[The Colossus by Opie Read]@TWC D-Link bookThe Colossus CHAPTER XIX 5/20
I am too modest.
Say, I smell liquor. Who's got a bottle? Somebody took a cork out of a bottle.
Who was it? Say, Will, have you got a bottle ?" "Thought you said that your doctor told you not to drink." "He did; he said that I had intercostal rheumatism.
He examined me carefully, and when I asked him what he thought, he replied, 'Mr. Flummers, you can't afford to drink.'" "And did you tell him that you could afford it--that it didn't cost you anything ?" "Oh, ho, ho, no! Say, send out and get a bottle.
What are you fellows playing there? Ten cents ante, all jack pots? It's a robbers' game." * * * * * In every community a stranger wearing black whiskers was under suspicion.
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