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Updated: May 4, 2025
Then, at last, it was Murray who broke it. He raised his eyes to the cold regard of the man he had so cordially come to hate. "Shaunbaum isn't going to get away with it?" he questioned. "The p'lice? They've got a cinch on him?" "Shaunbaum won't get away with it." "They've arrested him?" Kars shook his head. "No. Shaunbaum didn't shoot him. The boy did the 'gunman' up.
The arrivals had not yet begun from Seattle, and the "inside" was already claiming those who belonged to it. Kars devoted himself to a distant watch on Pap Shaunbaum. However the man's vengeance was to come, he felt that he must discover some sign in him of its imminence. Pap was at his post amongst the crowd at the bar. His dark face hid every emotion behind a perfect mask.
He sat nerveless in his chair, and his bulk seemed to have become flabby with loss of vitality. Bill was watching the scene from the window. "Yes. It's going to be terrible for them." Kars spoke with a force which helped disguise his real emotions. By a great effort Murray pulled himself together. "It's it's Shaunbaum," he said. Then he went on as though to himself: "It's over that woman.
And I tell you it was like a weight lifted right off my shoulders. I saw him getting shut of Shaunbaum and that woman. I told him I was glad, and I told him Josh Wiseman's yarn. I told him they reckoned Shaunbaum meant doing him up some way. An' he laffed. Just laffed, and guessed he was glad. And now they've got him. It's broke me all up. But the women. Jessie! His mother!
I feel just now there wouldn't be a thing in the world more comic to me than to see Pap Shaunbaum kicking daylight with his vulture neck tied up. And I'd ask no better of Providence than to make it so I could laugh till my sides split. It's going to mean dollars an' dollars, and time, and a big work. But if we don't do it, why, Pap gets away with his play. We can't stand for that.
It showed two men at the main doors, and another at each of the other entrances. Furthermore, it revealed the drop curtain lowered on the stage, and the orchestra men peering questioningly, and not without fearful glances, over the rail which barred them from the polished dance floor. Besides these things Pap Shaunbaum was hurrying across the hall. His mask-like face displayed no sign of emotion.
His mellow philosophy had broken down before the human feelings so deeply stirred. He had passed the lover's feelings over for a reversion to the tragedy at the Elysian Fields. It was the demoniac character of the detested Pap Shaunbaum. It was the hideous uselessness of it all. It was the terrible viciousness of this leper city which had brought the whole thing about. But was it?
And that instigator was, without a shadow of doubt, Pap Shaunbaum. Kars saw nothing of Bill during those two days of his preoccupation. But the second morning provided him with food for serious reflection. It was a brief note which reached him at noon.
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