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There he stood at the gate that led down to a cellar, looking up and down as if wondering whether he was observed. We had slunk into a doorway. A woman coming down the street, swinging a chatelaine, walked close to him, spoke, and for a moment they talked. "It's the gun-moll," remarked Kennedy. "She's getting Brodie off his guard. This must be the root of that grapevine system, as they call it."
One thing that causes its spread is the ease with which it can be taken. It requires no smoking-dens, no syringe, no paraphernalia only the drug itself." Another singer had taken the place of the dancers. Kennedy leaned over and whispered to the dip. "Say, do you and your gun-moll want to pick up a piece of change to get that mouthpiece I heard you talking about?"
"A dip pickpocket and his girl, or gun-moll, as they call them," translated Kennedy. "One of their number has evidently been picked up by a detective and he looks to them for a good lawyer, or mouth-piece." Besides these two there were innumerable other interesting glimpses into the life of this meeting-place for the half-and underworlds.
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