CANTO LVII.
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Questioning an employee, Mr. Hunt learns that The Great Punisher employs five thousand overseers or district police captains.
Each is assigned to a district, over which he has full charge and about which he reports regularly to his Chief. No law-breakers are rich enough to purchase protection from the Infernal Police Force. In a lengthy prose description of the Police Department of Hell, Mr. Hunt expresses his belief that on the whole it is better conducted than such departments in many American cities.
A CAPTAIN OF THE POLICE FORCE.