10/44 He never looked down, as so many hard characters do, upon a person possessing a different code of ethics. His attitude was one of broad, genial tolerance. He saw nothing out of the way in the fact that he had himself been a road-agent, a professional gambler, and a desperado at different stages of his career. At the time that I knew him he had become a man of some substance, and naturally a staunch upholder of the existing order of things. |