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I'm sorry you mentioned it I was going to point it out alright so you're going to hold me or are you not going to hold me because if the former I would like to give you instructions as to the care of these gummers because if these what are you talking about Mike? Lieutenant asked what you're talking about oh shit, look don't speak to me like I'm an idiot I asked you a simple question why? what do you mean why? throw him out mug of it wait till I wash my hands I don't want to get the garment okay alright okay I'm going I drop in here friendly in two minutes flat you hate me Mike? what? come back here Mike what's this all about? why'd you come down here and ask whether we wanted to hold you? because if you don't I gotta go to Atlantic City you see we combinated beverage people we are having a convention nobody's questioned whether you're legitimate or not Mike well thank you thanks well it's just this way Danny you see Floyd Decker moided I figured that you wanted to Floyd Decker and me and him lumped together under the title gangsta in the old day when was he murdered? when was he wait wait wait you mean that you don't know? no ooh I'm beginning to see the light boys I am when was he murdered? listen the way on the street is that he got it three days he's been gone from wherever he usually comes to and the word is that he ain't no more once more Mike why'd you come here? well Floyd and I we had an argument a few days ago and he getting bumped you know I figured that you want to talk to me before I sat in convention at Atlantic City I ain't found the body yet huh? uh-huh well what am I talking to you like I'm an idiot for boys goodbye take it easy don't pinch the silk seers Sucker Muggevin nobody no murder, no nothing me neither I'll send Taffy I'm low then of hot room and bewildered policemen and the whore of an electric fan and the irate motorist two stories down background for the shattering question you think he lost his marbles? followed by the glassy stair okay okay I'll find out two hours later followed by the phone call he wasn't kidding Danny the word has it that Floyd Decker is dead murdered followed by 36 hours in the river take a look Danny Floyd? yeah it's Floyd Decker alright been in the water three four days how was he found? you see that kid over there the one on the piling getting ready to dive he can hold his breath for 90 seconds during a small contest where the kid just moved in the neighborhood he saw Floyd midway up bumping against the pier okay you want to talk to Mike Paulus now? uh-huh call Atlantic City and have the police relay the message that I'd like to talk to him you don't have in mind send anybody down to Atlantic City to see if Mike gets back do you? no in a word well in another word my wife wouldn't let me go anyhow who won lieutenant have a seat Mike how's the convention going? ah you know how these things go oh then we're not dragging you away you are not dragging me away from anything you understand that don't you? now look look I got word that you wanted to see me and I ducked the caucus should we go into canned soda pop and I got the face trained in only on a kind of you requested me re-quested me Danny not dragged because I requested you yeah okay we found Floyd Decker I heard pissed him out of the east river I heard I heard stabbed in the back and thrown in the river you said you had an argument with him that's right about what? money well come on tell me about it well you know Floyd you know his background nearly as good as me what's he been doing? well you know he's been on eleven wait five six years eh? well I went up on the same rap with him Danny in contact only I got out a few years earlier because I am nicely behaved be it the penitentiary or be it a parlor and you know Floyd not very well well he's impetuous impetuous impetuous you either got it myself if you gave me time well he gave the feds all sorts of trouble you see so he didn't join us until his full twenty years now you ask what's he doing so I answer he's been a bum oh a panhandling bum that's how he lived huh? yeah and the argument you had with him? it's about dough I got tired of giving him handouts like everybody else everybody else on the street everybody else listen Floyd was the type of fella can best be described as misfit you can ask your hedge shrinker how many of those there are around you got any idea who killed him? nope anybody you know didn't like him enough? everybody why? well all the world hates a failure let me put it this way all the world feels sorry for a failure until they got a bail them out and then all the world hates a failure people on the street got tired of supporting him is that it? well I would say that that's an apt appraisal of the situation what did the word first get out that he was murdered? let's see when it would be oh about last Monday then it would be about it so soon as he didn't show up one day with the outstretched hand everybody was gone uh huh meaning that somebody stabbed him in the back and put him in the east river also an apt appraisal last make we had on him was a boarding house in the Bowery Mike but it's old he's been gone from there for a couple of years well I wouldn't know where he lived also his sheet says he had a wife yeah Alma yeah that's right Alma well I'd canvas the bars along third Danny I would look for a blonde turning gray dyed back to blonde she's kind of tall kind of slender and kind of tired she's kind of an inside laffer and cry she's likeable she drinks to the avenue scotch and never gets loaded it's a nice woman likeable many offered his hand made the clasp and the smile of good citizenship proffered the breath of gin and taffy and went out again to find a train to find the world of Atlantic City again legwork now the bars of third avenue alternate establishments between hand laundries delicatessens used furniture used bric-a-brac used clothing and good as new women's wear the bars of third avenue which progress from respectability to the thin edge of limbo pose the name elma decker also description get the shake of the head the shrug and sometimes the thumb jerk over the shoulder downtown further downtown mister where third began to leave the village afternoon drunks out the shady gutters and draftiest halls in a bar wedged