Johnny Stool Pigeon Page #4

We're travelling. Just making

a few business connections.

Is that why you came to see me?

Yeah. You're sort of on our list.

What kind of business?

Buying, selling.

You mean you'd like to trade

in the kind of merchandise I handle?

If your stuff is up to standard

and we can make a deal.

You understand, of course,

I'm strictly wholesale.

I don't keep anything here

but a few samples for show.

Here's a lovely item.

I can get these now too.

I can make you a pretty good proposition

on stuff like that.

Yeah, that's real nice.

But it isn't exactly

the kind of stuff we had in mind.

Mike Doyle.

Seems to me I used to know

a guy by that name.

Kansas City.

I was there for a while.

What outfit?

Willy Green. I don't remember

ever seeing you before, though.

Maybe you know a guy I knew in Frisco.

Pete Carter.

Pete Carter, eh?

Didn't he get in some kind of trouble?

Who do you think you're talking to, McCandles,

a couple of saps?

I just spent three years on the rack,

he spent two. You wanna check it?

Take it easy.

I'll take it the way I see it.

We came here to talk a business deal.

If you don't wanna hear it, say so.

But don't try to play games.

Take it easy, Johnny.

Just like to make sure

who I'm dealing with, that's all.

Well, now you know.

You fellas gonna be in town long?

Long enough.

There's a joint called The Frontier Club,

down in Columbia street.

Meet me there tonight and

maybe we can work something out.

That's better.

Get Terry on the phone. Tell her

I wanna see her up here right away.

Yes, gentlemen?

Mr McCandles come in yet?

We're supposed to meet him here.

Oh, yes, this way, please.

He's not here yet, but he asked me

to have you wait for him.

Your table, gentlemen.

Hey, Jimmy, get me another one,

will you?

What are you, a couple

of new recruits for the goon squad?

We're just here to do a little business

with Mr McCandles.

Are you a friend of his?

Yeah, I'm a friend of his.

Lucky fella.

Well, his luck is about to run out.

What kind of business are you fellas in?

Oh, furs.

You know something?

You're kinda cute for a fur merchant.

What's your name?

Mike Doyle.

I'm Terry Stewart.

You wanna dance, Mike Doyle?

Thanks, we got business.

Come on.

Hm, the gallant type.

You better hold this for me.

So the ice won't melt.

Don't be scared.

I bruise easy but I don't break.

This is the first time

I've danced with a girl in three years.

What's the matter,

you got something against girls?

Where I've been

they didn't have any girls.

Oh.

Who's your friend?

Just a business partner.

He's nice.

I mean, he seems kind of different

than the usual bunch of crumbs

that hang around an outfit like this.

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