Direct Wire

by Clee Garson

Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from Amazing Stories January 1943. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

DIRECT WIRE

by CLEE GARSON

Mort and Mike got strange calls on this phone; they didn't come through Central!

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He had a strange husky voice that made queer chills go up and down your spine

here is an empty cigar store on the first floor of the loop building in which I keep my office. Formerly it was managed by two of the slickest small time gambling operators who ever booked a bang-tail or banked a game of Hooligan.