CHAPTER V: GUNMEN’S METHODS
Cates was looking forward with considerable eagerness to Friday night. Any man likes to have the girl see him at his best work, and certainly the radio cop excelled as an announcer. Carefully he planned his broadcast so that there would not be the least hesitation on his part. Everything must go like clockwork.
There is a saying about the best-laid plans. Friday afternoon Cates complained bitterly to Miss Anabelle: “Can you beat those commissioners? Never for a moment did I think they’d get around so quickly to switching the microphone to the new location. I’m not going to take you out there because the place is too dangerous, so we’ll have to call off the exhibition.”
Apprehension showed in the hazel eyes at the mention of danger. She wrote: “Where is the place?” Informed, she wrote again: “I understand. There will be other times, so don’t feel bad about it.”
When Cates had gone, Miss Anabelle gazed very thoughtfully down at her tablet, then made a memorandum of the address.
All things seemed to break that evening. The radio cop went out to the old garage early to get things ready for the first evening’s broadcast.
Glancing out the window, he saw a big man come out of the house Margolo had rented, and go across the street to a drug store. A second glance told Cates that it was none other than Big Ed himself.
Immediately the cop announcer left things as they were and hurried after the gangster.
At the store Cates bought a package of cigarettes while Big Ed was telephoning. Distinctly he heard the gangster say:
“Bring my car out and make it snappy.”