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"You bet!" said the other, giving the clerk a patronizing smile. "This young fellow is surely a sport. Promised half the girls up-town he'd take them a sleigh-ride and broke a big lamp in the pool-room." "You broke the lamp," Watson interrupted, with a glance at his employer. "Oh, well," said Drummond, "perhaps I did. I certainly put the marker out.
The Quarter Circle KT cow-men stepped into the pool-room at exactly the instant most favorable for their purpose. Dorsey had made his boast in the presence of a crowd. He would hardly dare back up without covering, at least to some worth-while extent, his words with his money.
If the tonic of the playhouse is not sufficient, a small fee admits to the public dance-hall, where it is easy to meet new acquaintances and to find a partner who will go to any length in the mad hunt for pleasures that will satisfy. From the dance-hall it is an easy path to the saloon and the brothel, as it is from the game of craps and the pool-room to the gambling-den and the criminal joint.
He was told they made their headquarters at Repetti's pool-room, but though he looked in that establishment half a dozen times in the course of the day, he failed to see them. "Looking for somebody?" an attendant asked him. "Yes," said Paul. "Tall man with a light beard. Came in from New York yesterday." "Oh, that bunch," grinned the attendant. "They've gone fishing again.
He merely remembered the fact that Barker was a steady patron of the pool-room near the Union Station, and filed it away with his other threads of information concerning the murder. Carroll was frankly puzzled. The case differed widely from any other with which he had ever come in contact.
He sent Mat Penniman to the recorder's office to dig out the names of the owners of houses which were displaying For Rent signs of other brokers; he talked to a man who desired to lease a store-building for a pool-room; he ran over the list of home-leases which were about to expire; he sent Thomas Bywaters, a street-car conductor who played at real estate in spare time, to call on side-street "prospects" who were unworthy the strategies of Stanley Graff.
The Happy Days Saloon and Joe Buy or Sell, the pool-room and the restaurant, alike slept for want of custom. He felt again the eeriness of this desertion, and hurried on past the silent places. Emerging from the lower end of this street he came upon a log cabin where activity still survived. He joined the group before its door. Inside two cameras were recording some drama of the rude frontier.
The traffic of this room was crooked business by day as well as by night. A partition ran across the rear of the back parlor which showed no opening but two small holes with narrow shelves at the bottom. Back of that was the paraphernalia of the pool-room, another device to separate customers from their money by playing the "ponies."
"Well," he said, hesitating, "I went out after dinner last night to see if they were reading the bill-boards. I thought I'd walk down Jay Street that's where the strikers have their headquarters. I was walking along when all at once I thought I saw Burdon's old car turning a corner ahead of me. "It stopped in front of Repetti's pool-room. Two men came out and got in.
The fingers about to close on the handle of the revolver grew limp, the Greek's head, a hideous, scarcely recognizable mass, slumped to one side and lay perfectly still. An instant longer the Ramblin' Kid looked at him, then reached over, picked up his gun and slipped it into the holster at his hip. As he straightened up, Tom Poole, the marshal, rushed into the pool-room.
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