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Sylder is driving down the highway running from the police. He seems to have the advantage in terms of speed, but he is facing some challenging curves in the road. He misjudges one such curve and winds up careening off the road into a storefront. The cops follow him, but the accident is not so serious that he cannot escape. He casually lights a cigarette as he drives off.

John decides to make use of some animal traps he bought some time ago from a storekeep. He had just earned a dollar by killing a wounded chickenhawk and selling it. The traps are normally thirty cents a piece, but he manages to get four of them for his dollar in exchange for a promise—which, by all appearances, he has no intention of keeping—to buy eight more at...