Totts

Bill Totts had served his purpose, but he had become a too dangerous accomplice.

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He had eyes for nothing save the battle of the coal waggon, while somewhere in his complicated psychology, one Bill Totts was heaving and straining in an effort to come to life.

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So thoroughly was Bill Totts himself, so thoroughly a workman, a genuine denizen of South of the Slot, that he was as class-conscious as the average of his kind, and his hatred for a scab even exceeded that of the average loyal union man.

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Totts, and somewhere behind those eyes, battling for the control of their mutual body, were Freddie Drummond the sane and conservative sociologist, and Bill Totts, the class-conscious and bellicose union working man.

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For Bill Totts was a dues-paying member of the Longshoremen Union and had a right to be indignant with the usurpers of his job.

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Also, Bill Totts was a trifle inclined to late hours, and at times, in saloons, to be good-naturedly bellicose with other workmen.

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Freddie Drummond and Bill Totts were two totally different creatures.

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Bill Totts was so very big, and so very able, that it was “Big”

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Bill Totts, and between them the entity that constituted the pair of them was being wrenched in twain.

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It would have to be put an end to, and it would end in one only of two ways: either he must become wholly Bill Totts and be married to Mary Condon, or he must remain wholly Freddie Drummond and be married to Catherine Van

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