You Take Ballistics
Suspense · March 13, 1947 · 29 min · 4,704 words
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I walked down toward the apartment on the opposite side of the street like I had a dozen times before that day. This time I had to count the doorways. I knew Cass was on the tenth one down from the corner. I knew he was there but I knew I'd never see him. It
was too dark. Cass was a lot too smart. Hi Lieutenant. He made any moves yet? Not a move. How about the backway? No. Peter's just covering that. He'd leave us no. Anyway, you know he's still up there.
Every little while you can see his shadow against the shade. There, see? Hey look. You got a match. Oh sure, here. Hey Lieutenant, do you get any orders that we just stick around? Myself, I think he's settling down for the night.
No. Mm-mm. This isn't getting us anyplace. I'm gonna make the pinch. No. Come on up with me, see what we got. Sure. Good to stretch. My games were killing me. Yeah, I know. I done plenty of steak out to myself.
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