"Police-o! Tief-man-o! Neighbours-o! We done loss-o! Police-o! . . ." There were at least five other voices besides the leader's. . . . The silence that followed the thieves' alarm vibrated horribly. Jonathan all but begged their leader to speak again and be done with it. "My frien," said he at long last, "we don try our best for call dem but I tink say dem all done sleep-o . . . So wetin we go do now?" –"Civil Peace," Chinua Achebe

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