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And they keep off bums and lobbygows and scare the bilkers into coughing up." "Not for me," replied Susan. The greater the catastrophe, the longer the time before it is fully realized. Susan's loss of the money that represented so much of savage if momentary horror, and so much of unconscious hope this calamity did not overwhelm her for several days.
Thus because he was not only strong and brutal, but had a sort of ability and some education, Dopey Jack quickly rose to a position of minor leadership had his own incipient "gang," his own "lobbygows."
She knew at once that she was in the clutch of one of those terrors of tenement fast women, the lobbygows men who live by lying in wait in the darkness to seize and rob the lonely, friendless fast woman. She struggled and she was anything but weak. But not a sound could escape from her tight-pressed throat. Soon she became unconscious.
"I'm backing you across the board, win, place and show; but let me give you a hot tip right from the stables. You want to be afraid to go home in the dark, or Stone's lobbygows will lean on you with a section of plumbing." "I've thought of that, Biff," laughed Bobby; "and I think I'll organize a band of murderers of my own."
And if they tolerated lobbygows and divided with them, it was because the overshadowing power ordained it so. "Needn't be afraid I'll blow to the cop," said the drunken artisan. "You can damn the cops all you please to me. They make New York worse than Russia." "I guess they do the best they can like everybody else," said the girl wearily. "I'll help you upstairs." "No, thank you," said she.
"Those damn cops!" cursed the workingman. "They'd probably pinch you or both of us. Ten to one the lobbygows divide with them." "I didn't mean that," said Susan. The police were most friendly and most kind to her. She was understanding the ways of the world better now, and appreciated that the police themselves were part of the same vast system of tyranny and robbery that was compelling her.
You remember recently the so-call 'gamblers' war' in which some rivals exploded a bomb on the steps because the proprietor of this place resented their intrusion uptown from the lower East Side, with their gunmen and lobbygows? It did more damage to the house next door than to the gambling joint." Dillon paused a moment to enumerate the difficulties. "You can get past the outside door all right.
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