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Updated: May 9, 2025
Not Makoff's at Spider Jack's, on Thompson Street!" he was clipping off his words, still holding her tightly by the shoulders, still staring into her eyes. "You know Spider Jack! Jack's little novelty store! Ah, you have not learned all of the underworld yet! Spider Jack is the craftiest 'fence' in the Bad Lands and Makoff is his partner.
It looks as though the luck had turned Makoff and Spider Jack!" His hand reached up to his hat, jerked the brim at a rakish angle over his eyes and he sprawled himself out on a chair. He heard the Tocsin's voice at the front door, and a man's voice, low and guarded, answer her. Then the door closed, and their steps approached the room. It was rather curious, that a visit from the Magpie!
There were things that he needed there that would probably be absolutely essential to him before the night was out, things without which he might be so badly handicapped as to invite failure from the start; and yet it was already midnight! Ostensibly both Makoff and Spider Jack closed their places at eleven.
It was about nine when he had first met the Tocsin, then the Sanctuary, then the long walk as he had followed her say a quarter of ten for that. And he had certainly been here with her not less than an hour and a half. It must be after eleven, then. One o'clock! And before that must come Makoff and Spider Jack!
Down here, adjoining the high board fence of Spider Jack's back yard, Makoff made pretense at pawnbrokering in a small and dingy wooden building, that was little more pretentious than a shed and in Makoff's place, so far as he could see, there was no light, either.
Spider buys the crooks' stuff, and Makoff disposes of it through the pawnshop it's only a step through the connecting back yard from one to the other, and " "Yes but," she interrupted feverishly, "the package you said " "Wait!" Jimmie Dale cried. "I'm coming to that! If Travers stood in with Makoff, he stood in with Spider Jack.
He used the name of John Johansson, not to hoodwink Spider Jack, I should say, but as an added safeguard against the Crime Club. Travers must have known both Makoff and Spider Jack in the old days, and probably had reason, and good reason, to trust them both possibly, a crook then himself, as he confessed, he may have acted in a legal capacity for them in their frequent tangles with the police."
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