Police Your Planet by Lester del Rey

Author:Lester del Rey [Del Rey, Lester]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction
Publisher: Feedbooks
Published: 1956-09-14T21:00:00+00:00

Inside, a thick effluvium hit his nose, and Gordon turned to see Mother Corey’s huge bulk waddling down the hall. The old man nodded. “We thought you’d gone on the lam, cobber. But I guess, since Trench brought you back, you’ve cooled. Good, good. As a respectable man now, I couldn’t have stashed you from the cops—though I might have been tempted—mighty tempted.” His face was melancholy. “Tell me, lad, did they get Murdoch?”

Bruce Gordon nodded, and the old man sighed. Something suspiciously like a tear glistened in his eyes.

“I thought you were taking a bath,” Gordon commented.

The old man chuckled. “Fate’s against me, cobber. With all the shooting, some punk put a bullet clean through the wall and the plastic of the tub. Fifty gallons of water, all wasted!”

He turned back toward the end of the hall, sighing again. Gordon went up the stairs, noticing that Izzy’s door was open. The little man was stretched out on the bunk in his clothes, filthy; one side of his face swollen.

“Hi, gov’nor,” he called out, his voice still cheerful. “I had odds you’d beat the ticket, though the Mother and me were worried there for a while. How’d you grease the fix?”

Gordon sketched it in, without mentioning Security. “What happened to you, Izzy?”

“Price of being honest. But the gees who paid me protection didn’t get hurt, gov’nor.” He winced, then grinned. “So they pay double tomorrow. Honesty pays, gov’nor, if you squeeze it once in a while … Funny, you making sergeant; I thought two other gees won the lottery.”

So the promotion had come from Trench! It bothered him. When a turkey sees corn on the menu, it’s time to wonder about Thanksgiving.

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