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"Believe me," muttered the Lizard, "that was the toughest job I ever pulled off and
all I gets is two pieces of paper, but I don't know but what they're worth it."
He sat for a long time looking at the papers in his hand, but he did not see them.
He was thinking of other things: of prison walls that he had eluded so far through
years of crime; of O'Donnell, whom he knew to be working on the Compton case
and whose boast it had been that sooner or later he would get the Lizard; of what
might naturally be expected were the papers in his hands to fall into the
possession of Torrance's attorney. It would mean that Murray would be
immediately placed in jeopardy, and the Lizard knew Murray well enough to know
that he would sacrifice his best friend to save himself, and the Lizard was by no
means Murray's best friend.
He realized that he knew more about the Compton murder case than any one
else. He was of the opinion that he could clear it up if he were almost any one
other than the Lizard, but with the record of his past life against him, would any
one believe him? In order to prove his assertion it would be necessary to make
admissions that might incriminate himself, and there would be Murray and the
Compton millions against him; and as he pondered these things there ran always
through his mind the words of the girl, "You and I are the only friends he has."
"
Hell," ejaculated the Lizard as he rose from his chair and prepared for bed.
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