Bait For A Two-timer

adventure dates for a two-time age. The events and characters depicted in this drama are fictitious, and a similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Had that country was wrong? This has been a murdered job from the stock, that political crack for you. Who saw it happen? I did, it was right here. I want you to come to the office of the daily

couple with me. Phone calls in the past half hour about that building that collapsed. I can't give those people information.

Well, then tell them so, Glicker. That's what you're here for. I'm here to fill in as Mr. Reed Secretary. Well, Casey's on vacation. I have to play a parrot on the telephone. Holy cow. Mr. Reed's office.

They told me in your general office that you had no disabilities on that cave in. I know you must have. I'm sorry, but what the city room told you is correct. But I don't know that.

You have no information. I am sorry. One more call and I'll go back. As if that would be a long trip. You're the guy who's to blame for this, Lauer. Me? Say, are you sure you're not already wacky?

The way you kept writing those articles about that building, hitting it, political graft, suggesting that the place was unsafe. Telling the world that if the building inspector was honest, it would be condemned. All right, I wrote those stories.

Sure I did, because Rit Reed wanted them. He called the turn on that building. He'd been hammering at the ring of Crookes in town for the past six months. And now he's pulled right. Don't tell me that the building would have caved if the cement had been right or if the iron girders had been a specified strength.