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"Somebody pinched a million from de old guy!" He shifted his cigarette with a deft movement of his tongue from one side of his mouth to the other, and grinned again. "Can youse beat it! Accordin' to him, he had enough coin to annex de whole of Noo Yoik! De moll's his wife. He went out to hell-an'-gone somewhere for a few years huntin' gold while de old girl starved.
I saw a piece about dis Patriarch in one of de Noo Yoik papers, so I writes to de postmaster of de town to find out if he was on de level see?" "Yes," said Mrs. Thornton. "And what did the postmaster say?" The Flopper took Hiram Higgins' letter from his pocket and handed it to Mrs. Thornton.
"And you've come straight from there to New York?" She pronounced it "Noo Yoik." "No, ma'am. I've been in Alasky for two years now. I've been in a lumber-camp." "Gee! That's real interesting. And you knew Miss West before she came East, then?" "Yes, ma'am."
Wot fer?" said the Flopper, with withering spontaneity. "Noo Yoik fer mine." "Well, all right New York it is, then," agreed Doc Madison. "You're poor, but respectable and that brings us to the other point.