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You've given me no value received for me keeping my men off of you. You haven't turned up a single thing." "Come, now, Chief you're forgetting about Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt." "Chicken feed! They're out on bail, and when their cases come up, they'll beat them!
There are some things I've learned never mind how that I wanted to slip you for your own good." "Go to it, Casey." "First, I've got a hunch that it was Barney Palmer who tipped off the police about Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt, and then spread it among all the crooks that you were the stool and squealer." "Yes, I'd guessed that much."
And he put Barlow up to the idea of forcing me to be a stool, and then framing me when I refused. It was Barney who fixed things so I had to go to jail, or be shot up, or run away. It was Barney Palmer who squealed on Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt, and who's been squealing on his other pals. And that's the sort you're stringing along with!" She gazed at him in appalled half conviction.
He was good at quick thinking, was Barney. He decided to tell the truth or part of it. "Larry Brainard." "Got away from what?" she pursued. "The police. They were after him on some charge. And some of his pals were after him, too. They were out to get him because he had squealed on Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt. Both parties were closing in on him at about the same time.
And the indirect way he had tipped off the police about Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt and had then made his pals think Larry had squealed that was sure playing the game, too! Jack and Red would get off easy there was nothing on them; but little old Barney Palmer had certainly used his bean in the way he had set the machinery of the police and the under-world in motion against Larry!
"It certainly was clever!" admired Maggie. "Wait! That's only half. To finish Larry off so that he wouldn't have a chance I had to finish him off not only with the cops, but also with his pals. So I tipped off Barlow to the game Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt were pulling and " "Then Larry Brainard really didn't do that?" "No; I did it! Listen there's some more to it.
I spread the word, so that it seemed to be a leak from the Police Department, that it was Larry who had squealed on Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt. Did his old pals start out to get Larry? Well, now, did they! If I do say it myself, that was smooth work!" "It was wonderful!" agreed Maggie. "And there's still more, Maggie!
I've been telling her how you framed me, and were able to frame me because you are Chief Barlow's stool." Barney went as near white as it was possible for him to become, and his mouth sagged. "What what " he stammered. "I've been telling her that you are the one who really squealed on Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt." "You're a damned liar!"
Stock-selling game; going to unload the whole thing on one sucker, and we've got the sucker picked out. Besides you and Barney and me, there's Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt in it a classy bunch all right. And we think that for the woman end we'll take in Mae Gorham. She's clever and innocent-eyed " "But I thought you were going to take me in!" protested Maggie.
But on the fifth day after his interview with Barlow things began to happen. First of all, he noticed in a morning paper that Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt, members of his old outfit and suggested by Old Jimmie as participants in his proposed new enterprise, had just been arrested by Gavegan and Casey on the charge of alleged connection with the sale of fraudulent mining stock.
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