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"No," he exclaimed, and we could almost hear his jaw snap as if it had been a trap. "No I'll not think it over. I'll not yield an inch. Dopey Jack goes to trial before election." As Carton bit off the words, Murtha became almost beside himself with rage and chagrin. He was white and red by turns. For a moment I feared that he might do Carton personal violence.
"Yes," prompted Carton, "and what then what did you do with it?" "Gave it to Mr. Murtha, of course," came back the matter-of-fact answer of the young tough. "What did he do with it?" demanded Carton. Dopey Jack shook his head dubiously. "It ain't no use trying to kid you, Mr. Carton. If I told you a fake you'd find it out. I'd tell you what he did, if I knew, but I don't on the level.
But they haven't landed anything yet, except rumours, like this one about the Dopey Jack jury. I've had them out posing as jurymen who could be 'approached' and would arrange terms for other bribable jurymen." "And you mean to say that that's going on right here in this city?" I asked, scenting a possible newspaper story.
If he told all it would be necessary to reveal certain details that he could not bring himself to reveal to anyone, and so he commenced with his introduction to the wayfarers in the deserted hay barn. Briefly he told of the attack upon him, of his shooting of Dopey Charlie, of the flight and pursuit.
"We don't go," said Dopey Charlie, belligerently, "until we gets half the Kid's swag." "You go now," said Bridge, "without anybody's swag," and he drew the boy's automatic from his side pocket. "You go now and you go quick beat it!" The two rose and shuffled toward the door. "We'll get you, you colledge Lizzy," threatened Dopey Charlie, "an' we'll get that phoney punk, too."
Lutie then selected for her Steady a Young Man with Hair who played the 'Cello. He was so wrapped up in his Art that he acted Dopey most of the time, and often forgot to send out the Laundry so as to get it back the same Week. Furthermore, he didn't get to the Suds any too often. Lutie thought he was Great, but what Lutie's Father thought of him could never get past the Censor.
He didn't feel very good, he felt dopey and sore, but there was no use worrying about it when he knew for sure he was all right The hell he was all right! He was in someplace new, someplace strange, and he felt half sick and he was not all right at all.
For a time he did not realize how close he had been to death or that he had been saved by the chance location of the automatic pistol in his breast pocket the very pistol he had taken from the dressing table of Abigail Prim's boudoir. The commotion of the attack and escape brought the other sleepers to heavy-eyed wakefulness. They saw Dopey Charlie advancing upon the Kid, a knife in his hand.
One after another, Carton rammed home the facts of the case, the fraudulent registration and voting, the use of the names of dead men to pad the polling lists, the bribery of election officials at the primaries the whole sordid, debasing story of how Dopey Jack had intimidated and swung one entire district.
Let's get you all into Archers, for which I have a few spare parts left. Then, after we roll up this sealed, air-conditioned tent of a familiar material, we can be on our way." "Just let's watch Rodan that's all," Frank Nelsen warned. "Sure we'll keep him good and dopey with a tranquilizer..."
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