[Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by James Oliver Curwood]@TWC D-Link bookPhilip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police CHAPTER III 15/22
I'd advise you to go straight back to headquarters and resign from the Northwest Mounted.
MacGregor knows you pretty well, Bucky, and knows one or two things you've done, even though your whole record is not an open book to him.
I don't believe he'll put any obstacles in the way of your discharge although your enlistment hasn't expired. Disability is an easy plea, you know.
But if the inspector should think so much of you that he is loath to let you go, then M'sieur Janette and I will have to fix up the story for headquarters, and I don't mind telling you we'll add just a little for interest, and that the woman and the people at Nelson House will swear to it.
You've the making of a good outlaw, Bucky," he smiled tauntingly, "and if you follow your natural bent you'll have some of your old friends after you, good and hard. You'd better steer clear of that though, and try your hand at being honest for once.
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