[The Case and The Girl by Randall Parrish]@TWC D-Link bookThe Case and The Girl CHAPTER XVIII 10/18
We'll slip out and leave Mike to explain how he got his coco cracked.
With that guy loose, it won't be healthy for me hanging around here." "He ain't got the goods on you, has he ?" "No, he ain't got the goods, but he is dead wise to some things, and he didn't get out of that shindy up stairs without getting hurt.
He'll be sore all right, and will raise all the hell he can.
It's safer to keep out of the way." "An' what about that other buck, Hobart? It won't do to have him picked up, if this guy gets the harness bulls to take a look around here." "That ain't his style, Shorty; he won't spiel anything to the cops about this row.
He's an ex-soldier, a Captain, and he's nuts on the girl. That's why he dipped into this mess--trying to save her--see? Maybe he won't be so keen now, after the song and dance she gave him up stairs. I'm half inclined to think the guy will drop out entirely, damn glad to get off alive, now he believes she is as rotten as the rest of us.
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