The Glass Key
“He went quickly to the telephone. "Hello.Yes, Jack… Yes… Yes… Where?… Yes, that's fine… That'll be all tonight. Thanks a lot."When he rose from the telephone he was smiling with pale lips. His eyes were shiny and reckless. His hands shook a little.The telephone-bell rang again before he had taken his third step. He hesitated, went back to the telephone. "Hello… Oh, hello, Paul.Yes, I got tired of playing invalid… Nothing special-just thought I'd drop in and see you… No, I'm afraid I can't. I'm ...not feeling as strong as I thought I was, so I think I'd better go to bed… Yes, tomorrow, sure… 'By."He put on rain-coat and hat going downstairs. Wind drove rain in at him when he opened the street-door, drove it into his face as he walked half a block to the garage on the corner.In the garage's glass-walled office a lanky brown-haired man in once-white overalls was tilted back on a wooden chair, his feet on a shelf above an electric heater, reading a newspaper. He lowered the newspaper when Ned Beaumont said: "'Lo, Tommy."The dirtiness of Tommy's face made his teeth seem whiter than they were.MoreLess
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