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"Get out of here!" she said, in a choked, strained way pointing to the door. "Get out of here you dirty skate!" "Sure!" mumbled Larry the Bat, his eyes on the floor. "Sure!" he mumbled and the door closed behind him. Whisperings! Always whisperings, low, sibilant, floating errantly from all sides, until they seemed a component part of the drug-laden atmosphere itself.
"'Sit down! he growls, adding, 'at the desk. I do. "'Take some of your notepaper the best. I do that, too. "'And a pen, he goes on. My fingers can hardly hold it. "'Now write! he says, and as he dictates, I write " "This?" interjected Kennedy, eagerly holding up the letter that he had received from her. Elaine looked it over with her drug-laden eyes.
Was it true, was it reality this figure that the underworld knew as Smarlinghue, who sat here, and with dirty fingers played with a whisky glass on the cheap, liquor-spotted table, and out of half-closed, well-simulated drug-laden eyes gazed on those dancing figures out there on the floor to whom the law from cradlehood had been a natural enemy, and to the door of hardly one of whom but lay crimes that ranged from the paltry to the hideous!
Late that night she went into the room where her mother and brother had died. The window was open and the cold, pure air was grateful to her after the drug-laden atmosphere she had breathed so long. She knelt down by the stripped bed. "Mother," she said aloud, "I have kept my promise." When she tried to rise, long after, she staggered and fell across the bed, with her hand pressed on her heart.
From under the rim of his battered hat, Jimmie Dale's eyes, veiled by half-closed, well-simulated drug-laden lids, missed no detail either of his surroundings or pertaining to the passers-by.
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