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I made an effort to blush that strained every muscle in me, and
answered as sweetly and winningly as ever I knew how__

* Been a little slow, but am just this minute closing in on the
place where they keep it. Come in and help.*

He softened, and said make it a bottle of champagne and he was
agreeable. He said he had seen my name in the papers, and had put
all his affairs aside and turned out, resolved to find me or die ; and

*LOOK HEBE, HAVE YOU GOT THAT DRINK YET?1
make me answer that question satisfactorily, or kill me; though
the most of his late asperity had been rather counterfeit than other-
wise.
This meeting bought back to me the St, Louis riots of aboa€
thirty years ago. I spent a week there, at that time, in a boarding-
house, and had this young fellow for a neighbour across the hall.
We saw some of the fightings and killings; and by aad by we went
one night to an armoury where two hundred young men had met, upon