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`` So Cargan made Hayden see . Through long experience in these matters the mayor has become careless . He is the thing above the law , if not the law itself . He would have had no fear in accepting this money on Main Street at midday . He had no fear when he came here and found he was being spied on . `` But Hayden -- there was the difficulty that began the drama of Baldpate Inn . Hayden had few scruples , but as events to-night have well proved , Mr. Magee , he was a coward at heart .