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"I shot him," said the district attorney, "with Exhibit A of your counterfeiting case. Lucky thing for me and somebody else that it was as bad money as it was! It sliced up into slugs very nicely. Say, Kil, can't you go down to the jacals and find where that Mexican girl lives? Miss Derwent wants to know." At 8 A. M. it lay on Giuseppi's news-stand, still damp from the presses.
It made no difference to him which way he rowed. It was always possible that some adventure was to be met with, and the fare paid was a not unwelcome addition to Giuseppi's funds. "Yes, we may as well take him," he replied to Giuseppi's question. "You are in no hurry to get to bed, I suppose?" the man who had hailed them said as the boat drew up against the wall of the canal.
At 8 o'clock a young man with a haggard look and the feverish gleam of unrest in his eye dropped a penny and picked up the top paper as he passed Giuseppi's stand. A sleepless night had left him a late riser. There was an office to be reached by nine, and a shave and a hasty cup of coffee to be crowded into the interval. He visited his barber shop and then hurried on his way.
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