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Jimmy Knight felt his sister's desertion quite as keenly as did his mother and father, for his schemes, though inchoate, were ambitious, and his heart was set upon them. Lorelei's obstinacy was exasperating a woman's unaccountable freakishness. He confided his disappointment to Max Melcher. "It's pretty tough," complained Jimmy. "I had Merkle going, but she crabbed it.
That evening Inspector Snell occupied the same chair in which Merkle had sat, and found himself the target of Sabin's veiled stare. Snell was a bulky, forceful, unimaginative man. He was vastly impressive in his uniform, but the Senator's questions appeared to bewilder him. "What do you mean Melcher?" the Inspector finally inquired. "He claims you give him protection." The officer's face purpled.
"I'll come for you myself, and we'll whip over to a cafe for supper." "You'll save me from him," said Lorelei, with a wan smile, "and I'll know that you are in good company for one evening at least." "Don't lose any sleep over my habits," he told her, lightly; "and don't worry yourself about this newspaper story, either. Melcher is in the right, for Hammon cut him out with Lilas.
She left too suddenly after the Hammon suicide, and she's been under cover now for eight months. I never got it quite right. What're you holding out?" Jim sparred adroitly, but without effect. "Oh! You've got an ace buried somewhere," Melcher said. "You're a shifty guy. Of course this is a friendly game we're playing, but, just the same, I never bettered a poker hand by leaving the room.
Jim made no attempt to conceal his surprise and interest. "Where is she?" "She wrote from Liverpool, asking for money. Can you beat that?" "Money? Why, she had a satchel full. What's become of it?" Melcher shrugged. "She's taken the jumps English Derby, Paris race-meet, Monte Carlo " "Huh! She fished all the sucker-holes along the route, eh? Of course you cabled her a few C's?" Jim snickered.
The cocaine was working swiftly now; Lilas had reached the stage of exaggerated self-regard; her enmity toward Melcher grew with unnatural rapidity. She had evened more than one score in the past, she mused, why not even this one?
He considered the advisability of enlisting the aid of Max Melcher; but, not liking the thought of dividing the loot, he decided provisionally to engineer a separation between Bob and Lorelei. His desire to make mischief arose in only a slight degree from resentment Jim's method of making a living had long since dulled the edge of feeling it was merely the first step in a comprehensive scheme.
Old Tim Calahan he was a hell of a man. Fatty Melcher he made that up. Frank Hanes aint got enny branes and dont know enuf to go in when it ranes Beany he made that up. Nipper Brown tumbled down and busted his head and cracked his crown. i made that up too. Granvil Miller the barber went to shave his father the razer sliped and cut his lip becaus he forgot the lather.
What you have told me to-night adds to my anxiety, and I must know more." "What, for instance?" "Her real feeling for him her intentions her relations with a man named Melcher " "Maxey Melcher?" "The same. You know his business?" "No." "He is a gambler, a political power; a crafty, unscrupulous fellow who represents big people.
Half-hidden trodden in amongst the roughened wool, he found it a morsel of bright steel the needle of a hypodermic syringe. Who had spoken lately of a morphinomaniac that carried his syringe always with him? Why, Caldegard, Caldegard! "Melhuish? Melford? Meldrum? Melcher?-Melchard! By God, the swine that stank!"
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