[The Octopus by Frank Norris]@TWC D-Link bookThe Octopus CHAPTER III 65/70
I can be funny, too, when you come to that.
You don't get a cent of money out of me.
You can do your dirty bribery in your own dirty way.
I won't come into this scheme at all. I wash my hands of the whole business.
It's rotten and it's wild-eyed; it's dirt from start to finish; and you'll all land in State's prison. You can count me out." "But, Buck, look here, you crazy fool," cried Harran, "I don't know who put that stuff in your bed, but I'm not going; to let you go back to Quien Sabe in a rain like this." "I know who put it in," clamoured the other, shaking his fists, "and don't call me Buck and I'll do as I please.
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