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Updated: June 4, 2025
Señor Coogan, I would have speech with you. I have here a warrant " He got no farther, having committed the fatal error of letting his man get too close. With a leap like that of a charging tiger, the gambler was upon him, one hand catching the wrist below the weapon, the other falling with frightful force upon the olive temple.
"On the evening following the untimely death of Dennis Coogan, impelled by a curiosity which he could not resist, Ah Moy sought out the fashionable neighborhood where the Cragiemuirs resided, and found, as he had scarcely dared hope, the mansion closed and the badge of mourning on the door.
The name of that potent Unknown seemed to be my only weapon in the contest with Detective Coogan, and I thought this a time to try its force. "Not much, I don't!" said Coogan, visibly disturbed. "But if it comes to a choice, we'll have to risk a battle with him." "Well, maybe we're wasting time over a trifle," said I, voicing my hope. "Perhaps your dead man belongs somewhere else."
It was Alice come to her lover's need! Alice risen from the flames! Alice here for chastening and justice! "What is your name?" questioned the judge. "Mary Coogan," was the clear answer. "Your nationality?" "I am an American." "You have lived a long time in France?" "Yes. I came to France as a little girl." "How did that happen?" "My father died and my mother married a second time."
"Wait!" he breathed, "there is much sport toward. There will be those here soon who will do amusing things." Coogan flashed around in quick suspicion, angered to think that for one moment he had foolishly relaxed his guard, but Ballard was serenely lighting his cigarette at that of Don Luis and the glass of Don Ramon was just descending from his lips.
Cases of this sort, they solemnly declared, while not unknown to the profession, were yet extremely rare; and the long scientific name which was inscribed on the register at the health office as the disease that carried off Dennis Coogan had certainly never been seen there before.
The former he had secured at the "Palace" bar, Coogan's weeds being the best in the city, a thing characteristic of all gambling hells whose whiskey and tobacco is always unexceptionable, but the cards he bought at the little drug store across the way. He had reason to be suspicious of the ornately-backed pasteboards affected by the Coogan establishment.
"Dennis Coogan arrived at dusk, and throwing down his ticket and some small change on the counter, walked off with his parcel, mumbling something uncomplimentary about the dirty haythin' who kept honest folks waitin' for their, clothin'. Later in the evening Sam Yen appeared, much refreshed, and relieved his kind assistant. Ah Moy then left, cutting short the thanks of his countryman.
On Don Luis's face was a great contempt and Ballard was grinning broadly. "Now the derringers, Red, two of them, in his pants' pockets. You will excuse the liberty, Mr. Coogan, but accidents will happen occasionally and I wouldn't have you hurt yourself for the world!
To use force would be carrying things too far, and would only place the Patriarch in a worse light. If this fellow what's his name? Coogan? can crawl there, let him that's his own business. None of us are encouraging him, the Patriarch didn't ask him to come, and no one has a right to expect miracles so it can't hurt the Patriarch seriously under those conditions.
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