Michael Malone - Weebly

that gun just get to be yours? You don't take a man's
gun. Come on, give it back."
Abernathy turned angrily at the door. "Look here.
This is not Da Nang and it's not Dodge City."
"Don't kid yourself."
"Listen to me, Maynard. Don't you kid yourself.
The law has no interest in your sense of injury or in your
righteousness. And it has no tolerance for the sort of
personal violence you appear to have resorted to all
your life."
"Is that so? I thought it really got off on my violence.
You know, like, let's hear it for the Green Berets."
"Something else you better understand. It can slam
you in jail for life, even if you're right. Even if! So you
don't kid yourself, Maynard, and if you don't want
people to think you're stupid, don't behave as if you
were. Because you're not. If MacDermott comes, go
with him, keep your mouth shut, and call me."
Abernathy pushed against the wind until the trailer door
flung open.
"Okay, okay," yelled Henry after him, annoyed at
how the lawyer made him feel that maybe he had some