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"I don't know anything about any letter," muttered the gambler sullenly, "but I heard that you had come to your senses." "Whether I have or not," retorted Tom, "you are pretty sure to come to your proper senses to-night. Men -I mean workmen, not gamblers or bootleggers -you are at liberty to pass out of this building."
There, as the detective put it, they could "frighten the gizzard out of him" and learn the meaning of his trip to Sparrow Lake and what Rives was up to; also they would make him tell what he knew about Nickleby's dealings with Red McIvor. At any rate they ought to be able to learn enough to decide on a definite course of action in rounding up the bootleggers.
What they are thinking about, what the Anti-Saloon League talks about, what the Prohibition enforcement officers expend their energy upon, is the sale of alcoholic drinks in public places and by bootleggers. But where the bootlegger and the restaurant-keeper counts his thousands, home brew counts its tens of thousands.
I am sorry to say that many who heard the Word of God preached in that school house rejected it and became real outlaws. The family of the school board clerk lost their salvation and two of their sons, who had previously professed salvation, became bootleggers. At the store building a number of people got saved. One man sat in the back seat every evening and left as soon as the preaching was over.
To overcome their habit of hibernating all Winter, Paul supplied the Ants with Mackinaws made with three pairs of sleeves or legs. They eat nothing but Copenhagen Snuff. They do not patronize bootleggers or require time off to fix their automobiles. Lucy, Paul Bunyan's cow was not, so far as we can learn, related to either Babe or Benny.
Prenter had hold of another. "Two more of Evarts's bootleggers, eh?" muttered Reade. "Let me see." On one of the men he found a bottle of liquor. On the other no liquor was discovered. "Did Evarts pay you fellows a salary, or commission?" Tom demanded. "Commiss " began one of the bootleggers, then stopped himself with a vocal jerk. "Evarts? I don't even know who he is."
At two tables stood bootleggers, each with a bottle of liquor and glasses. Tom stalked boldly in, still without turning to look at his own following. Reade's face bore such a mild look that the leader of the visiting gamblers was wholly deceived as he glanced up. "The chief!" called one workman, in dismay, and a dozen men made a break for the door.
They's one thing an' one only that I hate worse an' that's bootleggers an' moonshiners. If you got a scheme to give them cusses their needin's, you can ask anybody if Casey Ryan ain't the feller you can bank on." "Yes. That's what I've been thinking. Now, I wish you'd tell me exactly what you've been up against. Don't leave out anything, however trivial it might seem to you."
"Then how are you going to meet it?" "There's only one way," Tom returned. "A declaration of war must be met with a fight. Unless I'm very greatly in error the gamblers and bootleggers will try to start up matters again to-night in camp." "And you'll throw them down harder than before?" queried Mr. Renshaw, gazing keenly at the young chief. "If it be possible," Tom declared.
And the dreadful and incontrovertible fact remains that the sober nations have not proved themselves superior to those who drink in moderation. Who are happy over Prohibition? First, the Prohibitionists themselves, and, secondly, the bootleggers.
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