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The craft was under way again in a minute or two, and they swept down the course in the wake of the other boat. Suddenly the sharp crack of a rifle echoed across the island. Helen screamed. Ruth risked the boom and sat up to look behind. "There's a fight!" yelled Busy Izzy. "I believe they're after Jerry." They saw Mr. Tingley and Preston hastening their steps toward the brook.
He'd already captured one of the pikes. Now he grinned tightly at Gordon and began moving toward him. Gordon nodded in a brawl such as this, two working together had a distinct advantage. Then a yell sounded as more Legals poured down the street. One of them was obviously Izzy, wearing the same green as the others! Gordon felt something hit his back, and instinctively fell, soaking up the blow.
Maybe it would break the jinx. They were one of the few teams in the Seventh Precinct to make full quota. Trench was lavish in his praise. He was playing more than fair with Bruce Gordon now, but there was a basic suspicion in his eyes. The next day, he drafted Izzy and Gordon for a trip outside the dome. "It's easy enough, and you'll get plenty of credit in the fund for it.
Izzy was a great cook; and if she had had a little more poise of character and smoked a little better brand of tobacco we might have drifted into some sense of responsibility for the honor I had conferred on her. But as time went on I began to hunger for the sight of a real lady standing before me in a street-car.
"I can't do no harm now, and I don't mean to. I didn't see nothing, and I won't say nothing. But it's election night, and and I just GOT to be on Broadway." "Right," said Winthrop, "I'll have a car take you in, and if you will accept this small check " "No!" roared "Izzy" Schwab. Afterward he wondered how he came to do it. "You've give me a good time, Mr. Winthrop.
Binswanger's eyes and she glanced at her husband, hidden behind his barricade of newspaper. Her brow knotted and her wide, uncorseted figure half rose toward him. "Izzy, one night can't you stay at home and " "I ain't gone yet, am I, ma? Don't holler before you're hurt.
"Still, I fail to see just where you would have time to take advantage of such conditions." "I had put up my margins on G. L. T. the day before," explains Vincent. "Taking the short end, sir. If the dividend had gone through at first I would have 'phoned in to change my trade to a buying order before Izzy could get down with the news. As it didn't, I let it stand.
The bunting in front of the booths was pulled off, and the lines began to move. Izzy led the way to the one at the rich end of their beat, and moved toward the head of the line. "Cops," he said to the six mobsters who surrounded the booth. "We got territory to cover." A thumb indicated that they could go in. Murdoch remained outside, and one of the thugs reached for him. Izzy cut him off.
They were inconspicuous fellows, who bore fanciful dime-novel names Dago Red, Izzy the Toad, Jew Mike, the Worm, and the rest and no rustler's stronghold of the old-time Western cattle country ever boasted more formidable outlaws than they. New York is law-ridden, therefore corruption reigns; vice is capitalized, and in consequence there are men who live not only by roguery, but by violence.
Proves a man shouldn't have friends." Randolph's face was still greenish-white, but he straightened and managed a feeble smile. "Not to me, Izzy. Right now I can appreciate friends. But you two better get going. I've got some unfinished business to tend to." He moved to one corner and began dragging out an old double-cylinder mimeograph.
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