[The Trail of the White Mule by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookThe Trail of the White Mule CHAPTER SEVEN 14/15
He doesn't approve of throwing dynamite at people, but--well, I talked with the prosecuting attorney, too, and they both seem to be mighty nice men and reasonable.
I'm afraid Barney Oakes will see his beautiful story all spoiled." "He'll forget it when he feels the ruin to his face I'm goin' t' create for him if I ever meet up with 'im again," Casey commented grimly. "Babe sent you a pincushion she made in school.
I think she made beautiful, neat stitches in that C," went on the Little Woman in a placid, gossipy tone invented especially for domestic conversation. "And--oh, yes! There's a new laundryman on our route, and he PERSISTS in running across the lawn and dumping the laundry in the front hall, though I've told him and TOLD him to deliver it at the back.
And there's a new tenant in Number Six, and they hadn't been in more than three days before he came home drunk and kept everybody in the house awake, bellowing up and down the hall and abusing his wife and all.
I told him held have to go when his month is up, but he says he'll be damned if he will.
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