Chapter 20
HE considered the matter awhile from his own peculiar angle, and Jimmy, who thought the subject closed, was surprised when he went on:
"I've only got a cross-country line to their graft— Julia's, I mean. It was Haydn's crowd she ran with. You know Tod Haydn, or you're no copper."
Jimmy knew the redoubtable gunman, swindler and general larcenist by repute.
"That's as much as I'll tell you, except— how does Tod strike you as likely Kupie?"
He had not struck Jimmy that way at all.
"I'll look him up," he said, and Nippy laughed softly.
"What will you look up?" he asked. "Why, you haven't got anything to look up! He's never been inside. A Tod Haydn once went down for five— you'll find his record all right, but it wasn't Tod. He owned up to being Tod because the gang found he w
