![]() ![]() ![]() For their oversights, Sam and Bill wind up paying Johnny’s father Ebenezer to take troublesome Johnny back, rather than making money from their scheme. ![]() When he and Bill conspire to kidnap Johnny, the son of a wealthy man, and hold him for ransom, they do not anticipate the child’s difficulty, the canniness of his father, nor the logistical hurdles of holding a child hostage and demanding and collecting ransom. He is always looking for a "good thing" and a scheme to make a little easy money, but his ideas are terrible-he has no realistic understanding of what criminals do or what plans might succeed-and therefore his plots tend to blow up in his face. Sam, the story’s narrator, is a con-man and a hustler who works with his partner-in-crime Bill to hatch harebrained criminal plots. ![]()
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