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Blue Book v072 n04 [1941-02], 1941
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1made big money out of. I never got anything. He made six thousand dollars out of a picture—the other day. I located that for him, just like I’ve done—lots of things. But I didn’t get a cent. That’s—that’s why I made up my mind to kill him."
3"What did you do with the gun?" asked Jerry.
5"I—I threw it out of the window."
7"Was it your gun?" asked Pash.
9"It was in his office. I got the idea when I saw it."
11"How did you get it?" asked Pash. "How did you get into the room, and out so quickly?"
13But the man could not answer; his head sank still lower and his whole body seemed to fold up in the chair.
15"Has he passed out?" asked Sudler.
17"No," said Pash. "But he will; and you’ll cook for it."
19"It was self-defense," grinned Sudler. "The guy was a killer. You just heard him admit it. I came in to talk about this business I just mentioned, and he tried to get me."
21A few minutes later the police arrived. Prawn was carried out, and Sudler was taken in charge by a pair of stalwart patrolmen. For a moment Jerry stood alone in the room with Pash.
23"Well," said Jerry, "there it is. All done up in a neat package, as I said. And laid in your lap."
25Pash’s lean jaw worked; his hawklike beak pointed at Mooney.
27"It lets the girl out," he said. "And as far as I can see, it’s going to let you out. But listen, fellah: in spite of that, you’re not fooling me any. You’ve been in this thing. How, I don’t know, but you’ve been in it, and only your usual luck got you out. So I’ll be watching you; don’t forget that."
29THERE were violins at the Lombardy; also there were clarinets, a 'cello and a wonderful piano. But no dancing; Silvestro had always thought his music was enough.
31Mickey sat with Mooney at one of the tables.
33"We’ll not stay very long," she said. "Maybe an hour. I took an awful pounding today, and I need sleep."
35"Yeah," said Jerry, "you’ll want a night and a day of that to catch up."
37"If it hadn’t been for that pistol," said Mickey, "and the way I lost control of myself that day at the courthouse, I think things wouldn’t have been so bad. For I’d got over that idea of being a law of my own a long time ago. I brought the pistol to the office with me today to get it out of my rooms. When I went to Nora’s place, I took it with me, thinking I’d turn it over to her. But when the time came, I couldn’t. I was ashamed of the threats I’d made. I said nothing to her, but hid the pistol in her desk, meaning to tell her about it at another time."
39"There’s one thing I haven’t been able to understand," said Jerry, "and that’s why you asked to see Malitoff personally when you were in his place."
41"That was another thing I had in my mind," said Mickey. "I wanted to see him, to speak to him, and then go away. I wanted to prove to myself that I never would think as I had been thinking, again."
43"I saw in the pistol in the office," said Jerry. "Ates saw it; and your having it made the whole thing look pretty bad. It knocked me further than I’d care to say, and I hadn’t an idea about what had really happened."
45"You seemed as if you knew what you were going to do when you left Pash’s office," said Mickey. "Telling me not to be scared—and everything."
47"All a bluff," said Jerry. "I hadn’t an idea. And I didn’t have one until I talked with Georgie, and he told me that Sudler, the doorman at Malitoff’s, had been a strong-arm man for Eddie Klem. And then when Mrs. Doxey told me Klem had a piece of Malitoff’s business, I thought there might be something. When I talked to Klem, I could see there was something: there was a kind of glimmer, but I didn’t know what."
49"But I’ll bet you let on you knew a lot," said Mickey.
51Jerry grinned at her.
53"You have to do it," he said. "Let them once see you’re stuck, and it’s awfully hard to do anything afterward. But when I talked to Cora at the hospital, and she told me what the woman looked like that had called at her place and slugged her, and when Chubby said the description was like Sonya, a friend of Klem’s, I really began to take hold of things.
55"When I heard Sonya was broke and had been trying to raise money, and that she’d had a fight with Klem because he wouldn’t put any through, I began to figure on a possibility. Klem didn’t know who had the ruby! Sonya was
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