Harrigan!. Max Brand
Читать онлайн.| Название | Harrigan! |
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| Автор произведения | Max Brand |
| Жанр | Языкознание |
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| Издательство | Языкознание |
| Год выпуска | 0 |
| isbn | 9788027226108 |
Max BrandFrederick Schiller Faust
Harrigan!
Historical Novel
Published by
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- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-2610-8
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1
“That fellow with the red hair,” said the police captain as he pointed.
“I’ll watch him,” the sergeant answered.
The captain had raided two opium dens the day before, and the pride of accomplishment puffed his chest. He would have given advice to the sheriff of Oahu that evening.
He went on: “I can pick some men out of the crowd by the way they walk, and others by their eyes. That fellow has it written all over him.”
The red-headed man came nearer through the crowd. Because of the warmth, he had stuffed his soft hat into a back pocket, and now the light from a window shone steadily on his hair and made a fire of it, a danger signal. He encountered the searching glances of the two officers and answered with cold, measuring eyes, like the gaze of a prize fighter who waits for a blow. The sergeant turned to his superior with a grunt.
“You’re right,” he nodded.
“Trail him,” said the captain, “and take a man with you. If that fellow gets into trouble, you may need help.”
He stepped into his automobile and the sergeant beckoned to a nearby policeman.
“Akana,” he said, “we have a man-sized job tonight. Are you feeling fit?”
The Kanaka smiled without enthusiasm.
“The man of the red hair?”
The sergeant nodded, and Akana tightened his belt. He had eaten fish baked in ti leaves that evening.
He suggested: “Morley has little to do. His beat is quiet. Shall I tell him to come with us?”
“No,” grinned the sergeant, and then looked up and watched the broad shoulders of the red-haired man, who advanced through the crowd as the prow of a ship lunges through the waves. “Go get Morley,” he said abruptly.
But Harrigan went on his way without misgivings, not that he forgot the policeman, but he was accustomed to stand under the suspicious eye of the law.