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`` We folks 'll rickollect this on election day . '' The Hon. Sam deigned no answer . And up in the store Devil Judd lighted his pipe and sat down to think out the strange code of ethics that governed that police-guard . Hale had told him to wait there , and it was almost noon before the boy with the cap came to tell him that the Falins had all left town . The old man looked at him kindly . `` Air you the little feller whut fit fer June ? '' `` Not yet , '' said Bob ; `` but it 's coming . ''