CHAPTER VIA STRANGE MEETING
When Patsy returned to the place he had appointed to meet Bally Morris he was surprised to find that person waiting for him with Spike Thomas.
So warm was their greeting of him that Patsy began to think that they regarded him as one of their pals.
As the proper way to open up the business of such importance, Spike asked Patsy to join him in a drink, and when they were ranged at the bar, Spike said:
“I say, Patsy, was youse on the dead level or was youse givin’ Bally a stiff about dat case?”
“No,” said Patsy, soberly, “I was on the dead level about it. Say, I’m givin’ it to you straight when I’m tellin’ you me boss is only in the case for to get that leather case with the papers in it. He’s got to git it some way, and he’s sizin’ it up that it’s got to be go
