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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The crimp - -Author: Henry Leverage - -Release Date: September 12, 2022 [eBook #68975] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Roger Frank and Sue Clark - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CRIMP *** - - - - - -The Crimp - -by Henry Leverage - - -The law as set down for sailing masters offers a fair measure of -protection for seamen. - -Captain Gully, of the steam whaler Bowhead, was familiar with this law. -It prevented him from completing his crew. Men of any kind were scarce -in San Francisco. Cargoes rotted in ships’ holds while the wages of -ordinary seamen mounted to impossible heights. - -The Bowhead was ready to steam for the Arctic and Bering Sea whaling -grounds. Her boat-steerers, harpooners, mates, engineers, and twelve of -a crew were aboard. Captain Gully dared not cat the anchor without -eighteen men before the mast. He needed six more hands in the -fo’c’s’le. - -“Hansen,” he told his first mate, “lower the dingey and go to the -Blubber Room on East Street. Ask for Abie Kelly. Bring Abie out with -you.” - -“The crimp?” - -“You know him.” - -“_Ja!_ I dank I know him.” - -“Bring him to me!” - -Hansen returned at nightfall. He steadied the bosun’s ladder that hung -from the taffrail and watched Abie Kelly climb to the deck. - -Captain Gully greeted the crimp like a long-lost son. They descended to -the whaler’s cabin while Hansen was hooking the dingey’s bow to a -dangling fall. - -“To be brief as possible,” said Gully after pouring out a generous -portion of rum, “I want six men before midnight, when the tide turns.” - -“What kind of men, cappin?” - -“Any kind, so long as they are husky--Chinks, Kanakas, dock-rats, -mission-stiffs.” - -Abie the Crimp, as he was known along the Barbary Coast, upended the -rum, wiped his mouth, and stared at the skipper of the Bowhead. - -Captain Gully was tall, thin, and weather-beaten. Abie was slight. He -had hawk eyes, black as beads; a hawk’s long nose and a disappearing -chin. He had been born in San Francisco. His mother owned the dive -known from the Golden Gate to Vladivostok as the Blubber Room. - -“Cap,” said Abie, “I’d like to assist you, but you know the law.” - -“Time was when you didn’t speak to me of any law.” - -“That time is gone, cap. The Seamen’s Union is hostile to shanghaiin’. -The crews of all ships going out must sign before the proper -authorities.” - -Captain Gully knew Abie’s former price. - -“There’s a hundred dollars advance for every man you bring aboard who -won’t care what he signs.” - -“Blood money?” - -“Yes. I’ll pay it to you out of hand.” Captain Gully touched his right -breast, where a bulging pocket showed. - -Abie the Crimp needed money. Six hundred dollars was a fair figure to -pay for six men. - -“There’s only one way to get them,” he said. - -“What is that way, Abie?” - -“Th’ same way I fixed up old Cappin Pike of th’ Norwhale, season before -last. He went north with twenty-two good men. I furnished them all -except three.” - -There was pride in Abie’s voice. Captain Gully worked on this. He -suggested: - -“I only want six. Why, that ain’t many for a runner like you.” - -“Not many? I should say it was, the way things are ashore--Seamen’s -Union, Coaster Unions, Shipping Board paying eighty dollars a month for -ordinary sailors. No, it isn’t many, but they are going to be hard to -get. Make it one hundred and twenty-five dollars a man.” - -“How are you going about getting them aboard, Abie?” - -“A new idea with me. I’m a government detective, see. I know the -hangouts and scatters of all the crooks in San Francisco. I know where -they’re coinin’ the queer. I know of a few stills. I heard yesterday of -two new hop joints right on Dupont Street.” - -“You’ll represent yourself as an officer of the law?” - -“I’ve got a gold badge. I’ll make the pinch, turn them over to an -assistant detective who will bring them out to this ship, and you can -do the rest. They’ll be glad enough for getaway when I get done with -them.” - -“I’ll make it one hundred and twenty-five, Abie, if you hurry.” - -The crimp paused with one foot on the ladder which led to the -quarter-deck of the Bowhead. - -“There’s a detective in town, cap, nobody ever saw as far as I can find -out. His name is James Keenon. They’re afraid as hell of him. I’ll be -Keenon to-night. I’ll make six quiet pinches and send the men out to -you.” - -“But they might start trouble before they sign on for the voyage.” - -Abie the Crimp laid his hand over his heart. - -“Cap,” he declared, “there’s men ashore--Chinks and crooks--who would -pay you five hundred dollars to get away from Keenon. See the point?” - -Captain Gully nodded. - -“All right, I’ll be waiting, Abie. Do you need a boat?” - -“Lend me your dingey. Let me have that mate, Hansen. He’s got a pair of -blue pants on--just the thing to imitate a copper’s.” - -“Where will the boat be if I want it?” - -“At the foot of Meigg’s wharf.” - -“What time are you going to send out the first men?” - -“God knows, cap; but it’s an awful crooked part of town where I’m going -to make those phony pinches in.” - -Captain Gully followed Abie up the ladder. Hansen took the skipper’s -orders, touched his cap, pulled the dingey alongside the rudder-post, -and motioned for the crimp to slide down. - -The seaman hitched the painter to a pile at the foot of Meigg’s wharf -after a swift row over the bay, and followed the gliding figure of Abie -along East Street until the Blubber Room was reached. - -“We’ll get some hardware,” explained Abie. “Come in the back room. Sit -down. If you want a drink, tell my mother you’re with me.” - -The crimp appeared within ten minutes. A black, soft-brimmed hat hid -his sharp eyes. A long raincoat reached to his heels. He looked the part -of a sleuth, except his weak chin. - -“Where are you going, Abie?” asked his mother. - -Abie the Crimp leaned over the bar and touched his lips to a muscular -arm. He was a good son in many ways. - -“We’ll try a place I heard of in Jackson Street,” he told Hansen after -they had climbed the stairs from the Blubber Room. “Here, take these -handcuffs and this badge. It’s a building inspector’s. Nobody will know -the difference where we’re going.” - -The seaman crammed two pairs of rusty handcuffs in the side pockets of -his pea-jacket. He pinned the badge on his vest. - -“I’m James Keenon,” explained Abie. “No crook or Chink knows Keenon in -this town. He’s the man behind. He