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    Direct Wire
    Direct Wire
    Direct Wire
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    Direct Wire

    By Clee Garson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Direct Wire - Clee Garson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Direct Wire, by Clee Garson

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      Title: Direct Wire

      Author: Clee Garson

      Release Date: June 3, 2010 [EBook #32672]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIRECT WIRE ***

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      This etext was produced from Amazing Stories January 1943. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      DIRECT WIRE

      by CLEE GARSON

      Mort and Mike got strange calls on this phone; they didn't come through Central!

      He had a strange husky voice that made queer chills go up and down your spine

      here is an empty cigar store on the first floor of the loop building in which I keep my office. Formerly it was managed by two of the slickest small time gambling operators who ever booked a bang-tail or banked a game of Hooligan.

      There is a small, neatly lettered sign on the door of that unoccupied store now, however, which has caused no end of comment from the former customers of the cigar store who had always been all too cheerfully happy to lose their daily dollars there.

      The sign reads:

      "CLOSED FOR THE DURATION

      Due to our having

      Entered The Armed

      Forces of the U. S.

      GOD BLESS AMERICA

      Mort & Mike"

      If you haven't guessed as much by now, the signatures at the bottom of that sign are those of the two former proprietors of the establishment, Mort Robbins and Mike Harrigan.

      Now since both Mort and Mike were of military age, and since this nation is at war, it should hardly seem unusual that their former customers and all who knew them would consider their summons to the colors something worthy of great comment. It should hardly seem unusual, that is, unless you happened to know the two, and realized further that they were not drafted, but voluntarily enlisted.

      Neither was what you could call deeply patriotic, you see. Nor were they the sort to be influenced by such emotional appeals as the beating of drums, the waving of flags, or the playing of brass bands

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