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Then Cochrane refused to see any reporters at all, everybody connected with the enterprise shut up tighter than a clam, and Jamison vanished into a hotel room where he was kept occupied with beverages and food at Dabney's father-in-law's expense. None of this was standard for a phoney promotion deal. The news story exploded.
"Now, Murphy," he said, "tell me what's this all about what are you going to do?" "Well, listen, kid, and I'll spill it to ya," Murphy said, talking as they walked. "Dis raid was all a phoney, get me?" "A phoney?" "Ya, a phoney! Fixed, framed, phoney, see? I get my orders da other day. A friend o' mine tips me.
The truck turned to the left at First and Spring streets and struggled up the grade at First west of Broadway, backing into the curb in front of the central police station. By the time they were leaving the truck John had decided to "go through with it," as Murphy had suggested. It would be an adventure, at least, and Murphy's repeated assertions that it was "a phoney" invited investigation.
But Cochrane put his watch away. To talk about horology on the moon wouldn't add to Dabney's stature as a phoney scientist. It didn't matter. He went back to the business at hand. Some two years before there had been a fake corporation organized strictly for the benefit of its promoters. It had built a rocket-ship ostensibly for the establishment of a colony on Mars.
"Well, I'll gamble a stack of blue chips there ain't such a phoney pair in Manhattan Village." "They're not exactly things of beauty, I'll admit," sighed Mr. Ravenslee, "but still " "They're rotten, Geoff! They're all to the garbage can! They are the cheesiest proposition in sidewalk slappers I ever piped off!" "Hum! You're inclined to be a trifle discouraging, Spike!"
The elaborate bargain by which Columbus was to be made hereditary High Admiral of the Western Oceans, with a bite of all revenue obtained by the passage he was to discover he had to hold out for such terms to make the package he was selling look attractive. Nobody buys anything that is underpriced too much. It looks phoney.
This scenery of his made me tink there was something phoney doin', or I wouldn't have trailed him, an' its a good ting I done it, fer he hadn't ben there five minutes before along comes The Kid an' a skirt and pretty soon a nudder chicken wid a calf on a string, er mebbie it was a sheep it was pretty husky lookin' fer a sheep though.
"We don't go," said Dopey Charlie, belligerently, "until we gets half the Kid's swag." "You go now," said Bridge, "without anybody's swag," and he drew the boy's automatic from his side pocket. "You go now and you go quick beat it!" The two rose and shuffled toward the door. "We'll get you, you colledge Lizzy," threatened Dopey Charlie, "an' we'll get that phoney punk, too."
"Well, it's a Good Thing," said Edmund. It's a good thing to have a Strong Josher come along now and then, just to show you Proud Dolls how to take a Joke. Do I Eat?" The Sensitive Waitress hurried Away, feeling hurt. "Overlook all the Phoney Acting by the Little Lady, Bud," said the Fireman to the Advance Agent. "She's only twenty-seven."
Murphy, beside him, whispered in his ear: "Don't get excited, kid, it's nuttin'; just another phoney pinch, dat's all." "But what for?" asked John. "Loiterin' around a handbook joint. You'll be squared, kid, you'll be squared. Stick with me and you'll come out on top; ten bucks to the good." One of the deputies marched up to the corner, pushing a young fellow before him.
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