works up the case, scouts around, -and lets somebody else do the pinching. He don’t testify at the trials. -He’s the brains. The detectives you hear about are his tools.” - -“I dank that’s a good way,” said Hansen. - -“Of course it’s good--for me! All I have got to do is say I’m Keenon, -flash my badge, and you make the arrest.” - -Abie opened his raincoat. He ran a finger through an armhole of his -vest. A gold insignia flashed beneath the shielding coat as the crimp -pulled out a suspender strap. - -“That’s where all the good ones wear it,” he explained. “But you want -yours in sight. You’re the tool, to-night.” - -The mate was a big man. He would have made two of Abie. He lacked the -crimp’s energy and assurance. He dropped back one stride and followed -Abie up a hill, through an alley and over a roof. - -“Nothin’ doing,” said Abie after glancing at three windows. “This used -to be a creepin’ joint where sailors were trimmed. The creepers have -crawled away. Guess the police were wise.” - -The crimp led Hansen through a maze of courts, covered arches and -hallways. They started descending cellar steps. Musty bales loomed -before them. It was the place of Wan Fat, dealer in li-she nuts. - -Abie recalled a brief-caught conversation which he had overheard in the -rear of the Blubber Room. Wan Fat, and his brother Sing Fat, observed -the law. Next door, however, lived Hong Kee, who was known to have a -supply of choice Victoria opium. The matter of the opium was common -gossip along the Barbary Coast. Hong Kee did not know Abie. - -The crimp’s pride had been awakened by Captain Gully. Here was a -chance. He tiptoed between Wan Fat’s bales of nuts, drew Hansen to his -side, and pointed to a low door. - -“Bust through there,” he whispered. “You won’t need no gat. I’ll go all -the way up-stairs. We’ll trap the rats.” - -Hong Kee and two of his patrons were enjoying themselves around a -layout tray when Abie, armed with a rusty revolver, dropped through a -roof-scuttle and Hansen broke down the door. - -The placid faces of the Chinamen underwent several changes after the -crimp ripped open a chair’s cushion and pulled out five toys of opium. -He had learned of the hiding-place while listening to the conversation -of two hop fiends in his mother’s dive. - -He convinced the Celestials that he meant business. He explained that -he was the much-feared Keenon. The mere possession of five cans of hop -called for years in prison. Hong Kee and two coolie friends were taken -by a roundabout route to Meigg’s wharf. Hansen did not need to handcuff -them. - -Captain Gully, on watch, held up three fingers when Abie was rowed from -the dingey whaler. The crimp had half filled the contract. - -“I dank it will be easy to get the others,” said the mate, whose slow -brain had finally grasped Abie’s big idea. - -“We should have no trouble at all,” Abie answered. He relaxed into -silence and was rowed ashore. - -Rain fell athwart the city. A mist rested on top of Knob Hill. Abie, -hidden beneath the slouch hat and raincoat, entered several opium dens -in hopes of catching some one napping. He was recognized in one of -these. This would not do. He was supposed to be Keenon, a detective. - -“We’ll try for a big haul,” he told the faithful mate. “We’ll break in -where men are making money.” - -The method pursued by the crimp to find the location of the coiners he -had in mind was an involved detour which took all of an hour of -precious time. - -Mother Kelly, on duty as barmaid at the Blubber Room, supplied the -necessary information. The Yetsky Wop, who had fortunately tried to -pass a smooth two-bit piece on Abie’s mother the day before, had never -met Abie. His address was on Lower Mission Street, between a Chinese -laundry and a ship’s outfitter. - -The crimp acted energetically. He dragged the mate out from a crowd -that surrounded a soap-box preacher at Mission and East Street. He -crossed the sidewalk, loosened his revolver, and started mounting -flights of stairs which were steep as the shrouds to a topmast. - -The Yetsky Wop, a meek-eyed Italian and his assistant coiner, had a -crucible on a stove and three plaster-of-Paris molds ready for filling. -Both raised their arms when Abie, backed by the mate, came around by a -fire-escape. - -The crimp took no chances with the coiners. Yetsky’s brother was known -in the city as Angel Face. He was credited with five murders. - -Hansen securely handcuffed the prisoners. He waited while Abie searched -the room. A plating outfit, a box of copper and zinc, and a double -handful of smooth quarters were hidden beneath the floor. - -“I’m Keenon of the Secret Service!” said Abie. “My man will take you -out to the revenue cutter. You go to the Federal prison.” - -Yetsky and his brother had feared Detective Keenon for over four years. -They were plastic as their own plaster-of-Paris in the mate’s hands. -They jumped to his proposal of letting them get away on a whaler. Had -not they been caught red-handed? It was bad enough to have queer money -in one’s possession, but double worse to have both the money and the -molds. The sentence given by the Federal courts on similar charges had -been five years for each offense. - -Abie waited at the shore end of Meigg’s wharf for the mate to return -from the whaler Bowhead. He had done remarkably well in the matter of -getting Captain Gully a crew. There remained one more man to secure. -The crimp had his pride. He had promised six. - -The rain was a dampener to his hopes of getting this man. It would be -useless to send out anybody except one who feared the law more than a -whaling voyage. - -Yetsky, Angel Face, Hong Kee and the two coolies would sign any paper -at midnight. They did not need to be urged to leave San Francisco. - -“Having put the fear of Keenon into their hearts,” Abie told Hansen, -when the mate came ashore, “we’ll proceed to find the last man. What -did Captain Gully say?” - -“I dank he say nothin’. He is sitting on the booby-hatch holding down -the crew.” - -Abie led the mate toward Mission Street. The two men paused a moment in -the shelter of an awning. The soap-box preacher had guided his flock of -derelicts into the Beacon Room. - -The Beacon Room was a long saloon made over into a mission hall. The -windows were silvered with Rochelle salts. A tramp stood at the -entrance. He shivered in the rain, opened the door, and went inside. -The sound of voices came through the transom. They were pitched in many -broken keys. - -“Holy Joe’s Place,” was the name given to