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To weaken the force in its dealings with gangs and toughs and criminals generally is as damaging as to permit dishonesty, and, moreover, works towards dishonesty.
It was a painful process, for the street pavement was simply awful. Sometimes there were trouble and mild assaults. The only recollection I have of striking a man is connected with a torchlight procession celebrating some Union victory. When returning from south of Market, a group of jeering toughs closed in on us and I was lightly hit.
"I'm not worrying over that, are you?" said Dan, philosophically. "You look as if you had a grouch on about something." "I have," blurted out Dud fiercely. "I hate this horrid Killykinick and everything on it; and I'm not going to be mixed up before decent people with roughs and toughs that are fit only to black my boots like you, Dan Dolan!"
It was a mixed enough gathering. There were well-dressed men, and men who were obviously of the sea. There were the flashily dressed crooks, whose work was the haunt of sidewalk, and trains, and the surface cars. There were out and out toughs, careless of all appearance, and with their evil hall-marked on harsh faces and in their watchful eyes.
Connors, the lawyer, was Senator Fairclothe's law partner; Fairclothe had been anxious to see the tract drained. "Oh, my God!" he groaned, "Are they that rotten!" "But you had the title searched before you bought?" said Higgins. "Of course. Right back to the first Spanish land grant, and there wasn't a flaw in it." "Then those fellows are stung." "Pooh! Those cheap toughs.
In December, 1896, one of our officers was shot. A row occurred in a restaurant, which ended in two young toughs drawing their revolvers and literally running amuck, shooting two or three men. A policeman, attracted by the noise, ran up and seized one of them, whereupon the other shot him in the mouth, wounding him badly.
They were no longer boys, but toughs. Most of them had "done time" up the river and come back more hardened than they went, full of new tricks always, which they were eager to show the boys to prove that they had not been idle while they were away.
D'ye get me? I apologize. Will you shake hands?" Gruffly, Billy said, "It's all right forget it, sport;" and sullenly he shook hands and with a slow, massive movement thrust the other back toward his own table. Saxon was glowing. Here was a man, a protector, something to lean against, of whom even the Butchertown toughs were afraid as soon as his name was mentioned.
Going from Dyea to Skagway, Wood had to threaten to fire on a boat that was following. Soapy Smith and his toughs were on the wharf at Skagway, but the determined bearing of Wood and his few men, together with the presence of the crew of the C.P.R. boat Tartar, got them through. It was a ticklish situation. A word should be added here as to the famous gold escorts.
Had a signboard set up on the trail down from the prairie. He wrote it. 'This is King Fisher's trail, take any other old trail. I believe most folks used to take 'any other old trail. There was one feller didn't though. And that was the end of King Fisher's reign. These secret corrals have always been used by toughs." Fyles was smiling. "Yes."
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