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Sudetenland Tales
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orphan shelter, and is put in solitary confinement. He is flogged every day by the Shelter Director, Mr. Rabinowitz, of which three times a week are in front of the other orphans. After some time DeMarcus is offered as an apprentice, and he is taken on by Mr. Livingood, an undertaker. One day, his jealous and violent, older, and bigger co-apprentice, Cassius Claypole, insulted DeMarcus's mother and an enraged DeMarcus attacked him. When he is punished by Mr. Rabinowitz and Mr. Livingood, through being given no food. At night DeMarcus rifled the guest room refrigerator and ran away, hitching to Albuquerque by truck to seek a better life in the big city.
Upon arrival DeMarcus virtually immediately met a young man who easily picked out his lost type, named Lepke Buchalter who calls himself "the Sly Scammer." Sly offered DeMarcus food and lodging and first took him to meet an infamous “smart” criminal known as Harry Horowitz,