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It was a cornet solo, very neat and beautiful, and the name of it was 'Home, Sweet Home. Not one of them fifty odd men in the room moved while it was playing, and the governor man kept his eyes steady on Mellinger. I saw Mellinger's head go up little by little, and his hand came creeping away from the package. Not until the last note sounded did anybody stir.
I whisper back: 'H. P. is up against a bribe, senator's size, and the coons have got him going. I saw Mellinger's hand moving closer to the package. 'He's weakening, I whispered to Henry. 'We'll remind him, says Henry, 'of the peanut-roaster on Thirty-fourth Street, New York. "Henry stooped down and got a record from the basketful we'd brought, slid it in the phonograph, and started her off.
I think he made another one, too; but we can pass that, Mellinger's idea of a graft and mine being different, according to estimations and points of view. "There was only one window and door in that room, and they were in the front end. Here was fifty odd Latin men coming in a bunch to obstruct the legislation of Mellinger.
We knew that it had saved Homer P. Mellinger's graft when he was on the point of losing it; but we never let him know we knew it. "'Now you boys better slide off further down the coast for a while, says Mellinger, 'till I get the screws put on these fellows here. If you don't they'll give you trouble.
"The governor man then draws a package wrapped in paper from his pocket, and lays it on the table by Mellinger's hand. "'In that you will find fifty thousand dollars in money of your country. You can do nothing against us, but you can be worth that for us. Go back to the capital and obey our instructions. Take that money now. We trust you.
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