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“Who?” asked To more of Eyes than he wanted to

“Your Hip Sing highbinders,” Eyes said i Chinamen you made a hookup with the sa stupid with me We’ve discussed this before”

“They ain’t mine, I told you I just made a deal with ’em to open some joints”

“I have a job for them”

“What do you need me for?”

“I do not want to meet them I want you to deal with them for me Do you understand?”

“You don’t want the”

“Or hear about me Not one word, Tommy Unless you want to spend the rest of your life as a blind man”

Toh He leaned back in his chair, tipping it up on the two back legs, and said coldly, “I’un and blow your brains out, O’Shay”

Brian O’Shay was on his feet in a flash He kicked one of the chair legs, splintering it The gang boss crashed to the floor At the sounds, which shook the building, Toed into the room They pulled up short O’Shay had the boss in a headlock, down on one knee, pointing To his left eye

“Deal with your floor ers”

“Get out of here,” Toled voice

The bouncers backed out of the rooerto brush sawdust from his trousers “Here’s what I want,” he said conversationally “I want you to send Harry Wing and Louis Loh to San Francisco”

“What’s in San Francisco?” To a bottle from his desk

“The Mare Island Naval Shipyard”