Direct Wire

By Clee Garson

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Classics
• Release date: Feb 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781681461250

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DIRECT WIRE

by CLEE GARSON

Start Publishing LLC

Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012

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ISBN 978-1-68146-125-0

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

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There 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.

There is a small, neatly lettered sign on the door of that unoccupied store now, however, which has caused no end of comment from the former customers of the cigar store who had always been all too cheerfully happy to lose their daily dollars there.

The sign reads:

CLOSED FOR THE DURATION Due to our having Entered The Armed Forces of the U. S. GOD BLESS AMERICA Mort & Mike

If you haven't guessed as much by now, the signatures at the bottom of that sign are those of the two former proprietors of the establishment, Mort Robbins and Mike Harrigan.

Now since both Mort and Mike were of military age, and since this nation is at war, it should hardly seem unusual that their former customers and all who knew them would consider their summons to the colors something worthy