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  • [Footnote: was covetousness, and it rested locally on nothing more substantial

than the precarious honor among thieves who find their business threatened by a vigorous and talented competitor. Some of the thieves, at any rate, never got out of the habit of picking their temporary partners' pockets." Op. cit., p. 46.]*