between a fire gut at building and an herbologist there was a woman seated at the table sure my name's elma she said holding high the glass and trying to find the sunlight for it finding something else and hating it and him this boy sees a cross from me and adoring me I do I do adore you elma very much his name is edwin my name is edwin hample man's man drink it down drink it down drink it down sit down edwin he's drunk what's your name danny clover cop mm-hmm above my husband that's right what about him did you kill him he's dead huh hey edwin Floyd's dead did you hear me I drink him a toast a man's oh shut up what'd you do that for what'd they find Floyd what'd you do that for anyway the river that's nice some of our best friends have been found on the river danny of course not recently but there was a day when Floyd was after yeah I heard I'm nice I'm nice to you please don't do that again what's this boy doing here please please please I swear I haven't quite figured it out myself you I'm nice to her he's been to college I've had a year of college sir edwin yes Alma let's not be ridiculous that's all I quote from Cyrano saying it comes to me from all sides that I am jeered at that edwin passed out early this afternoon danny it's turning into a kind of day when I might end up with nothing right danny whatever kind of work you do I'm sure you've noticed how it's the long dull jobs that sort of gets you down you get so bored with doing the same thing over and over well next time that happens find out what a lot of help it is to chew delicious double mint gum you see as soon as you link your teeth into a stick of smooth double mint you enjoy a feeling of real satisfaction and you like the steady natural rhythm of chewing delicious double mint is a long lasting treat too you can chew away for as long as you like and you have something you enjoy doing while you go on with your work and that cool clean double mint flavor is so refreshing it gives you a pleasant lift so you feel better and things seem to go faster and easier yes delicious double mint gum is a pleasant chewing treat that's helpful as well as enjoyable so buy several packages at a time and treat yourself to a stick at work or anywhere that's double mint chewing gum healthful refreshing delicious we now continue with broadways my beat written by Morton Fein and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as detective danny clover in the high blaze of summer broadway walks soft and slow the dream walk the careless walk rhythm to a regret for things that have not yet been because other summers have flowed in this street and other winds and in their ebb the erratic gutter dance of the litter of the season snapshot of the tennis girl whose hair was braided and who was summer love snapshot torn in half then torn again and once more the phone number scrawled in lipstick on a bar room that rang on emptiness no answer the code for last summer but this time it'll be different so walk into it but soft and at headquarters a room of a thousand transients room where interrogations are made and motives poised and concerns shown where's Edwin what'd you do to him booked him put him in the drunk tank mr. Decker a kid like that drinks with a lady gets a little high ends in a heap in a drunk tank too bad where'd you meet a boy like that don't get subtle with me don't say boy to me just last year where you'd met him on Coney middle of May I was sitting there he came up and asked if he could talk to me I said sure talk to me you kill your husband mrs. Decker just right out did you kill your husband mrs. Decker it's gonna be like that uh huh no I did not kill my husband I don't know who did I don't know why he suddenly got that important so mrs. Decker let me finish I gave the desk sergeant where I live so if you ever want to chat some more about young men or about the dead come around because I'm not going anyplace okay yeah for now like you said mrs. Decker don't go anyplace at the door she stopped looked back at me and chemistry that is in summer light lay against her face and sped youth across it her hands went to the back of her throat struck back her hair she opened her mouth to speak there was no sound and she turned and left it took four hours to find him to find the man I was looking for needed to talk to man of all trades man on the move man of shouts and man of whispers of Broadway secrets benny feign hawaiian sport shirt beer in hand leaning gracefully against the jukebox of morris third avenue bar and grill be my guest Danny take this quarter for me by yourself whatever three music your heart desires you're doing fine up bennie hawaiian sport shirt free with two bit pieces from whom bennie what are you implying Danny I heisted it I crimped it off a rack in a garment center it was a present if it wasn't would it fit so well the shoulders to here tell it to my measure Danny on the insistence of a young woman who was grateful for me first say you you ain't been looking for me for four hours Danny just to ask how come I was silk no Floyd that uh huh uh huh I don't think you've heard that I didn't hear I saw him when three or four nights ago fired to his river bit but go on find me by asking around by methods just like you did Danny no no no aren't feelings Danny I'm telling you the bit what happened Floyd finds me asked me where's the crap game the big crap game right off her lap in his face why well first how would I know where's the crap game second if I knew and such things were truly happening around Broadway crap games what would Floyd that could be using for scratch but for for bad role Floyd the beggar Floyd the panhandle well you could have knocked me down well I'm I'm giving it a bit Danny Floyd plays a role at least as fat as 5 G's he let me feel it yeah it was 5 G's my eyes open very wide I say well you can tell you like this Floyd Floyd says where's the crap game and I say I don't know Floyd I swear well he leaves next whisper on the breeze about this Floyd blew the juice lost it the whole 5,000 so I guess he was able to find a crap game without my help that's the bit Danny if you ever want a high-wine shirt I know sure sure you do thanks Benny I'll see you around Danny good morning Gino would you early morning and already a scorcher Gino do something for me Mrs. T often says to me