Crossword-Solution: CONLON 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Chief of Police Conlon detailed four of his best men on the case, and, as I had nothing better to do, I enrolled myself as a volunteer.

Since you've come back from this trip of yours, everything seems to be going in unexpected ways--and somehow you've given offense to Conlon.

You see, he went sort of gravitating down by where the sewer gang was at work, like a man in a strange country full of hostiles, and although he must have been conscious of the fact that he's slated for mayor in the spring, he never showed that he knew of the presence of a human being, to say nothing of a voter, in the whole gang, and Barney Conlon's gang, too.

Come up and see me." And the candidate for mayor walked away, wondering how he could have offended Conlon, and rejoiced that he had "fixed" him in time.

But all unaware of that fact, Brassfield went back into the private office, and found Conlon awaiting him.