the Beacon Light by the -denizens of the Barbary Coast. Holy Joe had long been a figure of -prominence along the water-front. He took in seamen, runaway -apprentices from British ships, and the flotsam of the West Coast. He -fed them, prayed for them, and sent them forth strengthened in body and -spirit. - -Abie knew Holy Joe by sight. The missionary and preacher had frequently -visited the Blubber Room. It was rumored that he was not averse to -taking a drink. - -There existed an antipathy between the crimp and the preacher. Abie -Kelly believed Holy Joe to be a sickening fraud. He had told his mother -so. The missionary’s visits to dives and saloons led the crimp to -presume he was seeking whisky. Moreover, on one occasion, Abie had seen -Holy Joe staggering. - -“I’ve got my man!” said the crimp. “I won’t need you any more, Hansen. -Go to the boat and wait for me.” - -“I dank I better stay around.” - -Abie drew himself up to his full height of five feet four inches. “I’ve -my man located,” he said. “He’s the preacher--Holy Joe!” - -The mate shook his blond head. “Did he break a law?” - -“Break th’ law? He’s lucky to stay out of San Quentin--what I know -about him.” - -Abie knew nothing more about Holy Joe than the Barbary Coast gossip -that the missionary was a gad-about and a nuisance. He was anxious to -get rid of the mate. The time was short for him to supply Captain Gully -with the sixth man. - -“At the foot of Meigg’s Wharf.” - -Hansen strode stiffly toward East Street. He vanished around the -corner. Abie dived toward the Blubber Room. He went through the back -door, reached under an old icebox, and pulled out a tiny vial. It was -filled with a mixture of chloral-hydrate and morphia--two drugs which -would produce a deep sleep if taken in quantity. - -Mother Kelly supplied Abie with a half-pint of bar whisky. Into this -the crimp poured a tablespoon of the drug. He estimated the knockout -dose for an average man to be fifteen drops of chloral and morphia. He -had some experience in that line. The flask he pocketed and carried -back to the Beacon Light was known as a “shoo-fly.” - -Abie’s new idea was to get rid of Holy Joe and satisfy Captain Gully at -the same time. His professional pride had changed to the soul-pleasing -belief that the skipper of the Bowhead should be handed something as a -reminder of the old days of shanghaiing. It would not be good ethics to -let him get off without a hot one. The hot one being Holy Joe, who most -certainly would make trouble. - -From Abie’s view-point all men were equal. He slipped into the Mission -Hall like an eel. He took a shaky seat between a frowsled seafarer and -a water-rat. He stared over the swaying heads of the congregation to -where Holy Joe loomed upon a platform. - -The preaching went on after a suggestive pause. The presence of Abie, -the crimp, had almost brought forth a remark from the missionary. He -recognized Mother Kelly’s unsavory son. He changed the text and spoke -of prodigals. - -Abie was all eyes. He pretended to be deeply interested. Back in his -brain his plan took form. He reviewed exactly what he was going to say -to Holy Joe. It would take finesse to land the last man on the deck of -the whale-ship. The service closed with the hymn: - -“Salvation, Salvation--” changed to “There’s a Light in the Window.” - -The meeting began to disperse. Abie waited until Holy Joe descended the -platform and started down the aisle. - -“A minute, preacher,” he said. “You know me, don’t you?” - -Holy Joe, so called along the water-front, dropped a lambent glance -upon Abie’s glossy hair. - -“How are you, boy?” he asked. “I’m glad you came to-night. I hope to--” - -“Cut that,” said Abie, remembering his role. “You see, I came to you -because you was the only man who could help.” - -“Help what?” - -Abie paused a suggestive minute. He stared around the rapidly emptying -mission room. - -“There’s a man dyin’ out in th’ fo’c’s’le of th’ whaler Bowhead, -preacher. He ain’t got nobody to pray for him. His name is Yetsky. He -was hit by a Chink. He’ll die and they’ll throw him overboard to th’ -fishes.” - -Holy Joe, as Abie the Crimp expected, became interested. - -“I’ll be with you in a minute,” he said, glancing at his flock going -out the door. - -“No! It’s life or death, preacher. The Yetsky Wop--” - -“The Yetsky Wop?” - -“Sure, preacher. D’ye know who I mean now?” - -“Yes. I’ve been watching his progress for years. He’s one of my -particular--converts.” - -“He’s in bad now. Keenon, of the Secret Service, pinched him for makin’ -queer money. The detective let him go when he promised to stay aboard -the whaler until it went out.” - -The lambent light in Holy Joe’s eyes died to a restrospective glitter. -Abie, keenly alert, detected a resolute movement of the missionary’s -lips. They closed in a straight line. - -“I’ve heard of Keenon, Abie. So he arrested one of my converts? That is -too bad!” - -“Got him dead, bang right! Caught him with th’ goods--molds and copper -an’ a platin’ outfit. Then this Keenon lets him go.” - -“Were there any witnesses to the raid, Abie?” - -“Sure! A mate of th’ Bowhead saw th’ whole thing.” - -“What is the mate’s name?” - -“Hansen.” - -“How--did the Yetsky Wop get injured?” - -“A Chink hit him on th’ head. The Chink’s name is Hong Kee.” - -Abie thought he might as well pile matters on thick enough to make sure -of getting Holy Joe out in the dingey. Hong Kee was a well known -Barbary Coast character. The crimp was not surprised when Holy Joe -started buttoning up a long black coat and looking about for a hat. - -“You’re comin’ with me, preacher?” - -“Most certainly! I shall be of some service, I hope. You haven’t -explained how Hong Kee came to go to the whaler.” - -“Oh, Keenon caught him with five cans o’ hop. It was good hop. I saw it -with my own eyes.” - -Abie was the only man in San Francisco who knew where the five cans -were hidden at that particular minute. He intended selling them when -the Bowhead was well out from shore soundings. - -“You get me,” he told Holy Joe after they left the mission hall. “You -get me, preacher, when I tell you that I am Keenon. It’s not generally -known.” - -The missionary did show some surprise. - -“Why, I never suspected that,” he said. - -“Are you the government detective?” - -Abie opened his coat, ran a thumb within the armhole of his checked -vest, and showed the gold insignia that was pinned to his suspender -strap. - -“United States Secret Service,” whispered Holy Joe. “I never knew it, -Abie.” - -“Sure! I pinched