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She had been so engrossed in following the lobbygow that it was with a start that she realized that he had entered Muller's. What did it all mean? Was the druggist, Muller, the man higher up? She recalled suddenly her own experience of the afternoon. Had Muller tried to palm off something on her? The more she thought of it the more sure she was that the powders she had taken had been doped.
Long grunted. He was rather annoyed at having the occurrence so simply explained. "Oh, well," he yawned, "you're on this case, and I'm only your lobbygow; so I suppose I've got to let it go at that. But, say, I'm tired. Let's turn in, or, if you don't want me in your joint, I'll go down stairs and get them to bunk me somewhere in the dump." He rose. "I suppose they'll fix me up?"
A girl named Clara, who lived across the hall, was sitting in a rocking-chair in a nightgown, reading a Bertha Clay novel and smoking a cigarette. She glanced up, was arrested by the strange look in Susan's eyes. "Hello been hitting the pipe, I see," said she. "Down in Gussie's room?" "No. A lobbygow," said Susan. "Did he get much?" "About thirty-five." "The !" cried Clara.
Earle as humorous. For the first time she laughed. "Sammy!" she exclaimed. "He's a lobbygow of mine. He's worked for me for years. I could send him up the river if I liked. He knows it." Her tone was convincing. "They both asked," she continued evenly, "you should keep off until the girl is out of the country, and fixed." Wharton frowned thoughtfully.
He's a lobbygow for the grapevine system they have now of selling the dope in spite of this new law." "Where does he get the stuff!" she asked. The waiter shrugged his shoulders. "Nobody knows, I guess. I don't. But he gets it in spite of the law and peddles it. Oh, it's all adulterated with some white stuff, I don't know what, and the price they charge is outrageous.
He climbed up the steps of the "Cyane"; the train man winked at Duane, who had turned to watch him. "Amos Flack," he said. "He's their 'lobbygow." With which contemptuous information he spat upon the air-brakes and, shoving both hands into his pockets, meditatively jingled a bunch of keys.
Piddie"; the sort that takes off his hat to a vice-president, and holds his breath in the presence of the big wheeze. But, say, I don't want any joss-sticks burned for me. "Ditch it, Piddie," says I, "ditch it!" "I er I beg pardon?" says he. "The Sir stuff," says I. "Just because I'm behind the ground glass instead of the brass rail don't make me a sacred being, or you a lobbygow, does it?
The drug, too, was killing his interest in Loraine Keith that is the last stage. "Yet under its influence, just as with his lobbygow and lieutenant, Brodie, he found power and inspiration. With him it took the form of bombs to protect himself in his graft." "He can't escape this time Loraine. We'll leave it at his house you know Carton " We looked quickly at the work-table.
"Yes, and a lobbygow for the grapevine system of selling the dope under this new law." "Where does he get the supply to sell?" asked Kennedy, casually. The pickpocket shrugged his shoulders. "No one knows, I suppose," Kennedy commented to me. "But he gets it in spite of the added restrictions and peddles it in little packets, adulterated, and at a fabulous price for such cheap stuff.
So you see he is not in the class with Miss Sawtelle. The test shows him to be shrewd. He doesn't even touch his own dope. Now for Armstrong." I knew enough of the underworld to set Whitecap down, however, as a "lobbygow" an agent for some one higher up, recruiting both the gangs and the ranks of street women.
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