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"The whole rat trap, from the keel to maintruck, ain't worth more'n three hundred dollars, and I loaned Thankful four hundred on it years ago, and the mortgage fell due last September. Not a cent of principal, interest, nor rent have I got since. Whether he goes to the poorhouse or not, he goes out of that house of mine to-morrer.
"You can't do it," said Barker, turning himself round, and lying flat against the ratlines, so that he could look up at his friend. "What's that?" bawled the Duke from below. "Says he will decorate the maintruck with my hat, and I say he can't do it," Barker shouted back. "I'll back Claudius, level money," answered the Duke in stentorian tones. "I'll take three to two," said Barker. "No, I won't.
Next thing I knew the gallery was filled with brokers, grabbin' us by the hands, poundin' us on the back, beggin' us to come have a drink, and generally goin' crazy. We was solid with the 'system' for once in our lives. We could have had that whole buildin', from marble decks to gold maintruck, if we'd said the word.
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