those guys to-night, then I changed m’ mind an’ let -’em go--to th’ whaler. They started fightin’ among themselves--there’s -some more out there--an’ Captain Gully sent word to me that Yetsky Wop -was dyin’ an’ needed a preacher. I thought of you.” - -Abie searched for sign of Hansen at the shore end of Meigg’s wharf. He -whistled shrilly. The mate, sleepy and damp, emerged from the shelter -of a shed. - -“Right out to th’ Bowhead!” commanded the crimp. “I’ve kept my promise -to Captain Gully. This is the man!” - -The mate was a silent soul. He started rowing with long whalerman’s -strokes. - -Abie sat on the after thwart with Holy Joe. They faced the seaman whose -glance was directed toward the Market Street ferry-house. - -The Bowhead was some little distance from the shore. It showed a pale -riding-light on the foremast. No other ship was near the whaler. - -“So you are Keenon?” said the missionary suddenly. - -“Bet I am, preacher! Even my mother don’t know it.” - -“It’s a bad thing for a son to keep anything from his mother.” - -“Got to! My life’s always in danger.” Abie reached into his hip-pocket, -brought out the half-pint of whisky, and pulled the cork with his -teeth. - -“Have some?” - -Holy Joe moistened his straight lips. Abie could not see the preacher’s -expression on account of the darkness. A light smacking indicated that -the bait was acceptable. Holy Joe had been seen in too many dives and -saloons along the coast of Barbary to refuse a drink. - -“With my blessing,” said the preacher, handing back the flask. - -Abie pretended to take an enormous swallow. He pressed his tongue over -the mouth of the bottle. Even then he tasted the bitterness of the -chloral-hydrate and morphia. He wondered how Holy Joe stood the -decoction. The preacher commenced swaying on the thwart. He rocked the -small boat slightly. Hansen glanced at him. - -“Abie,” said Holy Joe in a low voice, “I’m not pleased with that -whisky.” - -“Oh, it’s all right, preacher. You know we make it in the cellar. We -got a private still. You see, me being a government man allows us to do -it.” - -“It was bitter, Abie.” - -The crimp realized that he would have to be careful if he wanted to -deliver Captain Gully’s last man. Holy Joe was apparently going under. -There was a quarter-knot to be rowed before the Bowhead could be -boarded. - -“What’s the matter, preacher?” he asked. “Are you prayin’?” - -“I’m thinking, Abie, of what you told me about Yetsky Wop. Did Hong Kee -strike him with provocation?” - -“The Chink ran amuck. He tried to kill Yetsky’s brother.” - -“Angel Face?” - -“Sure! The one they want for five murders. I found him with Yetsky when -I made the pinch. I’m going to let them go. I’ve changed heart, -preacher.” - -Holy Joe wound his arms around Abie’s waist, and lurched to an erect -position. Abie experienced the sensation of having his pockets picked. -He wondered if the preacher had been seeking the flask of whisky. It -was a strange action for a missionary. He attributed it to the effects -of at least fifteen drops of chloral-hydrate. - -The dingey swung its bow. Hansen drew in an oar. The dark outlines of -the Bowhead were ahead. Captain Gully stood on the forepeak. He lowered -a bo’swain’s ladder. - -“Up we go,” said Abie. “Go right into the fo’c’s’le, preacher. There’s -Yetsky Wop an’ Angel Face an’ Hong Kee waitin’ for you.” - -Captain Gully unbattened the booby-hatch. He stepped aside. He leaned -against a pinrail. Holy Joe, staggering and mumbling, crossed the -whaler’s planks, turned, and descended the greasy steps. - -Abie grinned at the pleased skipper. “Six,” he whispered. He reached -for the rusty revolver which should have been in his pocket. - -He had lost it during the boat ride! It was the weapon he intended -using on the missionary. A light tap behind the ear would finish the -work of the narcotic. - -Abie was resourceful. He thought in split seconds. He heard voices -below. One was Yetsky Wop’s. - -“My last man’s all right,” he assured the captain. “I’ll put him in a -bunk.” - -The scene in the fo’c’s’le of the whaler was not exactly to the crimp’s -liking. He turned from the foot of the ladder and searched the gloom -for Holy Joe. - -The missionary struck a match. The yellow flame passed from bunk to -bunk. Evil, vice-stamped faces, answered the search. The match went -out. Abie, crouching with a belaying-pin in his hand, suddenly felt his -wrist gripped with compelling fingers. - -He writhed. His arm was bent back. Holy Joe’s voice was low and -demanding. - -“Drop that! Now turn. Now go up the ladder. Follow me. Don’t twist. -It’s no use at all, Abie.” - -The astonished skipper of the Bowhead was a witness to Abie’s forced -exit from the booby-hatch. Holy Joe, so called along the Barbary Coast, -hurled the crimp against the fife-rail on the foremast. - -The preacher’s smile was bland. He swiftly closed the hatch. He drove -in a holding-pin with his right heel. - -He turned to Abie: - -“I didn’t drink the knockout drops. I poured it down my shirt-front. I -didn’t leave the mission because I like the atmosphere of this whaler. -You see, I _am_ interested in Yetsky Wop and Yetsky’s brother, Angel -Face, the coiner. He is wanted by the government. I’ll be promoted for -capturing him.” - -Abie did not need to be told Holy Joe’s right name. He pieced events -together. They dove-tailed. The reason for the missionary showing -interest in Yetsky Wop--his habit of visiting the hangouts of -crooks--the adept manner in which he picked pockets, all pointed to a -crushing conclusion. - -“You’re Detective Keenon!” declared the crimp. - -The Secret Service man turned up the lower left-hand corner of his vest -and showed the insignia of his office. - -He said with the politest kind of a bow, after glancing at the hatch: - -“Thanks, Abie!” - - -[Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the November 13, 1920 issue -of Argosy All-Story Weekly.] - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CRIMP *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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Men of any kind were scarce -in San Francisco. Cargoes rotted in ships’ holds while the wages of -ordinary seamen mounted to impossible heights.</p> - -<p>The Bowhead was ready to steam for the Arctic and Bering Sea whaling -grounds. Her boat-steerers, harpooners, mates, engineers, and twelve of -a crew were aboard. Captain Gully dared not cat the anchor without -eighteen men before the mast. He needed six more hands in the fo’c’s’le.