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Apparently everybody thought he was sensitive on the subject, Charley reflected tiredly. "I don't mind," he said. "Sure," the cabbie said. A red light showed ahead and the cab screeched to a halt. "Anyhow, there he was, like a freak, you know? Hell, Mac, I was mad. I mean mad. The guy wants me to pay money to see him; he don't want to go get cured. He's like lazy, Mac. Lazy.
Then he pointed to a structure and called down to Sedgwick that the place was Newgate. "What is there peculiar about Newgate?" asked Sedgwick. "Why, it is the famous Newgate prison," said cabbie. Sedgwick roused himself and asked, "What do they do in Newgate?" "What do they do?" said cabbie, "what do they do? Why, they hang people there sometimes."
"Get down, please, and ask them what they will charge to hang me," said Sedgwick. He did not smile; he seemed in sober earnest. Cabbie looked at him for an instant, then whipped up his horses and hurried him to the hotel. Arriving there, he sprang down and said, "This is your hotel." Sedgwick got out and was walking off mechanically, when cabbie said, "Five shillings, please, sir."
"It is where kings and queens and great soldiers and scholars are buried," said cabbie. "Burial lots come high there, do they not?" said Sedgwick. "Why, man, there are no lots sold there," said cabbie. "It is a place which was hundreds of years ago set aside for England's great dead to be buried in. The brightest dream of an Englishman is to rest there at last."
"Freddie" got one bill loose, and then stuffed the rest back into his trousers' pocket. "Here, ole man," he said, "you take it." He held it out fluttering. They were in front of a saloon; and by the light of the window Jurgis saw that it was a hundred-dollar bill! "You take it," the other repeated. "Pay the cabbie an' keep the change I've got hic no head for business!
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