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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Then so-long, Maggie," Barney flung at her, and that swagger ex-jockey, gambler, and clever manipulator of the confidence of people with money, slashed aside the shabby burlap curtains with his wisp of a bamboo walking-stick, and strode out of the room. "Good-night, daughter," and Old Jimmie crossed and kissed her. She kissed him back a perfunctory kiss.
"My dear Professor," he confessed, "wisdom, of a sort, is mine; sometimes I grow weary with the weight of my experiences and wonder why the world so seldom shows me something new. But beside you I am as a babe. Tell me, what has become of the ex-jockey husband?" "She divorced him. Mind you, Margie was square, like most of those 'come-ons. She'd 'how dare' a guy that so much as looked at her.
The ex-jockey, a bit of a man with a withered left arm made that way from an injury received in his last race, when his mount fell on him; The Irish cattle-boss gave him the job of night-watchman, "to break him of his superstitious silliness"; There was the big, black Jamaica cook ... as black as if he was polished ebony ... a fine, big, polite chap, whom everyone liked.
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