And as for being careful about going out evenings, what is this town thinking of, that it will continue to license and legalize an institution that makes its honest citizens advise new-comers to stay at home for fear of assassination?
No.

I shall go about my work just as if I lived in the most law-abiding community in America.

And if I am murdered by the whiskey men, I want the people of Milton to understand that the citizens are as much to blame for the murder as the saloon men.

For a community that will license such a curse ought to bear the shame of the legitimate fruits of it." The trial of the man with the hare-lip had been postponed for some legal reason, and Philip felt relieved somewhat.

He dreaded the ordeal of the court scene.