Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XL THE INSIDE OF A BANK Crewe stood behind his bar, near the lower end of it, in his customary attitude. Over the middle of the back bar, beneath the clock, there was a lettered sign which read, in bold, black characters, done by the hand of Christy: BEAT IT TO-NIGHT EVERYBODY WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE The regular patrons of the place asked no questions. A few, not so well versed in the ways of Crewe, did so, and were told tersely that both Crewe and Christy had important business elsewhere that night, and that the place never kept open unless one of them at least was there. When Bantam came in--he had once been a yegg, but was now on the level, although that fact was not generally known in the underworld--Crew signaled him to the bar, and showed the younger man a slip of paper rvhich he held concealed in the hollow of his hand. It bore an address in pencil. "Be there at one o'clock. Have Cracker with you. You'll find Christy, and you'll find me, too," he said tersely. "And," he added in a still lower tone, for he liked and trusted Bantam, and preferred not to mystify him too greatly, "there will be two bulls in the party before it is over--Muchmore and Bunting. But you needn't be afraid of them, lad. They are two out of the ninety per cent, of white cops in this burg." Bantam nodded understandingly. A little later he passed outside. Cracker, for a wonder, did not appear at Crewe's that night, so it went without saying that Bantam found him. Just a little before one o'clock that night, six men, walking singly, approached from four different directions a certain banking institution located in the lower part of the city, and not far from the center of the financial district. When they came close enough to the building they had in view, they went...
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