The Black Mask Magazine (Vol. 5, No. 1 — April 1922) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: detective
Publisher: Pro-distributors Publishing Company
Published: 1922-06-01T21:00:00+00:00

Quietly Marguerite came over to Sergeant Alan Nevins. “You said this — Bird’s-Eye dance hall is on lower Third Street?”

“A respectable girl doesn’t go there — if that’s what you’re intending,” replied Nevins.

He rose suddenly, alarmed by the strangeness of her manner. “Look here, Marge, don’t attempt anything foolish! You can’t mix with that gang! You’d die of nausea—”

“If Jim isn’t avenged, I’ll die of shame!”

“Put you’re no match for them. You are kind, they are pitiless; you are fragile, they are robust; you are innocent of all evil, they are practiced in every conceivable kind of crime and violence.”

And now the bright round eyes of the girl narrowed till they were as two slits; her rich, red lips were drawn thin. “Against all of that, I match my courage! A courage that will be eternally fired and fanned by the memory of Jimmy, lying there in a lot—”

Once again Alan Nevins came toward her with outstretched arms. Again she drew away.

“Mr. Nevins, from now on, and until that gang has paid, you and I are strangers!”

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