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 "The way yuh keep lettin' that bunch get by yuh!"

Kestner was in no mood to encourage such levity.

"Could you handle this case any better?" was his curt demand.

"I guess mebbe I could," was the girl's languid reply.

"Then why don't you try it?"

Sadie blew a ring of smoke ceilingward. She watched it meditatively, for a silent moment or two.

"I guess mebbe that's what I'll have to do!" she finally declared.