Moon Over Broadway (Classic Reprint)
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Moon Over Broadway In the baggage car, two men were talking. One was Pete Quillen, the Pullman conductor. The other was Steve Franklin, the baggage man. Steve was grumbling. "I hate them damn corpses," he grunted. "They gimme the creeps. Me bein´ in the baggage service so long, you´d think I´d be used to ´em by now. But am I? Not me. They still gimme the creeps." Pete nodded. "Me, too. I don´t blame you. Sitting in this cold car in the dead of winter with a stiff for company. Its not so bad in the summer, I guess." "It´s bad enough," said Steve. The conductor nodded. "I guess it is." He peered down the length of the baggage car as the train lurched around a curve. "What kind of a stiff is this one?" he asked. "Fellow or woman?" Steve shrugged his shoulders. "That´s what I´m squawkin´ about. It ain´t one this trip. It´s two. An old guy and a young girl. The old guy goes off at Bangor. The dame gets switched off and goes through to Greenville." The conductor whistled softly. "Two this trip, eh?" he murmured. "Well, I don´t blame you for feeling queer. Two stiffs at once, eh? Seems like you´d be used to it though, Steve. Me, I couldn´t stand it. But it seems like you´d be used to it." Steve nodded. "Yeah. Lots of people would think that, I guess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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