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again. Abner was deeply grateful to Mr. Tom Northcutt for taking the burden of redress from his shoulders. The teamster perceived now that he had been a tyro indeed in his effort to incite a lynching. He had gone to the garage arguing the right and wrong. That was not the crux of the matter at all; it was to avoid the law, not to argue about it. Nobody in the garage had sensed that until Tom Northcutt, with the Northcutt prerogative of leadership, had felt it instantly, had given directions in half a minute, and had vanished.