over at the shack. He'll probably come snooping around there after information and it will be a good chance to grab him. I don't mind what you do to him this time. He started out from here about nine o'clock, Chubby says. After you pick up Puggy, go right back to the shack and be on the lookout for Swift. Get going now. You'll have to show some speed if you're going to make connections with Puggy at Powers and Third Avenue at the time you agreed upon."
At this point the man at the other end of the wire evidently brought up an alien subject.
"What's that?" Carter asked sharply. "Oh, don't worry about that! You'll get your dough all right. I've got big people behind me on this deal. Lots of money. This franchise is practically forfeited now. I'll make my settlement tonight, get my cash and come around and pay you boys off. With a substantial bonus for the good job you did. Well, see you later. So long, Joe."
Jane's Irish temper had been bristling more and more during Carter's talk. Now she knew he was a traitor! He had convicted himself out of his own mouth. Now she was positive the Inter-City was back of him and his nefarious schemes. To think that he was making his plans and gloating over his victory right there in the Dillon house, on the Dillon telephone!
The fact that she had once been friendly to Carter, had even succumbed a little to the undoubted attractions of his polished manners the other afternoon in the taxicab, made her all the more angry.
