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“Five-eight Built like a fireplug Strongest little guy I ever saw” Bell continued conversationally, “He didn’t need the gouge to win a fight, did he?”

“No,” said To it”

“Surely after he reappeared out of nowhere and paid you all that money, you had him followed”

“I sent Paddy the Rat after him Little bastard came back short one eye”

Bell looked at one of the detectives, as nodding agree a patch”

“Disappeared, just like as kids Vanished into thin air that tiot thrown in the river”

“By whom?” asked Bell

The gang leader shrugged

Harry Warren said, “A lot of people thought you were the one who threw him in the river, Tommy”

“Yeah, well a lot of people thought wrong I used to think Billy Collins done it ’Til Eyes came back”

Bell glanced at Harry Warren

“Dope addict,” Harry said “Haven’t heard his name in years Billy Collins ran with Eyes and To drunks, robbing pushcarts, selling dope, beatin’ up anybody got in their way O’Shay was the worst, worse than the Commodore here, even worse than Billy Collins Toht compared to those two The last anybody expected was Toot lucky, Toot the habit”

Isaac Bell asked, “Tommy, why did you think Billy Collins threw Eyes in the river?”

“Because the last night I ever saw Eyes, they was drinking together”

“And today you have no idea where O’Shay is?”