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Updated: June 4, 2025
Under the efficient supervision of Jasper Hinchey and his lieutenants they were now guided to the polling-place in squads of three or four, returning presently to unlimited refreshment and a surreptitious two-dollar bill shining examples and incentives to such as had not yet voted to speed their going.
The young man threaded gingerly into its dingy precincts, and by dint of a handful of Italian, picked up in a Roman winter's sojourn to be oddly practised on a local washerwoman sousing gay garments in the amber fluid of the Erie Canal, he singled out the Hinchey hovel from the squalid score it resembled.
About the hour when Bernard Graves hobnobbed with Jasper Hinchey, the third factor in the Demijohn District's political muddle sat down to dinner in a neighboring city. "Chuck" O'Rourke was fond of his dinner. A childhood of squalid poverty had taught him the joy of a square meal.
"Anything we can do for you in a legitimate way, we will do," he added steadily. "I want t' know." "You can find me at Mr. Sprague's office any morning between ten and twelve." Jasper Hinchey surveyed him with scorn as he turned to go. Fumbling in his rags, he extracted a greasy card. "P'r'aps you'd buy a twenty-five cent ticket fer th' Jolly Rovers' picnic," he insinuated.
Hinchey, and say plainly what you have to say, I shall be obliged," retorted Bernard, exasperated by his shiftiness. Jasper was unmoved. "Easy t' see you ain't ben in pol'tics long. Wall, whut I've got t' say is this: I used t' work fer this party off 'n' on, this party whose name I ain't a-mentionin'. He wuz in pol'tics too. Likewise run a quarry an' s'm'other things t' num'rous t' mention.
He tossed the bullhead into a pail, and, spying a piccaninny scudding round a corner, called: "Here, you chocolate drop, take this yer fish ter yer mammy. Two mor, 'n' I'll hev 'nuff fer supper. Set down," he added to his guest. "Thanks," said Bernard, hunting vainly for a clean spot on the string-piece. He lit a cigarette as a sanitary precaution, and bethought him to offer one to Hinchey.
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