The Lock and the Key

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None of this would have happened if Tommy Dancer had won the third game. He would have paid Andy his dollar and had enough left over to pay for the lines. But his game was off tonight and he had lost the third game. So he taunted Andy into playing a fourth game and as a result was still in the bowling alley when the phone call came through.

“Telephone, Tommy,” called Rudy.

“Who is it?”

“Your boss.”

Tommy scowled. “Tell him I’ve left.”

Rudy shook his head. “I already told him you were here.”

Tommy put the sixteen-pound bowling ball back in the rack. “If he thinks I’m going on a call at this time of the night, he’s got another think coming.”

Andy, to whom Tommy imparted this, put his tongue in his cheek.

Tommy walked around Rudy’s counter and stepped into the phone booth. He picked up the dangling receiver and put it to his ear. Then he pulled shut the door.

“Yes, Mr. Roan,” he said into the phone.

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