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Sins of the Fathers (aka-Carling Tells All, Tilson's Gift Racket)

The Green Hornet · May 22, 1940 · 24 min · 4,206 words

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With his faithful valid Cato, Britt Reid, daring young publisher, matches wits with the underworld, risking his life, the criminals and racketeers within the law may feel its weight by the sting of the Green Hornet.

Ride with Britt Reid as he races toward another thrilling adventure. The Green Hornet strikes again. Where are you, Cato? Here's where we smash the craft right now. Okay, Charlie, that closes the boat off. Yeah, hang it away.

What's the news today, Gunnegan? That's the newspaper business, Reed. One day you got a fire alarm fire. A nice heavy murder. A big scandal case. And so much stuff coming over the wire I get till a dozen page ones.

And then, days like this one. What's your lead story, Gunnegan? The Citizen protest meeting. Yelling about the rackets in town. Oh, that's important. Sure. Been important for months. But it's not new. It's from hunger, Reed.

We had nothing else to run. Couldn't even give it a twist. And again, you know what makes this town shot full of racket? Oh, the political machine. I wish we could turn it on then.

What a scoot that'd be for the settlement. Yeah, I gave up that dream long ago, Reed. That's a funny thing about crooked politicians, gonna take calling, for example. Schisler, you can have him, Reed. It's paid a lot for giving the racketeers political protection, doesn't it?

He's got a dollar for every penny I ever saw. And it didn't come out of his salary as a public official, public official. Pat. there was a time when Carling was on the level when he had the makings of an honest states that was way back when you were a kid read when your father was

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