Guns by Ed McBain

Author:Ed McBain [Ed McBain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2011-01-29T12:59:53.968000+00:00

"I don't know," Jeanine said.

get out of here, okay?"

There was an edge to her voice, but packing unhurriedly, folding slips and and sweaters and putting then neatly suitcase. He thought of what had just a little while ago, Jocko cau threshing machine that had been wielding a bread knife. Why fallen apart immediate!v

they still in this apartment, for Christ's Jeanine moving to the dresser now to out a stack of blouses, placing them on the slips she had just folded and into the suitcase. The clock ticking. V/'hen found that clock, he would step on it, he crush it beneath the heel of his foot.

they don't have this address," he "Jocko moved around a lot, didn't he?"

"Yes," she said. She was at the closet now, to pick up several pairs of shoes from floor.

, his parole was from Texas, isn't that i "That's right, yes."

So the cops here wouldn't have a sheet him, except maybe he's wanted for

What I'm saying is, even if did get some good prints from the gun, could only get a make from the F.B.I. and even then it wouldn't give them this

So we got time."

"Okay," she said. "Fine."

"I know he had some spare guns, he told he had some spares. A Walt.her, I think, one of them. Do you know where he them?" "No, I don't," Jeanine said.

"You been here since April, and you don't where he kept his guns?"

"Why don't you go ask him," J "You must have seen him take out he used tonight, didn't you? Where'd it from?" : "I don't know," Jeanine said. :i

"Well, I ain't leaving this without a gun in my belt." i

He went to the dresser and opened' drawer, and began rum aging through underwear and socks and the back of the drawer he found a box Parabellum cartridges, which told memory had been right about the He also found a box of .38 Specials. were the cartridges that fit the Colt that Jocko had used on the job tom there was a third box of .32 Long He was lifting the lid on this box to many cartridges were in it when the rang, startling him. The box hand, spilling cartridges onto the The telephone shrilled into the Cartridges rolled off the dresser top the floor. He saw his own startled the mirror and did not recognize an instant, and again the phone looked swiftly at his watch. It was in the morning, and the phone was ringing... "Get it," he said.

Suppose it's the police?"

"It won't be the police, they don't have an

'"SS

"You don't know that for sure."

"Answer the fuckin thing!"

picked up the receiver on the table. "Hello?" she said. She listened. Teddy," she said. Coney let out his breath.

"Yes, Teddy," she said. "When was that?

-huh. Um-huh. Urn-huh. Well, he's here,

you want to tell him yourself?" She handed phone to Coney, and then walked over to closet. "Hello," Coney said into the phone. "Hey, how you doin?" Teddy said. "Not so hot," Coney said.

"They got a positive on you, huh?" "How'd you know that?"

"I heard your name on the radio.

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