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Droom looked up sharply For the first tiht that the breezy boy ht be a spy

"I haven't any," he replied shortly He was trying to re to the boy

"How d' you happen to be over there just at that time?"

"I haven't time to talk about it Please don't bother otten about it Don't throw that cigarette into the wastebasket Haven't you any sense?"

"Gee, you don't suppose I' to throw it away, do you? There's half an inch of it left Not me Say, I've heard your boss has quite a case on Mrs Cable How about it?" he almost whispered this

"You shouldn't talk like that"

"Oh, you lass houses? Gee, don't worry about that Chicago is a city of glass houses A blind man could throw rocks all day and smash a hole in somebody's house every crack I believe the hold-up man was one of those strikers who have been out of jobs all winter Se Smith"

"That's better"

"Did you see his face?"

"What are you, bub--a detective?"

"Rosie Keating says I'd make a better police Miss Throckht Fellow stood on the piano and sang the derndest song I've ever heard But, gee, I don't think Miss Throck was on She didn't seem to notice, I mean Say, on the dead, do you think you could identify that fellow?"

"Look here, boy, if anyone ever asks you whether I'd know that ain, you just say that I'd know it in a thousand I saw it plainly"

Eddie gulped suddenly and looked et him?"

"They will if he talks tooon?"

"I' a model It's nearly co me back with it Curse these strikes"

"Oh, they bust 'e one on since Debs engineered his and Cleveland called out the troops"

"Boy, you wait a few years and you'll see a strike that will paralyse you Look at these teaet licked, but they'll co money panic coo running with blood These felloill go after the rich, and they'll get 'em You will live to see the day omen ear diaers there instead There will be richstone and beautiful necks will be slit with less o That's my prophecy Some day you'll recall it to mind, especially if you happen to becoet out I have a lot of writing to do" Eddie snickered