Rog Phillips by The Involuntary Immortals

Author:The Involuntary Immortals
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-08-08T09:29:40+00:00

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CHAPTER XIV

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Eric parked the car as close to the newspaper office as he could. They had a half block walk.

“Who’re we going to look for?” he asked as they walked toward the newspaper office.

“We want to get a picture of Massey, the gang boss of Chicago,” George said, lighting the pipe he had bought on their way into town.

“Phil Massey?” Eric exclaimed. “I never thought of him.”

“I did,” George said. “His name popped into my mind from the start, when I came back to life and found out all that had happened. Wait a minute. Here’s a newsboy. Maybe his picture is in today’s paper. You never know.”

He fished a quarter out of his pocket and exchanged it for the paper. He and Eric kept walking while he opened the front page up so they could look at it.

They stopped dead in their tracks. Staring at them from the center of the front page were two large faces. They were George Granville and Helen Hanover!

The account underneath the pictures stated that they were identified at the scene of the explosion of the three-story brownstone, and that new evidence linked them with other explosions and with an international spy ring. There was ten thousand dollars reward for information leading to their capture.

“You’d better get back in the car,” Eric said. “I’ll get the picture of Massey as quick as I can.”

“Right,” George said. He held the paper up to partly conceal his features and yet appear to be just reading it, and went back to the car. Twenty minutes later, Eric rejoined him.

They drove in silence back to the lodge house. When they arrived the girls ran out to meet them. George thrust the picture of Massey in front of Helen.

“Is that your son?” he asked tensely.

“He’s Phil Massey, the big boss in Illinois,” George said bluntly. “Now look at this.” He handed her the newspaper.

She read it with Alice looking over her shoulder. The two men stood silently until the girls had finished reading.

“Now we know what we’re up against,” George said bitterly. “Massey is known to have the whole state of Illinois sewed up tight. A politician can’t run for office without an O.K. from him. A pickpocket can’t even steal a wallet without getting an O.K. from Phil Massey. If we’re found we’ll be taken back to Illinois, and we wouldn’t stand a chance.”

“But we won’t be found here, George,” Alice said.

“Oh, no?” George gritted. “The doctor and nurses that were here are probably looking at those pictures right now and thinking of that reward. They know we’re here.” “You mean we have to leave?” Alice asked plaintively.

“I don’t know,” George said. “We don’t dare do much traveling. We’d be picked up in a hurry that way. We’ve got to plan carefully.”

“Jerome and his wife are safe,” Eric said. “The reward wouldn’t tempt them. In fact, there’s always a lot more than ten thousand in cash here they could help themselves to if they wanted it.

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