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"Five hundred dollars," thought Billy, "is a lot o' coin. I just wonder now," and he let his eyes wander to his companion as though he might read upon his face the purpose which lay in the man's heart. "He don't look it; but five hundred dollars is a lot o' coin fer a bo, and wotinell did he have that article hid in his clothes fer? That's wot I'd like to know. I guess it's up to me to blow."
"You ain't joshin' me?" he asked. Billy Byrne caught the tremor in the voice. "I ain't kiddin' you son," he said. "Wotinell do you take me fer one o' these greasy Dagos? You an' I're Americans I wouldn't string a home guy down here in this here Godforsaken neck o' the woods."
A hundred yards up the alley he found Lasky in the shadow of a telephone pole. "Wotinell are you doin' around here?" asked the patrolman. "Didn't you know that Sheehan had peached?"
Billy, Bridge, and the Mexican wheeled toward the doorway simultaneously to learn the cause of the girl's fright, and as they did so found themselves covered by four carbines in the hands of as many men. As his eyes fell upon the faces of the intruders the countenance of the Mexican fell, while his wife dropped to the floor and embraced his knees, weeping. "Wotinell?" ejaculated Billy Byrne.
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