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"This," interrupted the Sicilian in back of him coolly, and
drilling even harder into Parradine's spine with that small hard
object," is a snatch, Parradine. No beat up, but a snatch. A
hundred-grand snatch! And don't bother to set up any yodelling,
because you know as well as me that there's two heavy doors--no,
three--shutting this room off from even the floor where the
elevator stops. Yeah, Parradine, it's a hundred-grand snatch, and
with 6 people in it. So you see we mean business! All 6 of us. Just
how that hundred grand is to be cut up ain't none of your concern.
Excepting perhaps that it's your estate who's gonna kick in with
it."
"This," interrupted the Sicilian in back of him coolly, and
drilling even harder into Parradine's spine with that small hard
object," is a snatch, Parradine. No beat up, but a snatch. A
hundred-grand snatch! And don't bother to set up any yodelling,
because you know as well as me that there's two heavy doors--no,
three--shutting this room off from even the floor where the
elevator stops. Yeah, Parradine, it's a hundred-grand snatch, and
with 6 people in it. So you see we mean business! All 6 of us. Just
how that hundred grand is to be cut up ain't none of your concern.
Excepting perhaps that it's your estate who's gonna kick in with
it."
A collection of just about all of the existing short stories
written by Harry Stephen Keeler back in the early 20th century.
Edited by Fred Cleaver, the 22 short stories are followed by a
complete bibliography of Keeler's short fiction.
This, interrupted the Sicilian in back of him coolly, and drilling
even harder into Parradine's spine with that small hard object," is
a snatch, Parradine. No beat up, but a snatch. A hundred-grand
snatch! And don't bother to set up any yodelling, because you know
as well as me that there's two heavy doors--no, three--shutting
this room off from even the floor where the elevator stops. Yeah,
Parradine, it's a hundred-grand snatch, and with 6 people in it. So
you see we mean business! All 6 of us. Just how that hundred grand
is to be cut up ain't none of your concern. Excepting perhaps that
it's your estate who's gonna kick in with it."
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