CHAPTER V

“YOUR WORK!” It was right then that Eddie had his moment of greatness. It comes to every man once in his lifetime, and blessed is he who is ready for it when it does come. Eddie was ready. Eddie may have wondered what his own particular schooling was for those nights when he had stood with revolver ready, watching, waiting, every nerve trained for quick violence. This was it. “_Bang!_” A flash, a report, a strand of smoke; and there was the owner of the shrill voice lunging up like a man who reaches for a butterfly…