Octavus Roy Cohen

Name: Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII
Author: Octavus Roy Cohen

Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII (1918)

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“Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII”, published in 1918, is a work by Octavus Roy Cohen. It explores elements such as Carroll, Rollins and Hartigan.

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII (1918)

“ Hall opened his mouth to mention Badger, then closed it abruptly—like a fish gasping in the fresh air. He remembered two things regarding Badger—first of all, that they had pretty well proven his innocence, and secondly, that Rollins knew nothing of Badger, or his connection with the case.
He remembered, also, the fact that there was a third shot; two had already been accounted for—Eunice’s, which had fortunately gone wild and dug itself a burrow in the ceiling; and Badger’s, which had inflicted the painful wound in Hartigan’s right wrist. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII (1918)

“ Badger stubbornly maintained that he had fired in the dark. If that were true and it was a fact that his bullet was the one which had wounded Hartigan, then it followed that Hartigan could not well have fired with his right wrist mangled.
It seemed that Carroll had been working in a circle, eliminating one barrier after another only to find each new one harder to surmount. But if Carroll and his friends were bewildered, Barrett Rollins, head of the regular detective force, was not at all at a loss as to who was the culprit. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII (1918)

“ Some of us is gunmen an’ some ain’t. An’ Rollins knows all of us—that’s his business. An’ he knows that when a man has a rep for not packin’ a rod he don’t do it, that’s all. Ain’t that so, Rollins?”
“Not in your case,” answered Rollins fiercely. “You’ve been caught with a gun before.”
Hartigan’s face flamed.
“Cop or no cop,” he raved, “I’m here tellin’ ye that y’r a dirty, rotten liar! An’ that goes as she lays if I swing for it!”
Rollins leaped forward—but Hall stopped him with a whispered word of warning. He turned to Carroll. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII (1918)

“ An’ as for one of my pals plantin’ th’ rod on me—ain’t I told you they was my pals? They wouldn’t do nothin’ like that.”
“There’s something about you, Hartigan,” declared Carroll spontaneously, “that I like.”
“An’ there’s some difference between you an’ a ’tec’ who makes up his mind that a certain chap is guilty ’cause he’s got him with the goods, an’ after that doesn’t look no farther except to send the poor sucker up the river or maybe to the chair. That’s all I gotta say.”
It was too much for the excitable Rollins. He swung on Carroll. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII (1918)

“ I been noticin’, too, that that there hole in the screen was made by a bullet travellin’ into the room from behind th’ screen, and if youse fellers had eyes in your heads you’d of noticed that it is just about th’ height that Red could of fired from to kill Mr. Hamilton.”
“He could have been stooping, had he fired at that height.”
“Stoopin,’ sure he’d of been stoopin’. He was hidin’, wasn’t he? An’ when a man hides does he stand upright? G’wan! Y’don’t think any. Even in a dark alley a man’ll stoop if he’s tryin’ t’ make a getaway. Hartigan is th’ man.” ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII (1918)

“ Rollins flushed.
“I know, that’s all. There ain’t no one else could of done it.”
“No, that’s true; that’s true. And yet,” he continued in a placidly argumentative tone, as though discussing a purely theoretical case, “you forget that some one shot Hartigan.”
“Poof! Maybe he wasn’t shot just then.”
“But he was, you see.”
“I don’t see any such of a dam’ thing!—’scusing th’ French. You fly cops think you’ve got it all down pat when y’ don’t know a thing. T’ tell me that Red Hartigan couldn’t of been shot when——”
“He was shot behind that screen!” Carroll bit his words off sharply. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XII (1918)

“ I know ’em all, I got their records at my finger tips; some of ’em do carry guns an’ some don’t. But take it from me—an’ I know—there never was a bunch of second-story men that set out to crack a crib like this here one without heelin’ themselves. ”

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