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Knowing that city of the Middle West, and knowing it well, he at once "went down the line," making his rounds stolidly and systematically, first visiting a West Side faro-room and casually interviewing the "stools" of Custom House Place and South dark Street, and then dropping in at the Café Acropolis, in Halsted Street, and lodging houses in even less savory quarters.
And he gave a résumé of the colonel's laughable sophistry for George's benefit, and for mine as well, for I had paid no attention to the old toper's remarks. We could see the glimmer of lights behind the shutters of the faro-room over Sudden's saloon and hear the rattle of the ivory counters as we passed. "Do you ever go up there?" asked George, interrupting Perry.
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