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dark it is once over the castle walls. When the enemy seems to be dead, then the agony begins. I fought them all. Right down to the teeth. O' Dandy and I took on fifteen cops in his driveway. The fight lasted for about a half hour or so. We put our backs against the garage door and they began to drop as they came to us. They could have used their guns, it's true, but it was a different kind of confront ation. They knew it. They understood. They wanted us in the same way that we wanted them. It had been building for a long time. They have put me behind bars at least twenty times since I came home from Valley Forge. The bastards. That night was hell when they finally over came us. They tied me up on a rail, like a pig for slaughter and carried me down the driveway. I could see the crowd of faces on the hill. They were like sheep without ears on a misty night. Everything turned into a ghost. When they had me in the car, they tried to break my arm with a claw. Do you know what a claw is? No. It's an instrument like a hand cuff they wrap around your arm. As they turn it, it tightens. The bastards. I told them to go fuck themselves. They kept on turning it untill I kicked the back of the drivers seat so hard, they were afraid to drive any more and they stoped turning the claw. When we got to the station, they put me in a cell and then brought O'Dandy in and worked him over in front of me. What a joke the world is. The man running for District Attorney on the Republican ticket defended us. What a trial! All Mount Lebanon was there, and we walked off. They thought we were going away for a year. And we walked off. Why? Because my Dad has political power on this Hill. My Dad had to call the attorney and ask him how much the bill was. Every last one of the centerols, I have watched fall under me. Down, down, bleeding with drips blending their deep red with green grass, until they,