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The Confessions of Artemas Quibble

CHAPTER III
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Twenty-five dollars insures entire family.

We make no distinction between ex-convicts and others.
"ABRAHAM GOTTLIEB, "Of Counsel." My next task was to boom my scheme by successful advertising, and with this in view I persuaded Gottlieb to issue free policies to a dozen or so of the worst rascals that he knew.

Naturally it was not long before one of them was arrested for some offence, and Gottlieb as naturally succeeded in getting him off, with the natural result that the fellow went all over town telling how one could be a burglar with impunity for ten dollars a year.

At about the same time I heard of a man who was in the Tombs charged with murder, but who was almost certain to get off on account of the weakness of the case against him.

I, therefore, visited the defendant and offered to give him a policy for ten dollars, in spite of the fact that he was already in jail.


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