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Kilo

CHAPTER V
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You have that intellectual look that I always spot on the genooine lover of reading matter.' "'If you are gun to talk book, you better git right down to business and talk book' she says, 'because when I whoop up that stove to git supper, as I'm gun to soon, it's liable to git warm in this kitchen.' "I took a look at the cooking apparatus, and decided that she knew what she was conversing about.

I liked the way she jumped right into the fact that I had a few things to say about books, too.

She was an up-and-coming sort, and that's my sort.

It's up-and-comingness that has made the Kilo Hotel what it is.
"'All right, sister,' I says, 'this book is the famous "Wage of Sin."' "'No ?" she exlamates.

'Not the "Wage of Sin"?
The celebrated volume by our fellow Iowan, Mr.What's-his-name ?' "'The same book!' I says, glad to know its knowledge had passed far down the State.


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