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By Jack Joseph Smith

about whick way to go. I want them arrested, O'Dandy shouted again. Get him out of here, shouted the luetentant. I'll sign anything. Out of here O'Dandy. I want them arrested. Get them all out of here, the luetentant shouted again. We will all sign anything. Get the papers out. The girls started walking out, with their lips shivering as they passed O'Dandy. He pointed at them as they held on to their skirts running for the door. You're letting those whores go. Open the glass cage, said the luetentant. One of the desk men went and opened the door. Letting him go brings weeping misery to the already pain I have back here for him. He was angry with, no smile, and face to the floor, as he opened the door. Murphy walked out, very pleased. He said: I kindly thank your officer. Just get out of here. The three of your out of my sight. Why is it, that no one can stand to see we three. Be pesty pesty to the men in blue and they become blind to you. We walked out of the police station laughing, but suprise was written on our faces. Up the empty wide street we walked, uncareing and so, so cool, with banging heads. As we got into O'Dandys car he pulled out a long necked bottle and said: Would you like a hit? No thank you, I said.

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The lieutenant ejects everyone, Murphy is released from the glass cage, and the three men leave laughing into the empty street, surprised by their own escape as O'Dandy produces a long-necked bottle in the car.

Authority collapses here through irritation rather than justice. The release feels like another exhausted stalemate, with Dandy's provocation successful enough to free Murphy but not meaningful enough to settle anything.

Claude

O'Dandy's reverse-arrest gambit jams the room - he keeps shouting 'I want them arrested' and 'I'll sign anything' until the exasperated lieutenant just wants the whole crew gone: 'Get them all out of here.' The girls flee 'holding on to their skirts running for the door' while O'Dandy still jeers 'You're letting those whores go,' and the desk man, 'angry... and face / to the floor,' opens the glass cage to free Murphy, who exits 'very pleased' with a mock-courteous 'I kindly thank your officer.' The narrator distills the method - 'Be pesty pesty to the men in / blue and they become blind to you' - as the three walk out 'so, so cool, with banging heads,' O'Dandy producing 'a / long necked bottle' in the car.