Swag Party by Joe Archibald (pdf)

Author:Joe Archibald (pdf) [Archibald, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-09T05:05:07+00:00

with Snooty Piper. It is not far from the T IS nine o’clock the next A.M. when isolated grog shop where the cops will lurk.

we go into a jeweler’s on Trem

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ont and

“I know a dame living here,” Snooty

have a very dapper character appraise the says. “We will go in and call on her. It is globule we fished out of the gas-line. After all right as she lives with her mother.”

making some funny tests, the citizen looks

“Then why do you bother with her?” I

at us like we had suddenly turned into

says sourly.

Hirohito and Hitler.

We go up to the flat and a doll lets us

“Where did you get this pearl?” he asks

in. She is no bargain even if you stood her Snooty. “It is worth fifteen hundred up against three Fiji Island dames. She dollars.”

giggles a lot and seems flattered that we It is a very good thing I am behind called. We get into a game of gin rummy

Snooty as I catch him just as his knees

with the doll and her old lady and Snooty buckle.

has a seat by the window. All at once he

“We found it in an oyster,” I says and

kicks back his chair and goes to the phone fan Snooty with my hat. “Get hold of and calls the tavern. He says for a citizen yourself,” I says.

named Joe to tell the cops to go to town.

We have to go to the Greek’s after that

“Come on, Scoop,” Snooty says, and

and get straightened out.

the dames just stand there with their

“I know now,” Snooty says, “what will

mouths open as we grab our hats and go

we do with twenty-five hundred bucks?”

out. “It’ll take the thieves at least seven “Buy war bonds, of course. Huh?”

minutes to get that heap into high.”

“I must go down to police headquarters

We hit the street just as Snooty’s old

and talk to the D.A.,” the crackpot says.

can blows a tire. A bullet hit it, and anyway “Oh, this is simple all around. Remember it only had to graze it. Then more guns go about the character who went to Alaska to off and a bullet kicks my hat over on one look for gold and his wife—”

ear.

“This time you have gone nuts,” I says.

“Duck back, Scoop,” Snooty says. “We

We talk to the D.A. Snooty says he

are caught between two fires. Oh, that one wants a car loaded with cops that does not kissed me close. Look out, or we will git TEN DETECTIVE ACES

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run down!”

rest.”

The police car goes by and we can hear

An hour later, the dishonest characters, a familiar bellowing and it does not come having been promised lenience by the from a zoo but from Iron Jaw D.A., squeal on the big fish and his dame.

O’Shaughnessy. On our stomachs in the

Snooty figures it all out.

gutter, we see Snooty’s jalopy try to get

“It was the night me and Scoop stopped

into the window of a dimmed-out hockshop for gas, just before we found out about the and there is a crash of broken glass and pearl snatch. This big dapper guy stopped what-not.

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