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The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

CHAPTER V
20/22

We could sleep any time, we could knuckle-talk only on occasion.

We told one another much of the history of our lives, and for long hours Morrell and I have lain silently, while steadily, with faint, far taps, Oppenheimer slowly spelled out his life-story, from the early years in a San Francisco slum, through his gang-training, through his initiation into all that was vicious, when as a lad of fourteen he served as night messenger in the red light district, through his first detected infraction of the laws, and on and on through thefts and robberies to the treachery of a comrade and to red slayings inside prison walls.
They called Jake Oppenheimer the "Human Tiger." Some cub reporter coined the phrase that will long outlive the man to whom it was applied.

And yet I ever found in Jake Oppenheimer all the cardinal traits of right humanness.

He was faithful and loyal.

I know of the times he has taken punishment in preference to informing on a comrade.


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