"We hadn't discussed that - and Jubal doesn't like stereo.  Jubal, Mike didn't merely crush out and come home when he felt like it; he gave them a dilemma to sit on.  Here he has just been arrested for everything but raping the Statue of Liberty, with Bigmouth Short denouncing him as the Antichrist on the same day.  So he gave 'em miracles to chew on.  He threw away every bar and door in the county jail as he left... did the same at the state prison just out of town for good measure, and disarmed all the police forces, city, county, and state.  Partly to keep 'em busy and interested... and partly because Mike just purely despises locking a man up for any reason at all.  He groks a great wrongness in it."