The Thubway Tham MEGAPACK ™: 22 Classic Crimes! by Johnston McCulley

Author:Johnston McCulley [McCulley, Johnston]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: mystery, short stories, suspense, thief, crime
ISBN: 9781479409150
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

“It isn’t yours—you said as much,” declared the man from Chicago. He laughed again and hurried across the street before Thubway Tham, in his amazement, could make a move.

As soon as he came to himself Tham followed, anger surging within him. He had saved that man from a term in prison, and in return he had lost money that he had risked liberty to get. Was there no longer honor among thieves?

But Tham was determined. He would get that money, all right. He would follow the man from Chicago, see where he went, ascertain his name, either talk him out of the money or call upon certain friends to aid him in getting it. As for the man from Chicago—there was no place in the local underworld for one so uncognizant of honor and self-respect.

Tham had difficult work catching up with him. The man ahead turned into a busy street and plowed his way through the crowd, and Tham went after him as quickly as he could. Tham was angry for the first time in weeks—really angry. He had followed his better instincts, had remembered his sense of honor, and had been stung. He had found the serpent beneath the rose, the cur that bit the hand that fed it.

His quarry turned into a cheap resort that once had been a corner saloon of ill repute and still retained the character, though it was a saloon no longer. Thubway Tham followed. The man from Chicago had met another stranger and they were talking together.

“Gave me a laugh,” the man from Chicago was saying. “Saved me from the bull and then expected to get the coin back. I told him to be on his way. Said his name was Thubway Tham.”

“And that same bird stands high in these parts,” his companion said. “You’d better look him up and hand over that coin right away. He’ll pass the word and every crook in town will be down on us.”

“I should worry!” the man from Chicago declared. “Afraid of these New York crooks, are you?”

“It’s their town and it might pay us to be decent while we’re in it.”

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