Time passed as time ever does when passed monotonously, that is, with a degree of rapidity which only astonishes us when it is recalled to mind by some chance circumstance.

If he cannot realize the error of his ways, then so much the worse for him.

It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.

Just as Hank had predicted, we had reached the work site in a dead heat with gray dawn.