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CHAPTER, SIX

The doublecross and the terrible revenge... then a warning to Bond

Secret service agent James Bond, on his toughest assignment yet, has gone to America in the guise of a member of a diamond- smuggling

called gang

the Spangled Mob. His job: to smash the gang. One snag his feelings for a beautiful crook, Tiffany Case. To cover the gang's tracks, he has been told that he will be paid for

T

on

room.

his work by backing a “fixed” horse. But Felix Leiter, a friend of Bond's who is working for Pinkerton's Detective Agency, and is out to clean up the race tracks, persuades the jockey to lose. The jockey, Tingaling Bell, is to receive his pay-off money in a mudbath establishment. Bond goes along seek new information..

to

car,

DRAWING BY ROBB:

the

Hooded

boiling

men and mud. The jockey started to cry softly...he knew what was going to happen.

of his box" and the man with the__cauliflower ear hosing the atull off Tingaling's food and shouling for help to the two mon in the next room. They took the lid off Tingaling's box and unwrapped him and erried him under "the shower I guess

was nearly gone, Halt suffpented Whole face_pulled

up with the burns.. Chastly

Blight."

Was there anything that struck you about these two £tiys?" asked' Leiter.

•.**Hoight. clothes, anything else?"

"I couldn't see much of the man by the door," said Bond, "He was smaller than the other and thinner. Wearing, dark trousers and a grey shirt with - no tie. Gun locloed like a 45. Might have been a Colt. The

other wall a bi fattish

Quick moving but deliberate, Black trousers. Brown shirt with white stripes. No coat or tie, Black shoes, nent, expensive, 38 Police. Positive. No wrist-watch. Oh, yes," Bond suddenly remeh➡ bered. "He had a wart, on the top Jodat of his right thumb,

•Red-looking as if he had sucked

"

Tsald Leiter Bally. "And the other guy wea Kidd. Always work tog They're the top torpedies the Spangler Mob. What is a real sadist. Liices it. He's called

Haines.

Wint

2001

Kidd's a pretty, boy, His friends call him Dolly.. Guess I'll get along to the coper and tip them off. tion you of course."

Won't men-

HE bus, which said was being hosed down by a man naked, scrawny Agure of Ting- aling Bell. He walked cockily

Windy: Not to his face, that "Асте Mud and with a cauliflower ear,

JEJ. All these guys have crazy It was a square grey concrete into the middle of the room. Sulphur Batha"

can't bour to Against

"HI, Tingaling," said the man the walis its sides and "Every were trestle tables. Bond auto-

travel. Gels sick in cam, and with the cauliflower ear. "Heard

a full bucket of mud in each

"My friends figure it may trains and thinks planes are Hour on the Hour" above matically counted them. Twenty. you had some

trouble today. hand. Suddenly,

with a bick- have been a doublecross." The

death traps. But his cool table *Was α heavy Too bad."

handed blow that had all his man was leaning close over the enough when his feet are on the the windscreen, turned off On each

with a three- The door opened again and shoulder behind it, he lashed the jockey and his voleo was gain ground. (Princess Theatre Bldg.) the main road down a badly wooden coffin

quarter lid. In most of the one of the card players put his

friends figuro gravel track cons the profile of a sweating head

centre of the Negro's huga belly. ing heat, "My maintained

in.

There was only a sharp wet a jock like you could only done through FL plantation of face showed above the wooden "Hey, Boxer," he said to the slap from the blow,

but the something like that intentional sides end pointed up at the

man with the cauliflower buckets crushed to the floor as The man slipped down off the young firs.

welling. A few eyes were rolled "Mabel says she can't get or to After a mile it rounded a inquisitively towards Bond, but the delicatessen

Negro's two hands leaped up box. He looked into the Jockey's to order your and clutched at himself. He let face and his voice went slimy. went down a most of the congested red faces chow. and

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out a soft moan and tagged "You been riding too much down or sumpn."

he almost short hill towards a cluster looked asleep. toppasite Liberty Theatre)

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Bond followed

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bald Negro aereas the Alippery

a wooden bench a pair of dilapidated alongside shower cubicles, in one of which mud a naked body hung with

THE

D

up against the wall and its ONE con stood opou, its ild alde hinged down. This wemed to be the one destined for Bond. The Negro was draping a heavy sheet over it and smoothing it down to form a lining to the box. When he had finished he went to the middle of the room of and chose two from a line pails led to the top with steaming dark brown mud, and with a double dropped them clang beside the open box. Then he dug his huge hand into one of them and smeared the thick viscous stuff along the bottom of the shroud and went on do- ing this until the whole bottom of was two inches thick with mud.

He turned and

beckoned to Bond, "Okay, Mister." he said.

At three minutes past six the door opened

SAD,

front of

Then the mat moved

FOR

a

to the

tre of vision. saw him reach down and pick up one of the steaming buckets moment ho stood of mud. The man came back, the bucket low, still motionless, then he took a holding quick jump and hoist himself up talking, still reassuring. so that he was sitting on the lid voice of

looking Tingaling's box, down into his eyes.

"All right. Nobody move now. Just take it easy and no me'll get hurt."

