A sudden fear seized Soapy that some dreadful enchantment had rendered him immune to arrest. The thought brought a little of panic upon it, and when he came upon another policeman lounging grandly in front of a transplendent theatre he caught at the immediate straw of “disorderly conduct.”
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This inner monologue strengthens the story's core irony: The legal system thai is supposed to maintain order becomes the only shelter for the poor. The homeless man struggles hard to break minor rules just to get warmth, revealing the cruel social gap and indifference to the destitute.

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