"The usual murders, of course, and things of that kind." There was a moment's silence, then the man laughed as though slightly ill at ease.
"These fellows out here think they are a pretty tough lot," he said grimly, "but there are plenty of boys back on the East Side who could show them a few tricks.

You know that part of the old town ?" "Not very well," she admitted with apparent regret, "but of course I read a good bit about it in the papers--the desperate characters, gunmen, and all those the police have so much trouble with.

Are those stories really true ?" "There ain't a third of them ever told," and he leaned forward, quite at his ease again.

"I have some business interests down that way, and so hear a good deal of what is going on at first hand.

A New York gunman is so much worse than these amateurs out here there ain't no comparison.