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"If a dead cinch at ten to one, all fruited up for next week, the kind of thing you don't hand on to your own brother, would be any use to you No? I'm off again," he apologized. "Well let's go." We went. At the doorstep of Bartholomew Storrs's office he paused. "This sexton-guy," he said anxiously, "he don't play the ponies, ever, I wouldn't suppose?"
"And this sexton-guy handles the concession for he's got the say-so," he corrected himself hastily "on who goes in and who stays out. Is that right?" "Substantially." "And he'd rather keep 'em out than let 'em in?" "Bartholomew," I explained, "considers that the honor of God's Acre is in his keeping. He has a fierce sort of jealousy about it, as if he had a proprietary interest in the place."
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