“And what about who we’re after?” Orval said. “Are you taking it all out on him?” “No.” “You sure?” “You know I am. I don’t act tougher than I have to. You know as well as I do that a town stays safe because of the little things kept in control. You can’t do anything to prevent something big like a holdup or a murder. If somebody wants to do them bad enough, he will. But it’s the little things that make a town what it is, that you can watch to make it safe. If I had just grinned and took what the kid was handing me, fairly soon I might have got used to the idea and let other kids hand it to
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