</p> - -<p>“Hansen,” he told his first mate, “lower the dingey and go to the -Blubber Room on East Street. Ask for Abie Kelly. Bring Abie out with -you.”</p> - -<p>“The crimp?”</p> - -<p>“You know him.”</p> - -<p>“<i>Ja!</i> I dank I know him.”</p> - -<p>“Bring him to me!”</p> - -<p>Hansen returned at nightfall. He steadied the bosun’s ladder that hung -from the taffrail and watched Abie Kelly climb to the deck.</p> - -<p>Captain Gully greeted the crimp like a long-lost son. They descended to -the whaler’s cabin while Hansen was hooking the dingey’s bow to a -dangling fall.</p> - -<p>“To be brief as possible,” said Gully after pouring out a generous -portion of rum, “I want six men before midnight, when the tide turns.”</p> - -<p>“What kind of men, cappin?”</p> - -<p>“Any kind, so long as they are husky—Chinks, Kanakas, dock-rats, -mission-stiffs.”</p> - -<p>Abie the Crimp, as he was known along the Barbary Coast, upended the -rum, wiped his mouth, and stared at the skipper of the Bowhead.</p> - -<p>Captain Gully was tall, thin, and weather-beaten. Abie was slight. He -had hawk eyes, black as beads; a hawk’s long nose and a disappearing -chin. He had been born in San Francisco. His mother owned the dive known -from the Golden Gate to Vladivostok as the Blubber Room.</p> - -<p>“Cap,” said Abie, “I’d like to assist you, but you know the law.”</p> - -<p>“Time was when you didn’t speak to me of any law.”</p> - -<p>“That time is gone, cap. The Seamen’s Union is hostile to shanghaiin’. -The crews of all ships going out must sign before the proper -authorities.”</p> - -<p>Captain Gully knew Abie’s former price.</p> - -<p>“There’s a hundred dollars advance for every man you bring aboard who -won’t care what he signs.”</p> - -<p>“Blood money?”</p> - -<p>“Yes. I’ll pay it to you out of hand.” Captain Gully touched his right -breast, where a bulging pocket showed.</p> - -<p>Abie the Crimp needed money. Six hundred dollars was a fair figure to -pay for six men.</p> - -<p>“There’s only one way to get them,” he said.</p> - -<p>“What is that way, Abie?”</p> - -<p>“Th’ same way I fixed up old Cappin Pike of th’ Norwhale, season before -last. He went north with twenty-two good men. I furnished them all -except three.”</p> - -<p>There was pride in Abie’s voice. Captain Gully worked on this. He -suggested:</p> - -<p>“I only want six. Why, that ain’t many for a runner like you.”</p> - -<p>“Not many? I should say it was, the way things are ashore—Seamen’s -Union, Coaster Unions, Shipping Board paying eighty dollars a month for -ordinary sailors. No, it isn’t many, but they are going to be hard to -get. Make it one hundred and twenty-five dollars a man.”</p> - -<p>“How are you going about getting them aboard, Abie?”</p> - -<p>“A new idea with me. I’m a government detective, see. I know the -hangouts and scatters of all the crooks in San Francisco. I know where -they’re coinin’ the queer. I know of a few stills. I heard yesterday of -two new hop joints right on Dupont Street.”</p> - -<p>“You’ll represent yourself as an officer of the law?”</p> - -<p>“I’ve got a gold badge. I’ll make the pinch, turn them over to an -assistant detective who will bring them out to this ship, and you can do -the rest. They’ll be glad enough for getaway when I get done with them.”</p> - -<p>“I’ll make it one hundred and twenty-five, Abie, if you hurry.”</p> - -<p>The crimp paused with one foot on the ladder which led to the -quarter-deck of the Bowhead.</p> - -<p>“There’s a detective in town, cap, nobody ever saw as far as I can find -out. His name is James Keenon. They’re afraid as hell of him. I’ll be -Keenon to-night. I’ll make six quiet pinches and send the men out to -you.”</p> - -<p>“But they might start trouble before they sign on for the voyage.”</p> - -<p>Abie the Crimp laid his hand over his heart.</p> - -<p>“Cap,” he declared, “there’s men ashore—Chinks and crooks—who would -pay you five hundred dollars to get away from Keenon. See the point?”</p> - -<p>Captain Gully nodded.</p> - -<p>“All right, I’ll be waiting, Abie. Do you need a boat?”</p> - -<p>“Lend me your dingey. Let me have that mate, Hansen. He’s got a pair of -blue pants on—just the thing to imitate a copper’s.”</p> - -<p>“Where will the boat be if I want it?”</p> - -<p>“At the foot of Meigg’s wharf.”</p> - -<p>“What time are you going to send out the first men?”</p> - -<p>“God knows, cap; but it’s an awful crooked part of town where I’m going -to make those phony pinches in.”</p> - -<p>Captain Gully followed Abie up the ladder. Hansen took the skipper’s -orders, touched his cap, pulled the dingey alongside the rudder-post, -and motioned for the crimp to slide down.</p> - -<p>The seaman hitched the painter to a pile at the foot of Meigg’s wharf -after a swift row over the bay, and followed the gliding figure of Abie -along East Street until the Blubber Room was reached.</p> - -<p>“We’ll get some hardware,” explained Abie. “Come in the back room. Sit -down. If you want a drink, tell my mother you’re with me.”</p> - -<p>The crimp appeared within ten minutes. A black, soft-brimmed hat hid his -sharp eyes. A long raincoat reached to his heels. He looked the part of a -sleuth, except his weak chin.</p> - -<p>“Where are you going, Abie?” asked his mother.</p> - -<p>Abie the Crimp leaned over the bar and touched his lips to a muscular -arm. He was a good son in many ways.</p> - -<p>“We’ll try a place I heard of in Jackson Street,” he told Hansen after -they had climbed the stairs from the Blubber Room. “Here, take these -handcuffs and this badge. It’s a building inspector’s. Nobody will know -the difference where we’re going.”</p> - -<p>The seaman crammed two pairs of rusty handcuffs in the side pockets of -his pea-jacket. He pinned the badge on his vest.</p> - -<p>“I’m James Keenon,” explained Abie. “No crook or Chink knows Keenon in -this town. He’s the man behind. He works up the case, scouts around, and -lets somebody else do the pinching. He don’t testify at the trials. He’s -the brains. The detectives you hear about are his tools.”</p> - -<p>“I dank that’s a good way,” said Hansen.</p> - -<p>“Of course it’s good—for me! All I have got to do is say I’m Keenon, -flash my badge, and you make the arrest.”</p> - -<p>Abie opened his raincoat. He ran a finger through an armhole of his -vest. A gold insignia flashed beneath the shielding coat as the crimp -pulled out a suspender strap.</p> - -<p>“That’s where all the good ones wear it,” he explained. “But you want -yours in sight. You’re the tool, to-night.”