Opening of the book
THREE SEVENS
THREE SEVENS
A Detective Story
By
Perley Poore Sheehan
NEW YORK
CHELSEA HOUSE
PUBLISHERS
Three Sevens
Copyright, 1927, by CHELSEA HOUSE
Printed in the U. S. A.
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the
Scandinavian.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
“SOLITARY”
I.
11
II.
PROVIDENCE AIDING
21
III.
29
HEADQUARTERS
IV.
38
BY PROCESS OF LAW
“YOUR WORK!”
V.
48
58
VI.
JUST AND UNJUST
VII.
THE PROMISE
63
74
VIII.
IN SAN PEDRO
IX.
OLD RAGS!
83
Х.
SANCHO
94
XI.
LIVE FREIGHT
104
XII.
THE SECOND VERSION
112
XIII.
117
SHIP AND BEACON
XIV.
AUNT KATHERINE
124
XV.
OUARRY
131
MERE RUMORS
XVI.
138
GATHERING STORM
XVII.
148
XVIII.
TOWARD SUNDOWN
156
ХІХ.
THE LULL
164
ХХ.
THE MAGNET
170
ХХІ.
PARLEY
176
ХХІІ.
THE UNDERWORLD
184
ХХІІІ.
THE LETTER
191
XXIV.
IN THE THROES
202
XXV.
213
GHOSTS
XXVI.
224
RIGHT AND LEFT
TIGERS’ DEN
234
XXVII.
XXVIII.
242
TWELVE
THREE SEVENS
CHAPTER I
“SOLITARY”
Iǵ mattered not at all to Craig that he had at least another ten years of prison ahead of him, nor that at least another month of this unexpired term would have to be passed here in the “cooler.” He had already considered these facts through long hours, and had found them as unproductive as stones. But the cat was a brand-new fact. He stroked her fur. He tickled her under the chin. In a sort of tremulous delight he wondered how she got here —where she came from —who owned her.
At this last phase of his happy speculation it was as if his mind gave a slight start of surprise. Did she come as a heritage, so to speak, from Chi Slim?
Here in San Pedro Prison, the punishment cells were a row of boiler-iron boxes, each of them approximately a five-foot hollow cube —six of them in all, ranged along one side of a dark subcellar. In each cell there was an iron door with two openings in it —one near the top, through which the guard could flash his light, when he made his rounds, and thus see what the inmate of the cell was doing; and
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