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The Turmoil

CHAPTER XVIII
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"Drunk in business hours! Thass awf'l! Mus'n' do such thing! Mus'n' get drunk, mus'n' gamble, mus'n' kill 'nybody--not in business hours! All right any other time.

Kill 'nybody you want to--'s long 'tain't in business hours! Fine! Mus'n' have any trouble 't'll innerfere business.

Keep your trouble 't home.

Don' bring it to th' office.

Might innerfere business! Have funerals on Sunday--might innerfere business! Don' let your wife innerfere business! Keep all, all, ALL your trouble an' your meanness, an' your trad--your tradegy--keep 'em ALL for home use! If you got die, go on die 't home--don' die round th' office! Might innerfere business!" Sheridan picked up a newspaper from Roscoe's desk, and sat down with his back to his son, affecting to read.


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