</p> - -<p>The mate was a big man. He would have made two of Abie. He lacked the -crimp’s energy and assurance. He dropped back one stride and followed -Abie up a hill, through an alley and over a roof.</p> - -<p>“Nothin’ doing,” said Abie after glancing at three windows. “This used -to be a creepin’ joint where sailors were trimmed. The creepers have -crawled away. Guess the police were wise.”</p> - -<p>The crimp led Hansen through a maze of courts, covered arches and -hallways. They started descending cellar steps. Musty bales loomed -before them. It was the place of Wan Fat, dealer in li-she nuts.</p> - -<p>Abie recalled a brief-caught conversation which he had overheard in the -rear of the Blubber Room. Wan Fat, and his brother Sing Fat, observed -the law. Next door, however, lived Hong Kee, who was known to have a -supply of choice Victoria opium. The matter of the opium was common -gossip along the Barbary Coast. Hong Kee did not know Abie.</p> - -<p>The crimp’s pride had been awakened by Captain Gully. Here was a chance. -He tiptoed between Wan Fat’s bales of nuts, drew Hansen to his side, and -pointed to a low door.</p> - -<p>“Bust through there,” he whispered. “You won’t need no gat. I’ll go all -the way up-stairs. We’ll trap the rats.”</p> - -<p>Hong Kee and two of his patrons were enjoying themselves around a layout -tray when Abie, armed with a rusty revolver, dropped through a -roof-scuttle and Hansen broke down the door.</p> - -<p>The placid faces of the Chinamen underwent several changes after the -crimp ripped open a chair’s cushion and pulled out five toys of opium. -He had learned of the hiding-place while listening to the conversation -of two hop fiends in his mother’s dive.</p> - -<p>He convinced the Celestials that he meant business. He explained that he -was the much-feared Keenon. The mere possession of five cans of hop -called for years in prison. Hong Kee and two coolie friends were taken -by a roundabout route to Meigg’s wharf. Hansen did not need to handcuff -them.</p> - -<p>Captain Gully, on watch, held up three fingers when Abie was rowed from -the dingey whaler. The crimp had half filled the contract.</p> - -<p>“I dank it will be easy to get the others,” said the mate, whose slow -brain had finally grasped Abie’s big idea.</p> - -<p>“We should have no trouble at all,” Abie answered. He relaxed into -silence and was rowed ashore.</p> - -<p>Rain fell athwart the city. A mist rested on top of Knob Hill. Abie, -hidden beneath the slouch hat and raincoat, entered several opium dens -in hopes of catching some one napping. He was recognized in one of -these. This would not do. He was supposed to be Keenon, a detective.</p> - -<p>“We’ll try for a big haul,” he told the faithful mate. “We’ll break in -where men are making money.”</p> - -<p>The method pursued by the crimp to find the location of the coiners he -had in mind was an involved detour which took all of an hour of precious -time.</p> - -<p>Mother Kelly, on duty as barmaid at the Blubber Room, supplied the -necessary information. The Yetsky Wop, who had fortunately tried to pass -a smooth two-bit piece on Abie’s mother the day before, had never met -Abie. His address was on Lower Mission Street, between a Chinese laundry -and a ship’s outfitter.</p> - -<p>The crimp acted energetically. He dragged the mate out from a crowd that -surrounded a soap-box preacher at Mission and East Street. He crossed -the sidewalk, loosened his revolver, and started mounting flights of -stairs which were steep as the shrouds to a topmast.</p> - -<p>The Yetsky Wop, a meek-eyed Italian and his assistant coiner, had a -crucible on a stove and three plaster-of-Paris molds ready for filling. -Both raised their arms when Abie, backed by the mate, came around by a -fire-escape.</p> - -<p>The crimp took no chances with the coiners. Yetsky’s brother was known -in the city as Angel Face. He was credited with five murders.</p> - -<p>Hansen securely handcuffed the prisoners. He waited while Abie searched -the room. A plating outfit, a box of copper and zinc, and a double -handful of smooth quarters were hidden beneath the floor.</p> - -<p>“I’m Keenon of the Secret Service!” said Abie. “My man will take you -out to the revenue cutter. You go to the Federal prison.”</p> - -<p>Yetsky and his brother had feared Detective Keenon for over four years. -They were plastic as their own plaster-of-Paris in the mate’s hands. -They jumped to his proposal of letting them get away on a whaler. Had -not they been caught red-handed? It was bad enough to have queer money -in one’s possession, but double worse to have both the money and the -molds. The sentence given by the Federal courts on similar charges had -been five years for each offense.</p> - -<p>Abie waited at the shore end of Meigg’s wharf for the mate to return -from the whaler Bowhead. He had done remarkably well in the matter of -getting Captain Gully a crew. There remained one more man to secure. The -crimp had his pride. He had promised six.</p> - -<p>The rain was a dampener to his hopes of getting this man. It would be -useless to send out anybody except one who feared the law more than a -whaling voyage.</p> - -<p>Yetsky, Angel Face, Hong Kee and the two coolies would sign any paper at -midnight. They did not need to be urged to leave San Francisco.</p> - -<p>“Having put the fear of Keenon into their hearts,” Abie told Hansen, -when the mate came ashore, “we’ll proceed to find the last man. What did -Captain Gully say?”</p> - -<p>“I dank he say nothin’. He is sitting on the booby-hatch holding down -the crew.”</p> - -<p>Abie led the mate toward Mission Street. The two men paused a moment in -the shelter of an awning. The soap-box preacher had guided his flock of -derelicts into the Beacon Room.</p> - -<p>The Beacon Room was a long saloon made over into a mission hall. The -windows were silvered with Rochelle salts. A tramp stood at the -entrance. He shivered in the rain, opened the door, and went inside. The -sound of voices came through the transom. They were pitched in many -broken keys.</p> - -<p>“Holy Joe’s Place,” was the name given to the Beacon Light by the -denizens of the Barbary Coast. Holy Joe had long been a figure of -prominence along the water-front. He took in seamen, runaway apprentices -from British ships, and the flotsam of the West Coast. He fed them, -prayed for them, and sent them forth strengthened in body and spirit.</p> - -<p>Abie knew Holy Joe by sight. The missionary and preacher had frequently -visited the Blubber Room. It was rumored that he was not averse to -taking a drink.