Torchy attempts to facilitate the elopement of a friend. Loss of the license, false arrest, divers adventures in a bakery and intricate happenings in a jail figure in the action.
Sewell Ford
United States

A license to wed disintegrates into a city-wide shakedown; innocence is booked, fingerprinted, and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Johnny Hines’ Torchy has the metabolism of a hummingbird and the moral radar of a bent weather-vane. When he pockets his buddy’s marriage permit, the scrap is already bleeding ink—an omen...

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" A license to wed disintegrates into a city-wide shakedown; innocence is booked, fingerprinted, and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Johnny Hines’ Torchy has the metabolism of a hummingbird and the moral radar of a bent weather-vane. When he pockets his buddy’s marriage permit, the scrap is already bleeding ink—an omen that legitimacy itself is about to go on the lam. One gust of wind, one officious cop, and the parchment becomes ticker-tape confetti under bicycle spokes. The cop, mistaking Torc..."

