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Da stick-ups, da sure-thing guys, da dips, everybody gets orders to lay off, see?" Brennan whistled softly. "What's the 'Gink' got up his sleeve now, I wonder?" he said. "Soich me," said Murphy. "Are they obeying the 'Gink's' orders?" "I'll say they are!" asserted Murphy. "All the gamblin' places are closed and everybody stopped doin' business, see?
"That'll take the starch out o' yer Sunday stick-ups!" said the boatswain's mate, on hearing where I was bound for, when he met me clinging to the wet deck with my stocking-feet, and catching with my hands at every bit of tackle capable of giving support.
And then she has lots of twist-things round at the back, and although it doesn't look at all bad when the diamond stick-ups are in and she is all arranged. She went on talking all the time while her maid was fixing it, just as if we were alone in the room. She told me I had grown six inches since she was with us at Arcachon three years ago, and that I was quite good-looking.
"He says there ain't to be no stick-ups, no gamblin', no bootleggin', no pocket pickin', no house jobs, no bunko stuff, no nothin' and dat goes. Da first bird dat tries workin' is gonna be run outa town, see?" "Where do you pick up that information, Murphy?" Brennan asked. "Well, da 'Gink' don't tell me poisonally, see? But I gets it straight, see?
And other people took their tone from him, naturally, except By the way, I dined at the Cinnamonds' one night." "And was our bright particular star visible?" "She was. So was a young cub of a civilian just gone into stick-ups, I should imagine." "Dangerous?" "I think not. Merely having his mind and morals improved, if I am any judge." "Ah, we know all about that, don't we, old boy?
The chase happened to come in my direction, that's all." "If you can prove that, you're all right again," the sheriff pointed out. "The law will go halfway with you, Rathburn." "An' I probably wouldn't be able to prove it," said Rathburn bitterly. "Those other things the bank job an' the gamblin' stick-ups I was younger then, sheriff, an' no one can say that that bank sharp didn't do me dirt."
"What?" asked John, expecting to hear another skeptical dissertation by Brennan on Gibson's motives. "Because the mayor and Sweeney are hated by 'Gink' Cummings," said Brennan. "If Los Angeles ever had a boss of the underworld, the 'Gink' is the man. He bosses everything, gambling, stick-ups, bookmakers, pickpockets, bunko men, street walking women and dope peddling.
"You've been square with me, Buck. I want to be square with you.... There's a frame-up to get you. Now don't stop me an' I'll talk as fast as I can. It hurts me to talk much." He pressed a thin hand upon his side, paused a moment, and then went on. "I think Broderick's the man as has been putting over most of the stick-ups around here for quite some time. Him and Pollard in together.
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