, as usual, eh, Mrs. Storley?” The thin, kindly-looking man behind the counter in The Computer Shack seemed to have a perpetual smile on his face. Every day for the past several weeks, Tobe Barksdale had a short, simple conversation with this woman fromthe bank down th e street. She said she wanted to but the home computer which he had hooked up to a printer an d which was fully operational, but so far all she did was sit and play with it.

Tobe didn’t mind the intrusion, though. Even thought he opened his shop. Gleamingly filled with electronic toys and machines, at noon, the majority of his customers came after six P. M. At first h e had closed the store at eight, but the numbers of people interested in the latest gadgetry force d him to stay open later and later, and now he wasn’t closing until ten o’clock.

He could have insisted that his daily visitor make up her mind about the computer, or at least sto p using the same program all the time, but she wasn’t really any bother, and lately she had acquir ed such a solid knowledge of the field that he actually enjoyed her increasingly complex question s. She challenged his imagination, probing to see just how far a computer could go, just how muc h a simple machine could do.

Tobe probably knew as much about computer hardware and software as anybody in the entire to

wn of Cannon Falls. Hardware and software. These were terms the general public rarely heard wh en Tobe began working a number of years back. Now, everyone used the terms to refer to the co mputers themselves and the programs which told the machines and operators what to do. Miriam Storley had a long way to go to catch up with Tobe in her knowledge of this complex field, but she seemed determined, and Tobe was a patient instructor. Each day she would come to him with a new type of problem, an unusual twist, a tricky flow of information or instructions which s he wanted to master. Every day he would guide her through the intricacies of the model which w as advertised as the “ latest, most technologically advanced home computer ever designed.” Ever y day she would listen and absorb, and then experiment for herself. She brought her own tapes a nd never seemed to tire of learning, even after a day’s work. Tobe believed in leaving people to th emselves, so when the lesson was over and Miriam sat at the console, enwrapped in her task at h and, he busied himself in another part of the store.

Miriam’s teen-age son, who liked to be called by the nickname Zee, had introduced her to the wo rld of computers through his interest in video games. True, she dealt with computers at the bank every day in her job, but somehow they were just a part of the bank; they didn’t touch her.

She learned from her son and, almost by accident--- as most great discoveries in the world seem t o be---she discovered that the latest version of the home-type computers was actually compatibl e with the one she worked with in her office at First State.

The idea came to her at the end of a particularly tiring day as she tallied the day’s receipts and en tered them into her desk-top computer. It was foolproof! She could transfer funds from various a ccounts which were relatively inactive by tampering with the program. If she did it skillfully enoug h, she would never be caught. She would set up some fictitious accounts in other banks in the sta te, transfer funds, disguise herself and go to the other banks in order to withdraw the money, and then return the program to its original condition. No one would ever be able to figure out what s he had done or where the money had gone. And even if they did trace it, they would never suspe ct her. How could they?

She decided not to risk working on the program she needed at home, since Zee might see what s he was doing. Tobe Barksdale’s shop was the perfect cover, and that pleasant man certainly woul dn’t suspect her. He didn’t even seem to mind letting her use his floor-model computer.

After months of preparation, Miriam carried out her plan. She called Mr. Gropin to say that she w as ill and couldn’t come to work. Then she drove to Mankato and Red Wing, disguised, and picked up her money. All went well until she arrived home to find Officer Quanbeck and several others waiting in her living room to arrest her for fraud and bank robbery.

As a kindness, to assuage her curiosity, Tobe Barksdale was there, too. He explained, “Your plan w as brilliant, Miriam, and you were an excellent student. Indeed, I taught you almost everything yo u know. But I didn’t teach you everything you did on a master tape which I observed every aftern oon after you left. After all, I had to see what kind of progress my pupil was making, didn’t I?”

The Wrong House

After James N. Young

The night was dark. And the house was dark. Dark --- and silent. The two men ran toward it qui etly. They slipped quickly through the dark

bushes which surrounded the house. They reached the porch, ran up the steps, and knelt down, breathing heavily, in the dark shadows. They waited, listening.

Silence. Perfect silence. Then--- out of the blackness---a whisper: “ We can’t stay out here… Tak e this suitcase…Let me try those keys. We’ve got to get in!”

Ten…twenty…thirty seconds. With one of the keys, the first man opened the door. Silently, the t wo men entered the house, closed the door behind them, and locked it.

Whispering, they discussed the situation. They wondered if they had awakened anyone in the h ouse.

“Let’s have a look at this place. Careful, Hy. I hope there isn’t anybody awake!” And the soft ra ys of a flashlight swept the room.

It was a large room. A living room. Rugs, carefully rolled, lay piled on one side. The furniture---c hairs, tables, couches---was covered by sheets. Dust lay like a light snow over everything.

The man who held the flashlight spoke first. “Well,Blackie,” he said, “we’re in luck. Looks as if t he family’s away.”

