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    The Rat Racket
    The Rat Racket
    The Rat Racket
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    The Rat Racket

    By David Henry Keller and Alex Kotzky

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Rat Racket - David Henry Keller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rat Racket, by David Henry Keller

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Rat Racket

      Author: David Henry Keller

      Illustrator: Kotzky

      Release Date: October 12, 2008 [EBook #26890]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAT RACKET ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      THE

      RAT

      RACKET

      By DAVID H. KELLER, M.D.

      With Dr. Keller's genius for hitting at vital spots every time, he now gives us a brand new idea and an ingenious solution. We hope no racketeers read this story. They might, as a result, cause the police some trouble. Fortunately, however, the racket has a flaw.

      Richard Moyer, senior partner of the firm of Moyer & Perkins, read that letter over twice before he called in the man who had helped him make the importing of high grade groceries from England a most profitable business for over twenty years.

      He simply handed the letter over to Paul Perkins without a word of explanation. The latter read it through and handed it back in equal silence, but the hand that held the letter trembled.

      Just another racket, exclaimed Moyer, finally.

      Looks like it. I suppose we were foolish to start in paying for protection. First our trucks were threatened; then the new building; after that our best customers were bombed, and we had to pay to protect them. Your son was kidnapped—and the police! They even went so far as to advise that we keep on paying—and now this letter! We might as well close out the business. All our profits go toward supporting a gang of criminals who have muscled into every type of American industry.

      They were running out through the picture. A crazed man tore it from the wall.

      On the face of it the letter looks innocent enough, sighed Perkins, as he picked it up and gave it another reading. Simply says that the rat menace is increasing, cites several business houses where the rodents have done a great deal of damage, and offers to give our warehouses complete protection for five thousand a week. You could show that letter to a hundred police officials and they would laugh at your fears. But I am not laughing. Because that letter was written on the same damaged typewriter that the other letters were written on and those gangsters have not failed to make any of their threats good.

      Suppose we pretend that they are honest, and answer their letter and send them a check for the first week's protection?

      They will laugh at you and send back the check.

      "They may, at that. Then we will give them the cash. In either case, it will give us

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