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Its so damn' mortifyin'. Besides, if that sort of thing happens to you, the police lose all kinds of respect for you and try to use you as a stool-pigeon, if you know what that means." "This is most interesting, I must say. I should like to hear more about it, Mr. Smilk. I dare say we can have quite a long and edifying chat while we are waiting for the police to respond to our call for help.
Di Marco, Garcia, and the other two lieutenants turned livid as the stool-pigeon confronted them with their own words. On the heels of this came the crowning dramatic moment of the trial. Normando broke down and tried to confess in open court. He was a dull, ignorant man, with a bestial face and a coward's eye.
He will say, "This is a sneak-thief;" "This is a pickpocket;" "This man has just been released from the State prison;" "This one is a gambler, stool-pigeon," etc., etc.; being guided in his judgments by certain indications which the criminal involuntarily displays by the sheer force of habit.
Among them Annouchka had the ignoble nickname, "Stool-pigeon." Rouletabille must have been well aware of all these particulars concerning Annouchka, for he betrayed no astonishment at the great interest and the strong emotion she aroused. From the corner where he was he could see only a bit of the stage, and he was standing on tiptoes to see the singer when he felt his coat pulled. He turned.
"But the next time you employ a stool-pigeon to make love," she added, "reckon in that thing you detectives scorn a woman's intuition." "Won't you come over to see me to-night? Just a friendly little game, my dear our own crowd, you know." There was something in the purring tone of the invitation of the woman across the hall from Constance Dunlap's apartment that aroused her curiosity.
"As a matter of fact, the thing's simple enough, young man. Either you killed Griggs, or she did." The Inspector, with his charge, made a careless gesture toward the corpse of the murdered stool-pigeon. For the first time, Edward Gilder, as his glance unconsciously followed the officer's movement, looked and saw the ghastly inanimate heap of flesh and bone that had once been a man.
At chowder parties and picnics thief, policeman, and boss meet on the terms of equality imposed upon its members by the greatest of all philanthropic institutions Tammany Hall. It would be difficult to match the cynicism and brutality there disclosed. * A stool-pigeon is a thief in the pay of the police; a squealer is a grafter who betrays his brother.
"I might marry the sort of man you could be," she said, "but I never could marry a man so weak that, without me to bolster him up, he'd become a stool-pigeon." And she turned and walked away. A few days later, after she had taken her daily two hours' walk, Selma went into the secluded part of Washington Park and spent the rest of the morning writing.
"Then the answer is that all the while I've been working on an understanding with Barlow. I guess that's explicit!" "You mean," she said in her cool voice, "that you've been a stool-pigeon for Barlow?" "Sure! though I don't like the word. That's the only safe way of staying steady in the game an understanding with the police.
"Second, I've got a hunch that it really was from Barney Palmer that Barlow got his idea of making you become a stool-pigeon. Barney is a smooth one all right, and he figured what would happen. He knew you would refuse, and he knew Barlow would uncork hell beneath you. Barney certainly called every turn." "What what " stammered Larry.
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