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For Mr. Dolan is an emotional man , and he is breathing hard , and by the way he grabs his pen and jabs it into the ink one can see that he is angry . `` DEAR SIR -LRB- begins Mr. Dolan -RRB- : I take my pen in hand to answer yours of this date from New York and would have written you anyhow , as there is much on my mind and I would cable you , but I ca n't , being for the moment short of funds . I write to say , Robert , that we have Mart Culpepper in jail -- right across the hall . He came in at nine o'clock to-night , and the damn Pop judge put his bail at $ 15,999 to cover his alleged shortage , and the stinker wo n't accept us old boys on the bond -- Phil and Watts and Os and the Company ` C ' boys I could get before the judge went to bed , and Gabe Carnine , the gut , would not sign -- would not sign old Mart 's bond , sir , and I hope to be in hell with a fishpole some day poking him down every time his slimy fingers get on the rim of the kettle . But we 'll have him out in the morning , if every man in Garrison County has to go on the bond . They say Mart received money to pay four or five mortgages due to a Vermont Bank , and they sent a detective here about a month ago and worked up the case , and closed his business to-day and waited until to-night to arrest him . I 've just come from Mart .