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he said hotly . `` This is n't some common snake we picked up out in the country . We snagged this viper right here in Washington , Gyp ! I suppose I should have spirited him out of town on the midnight jet ! '' `` Yes , '' I said . `` That would have been my idea . Do you realize that all this publicity has gotten us a mob of five hundred people around our doors , a mob that 's waiting to lynch this prisoner of yours ? ''