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everything, you two-bit hustler! I knew I should have hired a professional. You’re worse than those other two goons I had.”
    “But, boss, I—”
    “Don’t talk, just listen. Before Harvey spills everything to the cops, I want him out on bail and the two of you on your way to Mexico along with those other two idiots who botched the robbery at the Hawkes mansion. Do you understand?”
    “Yes, sir.”
    “Sorry, Mr. Townsend. But I’m afraid
I
don’t understand.” Andy stood in the doorway with his feet apart and his wings out-stretched, trying his best to look like a superhero.
    “It’s the bird from the warehouse!” Smoke said, staring. “What’s a bird doing here?”
    “I don’t care who it is! He’s heard everything.” Townsend pounded his desk. “Get him, you moron!”
    Smoke reached into his jacket.
    “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” Andy unclipped the Super Stun Gun.
    Smoke laughed. “What are you gonna do, Bird Man? Shoot me with your banana?”
    Andy pulled the trigger. For a second nothing happened. Then, suddenly, Smoke froze in place. His hand was still in his coat and his eyes were glazed.
    Townsend drove his portly body into Andy, knocking him off balance and making the Super Stun Gun fall to the floor. The lawyer grunted and brought his fist up into Andy’s chin, pounding out two of his front teeth. Then he grabbed an iron paperweight from the desk and slammed it into Andy’s head, knocking him unconscious.
    Townsend stood over him, breathing hard. “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” He moved to his desk and had picked up the phone when he heard something behind him.
    The lawyer turned just in time to see Andy sit up and rub his head. “That one stung a little.” He felt in his mouth. Both teeth wereback.
It’s great
, Andy thought.
Works every time
.
    Townsend watched, his mouth open, as Andy unclipped the Gloop Gun. Then he ducked behind his desk. “Don’t shoot! I don’t know who you are or why you’re here, but I’ll pay you double whatever you’re getting if you come to work for me.”
    “I’m the Hawk, Mr. Townsend. And I work for …” Andy stopped to think. “Oh yeah, for the good of humankind.”
    Andy fired the Gloop Gun over the top of the desk and a big round yellow blob of Gloop landed in Townsend’s hair and somehow also managed to catch his right foot, pinning the side of his head to his shoe, a position his body had never enjoyed before. Townsend grunted and rolled around on the floor, picking up bits of paper when he knocked over a wastebasket.
    Andy watched until he heard the high-pitched blare of sirens outside. He glanced at his watch. He’d been in here longer than he’d intended. Henry must have gotten worried and called the police. Andy had just enoughtime for a good finish. He moved to where Townsend had come to rest, stuck to the side of a chair leg.
    “The police are on their way. You’ll have plenty of time to think about this day while you’re rotting in jail. And when you do, don’t forget that it was the Hawk that put you there.”

C HAPTER 15
    “Listen to this, Henry.” Andy shook out the front page of the newspaper. “ ‘Millionaire lawyer Clayton Townsend confesses to crimes of fraud, burglary, accessory to attempted kidnapping, and murder. While being questioned by police, Townsend claimed to have been captured by a large, talking bird. He is calling the winged creature “the Hawk.” He also claims this same bird glued his head to his foot. Prosecutors discount the story, calling it an attempt by the noted lawyer to credit a possible plea of insanity, althoughthey remain puzzled by the fact that one of Townsend’s partners seemed to be frozen for three days.’ Hmmm. Maybe the Super Stun Gun is set a little high.”
    Andy folded the paper. “We’re on our way to being famous, Henry. Someday the police will probably call in the Hawk to help them on some of their really tough