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To this sedate assemblage descended one crisp December morning young Wickert, clad in the natty outline of a new Bernholz suit, and obviously swollen with tidings. "Whaddya know about the latest?" he flung forth upon the coffee-scented air.
He said to the indifferent bartender who had just served him: "'F you knew what I know 'bout Germany, you'd be won'ful man! I'M won'ful man. I know something! Going tell, too. Going see 'thorities this afternoon. Going tell 'em great secret!... Grea' milt'ry secret! Tell 'em all 'bout it! Grea' secresh! Nobody knows grea'-sekresh 'cep m'self! Whaddya thinka that?
What do you say to our going around there," it was in the upper thirties, "and see how she's making out? take her a few things, eh? Whaddya say?" I hadn't a spare dollar myself, but I knew well enough what he meant by "take a few things" and who would pay for them.
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