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"I've been lying in the brush two hours waiting for you to get separated from this. Didn't want you making any mistakes in your excitement." "Mistakes!" repeated Barney. "Yes. You're under arrest, you know, for whiskey-smuggling." "You're one of these here border police." Barney used the rising inflection in making his statement.
Riel, you know, has been back for some time and we believe his agents are busy on every reservation at present. This outbreak of horse-stealing and whiskey-smuggling in so many parts of the country at the same time is a mere blind to a more serious business, the hatching of a very wide conspiracy. We know that the Crees and the Assiniboines are negotiating with the half-breeds.
"Studied the Indians any the effect of alcohol on them?" he asked Morse. "Some," the prisoner answered. "Don't you think it bad for them?" "Yes, sir." "Perhaps you've been here longer than I. Isn't this whiskey-smuggling bad business all round?" "Not for the smuggler. Speakin' as an outsider, I reckon he does it because he makes money," Morse answered impersonally. "For the country, I mean.
A violent recrudescence of whiskey-smuggling, horse-stealing, and cattle-rustling made the work of administering the law throughout this vast territory one of exceeding difficulty and one calling for promptitude, wisdom, patience, and courage, of no ordinary quality.
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