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"Con," he said when they had gone back to the library for their coffee, "I am afraid this Commission is going to be ticklish business." "Why?" she demanded alertly. "There are some dreadful grafters on it, I suspect that the chairman is a wolf. I suspect further that it has been arranged to whitewash certain rank deals." "But why should the governor have appointed you?"
Tired and hungry, I thought. After half an hour of pumping I sent him away, detaining Woodruff. "What does he really think about Rundle?" I asked. "Says he hasn't the ghost of a chance that Scarborough'll control the Indiana delegation and that Scarborough has no more use for lunatics than for grafters." This was not encouraging. I called Merriweather back.
Every crime apparently on the calendar had its origin in the lust for money. Every felon sentenced could have traced his ruin to this curse thieves, embezzlers, burglars, a man who had killed his partner in a dispute over money, grafters, highwaymen, and last of all, two fallen women who had been amassing a fortune out of the ruin of their sisters.
That was her clever game to give him the hours he needed to gather what money he could save and make a clean getaway. Even cocaine doesn't destroy the interest of men and women in that," he concluded, turning over to Carton the wealth which Haddon had amassed as one of the meanest grafters of the city of graft. Here was a case which I could not help letting the Star have immediately.
If the rule of the majority, in any thickly populated community, was found to result in the election of demagogues and grafters and unscrupulous politicians, who are clever enough to take advantage of the private selfishness and prejudices and indifference of the individual; and if you considered it a reasonable and enlightened principle that every citizen should have equal rights and the majority rule, the unfortunate results might lead you to have a very poor opinion of the majority and resentment for the corrupt politicians, without convincing you of the unsoundness of the enlightened principle.
At the frontier we were met by guards on horseback and on foot, policemen, detectives and other grafters, who took our passports and money, and one fellow made me exchange my socks with him. Then they imprisoned us in a stable with some cows until they could hold a coroner's inquest on our passports and divide our money.
Faro dealers from the Klondike, poker dealers from Nome, roulette croupiers from Leadville, were all here to reap the rich harvest to be made from investors, field workers, and operators. Smooth grafters with stock in worthless companies for sale circulated in and out with blue-prints and whispered inside information.
He is really a gentleman it only takes one generation out here and at present he's bent upon delivering the city from this abominable ring of grafters...There is no water to put out the fires because the City Administration pocketed the money appropriated for a new system; the pipes leading from Spring Valley were broken by the earthquake." "And who was she?" Mrs.
No, sir, says I. 'What the grafters live on here is widows and orphans, and foreigners who save up a bag of money and hand it out over the first counter they see with an iron railing to it, and factory girls and little shopkeepers that never leave the block they do business on. That's what they call suckers here.
"Now," inquired Hill gloomily, "what's the next step?" "We came here to find your father, Hiram," Clancy answered, "and suddenly got switched off into another trail. Now we'll get back to the work that originally brought us to the island." "And let that bunch o' grafters go?" "I don't see what we can do, at present." "We can set the police on their trail." Clancy shook his head.
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