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There he had learned the code, which can be summarized in two words, "Don't squeal." For gangland hates nothing so much as a "snitch." As a beginner he could be trusted to commit any crime assigned to him and go to prison, perhaps the chair, rather than betray a leader. As a leader he had those under him trained in the same code. That still was his code to those above him in the System.
For, twist and turn it as I might, there was always the unforgivable thing at the end: the fact that by calling in help and betraying Dorgan to others, I, once his prison-mate, and even now, like him though in a lesser degree a law-breaker, would become a "snitch," an informer, a traitor to my kind. A wretchedly distorted point of view? Doubtless it was.
I'm a human being. And you'll notice molasses catches a heap more flies than vinegar does. I like that Dawson man, and I ain't gonna see him hurt." "Did you tell him it was me up there with a rifle?" There was a hint of unease in the blustery tone. "I didn't tell him nothin'," said Marie. "I ain't no snitch." "Ah-h, you are soft on him," Bull sneered in disgust. "What if I am?" she flared.
You can tell him what I said if you like. You can tell him something more. Blackie and me think there is a snitch in this gang, and the Big 'Un had better keep his eyes peeled for a double-cross. You tell him that. You tell him to ask Nigger about it." "What do you mean?" I cried. His answer was a mysterious shake of the head, and he disappeared into the foc'sle.
This warrant only holds you as a suspicious character, Pennold, but we can dig up plenty of other things, if it's necessary; there's a forger named Griswold in the Tombs now awaiting trial, who will snitch about that Rochester check, for one thing." "Don't let him bluff you, Wally." Mame faced Morrow from her husband's side. "They can't rake up a thing that ain't outlawed by time.
"You can take it from me, I'll go up the river for fourteen years for no one I'll take blasted good care of that! But you" a rage, ungovernable and elemental, found voice in a sudden torrent of blasphemous invective "you we'll get you yet! Some day we'll get you, you cursed snitch, you "
But when I gave him his supper I told him I'd just have to tell my father, I was afraid; and he said he didn't have any father and he didn't know whether fathers wouldn't 'snitch, and I said my father wouldn't." "I see," said Mr. Bunker gravely. "You recommended me as being a safe person to trust a secret with. I am glad you did so." "Yes, sir.
"That's how I sized it," said Fraser, wagging his head with animation, "I knew you'd had some kind of a run-in. What was it? This is low down, see, and confidential, as between two crooks. I'll never snitch." "Hold on there! I'm not a crook. I'm not sufficiently ingenious to be a member of your honorable profession." "Well, I guess my profession is as honorable as most.
"If that talk gets aft, the Old Man will have you thumped into a jelly, just as an example to the other stiffs," I warned him. He gave the devil's cackle that passed with him for a laugh, and stepping close to my side, spoke directly into my ear. "Who is going to take the talk aft? Not you. Blackie and me know that Jack Shreve ain't a snitch. Not the Big 'Un.
"After the Lieutenant left for Penalty Island, then," Ned went on, "Keene discovered what was going on and feared that Tag and his fellows, if arrested, would snitch, as the boys have it. Then the messenger was sent after Rowe with more definite instructions. That is, he was given more positive instructions and sent out in haste.
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