ATDDTA (6) 180-182.10

[bekah]

Nate,  Lews boss from White City Investigations,  comes to visit Lew in Denver.

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180:1	"See you found the Valley Tan."   
"Thorough search, only bottle in the room.  When'd you switch to 
Mormon Whiskey?"

** Mormon whiskey reported by Mark Twain "'It was the exclusive 
Mormon refresher, 'valley tan.'  Valley tan (or, at least, one form 
of valley tan) is a kind of whisky, or first cousin to it; is of 
Mormon invention and manufactured only in Utah. Tradition says it is 
made of [imported] fire and brimstone.

<http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/091795.html>

Mormon whiskey sold to 49ers during the Gold Rush
<http://www.parody.org/dive-bar/mormontrivia/questions.html>

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180:27    "The Unsleepin' Eye":  reference to Pinkerton's<  "We Never Sleep"

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:We_never_sleep.jpg>


180:29    "Whoa, whoa just a minute, Lew, not how it works, and 
besides, they're still payin in, you see, every month - oh, they're 
happy. I tell you, no reason not to just keep going along, exactly 
the way we -"

And Lew realizes that he's been  (see 178.1) used by his own boss and 
the customers.   But he's realized this before.


180:37	"Why it was just some damn opium pipe special's all it ever was." -

Pipe dream?  Fantasy?

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181.1     Nate:   We're only as good as our credibility,  which is 
what Regional Operative in Charge,  Lew Basnight has been giving us 
here,  what with the kind of respect you enjoy in the business - "

And Lew realizes on another level the extent to which he has been 
playing the wrong side.

Is this the reality of anarchy,  when you don't know which side is 
which and all sides play the others against it?  I don't mean 
anarchists,  who have their own set of beliefs - but anarchy,  when 
no rules apply?

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181:7    Next night in Walker's on Arapaho (a street in Denver)

Slightly different info but great photos: 
<http://www.blongerbros.com/history/>Steubenville Daily Herald 
(Newspaper)

and then at  the totally fictional (to the point of being fantasy?) 
Anarchist's Saloon,  Lew meets up with and buys a beer for someone 
who could be the Kieselguhr Kid.  They have a little conversation 
because Lew is

181.17-18  "in an experimental frame of mind."  and has apparently

181.19 "come to his senses."

Lew might be getting involved on a more "purposeful" level with the 
dynamite and naturally wonders if the Kid has any regrets about 
innocents killed.

But the Kid denies hat any innocents have been killed by him.

181.28  Lew suggests that there are no  "innocent bourgeoisie"  to 
which the Kid replies,

181. 31  "You follow the topic."

But Kieselguhr says he doesn't know about all that.  Where he comes 
from it's about peasantry and proletariat.  He just has to "be 
careful."

181. 35  Lew writes himself a lengthy note on his shirt cuff and 
looks up "guilelessly."

(Is Lew still acting like the detective? -  is he still working that way?)

181. 36  and asks what if someone innocent,  like himself,  gets hurt.

181.37 "You think you're  *innocent?*   Hell, man, you're working for 
them - you'd have killed me if it ever came up."

181.38 Lew says he would have brought Kit in.
182.1  And  Kit says it wouldn't have been alive.

Lew says he's not like Pat Garrett or Wyatt Earp,  hard cases who 
didn't know which side they were on.

** As a lawman, Pat Garrett supposedly shot Billy the Kid in 1881 but 
later went on to prosecute other lawmen but play with the gamblers, 
embarrassing his friend Teddy Roosevelt. 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Garrett>

** Wyatt Earp  went from respected lawman (who had his own methods 
and wasn't "pure")  to being tried for murder  due to the gunfight at 
the O.K. Corral which brought on all sorts of legal and vendetta 
troubles and then money troubles and in 1900 he was probably running 
from the law and seeking gold in Alaska. 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Earp>


Anyway,  Lew has as much as said he knows which side he's on and 
that his sympathies are no longer split.

So the Kid yells out for the bartender,   "Herman,  (German name) 
give this screamin' Red threat to society another of them."

(I laughed out loud) and Kit disappeared into the crowd and wasn't 
seen by Lew for a while.


Bekah