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quick glance apprizing her that no one followed her in immediately, she
continued on down one of the side aisles and passed through the doorway into
the alley.
Five minutes later she was in a telephone-booth in a drug-store two blocks away.
"Is this Feinheimer's?" she asked after she had got her connection. "I want to talk
to Carl." She asked for Carl because she knew that this man who had been head-
waiter at Feinheimer's for years would know her voice.
"
"
Is that you, Carl?" she asked as a man's voice finally answered the telephone.
This is Little Eva."
"
Oh, hello!" said the man. "I thought you were over at the county jail."
"I was released to-day," she explained. "Well, listen, Carl; I've got to see the
Lizard. I've simply got to see him to-night. I was being shadowed, but I got away
from them. Do you know where he is?"
"
I guess I could find him," said Carl in a low voice. "You go out to Mother
Kruger's. I'll tell him you'll be there in about an hour."
"I'll be waiting in a taxi outside," said the girl.
"
Good," said Carl. "If he isn't there in an hour you can know that he was afraid to
come. He's layin' pretty low."
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