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Title: 32 Caliber

Author: Donald McGibeny

Illustrator: Hugh Mackey

Release Date: September 27, 2007 [EBook #22781]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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32 CALIBER

by

Donald McGibeny

_Frontispiece by_

HUGH MACKEY

[Transcriber's note: frontispiece missing from book]

INDIANAPOLIS

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT 1920

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I BRING JIM HERE
II TWO MEN AND A WOMAN
III I COULD KILL HIM
IV THE WORST HAPPENS
V ACCIDENT OR MURDER
VI A CLUE AND A VERDICT
VII I TURN DETECTIVE
VIII IT LOOKS BAD FOR HELEN
IX LOOK OUT, JIM
X I ACCUSE ZALNITCH
XI A DOUBLE INDICTMENT
XII WHO AM I
XIII WE PLAN THE DEFENSE
XIV BULLET PROOF
XV THE ANSWER
XVI THE MECHANICIAN
XVII RED CAPITULATES
XVIII I LISTEN TO MY FOREBEARS

32 CALIBER

CHAPTER ONE

BRING JIM HERE

I was in the locker-room of the country-club, getting dressed after the
best afternoon of golf I had ever had. I had just beaten Paisley
"one-up" in eighteen holes of the hardest kind of sledding.

If you knew Paisley you'd understand just why I was so glad to beat
him. He is a most insufferably conceited ass about his golf, for a man
who plays as badly as he does; in addition to which he usually beats
me. It's not that Paisley plays a better game, but he has a way of
making me pull my drive or over-approach just by his confounded manner
of looking at me when I am getting ready to play.

We usually trot along about even until we come to the seventh hole--in
fact, I'm usually ahead at the seventh--and then conversation does me
in. You see, the seventh hole can be played two ways. There's a small
clay bank that abuts the green and you can either play around or over
it to the hole, which lies directly behind. The real golfers play over
with a good mashie shot that lands them dead on the green, but dubs,
like Paisley, play around with two easy mi