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60 cents," corrected the man in tweeds, not forgetful of a recent extortion.

"Yuh're likely to clap eyes on that Dago again, ain't yuh!" The open scorn of the officer was monumental. "He'll be spendin' what's left of his days tryin' to ferret yuh out, I s'pose, wastin' his young life away battlin' to get that easy coin back to yuh! What he's breakin' now isn't a twenty-dollar bill, my gerrl, but a travelin' record down to the Third Ward. And I guess the sooner yuh come along wit' me, and the quieter yuh come, the better."

"But you really can't do this sort of thing, you know, Officer," the man in tweeds interposed. "This girl"

"Yuh shut your trap," announced the upholder of law and order, with an indifferent side-glance at the interloper, "or I'll gather yuh in wit' the dame here."

"That's an eventuality which I'd rather welcome," averred the other, with his blood up.

"All right, then, come along, the both o' yuh," was the prompt and easy