[The Trail of the White Mule by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookThe Trail of the White Mule CHAPTER FOURTEEN 20/27
But I'm willin' to HEAR yuh out--and that there's more'n what I'd uh said this morning." "And that's fair enough, Ryan.
If you jumped into things with your eyes shut, I don't think I'd want you with me." Casey squirmed, remembering certain times when he had gone too headlong into things. "I'm going to ask you, Ryan, to tell me the whole story of this car and its load of whisky.
Before you do that, I'll tell you this much to show good faith and prove to you how much I trust you: I'm an officer, and my special work right now is to clean up a gang of bootleggers and the crooked officers who are protecting them.
What I know about your case leads me to believe that you've run afoul of them and that you're the man I've been looking for that can help me set a trap for them. Would you like to do that ?" "If it's that bunch you're after, Mr.Nolan, I'd ruther land 'em in jail than to find a ledge of solid gold ten feet thick an' a mile long. One thing I'd like to know first.
Are yuh or ain't yuh huntin' mules ?" Mack Nolan laughed.
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