THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS by Cheyney Peter

Author:Cheyney, Peter
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Peter Cheyney, Lemmy Caution, This Man Is Dangerous, Policier
Publisher: Blu Duaine Press
Published: 1936-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

IX. Hot money

She sits there drinkin’ coffee an’ smoking a cigarette an* lookin’ at me, an’ I proceed to tell her the hell of a tale. I tell her how I am goin’ down to some house party with Miss van Zelden on Saturday afternoon an’ the guy who is giving this house party is very keen on the van Zelden dame. I tell her that I am goin’ along because I have got an idea in my head that this feller may try to get funny, an’ that she need not worry because if there is any nonsense I will knock seventeen different kinds of r hell outa this guy.

She falls for this all right. She tells me she knows just how it is an’ there is always a certain type of guy who does not know how to be fond of women without makin’ himself objectionable. I say fine an’ I see she has got the whole idea.

I then go on to tell her that it looks to me like this party might be a bit rough, an’ that her coming round to see me tonight over this Gallat business has given me a swell idea. I say that I am goin’ to suggest to her that without sayin’ anything at all to Miss van Zelden she should put herself in the train on Saturday evening about six o’clock an’ take herself down to some hotel in the neighbourhood and just stick around there just in case this party should get so rough that I might decide to take Miss van Zelden away.

“I get it, Mr. Caution,” she says, “you mean if this party gets really sort of objectionable like, you bring Miss van Zelden back to me an’ I can look after her at the hotel.”

“You’ve got it, Sadie,” I say, “an’ there’s another little thing you might do. Suppose everythin’ goes O.K. an’ the party is nice an’ quiet, then I reckon you’ll want to be back at the Carlton Hotel in case Miss van Zelden comes back some time Sunday.”

She says yes, she reckons that’s how it is. I then arrange with her that she should telephone from the hotel at which she is stayin’ at Thame to the Branders End House. I tell her she can get the number from the inquiry directory. I also tell her I reckon she should stick around until about three o’clock on Sunday morning an’ if by that time she ain’t seen Miss van Zelden or me, she is to phone through to the Branders End House and ask to speak to me.

Now I reckon this is a wise move on my part because I calculate that by three o’clock on Sunday morning I shall know just how the works are down at Branders End, that Siegella will either have shown his hand an’ we shall have crossed him up an’ got Miranda out of it or else having done so Lottie Frisch an’ her mob will have had time to try any funny business that they’re goin’ to try.

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