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CHAPTER II
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"That drug-eating Gus Burlingame's got a grudge against him somehow, and when a lawyer's got a grudge against you it's just as well to look where y' are goin'.
Burlingame don't care what he does to get his way in court.

What set him against Kerry I ain't sure, but, bedad, I think it's looks.

Burlingame goes in for lookin' like a picture in a frame--gold seals hangin' beyant his vestpocket, broad silk cord to his eye-glass, loose flowin' tie, and long hair-makes him look pretentuous and showy.

But your 'Mr.Kerry, sir,' he don't have any tricks to make him look like a doge from Veenis and all the eyes of the females battin' where'er he goes.

Jealousy, John Sibley, me boy, is a cruil thing." "Why is it you ain't jealous of him?
There's plenty of women that watch you go down-town--you got a name for it, anyway," remarked Sibley maliciously.
Deely nodded sagely.


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