The Mystery Megapack by Anthology

Author:Anthology
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: mystery, anthology
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 2011-04-04T07:00:00+00:00

On the corner, before reaching the hostelry, they had to pass a rusty-looking building with peelly lettering on the plate-glass window which announced: “Alschoola State Bank.” Crowded up against the window was a desk before which sat a man who at the moment was fondling a packet of currency.

“See the money buzzard!” remarked The Early Bird.

Mr. Clackworthy smiled; he had to admit that there was something about the man at the bank desk, onion-smooth of pate, narrow-eyed, and with a beaked nose curving down over the upper lips of his thin mouth, which did make one think of a bird of prey.

“I wonder if that is the chief mogul of Alschoola,” he said. “What a joy it would be to separate him from some of the money which he strokes so fondly!”

“Yeah,” snorted The Early Bird, “an’ what a joy it would be to breeze into the subtreasury some quiet P.M., an’ stroll leisurely forth with a coupla suit cases full of thousand-case notes. It would be easier to take two or three million outta the mint than to bilk that bozo outta two bits.”

The Alschoola House extended no cordial hand of welcome. The lazy-eyed, slow-moving clerk was smoking a corncob pipe as he watched two bearded oldsters engrossed with a game of checkers. Almost reluctantly, he tore himself away to receive the two incoming guests from Chicago.

Casting a further disapproving glance over the lobby, The Early Bird waited for Mr. Clackworthy to register. The lobby was shabbily and indifferently furnished with cane-bottomed chairs, numerous cuspidors, and a long, battered table for traveling salesmen to write their letters, at present given over to the checker game. The hotel desk itself was a counter, the top of which was covered with carpeting; at the end of it stood a fly-speckled cigar case of very doubtful-looking smokes.

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