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The Trail of the White Mule

CHAPTER ELEVEN
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Ain't that right?
"Keepin' the law has laid yuh in jail twice in the last month, by your own tell.

Why, a clown like you, that's aimin' t' keep the law an' live honest, is the easiest mark in the world.

Them's the guys that do the most harm--they make graftin' so darned easy! Them's the guys the saps lay for and dust off regular in the shape of fines an' taxes an' the like uh that.

Oncet in awhile they'll snatch yuh fer somethin' yuh never done at all an' lay yuh away fer a day or two, just t' keep yuh scared and easy t' handle next time.
"Now, yuh take me, fer instance.

I play agin' the law--an' I'm cleanin' up right along, and have yet to take my morning sunlight in streaks.


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