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is your at once dignified and affectionate; and by it you come

CHAPTER XVII
8/17

He says it'll be soon enough to onbuckle an' swamp Yellow City with a flood of eloquence when proper legal o'casion enfolds.
"'In the room to the r'ar of the apartments where this Easy Aaron holds forth as a practitioner, thar's a farobank as is nacheral enough.

It's about second drink time in the afternoon, bein' a time of day when the faro game is dead.

A passel of conspirators, with Shoestring Griffith in the lead, goes to this room an' reelaxes into a game of draw.

Easy Aaron can hear the flutter of the chips through the partition--the same bein' plenty thin--where he's camped like a spider in its web an' waitin' for some sport who needs law to show up.

Easy Aaron listens careless an' indifferent to Shoestring an' his fellow blacklaigs as they deals an' antes an' raises an' rakes in pots, an' everybody mighty joobilant as is frequent over poker.
"'Of a suddent, roars an' yells an' reecriminations yoosurps the place of merriment.


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