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The Depot Master

CHAPTER XII
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I was kind of lost in the shuffle, and the next thing I remember for sartin is settin' up on Rubber Collar's stomach and lookin' foggy at the door, where the loud dressed man was wrestlin' with a policeman.

And there was police at the windows and all around.
"Well, don't talk! I got up, resurrects Jonadab from under a heap of gamblers and furniture, and makes for harbor in our old corner.

The police was mighty busy, especially a fat, round-faced, red-mustached man, with gold bands on his cap and arms, that the rest called 'Cap'n.' Him and the loud dressed chap who'd give the alarm was talkin' earnest close to us.
"'I can't help it, Pete,' says the police cap'n.

''Twas me or the Vice Suppression crowd.

They've been on to you for two weeks back.


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