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A fifty-pound suitcase was a burden; a ten-pound suitcase was a weapon. It was their hope that the large animals that were a nuisance to little people everywhere would smell the clippings and think there were full-sized human beings around. He said he had read somewhere that the more mongrelized a person was, the better the chance that he would be healthy and intelligent. In his younger days Jake Reinert would have disdained the idea of being the next-to-last live person in a dying place. He would rather have put a gun to his head. But life had a way of presenting you with a dogshit sandwich and tailoring events perfectly so that you just had to hang around and eat it. ’’The man is a piece of scum. But he is also probably the last Beothuk Indian left on earth." But in my experience, nobody in this country gets rich by accident. A lot of people who haven’t gotten caught at anything are pretty ruthless. The heirs and colleagues of men like that can be pretty ruthless too.