The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-26
Abe Cronkite, Detective Studies Photographs and
Sammy Smiles, BlackmaiIer, Gets a Partner - -

Sammy Smiles with audaGious and master
! full mien.
Sammy turned gray, and his smile was
pitiful
"who are you?' he stammsrod Not
a gun; not a detsotive9'
EDO look it?s retortsd the other, sooTn-
fully. I'm a gentleman Of fortune, and
my nams IL Nools. know a good thing
when / zee IL, and l always work IL for all
its worth.
Say, you don't know a little BIT you
don't, You need a guardian, you do, and
here 1 am. I've heard the whole story
from the next room; and to think Of your
making such petty laroeny graft out Of
full hand against milhonaire's four fiushi
Why il makes me despair Of the present
generation.
but wen Ak that all right. never fear.
Come along, my Buoly; Nooks IL In the
saddle, and there's something doing
-Where-whers are we going9" begged
the shrinking Sammy.
"Going? To your room, Of course, to look
over the letters and plan 70 do up the old
fellow in one round. And look here. my
laddie no larTies go with me. II you make
a false move I'll wiring your neck like a
sick chicken. II you Try TO bolt I'll blow
out your brains. Do you think the author-
ties wouldn't thank me when told your
story? Talk about your Big Jim Bowers.
who doesn't exist. Of counsel I'm devil
in fact, not fancy; mark that
And having gulped down the vine and
sent the bottle a-smash on the hearth Nook
gave a peremptory gesture to his Oom-
panion, who, the very ghost Of his smiling
self followed submissively out Of the room.
III
II was night when the two arrived at the
third story back which served Mr.. Smiles
as that unlost paradise. a home; Sammy
manifestly fallen of in weight, but the en-
gazing Nools bigger. louder, more over
poweringly jovial than ever.
@Ah, ha, he reared. rather high UP, but
cosy for all that. With me in the bed and
you on that lounge We can be snug dsvilish
snug. But you'd be caught like a rat in a
hole IN case Of fire. young fellow
1--WE often thought Of that replied
Sammy, with an apprehensive glance
around.
And planned just how you'd SCOOP up
your valuahles hey. and cut2 A good
general, you know, always provides for a
retreat. Well. Wen let that go for the pros
ent. Business first and then pleasure. It's
time to take an inventory and divvy.'
-Divvy?"
-Divvy is what l said. We must start
fair, mustn't we? You don't suppose I'm
going 10 work a cool hundred thousand out
of old Spight, as have just been explqin-
ing TO you, without first having had my
share Of the poor, miserable hand-me-out
graft you've already collected. Drop that.
damn you"
And with a dextrous wave Of his big
stick Nooks raped Smiles smartly on the
wrist and with his other hand secured a
roll of bills from his furtive grasp
This Is what you copied this afternoon.
is it?" he continued, unheeding the others
means and twists. Five hundred bones.
hey? Nothing but chicken feedi Well.
I'll take it on account. Now what else
have you got?"
so help me-"
Il know you're lying when You say so
help me-, 30 it won, be healthy for you TO
begin that way again" growled Nooks.
e Didn't hear the lady say you had worked
her again and again and again? WHAT"
yes. but l spent il as fast as got it,"
'Oh, you did; then you can fork over