it would seem Mr. Sergeant Todd Taglia you were put on earth for the sole purpose of doing things for your Danny call downstairs get Edwin Hample released to my custody have them bring him up here no sooner said morning Detective Muggerman pardon but I am on a mission for Danny Caller and the pleasantries I understand Gino he's bringing the Hample kid up here oh that story Benny Fane gave you I did what you told me walk Broadway stopped a few people ask questions it checks out what Benny Fane told you it checks out Floyd Decker lost $5,000 in a crap game you know where the game was I'll tell you why because it was explained to me by several persons at Broadway like this the heat and the humidity they do something to the brain cells especially the memory valves no one remembers where the game was that's right they wouldn't tell me down here I said in this cooler atmosphere maybe there memory valves would anyone know where Decker got the 5,000 that they don't know for sure they don't know how a broken down panhandling bum got 5,000 together all I know is he lost it and left the game in here Edwin this way to see Danny Caller well that's all Gino thanks sit here Edwin this is Detective Muggerman I asked I heard you well then answer me how do you feel hungover dirty, shamed now you'll answer me something what? Mrs. Decker, Alma what did you do with Alma what kind of you like her a lot don't you maybe it's the wrong word maybe I should have said you love her still not the right word not like, not love give us the right word Edwin I worship her I worship the ground she walks on I adore you know the true that the literal meaning of the word adore Mrs. Decker's over 40 Edwin over twice your age 40 years old so she said twice as long to get twice as lonely as as you Edwin first day I saw her very first day I I said to myself there's a very lonely and a very beautiful woman she has solitude and there is sorrow in her brow this was at Coney Island a week I watched her how she came to the beach in beauty all by herself men tried to get fresh she'd say something they'd go away like their mouths had been struck but she didn't send you away no and I know why why because the kind of woman Alma is because she saw right away I was offering my heart at her feet and my soul if you knew if you knew the life of sorrow and bitterness that woman had led tell us about it Edwin what it was to be married to a man who had been glorious and was now a shell a ruin you mean she hated Floyd hated him because he was a bum a beggar and once he was no no not a hatred but bound to him and chained because once she had been Caesar's wife faithful and loyal and she's still get off it will you Edwin I didn't have my year in college so get off it just tell us that's simple really what I'm telling you Alma was married to a man who was once a sort of king who fell in favor but still Alma was his wife all he had left of his riches and therefore Alma was unapproachable and lonely and sit on a swarming infested beach with a ridiculous young man I told her how to get out of it though how she could rid herself of it rid herself of Floyd and I know the formula with which you gain freedom go on you buy it you get money and buy it I told Elman and she thought it a splendid idea and said she knew where to get money to buy herself from Floyd there's another way to get free from someone you mean to kill him no it was much simpler to buy it especially if he's a beggar like Floyd was like yeah you want to see Elman of course come on I'll take you to her yes hello dear you hurt I hurt you no dear oh stop stop that dear might ever come in come on you don't want to drink do you Elman you wouldn't let me would you let me no just sit down I said to you once Danny I said you want to chat about young men or about the dead to come around is that what you're doing now that's right which both I'll sit over here and rest elbows on knees and chin in hand and listen Edmund told me about the kind of life you had with Floyd how he was a fallen Caesar ain't he a kick that Edmund well he was kind of well he was whatever he was Mrs. Dacker was pretty rough huh is that what you heard but he didn't work yet he was a bum your husband was a bum Elma whatever he might have been in the old days truly he was a bum he went to college he oughta know then how did your husband get five thousand dollars what before he died that's the amount of money your husband suddenly had well where'd he get it a man like him and like him with his connections he didn't have a connection in the world the people he knew when you say he didn't have connection let's try it this way Mrs. Dacker where did you get the five thousand dollars to give to your husband who said I gave him five my tongue slipped dear I blurred it out bless your heart what harm no harm at all Edmund I wanted your heart bless well then dear I also told him what for Edmund said you tried to buy off your husband well I did I gave him the money he said he'd never bother me again he lost it all in a crap game he said he was going away with the money he'd buy himself a steak and a small set up in Vegas and steady finds a crap game in a garage off Broadway when he came back here and started to plead and whine that's when I walked in and stuck him in the back of the knife get him get the collegiate that's not the way to happen what do you want from me don't you tell him anything listen you I stabbed him in the back he wants to be a hero listen what everything all of it's drained away now anyhow he came back he fell on his knees and he cried like a baby like he's been doing ever since he's out of Levenworth recalling the old days and then he came for me it was a scissors where'd you get the money Mike Mike Paulus and Cordell swear it wasn't my husband says to me you know what he had the nerve to say to her honey it's so easy for you to get all that money get more how do you like that and this one's what I'm left with this little nothing with his one year at business college to buy me cheese sandwiches to drive me around in a 29 car don't believe her oh he wants you to know that besides the cheese sandwiches he helped me throw my husband in the river didn't you Edwin yes I did dear yes I did dear he's what I got Danny now put us away in the 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