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The Appellate Division reversed the conviction that had followed the arrest and discharged the prisoner, asserting that there was no longer any authority for holding him if the McDuff case was to be taken as law. Thus it was, by such unconscious steps, that I, the only son of a clergyman, found myself willy-nilly a leader of the criminal bar.
"The full amount or nothin'. Is that all ye'll give?" he asked, turning to McDuff. "Not a cent more. It's all I got, and it's all they were worth." For an instant the captain looked the storekeeper full in the face. Then glancing quickly around the store, and seeing a telephone, he moved toward it.
Rod showed his account to Captain Josh, and the latter believed that the figures were about right, as he had each day found out from the farmers what they had received for their berries. He was somewhat surprised that Peter McDuff had sent no regular statements to Rod. He, accordingly, made careful inquiries from several people who knew McDuff, and what he learned gave him considerable uneasiness.
Going into his little office, McDuff remained there for about ten minutes, which seemed much longer to those waiting outside. When he did come out he handed the captain the account he had made up, and then proceeded to thumb over several bills. Captain Josh examined the paper carefully, and then handed it to Rod without a word of comment.
Soldiers never seem of much account until they get their uniforms on." Captain Josh then told of the trouble they had had with Peter McDuff, and how at last he had been compelled to pay what was right. "Good for you!" Whyn exclaimed. "You're the right kind of a scoutmaster to have. I shall tell that to Douglas when I write again."
The bargain was stuck then and there and the transfer from Jones' pockets to those of McDuff effected. Unfortunately, however, Jones next day discovered that Holahan harbored no ill-will against him and that the supposed officer was nothing of the kind. Rising in his wrath, he in turn procured a warrant for McDuff and caused his arrest and indictment.
Nearly all of the summer people raise their own." "You should have some one place in the city to send them, Rodney. I have heard that Peter McDuff gives good prices. You might try him." "Will you write him a letter, grandad?" "I think you had better do it yourself. This is your business, and you must carry it through from beginning to the end." It took Rod some time to write that letter.
The Ancient Mariner, as every one called Sandy McTavish, was the captain's elder brother, and he made no secret of the fact that he intended to run the Inverness as he pleased, if he ran her to Davy Jones. Accordingly he smoked and spun yarns all day long in true nautical fashion, and young Peter McDuff did the work. But Peter looked at Roderick puzzled, and grinned good naturedly.
The trial came off and despite Gottlieb's best efforts his client was convicted by the jury of stealing Jones' watch, chain, and money by falsely representing himself to be an officer of the law. The case went on appeal to the Supreme Court, which affirmed the conviction, and there seemed no escape for McDuff from a term in prison.
From now on every rascal in the land will set his wits to work trying to bring his schemes within the scope of this beneficent opinion." "Indeed," I replied, "however fine it may be for McDuff, I can easily see that I have unloosed as many troubles as ever flew out of Pandora's Box." "Yes but to our profit," he retorted, with a grin. "Don't forget that.
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