</p> - -<p>There existed an antipathy between the crimp and the preacher. Abie -Kelly believed Holy Joe to be a sickening fraud. He had told his mother -so. The missionary’s visits to dives and saloons led the crimp to -presume he was seeking whisky. Moreover, on one occasion, Abie had seen -Holy Joe staggering.</p> - -<p>“I’ve got my man!” said the crimp. “I won’t need you any more, Hansen. -Go to the boat and wait for me.”</p> - -<p>“I dank I better stay around.”</p> - -<p>Abie drew himself up to his full height of five feet four inches. “I’ve -my man located,” he said. “He’s the preacher—Holy Joe!”</p> - -<p>The mate shook his blond head. “Did he break a law?”</p> - -<p>“Break th’ law? He’s lucky to stay out of San Quentin—what I know about -him.”</p> - -<p>Abie knew nothing more about Holy Joe than the Barbary Coast gossip that -the missionary was a gad-about and a nuisance. He was anxious to get rid -of the mate. The time was short for him to supply Captain Gully with the -sixth man.</p> - -<p>“At the foot of Meigg’s Wharf.”</p> - -<p>Hansen strode stiffly toward East Street. He vanished around the corner. -Abie dived toward the Blubber Room. He went through the back door, -reached under an old icebox, and pulled out a tiny vial. It was filled -with a mixture of chloral-hydrate and morphia—two drugs which would -produce a deep sleep if taken in quantity.</p> - -<p>Mother Kelly supplied Abie with a half-pint of bar whisky. Into this the -crimp poured a tablespoon of the drug. He estimated the knockout dose -for an average man to be fifteen drops of chloral and morphia. He had -some experience in that line. The flask he pocketed and carried back to -the Beacon Light was known as a “shoo-fly.”</p> - -<p>Abie’s new idea was to get rid of Holy Joe and satisfy Captain Gully at -the same time. His professional pride had changed to the soul-pleasing -belief that the skipper of the Bowhead should be handed something as a -reminder of the old days of shanghaiing. It would not be good ethics to -let him get off without a hot one. The hot one being Holy Joe, who most -certainly would make trouble.</p> - -<p>From Abie’s view-point all men were equal. He slipped into the Mission -Hall like an eel. He took a shaky seat between a frowsled seafarer and a -water-rat. He stared over the swaying heads of the congregation to where -Holy Joe loomed upon a platform.</p> - -<p>The preaching went on after a suggestive pause. The presence of Abie, -the crimp, had almost brought forth a remark from the missionary. He -recognized Mother Kelly’s unsavory son. He changed the text and spoke of -prodigals.</p> - -<p>Abie was all eyes. He pretended to be deeply interested. Back in his -brain his plan took form. He reviewed exactly what he was going to say -to Holy Joe. It would take finesse to land the last man on the deck of -the whale-ship. The service closed with the hymn:</p> - -<p>“Salvation, Salvation—” changed to “There’s a Light in the Window.”</p> - -<p>The meeting began to disperse. Abie waited until Holy Joe descended the -platform and started down the aisle.</p> - -<p>“A minute, preacher,” he said. “You know me, don’t you?”</p> - -<p>Holy Joe, so called along the water-front, dropped a lambent glance upon -Abie’s glossy hair.</p> - -<p>“How are you, boy?” he asked. “I’m glad you came to-night. I hope to—”</p> - -<p>“Cut that,” said Abie, remembering his role. “You see, I came to you -because you was the only man who could help.”</p> - -<p>“Help what?”</p> - -<p>Abie paused a suggestive minute. He stared around the rapidly emptying -mission room.</p> - -<p>“There’s a man dyin’ out in th’ fo’c’s’le of th’ whaler Bowhead, -preacher. He ain’t got nobody to pray for him. His name is Yetsky. He -was hit by a Chink. He’ll die and they’ll throw him overboard to th’ -fishes.”</p> - -<p>Holy Joe, as Abie the Crimp expected, became interested.</p> - -<p>“I’ll be with you in a minute,” he said, glancing at his flock going out -the door.</p> - -<p>“No! It’s life or death, preacher. The Yetsky Wop—”</p> - -<p>“The Yetsky Wop?”</p> - -<p>“Sure, preacher. D’ye know who I mean now?”</p> - -<p>“Yes. I’ve been watching his progress for years. He’s one of my -particular—converts.”</p> - -<p>“He’s in bad now. Keenon, of the Secret Service, pinched him for makin’ -queer money. The detective let him go when he promised to stay aboard -the whaler until it went out.”</p> - -<p>The lambent light in Holy Joe’s eyes died to a restrospective glitter. -Abie, keenly alert, detected a resolute movement of the missionary’s -lips. They closed in a straight line.</p> - -<p>“I’ve heard of Keenon, Abie. So he arrested one of my converts? That is -too bad!”</p> - -<p>“Got him dead, bang right! Caught him with th’ goods—molds and copper -an’ a platin’ outfit. Then this Keenon lets him go.”</p> - -<p>“Were there any witnesses to the raid, Abie?”</p> - -<p>“Sure! A mate of th’ Bowhead saw th’ whole thing.”</p> - -<p>“What is the mate’s name?”</p> - -<p>“Hansen.”</p> - -<p>“How—did the Yetsky Wop get injured?” - - -“A Chink hit him on th’ head. The Chink’s name is Hong Kee.”</p> - -<p>Abie thought he might as well pile matters on thick enough to make sure -of getting Holy Joe out in the dingey. Hong Kee was a well known Barbary -Coast character. The crimp was not surprised when Holy -Joe started buttoning up a long black coat and looking about for a hat.</p> - -<p>“You’re comin’ with me, preacher?”</p> - -<p>“Most certainly! I shall be of some service, I hope. You haven’t -explained how Hong Kee came to go to the whaler.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, Keenon caught him with five cans o’ hop. It was good hop. I saw it -with my own eyes.”</p> - -<p>Abie was the only man in San Francisco who knew where the five cans were -hidden at that particular minute. He intended selling them when the -Bowhead was well out from shore soundings.</p> - -<p>“You get me,” he told Holy Joe after they left the mission hall. “You -get me, preacher, when I tell you that I am Keenon. It’s not generally -known.”</p> - -<p>The missionary did show some surprise.</p> - -<p>“Why, I never suspected that,” he said.</p> - -<p>“Are you the government detective?”</p> - -<p>Abie opened his coat, ran a thumb within the armhole of his checked -vest, and showed the gold insignia that was pinned to his suspender -strap.</p> - -<p>“United States Secret Service,” whispered Holy Joe. “I never knew it, -Abie.”