[…] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

Yet he was kidnapped and taken for a ride in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time.

[S]he's a skinny white girl. [T]he chances for nice assage are slim.

Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite.