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Colonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories

CHAPTER II
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That'll take ye to a shanty.
You ask if it's Johnson's." "Who's Johnson ?" "I am.

You ain't lookin' for Vanderbilt or God Almighty up here, are you?
Well, then, you hark to me, will you?
You say to my old woman to give you supper and a shakedown somewhar to-night.

Say I sent you.

So long." He was gone before I could accept or decline.

An extraordinary noise proceeded from Chu Chu, not unlike a suppressed chuckle.


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