</p> - -<p>“Sure! I pinched those guys to-night, then I changed m’ mind an’ let ’em -go—to th’ whaler. They started fightin’ among themselves—there’s some -more out there—an’ Captain Gully sent word to me that Yetsky Wop was -dyin’ an’ needed a preacher. I thought of you.”</p> - -<p>Abie searched for sign of Hansen at the shore end of Meigg’s wharf. He -whistled shrilly. The mate, sleepy and damp, emerged from the shelter of -a shed.</p> - -<p>“Right out to th’ Bowhead!” commanded the crimp. “I’ve kept my promise -to Captain Gully. This is the man!”</p> - -<p>The mate was a silent soul. He started rowing with long whalerman’s -strokes.</p> - -<p>Abie sat on the after thwart with Holy Joe. They faced the seaman whose -glance was directed toward the Market Street ferry-house.</p> - -<p>The Bowhead was some little distance from the shore. It showed a pale -riding-light on the foremast. No other ship was near the whaler.</p> - -<p>“So you are Keenon?” said the missionary suddenly.</p> - -<p>“Bet I am, preacher! Even my mother don’t know it.”</p> - -<p>“It’s a bad thing for a son to keep anything from his mother.”</p> - -<p>“Got to! My life’s always in danger.” Abie reached into his hip-pocket, -brought out the half-pint of whisky, and pulled the cork with his teeth.</p> - -<p>“Have some?”</p> - -<p>Holy Joe moistened his straight lips. Abie could not see the preacher’s -expression on account of the darkness. A light smacking indicated that -the bait was acceptable. Holy Joe had been seen in too many dives and -saloons along the coast of Barbary to refuse a drink.</p> - -<p>“With my blessing,” said the preacher, handing back the flask.</p> - -<p>Abie pretended to take an enormous swallow. He pressed his tongue over -the mouth of the bottle. Even then he tasted the bitterness of the -chloral-hydrate and morphia. He wondered how Holy Joe stood the -decoction. The preacher commenced swaying on the thwart. He rocked the -small boat slightly. Hansen glanced at him.</p> - -<p>“Abie,” said Holy Joe in a low voice, “I’m not pleased with that -whisky.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, it’s all right, preacher. You know we make it in the cellar. We got -a private still. You see, me being a government man allows us to do it.”</p> - -<p>“It was bitter, Abie.”</p> - -<p>The crimp realized that he would have to be careful if he wanted to -deliver Captain Gully’s last man. Holy Joe was apparently going under. -There was a quarter-knot to be rowed before the Bowhead could be -boarded.</p> - -<p>“What’s the matter, preacher?” he asked. “Are you prayin’?”</p> - -<p>“I’m thinking, Abie, of what you told me about Yetsky Wop. Did Hong Kee -strike him with provocation?”</p> - -<p>“The Chink ran amuck. He tried to kill Yetsky’s brother.”</p> - -<p>“Angel Face?”</p> - -<p>“Sure! The one they want for five murders. I found him with Yetsky when -I made the pinch. I’m going to let them go. I’ve changed heart, -preacher.”</p> - -<p>Holy Joe wound his arms around Abie’s waist, and lurched to an erect -position. Abie experienced the sensation of having his pockets picked. -He wondered if the preacher had been seeking the flask of whisky. It was -a strange action for a missionary. He attributed it to the effects of at -least fifteen drops of chloral-hydrate.</p> - -<p>The dingey swung its bow. Hansen drew in an oar. The dark outlines of -the Bowhead were ahead. Captain Gully stood on the forepeak. He lowered -a bo’swain’s ladder.</p> - -<p>“Up we go,” said Abie. “Go right into the fo’c’s’le, preacher. There’s -Yetsky Wop an’ Angel Face an’ Hong Kee waitin’ for you.”</p> - -<p>Captain Gully unbattened the booby-hatch. He stepped aside. He leaned -against a pinrail. Holy Joe, staggering and mumbling, crossed the -whaler’s planks, turned, and descended the greasy steps.</p> - -<p>Abie grinned at the pleased skipper. “Six,” he whispered. He reached for -the rusty revolver which should have been in his pocket.</p> - -<p>He had lost it during the boat ride! It was the weapon he intended using -on the missionary. A light tap behind the ear would finish the work of -the narcotic.</p> - -<p>Abie was resourceful. He thought in split seconds. He heard voices -below. One was Yetsky Wop’s.</p> - -<p>“My last man’s all right,” he assured the captain. “I’ll put him in a -bunk.”</p> - -<p>The scene in the fo’c’s’le of the whaler was not exactly to the crimp’s -liking. He turned from the foot of the ladder and searched the gloom for -Holy Joe.</p> - -<p>The missionary struck a match. The yellow flame passed from bunk to -bunk. Evil, vice-stamped faces, answered the search. The match went out. -Abie, crouching with a belaying-pin in his hand, suddenly felt his wrist -gripped with compelling fingers.</p> - -<p>He writhed. His arm was bent back. Holy Joe’s voice was low and -demanding.</p> - -<p>“Drop that! Now turn. Now go up the ladder. Follow me. Don’t twist. It’s -no use at all, Abie.”</p> - -<p>The astonished skipper of the Bowhead was a witness to Abie’s forced -exit from the booby-hatch. Holy Joe, so called along the Barbary Coast, -hurled the crimp against the fife-rail on the foremast.</p> - -<p>The preacher’s smile was bland. He swiftly closed the hatch. He drove in -a holding-pin with his right heel.</p> - -<p>He turned to Abie:</p> - -<p>“I didn’t drink the knockout drops. I poured it down my shirt-front. I -didn’t leave the mission because I like the atmosphere of this whaler. -You see, I <i>am</i> interested in Yetsky Wop and Yetsky’s brother, Angel -Face, the coiner. He is wanted by the government. I’ll be promoted for -capturing him.”</p> - -<p>Abie did not need to be told Holy Joe’s right name. He pieced events -together. They dove-tailed. The reason for the missionary showing -interest in Yetsky Wop—his habit of visiting the hangouts of crooks—the -adept manner in which he picked pockets, all pointed to a crushing -conclusion.</p> - -<p>“You’re Detective Keenon!” declared the crimp.</p> - -<p>The Secret Service man turned up the lower left-hand corner of his vest -and showed the insignia of his office.</p> - -<p>He said with the politest kind of a bow, after glancing at the hatch:</p> - -<p>“Thanks, Abie!”</p> - -<p style='margin-top:1em; text-indent:0; text-align:center; font-size:0.8em;'>THE END</p> - -<div class="tn"> - <p>Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in - the November 13, 1920 issue of <i>Argosy All-Story Weekly</i>.</p> -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CRIMP ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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