It was a hard, deadly that meant business.

A man stood in the doorway

of

HE

BOND decides to play the innocent. He' ringa hunch- backed "Shady”, Tree, My pair- in the Spangled of contact

to complain that he has Mob. not received the money due to him because the "eer horie lost.]

THE high, thin voice of

hunchback said:

"Listen carefully. You're to

get your pay-off at Las Vegas. Come down to New York and, pick up a plane. Charge the ticket to me. I'll okay it. service to Los Angeles Through end there's a local plans every half-hour to Vegas. You have a reservation at the Tian.

Find your way around and now aten to this carefully at just five after 10 on Thursday even-

came up to the jockey's box and looked down. "Well, well, Damiftaint

Bond stiffened and felt the and another man was advancing Tingaling Bell." There was a mud stir heavily on his skin,' into the middle

the room chastly friendliness in his voice. "Like 1 sold. Tingding,

In their They both had guns

"Whatamatter?" The jockey's Plenty of quiet. Nothing to eat hands and they both had black voice was ahrili and terrifled.

for a whiles. Nice shady room their heads with hoods over

"Why, Tingaling?" The man with the drapes drawn to keeping go to the centre of the three, holes cut for eyes and was the

reasonable. "What would out the light.” be the matter? Got anything mouth.

on your mind?" of the The jockey

to cry

1

The moving:

man with the gun stopped in front

to admit the Negro, who was standing with softly.

started

SAD WORLD OF

THE LITTLE CLUBS

London.

a

By DAVID WYNNE-MORGAN

They come from homes with a long tradition of honest service to the community, but who, in their weakness, have become parasites living off the com- munlly by their wits.

The soft voice droned on in the dead silence. Slowly the arm came up. Higher, higher.

And then the jockey· could 800 the bucket and he knew what was going to happen and he started moaning.

"No, no, no, no, no,”' Although it was hot in the room, the black stuff steamed

blackjack tables at the Tiara on the side of the room near the bar. Got that?"

"yer."

"Sit down and play the maximun, that's a grand,' live times, Then get up and quit the. table. And don't gamble any more. D'you hear me?"

as it poured sluggishly out of Tiara.

the bucket.

"Your cheque is paid at the After the game hang

wait

for further Got that?

around and instructions.

Bond did so.

The man stepped swiftly aside and hurled the empty bucket at Repeat the man with the cauliflower car, who stood still and let it hit him. Then he gave a

harsh laugh. "Better dig the guy out I have lived on the fringe of before his eyeballs fry." this world for several years and The door banged, and there you read tomorrow's paper?”

"Check” sold the huishôtel. "Don't talk" and don't make ́ ̧ a'' ristako, We don't ko mis- You'll flot that when

takos.

(COPTRIGHT)

TOMORROW 1

The gang strikes

7

EAD--the "little club"

its heady atmosphere, its decay-was silence except for a owner Barbara Knox- Marsh, DEAD — the The phrase "upper class" is big city, nightclub Hostesses and ing influence which saps at one's bubbling sound and the noise of gushing in the not come, others trying only to forget their abre almost unnoticeably the water

is almost unavoidable,

shower. "little club" owner, Linda important; they do

from the tradi- past.

Then what, happened?". Justice. DEAD-the former most of them,

Once I listened to a mai tell Leiter was sitting in Bond's The most cynical of them start "little club" hostess Janet tionally criminal classes,

me the story of how he had chair in the motel.

Cajon."Diamonds Are Forever" their own clubs. A great num swindled one of my friends out Curtis-Bennett. All in

"Choos," sold, Bond. "Every-Ian Fleming, is published ber of these clubs are owned by of £400 on a phoney deal to im- body yanmering to be let out: Cape...... week....

undischarged barilerupts who run port Persian carpels: and at the the business through their wives time I laughed because I thought There are, in London now,

or other accomplices..

it was funny. more than 8,000 doorways

Most of the'?

the business is done

I have talked to barmalds and to the kind of despair that

the afternoon; and from hostesser who admitted caring lles somewhere behind Around them they have col- 3 p.m. they drift in their ones

£20 per week and boasted that those puzzling deaths. They lected the cut-of-work chorus and twos to talk shop, liscus they had never pald any tax in are the doorways to those girls, young women. lured to the gossip "on the grapevine" or their lives, drinking cluba whose London by the glamour of the just to sit and drink in a corner. owners need only 6s, and 25 friends as a guarantee to open their doors....

To open their doors to a real legion of lost souls: the men and women of this clly who want to forget the pest, who fear the future, who exist only for the. present and can even then exist only in the company of their own kind.

WIL

DODGERS

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by 50 percent in the West End

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They appear innocuous enough to the casual observer. Most of them consist of one or two rooms pleasantly; but not: expensivež; furnished. There is invariably a bir in one corner, probably with two barmaids, who serve the drinks with the siner Imper- #onal toucia : of waitressby • at... n Lyons Corner Houso,

It is not in the clubs them- alves that the woods of des

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INTRIGUE

NO, they continue their shallow

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Those that drift into it lose all their old friends, get involved ever, deeper, into intrigues-u into crime.

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