“Yeah, gone for the summer, I guess. We better make sure, though.” Together they searche d the house. They went on tiptoe through

every room. There could be no doubt about it, the family was away. Had been away for weeks. Yes, Hy Hogan and Blackie Burns were in luck. Only once in the past ten days had their luck faile d them. It had been with them when they made their big robbery---their truly magnificent robber y---on the Coast. It had been with them during their thousand-mile trip eastward, by car.

It had been with them every moment---but one.

That moment had come just one hour before. It came when Blackie, driving the car, ran over a policeman. And Blackie, thinking of the suitcase at Hy’s feet, had driven away. Swiftly.

There had been a chase, of course. A wild, crazy chase. And when a bullet had punctured the g asoline tank, they had had to abandon the car. But luck or no luck, here they were. Alone, and wit hout a car, in a completely strange town. But safe and sound---with the suitcase.

The suitcase lay in the center of the table, in the center of the room. In it, neat little package on neat little package, lay nearly three hundred thousand dollars.

“Listen,” said Hogan. “We have to get a car. Quick, too. and we can’t steal one: It’s too danger ous. We have to buy one. That means that we have to wait until the lots open. That will be about eight o’clock in this town.”

“But what are we going to do with that?” Burns pointed to the suitcase.

“Hide it right here. Sure! Why not? It’s much safer here than with us---until we get a car.”

And so they hid the suitcase. They carried it down to the basement and buried it in an unfinish ed corner where no cement had been laid. Just before dawn, they slipped out.

As they were walking down the street, Hogan remarked that a Samuel W. Rogers lived in the ho use they had just left.

“How do you know?”

“Saw the name on some of the library books. The guy’s really got a lot of books. Looks like a li

brary in there.”

The used car lots opened at eight, as they had supposed. Shortly before nine, Hogan and Burns had a car. A nice little car. Very quiet. Very inconspicuous. Very speedy. They arranged fro tempor ary plates and drove off.

There blocks from the house, they stopped. Hogan got out. Walked toward the house. He’d jus t go around to the rear, he thought, and slip in.

Fifty yards from the house, he stopped. Stared, swore softly. The front door was open. The win dow shades were up. The family had returned!

Well, what bad luck! And what could they do? Break into the cellar that night, and pick up the s uitcase? No---too dangerous, Hogan would have to think of something.

“Leave it to me, kid.” He told Burns. “You drive the car. I’ll do the special brain work. Let’s find a telephone. Quick!”

Ten minutes later, Hogan was consulting a telephone directory. Yes, there it was---Samuel W. Ro gers, 555-6329.

A moment later he was talking to the surprised Mr. Rogers. “Hello,” he began. “is his Mr. Rog ers---Mr. Samuel Rogers?”“Yes, this is Mr. Rogers.”

Hogan cleared his throat. “Mr.Rogers,” he said---and his tone was sharp, official, impressive---“this is Headquarters, Police Headquarters, talking. I am Simpson. Sergeant Simpson, of the detecti ve division…”

“Yes, yes!” came over the wire.

“The Chief---the Chief of Police, you know,” here Hogan lowered his voice a little---“has ordered me to get in touch with you. He’s sending me out with one of our men to see you.”

“Am I in trouble of some kind?” asked Mr. Rogers.

“No, no, no. Nothing like that. But I have something of great importance to talk to you about.”“Very well,” came the voice of Mr. Rogers. “I’ll wait for you.”

“And, Mr. Rogers,” Hogan cautioned, “please keep quiet about this.

Don’t say anything to anybody. You’ll understand why when I see you.”

On the way back to the house, Hogan explained his idea to Burns.

Within ten minutes, “Sergeant Simpson” and “Detective Johnson” were conversing with the surpr ised Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers was a small man.

Rather insignificant. He had pale blue eyes. Not much of a chin. A funny little face. He was nervou s---a badly frightened man.

Hogan told the whole story. Somewhat changed, of course. Mr. Rogers was surprised, but he was delighted to be able to help the police.

He accompanied Hy Hogan to the cellar. And together they dug up the suitcase. Took it to the livi ng room, opened it, saw that it had not been touched---that it really did hold a small fortune. Bills , bills, bills!

Hogan closed the suitcase.

“And now, Mr. Rogers,” he announced, in his best official manner,

“Johnson and I must run along. The Chief wants a report---quick. We have to catch to rest of the robbers. I’ll keep in touch with you.”

He picked up the suitcase and rose. Burns also rose. Mr. Rogers also rose. The trio walked to the d oor. Mr. Rogers opened it. “ Come on in, boys,” he said pleasantly---and in walked three men. Larg e men. Strong men. Men in police uniforms who, without fear, stared at Hy Hogan and Blackie Bu

rns.

“What does this mean, Mr. Rogers?” asked Hogan.

“It’s quite simple,” said Mr. Rogers. “It just happens that I am the Chief of Police!”

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