"He Almost Wished a Black Cat Would Cross His Path"

"Superstition's the Bunk."
By Charles Victor Knox (?-?).
Short short short story (3 pages).
Found in Argosy Weekly, March 10, 1934.
Online HERE.

" 'Nothing's unlucky except carelessness,' was the motto of Wolf McGowan, slickest of crooks . . ."

. . . and Wolf would never be careless, would he?

. . . Then he saw, right ahead of him, a ladder leaning against the side of a building. He smiled again, as he deviated slightly from the flow of pedestrians, in order to pass beneath it.  . . .

Category: No such luck