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The Boss of Little Arcady

CHAPTER XXI
16/22

Make them mine, and for the remainder of that stuff you shall have the benefit of an experience that has been of incredible cost.

Accept my figure, and I promise you as man to man to de-Cohenize myself utterly." "They are yours," I said--"what are they and what is the figure?
Clem--Mr.Price's glass." "There--you disarm me.

One bit of haggling or hesitation might have hardened me even now; the serpent within me would have lifted its head and struck.

But you have saved yourself--and very well for that! The articles are those six ball-and-claw-foot chairs with violin backs.

I will pay fifty dollars apiece for those.


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