I have had something to say about the force of circumstances!

I was not in a comfortable frame of mind at all, though the money in my

pockets should have given me considerable cheer. I did not feel that it

was my money--any of it. I could not make it seem like anything which

belonged to me or convince myself that I had earned it. I had picked a

man’s pocket for part of it and the rest of that cash had been jammed

into my pockets, so to speak. I was not wasting a moment’s time on

questioning the morality of any of my acts. I reckoned if Pratt’s wallet

had been stuffed with twice as much I would have kept the plunder.

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