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Young man, don't you put it off another day life is awful uncertain. 'Why, Colonel, I said, 'that isn't any way to talk, but he simply tore down the street, saying that I was taking great chances." "And now he is reading his piece to Barney Skeyhan!" I groaned. "Rum is the scourge of our American civilization," remarked Eustace, warmly.
At six o'clock that evening, the following facts became known: that Colonel Potts had obtained a quart of whiskey from Barney Skeyhan; that he had borrowed twenty dollars from the same trustful tradesman; that, his cane in one hand and his oilcloth valise in the other, he had walked down Main Street late in the afternoon and boarded the five twenty-eight freight going West, ostensibly on a business trip into the next county.
The reading done, I saw that Eustace declined some urgent request of the Colonel's, drawing away the moment his coat was released. As they parted, my worst fears were confirmed, for I saw the Colonel progress flourishingly to the corner and turn in under the sign, "Barney Skeyhan; Choice Wines, Liquors, and Cigars." "What did he say?" I asked of Eustace as he came up.
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