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It was quite a large one, and it was thickly overgrown with wild raspberry vines. "Abe is he there?" "He didn't get away, did he?" "Are you sure he is in there?" "Quib! Quib!" shouted Abe. "Woodchucks! Quib, woodchucks! Right in here. Find 'em!" Quib was dancing around in a quiver of noisy excitement, for he had caught a sniff of something under the first bush he sprang into.
"It's dark enough," said Andy. "Come on, boys!" shouted Abe Selover. "We'll have that woodchuck this time. He's in this cave, somewhere." They were not very much afraid to keep a little way behind Abe Selover, and in a few minutes they heard him say: "Quib! Is he there? Have you got him?" Quib barked and whined, and the sound seemed to come from away above them. "Come on, boys!
Your rascally friend got his money for nothing, didn't he? He's lucky to be outside the bars for if I ever saw a guilty man he's one. Get along, both of you, or I'll call an officer!" And with that Gottlieb slipped inside his office and banged the door. "Come along, Quib!" urged Tony; "there's a great deal of truth in what he says. I don't begrudge it to him. It was well worth it to me." "Lord!"
Bow-wow-yow-yelp! and Mart shouted: "There he goes!" "Hi! We'll get him!" screamed Abe. "Take him, Quib! Take him!" Quib had started a woodchuck. There was never a stone-heap piled up that had room in it for both a dog and a woodchuck. Mr. Hamburger took the pipe out of his mouth, which was a thing nobody could remember ever having seen him do. "Dose poys! Dat vootchuck! De tog is a goot von.
"My dear Quib," returned my partner, "you seem singularly dull this evening for one of your brilliant parts. The point is that the property really isn't worth anything. I am in cahoots with the man who sells it; and we divide even!" "Yes," I answered; "a dozen similar schemes could be worked like that."
"Not with my sanction!" I retorted, somewhat aghast at the idea of having paved a broad and easy path for the way of criminals. "Tut, tut, Quib!" said Gottlieb. "You have nothing to do with what use our friend here sees fit to put your law to. I have never yet advised any man how to do an illegal thing.
We have a perfect right to believe Hawkins in preference to Bunce if we choose. Anyhow, we're not the judge. All we have to do is to present the evidence at our command if we can get it. And, by God! we will get it if it costs us ten thousand dollars! Why, Quib, the thing is a windfall. Thirty-five thousand! Why, thirty-five hundred for such a case would be a big fee!" "I don't know!"
Take my word, Quib, there's nothing in it," insisted Gottlieb warmly. "For instance, there is the crime against usury a very foolish law to be sure, but there it is. No one can commit usury unless some one else participates in the offense by paying the unlawful interest; but the usurer does not escape on that account. Why, then, should the false pretender in our case?"
Down, down, deeper and rockier and rougher every rod of it, the rugged chasm opened ahead of them, and it was necessary for the boys to mind their steps. It was a place where a woodchuck or a small dog could get around a good deal faster than any boy, but they all followed Quib in a way that would have scared their mothers if they had been there. "It's grand fun!" said Mart Penniman.
Neither the law nor public policy designs the protection of rogues in their dealings with each other, or to insure fair dealing and truthfulness, as between each other, in their dishonest practices." "Why, Quib," quoth Gottlieb, "you are the discoverer of a new legal principle. You will inaugurate a new field of human activity. Generations yet unborn will profit by your ingenuity.
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