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I'll have to speak to daddy about it, Sam, though I hate to bother him just now. He's all worked up over that business of last night." "Don't understand it," said the foreman, shaking his head. "Could it have been the bootlegger?" queried Frances, referring to the illicit whiskey seller of whom she suspected the irresponsible Ratty M'Gill had purchased liquor.
And the rat-faced, filthy little hotel clerk turned out to be a bootlegger.... Well, when I woke up about eleven this morning I give you my word I wasn't sick and headachy, though God knows I'd drunk enough to put me out for a week.... Penny, I woke up feeling well, I can't explain it but to say I felt light and new and and clean.... All washed-up!
The reporter had met a bootlegger earlier in the evening and had two or three drinks. He was mellow. "Oh, I'm wise," he said with a wink. "Chuck Ellis isn't anybody's fool. Beat it, Lothario, while the beating's good." The last sentence and the gesture that accompanied the words were humorous exaggerations of old-time melodrama. Lane took his advice without delay.
"Follow that machine and keep a block away from it," he ordered. "Bootlegger?" asked the taxi driver cheerily. "I don't know, but just drift along behind him till he stops. Can you do that?" "Watch me!" And, with Ronicky and Bill Gregg installed in his machine, he started smoothly on the trail.
It was an odd procession which filed out on the riverbank twenty minutes later. First came Svenson, carrying across his great shoulder the still unconscious form of the bootlegger. Behind him walked Jimmy Stiles, supported by Kendrick. McCorquodale brought up the rear, loaded down with confiscated rifles. They found Svenson's big canoe unharmed.
It wouldn't have taken much of your time, Doctor Branch, to have organized an enforcement committee to assist the policeman who was a friendly acquaintance of the former liquor man, who has now turned bootlegger. Policemen are selected because of their acquaintance with the underworld and they are very human.
There was a bootlegger in the audience, who, when hearing me relate the experience, got to thinking about it, became convicted and got saved. When we were leaving to go home, Brother Keutzer asked me how I was going to get home; was I going to walk? "No," I said, "I am going to ride and we will have no trouble with the car."
"I shouldn't wonder. There was a bootlegger through here yesterday." "The man who tried to get over our roof!" exclaimed Frances. "Mebbe." "Do you suppose he's known to Ratty?" questioned the girl, anxiously. "Dunno. But Ratty's about worn out his welcome on the Bar-T. If the Cap says the word, I'll can him." "Well," said Frances, "he shouldn't have driven that herd so hard.
With corn selling at seventy-five cents to a dollar a bushel, as it did in our settlement, and taking into account that the average sales of a little moonshiner's still probably did not exceed a gallon a day, and that a bootlegger must be rewarded liberally for marketing the stuff, it will be seen that there was no fortune in this mysterious trade, before prohibition raised the price.
I could take it off yuh after yuh quit kickin' and drive your remains in to this little burg, with a tale of how I'd caught a bootlegger that resisted arrest. So fork over the jack, old-timer. I want to catch that train over there that's about ready to pull out." He prodded sharply with the gun, and Casey heard a click which needed no explanation.
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