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"Yes, he said Bince gave it to him to croak this fellow" nodding toward Jimmy. "What fellow?" asked the attorney. "You mean Mr. Torrance, the defendant?" "Yes, sir." "And what else? What happened after that?" "Krovac said he'd split it with me if I'd go along and help him." "Did you?" "Yes." "What happened?" "The guy beat up Krovac and come near croaking me, and got away."
He looked straight into Krovac's eyes. "There is," muttered the latter. "It would be worth something of course," suggested Bince. "How much?" asked Krovac. "Oh, I should think it ought to be worth a hundred dollars," replied Bince. Krovac thought for a moment. "I think I can arrange it," he said, "but I would have to have fifty now."
Bince realized only too well that he was absolutely in the power of the fellow and immediately his manner changed. "Come," he said, "Krovac, there is no use in our quarreling. You can help me and I can help you. There must be some other way to get around this." "What are you trying to do?" asked Krovac.
"Maybe you'll have better luck the next time," growled Bince. "There ain't goin' to be no next time," asserted Krovac. "I don't tackle that guy again." Bince held out his hand. "All right," he said, "you might return the fifty then." "Return nothin'," growled Krovac. "I sure done fifty dollars' worth last night." "Come on," said Bince, "hand over the fifty."
What we want to do is get rid of Torrance." "That isn't all you want to do," said Krovac. "There is something else." Bince realized that he was compromised as hopelessly already as he could be if the man had even more information. "Yes," he said, "there is something beside Torrance's interference in the shop.
Krovac had testified that Torrance had made threats against Compton in his presence, and there was no way in which Jimmy's attorneys could refute the perjured statement. Jimmy himself had come to realize that his attorney was fighting now for his life, that the verdict of the jury was already a foregone conclusion and that the only thing left to fight for now was the question of the penalty.
"Where are they?" "They will all be in the safe in Mr. Compton's office." Krovac knitted his brows in thought for several moments. "Say," he said, "we can do the whole thing with one job." "What do you mean?" asked Bince, "We can get rid of this Torrance guy and get the records, too." "How?" asked Bince. "Do you know where Feinheimer's is?" "Yes."
Bince had hired the man, and during the several months that Krovac had been with the company, the assistant general manager had learned enough from other workers to realize that the man was an agitator and a troublemaker.
"They don't any of us know when we are going to be canned to give Compton more profit, and men are not going to stand for that long." "Then," said Bince, "I take it that he really hasn't interfered with you much?" "Oh, he's always around asking a lot of fool questions," said Krovac. "Last week he asked every man in the place what his name was and what wages he was getting.
He's interfering with our accounting system and I don't want it interfered with just now." "You mean the pay-roll?" asked Krovac. "It might be," said Bince. "You want them two new guys that are working in the office croaked, too?" asked Krovac. "I don't want anybody 'croaked'," replied Bince. "I didn't tell you to kill Torrance in the first place.
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