Jim Valentine Back in Business
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A week after Valentine, 9762, left the prison, a safe was broken open in Richmond, Indiana.
No one knew who did it. Eight hundred dollars were taken.
Two weeks after that, a safe in Logansport was opened.
It was a new kind of safe; it had been made, they said, so strong that no one could break it open.
But someone did, and took fifteen hundred dollars.
Then a safe in Jefferson City was opened. Five thousand dollars were taken. This loss was a big one.
Ben Price was a cop who worked on such important matters, and now he began to work on this.
He went to Richmond, Indiana, and to Logansport, to see how the safe-breaking had been done in those places.
He was heard to say: "I can see that Jim Valentine has been here. He is in business again.
Look at the way he opened this one. Everything easy, everything clean.
He is the only man who has the tools to do it. And he is the only man who knows how to use tools like this.
Yes, I want Mr. Valentine. Next time he goes to prison, he's going to stay there until his time is finished."
Ben Price knew how Jimmy worked. Jimmy would go from one city to another far away.
He always worked alone. He always left quickly when he was finished.
He enjoyed being with nice people. For all these reasons, it was not easy to catch Mr. Valentine.
People with safes full of money were glad to hear that Ben Price was at work trying to catch Mr. Valentine.
One afternoon Jimmy Valentine and his bag arrived in a small town named Elmore.
Jimmy, looking as young as a college boy, walked down the street toward the hotel.
A young lady walked across the street, passed him at the corner, and entered a door.
Over the door was the sign, "The Elmore Bank."
Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgetting at once what he was. He became another man.
She looked away, and brighter color came into her face.
Young men like Jimmy did not appear often in Elmore.
Jimmy saw a boy near the bank door, and began to ask questions about the town.
After a time the young lady came out and went on her way. She seemed not to see Jimmy as she passed him.
"Isn't that young lady Polly Simpson?" asked Jimmy.
"No," said the boy. "She's Annabel Adams. Her father owns this bank."