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 against the enemy so as to give the boys some con­fidence and pride in their own outfit. Then would come the serious organization work that meant big profits. Within sixty days, Tony meant to have those profits bigger than they had ever been under Lovo's leadership.

It was almost ten o'clock on Saturday night when Al, the little rat-faced gangster who acted as guard and doorman for the office, came in to Tony.

"Captain Flanagan's here," he announced.

Tony looked up quickly.

"Who?" he demanded.

"Captain Flanagan, chief of the dicks at head­ quarters."

A grim smile played about Tony's lips. So Flan­agan was here! Well he remembered that bully­ing officer whom he had knocked down in the cab­aret for insulting Vyvyan and who thereafter had practically run him out of town. The shoe was on the other foot now. Tony took an ugly auto­matic out of a drawer and laid it on the desk within easy reach.

"Show him in!" he ordered grimly.