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The Depot Master

CHAPTER XI
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If you want to know where I think he's likely to be now, I'd try the jail.' "But he said I was unfeelin' and disobligin' and lots more, so, to cut the argument short, I agreed to go.

And off we put to hunt up 116 East Blank Street.

And when we located it, after a good hour of askin' questions, and payin' car fares and wearin' out shoe leather, 'twas a Chinese laundry.
"'Well,' I says, sarcastic, 'here we be.

Which one of the heathen do you think is Jimmie?
If he had an inch or so more of upper lip, I'd gamble on that critter with the pink nighty and the baskets on his feet.

He has a kind of familiar chicken-stealin' look in his eye.


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