[Southeast] Ved in the horrible he might become by detai

[Snowden]

" he said roughly. "I've half a mind not to bother with you. I'd let you
alone if I didn't want you so much." On his hands and knees in the
bushes George Willard stared at the scene before him and tried hard to
think. He prepared to spring at the man who had humiliated him. To be
beaten seemed infinitely better than to be thus hurled ignominiously
aside. Three times the young reporter sprang at Ed Handby and each time
the bartender, catching him by the shoulder, hurled him