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I liked your friend from the minute he stepped through from the minute I set me peepers on him. He's one man, if anybody asks you. I'm soitainly for him till the clock strikes twelve. And say, listen! Jerry's liable not to get away with it. I'm hep to one thing. The gang's sore on him. He rides the boys too hard. Some of 'em will sure t'row him down hard if they think they'll be protected."
In spite of the slangy impudence that dropped from the pretty red lips the girl was slim and looked virginal. "You're 'way off. I wasn't callin' on her to " He stuck hopelessly. "Whadya know about that?" she came back with obvious sarcasm. "You soitainly give me a pain. I'll say you weren't callin' to arrange no Sunday School picnic. Listen. Look at that wall a minute, will you?"
Clay had come to Annie Millikan now because of what she had told him about "Slim" Jim. This man was one of Durand's stand-bys. If there was any underground work to be done it was an odds-on chance that he would be in charge of it. "I'm askin' you to stand by a poor girl that's in trouble," he said in answer to her question. "You've soitainly got a nerve with you. I'll say you have.
"Seen anything of the girl?" "Nope. But she may be there. Honest, you're up against a tough game. There's no use rappin' to the bulls. They'd tip Jerry off and the girl wouldn't be there when they pulled the house." "Then I must work this alone." "Why don't you lay down on it?" she asked, her frank eyes searching his. "You soitainly will if you've got good sense." "I'm goin' through."
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