Torchy and Vee

by Sewell Ford

Contents

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	THE QUICK SHUNT FOR PUFFY	[1]
II	OLD HICKORY BATS UP ONE	[19]
III	TORCHY PULLS THE DEEP STUFF	[37]
IV	A FRAME-UP FOR STUBBY	[56]
V	THE VAMP IN THE WINDOW	[73]
VI	TURKEYS ON THE SIDE	[91]
VII	ERNIE AND HIS BIG NIGHT	[108]
VIII	HOW BABE MISSED HIS STEP	[126]
IX	HARTLEY AND THE G. O. G.'S	[145]
X	THE CASE OF OLD JONESEY	[164]
XI	AS LUCY LEE PASSED BY	[182]
XII	TORCHY MEETS ELLERY BEAN	[200]
XIII	TORCHY STRAYS FROM BROADWAY	[222]
XIV	SUBBING FOR THE BOSS	[238]
XV	A LATE HUNCH FOR LESTER	[256]
XVI	TORCHY TACKLES A MYSTERY	[272]
XVII	WITH VINCENT AT THE TURN	[290]

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TORCHY AND VEE

CHAPTER I

THE QUICK SHUNT FOR PUFFY

I must say I didn't get much excited at first over this Marion Gray tragedy. You see, I'd just blown in from Cleveland, where I'd been shunted by the Ordnance Department to report on a new motor kitchen. And after spendin' ten days soppin' up information about a machine that was a cross between a road roller and an owl lunch wagon, and fillin' my system with army stews cooked on the fly, I'm suddenly called off. Someone at Washington had discovered that this flying cook-stove thing was a problem for the Quartermaster's Department, and wires me to drop it.

So I was all for enjoyin' a little fam'ly reunion, havin' Vee tell me how she's been gettin' along, and what cute little tricks young Master Richard had developed while I'm gone. But right in the midst of our intimate little domestic sketch Vee has to break loose with this outside sigh stuff.

"I can't help thinking about poor Marion," says she.