[The Trail of the White Mule by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookThe Trail of the White Mule CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 2/17
This beats making it, at any rate." That afternoon and the next day, Casey Ryan did what he never dreamed was possible.
With Mack Nolan to show him how, Casey performed miracles.
While he did not, literally change water into wine, he did give forty-three gallons of White Mule a most imposing pedigree. He turned kegs of crude, moonshine whisky into Canadian Club, Garnkirk, Tom Pepper, Three Star Hennessey and Cognac--if you were to believe the bottles, labels and government seals.
Under Mack Nolan's instruction and with his expert assistance, the forgery was perfect.
While the cellar reeked with the odor of White Mule when they had finished, the bottled array on the table whispered of sybaritic revelings to glisten the eyes of the most dissipated man about town. "When it's as easy done as that, Mr.Nolan, the feller's a fool that drinks it.
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