So have I, outside of the contractin' and real estate business.
In politics I have trusted men who have told me they were my friends, and if traitors have turned up in my camp well, I only had the same experience as Caesar, Leary, and the others.

About my Brutus.

McManus, you know, has seven brothers and they call him "The" because he is the boss of the lot, and to distinguish him from all other McManuses.
For several years he was a political bushwhacker.

In campaigns he was sometimes on the fence, sometimes on both sides of the fence, and sometimes under the fence.

Nobody knew where to find him at any particular time, and nobody trusted him--that is, nobody but me.